Posts by Simon_E

Why 250g?

Perhaps because that's the US weight limit for registering drones.

Re: not a real watch anyway

Phosphor goes where? And here I thought GTLS tubes had the coating on the *inside*...

Unless there's a mixup and you're on about old-school Radium-enhanced markers or the newer glow in the dark type? (and the new stuff is impressively bright...)

12 foot-pounds for rifles, 6 for pistols, and apocryphally, that restriction was brought in to protect our existing airgun manufacturers from the effects of all those people wanting to import better and more powerful/efficient German-made ones, back in the early to mid eighteen hundreds.

(He says, unable to actually confirm that through google at the time of writing...)

Re: Bigger fail

Because it lets it out of kiosk mode? Which turns it back into an ordinary rootable phone?

No?

Re: Here's looking at us

It's (probably deliberate) tyop for 'Goldilocks', because aliens.

Re: Just like the Acer Iconia then...

I have one of those still hanging around. Mostly because I don't feel like foisting it on anyone else now the keyboard has become so temperamental as to not work an annoying percentage of the time - and most of the battery is in the keyboard, so I can't really leave it behind...

Re: Storage costs aren't always commutable

There's no such setting on my phone..

And after the kitkat update ate the ability to have an app write to anywhere I told it to on the (external) SD card, I'm left with either using the irritatingly non-syncable MTP to copy things across one directory at a time, or having to unmount and remove the SD card every time I want to copy something straight to, for example, /ExtSdCard/Music/ instead of being able to just press a button or two on my phone and have it all happen automatically courtesy of cheetahsync, or airdroid.

If this carries on, my next phone will probably be the first one without removable storage since the K750i...

Re: Almost perfect

Search the Play Store for LocalCast - it supports UPNP/LNA and SMB. And it's free...

There's AllCast and PlayTo Chromecast, as well, for your local streaming needs.

It rings a faint bell

...and didn't it have a decidedly NSFW counterpart?

The muckier parts of my brain want to have been 69.com, but that seems a bit too obvious.

Re: Being what now?

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/spruik

Spruik (Verb) - To promote a thing or idea to another person.

I'd got the gist from context, but I had to go looking for a proper definition.

same here...

...though that was this morning.

Last night, when I installed it, it told me abcTajpu - an addon with every character and symbol under the sun - wasn't compatible...

Ho hum.

Will Universal Time do?

14:18 UT* (+/- 7 hours), as per

http://spaceweather.com/archive.php?view=1&day=23&month=01&year=2012

*call it GMT if you like...

re: Phone proximity

Been done.

I played around with a bluetooth PC-locking program three or four years ago.

Couldn't get it to _un_lock it automatically, though...

Atlas?

Orion.

...which is the one I always think of first when someone mentions 'NASA' and 'Orion' together.

Icon - Orion flavour (thermo?)nuclear pringles.

@Richard Jukes

...so that'd be a Tom Cruise Missile, then.

Display/phone

I think it's the other way around - It seems to say we'll be plugging our iWhatevers into our Macs and using them as external/secondary displays.

Hmm... Mac Mini + iPad?

@John Smith 19

The drone downlink feed wasn't encrypted in the first place, so that's hardly a fair comparison.