HDCP a standard built not for the users benefit.

The HDCP standard is there to protect copyright holders, its on your kit not for your benefit, but for their benefit, the aspect of its thats irritating, is that for the user its just another headache to have to take into account when hooking technology together, such as my dell 2405fpw which is a great monitor in many respects does 1080p, works great.

Which im now expected by industry to replace regardless, because most hdcp kit wont talk to it, PS3 included etc on any digital connection, basically HDCP increases the potential to cause conflicts, incompatibilities, and things to go wrong, and generally waste more of the computer users life, which is what most manufacturers and software developers seem to be doing nowadays, wasting more of the users life than necessary to increase their own financial benefit.

rubbish designer lightbulb industry still pushing cfl

designer energy lightbulb is just further proof as to how poor design has become in this country, that this heap of shit wins an international prize ! this is merely just a different form that is in itself not design unless that form adds better function to the product, it does not its just a different shape.

good design is in bad shape … this thing is a heap of shit, this is really art rather than design as the change in design has not yielded any improvement in function, theyve just taken the current CFL bulb and asked the factory to blow the glass tube in a slightly different configuration, its still the industry > pushing supermarket strip light technology from the seventies , enhanced a little by miniaturising it and enhancing the shitty starter refresh rate, untill they sort this to be instant on and correct the colour temperature of these things to match or be better than incandescant they are not good enough, incandescant warms life up with its glow these CFL bulbs seem to make us look like were all living in a mortuary, the light these things emit regardless of lumens measured seems dingy unstable and badly coloured and that is the function part of a lightbulb these guys must master or theyll never be liked regardless of energy savings, you want the bulbs to be adopted rather than guilted onto us for energy reasons ? well … make them match incandescant in colour temperature give them a 400hz refresh rate, make them safe, instant on, no warm up period of dinginess, and make them not fundamentally rely on transmuting uv radiation into visible light as uv light leakage can be very sensitising for some peoples skin.

biggest waste of money ever ? $7.8 billion for mcafee ? is otellini mad those figures dont add up ?

biggest waste of money ever ?

Intel if your going to throw $7.8 billion around at least build fab plants for lower nm chips with the money or something, do what your good at ? divesting money into an antivirus software maker is pretty crazy considering, antivirus companys are two a penny as in theres dozens of them, and open source and free Continue reading

UK culture industry brain drain and tech

all text quotes are taken direct and undedited from the telegraph article here by “Milo Yiannopoulos” my responses are in italics

“This column recently praised Silicon Valley for its ebullience and optimism,
silicon valley has an an industry”

margaret thatcher pretty much caused the collapse of all manufacturing in britain including our silicon industry in favour of service industry’s by not marketing it right, and discouraging it, and giving up on manufacturing in general, if you dont practise the art of making things you loose the expertise to do so well, or even to do the design and instruct others somewhere else.

“noting that the attitude of Californian tech entrepreneurs was a major factor in the region’s success.”

hmm … Silicon valley is mainly still there today, because of collaborative efforts made in 1986 to unify the industry into a unified geographic unit to hold up against global chip market and innovate and to retain the design and industrial assets necessary to be in the semi fabrication game there, and this was acheived by bob noyce who made it his agenda to help bolster the chip industry through running the semi conducter industry body sematech, and also he popularised the IC by pricing them less than their production cost, and gambling production improvements and efficiencys could garner a profit back.

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testban treaty inspection team ? ctbto

testban treaty nuclear inspection team.

how many millions and billions is being spent running this team ? which countrys general tax revenues can afford this nuclear roleplaying game ? Its sadly probably needed, what a testament to the stupidity of human decisions. but this shows how stupid nuclear technology is in the sense that now we have to fund millions toward roleplay technical teams to go on jollys like this because some countrys have a fetish for nuclear technology, is it worth it ?

no doubt they’ve released this video to justify the kind of public money being spent on them ? bureaucracy gone mad “ctbto” sounds like some kind of insane communist fictional cartel of bureaucrats, maybe the voiceover isnt helping ? looks like a camping holiday for nuclear scientists ? interesting to disregarding the two sides involved they appeared to have a third set of people to document the people documenting and collecting the evidence, thats heavy bureaucracy ? whichever way its just sad this needed, can any technology be worth it which requires this kind of bullshit to happen, just to make sure were safe from it ? and yet the UK is building more nuclear power stations ? … great ! when you add in all the waste and post processing, nuclear technology is allot like the cat in the hat comes back, whichever way the nuclear cat just seems to smear more radiation around rather than clear it up, brushing it under the carpet into vaults in the earth or building reprocessing plants that cost more to decomission the fuel, than the original cost benefit of using nuclear in the first place ?

I suppose the possibility of arriving at clean helium 3 fission reactors would probably not have been possible without having gone through this dirty phase of nuclear power generation first ?

paypal and ebay a biumvirate of user bullying

user bullying you say ? well like most of these tech giants when there isnt enough competition, they do what they please regardless of what the user wants and this one of the problems they start out with good moral philosophy and end up with a bad moral philosophy.

paypal appears not to be an accepted automatic fees payment method ? which isnt made clear when attempting to list an item on ebay ?

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idiot MOD procurement indicicative of government procurement in general

idiot MOD procurement indicicative of government procurement in general

if I an ordinary citizen can pickup that bulb for 55p at my local tescos, what the hell do the MOD think theyre doing paying £22.00 of my taxpayers money for it ? fing assholes.

this country is riddled with idiocy by commitee.

I swear to god some peoples graves will need to be behind security doors

I swear to god some peoples graves need to be behind security doors.

margeret thatchers for instance is going to get desecrated in my opinion not long after shes laid to rest. she had to many detractors in her career and left to many disgruntled people and broken culture in her wake.