Posts by pisquee
31 posts • joined Thursday 22nd October 2009 16:27 GMT
Happened to me last week too, on a call to my wife, which while the call was in the ringing stage and waiting for my wife to answer. Could only hear one side of another call, which was short, and then dropped out back to ringing. Couldn't perceive any obvious accent on the girl I could hear (who apparently was still in bed and wanting a cup of tea.) Both me and my wife are on Orange/EE.
How ay
Givvus Geordie man
Frak!
http://www.bbcmicrogames.com/other.html
Not that I like Apple, but this move does seem very un-Apple like, to launch a product which isn't really ready or refined, or as user friendly as most other things they bring out. I wouldn't have imagined they would have realised this 'til it was complete.
So, there seemed to be the plan always of having the warship in the Thames, and the missile launchers on roofs. Then not long before the actual event G4S own up to apparently having failed to employ enough staff - maybe they had, or were told not to, as the government wanted/needed the military and police there instead in case of problems (protesting, rioting, terrorism) and paid off G4S to be the cover-up and scape goat. Maybe the police/military security was planned all along, or maybe was a last minute reaction to new intel on a potential threat - we'll find out in 15 years.
Re: Respect privacy?
A group of schools seem to be the owners of the (01234) 567890 phone number
http://rrmpartnership.org/parents-and-carers/childcare/
There are plenty of alternative electric socket designs they could use to avoid having standard domestic sockets available. Take away the possibility of joe-public being able to plug in, rather than just a sign saying they shouldn't.
Yodel
I tought Yodel, are what was DHL Express?
What I don't understand is the HUGE department store-esque M&Ms World on Leicester Square. Surely this is a prime/expensive location in London and it is a 4/5 storey shop selling t-shirts wth pictures of chocolate beans on them. Is this what the Google and Amazon stores are going to be about?
Posted in 1 euro in every 7 spent on a Visa card
Fraud moving to the internet where Chip and Pin can't help. How about bank issuing some sort of Chip and Pin device to use at home, either standalone like the current ones used with online banking, or one that plugs in to the computer.
Not just car parking spaces, but the roads also haven't got wider in UK's old built up towns with roads designed for horses and carts, or the tiny London roads with cars parked on each side, and only space down the middle of them for one way of traffic, when it is not a one way street. The current bigger cars struggle with these. If cars continue to get wider, there will be streets in UK that are inaccessible to them.
Wasn't Fired!
What caught my attention is that she didn't receive the "You're Fired!" line from Alan, so I was expecting her to be given a job working with Tom on the new project, as they worked together quite well.
Posted in Smart Fortwo Electric Drive e-car
Pedestrians
Apart from on the motorway, pedestrians actually have right of way (in UK), so it is up to you motorists to make sure you don't hit them if they step out into the road without looking. They are there by right, you have to get a licence, insurance, and pay VED (if applicable) for permission to be there.
As for driving this on the motorway, as you said, the speed limit is the limit, you don't have to drive at that speed if you don't want to, just stick to the first lane and you won't be in the way.
For London traffic, this car is probably even too fast, most traffic seems to be in the 10-20 miles per hour range.
RE: Craggy Island
Damn you, beat me to it!
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I would say that he is right, but his reasoning wrong. The amount the artist receives from an iTunes sale is what is killing the industry. You could say I am in the industry, as a sound engineer, and have lots of musician friends. One band I know well, who had a good following, put out an album on iTunes, and they calculated that if their album went platinum, then they would break even!
Yes, music is a business, and people want to make money from it, but the percentages that Apple Computer offer does not work for singer/songwriters/musicians/bands to have a roof over their head, or food on their table.
Stop, don't do it. Please NO!
I am a sound engineer, and after spending time laser measuring a room, to work out the best set up for the speakers, and then acoustically measuring the room to get the best performance from them, the last thing I want is a load of crap tinny phone speakers pointing in random directions at varying volumes over which I have no control.
Posted in Now, Nokia, what about the hardware?
fIXED sPEC
WinPho 7 doesn't have a fixed spec, it has a minimum spec. It's just unfortunate that not many of the current model exceed that minimum yet.
Posted in Dutch get wound up over invisible SMS
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And how exactly would an Android GSM phone stop the network from being able to triangulate your position from the local cell towers?
Posted in McDonalds samples NFC swipe-tech in UK
Burger King
BK Leicester Square has had wireless card payments for month - the staff seemed as surprised and dubious of it all as I was - was first time I had used it, and I guess first time they had seen it used!
No BBC Micro?
Surely ARM and their history should be a feature of this museum. As well as the BBC and eduction side of things. A huge part of the IT history and culture of UK. I would happily donate my BBC B+.
Posted in Altec Lansing Octiv 450 iPad speaker
Watt SPL?
Asking about Watts is the wrong question to be asking.
With Watts you are finding out how much electricity is being sent to the speaker, from there it depends on how efficient the speaker is as to how much sound actually comes out, and this is measured in SPL.
More relevant questions to be asking would be what is the SPL output of the speaker with 1 watt fed to it, measured at 1 meter, ideally with pink noise from 20Hz to 20kHz, rather than a 1kHz sine wave.
Or what is the maximum SPL of the speaker
Posted in Microsoft says no to Kinect sex game
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but killing and assault are OK for a family friendly games and entertainment console?
Battery
Get a Stanley knife and open up the battery, and see what the cells actually are for replacement with modern alternatives.
Chrome
wouldn't be surprised if this is already implemented in some way in Chrome, at least for testing purposes to see if it works, is a viable option etc
Posted in IPVision FetchTV SmartBox 8000 DVR
Smartbox HD
The HD model is available from Tesco now at
http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.208-9147.aspx
for £200
http://www.facebook.com/search/?flt=1&q=Anna+Chapman&o=2048&s=10#!/chapmananya?ref=search
This appears to be her FB page, although not with the photo in the article, but she is wearing the same dress in her photos.
Christmas Number 1
OK, so does this recording beat both RATM and the new XFactor person, as it has been downloaded so many times?!
Posted in Microsoft boots modders off Xbox Live
RE: Why is it called an xbox 360?
If you turn through 360 degrees, you will be facing in the same direction that you were to start with (all other things being equal)
Posted in Facebook enshrines dead people profiles
Admin?
Does the person who reports the death, then have admin rights to the account. I do hope that someone does, and can log into the account to edit things as necessary.
