Posts by zedee

Lewis - a tip for you, mate - less caffeine

"bonkers bad-boy battle boffins"

Put the coffee down and step away.

Aaaaah

El Reg is so wonderfully entertaining on a Friday.

Pints of Landlord all round!

I don't understand their tactics

Every Telco I've worked with buys hardware, software, and services from vendors to achieve operational goals.

Want to make advertising money from users without a third party?

Buy Phorm servers and software. Send your own users/admins on training courses at Phorm on how to use it, or 'temporary headhunt'/sabbatical some Phorm staff. Instant removal of the third party problem because they're now part of your company.

Buy Phorm services in the form of advertising configurations.

Pay Phorm as a percentage of profits, just like they were expecting

It's all in how the contract is written.

Not saying that Telcos want to be seen to be doing this, but they are already seen to be doing this, and via a third party too.

Wish they'd all suffer some unpleaseant ilnesses though.

Sure there's an extra service to passengers!

I love sites like skyscanner and bravofly - they show me in one page, what day and time - over a week/month - the cheapest flight from A to B is.

Now that is Value Added as I see it, rather than checking loads of days for different airlines on different sites.

That O'Leary guy is just sore because it makes it too easy to buy the cheapest seats.

It'll be about £1 more if you click through the site rather than go direct to the airline, but then you run the risk of the price changing while you're mucking around - and the change could well be much more than £1.

You pays yer moolah.

Err...... Emoze?

POP/Exchange/Gmail/GAFYD integrated push email over data link.*

Yawn. Late to the party I'm afraid.

* still not usable though, even with flat rate data. It's battery life which is the problem now, juice goes very quickly with an always open/frequently in use data link.

@Nathan Barrow - naughty paper

First thing I spotted was the source organisation of the paper - Instituto de Quím (ica).

Giggle.

Mine's the parka with my name sewn in the collar.

Puts the boot into

the whole genesis thing, dunnit?

Or are catholics now not to take the bible as literal Truth?

@Ash

If you don't have a Wifi phone || you buy operator data in bulk, £7.50 extra from :

O2 get s you an "unlimited" up to 200Mb per month (Ha ha ha ha.... etc)

T-Mobile gives 1Gb (Still "unlimited" but only Ha ha).

Well cheap compared to S/MMS.

Grr

"...suggested that maybe she should speak a bit clearer on the phone."

Perhaps "more clearly" would convey his meaning with improved efficacy.

Dave Bowman/My god, it's full of stars

It was in "2001: A Space Odyssey" first!

@AC - Flawless Reasoning

Extending your theory a bit - if the bloke who sold the laptop was having a bit of a laugh with some random data, he'll get done for not providing a decryption key.

Or his defence could be - ask the HO!

Pretty much any gas will do

So long as it's not commonly found on the streets.

e.g. some halocarbon like CFCs, but which hasn't been in industrial production and isn't a product of a natural process.

Then get your favourite spectrometer out and watch for the peaks.

Acolytes in black t-shirt and black jeans

Slightly grubby with coke and pizza stains???

Sounds like your typical Star Wars-obsessed geek working at your local helldesk to me.

Any trans-Pacific airliners....

going nearby should get a decent fireworks display, looking out the correct window.

Three of the largest sparklers this side of a NEO deflection attempt!

Gotta have optimism

Wishing problems away a bit, assuming we'll always be able to 'fix' things that don't suit us, but I agree with your points about vested interests amongst the greens.

The question I've never had answered is - what is the total non-anthropogenic carbon dioxide output for all systems on the planet, and what is the total anthropogenic output?

Miniscule, I suspect.

PH because it's far far too much to think about for her pretty little head

@Alex Johnson

Tmobile WnW on Flext 35 is what I have on my Nokia E65.

It is full fat internet, not WAP. It is excellent - I've always used the cheapest tariff on whatever network but when this deal runs out I'll be staying. It's also unlimited just like O2 i.e. within reason. I'm a moderate to heavy user and I still only use about 600Mb a month. 1Gb is when they start wondering if you've attached a laptop to it :)

Nokia's Web browser included on their S60 phones is excellent and I would say easier to actually use than Safari on my hipod touch. You can't read text without zooming in every time you change page.

As for email, I use POP to get at my hosted Gmail AFYD, and Emoze to push from work's exchange server.

Jobs because like the touch, he's all gimmick and no trouser.

Where is Gemini?

I'm going to be at 35000ft travelling northwest from London at that time tomorrow.

Should have a good view, but only if I get a window seat on the correct side of the aircraft.

Can anyone tell me port or starboard <grin> ?

@AC

---caused by human induced global warming...

Must have had some fairly humungous fires in the mouths of our caves eh? :)

I'll get me skins.....

What is a GPU Monday?

Some sort of temporal warping-based GPU performance enhancement, but it only works one day a week?

Come on Reg....

New TLA

SSD is nice but the Disk bit is very..... inaccurate.

Perhaps a Reg mug to the creator of the best TLA to describe new SSHDDs ?

Mine is FFS :) or just Very Fast Storage seeing as it's before 9pm .

Also 0.5G vibration - key word is vibration. I'm assuming they mean 4.9m/s2 peak acceleration in a sinusoidal type wave.

Re: Manhunt reference

@David Wiernicki

It is perfectly legal to purchase Manhunt 2 (I assume this is what you're referencing) in the UK from a UK supplier, or to import it from outside the UK.

See http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/24/manhunt_bbfc_online_sales/