Sky Q isn't non-satellite. Never has been. It was merely the next-generation Sky HD box, with a bunch more tuners in it and 4K capability.

Sky Glass and the accompanying 'Puck' boxes are the first actual Sky branded units that are IP-only. 'Now TV' was the previous effort that was more akin to Roku and Apple TV.

This. (At least the first part). Where the hell is the EV station wagon from, well, *anybody*?

Electric vehicles still need to be as efficient as possible until ranges get to the 500+ mile level, yet if you want luggage capacity, apparently you have to have an SUV with the aerodynamic profile of a brick wall and the handling of an angry cow. Hardly the height of efficiency

I really don't understand why every manufacturer is doing this, especially in Europe, where Sportwagon / StationWagon sales are still high. Volkswagen's ID.5 looked promising until it morphed into YASUV. "Space Vizzion" may do it, but it'll cost as much as a luxury cruise liner. Volvo? All their EVs are SUV style and their Wagons are hybrid at best.

I want a vehicle I can load an entire bass rig into (two basses in hard cases, 8x10 cab, rackmount head, tools and stands), that has a 300 mile range and can take on twisty roads at a decent speed without making me feel seasick. That's not been too much to ask for the last 40 years, I don't know why it is now...

If you like that kind of music, search for "Battalion Of Flies" on spotify.

Added bonus - there's new music coming out in the next month or so and our lead singer isn't dead yet...

As a hardened British Europhile, I agree - that legislation was an utter travesty.

But here's the thing - how would that be any different in a 'brexited' Britain? Not only has the government in Westminster shown time and time again that along with having no idea about technology ('banning encryption', anyone?), they're more than willing to throw public interest under the bus in favour of corporate junkets, but without the political backing of the rest of the EU, they'll now be utterly unable to resist the demands of US media companies even if they wanted to.

Brexit will make Britain into Trump's bitch. And we're all going to get grabbed by the pussy.

The amount of uninformed nonsense on here is astounding.

The update doesn't "slow down" the phone as such - it limits peak power draws when the battery is down on overall capacity and the spike would cause a reset (which happens in many other manufacturers' phones - FFS google this, people). Most operations of the phone will remain utterly unchanged, just heavy workloads will be slower than previously.

Say what you like about non-replaceable batteries (hardly specific to Apple) or a badly communicated update, or anything else about them, but the "planned obsolescence" claim is patently nonsense - unless you believe that a phone that runs *some* tasks slightly slower as it ages is forcing users to upgrade more than one that reboots when it hits a CPU intensive task.

Realistically, this feature should have been in place from the start - it's basic power management, but as usual the howling mob would rather jump on the OMG APPLE EV1L BURN THEM bandwagon than actually take an objective viewpoint.

Not just that.

Read up on John Yudkin, who warned everyone about this exact issue in the 70s and whose life was systematically destroyed in retaliation by the sugar industry.

No, it wasn't. He's right - they all have their own number. The fact that you don't know it and that it proxies your main number means you might not realise that, but at a low level, every SIM has a unique mobile number allocated.

Well yes - it's not often that Android users get to brag about that, is it?

What a lovely piece of racist bullshit.

Shame you don't have the room or time to make a list of the companies ruined by white Americans and the amounts of money involved. (Here's a hint: One of the culprits is currently sat in the White House)

www.mono.org (home page for a telnet / ssh bbs) has been running since the late 80s and is still going, several evolutions of hardware later (original hosts were whitechapel workstations, then sparc stations, these days BSD on a virtual host).

Account signup is free and a significant amount of the original content is still available...

Alternative idea:

Let investors who value ROI over ethics go invest in a different company.

Tim Cook should be in the business of a number of things of which investor return is one and not necessarily the most important one, at that. Anyone who's invested in Apple over the years is well aware of this.

The Commodore is definitely a fairer comparison, and doesn't fare well against the BBC, either.

The BBC may have only had half the memory in its most common form, but it had expansion ports the C64 could only dream of, a far superior BASIC implementation (with a built-in assembler), networking, disk drives that couldn't also be used as space heaters (and before you go on about the extra 6502 inside the 1541 disk drive - how many people actually made use of it?), co-processors, multiple ROM slots, and full documentation. Oh and a power supply that didn't randomly melt.

It lost out to the C64 on price and the number of games available; and as everyone knows, the key factor in what computer you bought in the 80s was how many of your friends you could swap games with.

I had (and still have to this day) a C64, but always found the beeb significantly easier to program.

Are you on drugs?

Do you want some? I think it might help.

I love how webdevs and embedded programmers manage to constantly underestimate the sheer volume and scope of enterprise code that exists in the world.

Perl: Can't disagree there, really.
PL/SQL: Right, because oracle enterprise usage is dying out and no-one creates new databases based on it anymore...
COBOL: This will continue to exist when there's nothing left but rats and cockroaches. Wanna know why? Because it *works*, it works on mainframes, and it works *fast*. The business processes it runs rarely change and the code is all a very well known quantity by know, so there's absolutely no need to change it any more than utterly necessary. Sorry to inform you, but it's going to be around for another 20 years at least.

It's actually a Netgear. I like to mess with people.