Posts by Alan 6

Re: HTC - Ridiculous suggestion

Same with my GF, swapped from LG GT 540 to HTC Desire S, no 3G at all using old SIM, so O2 shipped out a new SIM and everything hunky dory...

@Lallabalalla

" But I think Lada are relaunching, which satisfies the requirement for massive dickheads to always drive German cars."

Lada are Russian, not German. Maybe you were thinking of Trabant? They're long gone thank God, although God's earthly ambassador Bono probably has a few old Zooropa stage props in his shed

Forgive me for being pedantic, but the information is not inaccurate.

Incomplete maybe, but not inaccurate...

Re: 992 times

Read the sub-headline and you'll see it says "And that's just the times they were caught..." which I think answers your question...

Re: Even though I disliked Boy Wonder...

To be fair, I think the reason that the article mentioned they're not open to the public is because the planning application emphasises the woodlands and restaurants in the plea for locals' approval.

@sabroni

Civil Partnerships are different to marriages in one very important respect in the UK.

With a marriage you get automatic inheritance rights, this is not the case with a Civil Partnership. This means in a civil partnership you are less likely to be murdered by your spouse

Re: Sony and digital photography

Sony have made point & shoot cameras for a while, but they bought Minolta in 2005 I think, and from then on started to move into the DSLR market.

A huge number of cameras use Sony sensors (the iPhone 3s for instance, I think there's one in the iPhone 4 as well) and have done for years , and most CCTV cameras use them. So they know a lot about the most important part of the camera body.

Where they fall down is lenses, but this is where Minolta come in, but you don't need to use Sony optics, you can buy Tamron, Sigma and many other brands of lenses with Sony A mounts

http://www.dyxum.com/lenses/index.asp - Sony lens database

Re: Wouldn't touch those ISPs anyway.

Some of us are not fortunate enough to live somewhere you have a choice over ISP.

Where I live the only ISPs that can give me more than 2mbps are Talk Talk, Tiscali & AOL - ohh guess what, they're all Talk Talk, which is a bugger, as I need a good speed to work from home, and so Talk Talk is my only option

Have you seen the quality of most CCTV footage?

In a foolish attempt to fit as many cameras as possible into as little hard drive space as possible most systems record in CIF resolution (352 x 288) and use quite aggressive MPEG4 compression.

Most people look like they're made of lego...

@Blitterbug

The US still use imperial measures, and even worse, their pint is 16 fluid ounces instead of the rest of the world's 20 fluid ounces, so a gallon of "gas" is 6.4 UK pints rather than 8 UK pints, which makes comparing the prices of fuel in the US & UK rather more complicated than most people realise

Re: Just watched the youtube of the comments

"not for some fairly tame idiotic comments from a young man who was drunk and thought for some ridiculous reason that since it's only Twitter he can say what he likes."

Being drunk should not be a defence for any crime.

Far too many people assume that they should not be held responsible for their actions just because they were having a good time.

Sorry to come over all Daily Mail, but some people really do make me think we should have to apply for a licence to breed...

Re: More like 60 per hour.

???

Assuming she was awake 24/7 that's approx one text every 2 minutes - when de she find time to eat?

I hope she has an unlimited text tariff

@mraak

You may not have to be rich, but I'd say at least 80% of the population couldn't spare the sort of cash needed to fund an Apple addiction...

Fairly sure that the average US citizen has no idea Italy is a foreign land, they probably think it's one of the smaller boroughs of New York...

@theodore

No idea if it's raining.

The film is Japanese, but was made by a French company, and there's several spellings of the title, it is sometimes referred to by the closest English translation "In The Realm Of The Senses".

It's probably the strongest non-pron film ever made, although Shortbus probably comes close...

The current £50 DVD boxed set is remastered, the films look really good, although On Her Majesty's Secret Service has an error so when you pop the disk in it goes straight to mid-way through one of the features rather than firing up the menu.

I would imagine this would be fixed for the Blu-Ray release...

Ever heard of e-ink?

My Swiss Army Knife has a little LED lamp on it (so I can see who I'm stabbing with the 2" blade I suppose), this has a tiny battery, just like you find in those new fangled quartz watches.

Combine the e-ink that only uses power during a refresh, and a lithium cell and your display would work for ever.

I've just had to pay £35 for a Toshiba recovery CD.

I did get one with the laptop, but I've moved house three times since buying it, so it's been lost.

£35 stuck me as a lot of money, but seeing as the only alternative is paying £80+ for an OEM copy of Windows they've got me over a barrel.

This is the only expense I've had with the laptop since I bought it 5 years ago, and the first time I've done a system restore, so that's not bad really...

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"After all they still rip you off for the e-books, why should you have to pay up from for the priviledge!"

Most Kindle books are well below the paper cost, and they have at least one deal a day @ 99p.

This of course is not the same for ePub books for the Sony readers, which are often the same price or slightly dearer that the paperback equivalents

Nope, the right to bear arms is merely permission to roll your sleeves up, the merkins have never been good at spelling

I think that's the printer used to churn out Dan Brown's books...