Posts by barrejam

First they came for 'face' and I did not speak out because I... have no face? Then they came for 'book'

Who is the bigger idiot, the idiot applying for the ridiculous trademark/patent or the idiot granting it?

It's a hard drive ahead: Seagate hits the density problem with HAMR, WD infects MAMR with shingles

Re: Hardly

Most enterprises work on a combination of price per TB and price per IOP - when you use this appraoch SSDs are starting to look very attractive.

Also, prices are partly driven by volumes - once SSD volume starts to overtake HDD, princes will start to drop significantly and spinning rust will very quickly be consigned to the same shelf as betamax i.e. a great technology and still in use for some niche edge cases but ultimately doomed to disappear.

Pandas so useless they just look at delicious kid who fell into enclosure

Re: Symbol Of The World Wildlife Fund

Could have used a badger, tapir, blackbird, killer whale, white tiger, black panther etc.....

ZX Spectrum reboot latest: Some Vega+s arrive, Sky pulls plug, Clive drops ball

You've only got yourselves to blame.....

IMHO those left out of pocket only have themselves to blame. 1980's computers were crap and by modern standards are really crap - why would you invest to buy one of these things when you can emulate it on a standard PC (for very little/no money) to satisfy your nostalgia?

Incidentally, if you look at how Sinclair originally operated, this very much fits the MO - shoddy products, rushed out of the door to either meet artificail deadlines or to stave off moves by investors/share-holders to shut them down. My favourite indicattion of build quality was the company recommendation to use Blu-Tack to fix the wobble in the RAM expansion unit. It shows how poorly engineered the products were. How they sold millions of units is beyond me! The BBC film "Micro Men" tells the story quite well.

National ID cards might not mean much when up against incompetence of the UK Home Office

Do you really think that the government doos not hold an enormous amount of data on you already? With an ID scheme at least everyone would know that and be better placed to hold the goverment accountable for the safe keeping of that data.

Personally I would welcome any scheme that ends the farce of having to "prove" your details for various contracts using utility bills - what a joke!

Anyway, we already have the basis of a national identify scheme that is used by ~45 million people - it is run by the DVLA. Why not extend that to cover non drivers?