Posts by Roger Stenning

So, this from the bunch that...

..vote themselves inflation-busting pay rises every year (I seem to recall the current or next one will be ELEVEN sodding percent?!), while the rest of us trogs find our spending power and disposable income shrinking year on year?

I have two words for them one of which is rude, the other is "off".

I'll buy from whoever gives me the best bang for my buck (so to speak), and the politicians, who it seems never seem to do what WE want, can go bugger themselves.

It just occurred to me...

...that DAB actually stands for Dire And Bollocks.

And the sun...

...saved us from being blinded by the cometary light show.

Um... anyone told the Triffids to stand down...?

Um.

Message to 3D Systems:

"We will be commercializing the advanced printing platform beyond smartphone manufacturing use and anticipate it being useful as a fab-grade manufacturing to a variety of products and industries, but Motorola will have an exclusive on the use of it for smartphone manufacturing in the beginning. New materials will be developed and used but there is nothing specific to announce on this front right now. As we develop the new materials they will also become commercially available for other markets."

That's about as clear as mud in so many ways.

Can you try again, this time in Plain English, please?

Oh, and this time, if you would be so kind, please remember to correctly apply punctuation to your reply; I feel sure that many of the readership here would find it much more easy to read and understand, were you to acquiesce to this request...!

Meanwhile...

...Barclays anti fraud (or whatever they call it) are a 24/7 operation, blocking your card when they see something that "looks odd", "for your protection". This I can understand, and ever so slightly applaud, even if it really is annoying when I'm the one who made the "trigger purchase". So, if they can be this efficient on card purchases, how the heck are they so bloody slow when it's their I.T. end that screwed the pooch?

Or is this merely their way of saying that they've got double standards up the wazoo?

I'm not...

...about to comment on the report, other have already done that to death. I will, however, say that you need a better dictionary. You do not spell it "defense". That's the American spelling. Over here, old boy, we spell it "defence".

This is bloody insane, yet again :-(

Here's why.

Company (a) makes a device that fulfils a certain purpose; it later transpires that in order to make and sell this device, they had to licence certain tech from company (b) who owned a patent on that tech in the first place.

Company (c) then comes along, says "AH! This device from Company (a) will do the job that we need it to do, and save us wasting time and funding on developing a whole new branch of radio technology, thus allowing us to bring our product to market in a timely manner" and buys a shedload of the company (a) devices that were licenced from company (b).

Company (c) should not, therefore, have to pay (presumably through the nozzle) *again* to use these devices, as there has already been a licence fee paid to the original patent holder.

Thus, the judge got it horribly wrong. This precedent opens up ad infinitum patent fee charging all the way down to (potentially) the end user (purchase surcharge); for once, the US got something right by denying this from happening. It's a horrid precedent, and needs to be quashed.

Guy was lucky.

Remember, this was at exceedingly short - possibly even point-blank - range. Any calibre larger than .22" or .25" could well have completely penetrated through the phone and its battery, into his chest. .22, and to a lesser extent, .25, are fast, but comparatively light bullets; a .32" or bigger may well have done the poor sod some altogether more serious damage. Still, as close shaves go, nice job HTC - the phone stood up to its name - Hero!

Sorry, what?!

See if I've got this right: He's basically saying that "You can have privacy, but only if we know who you are and can prove it?" Screw that. If I want privacy, I do NOT want someone watching me and knowing who I am as I do whatever it is that I do. I think the man's been drinking too much java.

DAB: Nice idea but...

... implementation was crap, to be generous. In other countries, they've gone to the next DAB standard, DAB+, which is apparently better in reception, error correction, and quality. yet HMG/BBC has declared that it's sticking with DAB instead of upgrading to DAB+

Call me old-fashioned, but I think I'll stick with analogue, for as long as it lasts. Better quality even at long range, the kit's cheap, power efficient (well, the batteries last longer, anyhow), and there are more stations on analogue, too.

What...

...no Black Vulture with Low Observability beak markings?

For shame!

*snerk*

Careful -

- the fruity company'll have you for trademark infringement over the frothing gobs!

Ach, No, Meester Amazon..

...I expect you to pay!

They're...

...probably so peeved at Microsoft at the moment*, that they cannot string together a coherent sentence!

* Internet Explorer 11 BREAKS Google, Outlook Web Access: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/10/21/internet_explorer_11_breaks_google_outlook_web_access/

To get back on-topic...

...given the frankly oddball legislation that the Yanks pass every year as local "ordinances", the idea of this yank is a surprisingly reasonable, considered, and actually practical one - whether is gets off the ground is another matter. Good luck to him on this one - it actually *should* get voted into law.

I think...

...I'll wait to see whose machines it turns into expensive paperweights, *before* I even consider downloading it...

So, I suppose that...

...teleconferencing them into the event is out the window too, then?

RIP, Sir.

You led the class from the front.

I strongly suspect...

...that if the Founding Fathers of the USA could see what has happened to their ideals and hopes before they signed the declaration of Independence, they'd defecate masonry, rip[ up all the drafts, and pay that tea tax in Boston.

Hmm...

Must be doing something wrong here; I can locate the phone easy enough in the Play Store, but to wipe it, I've got to activate the facility in the device manager on the phone - this does not appear to be where they said it'd be (settings)?! Or is this another case of a provider deleting the facility to prevent users from having "unfortunate accidents"?

*epic facepalm*

These are also the people who want to legalise pretty much every narcotic on the planet. This is a prime example of why they shouldn't be in charge of anything more complex than a wooden spoon.

That is all.

Mais attendez!

'Ad it been launched 'ere at the ESA facility in French Guiana, we would be eating well this evening!

RIP, Sir.

Before people even considered what the future was bringing, he, and of course, all the other Greats, were already ahead of the curve. We shall not see his, or their, like again.

The world is truly a smaller place for their departure.

Let's face it...

We gotta get off this 'ere rock sooner than later. Having all the eggs in one basket is a recipe for extinction.