Re: A pen anyone

Then you can record it on the Notes App on your iDevice. I usually do that as I don't have a pen with me.

Re: Simpsons Tapped Out comes to mind....

Satnav apps generally download maps separately from the app. I guess it is OK if it is data it is downloading rather than executable code.

Re: Beats are trash ....

I always test out the bass of any speaker or headphones with this track - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUsrMm7BaU4

If you listen to it on Beats headphones, as I have done in PC World, the bass is just completely missing. I guess the main difference between my test track and a lot of tracks is that the bass is a 32ft bombarde playing a tune rather than a percussion instrument.

The Beats headphones weren't the worst, but they weren't particuarlly brilliant. I found no correlation whatsoever between price and sound quality in their headphone range.

Re: The way to avoid the tax is to spend the money in the US

The way to avoid tax is probably to *buy* a large chunk of the remaining 55% stake that Verizon owns, then sell it; so they can claim substantial shareholding relief.

Re: Email account password probably "very important"

... it means that like everyone else, her entire online life is secured by a 4 digit PIN.

Re: Stop using postcodes

Co-ordinates would be fine for navigation, but post codes are for Royal Mail's benefit.

For example, if you wanted to send and old fashioned letter to Vulture Central, the first letters of the post code WC would tell them which distribution centre to deliver it to, the next bit 2H would tell them the local delivery office, and the final bit 7LT would tell them which postie's bag to put it in.

Telecoms is definitely better now than when the post office owned it. Now it works most of the time, and it is much cheaper. Local calls used to cost 10p per minute in 1980s money (about 43p now), and long distance calls were considerably more expensive.

Re: "Freakishly Something". Dunno About Awesome Though...

Access doesn't run that we'll on Wine, and that is the only bit of MS Office that LibreOffice isn't an effective replacement for. I can't really think of any reason why you would run MS Office on Wine rather than LibreOffice.

Re: @Adair From what I've heard previously...

My understanding is that Microsoft make more money from royalties on iOS and Android than they do from Windows Phone.

Patents I'm aware of are Long filename support in vfat, iDevices might use it in the camera connection kit, but not otherwise. Androids that have SD card slots use it. The other one I know of is Activsync. iDevices, and a lot of Androids support it.

Re: NIB's are filler. Analysis is killer.

As far as I can gather, Virgin Media operates only in the UK and Liberty operates in lots of EU countries, but not the UK. Therefore there is nobody who currently has a choice between Virgin and Liberty, and therefore no competition concerns.

Re: I wonder...

Everyone with an android has a g+ account. Doesn't mean they use it as the Oompa Loompas intended.

Re: Every so often a market develops around something improbable

Intrinsic value relates to the benefits you receive from owning it, not the effort involved in producing it.

If you own a house, you can live in it, or you can rent it out.

If you have Uranium, you can put it into a nuclear power station and get electricity, you can make a bomb out of it and scare people into doing what you want them to do or you can use it in medial equipment.

If you have Beanie Babies, you might enjoy looking at them or playing with them, or have a child who likes them.

Again with tulips, you might enjoy looking at them

You can use gold to make pretty looking things to wear, or for electrical contacts and so on.

That is the intrinsic value. Regardless of how much effort is involved in making a bitcoin, you can't do anything useful with an actual bitcoin, just trade it for something else. Therefore it has no intrinsic value.

Re: UK already has an open map

No, Apple got their maps from TomTom, and seemingly a very ancient version of it.

Re: Not sure when Google last prevented me from viewing Streetmap, though

If you type "streetmap" into Google, streetmap.co.uk comes up as the first search result. The second search result is a link to this article. I see they now have slippy tiles like Google, so it doesn't take forever to navigate round the map like it used to. However, they don't show bus stops, the times of the next buses from those bus stops, or any of the other useful things you get on a Google map, so I'm not going to return to them.

Google provides a better product, customers move to that new supplier. Seems like competition is working exactly as it should.

Re: will they be archiving all the .uk pr0n sites?

They already have a huge porn collection. Yes, they will definitely archive them.

Re: practicalities

But if, like The Times for example, they offer passwords to access the website in exchange for a monthly payment, then the work has been published, and the British Library can ask for a free account.

It is being done so that future historians don't call this the second dark ages.

It may be hard to believe, but historians in 500 years time will be extremely interested in your tweets of what you had for breakfast and so on.

Re: Beano

Because our copyright libraries benefit for free handouts of Irish books under their copyright law.

Anything before the HTC HD2 probably wasn't fast enough to have bounce animations.

Re: @Eradicate

Most computer graphics is done on Macs, and they are the ones that will be checking to see if the website looks good on the screen.

Re: @ecofeco Umm, no! Leccy? No!!

Well Iceland is a possible candidate, it is about 100% geothermal at the moment.

Re: Leccy? No!!

The early phase development of electric cars was before the internal combustion engine was invented and they were cometing with steam, which had a similar range to electric, but took a lot longer to warm up.

Re: Good on 'em

I think the main thing is that Halal / Kosher is more expensive than loading the animals onto a conveyor belt that feeds them into an automated killing / butchering machine.

Re: Whoooosh!

I have white buttons on the walls to control my lights, and will continue to use them until I find a more user friendly solution. An iPhone / Android app is not more user friendly, and lights with a mind of their own are likely to be annoying.

LED bulbs are now about half-way there, and improving all the time. Give it another couple of years and I think we will have > 1000 lumen bulbs that are a reasonable size and don't require you to remortgage your house.

Re: Certainly not acceptable

The kidney machine will have a battery backup. Maybe the light in the porch isn't that important. Mine is on a motion detector / timer switch and turns off after a couple of minutes. Lights in rooms where you are doing things are important though and the children could trip over things and cause themselves serious injuries if the lights were to go off without warning.

Re: so you really

I have an off-peak circuit which is switched on between midnight and 7am every day. It has storage heaters and an off-peak water heater attached to it. Something like this could allow them to have more granular control over the off-peak devices in their area and avoid a surge in power demand at midnight.

Re: Suboptimal surveying techniques

You only need to file a VAT return if you are a business with a turnover of more than £77k per year. Your customers who actually pay the VAT only need to worry about finding the extra 20% on the selling price to buy your stuff.

Re: USA, Land of the Slightly Free...

Who benefits from this? Their main competitor is Cisco, an American company, and I suppose Erricson from Sweden.

Re: Gemini should...

File | Account | Office Theme | Light Gray[sic] or Dark Gray[sic] will do the trick as far as the washed out look is concerned.

Re: I'm waiting for...

I do, if I need it now rather than next week, or if it is something that is so cheap that waiting around for it to be delivered isn't worth the saving.

Re: Spamhous must really be hurting those parasites

My static ip from O2 was on the pbl, but I filled in the form to have it removed, and it was removed in about 30 mins.

Re: I forget...

Doesn't matter. Whatever it is, when you move your head, it will move with it.

Re: Windows 8 or just Windows Hate?

But I think Windows 8 is a whole different kind of disaster to Vista.

Microsoft got from Vista to 7 by improving things they started in Vista, and perhaps more importantly, by the time 7 came out, most applications were designed to run with restricted security permissions.

In that respect, Vista was a necessary step on the road to Windows 7.

Windows 8 is a disaster in the same way that Microsoft Bob was, except that at least with Bob, you could delete it and use the proper interface. That isn't so easy with Windows 8.

Re: As odd as it sounds

Apple isn't falling, it is growing slower than the market as a whole, which is not the same thing. The stock price has fallen due to a reduction in forecast future growth prospects.

App stores and start menus are not mutually exclusive, there is no reason why you can't have both.

Re: I forget...

Well the thing is, I hardly ever actually look at the satnav while I'm driving. It is mounted on the corner of my windscreen, and I glance over to it when I'm approaching a junction I think I might need to turn at. With google glass, it is going to be in your field of vision all the time.

Re: Think I'll wait for Windows 9

The mouse works perfectly. Windows 8's response to mouse interactions on the other hand ...

Re: @LarsG

My point is that compared to UK general elections, there is very little campaigning for Euro elections.

Re: Is their year end

They are an American company, their year end is December. Not that many countries in the world have March year ends. The only ones I'm aware of are UK, India and Japan.

Re: @LarsG

The last election was 2009, and campaign contributions were approximately zero, or at any rate around the same as for a parish council election, and a bit more than for a police commissioner election.

Re: A little bit I don't mind

If I'm following this correctly, it will be filmed with a generic car which will transform itself into a Ford / Ferarri / Tata Nano depending on what it thinks your demographic is.

Re: Coming to a wallet near you...

They would get the money from users in the same way that all other credit card cos do, by doing credit checks and having direct debit mandates.

Re: Say what?

Presumably in the same way that it was owned by the Queen before the handover and all land in England is owned by the Queen today. For all practical purposes, the private "owners" do actually own it, just like in for example Scotland.

Re: Same old same old....

Anchor used to be made from New Zealand milk, but it is now made from English milk.