Posts by Robert E A Harvey

Buying one for the wrong reason.

i may be ordering one of these because the company car tax is one quarter that of a proper car. I will never plug it in, because $MEGACORPs fuel card scheme can't cope with charging, so if I plugged it in I would be subsidising company mileage. $MEGACORP have forbidden plugging them in at work. So I will be buying diseasel to burn to lug all the extra weight around.

So it will /never/ be used as a plug-in but will save me £1500 a year on my tax .

Absolute nonsense. Courtesy of HMRC

Dodgy Product

The windows market was dominated by x768 line laptops and dodgy operating systems. I had money in my pocket for something good, and Apple made it. So guess what?

Wait for the 15"

You suggest waiting for the next upgrade of the 15" model. Is that a speculative thing, or do you know summat we don't?

Thomas J. Watson

What's the world-wide market for these? perhaps five?

(yes, I know he never said it)

Is it me?

That still seems like an awful lot of money.

I can't use much of my home broadband when I am not there, so why should my mobile data cost so much from the same supplier? I'd have thought a fiver for unlimited would be an incentive to have BT broadband, but these prices don't look that attractive even if you are a home broadbean customer.

Now if they were to bundle the whole lot, home and up to 4 mobile users, into one flat rate bill, I might think about it. If the flat were flat enough.

Death

Pterry and his friend Neil Gaiman both had a character called Death. In both cases, they were the most compassionate characters in their respective universes. Another writer I am fond of, Phil Rickman, has mentioned the angel of death as a comforter.

The older I get the more I understand it. It iwas the genius of Sir Terry to be able to pass that wisdom, and a lot more insights like it, straight to young people. To grant them wisdom without any other experience.

The truly great writers are not the tragedians, who hold a mirror to that part of humanity we have known since childhood. But the comic writers, who can teach us the unexpected and the true.

One of his books was called 'The Truth'. It was his only stock in trade.

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Price

i5 = £800

i7 = £1000

Nearly tempted

i am amazed

I didn't realize anyone used Panda anti-virus

Worth thinking about

I do think that there is a germ of political reality in the idea of finding a way to stop multinationals hiding profits. The amount of tax not paid in the UK by Google, Amazon, Starbucks, and probably Microsoft is a real issue.

But I am not convinced that our politicians are up to actually doing something about it, and this particular initiative sounds like a populist gimmick rather than a workable idea.

The idea that any government prepared to sign up for TTIP expects to be able to get multinationals under their thumb is simply comic. But then, they are all clowns anyway, so what else would one expect!

well, there you go

Bit late. I threw mine away last week. The TPlink I bought instead is reporting twice the speed to the exchange, and all speed tests are better too.

No idea if the d-link was pawned, but it wasn't working well. Though I can't imagine a hack that makes it report the link rates wrongly.

Experience

>"Would you trust 'spyproof' mobes made in Putin's Russia?"

well, to be fair, the people molishing them have a lot of background experience in being spied upon. They may well know of what they speak.

And, as AW says above, I fear the near government more than the far away one!

If I were a Microsoft shareholder

... I would be asking just what I got for my 5 billion dollars

About a thousand years ago

I was working for the UK half of a USA petrol pump design company. We had just ordered a computer, a PDP11 to automate stock control and payroll. There was a downturn in oil industry business, and the instruction came from Texas to cut overheads in half.

Being scared of taking decisions, the local management sacked half the accounts department, and cancelled the order for half the computer. So we ended up with a computer that could not do the stock control and an accounts dept. that could not do it either

Too late, too late

They are off my list, as are Sony. Still unforgiven for the root kit.

Look lads&ladys, the only way to bring it home to these companies is to stop buying their shit.

Failed to get one

I played their stupid game and by the time I got past it the phone was out of stock.

Irritated now

Flash photography

I unforget being on a Seismic Survey ship with loads of reel-reel tape drives. You know, the sort of thing with a bit of reflective aluminum spliced in as an end-of-tape marker.

One day the Client Rep came in and took a photo. And all the tape drives went offline and started rewinding.

Geograph.org.uk

Can I suggest users of this app might like to photograph their walks and add them to the rather splendid archive at http://www.geograph.org.uk ?

The ultimate end

We are seeing now the end of the process that started in the 50s, with lower paid people being replaced by automation and all the money going to the management.

Of course, the chief beneficiary of this in the early days was companies like IBM.

OH?

What does the Playmonaut have to say about this?