Posts by Missing Semicolon

Aldi AA

Aldi's alkalines are about the same capacity as Duracell Ultras at only £2 for 8. Yes I built a test rig!

Not the Simply Duracells they have next to them. Those are pants.

Re: A self-defeating approach?

8? Please tell us the bank, so we can pre-emptively avoid them!

Re: Unknown unknowns

Ryan Air (of course) has explicitly said that they will not be specifying aircraft type on the flight plan released to passengers.

where does the finance come from?

This is the issue. Huawei can afford to invest huge amounts in R&D, and offer sweetheart deals to struggling operators to sell their kit. And supply infinite numbers of on-site engineers to make it go.

All of this requires financial muscle, and the suspicion is that Huawei has essentially an infinite credit line to the Chinese State to achieve this. Even Boeing isn't that well supported.

It's not about being out-competed, but out-subidised.

Re: Not alone

Didn't that get proposed then struck down? Odd.

"Open-source desktop environments certainly didn't get better."

Well, they did for a while, then the Gnome crew took a look at Win10, and thought "if they can get away with THAT...." and took away all the toys that made it usable. Behold, Gnome 3.

Re: Bah!

We iz old. They may not be.

Re: Time bombs? (Brother)

And the ones that take the TN-241/5 cartridges have no chips, So you can buy cheap knock-off cartridges for (realitively) buttons. Or even refill, if you're brave.

Re: Missing from the article.

No, it's affecting us now. Mitsubishi have already thrown in the towel on European car sales, as they can't commit to 100% electric vehicles. So the amount of choice will be going down, and prices will increase, as usually happens when a very small number of companies get to carve up the market between them.

Paypal 2FA

Paypal used to hand out secure key generator fobs and cards. Now they are trying really hard to get rid of them, and rely on SMS only!

Re: Clear as mud

It maintains the idea that the only product is the latest one. All of the old stuff is just legacy, bin it, get this one!

Apple of course are masters at this. Apple Watch, anyone?

Re: Yes, but...

Slackware still has a real 386 build.

Re: Hypocrite Much?

Why do the course if you are competing with low-paid H1B imports? It has to stop somewhere!

Re: Power! (fabricobble)

Ave is the source.

Re: No physics again.

Because moving the cooling fluid about is only a part of overall cooling costs. I'd suggest that the majority is the heat pumps (i.e., chillers) that expend energy to "push energy uphill" to make the heat-exchangers that cool the coolant with fresh air hotter, and so more effective.

This is why data centres in arctic countries work so well - when the air is sub-zero, you don't need a heat-pump.

Re: So, how was it that

I'm not sure about your analysis of Bell Telephone.

You are right that the "crown jewels" of Lucent were allowed to rust away, but something had to be done about the woeful state of the domestic telephone system, which was allowed to stagnate with no competition to force Bell to up it's game. Bell Labs was essentially well-funded by the excessive profits of the Bell monopoly, which hurt everyone else and mostly went in execs pockets anyway.

The result of the Bell breakup didn't stick, as successive US Governments looked away as the Baby Bells were re-combined into Verizon, Sprint, Comcast, etc. Who carefully don't compete at all.