You get pretty good downstream speeds with Virgin, but browsing still feels laggy on it. It's like they have really slow DNS or something. I prefer ADSL to Virgin because then I can at least use my own modem / router, and tinker with my phone line to get some more speed out of it.
It irks me that they bang on about Fibre all the time when you actually have a grubby looking coax cable poking out your wall, but then the false-advertising rules in the UK are a joke at the moment. I was trying to get unlimited internet on my mobile phone a while back, I was offered 'unlimited' internet with a 100MB fair use policy. Not very unlimited at all.
Regarding Neil Berkett's comments about Net Neutrality, he also said that Virgin are simply the only company admitting to peeing all over Net Neutrality. Everyone's guilty of it, they just don't have the stones to stand up and admit it. I find this very believable, and offer him a consolation prize for at least being honest, if not a little crude about it.
All of the authoritarian stuff going on in the UK is shrouded in a cloak of ulterior motives, it's nice when one of the 'bad guys' is at least being up front with us, so we can make an informed decision. And yes, my decision will not be Virgin, but when we work out that all ISPs are throttling all traffic anyway, Virgin will probably be the only people providing some data on what gets throttled, in which case they'll suddenly be the good guys.
The Low power consumption isn't all that... When displaying black, they do use a lot less power than LCDs, but when displaying bright, or white colours, they can be using substantially more. On practical displays like TVs and computers screens, this is a problem, since you've got a lot of bright colour. On a PC, you've got mostly white for documents and websites- so all of a sudden, you can actually end up using a lot more power.
The other downer, is that OLEDs are rubbish under sunlight, even by LCD standards.
It might be that with proper RnD, these faults can be sorted out, the power consumption can be lowered to what they say it is, reflective brightness improved, etc- but it makes more sense to be on the LCD bandwagon with everyone else right now, than throw money at a technology that's probably going to be obsolete by the time it's matured...
I was at a meeting with my boss a year ago for a presentation from Cerco. There was about a dozen IT professionals in the room, and three guys from Cerco who were pitching an offer to us to be over-flow tech support if they ran out of their own guys.
Me and my boss were only half interested in the presentation (which turned out to be a farce), we were also interested in seeing what other IT competitors were in our area. The thing that stuck out to me, was that all the Serious Looking Professionals wore not a full suit, but smart looking clothes, well presented, and were armed with a leather-bound notepad or something similar.
The other types there were a young married looking couple, or middle aged man, with polo-shirts bearing their company name in machined stitching. They looked like amateurs.
The company that now owns the local repair shop I run offered me company shirts, and I refused, saying that our customers wanted to see a smartly dressed engineer behind the counter, not a guy who's been given some shirts to make him look smart.
If your company wants you to wear shirts and good trousers, that's a good idea, I'm impressed when I see smartly dressed IT pros, but uniforms are not impressive IMHO...
At least these Handy-capable folks won't need Jack Thomson to protect them from violent video games... The visually impaired might have trouble effectively wielding a knife while trying to kill a school bully in a GTA impersonation.
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You get pretty good downstream speeds with Virgin, but browsing still feels laggy on it. It's like they have really slow DNS or something.
I prefer ADSL to Virgin because then I can at least use my own modem / router, and tinker with my phone line to get some more speed out of it.
It irks me that they bang on about Fibre all the time when you actually have a grubby looking coax cable poking out your wall, but then the false-advertising rules in the UK are a joke at the moment. I was trying to get unlimited internet on my mobile phone a while back, I was offered 'unlimited' internet with a 100MB fair use policy. Not very unlimited at all.
Regarding Neil Berkett's comments about Net Neutrality, he also said that Virgin are simply the only company admitting to peeing all over Net Neutrality. Everyone's guilty of it, they just don't have the stones to stand up and admit it.
I find this very believable, and offer him a consolation prize for at least being honest, if not a little crude about it.
All of the authoritarian stuff going on in the UK is shrouded in a cloak of ulterior motives, it's nice when one of the 'bad guys' is at least being up front with us, so we can make an informed decision.
And yes, my decision will not be Virgin, but when we work out that all ISPs are throttling all traffic anyway, Virgin will probably be the only people providing some data on what gets throttled, in which case they'll suddenly be the good guys.
The Low power consumption isn't all that... When displaying black, they do use a lot less power than LCDs, but when displaying bright, or white colours, they can be using substantially more.
On practical displays like TVs and computers screens, this is a problem, since you've got a lot of bright colour.
On a PC, you've got mostly white for documents and websites- so all of a sudden, you can actually end up using a lot more power.
The other downer, is that OLEDs are rubbish under sunlight, even by LCD standards.
It might be that with proper RnD, these faults can be sorted out, the power consumption can be lowered to what they say it is, reflective brightness improved, etc- but it makes more sense to be on the LCD bandwagon with everyone else right now, than throw money at a technology that's probably going to be obsolete by the time it's matured...
I was at a meeting with my boss a year ago for a presentation from Cerco. There was about a dozen IT professionals in the room, and three guys from Cerco who were pitching an offer to us to be over-flow tech support if they ran out of their own guys.
Me and my boss were only half interested in the presentation (which turned out to be a farce), we were also interested in seeing what other IT competitors were in our area. The thing that stuck out to me, was that all the Serious Looking Professionals wore not a full suit, but smart looking clothes, well presented, and were armed with a leather-bound notepad or something similar.
The other types there were a young married looking couple, or middle aged man, with polo-shirts bearing their company name in machined stitching. They looked like amateurs.
The company that now owns the local repair shop I run offered me company shirts, and I refused, saying that our customers wanted to see a smartly dressed engineer behind the counter, not a guy who's been given some shirts to make him look smart.
If your company wants you to wear shirts and good trousers, that's a good idea, I'm impressed when I see smartly dressed IT pros, but uniforms are not impressive IMHO...
At least these Handy-capable folks won't need Jack Thomson to protect them from violent video games... The visually impaired might have trouble effectively wielding a knife while trying to kill a school bully in a GTA impersonation.
This looks shopped... I can tell from some of the pixels and from seeing quite a few shops in my time...