Comment: any techies here? (Score 1) 362
Project cost benefit fails, project gets canned, instead of carrying regardless, just for ego reasons...
progress at last...
One day, we might even stop initiating unrealistic projects
Comment: Apple and their lawyers were lucky (Score 5, Insightful) 217
not too be in more serious trouble for contempt of court
Comment: Re:switch distributors (Score 1) 178
pity - I received my model B from RS - Yesterday...
Comment: Re:Oh dear ? (Score 1) 606
the BBC report also says he was taken into custody for his own protection, after about 50 people reported him.
That might just be a realistic claim. In the case of the two victims, people are sufficiently shocked and upset, I suspect getting strong sentence might well have saved Woods a lynching
Comment: brilliant product - shame on the Government (Score 1) 89
and people got trained that computing was a tool to solve business problems.
not - the more familiar now - here's a bit of kit who can we talk into buying it...
yet another great product mismanaged.
there again the British government got it all wrong - just like the Enigma machine & Alan Turing - better to hound him to death (as a gay security risk); hand the technology to the USA and block any use of any UK based experience for 30 years...
Comment: Re:Civil war? (Score 1) 275
well I'm a member - so far
whatever it is about:
neither party appears to be telling the truth about each other
neither party can explain it's point of view succinctly - and I am used to reading poor specs....
neither seems to be genuinely focussed on professionalising IT.
I recently joined PMI - if I could work out how to translate my experience and qualifications into a recognisable level - I think I'd drop BCS as well
Comment: Re:A Few More and Some Musings (Score 1) 244
Presumably "Man in a high Castle" is a little too close to the reality of where the media cartels (**AA + ACTA) are taking us?
+ - EMI piracy?->
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speardane writes "EMI have been succesfully sued by Pink Floyd. Pink Floyd objected to the payments for their music sold by EMI and to EMI breaching their contractual stipulation about not splitting the albums up.
The judge is considering what penalties to impose
In addition to the normal RIAA / BPI multiplier
As King Crimson have also sued EMI succesfully, should EMI also be subject to the "three strikes" rule and disconnected from the Internet?"
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The judge is considering what penalties to impose
In addition to the normal RIAA / BPI multiplier
As King Crimson have also sued EMI succesfully, should EMI also be subject to the "three strikes" rule and disconnected from the Internet?"
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Comment: The Best Democracy News international can buy... (Score 1) 246
Absolutely there is no business case for the cuts
As a BBC licence payer - £140 pa is remarkable value - between 1/2 and a 1/3 of the annual cost of a daily news paper!
News International wants to charge for it's News on the internet
Why would anyone pay for News international - when a superior product - the BBC is free? So - as above News International wants cuts
The Sun which prides itself in swinging UK Marginal votes "It's the Sun wot did it!" has just moved to support the Conservatives
The BBC is responding to pressure from the Conservatives
Both the Tory leader David Cameron and their Finance minister George Osborne have met and holidayed with Murdoch
The proposed shut of 6 Music is a sleight of hand - the real question - is why non-UK-national gets so much influence over our culture and media?
Comment: Re:Unrealistic? (Score 1) 247
upgraded to Virgin's 20Mb service - the advertising was accurate - I never exceeded 20Mb...
I often got 200kb and rarely exceeded 1Mb. Their support did nothing to help - but plenty of stupid... (eg test your connection using a windows macine with the AV removed).
I left...
+ - Ask Tunespro - how to find out if it's genuine?->
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speardane writes "I pay £££s (or $$$s) YMMV for iTunes and eMusic — indeed frequently CDs are higher quality and lower price...
These people are much "cheaper" — almost too good to be true — if it's not true.. . both I and the record company lose
***AA could make themselves actually useful by telling me if they are genuinely licensed.
and if the ***AA are too busy harassing punters, how do we find out?"
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These people are much "cheaper" — almost too good to be true — if it's not true.. . both I and the record company lose
***AA could make themselves actually useful by telling me if they are genuinely licensed.
and if the ***AA are too busy harassing punters, how do we find out?"
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Comment: MS Leaks Disambiguation (Score 2, Interesting) 179
I misunderstood....
I thought you were talking about "leaks" in products like Word (and other non-MS products) and XP "going down" - I find even with Word 2003 it was still safer to reboot every other weekend. Has this been fixed yet?
for the me the rest is all variations in marketing technique...
Comment: iGo (Score 1) 696
investigate the iGo system. 1 charger - multiple tips - certainly much more convenient when travelling
+ - UK increases surveillance
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speardane
speardane writes "The BBC reports that the Uk government plans to require the logging of all landline and phoneline calls to be stored for a year.
This has been signed off under previous legislation, effectively by passing debate in parliament. The justification for the change is to bring it into line with EU legislation."
This has been signed off under previous legislation, effectively by passing debate in parliament. The justification for the change is to bring it into line with EU legislation."
+ - Sleep Apnea Symptoms->
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fmjcie
fmjcie writes "After recognizing my Sleep Apnea symptoms I knew it was time to do something about my struggle to simply get a decent nights sleep, and not feel irritable and frustrated on a daily basis due to low sleep quality."
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