Posts by Gio Ciampa

Re: Mistaken?

When you say 'disliked' - was that because Newton was effectively untouchable at the time (just ask Leibniz) and society chose sides accordingly?

Re: Pen and Paper note, "Welcome to Britains' Open Prison"

The (probably hideously under-estimated) MOD costs for Trident come in at about £1 billion a year over a 30-odd year lifetime... to counter a threat that may never happen...

...alternatively - it'd pay for 30+ thousand PCs, Nurses, etc... to hopefully prevent the acting out of a threat that exists right now, or deal with the aftermath should something slip through the net

I know what I'd rather spend my money on...

Re: Intergalactic Billiards.

More likely Ford Prefect's doing - one Gargleblaster too many I'll wager ...

Re: ...launch director Andrew Scott

Glad I wasn't the only one who thought that...

Re: How many inverted femtobarns...

In the grand scheme of things, it's peanuts compared to other (vanity) projects...

Re: Changing names

"Looks like a spotty bum to me :P"

(.|.) surely?

Re: STOP THE PRESSES!!!

"Tweeting Tangerine"

Wasn't that an Ubuntu release? (or will Google use it for Android?)

Re: Unspeakably wicked

3 words...

Mandated Back Door

re: Anonymous Cowshed

Exactly!

I'm afraid to say - it appears that most people creating websites (in my view) are simply lazy... why spend time sorting out your own advertising strategy, getting to know your site visitors, and giving them something they might be interested in...

...when you can drop a widget in any given page in 5 seconds, let some third-party do the work, and risk them putting any old crap on your site (as shown by the recent kerfuffle with Google), with who-knows-what effect on your reputation?

"Wrexham Lager is not a brewery"

Um... I think you'll find it is.

www.wrexhamlager.co.uk

Re: The annoying thing

"but it will employ tens of thousands of manual and blue collar workers"

So would getting them to fix the rest of the network - at much the same cost I'll wager

...er... none actually - didn't they all drop out?

Re: Huawei founder Ren Zhengfei (left). Not sure who the other chap is

Isn't he the World Multitasking Champion...?

Re: Bixby

"especially if they guaranteed OTA updates to Android in a timely fashion."

Ah.. if only...

I'll wager the updates for the S7s will stop any day now (and the S8s when the S9 arrives...)

Re: "it's unfair of me to blame Microsoft's OS"

Just curious... was the space in "Windows 1 0" deliberate (or should there be a decimal point in there...)?

Re: Episode numbering

Also... WMV files...?

Nobody uses WMV, do they...???

Re: Disappointed...

<pedant>

"a new variant of AOSP" not "a new variant of Android"

</pedant>

Re: Nuke the entire site from orbit--it's the only way to be sure

"I came across an email account some years ago which contained many really bad pictures"

Confession! Did you hand yourself over to the police?

Re: They're all mostly overpriced landfill.

"a good spec phone with an SD card, removeable battery, headphone jack, & no crap overlay UI on top of what's already there, all for a price under the 200Pounds mark"

(Apart from the battery) I'm seriously considering a Nokia 6 for these very reasons - will wait a few months though just to make sure any launch gremlins are squashed...

Re: 110 planets?!

Surely that proves why astrology is wrong... they don't take into account all those other objects that obviously would have an effect - sure explains why I'm not a typical Leo ;^D

Re: Just say 'sod off MS I ain't paying that much'

"this sort of pricing it makes MacBooks attractive again"

...for how long...? I wouldn't be surprised if Apple joined in the bandwagon at some point.

Re: The watched star...

Probably explains why Betelgeuse hasn't gone yet...

...I'll look in the opposite direction - if that'll help?

Re: That's the backup HQ for climate agencies

"The alien base has been relocated to the Mall in Washington."

That would explain the lack of attendees at the inauguration - the builders needed to clear the land...

Re: A&A

Indeed!

Jumped from Sky to Zen last May after (yet another) price rise ... got faster connection speed (getting on for 20 Mb/s instead if 12 or so on a "up to 16" tariff) too...

Admittedly - side-by-side it costs a couple of quid a month more, but that is only because, on Sky, it's a bundled cost (I had TV/Phone/Broadband) rather than being standalone... the only real downside being the loss of Last Week Tonight (but there are... ahem... ways to get around that...)

I was thinking more Terminator...

Re: Here’s an idea …

Hmmm... might resurrect the old EEE PC gathering dust somewhere and give that a go...

Re: Ofcom missed an opportunity...

Of course (and apologies to those who've seen me writing this before)...

...if OFCOM operated the 3/4/5/...G networks as a "National Grid" to which all operators have access (and are charged accordingly) - we wouldn't have this discussion every 5 minutes...

Re: A very simple solution...

"Commercial reasons" are the cause of the problem in the first place... if BT et al can't be arsed to provide the infrastructure because it'll cut a few million off their profits - then bar them from providing the service at all... the almighty "market" will provide someone who will (so they say...).

...speaking as someone on the wrong end of VM when they couldn't be bothered to cable a flat that was - when I started renting it - less than 3 months old, and despite being all of 100 yards from houses that had been cabled, so the actual cost to VM would have been minimal...

Re: No means no

"Of course, some of the programmes on those channels are created for and by the BBC."

Which - as we've already paid for them - we should get for free...

...without having to pay Amazon's tax bill for them too...

Re: I wonder about the devs

" this profession and its union have been infiltrated in the last few decades by a load of aggitating Trots"

As opposed to the media and our "leaders" - who are just as rabid on the other side of the spectrum...