Posts by werdsmith

Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks

Re: Bankers

I remember people using the challenger banks a few years ago. Icelandic ones I think.

Re: Eh?

Phone locking is being phased out. See this publication a few weeks back.

I don’t think international roaming is at the top of most people’s requirements when they are just looking for the cheapest handset rental. It’s always an afterthought and networks can sell temporary bundles to cover travel.

Re: Something they don't teach in Norwegian schools...

Don’t forget your part p.

I’ve never seen an LED bulb fail yet. I also have some older fluorescent lightbulbs (the older low power type) and they are donkeys old.

And if you turn to your left, you can see the walls of Amazon Web Services' vast server farm. And next to it, a gift shop and visitor center

Re: No-one mentions AWS

When was the last time you sent all your money to an overseas entity in order to make your local earnings look less so you could reduce your tax bill?

Quick, get the popcorn: Amazon Web Services says Microsoft's benchmarks for Azure are a load of stripe

Re: So Amazon paid $5Bn in various taxes

Ultimately a corporation gets its money from the consumer. If the corp pays more tax then the consumer pays more to buy its stuff. We pay the tax.

Apple finally clambers to top of phone market again as spider-eyed iPhone 11 lures fanatics out of the shadows

Re: "fuck it we're going five cameras"

And camera makers with megapixels.

Re: One hit wonder?

Rumour is that Apple have a lower cost SE2 on the ways.

It’s true about Android, I am no Apple fan but the alternative is worse as long as Apple is the only option out there I’m stuck with it .

So used cheap iPhones it is.

Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages

That’s a blessing.

My backup line is 4G. My main connection is via Virgin, I also have a deal with my neighbours on a different provider, they use my WiFi when they are down, and I can use theirs likewise.

It's calculated Apple leak time: Cheaper iPhone, laptops with proper keyboards, and, oh, a Tile competitor

Re: Tile ?

If the tile did that it would get very annoying very quickly, which is why it doesn’t.

I’ve been a tile user since it crowdfunded start up. My skill is getting them cheap. What is really sad is they are throwaway devices, so a flat battery wastes the whole device.

Elon Musk shows world that he is truly awful at something

Re: Terrible

Terrible I agree.

But it is an average to good effort for its genre.

It’s not true no one wants .uk domains – just look at all these Bulgarians who signed up to nab expired addresses

Look at the Irish domain system,. You need a valid Ireland entity to register one. They get it right.

There are already Chinese components in your pocket – so why fret about 5G gear?

Re: "It is perfectly possible for the West [..] to decide on a coherent policy"

“Because the US is concerned that a key ally, and one that it spent many thousands of lives creating, may become dependent on a rabid dictator.”

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A rabid dictator. Yes, it’s true, the USA doesn’t have a monopoly on those kind of leaders.

In your face short sellers! Tesla goes two quarters in a row without losing money

Tesla was virtually a first mover as a company committing to EVs, and were able to open a considerable lead. They still have a lead but it has narrowed considerably and I expect in 2-3 years they will be caught unless they have another rabbit in the hat. They need to become firmly established as a high volume maker of vehicles by then or they will become a niche maker and not nearly so valuable.

Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program

Re: Immigration

When it comes to Brexit, CodeJunky is the least ibjective commenter I’ve ever seen on The Reg.

Re: Good, good.

@Dan 55 I would bet a lot of money that there will be some kind of FOM at the end of negotiation.

By the way, McCulloch's purchase of London Bridge (or the facing stones thereof) for Lake Havasu City turned out to be very very astute and beneficial to Lake Havasu City. And still is. A very smart guy who knew exactly what he was doing. So people trying to sound supercilious by using that metaphor, just look super silly.

Re: Why do people write the word "period" ?

I don apostrophe t get it full stop it apostrophe s just weird comma why not just write "." full stop We are not dictating telegrams so it apostrophe s totally unnecessary and makes me think I apostrophe m talking to Jeff Albertson full stop.

Re: I thought we'd had enough of experts?

Science graduate jobs are already woefully underpaid. Importing qualified foreigners will depress wages further.

Why would foreigners want woefully underpaid jobs?

Re: Good, good.

So they made a law. They can make another law.

Re: Dont come here

Experts will only come here if they have failed to get into California sunshine and several other places that they would rather be.

Re: Good, good.

Important work, both of them and especially the latter. I would rank any care profession above IT.

Re: Good, good.

Why do people write the word "period" ? Weird. It's even worse and more stupid than writing "end of".

Anyway, FOM as part of a negotiation is something that would give EU citizens FOM to come to the UK in exchange for FOM of movement for UK citizens in EU. If that's what the EU wants then that's what they will get because as has already been plainly shown, in negotiations the UK has a very very weak hand.

And @Charlie Clark "the government has decided" ? Have you not been watching the last three years? Anything the government says or decides has to be taken with a pinch of salt because they change at will. EU negotiators don't believe a word of any amateur bluff.

Re: Good, good.

EU citizens in the UK will have no problem staying if that’s what they want to do. Once a deal with the EU is negotiated and signed it will likely include freedom of movement as part of the deal and it will be business as usual, thankfully.

Star wreck: There's a 1 in 20 chance a NASA telescope and US military satellite will smash into each other today

If only orbits were circles.

Prospero X3 has a perigee about 332 miles and apogee about 816 miles. It's still quite happy going round its 82 degree inclination since it left Woomera in 1971.

Re: Pittsburgh, Philadelphia?

Stevenage is having a billion quid invested in its town centre. So with Airbus and GSK it's OK. Just be careful where you go and when.

Remember when Europe’s entire Galileo satellite system fell over last summer? No you don’t. The official stats reveal it never happened

Re: WTF?

Do you imagine that upvotes and downvotes are somehow important t?

El Reg tries – and fails – to get its talons on a Brexit tea towel

Re: A perfect demonstration of eccentric British understatement

It’s all ok. Once all the old crusties have died off ,the more enlightened generations that follow will grow the rejoin movement to repair the damage.

Re: Deliveries [..] won't start until the week commencing 10 February

I consider the guardian to be of the same status as the mail, just on the other side of the political fence.

Both gutter rags.

Use our stuff for free and sell your application? That's Qt. Time to give something back

I don't quite understand your metaphor. I was actually thinking more about 339 employees and their salaries.

I can sense a growing movement for successful open source projects having become established, to want to monetise.

Because I suppose, goodwill doesn’t pay the mortgage.

I/O, I/O, new Android soon on show: What's coming up at Google's dev conference

Re: That's some catching up...

I haven't been required to use airplane mode on an airplane in the cruising phase for many years.

You're always a day Huawei: UK to decide whether to ban Chinese firm's kit from 5G networks tomorrow

The 5G horse is still in the stable.

That's great but if the 4G horse has already bolted, it won't make much difference which service people connect with.

There's already a stack of 5G kit in the current 5G roll out.

To be fair, you'd struggle to do a 5G rollout without 5G kit.

There’s already a stack of Huawei kit in the 4G infrastructure.

There’s already tens of thousands of Huawei consumer communications products in use.

Bolt that stable door.

Brit brainiacs say they've cracked non-volatile RAM that uses 100 times less power

Re: I'm still waiting...

I was shown bubble memory at Plessey, but by then it was already obsolete.

It was all about static ram vs dynamic. I remember my little 6116 2kx8. I thought it some kind of magic.

German scientists, Black Knights and the birthplace of British rocketry

I also went over the barrier and explored the concrete emplacement close up. Would not have liked to have been there in the 60s without ear defenders.

There is also an earlier gun emplacement for defending the shipping channel approaching Pompey which is why it is called Needles Battery. And Tennyson down is also very nice, the view across Alum Bay and across to Bournemouth and the south coast is also glorious. Many reason to go that way rather than the sweet factory and glass blowing.

You got there first, the article says that there are no control panels left at High Down, but they are inside the building that is closed in the off season.

If the words 'new', 'AI', 'for', 'the', 'physical', 'world', 'accelerate' and 'Facebook' scare you, click this headline

To be fair, as a native English speaker I would have just gone down the stairs without another thought, the idea of pissing on the floor wouldn’t have crossed my mind.

An AI robot however, would probably have just pissed all over the floor without hesitation.

Free Software Foundation suggests Microsoft 'upcycles' Windows 7... as open source

Re: Do they know an open source Windows would be the death of Linux?

There are a number of reasons that Linux is not established on the desktop. The Linux world is in denial about most of them and until they face reality, change will continue to.be at the pace of continental drift.

Apple: EU can't make us use your stinking common charging standard

Re: I don't care

Thanks for letting us know.

I think the problem was connected to music recording, through musical instrument interfaces, syncing the player with the other recorded channels. Might have had more to do with Android than the cable though and the problem has seen improved since.

Re: Gold plated cables

Just change the battery.

Two billion years ago, snowball Earth was defrosted in huge asteroid crash – and it's been downhill ever since

Re: Facepalm

Sorry but we have to rough it, no burning of anything

No volcanic eruptions. Ban those immediately.

Stiff upper lip time, Brits: After bullying France to drop its digital tax on Silicon Valley, Trump's coming for you next

Re: But, but, but ...

We were promised we'd get our sovereignty back after Brexit,

We were never promised that. There was no need because just like all the other EU states we still have it and always had it.

Alan Turing’s OBE medal, PhD cert, other missing items found in super-fan’s Colorado home by agents, says US govt

Re: Inventory

Our state secondary schools can't even confirm attendance and qualifications gained in the mid 1980'so.

This is true but Sherborne is no state secondary school. Which probably makes it even worse at keeping records.

Re: Mrs Turing

Alan Turing did become engaged to be married to Joan Clarke (who later became Joan Murray) whilst at Bletchley Park.

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

Re: Maybe the business plan needs some tweaks

Most of the stuff that is being abandoned is already beyond return age, and not going to stop working in the very near future either.

Re: Alternatives

While you are there, add 75 ohm coax and alarm cables. They are still surprisingly useful.

"Good luck getting it to work on any computer you can buy. But I see your point."

In VMWare Player?