Posts by Alan 6 307 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
"Heres hoping she lost a large portion of the money she got from her original payout in taking this action to the high court..."
I'm more inclined to think that just like her first case, she used "no win no fee" ambulance chasers. In her first case she won £12k, but the legal fees came to £500k...
To be fair, a movie about a pre-pubescent You Tube star is a bit easier to make interesting than a movie about the trials and tribulations of designing a workmate.
On a similar point, I doff my hat to all the dads and grand-dads who are currently sitting through Justin Bieber: Never Say Never 3D with their daughters and grand-daughters, you are heroes for going through that kind of audio visual torment just to keep your offspring happy...
The majority of murders are simply one-off crimes - either crimes of passion or revenge, that won't be repeated.
There are very few repeat offending murderers, thankfully, and the ones that are usually find themselves locked up for life in Broadmoor or Ashworth.
Paedophilia is a mental illness that cannot be cured, look at the likes of Gary Glitter, they see no wrong in what they do, and without admission of guilt there is little or no chance of them stopping offending...
ps and no, cutting their balls off does not work...
"The possible hit to the BBC's wallet could be £1m in damages, the Telegraph says"
Is that £1m to be shared amongst all Mexicans who were offend by the remark, or just to the woman who sees an easy way to make a quick buck.
We'll be as bad a the US soon with an ambulance chasing lawyer on every street corner...
My Times subscription gives me a book of vouchers, plus access to the website.
I can take a voucher into most newsagents and get a paper, or read it online, or on a fondle-slab or whatever.
I would imagine other papers will offer the same thing if Newscorp get a decent number of subscribers after 12 months...
I have a subscription to the Times, so I automatically get access to the Times+ bit of the site.
It's quite slick, I like the way the full story loads, so when you click for the next page it changes instantly.
What I don't like is the almost constant SSL errors when trying to log in, and the regular server crashes. If they set up a walled garden for paying customers I would have thought they'd have installed enough reliable hardware to keep us paying customers happy...
I thought I'd killed my GF's brand new Kindle at the weekend by testing the browser with Facebook.
It completely locked up and required three reboots to get the bugger working again.
I think Google's plain vanilla page is the only one that renders right in the crappy browser that makes Lynx look good...
We're having SAP imposed on us by our US overlords. It's so far been a two year project to ensure that all our processes are mirrored as closely as possible in SAP, but it's a serious culture change.
SAP go live is Jan 4th, straight after the Christmas break, I don't think our IT bods will get much sleep during the break...
Cave walls, paintings, books, videos, dvds
Whenever a new communication medium is developed it's almost instantly used to reproduce smut.
Not that that is necessarily a bad thing, each new medium is smaller and easier to hide from your mum or partner.
(can you imagine trying to read a cave wall under the duvet at night...)
To all you miserable shits who automatically assume the sterling price will be a straight 1:1 exchange I suggest you apologise.
It actually works out cheaper here in Blighty. At the current exchange rate of $1.5709:£1 the US price works out at £1209.47 + local taxes.
Here in the UK the price at Insight is £1,008.99 + VAT = £1,185.23
http://uk.insight.com/apps/productpresentation/index.php?product_id=SGGA07IC8
Thanks, but that's a standard PoE switch and I've got dozens of those in stock at work. What I would like is a single unit Home Plug adaptor that will provide network connectivity and power to a camera.
FYI cameras with heaters & PTZ cameras usually need 802.3at devices that can kick out up to 30w. The Axis Q6032e camera comes with a mid-span that is rated at 60w @ 55v which is very impressive but does mean the cat 5 cable gets a bit warm at times...
I've asked this before without getting a suitable answer, so I'll ask it again.
Does anyone know of a powerline ethernet device that also delivers Power Over Ethernet to a connected device? this would be perfect for installing IP cameras in the home when you don't want to sling Cat5e all over the place or risk drop-outs with wirelessly connected cameras...
I'm using the latest iteration of Chrome and with 3 tabs open, Outlook and 3 massive spreadsheets open my CPU is only at 23%.
My PC is only a Dell with a 1.8Ghz Core Duo and 1 gig of RAM, so it's not massively powerful.
Probably the people complaining are running various flavours of IE which can't cope with HTML 5 yet...
Anyone know if you can get a powerline ethernet device that also delivers Power over Ethernet, which would make these things perfect for connecting to PoE enabled CCTV cameras and WiFi access points.
Also, why don't they put the ethernet connection on the top rather than the base or side, then they won't snag on anything...
So that's how the "Will it Blend" guy pays for the stuff he destroys.
One of my dimmer colleagues "lost" his iPhone at V Fest a couple of years ago, he tried to claim that it was stolen, but someone managed to forward a You Tube video to the insurance company of him drop-kicking the phone into the crowd.
Insurance companies become very suspicious of claims around the time of a new phone launch...
I've got a quad CPU (16-core) server with 60tb of storage standing unused at the moment, bung me a million and I'll maintain the database for the next 6 months. After that the server has some other work to do, but if they need an extension another million will buy me a new (gold plated) server...
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