Posts by James

O2 starts 3G iPhone stampede - and runs away

Oh, FFS!

What a POS web app that upgrade site is - not content with sending the stampeding hordes in at the same time ('we're only a comms company, why would we have any expertise in capacity planning'), we're presented with just about the most ungraceful web 2.0 interface ever deployed - the spinny dots of timeout death have no failover OR fallback, so if you are unlucky enough to have a timeout at any point in the ordering process you have to go right back to the start, and get a new upgrade code texted to you! WTF?! This point alone must be doubling or trippling the apparent load on their servers.

41% of Londoners don't care about their pets

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And 83.2% of statistics are made up on the spot.

How many members of the sample population actually had pets to miss? If it was only 59% in That London - which seems high - then 100% of that pet-owning population could've said that they would miss their pets more.

Was this a typical PR we-emailed-it-round-the-company survey?

BBC Trust to hear open sourcers' iPlayer gripes

Not that slow

The BBC have been trialing streaming TV services for ages, but when it comes to actual rollout they are beholden to the trust bureaucracy to let them do it. I was on the last two private betas - alas now I've bought a Mac I'm unsupported in bbc-land.

First poster, I can't believe you're actually that naiive. This is more like only being able to receive TV broadcasts on a Sony TV. What's that, you've got a Panasonic? Tough titties. It's anticompetitive, plain and simple. That would be bad enough from a commercial broadcaster, but from a public service broadcaster - and one with auntie's history of real innovation, at that - it's inexcusable.