Most Windows 7 laptops and PC's from the last 6-8 years work very well with an SSD upgrade and in place Win7-Win10 upgrade. I am not surprised PC sales are down but surely SSD sales are way up.

I was looking at Fabrice Bellard's little company site the other day which sells 4G and 5G software to run on SDRs and PCs. https://www.amarisoft.com/ SDR makes the barriers to entry for this stuff very low. Not quite open source yet but the big companies aren't the only games in town.

It's not just about high frequencies. Lossy compression also corrupts the signal overall. Listen to cymbals or other spectrally busy musical content with MP3 for example - cymbals sound messy and awful.

I agree. There is nothing intelligent about a bag filled with cornflour and water. Anyway, it's a great innovation on the older (2012) idea of using the same sort of thing to patch potholes temporarily. See this: http://www.popsci.com.au/tech/...

They are probably doing nifty quantum entanglement experiments. But that is a ruse - the true mission is to see how well a Hostess Twinkie's "freshness" is sustained when exposed to a hard vacuum and unadulterated solar and cosmic radiation.

I always though it was ridiculous too. Turns out if you use some kind of profile management system to control a swag of iPads at a school for example then if you wanted to push out these iWork apps you'd have to purchase a copy for each device (because setting up management usually means wiping the iPads clean) ! This is nuts considering each device already had an entitlement for these programs out of the box - I never understood why Apple wanted to double dip this way apart from the benefits of double dipping for them.

A friend used to do hang gliding and would have wedge tail eagles either soar with him or attack him. He's had one eagle run it's claws along the leading edge of the glider to try tear it and get him out of the sky.

They just ditched another cost center and gave another reason they think Exchange admins should put their staff onto rent-seeking hosted cloud Exchange.

This 250kW wave unit is being connected to the grid in South West Victoria in Australia in a few months. http://www.standard.net.au/sto...

I have noticed when purchasing new items these days that there are slips of paper reminding consumers of their rights and whatever the company bandies about as company policy cannot trump Australian consumer law, ever. We do refunds here. Suck it up.

I completely agree. Get a Mikrotik device of some kind. They are reliable, Swiss-army-knife-flexible, cheap, robust and have a huge range of devices to choose from. You can even assemble your own configuration from parts if you want too. The Winbox config utility is fantastic and works just fine with Wine in Linux. They are now coming out with models that have 802.11ac too. I Mikrotiks with ADSL2+ modems (like the Draytek Vigor 120) in RFC-1422 bridged mode but they will work fine with cable modems, Wimax system and with some models you can use a USB 3G/4G dongle.

Anything sold in the last 4-5 years with an i3/i5/i7 with over 2GB of RAM and Vista or Win7 is still more than enough for most businesses and individuals. There is no real incentive to replace the whole machine when there are cheap options to upgrade with a few more GB and an SSD to give it a new lease of life.

As I recall this happened when the South Brisbane exchange was relocated a few years ago. Everyone who was on that exchange ended up with a brand new fibre to the premises connection to replace the copper.

Timothy, you complete numpty. "Officially Confirms" is perfectly cromulent.

30 Days? Sounds like a trial license expiring.