* Posts by Mr. Nanook

4 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jul 2019

China-US tariff tiff, Brexit, and a crap economy: Why OEMs spent $56bn less on semiconductors last year

Mr. Nanook

"The trade war between China and the US looks to be abating, though with a certain unpredictable orange-faced loon in the White House..."

The author is entitled to express his opinion but the above statement strikes me as childish.

Derogatory remarks aren't required in an article about the semiconductor market.

EFF warns of 'one-way mirror' of web surveillance by tech giants – led by Google

Mr. Nanook

Windows & Mac only. Based on Chromium.

Fed up of playing Whac-A-Mole with network of SoftBank-owned patent holders, Intel hits court

Mr. Nanook

Something whiffs of Research in Motion here. No products to sell but indiscriminate lawsuits galore.

Enjoying that 25Mbps internet speed, America? Oh, it's just 6Mbps? And you're unhappy? Can't imagine why

Mr. Nanook

That's my upload speed

Just ran the Source Forge Speed Test.

Latency 25ms

Download Speed 35.2 Mbps

Upload Speed 6.60 Mbps

Packet Loss 0

Comcast XFinity customer, running WLAN through a Linksys router about 4 years old. Seems I'm not getting the 100 Mbps they advertise but it is Saturday afternoon so....