Posts by therealmav 57 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2013
If I were a criminal, I'd pop across to Europe somewhere, buy a multi-sim capable device and bring it back to the UK. Then setup shop as normal.
If I were an enterprising businessman, I’d learn - or find someone who could do it for me - how to build an eSIM farm, build it right here at home and setup shop selling esim farms to people with no questions asked.
Also, if say, i am in the car with my phone connected to the Aux with the lightning adapter, how am i supposed to charge it?
you cant, but you could
1. connect it to the cars usb socket instead and playback through that and charge at the same time
2. use bluetooth to play music, whilst charging thro lightning
The chances are that those replacements wouldn't get security patches pushed to them and the multitude of "stores" that supported them would be fragmented and not policed for security issues. It's not a good scenario.
Im sure the owners of Samsung devices will miss the regular and timely security updates
I’ve flown Ryanair and TBH it was only a little worse than my experience from much more expensive options. All airlines treat paying passengers as troublesome PITAs. So while I wouldn’t seek out Ryanair, I wouldn’t avoid it either - esp if their flight times were more convenient.
Talk Talk though - wouldn’t touch them with a barge pole
Anyone that doesn't currently have access to a decent service (by which I'd say 40Mb/s or higher - sod 10Mb/s) it's because there's something about your area that makes it a right sod to upgrade
Bullocks. I live a mile from the centre of town and get 3Mb because I sit on an 2.5km EO line. Just round the corner is a nice new fibre enabled cabinet.
I think what happens is that no party can force through legislation in the teeth of opposition. What they'd be forced to do is negotiate and compromise to come up with legislation that commands sufficient cross party support.
That doesn't sound too bad to me, but the politicians no doubt hate it.
must be a different 'services' to the ones I'm familiar with. Because every time I talk to someone about service IT, it's accompanied by a rolling of eyes and something like '<systemname>, what a fucking joke'
Large scale it for an organisation spending way north of £100bn that's the biggest employer in Europe is just way hard
>Unfortunately that is a real-time reflection of how many fucking idiots are present in society.
But not everyone knows enough to be able to pick out fuckwits like Rohan. I dont doubt that that the other interviewee did know enough, but when it came to tricky things like stringing a sentence together, making a coherent argument and explaining things in ways that typical R4 listener might understand she couldn't compete. If the tech industry wants to be taken seriously, they need to send serious sounding people to be interviewed. Its a shame because this is yet another instance where our politicians are simply lying to us and it would be good to have had someone say so more cogently.
Are you dido Harding in disguise?
I'm on a eo line and get about 2mb at the moment. A 10mb service would be great. A 30mb service even better. But having technology choices mandated in law is the stupidest idea I've ever heard. MPs generally don't know shit about tech matters and laws take ages to change.
G. Fast works perfectly well for a large percentage of potential users as does fttc. Forcing BT to install universal fttp in the absence of customer demand is just going to put up everyone's costs to no good end
>The customer pays for the product, and no one buys a product >100 pounds because it is .50p cheaper!
True, but they aren't going to drop the price by 50p are they. Imagine you're a manufacturer making & selling 10M phones per year. Saving 50p per phone means you make £5M more profit. The customer pays for the product, but the manufacturer specifies it.
Over the last several decades China has not invaded anyone, bombed anyone, drone attacked anyone, or opened any new military bases outside of its own borders. Food for thought.
I guess that Dalai Lama bloke just made it up...
And yes, the fact the prosecutors won't visit him for a chat is very telling.
What utter rubbish. The crime he's alleged to have done was a crime in Sweden. The Swedish investigation needs to take place in Sweden just like an alleged criminal who committed a crime in the UK would be shipped back here to be investigated. It's not like he's just a witness here. He's alleged to be the actual perpetrator.
>The minute they introduced the idea of profit making third parties benefitting, it was a categorical 'no' for me, because I just don't believe for a second that the benefits to the NHS through research by private enterprise would ever be proportional to the value to profit making
Who do you think makes the actual drugs that the nhs use and who's research might benefit from access to data?
That's right profit making companies.
How do you think profit making companies pay for the research?
That's right out if their profits
And who will develop new drugs if profit making companies don't
That's right no-one.
So you'd sooner do without new drugs than allow anyone to make money from making them
>I will give them five minutes, five precious minutes of my time whilst they ruin the show for me, and then that fucking thing is getting very violently flung from their hands and I vanish into the crowd like a ninja.
Wow, you're amazing. So hard & cool. Just like a proper ninja I expect
>WIndows Phone has over 300,000 apps now
But - and Spotify, you swine I'm talking to you - many of them aren't feature comparable with the iOS and Android versions. Oh and you BBC with your pathetic Winpho iPlayer lacking any of the good stuff like downloads and integration with playlister.
And I write as a Windows phone user who prefers the UI and is happy with the speed and general unbugginess of Winpho when compared with my previous experience of Android.
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