Posts by KjetilS 367 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Dec 2009
You have to ask the studios for that answer.
If Netflix could, they would make available every show and movie known to man to every subscriber on the planet, but the studios won't let them.
So replace most instances of "Netflix" with "the studios" in your rant, and it's probably correct.
I wonder if Paul Smith is using a Norwegian keyboard layout...
"Eleventh Doctor Matt Smith’s expected departure in this year’s Christmas Special will mean heÆll fall just short of Tenth Doctor David Tennant’s tenure, (...)"
The Æ and ' is next to each other on the Norwegian standard keyboard layout.
It is superior to all other layouts, so I can't blame him ;)
Atleast on Jelly Bean you can tag WiFi connections as being a mobile hotspot, which will make Android treat it as a mobile connection, and not a regular WiFi connection.
Settings -> Data usage -> (options key) -> WiFi zones for mobile
(Translated from my native language, so sorry if the option names are wrong)
MS gift standards to the world (OOXML)
Ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
Oh wait, you're serious.
OOXML was a rushed job to stop OpenOffice getting a foothold in the public sector, and they even had to fill the standards committee with their own "partners" in order to force it through.
On the part of it being a "standard", not even Microsoft's own software follows the spec.
To quote The Science of Discworld
"It may not be politically correct to say so, but most primitive humans did as much environmental damage as their puny technology would allow. When humans came to the Americas from Siberia, by way of Alaska, they slaughtered their way right down to the tip of South America in a few tens of thousands of years, wiping out dozens of species – giant tree sloths and mastodons (ancient elephants, like mammoths but different), for example. The Anasazi Indians in the southern part of today’s USA cut down forests to build their cliff dwellings, creating some of the most arid areas of the United States. The Maoris killed off the moas. Modern humans may be even more destructive, but there are more of us and technology can amplify our actions. Nevertheless, by the time humans were able to articulate the term ‘natural environment’, there wasn’t one. We had changed the face of continents, in ways big and small."
it's worth remembering that a replacement case was promised, and demonstrated, for the Galaxy S3 but never materialised - we asked Samsung if the S3 case will ever be available, but the company isn't saying.
Samsung did make one, but for Verizon only, iirc. There is also a bunch of third party ones available on ebay, Amazon and other places. The third party ones are usually Qi compatible.
Once upon a time, Acer actually made good, reliable laptops with good performance for a reasonable sum of money.
These days, they seemed to have changed that strategy to making the cheapest possible kit, no matter how many corners they had to cut to do it.
I might consider them again some time in the future, if they start making laptops that doesn't fail with the black screen of death as soon as you sneeze too close to them.
These days I'd go for Asus or a Thinkpad instead, depending on the price range.
Based on someones mention further up, I installed TT-RSS on my server, and it's quite good actually. Almost as good as Reader.
Looks aren't too different from Google Reader, and you can import the xml that Google gives you, so no need to re-enter feeds.
There's also an Android app (there might be one for iOS as well, i haven't looked) that works. It isn't as good as the Googly one, but it's good enough, imho.
FTTP/H (fibre directly to the premiss/house) very rare and costs a lot of money
I wouldn't say it needs to be.
Our local ISP has been doing this for a few years now, and their prices are very reasonable imho.
They charge £450-500 to connect you to the cabinet, and that includes pulling fibre from the cabinet to your house and wiring up the fibre-to-ethernet adapters.
People in the UK might think the monthly cost is steep (~£55/month for 25/25mbps, ~£65 for 60/60mbps and ~£115 for 100/100mbps), but they DO deliver that speed continously, both on and off peak hours, and it's not THAT much more expensive that a good DSL package.
After he made his opinions perfectly clear, it is probably for the best if we just let him fade into obscurity.
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