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Comment on Modern toilets by W Conklin

W Conklin — Tue, 31 May 2011 11:04:53 +0000

Waste monitoring toilets are extrememly expensive because of the technology that goes into them. They aren’t pratical if everyday use since there is a very limited amount of conditions that would require you to analyse your waste on a regular basiss. I would think if you needed on your insurance would cover the cost.

Comment on I think therefore I can drive by jameshigham

jameshigham — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 16:28:36 +0000

Good for learning languages though.

Comment on I think therefore I can drive by MTG

MTG — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 18:42:59 +0000

Trust some geek to dream up a thought activated plug just as I emerge from the garden shed with my remote control version.

Comment on Technology for technologies sake by Lord T

Lord T — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 20:07:44 +0000

Ivan,

It was an American plug by the looks of it. So that is not so bad.

I have seen infra red controlled ones for sale in the UK. It is taking laziness to extremes.

MTG,

It seems we will pay money for anything nowadays. Go ahead with your marketing campaign. I’m sure you will make a profit.

Comment on Technology for technologies sake by ivan

ivan — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 14:19:25 +0000

MTG, Too late, you can get remote controlled plug/socket adapters in the US and mainland Europe. As far as I know they are even available in the UK from specialist suppliers as well.

Comment on Technology for technologies sake by MTG

MTG — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:35:44 +0000

I smell commercial opportunity. Give it the thumbs up whilst I negotiate a contract for a labour saving remote control.

Comment on Technology for technologies sake by ivan

ivan — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 22:14:25 +0000

I think you will find that is for a US socket where they don’t have switches on the socket as in the UK. We don’t have switches on the sockets over here either and I have to make up leads with switches in them for those things plugged into sockets that are behind things and thus hard to unplug to switch off.

Comment on Security takes a leap forward by Lord T

Lord T — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:53:28 +0000

James,

I still have my concerns about Google. No embracing for me, not even a peck on the cheek.

Comment on Ken Olsen, the founder of minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) has died by Lord T

Lord T — Thu, 17 Feb 2011 14:50:56 +0000

Malcolm,

I remember Starbase but never used it. I was into RDB and then Oracle.

I remember ICL as well. Another great british failure. We seem to have a monopoly on screwing things up. Don’t remember the Quattro though although I do remember the Audi version. Must be something in that.

I don’t think there are that many mainframes now. It’s all supercomputers or grid computing.

Comment on Ken Olsen, the founder of minicomputer company Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) has died by Malcolm

Malcolm — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 23:26:54 +0000

DEC VAX ! VMS! I wrote many applications on Digital using VMS and Starbase ( a totally non-relational databse) in 1989 and 1990. Back in those far-off days there was a multplicity of operating systems and hardware, all equally good and looking to have a future. Can anyone remember ICL Quattro ? A UK made PC with a UK designed multi-user (well, 4 only) OS, that was sort of based on CPM, I seem to remember. Now in the modern world we have Linux and its variants. Unix, Dos/windows and thats yer lot as far as small and mid-range systems go. Plus the big systems of Cray and IBM, are there any other mainframe providors anymore ?