* Posts by Stacy

421 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009

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Dallas cops fine drivers for 'not speaking English'

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Joke

Made me laugh

"We don't have abilities to determine proficiency in any language'

That line on it's own made reading the article worthwhile :)

Toyota at Tokyo: micro e-car on display

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FAIL

Still rubbish then

So with new and improved batteries it's still not good enough for a round commute to work, and even it it could it won't get up to motorway speeds...

If you are going to say 'Reliant on improvements' why not say something bold like '600 miles @ 75mph from a single charge, recharges in 3 mins'

Sony claims 'lightest notebook' crown

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WTF?

NOOOO!!!!!!

They killed my toy! The TZ series fell into this segment (price, screen size and resolution) but has a real chip and an optical drive. Why would you remove these - it really made the machine stand out from the crowd! Tiny, powerful enough for VS 2008 and SQL Server 2008, small enough to fit into a bag and with a build in DVD burner.

Sob.

(Unless of course this is to sit along side the TT range that replaced the TZ in which case I have to ask what the point is...)

Fujitsu M2010 netbook

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FAIL

That annoying shift key

Is one of the reasons why I got rid of my 1000H Asus... The machine itself was great, but the amount of times when touch typing I suddenly found myself with a strange character on the line above the one I was typing on drove me mad!

Whoever designed this keyboard layout wants firing.

Other than that that machine looks so ugly, the wierd colour scheme and battery sticking out of the back like it was an afterthought.

I'd say definate fail.

Googlebooks crusade captures CAPTCHA king

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Captcha on CodeProject

I found the best Captcha on CodeProject.

Rather than rendering a very ugly, difficult to read image builds the image using text and CSS (building letters from '1's for example) so it's perfectly readable for a human, but bloody awful for anything else. You can't copy paste the image (as it's not an image) etc

Unfortunately I can't remember the name of it...

Zune HD unzipped

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@ AC (Bill)

Wow...

So you are only a right thinking adult if you own an iPod?

Whilst I own have owned both an iPod and have an iPhone, I brought them because they fitted what I wanted at the time, not because a few members of society deemed it *required*.

If the Zune is better than the iPod then why not use it? I used an MD player (three of them actually) before the iPod because it fitted what I needed at the time - and is still a far superior piece of kit for listening to music than either the iPod or the iPhone - just not as convinient.

Abigail's Windows 7 Party

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Funny!!!

Having to fight with stupid project leaders at the moment that made a fantastic distraction!

And is exactly what I thought when I heard about the idea of the parties, and exactly why I wouldn't throw one!

T-Mobile picks Orange for merger

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Bad luck!

They did the same over (nl) here a couple of years ago when I was an orange customer. What it meant was that orange stopped developing pricing plans, so when 3g finally became available it was 6 euros per *MB* or so, and they closed the orange shops down giving twice the customers in the T-Mobile shop with the same staff. When you did eventually get served (could take 90 mins sometimes) you were just told sorry we don't deal with orange customers - just wait for your contract to run out and we'll be glad to move your over to T-Mobile (what? I thought it was a merger and so I was with T-Mobile already?!?!?!?!?!).

And this after a long marketing campaign saying how great it was going to be with two lots of shops to help all the customers...

Good luck - you're going to need it!

BMW unveils futuristic Vision

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Grenade

Low drag and light?

Since when has 1400kg been light? That is twice the weight of a spitfire / midget / original mini / sprite etc.

Do what they have done and acheive a weight substancially less than 1 ton and I'll be impressed.

Plus - if they have taken everything they learnt from F1 and used it for aerodynamics it won't be very slippy. Considering in the last couple of races they were telling the drivers to use the drag of the car to help conserve the brakes, I don't think this is a good start for designing a car :) Whilst I think that they were taking things a little far for entertainment purposes Stirling Moss commented that the stopping power of lifting your foot off of the throttle and letting the drag take over gives better stopping performance than his brakes gave him when he was racing.

High downforce (F1) = High Drag Co-efficient

On the bright side, it doesn't look bad, and if it really goes as well as it's supposed to then it's the first hybrid that I would not mind driving :)

Snow Leopard security - The good, the bad and the missing

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@northern monkey

Here here!

Something strange in a register comment: Common Sense!

:)

Tesla Model S poses for cameras

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I don't get the comments here

Saying that it looks too much like an Aston / Massarati? How is that a bad thing!!! It's not like the easten clones that look like european cars but with all the goodness sucked out, it just looks very sexy.

Shame the price in NL is never going to be close to the 40K they quote in the article - at that price it's cheap compared to the competition. The only thing that bothers me is how to fill up on the road. If I can top up the charge in the same time as I can refil my petrol tank I'm sold. Wow, a couple of years ago I would never had thought I'd say that!

Panasonic Lumix DMC-TZ7

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Nice

First time that a compact has actually impressed me enough to think about buying one...

And when did the reg move to Leicester?

Apple to offer own-brand HDTV, claims analyst

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Hmmmm

This would take some nerve - it's a very competitive, very mature market. Not like the digital music player at all...

The article also hints at Lowe / B&O level pricing rather than Sony / Panansonic / Samsung level pricing - but would the people who are interested in owning a Lowe / B&O - both of which are by words for expensive quality AV kit - even stop to look at an Apple which is unknown in the field...

Will be interesting to see how they make themselves standout if true...

Where oh where is the '?' I don't have a clue icon :)

Apple MacBook Air June 2009

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@Amazed by how many people don't get it

You know I hadn't thought of that...

Go to Apples site and what do you know:

For the same footprint, only 650g more in weight I can have a 'proper' machine, with a 7 hour battery and full connectivity. And I save a couple of hundred Euros into the bargain...

Now I am confused - just what am I paying for with the air? It's slightly thinner, slightly lighter - but has the same footprint as a regular MBP with less power, battery life and connection options. It is a complete failure isn't it?

On the bright side, price doesn't seem to be an issue for buying an MBP anymore... So I may look at one of those next time I need a machine.

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Saw the price and though hmm...

Maybe something to look at when updating my TZ21. Then saw the screen size and lack of ports, and lack of optical drive and thought 'Bugger! Maybe not...'

Nice and shiny as it is my office (as I would expect of 90%) does not have a wireless connection, whilst thin is nice the actual size of it is too big for me to be ultra portable (the TZ21 is netbook size with real world performance and screen res).

What's the deal with not fitting an optical drive anyway? If they can fit it in the footprint of the TZ21, why not in a 13.3" case? If I am going to watch movines on the way home I want a DVD drive...

And I so wanted to like it as well...

Maybe they'll make a useful one (for me) for me in the future...

Sony Cybershot DSC-HX1

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@ Anonymous Coward

Nope I have not used the HX1. I was going from the sample shots in the review - which on my 20D would require 3200 ISO to compare to.

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@Aristotles slow and dimwitted horse

I honestly do not believe that you have used a DSLR if think that there is no difference in image quality.

I brought a bridge camera to save money on lenses, and for ease of carrying a few years back. The image quality was on par with the shots in this review, and even a bridge camera is cluncky to carry around.

Within a year I was that fed up of the artifacts in the images, even on 100 ISO, that I swapped for a second hand mid range DSLR. Yes I have spent far more money on professional quality lenses etc - but even friends that have the standard lenses (and have spent not that much more than these cost, and have a nice upgrade path for the future) produce shots with quality way in excess of the sample shots here.

If you want snap shots of your holidays then fine (but if that's the case why not get a cheaper compact that produces similar image quality), if you want something to produce nice phtographs with get a real camera - you won't regret it in the long term.

Met warns officers off photographers

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@the spectacularly refined chap

The light at the end of the tunnel is just a train coming the other way :) Nothings gonna change...

Is your cameraphone an oxymoron?

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I'm with Sarah

Plus of course... A sharp background when taking portrait type pictures is not what you want, and really takes away from the shot.

I use the iPhone for quick snaps (have to say it's one of the best cameras in a phone that I've used) and my DSLR for taking photos... You can't expect a camera phone to deliver a real picture with the built in limitations on lense construction / size and sensor surface area - really the size of the pixels on the high mega pixel machines is actually something that you have to work against for making decent quality photos.

iPhone 3.0 - born on schedule...

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Works fine here

Downloaded and installed quick enough, no problems except for activation with a pin locked sim card is not possible, so you have to unlock, disconnect, then reconnect before it will will work. Why should I have to reactivate anyway though? Does that mean that if I go somewhere else after my contract is up it won't activate when I next update it?

Strangely enough my Dutch iPhone went from English back to Dutch after the update until I activated it when it remembered the correct language. Odd.

Love the interface for the recorder. Someone though about how to make it interesting (like flicking the mic gives a noise like flicking the mic, but flicking the area around the mic give nothing). Useless, but gives a nice feel to the app anyway :)

Hydrogen-powered two-seater car unveiled

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GBP 48000!!!

200*12*20 = 48000

So... I can drive either this or a nice Jag?

Tough choice :)

Seriously though:

36 months is an average lease - why would anyone want a longer one?

As others have said: Fugly! Why not make it more like a Smart Roadster? Small, but at least it looks cool...

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