* Posts by paullaz

5 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2012

Lithium goldrush hits sleepy Oregon-Nevada border

paullaz

How convenient there is a Gigafactory down the highway.

DVLA misses out on £400m in tax after scrapping paper discs

paullaz

Re: This should be one of the easiest taxes to collect ...

California is an exception:

21950. (a) The driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way to

a pedestrian crossing the roadway within any marked crosswalk or

within any unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, except as otherwise

provided in this chapter.

Cupertino clears Apple's Fruit Loop HQ - provided it coughs up more taxes

paullaz

The new Apple "fruit loop" will be nowhere near the center of town, but in the NE sector bordering Sunnyvale.

APPLE reveals complete updated blueprints of SPACESHIP JOBS

paullaz

Re: It's not on an empty lot either!

Most of is is a fairly derelict looking HP facility with plenty of not so nice cyclone fence around it. I'll be driving by it on the way to mom's house for Thanksgiving today.

America abandoning DSL in favour of faster cable

paullaz
Happy

In preparation for U-Verse

Last year when I moved onto my rural hilltop in the Santa Cruz mountains AT&T delivered 1.5Mbps/384kbps via DSL. I won't deal with Comcast. As is my practice, I call every year to see if anything has changed since they won't contact you. I was nicely surprised to hear that "in preparation for U-verse" a fiber connected "tan box" is now somewhere up on the mountain close enough to deliver 12Mbps/3Mbps. Not super zippy, but my expectations living a mile up a one lane road weren't that high and I'm happy... for now. It gets installed next week