Posts by Preacher
24 posts • joined Tuesday 9th February 2010 13:16 GMT
Rounded Corners
Is that a certain fruit company's lawyers I hear knocking ?
Re: Wise advice from my gran
My Gran said the same thing, she wasn't taking about babies though.....
UK punters
£45 on Amazon, but delivery estimate sucks - "Usually dispatched within 1 to 2 months"
http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B008U3038I
Re: trying it now
TIFKAM - The Interface Formerly Known As Metro, better name than the original.
Re: the poor orphaned mac pros
That's the price you have to pay for being loyal to the fruit company
Cheap as chips
"..retail prices are £90 for the 1TB drive, £19 for the 2TB one and £159 for the 3TB model."
I'll have a dozen of the 2TB ones please
Re: Well finally....
Actually Apple already complies with EU regulations (and they are regulations) - http://www.tuaw.com/2011/10/04/apple-unveils-dock-to-micro-usb-adapter-to-comply-with-eu-standa/
You can get it one here - http://store.apple.com/uk/product/MD099?mco=MjU5MjAwODM
Sony NEVER learn
"the frame rates depend on territory with 60fps in the US", WTF Sony, crippling features depending on where I live. This is a camera Sony, not one of your useless Blu-ray players.
Posted in Vote now for the WORST movie EVER
One title missing
Ishtar needs to be on EVERY top 10 list of worst films lest we forget just how bad it is, so bad it never even got a DVD release in the US.
Posted in Roku rocks media streamers into UK
Ripoff
I see this is $99.99 in US, so UK is getting the usual 1:1 exchange rate
Posted in Iomega TV with Boxee
Wireless adaptor
"Iomega also throws in a USB adaptor for 802.11n wireless networking", if you're going to include the adaptor why not build wireless into the box in the first place?
it is you who fail Big_Ted
Most intestinal gas is a mixture of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide, very little Methane (if any)
It's all Greek to me
I vaguely remember reading that internal docs at M$ used Greek letter shorthand for Cairo, thus Cai (chi) became X and ro (rho) became p. No idea if it was true or not, but sounds more plausible than "Windows eXPerience".
Posted in TV Guide UK
Sky+ / Tivo
This doesn't appear to have the Sky+ Remote Record or Virgin Tivo function that TVGuide.co.uk app has, poor effort.
French - a law unto themselves
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/e-book-price-fixing-law-passed-france.html
667
664 and 668 are the neighbours of the beast, 667 lives on the other side of the street.
Posted in ICO issues half-baked cookies guidance
A title is required
If only there was a way to track if a user had already visited a site and given their consent...
Posted in Volvo demos automobile auto-pilot tech
Just don't try it in Devon.........
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-12179160
Carlsberg don't do Burger vans
but if we did........
and...
.....stop encoding in H.264. Where would that leave Job's army of fanbois?
hook, line, etc
The point you've completely failed to grasp is these demos DON'T showcase what HTML5 can do, they show (for the most part) what CSS3 can do. Apple is blurring the lines by suggesting CSS3 is part of HTML5, it's not.
Broadband doesn't have to come via a cable
Ever heard of WiMax? It's been used very successfully in Ireland, where Eircom are even worse than BT.
