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Written by Bob H
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Monday, 05 July 2010 20:24 |
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There is a theme running through the questions that I have been asked lately about some aspects of technology and that is the questions as to if a new technology will "dominate". Now, I'm not talking new tech of the class like "the mobile phone", but I am talking about some new gizmo, new software structure, or new web-based service. In this article I want to comment on this phenomena and what I think of it:
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Read more... [Giant Killers in Technology]
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Written by Bob H
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Friday, 18 June 2010 13:57 |
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This is a transcript of a speech I gave at the Westminster eForum in London about the future of television in the home. I thought I should share it...
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Read more... [Beyond next generation HD and web-enabled TV]
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Written by Bob H
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Friday, 18 June 2010 10:43 |
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I am now on my second Lenovo machine and I have to say I love the physical build quality and capabilities of these products. However one thing bugs me and that is the bundled productivity software that comes with a new laptop, most notably on the Lenovo products is Think Suite. This is a set of tools that comes with a Lenovo (formerly IBM) computer and deals with things like the function keys, the on screen display of indications (such as display brightness and volume) and most significantly network connection management. It is worth noting that almost every Microsoft Windows laptop sold, from Samsung to HP, has some sort of detritus installed to increase your productivity. I think it was about 13 years ago a friend asked my family to help him buy a really top-notch PC, and the best thing on the market at that time seemed to be the IBM Aptiva Stealth and thus we facilitated the purchase. It was really impressive, in matt black with a separate monitor base/stand with a CD-Rom, a disk drive and a power switch all built-in matching the very good (and very black) monitor. After wrestling with the Windows 95 and it's extensive IBM customisations they actually returned the unit and we custom built a "beige box" with twice the performance for the same price. Now we are in the era of Windows 7 and the problem is that the productivity tools seem to have grown more tentacles and seem to fight even more with the Windows native tools than ever before.
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Read more... [Lenovo Think!]
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Written by Bob H
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Wednesday, 16 June 2010 09:55 |
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So, I was speaking today with a revenue duty specialist about the definition of products and something came up which disturbed me and it was the EC definition of a modem:
Modems modulate and demodulate outgoing as well as incoming data signals.
This enables bidirectional communication for the purposes of gaining access
to the Internet. Examples of such modems are: V.34-, V.90-, V.92-, DSL- or
cable modems. An indication of the presence of such a modem is an RJ-11
connector.
Devices performing a similar function to that of a modem but which do not
modulate and demodulate signals are not considered to be modems.
Examples of such apparatus are ISDN-, WLAN- or Ethernet devices.
An indication of the presence of such a device is an RJ 45 connector.
It seems to me that the definition of a modem is rather messed up and this paragraph is trying to achieve something else than the wording says. If any technology student saw this they would be very confused because WLAN (Wifi) is clearly modulated and so are ISDN and Ethernet to some extent.
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Written by Bob H
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Monday, 17 May 2010 08:30 |
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I just had an idea and I think it might be rather cool...
So, I was reading the morning's blogs/news/etc. and I came across an article in which the author had clearly just mistyped the sentence "but the company has said" instead saying "but then company has said". This made me think, in these days of the social web editors and the distribution chain are spending less time proof reading, in addition there are a greater number of people who are less extensively educated being involved (I think we can all agree that education is less strict at the bottom echelons). Personally I don't think my standard of English is bad but at the same time I know I regularly make mistakes while typing and that there are doubtless many errors that I don't pick up on (my family occasionally corrects me).
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Read more... [Correcting The Social Web]
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