Posts by Robert E A Harvey

Good luck to him

It's not a bad idea. It gives people the chance to try something out quickly. The $6 is cheaper than paying an engineer to do something from scratch. If he is up-front about the costs, and the timeout on the free one, well good luck to him.

And if people are stupid enough to pay him his rates on a long term basis, well good luck to him. Stupid deserves to bleed, it's how we keep the market fit.

Hewlett Scrapyard

People have long memories of past purchases, and really don't want last year's CPU with last century's screen resolution.

I do wonder, too, if customers being ripped off for printer ink does the brand any good.

Trusted the bankers?

"the lender hiked its charge per transaction from 1.75 per cent to 5.45 per cent"

just like the interest-free period on yer credit card running out. You cannot base a business plan on the introductory offer. Who could not have seen this coming?

[Banker: interesting business here, why should he be making the profit instead of us? I know...]

Harvey's new law

If it's business and you don't mind doing it in the cloud - you probably don't need to be doing it at all.

Space!

Sorry but I think that's really cool!

here is an idea

Just make the camera. Don't lumber us with a phone, just sell us the camera, the smallest, lightest, most capable pocket camera ever.

All gadgets

"Is your Apple gadget made of human misery and eco-ruin?"

I can't see that Apple are any different in this regard than anyone else. You can go and buy a reasonable quality socket set (in a nasty blown plastic case) for a couple of hours wages. When I started work it would have been a couple of months wages.

When I was brining up my girls a school uniform would have cost us a few hundred pounds. Now, decades of inflation later, you can get one from Tesco for a tenner. They are not made by the school uniform fairy.

This is a major success of capitalism (I nearly wrote crapitalism) and a major failing of society.

it's a social experiment.

Redmond want to find out if they can fool all of the people, all of the time.

we were warned

A lot of people - including my humble self - were saying "this is madness" right from the start.

not really ID

This doesn't sound as bad as people are making out - there seems to be no intention to identify a named individual, although there is always the possiblity that the security people will want access but it all sounds stand-alone to me.

That said, since I just walk past billboards 95% of the time, and the other 5% of the time I am staring in complete bewilderment as thought at an alien culture, I do think they have some software challenges ahead.

Why don't we all wear Bill Oddie masks like Clarkson driving across america?

taking bets?

Anyone taking bets who will bid?

Who will get the contracts?

And if anything gets delivered?

well, good luck to him

I applaud people working hard at a good idea.

I really like the idea that the fire brigade or coastguard could lob a few of these about and get a good idea what they are up against. With that in mind, perhaps he should be interleaving IR cameras with visual light ones?

eh?

sodding great camera and no removable storage?

who thought of that then?

XPS10

If those sales figures for the XPS10 are right, they could double them by putting linux on them

8.1, eh?

i had no idea people thought the problem was to the right of the decimal place.

Oh, interesting

I might experiment with my old idea of 'meshing' all my family internet feeds together between the houses