Posts by Annihilator 3788 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
"If you bought a WiFi-only iPad and, in six months' time, someone offered you 3G functionality for an extra £100, the chances are you'd jump at it. Best to make that choice now, while the deal is still on the table."
As fatgit implies, the deal will most certainly be in the table in six months. True it may not be as elegant, but by far more versatile.
The sweatshops of people will have their productivity hampered (or so goes the theory) as the red text doesn't appear immediately. So say it takes a second to "solve" a normal CAPTCHA, it now takes 2 seconds including scrolling time.
There's still a flaw in that they can quite easily just introduce an assembly-line style to the operation in the sweatshop. i.e. if it's a consistent delay. Even if it's not a consistent delay, just show multiple ones on screen that can be solved when ready.
The fail is aiming at the idea, not anyone's post :-)
"First off, it may seem like a huge size right now, but won't for long. I recall a late 90s columnist wishing for a drive so unimaginably big that he could drop a file in and hear the echo when it hit bottom. He was talking of a 2GB drive"
That must have been very early late-90's. In 1996 my PC had a 1.6GB drive and wasn't top spec.
A "model" is defined as a smaller or larger physical copy of an object. Fits the description quite nicely, yes? :-) Technically my R/C F1 car is a model and a toy.
If you're in any doubt about the detail that Hornby go into these days, would suggest trying their Live Steam range - none of that electric motor nonsense!
http://www.hornby.com/livesteam/
Letter to the Daily Mail
"Wouldn't it be great if TV coverage of the World Cup was limited to England's games, those of hosts South Africa and of the tournaments 'big guns'. Then we would be spared the ordeal of having to sit through a match between Bongo Bongoland and the Former Soviet Republic of Bulimia and other meaningless events. Mike Phelps, Yeovil"
http://liberalconspiracy.org/2010/06/10/the-daily-mail-and-bongo-bongoland/
You can never really KNOW that you've decrypted something. With the right (wrong) key it's possible to decrypt the ciphertext into a brand new plaintext that has nothing to do with the original. The odds of this being possible the closer the key length is to the plaintext length.
I don't have a problem with bluetooth headsets per se, I have a rather nice Jawbone myself, but rarely wear it outside the home/office environment.
The biggest problem with bluetooth, or even wired, headsets is the idiots who use them without realising that you DON'T have to hold the phone out in your hand while resisting the urge to hold it close to your mouth and with wired, you DON'T need to hold the mic while you're talking. The tw@t-o-meter goes off the scale when both these techniques are used simultaneously. It's called "hands-free" for a reason!
There's also a very strong argument for suggesting that the likelihood of someone using a headset in such a manner is inversely proportional to the importance of that person, but directly proportional to their self-inflated perceived sense of importance. See phone holsters strapped to the belt for details.
I have noticed the revised iPhone contracts for O2 are rather worse than before. Previously, the 18 month, £35/month bought me 600 minutes. Now it would buy me 300. But it would increase my texts from 500 to unlimited (whoopy, I imagine there's a hidden limit like there was before).
Goodbye O2 methinks...
This would be O2's devious scheme to keep the hype up. The O2 store I saw today were letting people in 2 at a time, apparently for about 10-15 minutes.
Funny thing is, when I got a 3G when the hype doesn't exist, they were able to upgrade me in under 5 minutes.
"..as specialist anti-arachnid operatives moved in to suppress the threat to the Eurofighter plant."
aka - armed with either a jam jar or a rolled up newspaper, depending on whether lethal or non-lethal force was authorised.
Just think, maybe the Sun can declare itself as the weapon of choice as we rally to defend ourselves!
"The Dixons name resonates strongly with suppliers, the market, and colleagues in a way that DSG international has not been able to"
Only highly paid management could come up with a strategy like that. If the Dixons name is so brilliant, why did they annex the name from the high street in favour of Currys.digital?
What does the D stand for again anyway? Oh yeah...
Where does Reiner go to relieve himself? Who keeps his place in the queue? Do any of them REALLY believe that if they turned up at 8 tomorrow, they wouldn't get one?
It's funny, I'm guessing normally Apple would phone the police and get them to move on any tramps sleeping outside their shop...
Don't believe the hype people. Turn up tomorrow, see if you can get one, and if not, just bloody wait. That's my plan.
"But surely missing a few phone calls is a small price to pay for the honour of an early iPhone 4?"
How is it early if you get it on the day of release and you get it whenever DHL deems you worthy of delivery? (which in my latest experience is whenever the driver decides to finish his game of football with whatever he's delivering)
You'll find that individually, not that many are making much of an effort to get it. Me, by myself, visiting a website to try and purchase one does not make me crazy. Collectively, it looks like a mad rush, but that's hardly my fault. If the website is slow-running, or generates an error, I'll probably try again. It would be stranger if I gave up at that point, and rather defeatist..
There is a big difference. As Andrew points out, El Reg will allow you to republish content as long as you name the source, but may charge for it.
What this "dude" is doing is akin to me downloading a copy of Bananarama's "Love In The First Degree" and releasing it as a single, possibly by Milli Vanilli, to turn a profit. Admittedly it wouldn't be much of a profit, but you see my point.
The Apple stores pump out their content via the akamai network which is optimised for this sort of thing. I don't think I've ever seen them fail to send out an OS update, much like Microsoft's patches.
For a website to struggle under massive volume is not uncommon - they will never scale their infrastructure for that sort of load as 99% of the time it will be unused, so not sure why it was ever a story.
"The key card is priced less than the full boxed product of Office 2010 and it contains a 25-character code that activates your copy of Office 2010. You can only use the key card to activate Office 2010 on a single PC."
Any clue as to how it does this? Is it a one-time code? Is it implying that a buggered hard disk will result in buying a new copy of Office? A swift "no, thanks" will be offered to them from me.
"high debt levels lead to the 'crowding out' phenomenon where borrowing crushes private sector investments and shrinks the economy. Luckily I know the importance of growth in key areas"
Gawd bless Chloe/The Sun's ability to turn any news story into a double entendre.
I'd like to double her entendre...
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