Posts by Tim Spence
320 posts • joined Thursday 19th April 2007 09:44 GMT
Posted in HP dumps Apotheker for Whitman
"as the CEO of eBay, she was required to purchase large amounts of hardware"
I've read about lots of hardware, does that make me qualified?
Posted in Dyson spouts hot air
Haha, you've may have a point - the description fits the typical fruity fanbois too.
Posted in Dyson spouts hot air
Expensive, excessive, largely pointless, but I love all things Dyson. Just wish I was rich enough to buy something other than the vacuums!
Meh, we're all fooked eventually anyway - the universe will reach thermodynamic equilibrium eventually. It'll be damn cold, but I bet a man-made fusion plant still wouldn't have been achieved by then...
Release forms
I hope they got the appropriate completed model release forms for everyone in shot.
Won / One
How about won billion?
Stop mentioning 'papal'...
...I keep reading the headline and wondering what the hell the Vatican has to do with an online payment system.
Rapture
Is this like the rapture, but very specifically for Apple users?
Posted in Fiat 500 TwinAir
Absolutely
Interesting read here: http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/green-motoring/2011-02/500-twinair-economy/
Apparently the manufacturer's quoted MPG values were likely derived in Eco mode, which is a bit naughty without clarifying that next to the figures.
Posted in IT grad claims £5m for crap degree
Sarcasm
It was a loaded with sarcasm, but you're making assumptions that the opposite of "old hardware" automatically equals the "latest and greatest processor".
I maybe should have qualified my comment with 'obsolete', but old hardware could mean teaching students on BBC Micros, when the rest of the world is a decade on from those. Yes, basic computing principles often remain the same, but if you're on a semi-vocational course, then surely it's better to learn the principles on something you're likely to see once you get a job.
As for an old vs new lecturer, experienced is almost always way better, but not when they lack charisma, and still use teaching methods from the 19th century.
FYI, I'm not entirely disagreeing with you, but if you're paying big bucks, you start to expect the best in *every* area.
Posted in IT grad claims £5m for crap degree
Sign of things to come?
Of course, with students liable for vastly increased fees in the future, is this a sign of things to come as students look to get maximum value from their money?
I was the last year of students to get my degree for free, so even if I felt it was the University's fault I only got a 2:2 (and not my own for spending all day and night playing pool in the pub), I paid nowt, so can't complain too much. However, if I was spending up to £9k per year on it, I'd be looking for... no, *expecting*... top class facilities, top class lecturers, etc, rather than old hardware, rickety buildings, geriatric lecturers, etc, which I actually got.
Dogfights
I wonder if the next article which talks about Eurofighters and MIGs dogfighting, our friend will pop in and ask what planes have to do with dogs...
Posted in EC parades common phone charger
Already support the standard
If I'm not mistaken, HTC already use Micro-USB across their range, so why do they need to join - and presumably pay - into this love-in?
@Anomalous Cowturd
I'm speaking with great authority here (avid watcher of Airport, Airline, etc), and legally I believe you are correct, but I think the issue comes with what the individual airline's rules are - some may allow you on with just a drivers license, for example, but some may require a passport.
You may argue that the law says you only need official photo-ID, but the fact is it's their airline, and if their rules require a passport, you won't be granted permission to fly on their airline.
Wow, can't believe I just stuck up for the corporation. Okay, scrap that, f$&k the airlines!
Flames welcome
You can't request flamage, without giving your name!
And they obviously don't like criticism on this point
They're obviously not willing to listen to criticism on this point either - the contact form on the stop the broadband con site appears to be borked!
It's dreadful
Anecdotal maybe, but everyone I've spoken to hates it, and are very pleased when I tell them how it can be switched off.
Maybe it's useful if you're a slow typist, when I guess there's enough time between each keypress to let it load the "instant" results and check to see if it's found what you're looking for, before looking back down at the keys and fumbling for the next letter. For the rest of us, we just splurge the query out in one go, hit search, and then check the results.
No logic failure
The article is highly damning of BT, and all through it accuses it directly of cocking up. It's only once you get to the last paragraph that it apologetically says along the lines of, "actually, ignore all that we said up there, in fairness it's not directly BT's fault like we implied ALL THROUGH THE STORY"
You want it clearer...?
Quote 1: "As one of Britain's largest and most venerable technology firms, you might expect BT to have grasped the basics of email by now."
Well, as it makes clear at the end, it wasn't BT or any BT employee sending it, so that statement is nullified.
Quote 2: "It yesterday emailed about 500 members of the public who volunteered to drum up interest in the wheeze in their area."
Uhh, no, it didn't, it's (incompetent, in hindsight) PR company did on it's behalf.
Quote 3: "But BT failed to use BCC to hide the would-be campaigners' email addresses and identities from each other"
See point above.
I could go on.
Basically, the article says "BT did x, y, and z, how terrible and stupid they are for doing that?!" and then finishes with "actually, in fairness, it wasn't BT who did it, it was some incompetent company they hired on their behalf."
All BT are guilty of here, is of not having physic powers to have predicted what company was going to cock up on their behalf.
Agreed that using a PR company to manage something as simple as this is stupid though, however, perhaps in the weird world of economics, it's cheaper to pay someone else than their own staff...
BT or not BT
"In fairness to BT, the direct blame for this latest embarrassment belongs to Porter Novelli, the public relations boutique running the Race to Infinity"
Right, so you slag off and blame BT for this tremendous cockup, and how they should be tech-savvy given they're a technology company, and how this further displays how shite they are, and then at the very bottom admit that it's actually not their fault, and it's probably some spotty non-techy work experience admin at a PR company BT has contracted to handle the work.
Posted in Lettuce head e-fit draws a blank
Subtle
That might be a touch too subtle for the "vegetables? Is that what's on pizza?" brigade on here!!
Robotic arm
From what little I've seen, most of these space "walks" are actually done securely attached to the safety of the ISS's robotic arm.
Pffffff... what bollocks
See title.
Posted in Jobs tells iPhone users to get a grip
Easy design mod/solution
So the band around the outside is metal, the antenna, sure, but I'm sure they could find a way to put a tiny amount of clear lacquer or something on it, which still lets near 100% of signal through and looks the same, but crucially breaks the contact between skin and metal?
I'm going to patent that, quick!!
Didn't care back then, don't care now
I got my first video-call capable phone around 2004 (SonyEricsson V800, if you're interested), and even had free minutes thrown at me each month, but in the 7 years since then, I've made a grand total of one call, for about 30 seconds.
It worked well enough, but what's the point? I don't want to be looking up someone's nose as they hold the phone in front of them as they're walking down the street, or see them in their "comfortable" slacks when relaxing at home. Voice is fine for me, thanks.
Weaponised V-22 eh?
So it's designed to fly over insurgents and blow them off their feet?
Posted in UK jobs site suffers hack attack
Which is it?
Sub headline: "3.5 million CVs exposed"
Quoted within the story: "no CVs or other personal information was accessed."
Paris, because it's got a question mark in it.
Bug?
Quite - this sounds less like a bug to me, and more of a long-forgotten feature, or early development debug tool. Wonder how many more there are....
Posted in 'iPhone 4G' found on floor of bar
Deliberate leak?
If this was a deliberate leak, it's achieved the opposite of the expected intention with me - on seeing these and believing them to be real, I see no point in waiting for the 4G, and just ditched my 3G and ordered an HTC Desire... I bought the original iPhone when it first came out, at £280, so no one can accuse me of not being dedicated, but this doesn't look revolutionary, barely evolutionary.
The iPhone is a tired dog and has lost it's way, unfortunately. Long live the iPhone.
Pricey water
By my calculations, assuming it works as expected, it'll cost NASA $16,250 per litre of water. My God, that's even more expensive than petrol in the UK at the moment!
Posted in Panasonic Viera TX-P46G20 46in plasma TV
Sky vs Freesat
It's interesting that the comparisons between BBC HD on Sky HD and Freesat indicate that Sky HD has a better picture quality... given that Freesat is using the exact same signal as Sky.
Pain and hassle
There is no pain and hassle to install Windows, it's one thing which Microsoft have got right over virtually everyone else - even a monkey with very basic computer skills can do it.
Are you saying you're less capable than a monkey with basic computer skills?
Fowl
What's an election got to do with chickens?
Source
But we still need to sort out where this leccy is actually coming from!
Posted in Reg readers take mobile makers to task
First graph
From the first graph in the story, we can deduce that there is a small set of phone users/owners who use hardly use their phones for anything.
RE: Really?
You mean terrorists don't tweet or set their status to "Osama is off 2 mt Abdul 2 plan bmbings!!1 Lollz!"
0°00′00″E
The UK is ON the bloody prime meridian - Greenwich in London is at 0°00′00″E. This line also runs through the west of France and the east of Spain, so we're right, and it's them that's wrong.
Rosetta Stone
So the Rosetta Stone of the 22nd century will come with a USB4 cerebral-cortex attachment? That'll make learning French a whole lot easier.
OSX
"It'll delete all your user files up to 8 times faster than on older hardware!"
Doesn't constitute an image?
You're shining electromagnetic radiation at an object, and picking up the reflected radiation using a sensor (camera) to produce a human readable image on a screen.
Doesn't matter what type or frequency that initial radiation is, whether it's microwave, infrared, human visible wavelengths, X-rays, etc, you're still producing an image on a screen.
