Posts by Jim 48
83 posts • joined Friday 26th June 2009 14:24 GMT
Re: Out lawing porn
"They really need to go and read the story of "King Canute"."
I think you'll find that you need to read the actual story, Cnut was demonstrating that the power of the king was nothing compared to the power of their god. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cnut_the_Great#Ruler_of_the_waves
Obligatory xkcd(ish)
I know it references Spirit rather than Opportunity, but the same principles apply; http://xkcd.com/695/
Also, I'm surprised how little we've actually covered the Moon or Mars, if I'd thought about it before I'd would have probably guessed at hundreds of miles, not twenties.
Re: the fat lady is warming up
Blimey, you are right! Why have we never realised this before? Sod consumer choice, we should all just select the current best device, which is obviously the S4 because you said so, and ignore everything else.
Considering the other announcement about opening up BBM to Android and iOS it'll be interesting to see what happens with the yoof market.
It looks like the Galaxy Nexus uses the NXP chip as well.
Posted in Review: Jabra Revo Wireless headphones
How would this compare to a thirty-quid BT audio dongle such as the Sony MW600 or Samsung HS3000 (both of which I own, and am very happy with), as you can use your own headphones with?
WHOOOOOOSH!
Hear that sound? That's the point of this article going right over your head.
Posted in Ten ten-inch tablets
Re: Nexus 4-style supply cock-ups?.
You're beginning to repeat yourself, I smell FUD. As I also said on your 'Torvalds' post:
"Or you could have gone to one of the various bricks & mortar stores that stock them; pc world, asda, argos, ..., and bought an N7."
Re: At least google will deliver to him!
Or you could have gone to one of the various bricks & mortar stores that stock them; pc world, asda, argos, ..., and bought an N7.
Posted in Apple's iOS 6 maps STILL muddle Mildura
No, precisely not just with a "state of the art GPS" device. At best they should be in addition to paper maps, training/experience, spares for your spares and lots & lots of water.
US to UK services
I've been using the US Google Music service for a while and do like it, although, as mentioned, it did take an age to upload my music (and it exceeded by broadband cap so I found myself speed-limited for a while). To be able to buy songs on my device I had to clear the data for the Play Store but everything else seems to have transitioned to the UK version OK. I usually buy MP3s from Amazon but I may switch to Google, although I will always do a price comparison first.
It should be the law that all prosthetics sound like that!
Not read War Machine but have endured BioHell & Kell's Legend (all three books). I kept promising I'd not continue every time they'd get to the end of a chapter with some seemingly impossible-to-get-out-of-life-or-death-situation but they kept dragging me back in.
Nokia 6310i x ?
Nokia 9000 Communicator
Toshiba e570 Windows CE PDA (including leather case & cradle)
Handpsring 56k modem but NO Handspring Visor!
Sony Ericsson M600i
Linksys NSLU2 (slugged up but retired)
...
Toxic!
With the brilliant "Marshall Law"
Re: One person at a time
The DRM on the ebook expires
My local library already lends ebooks and it works quite well, there's a limited number of books you can borrow/reserve at one time but you can define how long you would like the book for. The range is quite extensive and new books are being added all the time, although the categories can be a bit esoteric sometimes. The idea that an ebook can only be borrowed by one person at a time seems a bit strange at first, but it kind of makes sense in the library scenario. The eBooks are protected using Adobe DRM and I download & read them using Aldiko on my Android phone/tablet.
Posted in Ten external battery packs
Re: HTC
My Desire HD (running Cyanogen Mod 7.1) can run for two days plus and that includes standard email, twitter, facebook, ebook & music usage. The only thing I do to preserve the battery is to turn wi-fi off when I'm away from home.
Re: Yac Yac Yac
Indeed. I signed up to Yac ("You're Always Connected") when it was free and still have a Personal Number through them. It's very rarely used but I have found it useful for fax and when somebody/site insists on a telephone number but I'm not going to give them a main one.
Re: Where's the custard?
Fish fingers & custard (the fish finger is at the bottom).
Butter
Just say NO!
If the aurora borealis claps and there is nobody to hear it, does it make a sound?
Posted in Fans get date with Lara Croft
Re: Doubts...
I think the operative word is 'reboot', it seems to me this is the start of the road where Lara develops her skills and her confidence.
Posted in Jabra Clipper
You have no imagination.
I use a Sony MW600 to send music from my laptop to the speakers that are on the other side of the room. In fact, I was recently looking to get another one, or similar, as I could do with one for music and one for using as a phone headset and this looks like it would fit the bill.
Posted in Twelve... classic 1980s 8-bit micros
I remember them all. When it came for me to buy a computer for helping my computer studies at school, I had the choice of a BBC-B, a few on this list, a Tatung Einstein (IIRC BBC compatible) and I went for a ... Sharp MZ-700, a machine with hardly any games, character graphics and you had to load the OS from tape every-time you wanted to use it. Mine had the built in tape drive & plotter. But it was £2 cheaper than the BBC-B \:-|
Picasa
I paid to have extra space specifically for my Picasa ($5/year) and according to the new storage plans document (http://support.google.com/drive/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=39567&p=butter_old_storage) I should be able to keep this plan BUT "If your account lapses, your credit card is declined, or you choose to change your storage plan in any way (upgrade or downgrade), you’ll be switched to the new Google storage plan.". I am NOT paying around $30/year for a similar allocation.
My Picasa currently shows I have 21GB available whilst Drive says I have 25600Mb.
Posted in Mobee Magic Numpad
Re: But ...
Imagine you have a large amount of numbers to input, now tap your desk for two hours. That's what using this for data entry would be like.
Is the voice recognition trickery in the Kinect or in the 360? I can't see why this couldn't be achieved using the headset (except for MS trying to sell more Kinects of course).
dammit; "defence"
Looks like we have at least three defense lawyers on the site.
When I go to GroupOn 'Facial Injection Treatments' is the first advert I see, maybe they've tweaked it enough to get around the ASA ruling but it still shouts BOTOX to me.
Posted in TuneIn Radio Pro
Brilliant app
I use it to listen to Czech Punk SKA radio and have never had _any_ problems with the application and don't mind at all that I played full price for it (much)
Posted in iOnRoad Augmented Driving
Seems like a half decent idea but my main problem with this kind of thing (and the huge sat navs that you can get) is the amount of windscreen "real estate" they take up. At least with a sat nav it can be tucked in a corner where it's not going to block the view but having a massive Desire HD (which is what I have as well) stuck in the middle in the screen would hide cyclists, bikers, pedestrians etc.
I might give it a go though if I can site it so the camera can see the road but so can I.
Posted in UltraViolet passes million download mark
Is this the underrated film starring Milla Jovovich or the Channel 4 series about vampires in London?
"good stuff bringing things like Picasa"
And that is why I deleted my Google+ account. I like to tag faces in my Picasa account so that _I_ know who's in what photo, I do not want everybody emailed to say I have tagged them (even when they don't have a G+ account). It looks like you can turn this off in the desktop product but I use the web albums.
"good stuff bringing things like Picasa"
And that is why I deleted my Google+ account. I like to tag faces in my Picasa account so that _I_ know who's in what photo, I do not want everybody emailed to say I have tagged them (even when they don't have a G+ account). It looks like you can turn this off in the desktop product but I use the web albums.
Down vote them all you like, but they're not wrong.
(and this from a committed droid-fan)
Paranoid Much?
If emails are routed through RIM's infrastructure (and I very much doubt it would be as both Apple and Google would not want RIM taking over communication channels on their respective devices) then you can be damn sure it would be encrypted to the same levels as the existing BlackBerry BES devices which _nobody_ (not even RIM) can snoop on. If you are worried about people snooping on your communications then you should be more concerned with your mobile & email service providers!
Posted in Hailo
"You can’t book a cab in advance to pick you up from a specified address", see Kabbee for this feature
It was also confirmed on the forum and nobody mentioned that it's not the official. This makes be glad I won't for a Hannspad instead, especially as the AndyPad reviews haven't been glowing.
Posted in Sony BDP-S380 Blu-ray player with IPTV
And how much does a small USB stick cost? With two USB slots you can stick a small one in the back and forget about it.
Agreed
eBay says the same thing, around £200 seems to be the price people are willing to pay (for the 16Gb model at least). Although I'm not sure at the moment if this is because there is a glut. Once everybody who wants one has one, will the price drop further? If it goes down to £150 I might consider getting one.
MSN Video
It should be noted that some episodes are also available on MSN Video for free; http://video.uk.msn.com/browse/tv-shows/show?tag=doctor+who, although I'm not sure if there are regional restrictions.
Posted in Volvo S60 DRIVe
Quoted For Truth
"That sounds like the world's most stupid system. Drivers who sit at the traffic lights with their foot on the brake, shining their high-intensity brake lights into my eyes should be shot. Unfortunately it's all too common."
Posted in 17 flock to see Gordon Ramsay turkey
the only "big" name?
* Dougray Scott
* Simon Callow
* Peter Bowles
* Lee Boardman
(okay, the last two are pushing the point a bit)
I think they've shot themselves in the foot by featuring the wanker Ramsey so much in the trailer, it seems a fairly standard British rom-com but people will stay away as nobody in their right mind likes Gordon Ramsey.
Good book
I had that book as a kid but I think my parents threw it out (along with all my 'Heavy Metal' books) when I left home :-(
