Posts by TeeCee
6865 posts • joined Friday 5th October 2007 12:27 GMT
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Re: @gordon10...Smart people don't keep the default password for their hotspots.
I use Apple kit because it just works, I don't want to spend my spare time fiddling with my phone to get it to do stuff...
So a typical Apple buyer then?
Hint: "fiddling with" it would include delving into the configuration to manually specify a hotspot password rather than letting "it just work" one out for you. Way to shoot your own argument full of holes!
Re: "spherically one-dimensional system"
Don't be daft you can't barbecue on the ISS, the steaks are too high.
The flameproof pressure suit please.
Posted in Internet fraud still stings suckers
Re: Gullible as a Windows buyer
It's not Eadon's fault.
Somebody rang him up once and told him that his Windows PC was insecure. He paid them to fix it and then someone else rang him up a few days later to tell him that his Windows PC was insecure.
This has now happened many times. The only possible explanation is that Windows is so inherently insecure that fixing it only lasts about a week.
Yeeees.....but.....
Often working for a powerful bastard is much more pleasant than grafting for a good guy who is coming last.
The problem here is that that powerful bastard almost certainly didn't get to be a powerful bastard by being even-handed, thoughtful and taking the flak for his fuckups, but by hoovering the ceiling[1].
Thus, while it may be more challenging / rewarding, you need to be alert to the fact that you could get given the shaft at any time.
[1] A process that involves sucking up and all the crap travelling downwards.
"Major, worldwide retail push begins this summer..."
I fervently hope that it dies like the dog it is.
Last thing I want is for the "always online, cloud only" model to gain traction. You know where that goes, everyone jumps on the bandwagon and finding something that works without a connection becomes difficult/expensive....
Posted in Boffins build headless robo-kitties
"...the mechanical properties from which cats benefit..."
If that were true it would be hinged in the middle so it could lick its own arse.
Posted in Boffins build headless robo-kitties
Re: Obstacles
"Hey, you threw it, you go get it."
I always caption that one as; "If you wanted it that much, why the f*ck did you throw it away, dickhead?".
Re: Re: Up coming
Yes, AC. Fascinating isn't it?
As Eadon obviously hates them so much, I am forced to suspect that he's a rabid masochist getting his jollies whenever he mentions them.
Re: Won't reach....
....they would need an antenna the size of Earth's orbit, cooled below the cosmic microwave background temperature, and held to the correct shape to a tolerance of millimeters over that whole size.
Or , to be more succinct, if they can hear us we are truly fucked.
Re: terrible idea
Arnie is too old to save us now.
Not from 17.6 light-years away he isn't.....
Re: VGA
....it just works.
You've obviously never been in the situation of desperately trying to identify a resolution[1] that some crappy projector and your laptop are prepared to agree on then?
[1] Ideally one where both the laptop screen and the projection retain some semblance of legibility.
I can only see one message here.
Dabbsie needs to wake up, smell the coffee and get an Android phone and an ordinary PeeCee.
I can't quite see why anyone would pay extra to be wound up like that. Most of us find that our kit is perfectly capable of producing moments where the only sensible course of action is to go and repeatedly bang our fucking heads on the wall, without going out of our way to identify and purchase something expensive with that function deliberately built in at the time of manufacturing.
Posted in A question of forum etiquette
Re: A question of forum etiquette
Apart from being an ad hominem attack, I don't think Eadon is a cunt.
Muppet? Yes. Bellend? Yes. Cunt? Not so much.
To be considered a cunt one would have to be a deeply unpleasant person with few, or ideally no, redeeming features. I've not seen anything from Eadon to indicate that he has any personal faults apart from being a misguided troll with an evangelical hatred of everything Microsoft-related for some reason. I suspect that his mother may have put a mobile that played the Win 95 startup jingle on his pram handle, scarring him for life.
But then what do I know? I resorted to calling him a twat once and got away with it.
Re: Viva de la Revolucion
...when doing as a bear does in the woods...
Which reminds me of another gag:
A rabbit is having a quick crap when a bear comes over, squats down next to him and proceeds to take a dump. The rabbit eyes the bear nervously and then the bear looks at the rabbit and says:
"Tell me. When you're having a crap, do you find that the shit sticks to your fur?"
The rabbit relaxes a bit due to the friendly banter and replies; "Oh God yes. Gets really stuck on there it does, nothing you can do about it though.".
"Fucking magic!" exclaims the bear and with that, he grabs the rabbit and wipes his arse with it.
Re: Thanks to the intrepid Reg reporter..
If the ingredients are as speculated above, I'm sure that there will be plenty of reports from the other end.....
Crikey! Just thinking about living on that is making me fart uncontrollably.
Re: SATA attached flash still?
Oh, yeah. Windows doesn't support it.
Sez who?
I just went to look and OCZ's RevoDrive specs beg to differ....
Re: I am very disappointed by this.
Er, that should actually read: "iz now use # for gooder find cat pics nd wot Wayne is up 2."
Re: Court proceedings?
Except that Twitter is an actual technology company...
Of course, what's really funny about that is they're far less of an "actual technology company" than Apple.....
The reason they won't sue is that taking a 1980's vintage mailing list system and adding a 140 character limit to postings isn't patentable....
Fun and games.
Keep a rubber mallet in the car. Give the eCall box a belt with it occasionally when bored.....
Re: pig-headed anti-corporate shill
The problem there is that anyone with a fairly open mind and offering even the most piss-poor of arguments is greater then both of them by several orders of magnitude.
I reckon a pig-headed shill is a pig-headed shill and deserves to have their opinions treated with the greatest of contempt, regardless of what they're shilling for.
Re: Who is in charge of the supply of bread to the population of London?
Reminds me of an old gag:
In the '70s a Soviet trade delegation is getting a tour of a tractor factory in the north of England.
The Soviet Trade Minister looks at the assembly lines and asks: "Your workers, how do you organise their shift patterns?"
The foreman replies: "We run three shifts of eight hours each. Ten minutes to clock on and ten minutes washing up time at the end of each shift. They get two tea breaks of fifteen minutes each and an hour for lunch."
"Hah!", says the Russian, "Is very inefficient. In Soviet Tractor collective number 14 we run two shifts of twelve hours each. No clocking on, no washing up, no tea break, half an hour for lunch."
The foreman looks aghast: "Eh? You'd never get this lot to stand for that, they're all bloody communists!".
"...specialist investigators..."
That must go down well at parties:
"What do you do for a living?"
"I hunt down supplies of bog paper for the government."
"Ah......right...... Hey, is that Jim over there? Excuse me I need to go and talk to him...."
Well that solves a problem!
...feed herself chocolate using a mind-controlled robot arm.
This overcomes a pressing US issue. The upper limit on fatbastardry caused by being unable to fold your arms far enough to reach your gob with your own hands anymore.
Re: American world police?
Except that it's not perfectly legal in China. They do occasionally have a crackdown on this sort of thing.
The US have probably done them a favour, I suspect that a Chinese jail sentence would have been a rather more unpleasant experience.
Besides, there's bugger all difference I can see between committing a crime in Country A while sat in Country B and committing a crime in Country A and then catching a plane to Country B. Just 'cos teh internets make the former possible doesn't affect the legality.
Screenshot.
Still the quaint, old "wall of icons" though, although now with updated icons.
Less WinPho circa 2010, more WinMo-with-a-launcher and some years earlier.....
The ESA should really start talking with China on partnering on their space station....
Or just wait a few years and order their own off eBay. They'll probably do free shipping to LEO too.
Re: Familiar
.....the competition must have stole these things from Apple somehow.
I have a sneaking suspicion that the countdown to the first lawsuit claiming exactly that has just started....
Posted in Pttow! Ofcom kicks hams out of MoD bands
Re: MoD bands - not explained in the document
Ah, well. Those are the bands that the MoD is using to run the....
<Battering ram>
<Door off hinges>
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NO CARRIER
Great!
Now can they come down like a ton of bricks on those who persist in ignoring "request desktop site" and continue pushing the crappy mobile version? Also dropping every page from the search results that disables zoom, regardless of its content, would be nice.
Then again, if this goes some way towards de-crapifying mobile sites, the first of those might become less of an issue.
Posted in LOHAN ideas..
Re: GPS accuracy
Hmm, that would depend on where the display in the passenger cabin is getting its feed from. If it's coming from the barometric altimeter, your Garmin may have been more accurate.
Assuming that the plane was right and the Garmin wrong for a moment, there's another factor here. The signal view through the plane's window will only get a limited subset of the sat constellation, as the metal body of the aircraft will act as a rather efficient obstruction to others, which is a bit of a downer for good triangulation. For a fix in 3D, you need a minimum of four(?) sats locked and the fix improves with more. A GPS on a balloon with a good signal view of the entire sky should get a far more accurate 3D fix than the rather one-sided bias from the plane's window.
Re: Sublimed
o ROU Subtlety? Yes I have fucking heard of it.
x GOU The Nameless Mist.
Croaked or disappeared up his own arse, makes no odds. Still bloody gone, isn't he?
Re: Storm Troopers
At least the Storm Troopers were useful. They would guard and fight.
Not the description I'd have used for troops that can't hit a cow's arse with a banjo and seem to act as magnets for anything lethal coming the other way...
Re: Freesat
From experience it has to be a really bloody tall tree, very close and directly in line. Also you have to have a choice of only one place to put the dish and a fairly low place at that.
Satellites? They're in the sky you know......
There's a common misconception that LOS is required horizontally, caused by the universal use of offset focus dishes, which look like they're not pointing upwards much.
I've got mine mounted at head height and pointed dead on at a very large tree, but as the tree's two (fairly narrow) gardens away it's not a factor.
Re: £10K cap per household?
But the question now is what they'll spend the surplus from the £180M on?
A few more rebranding exercises, along the lines of the previous "DMSL" --> "at800" should get rid of that nicely.
Re: Thirteen Searches!
I'm with you.
There are a few that have been condemned as stinkers which I actually like[1]. Likewise there are several that have been widely acclaimed, yet which I reckon are turds.
[1] e.g. I really liked Disney's "John Carter", despite the universal howls of derision at that from all quarters.
Have you got in?
Computer says: "......".
"Body of Steve Jobs - brains of Alan Sugar.”
You bastards. How dare you put in a punchline like that without prior warning?
I've still got tears rolling down my cheeks and I have a desk to mop now.
"...an FDA-approved pill that uses the body to transmit passwords..."
Slight snag.
That would appear to offer two options, neither of which I like. Either you can suffer being locked out of everything on a regular[1] basis or, every time you take a shit, you can sieve your turds to retrieve the pill for a quick rinse and reingestation.
[1] YMMV, depending on your dietary habits.
Re: All fugly except the mac
They're all a big, flat thing on a stand with a keyboard in front of them.
The only styling possible involves fiddling around the edges of that and that's going to be the way of things until we work out a way of getting rid of the big flat thing.
It was a Triumph Spitfire....
BURN THE HERETIC!
Posted in How to spot a coders comment
Re: How to spot a coders comment
Well, obviously a "C" programmer's comment will have made sense to them when they wrote it but, while syntactically and grammatically correct, will be impenetrably unintelligable to anyone trying to make sense of it later.
...even really, really, really rich people still actually drive around most of the time in cars that don't look that different to the standard exec saloon.
Balotelli rather famously drove a Bentley Continental GT in camouflage colours with bling wheels on it. As that's verging on being the epitome of automotive bad taste, short of adding a neon sign saying "I am a drug dealer" I'm not sure what more he could have done to attract the attention of the plod....
Obvious.
In both cases the device unlocks the passenger side door and appears to disable the alarm system.....
On many systems, unlocking the door with a key activates the central locking and disables the alarm. This is certainly true of "two button" Bosch systems and probably others as well. Coded negotiation between the fob and ECU is only necessary to disable the immobiliser. It sort of makes sense, you don't want the alarm going off if you've unlocked the thing with the correct key.
My guess would be a box of tricks that manipulates the solenoid on the lock, tricking the system into believing the door's been unlocked with the key.
Re: Valuables in your parked car?
Yes but there is one exception to that, as a colleague found out the hard way.
He had a high-end stereo fitted that had a removable faceplate. This he had in his pocket in its little carrying case. When he returned to his car, the police were already there.
The scrotes had broken in. The police explained that around 80% of people stick the stereo faceplate in the glovebox, so they always look there. Unfortunately, of the remaining 20%, most of them lock the thing in the boot.
The damage caused by crowbarring the boot open was worth a lot more than the stereo unit.....
I sometimes think they have a good point.
Then I think of what Gordon "Stalin" Brown and his coterie of despicable control-freaks would have done with their fingers on the "What everyone's allowed to see on the internet" button and shudder.
Re: Baked
Thats rich even by duke standards.
And the rest. The upper end of that's more than a ruddy Honda NR750 cost new......and those were considered eye-wateringly expensive, as you'd expect of a hand-made, limited production machine.
That one never made it into the Bible, but the earliest known reference to an ice-cream manufacturer did:
Walls of Jericho.
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There's also a passage that states "Moses came down from the mountain in his triumph.". This has caused long theological arguments over whether it was a 2500pi or a Dolomite Sprint......
Dear god - you lot even manage to screw kebabs up...
I beg to differ. The same elephant's-foot-onna-stick is used most places for the meat side of it. What I miss from Blighty is serious, arse-burning chilli sauce. You don't seem to be able to get that anywhere else.
Elsewhere in Europe you can actually taste the Doner meat. That's just wrong......
Recognition.
...no match for the quite brilliant handwriting recognition on Windows 8 that, miraculously, makes sense of most hurriedly written notes.
I have to say that MS do seem to be a bit good at that sort of thing.
I used to use WinMo mobile devices with MS's best kept secret, Voice Commander, installed. Its voice recognition and readback, running standalone on an antique ARM processor with very limited memory, was light years ahead of what Google achieve now with all the technological advances since the millenium to play with.
How I wish that they'd port that to Android, so I could have handsfree dialling that picked the right name and number most of the time rather than once in a blue moon and only then if the wind's in the right direction like Android does. Insult upon injury here is that MS VC would read back what it had (usually correctly) selected for confirmation whereas Android's system just goes and dials the (usually wrong) number.
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