Posts by Pauliroth

I need a New Laptop!!

Samsung RF511

Wonderful laptop, had one for a little while now. I have the Core i5 version but an i7 is available. 15" screen with 1366x768 resolution, not many more pixels than your current machine but the screen has a matt finish so no trouble with stupid angles reflecting the lights. Make sure to grab one with the 540GM graphics card though, some places sell the cheap version that leans on the integrated Intel graphics. Optimus makes the battery last forever even with a dedicated card in there.

Paying by connection speed?

You'll get stung either way

If this ever became a reality, the cynic in me says the top price would increase and not the other way around. So then anyone with a half-way decent connection is going to get stiffed with a bigger bill, just because everyone else thinks that's fair (I doubt anyone having to pay it would think that's fair, mind). It's an amusing mental image to have people attempting to _stop_ BT laying fibre because they don't want their bills to go up!

Perhaps a more fine-grained tiering system would be better? 1Mbps, 2Mbps, 3Mbps and so on, up to what your line is capable of? Then you just pay for what you want. Although I do have to agree with JustaKOS and Lord Elpuss, a stable connection is far more important (to me at any rate) than a fast connection, if only the two didn't seem to be mutually exclusive!

Man of God backs Beverley porncoder

Journalism at it's worst

And yet it sells newspapers?

Yes this is a complete non-story, but the readership who buy this ridiculous rag (and the many others in circulation in this country) must take a portion of the blame for encouraging them. Show me a newspaper that isn't packed full of non-stories and I'll show you a newspaper that's going out of business.

And if someone could tell the TV news-makers to lay off the garbage and start showing some real news I might be tempted to tune in from time to time...