Posts by VeeMan

Guinness World Records pulls beards off online Secret Santas

Those that throw stones...

Like any other mistake, especially when you're working to tight deadlines, these things happen. I had exactly such moment but a few months ago. If my fingers could dig through concrete I'd have buried myself alive.

What made an absolute huge difference is the overall response from nearly all (apart of 5 out of several hundred) recipients which is "no worries", "it happens" etc. There's a few that will reply with a URL to email etiquette guidelines, but it's absolutely surprising how everyone remains humane and doesn't call for a head (or two) to roll.

BT fattens fibre customer pipes for free - with a contract extension

Both B.I.G. on announcements, but don't live up to it

I've been a customer of both VM and BT, and their networks are plagued by congestion/traffic "management "(BT) and packet loss (VM) in quite a few neighborhoods.

In particular, VM's consumer forum is littered with people complaining about the issues and their dates for "fixing" this is shifting every time someone requests info from them.

I was an Infinity Option 2 customer for 18 months prior to just signing with VM last month, and even though they don't have packet loss (which kind of makes a non-traffic managed 100mbit connection useless), the connection got "managed" down from 36m down/8.5m up all the way to 7m down/2.4m up during peak periods - every day.

Oh, and BT don't tell you you have to pay them £30 to cancel Infinity - it's apparently in one of the many pages of fineprint attached to the ordering process but never is it mentioned unless you attempt to give them the boot.

Regardless of what the connection speed is, these companies have serious network infrastructure issues, and they are not really pushing the boat out on getting their routing and switching infrastructure up to the job of serving all of us existing customers - no - they're just adding more "high-speed" pipes to an already clogged system.

UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing

House of Schmords...

One of their peers are being investigated for quite a few illegal actions (=A & Title.SubStr(9,3) & cr . . . ), yet they don't think it's OK to admit to the failure of previous governments (including their own peerage passing these laws at the time)? Fair enough to all those crying out about being innocent until proven guilty in the previously mentioned case however Turing's "illegal activities" has been successfully defended as a human right, yet they see fit for the final judgement of imposed imprisonment or chemical castration to stand.

Not that it would make a difference for the man who is long gone and suffered regardless, however it just shows us living individuals how hypocritical, misguided and flawed those red-cloaked toads are.

Sony HMZ-T1 3D head mounted display

I WOULD!

I understand it's probably bit of a stretch for the average joe, but I'm single, enjoy movies and the odd battlefield challenge, have been saving up for a projector because I don't see the benefits of spending the same amount on a massive telly.

Yes it would probably have had more shine if it was 1080p, however I'm assuming that since the product has a road-map as suggested, the likelihood of that coming in the future is likely. And even if it did with this one, I don't think the review would have been any different.

As for playing games with it - like the previous posts, unless you have just started familiarizing yourself with a keyboard and mouse for the first time in your life, it's going to be no different doing it with these on vs. using your display(s).

I hope they have some demo models at the store since I intend on paying them a visit tonight.

EMC exec flames El Reg

Heck Yeah... oh but.

From all vendors EMC is the least likely to provide samples for benchmarking. Why? "...because uh, your tests doesn't relate to real-world conditions..."

So I would have expected nothing less than this very long response, the latter part of it with that amount of times where "sexy" and approval of EMC kit in the same sentence, a clear lack of spelling mistakes comes through as being censored by their top marketing exec pre-"send button".

Not that We'll all run and buy some white boxes and befriend Nexenta tomorrow, but shame it must be a scary world for you if an article praising a different vendor passes through the channel Mr big-bucks, "no you can't have SNMP on our basic model", EMC.