Posts by andreas koch 842 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Jun 2008
In which English speaking nation is this used? Is it just because it has the word 'in' at the end?
Probably none; and neither is "handy" for mobile or cellphone. It just sounds cool to the kiddies.
Also, what is wrong with 'Scheißesturm' instead of 'shitstorm'? It is surely more satisfying to say for a German?
The grammar is wrong. It should be "Scheißsturm", and that would make you eat the inside of your cheek.
That would have been "Scheißsturm" in the traditional spelling, or "Scheissturm" modernised.
Don't use Google translate when trying to sound clever.
Anyway, the only people who are remotely concerned about 'anglicisms*' are usually short-haired right-arm raisers who tap away in their mum's cellar on a "Klapprechner".
*wants to mean: "in the language of the Angles"; those being a people from the northern Baltic coast of Germany and Denmark. Excel would generate a circle reference error message.
To patent the process or method of patenting a process or method of doing so before someone files a patent for a non-specific device to perform a range of non-specific applications utilising or not as required a range of non-specific hardware, software and/or protocols, taking input from non-specific sources and output to a variety of non-specific outputs.
Sorry, I had to get that one in before the weekend. I'm gonna be rich.
Crowdsourced freeway accident reporting. Wow.
With the amount of cameras everywhere this should at the very least be unnecessary. Most likely it's counterproductive*, as most accidents will be caused by AppleMapAppRaters who just need to quickly
Do While iPhoneusers >=0
(update the map because there's an accident taptaptapta - ohshitohshitohshit - screeeeech - BANG! - ptaptap bleed)
loop
I feel a Darwin Award coming up.
* And dangerous. But as it serves the purpose of taking iPhones off the road, in the end it might be for the greater good and we have to accept some collateral damage.
No, it will be an ankle watch. Prototypes have been seen in public already, usually trialled by volunteers under supervision.
Must be something really secret, I thought.
Mind you, it could also be that this new wearable has a peel-off sticky back. No, that wouldn't work, the name iPad is already in use.
Hold on, wait a minute: iLiner?
Pants.
Because really I can't see things going up from here, unless of course they're just lowering the value of the company so Microsoft can buy them for cheaper.
I can't see anything wrong in spending some money on the parts of the company that earns and surely it doesn't drop the value of the company as a whole. Maybe they're thinking of dropping out of the handset market altogether (Siemens did that 10 years ago, and most likely would not be interested in having a new handset presence, so maybe offering it to MS?) and just do what brings in some dosh.
So, maybe a 3-way swap. Get rid of the unprofitable part, and gain full control of the profitable sector?
Makes sense to me . . .
You have it almost right.
The Discordian (Hail Eris!) Pentabarf states:
" 3.: A Discordian is required to, the first Friday after his illumination, Go Off Alone & Partake Joyously of a Hot Dog; this Devotive Ceremony to Remonstrate against the popular Paganisms of the Day: of Roman Catholic Christendom (no meat on Friday), of Judaism (no meat of Pork), of Hindic Peoples (no meat of Beef), of Buddhists (no meat of animal), and of Discordians (no Hot Dog Buns)."
In the wake of this groundbreaking invention, I had the idea of a lifetime:
The
G A T E S of B A C O N ™
It's an easy, pleasant solution for all the TSA's problem with airport security.
Replace the scanner gates with a bead curtain where the beads are made from pork scratchings (or crackling), interspersed with strips of bacon.
This provides a pleasant smelling, non-radiation means of stopping any potential Islamic terrorists from entering an aircraft, without having to look at their privates while cutting down on equipment costs, privacy issues and radiation exposure for the citizens of god's own country.
The smell alone should stop any Allah-praising proto-bomber from going through and having his self brushed all over by the unclean pig bits, thus having to subject himself instead to a manual patdown. If you use pig-leather gloves for this, it will deter even the most determined Muslim from ever using air travel again.
On a further thought, the artificial fish smell that is added to C4/ Semtex could be replaced with the smell of fried pork bangers or other unclean, scrummy foods. Not only would this stop Jihadists from handling it, it would also mask the usual acrid smell of RDX and PETN better and make it more pleasant and natural for sniffer dogs to detect.
(Does this really need an extra sarcasm marker?)
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Even more importantly, FM/AM paid him NOTHING for the performance of the song. Unlike most industrialized nations, terrestrial radio stations in the US have never paid performers anything
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Erm, just let me get that right: US radio stations pay no royalties? So for every song that they 'broadcast', they deprive the studios of a quarter million bucks? And get away with it? Isn't that just piracy?
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I expected the police to pass files to the CPS
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Well, if the choice for, let's say a DCI, is between marked up as a snitch by the rich, or getting his son into Harrow, what do you think. It would be tempting for everyone and require a very well grown honour gland to not even get into a setting where this question needs to be asked.
I don't expect anymore, I just hope. And even that starts to fail a bit lately.
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and QPST (haven't got a link, there's probably something you could find on google . . .) which is a Phone software suite with quite a bit of oomph.
and see if there's any connection possible. Might be a start. Also the cable pinout is not a standard one but has a couple of resistors over some pins, it might not work with a 'normal' USB->miniUSB. It won't be an OTG cable either.
Pinout link is in an earlier post above.
hth
Unfortunately, HSBC was interpreted by the new Deep Packet Inspection Filters as either Horny Slutty Bondage Club or as Hillegal Sharing Bittorrent Client.
Can't be careful enough to protect the children and the income of the studios; a few inconveniences on the way are to be expected.
Or the Feds couldn't keep up with the amount of data that needed to be stored (you know, encrypted comms are suspicious) and had to slow it down a bit . . .
Not really sure whether the joke icon is appropriate.
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Nokia has value to nobody now.
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I think that you might forget that Nokia isn't just mobile sales. There's a lot of mobile-relevant IP laying around in their filing cabinets.
A bit like Phillips, who aren't a big apparent CE player these days; they still live off Audio cassette licenses and, together with Sony, off anything remotely CD-related.
Spoilsport.
My post was referring to the identically named, Google-developed web browser. This was to create a humorous effect by relating the topically non-relevant but in this forum prevalent definition to this article and showing a strong, albeit artificially fabricated and untrue, dislike for any possible connotation of the word itself.
. . . like in the old days, when our vicar looked after me. He had a very special way to make sure that I would not sin that I must never tell anyone about.
So there's another non-government agency that has been elevated to stand above the law.
Don't get me wrong, I think that child abuse, snuff clips and other sick stuff shouldn't be on the web. But if this needs to be actively hunted down (and I think it should), then this should be the task of an executive arm of the law, like a police force.
I think a foundation or workshop or whatever with this amount of power and no need to answer the state for it is just wrong.
Just imagine Emily Snorple-Frumpington of the IWF not agreeing with your choice of garden plants. She might find some snuff movies on your computer. Whether that is true, leads to something, or is fabricated doesn't help you after your name is wrecked. And whereas a PC's wrongdoing will be investigated into, a private agency does not really have to answer to the law . . .
Wheelclampers?
The reason why it doesn't work is that in front of your LED panel is your actual LCD panel, which, powered down, is blocking the light to the LEDs.
'LED' screens are misnamed. They are LED-backlit LCD screens. There are real LED screens, but they are not for your average home TV but multi-square-yard advertising panels (Picadilly Circus and the likes) and scoreboards in stadiums.
Even so, if you could make your LCD-panel default to transparent when it's off, you'd still face the problem that the polarising filter is in the way, cutting 50% of the ambient light out, the light not hitting at right angles, the LCD panel being in the way and LEDs not optimised for 'reverse opration'. All in all, while it could potentially produce some electricity, it'd be way too inefficient to contemplate. Think about, as a guesstimate, an Eta of <1% for the whole circuit.
an automatic watch movement powering a generator? No light or any exposure needed, just the bunny for people who leave their phone in their pocket . . .
I'm actually only partly joking here, I find. When you're stationary, the phone can be on a charger; it can't be if you're moving about.
Hm.
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