Posts by Steve Evans

"83-year-old cadaver"

I assume they mean the cadaver of an 83 year old, or an 83-year-old's cadaver

If not, then eeeeeee!

Somethings never change...

Times change, technology moves on, but students will always leave everything to the last minute.

Translating the Grauniad?

Blimee, that's one impressive translation engine if it can handle the Grauniad!

Those were the days...

- Comparing the new machine to the BBC Micro Model A - released the previous December - Sinclair said: "It's obvious at a glance that the design of the Spectrum is more elegant. What may not be so obvious is that it also provides more power."

IIRC, several of Sir Clive's adverts had him dragged across the advertising standards authority coals by Acorn?

But then the question becomes where did RNA come from?

"But then the question becomes where did RNA come from?"

It dripped from his noodly appendage.

I thought everyone knew that.

Hmmm...

Robotic muscle powered legs wrapped round your back?

Sounds like a quick route to a wheelchair!

Ah-ha!

At last, conclusive proof that not turning off your electronic device could cause the aircraft to crash... If you happen to be the captain... and a moron...

So...

Sounds like a light leak between the LCD backlight and the metering system inside the case. Nasty.

Not something you'd expect from a £3K camera... Then again, I'm a Nikon boy.

Gorilla glass?

I'm sure the ground in cement dust present in most builders fingers will be testing the scratch resistance of the glass a little more than originally intended.

That's just the start of it.

As an infinity subscriber, those adverts really do annoy me. They continually wank on about how good the wireless coverage is. It's bollox. I'll admit my original type A Home Hub 3 had a very good signal, the only problem is that after a few hours of use it would suddenly stop routing IP packets via the wireless. The AP would still show, but anything sent via it would just vanish. Reboot required.

After a friend went to infinity and didn't wish to use his newer type B Home Hub 3 (he has a Fritzbox) he gave it to me... Hurrah, no more wireless lock ups, but the signal strength is noticeably worse. So much so that I've deployed my old ADSL vigor to act as an 802.11G access point and disabled the one of the Home Hub 3.

So...

So HTC were guilty of flooding the market with too many models in 2011...

So now they have flooded the 4th months of 2012 with three phones with identical names and only an illogical suffix to distinguish them... How very helpful...

Why couldn't they have at least called them the bronze, silver and gold so we could guess which was the cheapy and which was the monster?

Bloody 16:9 screens GRRRR!

I blame everything, well almost everything, on the perverse idea that laptops should have screens designed to play movies.

My trusty old laptop is a ThinkPad R52 with 1400x1050, yes, 4:3, and guess what, it's great. It might be old, slow, and the battery last approx 20 minutes, *but* it's not the size of an aircraft carrier flight deck so is easy to carry from one plug point to the next! I don't need battery life, I need portability. I would by a new replacement, but I don't want to have to purchase a wide load screen just to get a similar vertical resolution to what I've already got. So I'm contemplating a motherboard hack to install a sata SSD instead.

Even on a desktop machine I'm not sure about 16:9. I'm sitting typing this on a 27" 2560x1440, and I seem to have far more slack space on each side then I do top and bottom.

In the UK we have another solution...

Not providing a password/access when demanded by the UK plod is a criminal offence in itself, so even if they can't get in they can prosecute you for that.

OMG!

How can they do this? It will make the screen look dull and boring in the shop, and let you actually see what you're doing when you're using the machine at home instead of looking at the reflection of your own shirt...

Apple choosing functionality over appearance... I guess Satan is good to go with his ice cream parlour plans now.

Ring ring...

Apple's lawyers are on the phone, they want a word with MS about the theft of their original Mac's colour palette.