Fair enough, It's good looking but Google dont have a track history with hardware.
forget apple, but would you really pay £1049 for a laptop? honestly?
The Pixel, which Google says has the best screen with the highest pixel density of any on the market, is a great showcase for the search company's Chrome OS but it is overpriced
It also comes with huge amounts of cloud storage - a terabyte for three years - which Google says would cost you $1,800 alone (BS), making the Pixel a bargain, but can you trust all you info to the cloud with your internet??? is the UK's net good enough yet?
If you want to make a movie using a high-end video editing application,or play online games, then you will not find the Pixel much use. its a Tablet on steroids. get a Pad, you could get 2 ipads for that cost..
what do you think???
Tuesday, 5 March 2013
Monday, 4 March 2013
Cloud computing
Cloud computing is fine for people with fast, symmetric internet access available at all times.
In the UK, the reality is slow internet in most places, adequate download and poor upload speeds in some places and fast internet access in both directions in very few places.
even with Flitwicks fibre, the speeds are up and down like a yoyo - 1 minute 32 meg, then down to 2, up to 13. there is no stability...
would you really rely on the Cloud as it currently is???
In the UK, the reality is slow internet in most places, adequate download and poor upload speeds in some places and fast internet access in both directions in very few places.
even with Flitwicks fibre, the speeds are up and down like a yoyo - 1 minute 32 meg, then down to 2, up to 13. there is no stability...
would you really rely on the Cloud as it currently is???
Sunday, 3 March 2013
Estonia launches national electric car charging network
Its a bitter pill to swallow that Estonia is better organised that the UK!!!
Estonia's reputation as one of the most wired-up countries in Europe has been boosted further with the opening of what is being billed as the world's first nationwide electric car charging network.
The sparsely populated Baltic state with a population of just 1.3 million hopes the 165 "fast chargers" will overcome the "chicken and egg" problem facing the take-up of electric cars worldwide.
The network of charging points, which was opened officially on Wednesday but has been running for several months, uses direct current (DC) to charge cars in less than 30 minutes, rather than around eight hours to recharge a car's battery as is the case with most of the more than 3,000 points in the UK.
There are believed to be around 650 electric cars in Estonia, more than 500 of which were Mitsubishi i-MiEVs given to social workers by the government in 2011. Motorists can get grants of up to€18,000 (£15,700) off electric cars, compared to the £5,000 cap for the UK's electric car grant. The average full price for a new electric car is around £30,000.
Estonia's minister of the environment, Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, said: "The fact that recharging is so easy is one of the main reasons more and more Estonians will decide in favour of electric cars in future. Our entire transport policy should be based on the notion that environmentally friendly travel is the cheapest and simplest option there is."
The charging points are no further than 60km apart, and were paid for by the Estonian government. Whether the push to electric cars will come with environmental benefits, however, remains to be seen: the former Soviet republic gets more than 90% of its electricity from carbon-heavy oil shale.
Ulrich Spiesshofer, head of discrete automation and motion at ABB, the Swiss company that makes the charging points and won the tender for the network in January 2012, said: "Having a nationwide fast-charging network will encourage motorists to switch to electric vehicles and it will motivate other countries to invest in their own charging infrastructure."
Estonia's reputation as one of the most wired-up countries in Europe has been boosted further with the opening of what is being billed as the world's first nationwide electric car charging network.
The sparsely populated Baltic state with a population of just 1.3 million hopes the 165 "fast chargers" will overcome the "chicken and egg" problem facing the take-up of electric cars worldwide.
The network of charging points, which was opened officially on Wednesday but has been running for several months, uses direct current (DC) to charge cars in less than 30 minutes, rather than around eight hours to recharge a car's battery as is the case with most of the more than 3,000 points in the UK.
There are believed to be around 650 electric cars in Estonia, more than 500 of which were Mitsubishi i-MiEVs given to social workers by the government in 2011. Motorists can get grants of up to€18,000 (£15,700) off electric cars, compared to the £5,000 cap for the UK's electric car grant. The average full price for a new electric car is around £30,000.
Estonia's minister of the environment, Keit Pentus-Rosimannus, said: "The fact that recharging is so easy is one of the main reasons more and more Estonians will decide in favour of electric cars in future. Our entire transport policy should be based on the notion that environmentally friendly travel is the cheapest and simplest option there is."
The charging points are no further than 60km apart, and were paid for by the Estonian government. Whether the push to electric cars will come with environmental benefits, however, remains to be seen: the former Soviet republic gets more than 90% of its electricity from carbon-heavy oil shale.
Ulrich Spiesshofer, head of discrete automation and motion at ABB, the Swiss company that makes the charging points and won the tender for the network in January 2012, said: "Having a nationwide fast-charging network will encourage motorists to switch to electric vehicles and it will motivate other countries to invest in their own charging infrastructure."
Saturday, 2 March 2013
Chicken & Egg
It is great to see the UK joining the US and a few other countries by investing in private and public car-charging points. The amount is still minimal compared with the $100m invested by the US in the EV Project back in 2009, but £11m over two years shows leadership and will pay dividends for years to come.
Is For some, of course, it's a handout. They don't see the roads teaming with electric cars yet, so why build charging points? They fail to see is that the charger/electric car question is the classic chicken and egg issue that even petrol cars faced 100 years ago.
Back then, people didn't want cars until they knew there were fuelling stations. And likewise, nascent oil companies didn't want to build petrol stations until people had cars. It took years for "market forces" to sort it all out and in the meantime most people were content with horses. The difference in 2012 is that we don't have time to wait. National defence, oil price volatility and climate change issues are deadly serious. Smart leaders are making sure electric cars are given a true chance to succeed.
In the film The Revenge of the Electric Car it documents the car industry's about-face on the subject at three companies. Former EV-basher and GM vice-chair Bob Lutz admitted simply that "the electrification of the automobile is [now] a foregone conclusion". Electric propulsion makes cars faster and cleaner. GM's plug-in car, the Volt, runs on electricity and uses gasoline for times when batteries can't do the trick. Nissan's no-nonsense CEO, Carlos Ghosn, invested $6bn to develop the Leaf, making it the world's bestselling electric car in 2012. And the start-up Tesla's Model S made headlines as Motortrend's car of the year for 2013. Charging stations will bring even more players to the game.
Questioning subsidies is healthy, but the public may want to stay alert to the bias driving some electric car stories.
This is a disruptive technology threatening many vested interests. A quick glance of three of the four "related stories" on the BBC website, for example, included: Electric cars 'pose green threat'; Electric car money 'only for few'; and Car charging points 'hardly used'. Really?
The green threat posed by electric cars is only a threat if the UK chooses coal for all of its electricity and never recycles its batteries. The elitism charge only plays out if the government gives up on the programme. And charging points may hardly be used only because there are so few of them – so far. Chicken and the egg.
In the UK, there are nearly 9,000 public petrol filling stations. There are a handful of charging points. This new concerted effort to subsidise them in homes and public places is thus long overdue. So far the US subsidies have helped build 14,000 public stations and the sale of more than 50,000 cars by Tesla, GM and Nissan. It's what's needed to help break the monopoly of petrol-powered cars.
The future isn't any one kind of car or transportation, but subsidising new infrastructure like charging stations reduces risk for the future and generates more options for everyone.
Is For some, of course, it's a handout. They don't see the roads teaming with electric cars yet, so why build charging points? They fail to see is that the charger/electric car question is the classic chicken and egg issue that even petrol cars faced 100 years ago.
Back then, people didn't want cars until they knew there were fuelling stations. And likewise, nascent oil companies didn't want to build petrol stations until people had cars. It took years for "market forces" to sort it all out and in the meantime most people were content with horses. The difference in 2012 is that we don't have time to wait. National defence, oil price volatility and climate change issues are deadly serious. Smart leaders are making sure electric cars are given a true chance to succeed.
In the film The Revenge of the Electric Car it documents the car industry's about-face on the subject at three companies. Former EV-basher and GM vice-chair Bob Lutz admitted simply that "the electrification of the automobile is [now] a foregone conclusion". Electric propulsion makes cars faster and cleaner. GM's plug-in car, the Volt, runs on electricity and uses gasoline for times when batteries can't do the trick. Nissan's no-nonsense CEO, Carlos Ghosn, invested $6bn to develop the Leaf, making it the world's bestselling electric car in 2012. And the start-up Tesla's Model S made headlines as Motortrend's car of the year for 2013. Charging stations will bring even more players to the game.
Questioning subsidies is healthy, but the public may want to stay alert to the bias driving some electric car stories.
This is a disruptive technology threatening many vested interests. A quick glance of three of the four "related stories" on the BBC website, for example, included: Electric cars 'pose green threat'; Electric car money 'only for few'; and Car charging points 'hardly used'. Really?
The green threat posed by electric cars is only a threat if the UK chooses coal for all of its electricity and never recycles its batteries. The elitism charge only plays out if the government gives up on the programme. And charging points may hardly be used only because there are so few of them – so far. Chicken and the egg.
In the UK, there are nearly 9,000 public petrol filling stations. There are a handful of charging points. This new concerted effort to subsidise them in homes and public places is thus long overdue. So far the US subsidies have helped build 14,000 public stations and the sale of more than 50,000 cars by Tesla, GM and Nissan. It's what's needed to help break the monopoly of petrol-powered cars.
The future isn't any one kind of car or transportation, but subsidising new infrastructure like charging stations reduces risk for the future and generates more options for everyone.
Home improvement exhibition
At the rufus centre. Just got here by the skin of my teeth.
Come and see us...
Come and see us...
Friday, 1 March 2013
Home Improvement Exhibition
Come and see us @ the Home Improvement Exhibition
Saturday 2nd March
11am - 4pm
The Rufus Centre
FREE Admission
Whether you're planning to improve, redesign or simply redecorate your home, you'll find everything you need at the Home Improvement Exhibition at the Rufus Centre! There will be lots of local companies ready to give you help and advice with your home improvement project.
Saturday 2nd March
11am - 4pm
The Rufus Centre
FREE Admission
Whether you're planning to improve, redesign or simply redecorate your home, you'll find everything you need at the Home Improvement Exhibition at the Rufus Centre! There will be lots of local companies ready to give you help and advice with your home improvement project.
Because you deserve the best...
We would like to thank you for your business and support during 2012. We hope that you have a successful 2013.
our private fleet of over 12 commercial vehicles and our experienced, professional engineers that have all been trained to the best standards and work top best practice...
Some of our engineers have over 10 years experience in the industry making sure your homes and businesses are safe
If you would like further information drop us a line.
sorry for our gloat, but we are good :)
our private fleet of over 12 commercial vehicles and our experienced, professional engineers that have all been trained to the best standards and work top best practice...
Some of our engineers have over 10 years experience in the industry making sure your homes and businesses are safe
If you would like further information drop us a line.
sorry for our gloat, but we are good :)
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