Posts by Efros
569 posts • joined Friday 26th September 2008 00:56 GMT
Titmuss 1 & 2
didn't realize the Leslie shagger was so involved in Tech, suppose GPS guidance may be useful in directing various objects towards various orifices.
Paris cos we aint got no Abi.
The larger HDDs
Do seem to have a higher failure rate, no absolute figures on this apart from the number of 1 egg reviews on Newegg, and even the best 1TB drive has 10% of its reviews as 1 egg almost always due to drive failure.
Constant channel volume
Next up. Switching from one channel to another can cause you to be jumped out of your seat as the audio volume levels from channel to channel can be almost an order of magnitude different.
Posted in Churlish gadget cusses those who use it
Missing
The ultimate word, seems they don't want to go to Scunthorpe. The app says $96 to buy, Wtf!
Posted in Mythbusters cannonball ‘myth-fires’
True
However most locales would have to bring the bricks from far away as brickyards are relatively rare in the US. Think importing bricks from Warsaw to build your house in Cambridge. Solution use local materials.
Posted in Motorola Xoom 2 10in Android tablet
Viewsonic Gtablet
My 6 month old g-tablet with clemsyn Beasty ROM returns 6400 on AnTuTu. More importantly it cost $239.
I live there mate
And you are correct, but the 1000s of excellent beers very rarely make it to the other side of the pond. They generally get the watery crap. Hence the canoe beer.
Coors Light
referred to as Canoe Beer after the famous, "what do American Beer and making love in a canoe have in common?", "They're both fucking close to water!", joke.
Posted in Flash prices FALL
SSD v HDD
at the moment only competition I see is in boot drives, 64GB is about right for that, any large storage and it's going to be a long time (even with the current price increases) before SSDs will compete with HDD on cost. Power consumption may have to be taken into account but not really an issue for home users. Only SSD I own is a boot drive in my HTPC, serves its purpose very well, I may invest in a 128GB SSD for my laptop in the near future, but no rush.
Please tell me it
Costs 6 Million Dollars!
Posted in Smart TV shootout
Cost premium
is still too much compared to using a small HTPC box loaded with something like Mediaportal and a few plugins, most notably OnlineVideos which will deal with most if not all of the content these TVs have. You can use a nettop, they are currently out of favour and selling at reduced prices and if you buy the right one it'll mount discreetly behind the TV.
Posted in Apple MacBook Pro 13in Core i5 laptop
Price
JHChristmas. An i5 Dell with 6GB RAM and 640GB HDD and W7 HP is about $650. Apple still playing the premium card shit for no reason.
Posted in Chromebooks: the flop of 2011?
Coulda been a contender
If the price had been realistic, they would have nailed the educational market. The lease model with included hardware support and restrictions on functionality is exactly what the education market needs, unfortunately the price for the chromebooks makes them an unattractive alternative to the white shiny Pomme laptops.
Re Archbishop of Canterbury and the Spice Girls
Would have been more down with the kids if he had said he had bedded them all, individually and then collectively!
Stuff is dangerous
Should be banned immediately, have these people not heard of DHMO and the damage it can do!
http://www.dhmo.org/
Can only be
Danny Dyer.
On a more serious suggestion, I think John Malkovich would be a brilliantly maniacal doc a la Tom Baker.
What a twonk
The PAST TENSE... I'm sure there's more than one of them.
crimes against software
Title phrase could be applied to any of the major applications release in the last 10 years.
Posted in Go back to the future with Red Dwarf
Hopefully
a better effort than the last abysmal offering.
Yeah ye can
You just need to find the director and a big enough stick.
What about Tommy?
Posted in Amazon's Kindle Fire burns iPad momentum
TBH I hate using my tablet for email/browsing, I will do so if I have to but it is definitely not my appliance of choice for those activities. If you analyse my usage I can almost guarantee it would be 80% reading, 10% media playing (Playon works very well under android) and 10% other activities mostly downloading, trying and deleting the Amazon free app of the day. For reading/video/audio it it's great, for web stuff not so much to my liking mainly because of the screen size and the keyboard or lack thereof..
Posted in Amazon's Kindle Fire burns iPad momentum
re:And what percentage....
Similarly those future buyers of the recently announced nook tablet, I had honeycomb running on my wife's nook color 2 days after we received it and she hasn't looked back. Personally I bought a gtablet (bigger screen for my failing eyes) and run a version of notion ink adam on it.
They are indeed
Privately funded but have an interesting track record of sticking it to the man, the man being in turn the auto insurance industry, big pharmacy, big health and a variety of other industries that are the core of the malaise in the USA today and now they're having a go at Google, more power to them.
Not houses but blades
Had these going by the house for about 4 months now.
http://docrobb.winkflash.com/
Future Product
The iCasket?
Posted in Apple cofounder Steve Jobs is dead at 56
Polo neck is British, turtleneck is USAian. Same thing, don't own one myself as they tend to interfere with my beard.
Respects to Jobs and his grieving family, in all the fluff that will be puffed over the next few days we need to remember that, he and his contemporaries have indeed shaped our current technology, not because of any altruism but because they wanted to make money. No problem with that but don't make him out to be some great humanitarian, he was a motivated, clever, business man with a very large ego and a flair for success.
Posted in US tops the class in IT competitiveness
I agree
The US does have some good things about it, mainly its people, if we could just do something about the corrupt morons that seem to get into government here (USA) then we would be all set.
Original
and not obvious to an expert in the field... I think not.
Springtime
"Don't be stupid be a smarty,
Come and join the iPad party."
Definitely a cult.
Reason is less altruistic
I think the rich may be getting an inkling that the poor unwashed masses may not put up with the shit sandwiches for much longer. Certainly the perception and the fact is that the rich pay proportionately less tax than much poorer people, maybe the poorer people will wake up smell the roses and start polishing the guillotine again. Where's me knitting gone?
Posted in Steve Jobs resigns as Apple CEO
Freefall anyone?
Wonder how many percentage points will be shaved off Apple's stock.
Is it just me
or do some of these investigations by various state and federal entities seem to be some way of extorting money, fuck the money, go to court and start throwing some of these white collar pricks into jail.
Could this be
Rupe's annus horribilis?
Apple store
Has iPad2 32GB wifi +3G for $729 add tax to that and you get to about $760 depending on your locale. The BOM is fairly widely available and varies by only a few dollars, the number I quoted came from slashgear, and the percentage profit Apple makes is widely available as they have to report their company results. As to marketing costs, I have no clue, but I doubt it could make up anywhere near the difference between the BOM and the retail price.
Gtablet
Similarly I just bought a Viewsonic Gtablet, The stock firmware really sucks the big one but I have flashed it with a version of the notionink adam ROM and it works beautifully. 1.5GHz Tegra 2 CPU 512Mb RAM with 16GB internal storage and another 16GB microsd. Works very well despite Viewsonics best attempts at screwing it up.
Hmmm
The 32GB iPad 2 WiFi + 3G costs Apple $326.60, retails at $739 at Amzn, so nearer a half rather than a third. Apple made an approximate 40% profit on everything they sold in the last quarter.
The Apple Competitors
Tried to compete at the same price point, they needed to seriously undercut the iPad in terms of price whilst maintaining a similar level of performance. Failure to do this has consigned a whole generation of reasonable to very good tablets to the electronics equivalent of remainder stores.
Posted in Peaches Geldof explains Kubrick's 2001
Clarke
I believe Arthur himself (Clarke not Dent) had stated that he didn't get it fully, and he wrote the damn thing. Kubrick's thoughts (if he ever had any that weren't opaque) I don't think were ever recorded on the matter.
Pint as the first of 12 I'd need to watch it again, although I'd probably need 24 to watch Solaris.
Couldn't
have happened to a nicer bloke. I would pay money to see some poor bastard on one of his shows deck him.
waiting
for Del Spooner to arrive to vet the robots.
Hmmm
Obviously mass market devices, given their $1000+ price. [/sarcasm]
Posted in Oi, Android, get gaming sorted out NOW
Amazon appstore
They also do one paid app for free daily. Not being a gamer the quality/availability of games on my gtablet or archos doesn't really bother me, what is annoying is the appalling way the app stores in general are organized, or should that be disorganized.
Posted in Amazon's anti-iPad arises 'in October'
Bring it on
Amazon device will be rooted and running an unencumbered Android image within a month of its release. These subsidized tablets just give a good source of value hardware to the users who know how to get around their 'walled gardens'.
Needs a diet
Adobe reader is just too big! Needs to go on Atkins for a while. I either use Foxit or SlimPDF.
Posted in Tablet fever cools as e-readers heat up
Oh yes
Used a Kindle, the original huge one, also a DX version, I've also used an Ectaco Jetbook (LCD screen), a Sony PRS350, an Archos 7HT with aldiko and A B&N nook color, all for significantly more than 10 minutes. In fact on the nook color I've racked up 9 novels in the last 3 weeks, only problem I've had with it is the easy distraction of angry birds. So not FAIL.
Posted in Tablet fever cools as e-readers heat up
Nook Color
7" android table masquerading as an e-reader, has been rooted and demonstrated to run Android 3.0, coming in at $250. 'er in doors has one, and it has about persuaded me to get one too.
Only in this market
would that profit to turnover ratio be rated as a failure.
5th gear
You ever have the problem of needing 2 people to change gear 4th to 5th? Apart from that foible I agree the maxi was a much underated car and given its front wheel drive was very capable in hilly snowy country.
