Posts by Puffin

Pair programming: The most extreme XP practice?

HAH!!! You hippy loon.

"If you have never tried pair programming, try it." -- sure.... in your crazy free and easy hippy "work" world eh? SOME of us have actual work to get done, critical deadlines and you're the only one stuck on a project. Even spnding all 24 hours in a day isn't enough, no hope of hiring extra staff to even help you keep sane, let alone for fancy nonsense like this. Get real. Get a job in the real world. Stop espousing these unrealistic hippy ideals. Only when you're in a position where you actually realise that even suggesting nonsense like pair programming is idiocy, have you actually got a job in the real hard world of work

Eight budget-friendly 1TB SSD data packers for real people

SanDisk?

Has the SanDisk Ultra II SSD 960 GB been deliberately overlooked here? Amazon currently sell it for £185. I picked one up from Amazon before Christmas for just £149. Now THAT's "Budget-friendly" for such capacity. And it outperforms the 240GB Crucial BX200 that I pulled to replace by a country mile in terms of real performance - Windows 10 boots to login prompt in around 3 seconds now.

Google gives away 100 PETABYTES of storage to irritate AWS

Half a million a month?

If my maths are right, 100 Petabytes at 1cent per gigabyte per month is more than half a million quid a month? Nice business if you can get it.

Firefox 39 bites four critical bugs

eBay?

It appears unpossible to log in to eBay with FF39. A script on the login page locks up the browser solid every time. *slow clap*

REVEALED: Titsup flight plan mainframe borks UK air traffic control

Hmmmm

I wonder why they originally announced the problem as a terrorist threat...

Blade Runner sequel might actually be good. Harrison Ford is in it

"Hans Solo" ? HANS? Oh come on guys, make SOME effort at accuracy! :-P

Online tat bazaar eBay collapses in UK

Bloody headlines

When you wrote "collapses" I thought you meant they'd gone in to administration, not just had a network fart.

A drone of one's own: Reg buyers' guide for UAV fanciers

Don't fly over water

Just ... don't. (Have had to rescue a Phantom2 from the bottom of a pond...)

US wireless downloads hit 1.1 trillion MB/year

1.16 trillion megabytes = 1.055 exabytes

Was there some special reason to use Megabytes as the units here?

Vodafone silences punters in mini-mast upgrade bungle

8Mbit to carry a 9600baud GSM audio signal? HMmm....

Sigma SD1 Merill 46Mp DSLR

Foveon sensor good, Lens bad

I don't see any part of any of these shots in good sharp focus. Another advert for why you don't want a Sigma lens. And the grain is surprisingly high on all above ISO100. I do wish for a good DSLR with any sensor that isn't bayer format though. This ain't it.

Best and the Rest: ARM Mini PCs

No bone?

You mention BeagleBoard multiple times, but ignored the BeagleBone. Bizarre.

Voda in 3G blackhole probe by ASA

It's even worse than that

"Calls on 2G seem to be unaffected by this issue so you can still use your phone for its purpose" -- that's completely untrue too. I only have a 2G phone - a trusty Sony Ericsson K750i -- and this phone works perfectly fine everywhere except in the centre of Glasgow. Texts that won't send, calls that won't connect or get cut off. It's a total disaster and Voda keep telling us all is ok? Utter crap.

China Telecom plans iPhone launch, says report

Unicorns!

Unicorns!

BT vs Sky vs Virgin

"unfrorgiveably unusably awful crap boxes from Virgin" - yes!

I've got whatever they gave me as their "current" / "latest" box. It's so completely unusable it's shoved in a back bedroom and really never used. Completely unbearable crap. I only have to keep it so that they give me the tripleplay discount. Cheaper to get 3 services than just two. Madness.

Sky Anytime+ only for Sky Broadband customers - that's stupid

I can't get Sky Broadband where I live, so I have Virgin cable. Fine. I also have a Sky+HD box. But I can't use Anytime because, despite the fact the box hooks to my home network just fine, they won't allow streaming via anything other than their own Sky broadband service. This is a total nonsense and really pretty disappointing. I can't see any justification for this really. Shame is, in comparison to the truly unfrorgiveably unusably awful crap boxes from Virgin, the Sky+HD box is an absolute joy. So I'm stuck with half-a-service from each provider not making up the whole experience. Fantastic. :(

Virgin Media kills 20Mb broadband service

"Urging customers"

I've not been "Urged". Nor have friends also on the 20Mbit service. Where's this "urging" eh?

Dixons offers Angry Birds on the house

x76?

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