Posts by frank ly
2189 posts • joined Wednesday 10th June 2009 09:17 GMT
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re. Mail/Calendar
Have a look at Thunderbird (e-mail) with the Lightening (calendar) plugin. I use Lightening to display and modify my different Google calendars, since you can have calendar files stored on any network location (including the internet). You can convert a calendar event to an email invitation and I think you can have emailed invitations go to your calendar. It's all free so you might as well play with it.
Re: K.I.S.S.
I understand your concerns, but as development proceeds then miniaturisation and mass production economies will eventually allow neighbourhoods or even individuals to have their own 'Mr. Fusion' reactor, to supply power under local control.
Re: For Frank-Ly
Thank you for that link Martin. I've used my rusty and creaking PSP skills to throw something together, as you can see here: http://goo.gl/2E2n2
It was very quick and very dirty, I know. Please feel free to improve it in any way, lol.
Re: clearly bollocks (and gullable)
But it did look like a large gull, so that's ok.
The perfect logo .....
.... would be a Google android, looking out of a Microsoft window, while taking a bite out of an Apple apple. Can any graphically gifted reader please produce such a design and post a link to it please?
I for one would print it on a t-shirt and wear it proudly.
Re: Proof reader required at El Reg?
I thought he mean 'pratts'.
If you fancy getting involved - and you're over 16 years of age...
.. and a recent medical check and cardiogram shows that you have a healthy heart.
Re: Just for balance..
No. Let me explaim why....
If Ken Livingston was the Mayor of London and tried to do the same thing, then he would face exactly the same criticism. It's about the principle, not the person.
I have a strange urge .....
..... to start wearing swirl-effect nail polish. That's the power of advertising on El Reg !
Note: I would not use the demonstrated technique. I would use a small neodymium magnet to form unique self-customised patterns, thus identifying myself as unique and special.
Re: It's like 2001 again..."...where money wasn't a problem ..."
Money can't buy good taste.
Re: Su Bo
You beat me to it, with a much better post than the one I thought of.
Posted in Apple scores China store patent wins
Confused here...
Are these patents or registered designs? Does Hong Kong recognise (and define) something called a 'design patent'? Does anybody?
Posted in N7Player
Re: Usual over zealous permission
I decided to not install it for the same reasons. I'm also pissed off by the way installed apps offer updates that have escalated permissions from their original installed settings. I'm considering rooting my phone so I can use a fine grained permissions control app.
re. "..so far always paid the congestion charge in cash."
Right, that's you on the database of suspicious people then.
Posted in Humans best crossword-puzzling computer
And....
... if you get too many correct answers, the Patrician starts taking an interest in you.
Re: Question (AKA WTF?!)
I have an idea........ Samsung should sue the US patent office for false representations which led Samsung to spend money of a court case and also placed it in a position where it could be sued by Varia. Then Varia could sue the patent office for the same false representation that caused it to spend money suing Samsung. Then Apple could...... oh, wait a minute.
Re: Just wait for Round 2 - CC
It sounds like the Assistant Manager of Communications needs to be moved to Assistant Manager of Floor Cleaning.
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Re: Dune
The made for TV series adaptation of Dune was quite good and true to the book(s), even if some of the acting was a bit wooden. The film looked like they'd put the book's ideas through a blender and poured it into a script.
Re: catholic.xxx
I'd go with 'broad or wide ranging'; as in 'catholic tastes'. (Please; no jokes about catholic tastes.)
Posted in Sex-starved fruit flies hit the sauce
"Humans’ equivalent, neuropeptide Y, would be harder to manipulate safely, "
I'd like to selflessly volunteer for dangerous experiments involving sex and drinking.
Er.......
They already have the ultimate in cyber bullying, by some very big trolls.
Surely ....
.... this is just a very inefficient substitution cypher?
".. there may be a boom in the field in the coming years"
I thought they were trying to eliminated that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scams_in_intellectual_property
Your scam is not included in this Wikipedia entry. The good news is that you can include it by editing it. You know it's the right thing to do.
"... that we didn't anticipate this would happen..."
... and they didn't bother to test for it, despite knowing that privacy breaches are an important concern.
Then again, maybe they knew what would happen.
Re: Eww
Are you sure that you were holding it properly?
Posted in Public service plans paperless future
@AC 02:49
I'd need pulsed power-jets, and an ultrasonic descaling probe.
Ok, on my way......
Relative sizes .....
With a 5-8 nm diameter 'pipe', how does the physical size compare to the lattice size of silicon? I'm wondering about quantum and lattice edge effects starting to affect the behaviour.
Posted in Aussie fatties tell fewer porkies
Re: What the hell does this have to do with the bloody useless BMI?
If you're a medical worker carrying out health screening of a large number of people and you don't have time to give each of them a detailed prodding and poking, or do further tests; then BMI is a useful indicator of the possibility of weight related health issues.
Doctors know that heavyweight boxing champions, international-level rugby players and similar types of people have a large BMI, due to the great big slabs of muscle they develop and doctors know that they have to analyse other measures and other factors besides BMI.
For the general population of 'normal/ordinary' people, BMI is a good first stage indicator of possible obesity related issues.
My God; it's full of stars!
You're not seeing through it, you're looking into it.
What about wind power?
Did they consider putting a small and robust vertically oriented wind turbine on board for electricity generation?
Now for something nearly different.....
Have a look at this:
http://www.androidme.org/news/android-clobbers-siri-japanese-well-english.html
androidme.org seems to be an Android news site that lifts articles from other sources, then runs them through a doubleback translator, maybe to disguise the source.
An alternative explanation is that Bill Ray copied his article from androidme.org and did a very good job of rewriting it - which I'm sure he didn't :)
Re: "alien ship fuelling up on solar plasma"
",,, probably criminal! "
Admit it; you'd done at least five assasinations. (They were exciting, we do understand.)
GPS underwater?
Did he put the GPS monitoring devices underwater? If so, how deep can they be and still work?
Protection?
The purpose of copyright on the logos and 'anthem' is to prevent me (and anyone else) using it in my own production. To have the logos seen and the anthem heard by a group of people in a pub is not damaging to the holders of the copyright since it is a 'genuine' production.
The purpose of the logo and anthem is to identify the source or owner of the content to the audience, which it accurately does; so what is the (legal) problem?
... trick Proview into selling it the IPAD patents
I thought Apple bought a trademark, not patents.
Posted in Galaxies to get the Pluto treatment?
Details
Does this mean that a large, gravitationally bound, group of stars whose behaviour CAN be explained in terms of baryons and Newton's Laws is NOT a galaxy?
"... a settlement is effectively an admission of guilt ..."
Is it? If you can demonstrate a clear cost-benefit for settling over fighting a case, then it's your duty to reach a formal settlement for the benefit of your shareholders. In the accounts, it can be noted as 'Protection payment to a bunch of Euro-trash gangsters (unavoidable cost of doing business)'
Posted in The seven types of commentard
The next stage ....
Some analysis of our history and our posts could be used to categorise us, then we could have a little symbol by our names with a shape/colour dependent on our determined category; to let other commentards know what to expect.
@Miek - Re: Well, at least the buyer's been warned.
I still have my old, original HTC Wildfire - now usurped by an Incredible-S and relegated to 'spare phone' with a t-mobile PAYG SIM in it. It plays videos just fine with a high volume from the built-in speaker. I use Any Video Convertor to squash videos down a bit for playing on my phones.
Having your cake and eating it...
"... as well as stopping the Google News snippets the internet giant also stopped displaying links to the newspaper websites via its search engine results."
Which is exactly what I'd do in that situation.
"The newspapers had complained that Google had been "unnecessarily aggressive" in removing them from the search engine."
So they want free advertising and also to get paid for being advertised.
Re: So for all you guys out there...
We'd all like that if we were gay men with a liking for tight revealing clothing on other men.
I assume that Agent Provocateur know their target market and have designed the advert to appeal to them.
Re: What on earth does the this mean?
"... if their output is considered worthy of preservation."
That makes it simple, doesn't it?
Posted in Yet another iPhone patent lawsuit
Re: What kind of deal was that?
Yes, it does sound very strange. Without looking at it in detail, the only explanation I can think of is that Microsoft had some kind of IP input into the patent when it was first granted; or did own an interest in the patents at one time but has sold them on with a 'percentage of future yield' condition attached to the sale.
(I know it sounds weird, but stranger sounding things happen in the financial instruments markets).
Those were the days
"The Victorian based company ..."
I imagine colossal racks of steampunk style servers filling a great vaulted hall. Frock-coated sysadmins rush around checking pressure guages, writing on clipboards as technicians lubricate brass valves and pistons.
Ok, I'm going; but it was too good to miss.
Re: Isn't the point of an indicator light...
Also, many front indicators on modern cars are swamped out by the intense, almost point source, light from xenon headlights (the function of which is supposed to be to illuminate the road ahead over a wide area, not to blind other road users).
They missed the chance......
... to call it the KiddiPAD
Local caching?
I think that Virgin Media have copies of popular BBC iPlayer content on their 'local' network and avoid similar problems in that way. Is there a reason why Be can't do something similar?
Re: My Concept on the two-sided universe
I think this was covered in an old Star Trek episode where you passed through some kind of isolating protective corridor, that good old Mother Nature had set up to prevent mutual annihilation.
I'm sure someone will be able to give a suitable reference for this in a short time.
You're supposed to say ...
"Have you tried turning it off then on again?"
