Posts by ChrisJC

Apple weans itself off Intel with 'more ARM chips' for future Macs

You also have to remember that ARM was a Joint Venture between Acorn and Apple. Apple sold out early on. I sold out last year :-)

Chris.

King Battistelli's swish penthouse office the Euro Patent Office doesn't want you to see

Sounds like a kick up the bottom is required to rattle the Euro Bureaucracy into touch, perhaps a nation deciding that enough is enough.......

I am sure there are a few Greek or Spanish or Italian unemployed that would have a differing view on spending priorities. Austerity for the King?!

Chris.

Science contest to get girls interested in STEM awards first prize to ... a boy

Positive discrimination is just as offensive to me as negative discrimination.

The best competition entry deserves to win, irrespective of gender.

I presume that the judges had the gender of the participant withheld whilst judging to enable them to make a non-discriminatory choice.

Perhaps Dr. Black would prefer a 'fixed' competition where it was predetermined that a girl would win. I wouldn't. I prefer a fair competition.

Chris.

Dialog box shut: Now Microchip is set to gobble up Atmel

Is there a head-in-hands emoticon?

Let us hope that adding Atmel to the mix raises the standard of the pitiful offerings from Microchip rather than Microchip lowering the standard of the Atmel offerings.

Chris.

Sennheiser announces €50,000 headphones (we checked, no typos)

Valves?!

Valves != High Fidelity.

Valves == Warm distorted sound.

If you like the look and the distortion, and have the cash, why not. Just don't tell me they are HiFi.

Chris.

Microsoft now awfully pushy with Windows 10 on Win 7, 8 PCs – Reg readers hit back

Linux Mint

Bwahahahahaha you dozy WIndoze peoples.

Vote with your feet. Don't complain. Just use something else.

Chris.

The great silicon slurp of 2015 continues: Atmel next on the shopping block

If it is Microchip, I hope they use it to ditch their hideous PIC architecture lineup and promote the vastly superior AVR8 kit instead.

Chris.

Sinclair is back with the Spectrum Vega ... just as rubbish as the ZX

We used to call the Spectrum the 'spakky', but I suppose we can't do that nowadays in this brave new PC world.

Beebs rocked. I have 28 of them still!

Chris.

P.S. I visited the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge the other day. They have Speccys and Beebs you can play with for real. If you have the skillz still.

Get ready: The top-bracket young coders of the 2020s will be mostly girls

Coders

Please can we call people who write computer programs programmers?

Being called a 'coder' is an insult. It bring up images of idiots in films hitting keyboards like infinite monkeys.

Chris.

Vinyl-fetish hipsters might just have a point

All good stuff. Just don't confuse listening to vinyl on a valve amp with high fidelity reproduction, because it isn't. It might be 'warm', and 'mellow', but it's not hi-fi.

Chris.

A14 to become UK's first internet-connected ROAD

No need for wireless

Because traffic spends so much time stationary on the A14, good old CAT5 would be just as effective.

Chris.

Continued lack of women in tech bemoaned by ex-techie lady MP

Maybe they just don't want to!

Maybe less women want jobs in tech compared to men. Does it matter?

Volkswagen Up!

52MPG ?!?!

What a compromised car if you only get 52MPG in real world driving.

I get about that from a much bigger / better Toyota Auris 2.0D, and I am not making any special effort to be frugal.

I think I'll stick with the Toyota.