* Posts by Vicdavery

4 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Dec 2013

Tech contractors begin mass UK.gov exodus in wake of HMRC's IR35 income tax clampdown

Vicdavery

Re: Simple Answer

Unfortunately a simple solution is not the goal.

Treasury/Chancellor always want many leavers to push and pull so that it is impossible to work out what they've done.

If it was simple then they couldn't hide tax rises.

VINYL is BACK and you can thank Sonos for that

Vicdavery

Have to disagree with the tea-making comparison.

You've only got to compare the leaves from decent loose-leaf tea to the dust that you get even in premium tea bags.

Clearly a better quality product.

Light, fast ... and pricey: Toshiba's Portégé Z30 – now THIS is an Ultrabook

Vicdavery

Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition

13.3 inch 1920x1080. i7 8Gb 256Gb SSD

Choice of Linux or Windows from manufacturer

Had one for over a year now. Brilliant laptop.

Ubuntu desktop is so 2013... All hail 2014 Ubuntu mobile

Vicdavery

Meh, nothing new

Jolla are already there. Grandiose promises for sure, but they've delivered and without the backing of a billionare like Shuttleworth.

Full linux, innovative UI using standard cross-platform toolkit (Qt/QML). A fully functional IDE in QtCreator.

Support for Android apps.

Oh and now I've turned off the NFC, battery is at 64% after a day and a half, with admittedly light use, but WiFi has been on all the time.

That's not even covering the future possibilities with their real USP, "The Other Half"