Posts by Robert E A Harvey
2413 posts • joined Sunday 8th October 2006 16:17 GMT
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Perjorative
Don't understand the 'turd garden' reference. Ultimately /all/ gardens are turd gardens.
shock horror
Places where interferrence is unlikely because of channel allocation plan suffers no interferrence!
So, that's the laws of physics confirmed again. Well done.
Posted in Review: HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook
Re: 1366 x 768 screen ?????
That is the one thing putting me off this now.
Great Britain and Australia can successfully ban guns because they are island nations.
really?
How did the IRA get theirs then? How do a few thousand people and industrial quantities of heroin get in every year?
am I strange?
I welcome a few hours without gadgets.
Re: The real reason they want them turned off
I find it odd that they make you take off headphones at the end of a flight 'so you can hear the announcements', but they don't wake up anyone slumbering at that point.
Hmm
Why not treat the phone contract like hire-purchase. Once its paid off it's yours and you can do what you like with it.
And, while we (they) are enacting freedom, lets make it illegal to force you to buy widnoz with a 'puter. Then we will see you enacting from principle, not vested interest.
Re: A journey of 1000 miles begins with one step. ~ Lao Tzu
Absolutely. Start running the company yourself, not letting foreign corporations run it for you. Take yer own decisions!
Tell you what, Ray
here's what you need to do:
1. use a decent screen resolution, worthy of the second octile of the 20th century. Not x768, not x1080. We don't all want wide screen TVs, some of us want a computer.
2. Either a minimum of 4 USB ports (all USB3, of course) or ship with a wireless mouse so we don't lose a USB all the time to a plug-in for a mouse. You could offer an optional wireless optical drive too, while you are at it. And 4 USB anyway.
3. Bluetooth. And Let us bung a SIM card in for connectivity if we want, too. My Dell mini-10 cost less than £200 and has bluetooth, sim slot, camera and microphone all built in. You could throw in a bluetooth earpiece too, that parks inside the case or wall-wart for storage and charging.
4. Use bog-standard memory and hard disk interfaces so we can upgrade when we want. It's our sodding computer. It doesn't have to be as thin as a sheet of cardboard. If it is, it will probably break. Oh, and a plug-in battery so I can change/upgrade it later when its knackered and the 'puter isn't.
5. SD card slot. Full-depth. So I can leave a card in all the time if I want. Better yet, two of them.
6. Firewire. Thunderbolt. HDMI. VGA adaptor cable in the box or as an option. Ethernet, or adaptor cable in the box.
7. Touchpad with buttons, not the-corners-are-the-buttons. Adjustable sensitivity for 'tapping', including OFF. (as in FRO?)
8. One of those wall-warts with plug adaptors based on a figure-8 mains adaptor, so we can swap them or use a longer cable if we want. Oh, and stick 1 or 2 USB headers on the wall-wart so I can also use it to charge some other stuff from the one socket in the hotel room.
9. Touch screen if you must but not as an excuse for charging a thousand quid. Meh.
10. As others have said, A CHOICE OF SODDING OPERATING SYSTEMS. Not one rammed down our throats like a randy Geordie lasses tongue on a saturday night, all fags and curry, leaving a nasty aftertaste.
the PR people need to go to the same place as all the lawyers.
The B ark ?
Re: Unfortunately for Microsoft...
Nor The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/steve-ballmer-the-boss-who-bet-his-company-on-windows-8--and-lost-as-computer-giant-announces-biggest-product-uturn-since-new-coke-8605776.html
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
Re: "Microsoft honcho pleads with media: 'Stop picking on us!'"
Tell you what, Honcho, ship 8.1 AND 7 and tell us which people buy.
Oh
The hunt for 'the god particle' is over. Now we are looking for 'merlin matter'?
Fix that for you
s/irrelevant/hatstand/
Re: Kids should NOT be allowed.
>At what age do Humans begin to make 'rational decisions'?
I can only give you my own experience:
about alchohol - 23
about sex - maybe 25
about tool purchasing - 45
about going into SPACE - I'm 62 & I wanna go NOW! - call it, oh, 106?
it's SPACE!!!
Good man
I fasted for a week for Christian Aid in 1974. Drunk water & black tea. It can be done. Kept working too, though I stopped driving after 3 days.
I might do it again some time.
Re: only made it to suffolk?
He said "third world" not "stone age"
Posted in Ten Windows tablets
It's 2013
No-one is getting /any/ money from me, /no matter what/ if it says 1366 x 768 on the box.
Re: "Microsoft has a diametrically different view about verticals than Google,"
>a tick box to specifically remove price comparison sites
Oh yes. And vacuous -strings-of-towns- ones. (http://www.britevents.com/whats-on/lincolnshire/guthram-gowt/?category=theatre etc.)
@AC 16:38
>In this analogy, the payday lender is the financial equivalent of a sex offender.
but that's true, although the sex offender may have some shreds of empathy with the victim.
£13M?
We could have had a couple of funerals for that!
Winkelvoss?
So we can stop feeling sorry for them for bumming out in Farcebuk?
tracks left by the Martian Tripods yet?
Nah. That'd be a million-to-one surely?
Re: Like for like
>Linux-hostility from teachers
They are a weird bunch, aren't they?
A couple of years ago someone on here recounted the tale of his kid's IT teacher saying "No-one uses keyboard shortcuts." I asked around, and the schools round here thought that too.
Re: @gcarter 12Apr13 21:42
>Also because it was practically impossible to get hold of a
> netbook with built in 3G, Bluetooth etc. etc.
My Dell mini-10 has both. Shame that Dell never took the product line forward. Cost me £189 with ubuntu, and the only thing wrong with it is the hideous x600 vertical resolution - which they kept a deadly secret when they sold it.
TomTom
I sort of don't mind correcting google 'cos its free. TomTom, however....
Dissapointed
No pics of short chaps in cowls carrying bits away as scrap!
Skegness got there first!
Havn't we seen this before? Sounds like Zoltar!
http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f185/quadrophan/zoltar.jpg
Oh? Streetview cars have human drivers?
iRing
....to rule them all?
So
55% is not a high enough proportion to indicate confidence.
Are you listening Uhuru Kenyatta? David Cameron? François Hollande? Angela Merkel?
(Tony Bliar, John Major...
Says 'large-scale architectural changes' coming
I read the subheadingas Says 'large-scale agricultural changes' coming and wasn't pariticulary startled, the way words get suborned in this business.
Re: definition of a fork...
How many tines does a pitchfork traditionally have?
Sad now
It's not often that two of yer favourite authors die simultaneously.
Good man, Enjoy what's left, eh?
'ang on
I'm missing something here. Ever since the 60s 'Nimble' has been a starch reduced bread. 'Proactive Wellness' would appear to be what they have been about all along.
Does Birmingham have a direct flight to London?
I do hope not. That would undermine HS2
this place is the back of beyond
...But the beer is fantastic!
Re: Good summary
Yes, I like Skylon. Good luck to the lads.
Good summary
I enjoyed that. If only the UK had kept up our own programme...
Let me see
The PC makers is building what Microsoft and Intel tell them to build and no-one is buying like they used to.
Maybe they should stop letting two geriatric corporations take all their management decisions for them and start building their own product? Be innovative, creative, and differentiate their offerings from each other?
Posted in Review: Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2
life is getting simple again
"Windows 8" == "not worth it" on an increasing sample size.
Re: Can't remember the last time I saw a corporate laptop
$MEGACORP supplies Fujitsu. I don't think those would sell at all outside the 'order 5000 doorstops for the troops' style of buying. A Medion would be better value for money, if it had the capital-asset-over-the-network chips, or the smartcard reader.
Umm.
I got accused elseforum of being a luddite for suggesting that "not wearing google glass while driving" was a sensible precaution.
I don't fancy your chances much with this idea! But yet, mysteriously, no such charge has been raised...
Posted in Want faster fibre? Get rid of the glass
Re: Umm, minor point
Yes, true. But propagation factor is defined as the ratio to c, the speed of light in vacuo.
PS: someone will now out-pedant both of us!
Memory
I distibctly remember the gubblement explaining that BT had to be privatised because only the private sector could fund all the future investment. the gupplemunt did not have that sort of cash, they said.
Well...
...I think it's a sensible precaution. We have no idea how badly it will affect driving, which is bad enough already. No-ome has neede one to drive a car for the last 115 years, so let's try and do without it, eh?
Posted in Review: Renault Zoe electric car
Hmm.
You will need to do a lot of miles per month for the fuel saving to swamp the £70 battery lease.
Hmm. Need to do a lot of miles per month in a vehicle with 70 mile range....
Hmmmm.
Re: There's nothing right about Expensive
I got burned on trying to return a defective HP phone, and will never buy again.
Posted in Review: Sony Xperia Z
Err...
"go like a privy door when the plague’s in town"
Mixed metaphor of the month?
