Posts by Robert E A Harvey
2414 posts • joined Sunday 8th October 2006 16:17 GMT
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@illiad
But buying the phone won't mean you don't need a house any more, surely? It's not an alternative, it's an extra.
Re: Back of the envelope
>Do these vehicles allow for the dissipation of 10kW of heat
Toast 12 slices of bread in one go?
Up for that!
@Lost all Faith
Oh Aye.
Back to PoE then.
IT angle
This may displace the claims of the Power over Ethernet people that their socket is the only 'power outlet' which is the same in every country on earth.
vertical res looks awesome
"awesome" is a funny way of describing something worse than I had in 2004. Should be twice that by now, and 768 on the 700 quid one is a hell of an insult
Public sector
So, they overspend by 100%.
Who got the sack?
"The demand is there for Windows Phone"
Where?
Re: Whats the point?
>at least those in charge will have fewer plausible excuses when they get it wrong.
They won't care. They have no shame.
Re: Lets keep this in perspective
>I don't know ANYONE with a Windows Phone, not personally, or in the tech sector,
> it's become a laughing stock.
And yet, tiles have been such a magnificent success that the flagship desktop product is adopting them.
Hmm.
Fail, MS, fail.
Linux
Time for the penguin.
Oh well
At least it can't be described as a cock-up.
Oh. So you need a bigger one of it to check it?
Research funds, lads!
Posted in Nikon recalls camera batteries
rationally engaging in discussion?
Ah. Right. OK then.
Is that /every/ day?
Easy
Australia worked out OK.
How about being the labour force for Asteroid Mining?
Re: Apple bitten.
but why wait until now? I'm using an 8 year old Draenetz power analyser with a touch screen. Did he sue them 8 years ago? or the Estate Agents who 15 years ago had touch sensitive overlays on shop windows with a 'puter screen indoors to let you browse the houses available?
If I was to award him damages I would want him to show he has taken every step to protect his patent ever since it was granted, not wait for a fine crop of cherries to pick.
Re: Liquid Metal
how do you know he was the last one?
Re: 11 Million
Nah.
It just means that the next someone who wants to use it will have, to buy the lads out of the apple agreement. Have to keep the lawyers busy you know, otherwise they will start working on the rest of us.
Re: Face to face
I've twice had to lay off my entire staff, and always told them face to face, even when it meant driving round the country at my own expense to do so.
In one job it was obvious we were being shut down, and the boss asked me how to do it. I replied "Whenever I have had to write a list of names I have always put my own at the top", explaining that you need to be able to look people in the face when sending them home. "Jah" he said, "Dat is gud advice". He went and wrote a list and put my name at the top.
Posted in Ten... Satnavs to suit all budgets
Info please
So how do these compare with using a tablet?
ipud pricing, I reckon
Re: Game over already
I cannot praise Campkins or University Cameras in Cambridge enough.
Tom Dennis or London Camera Exchange in Lincoln too.
You need somewhere like that.
The other way
Ah yes.
Sensible prices, up-to-date stock, honest and knowledgeable staff and good customer service.
Do you think it might catch on?
Re: Tesco ? No thanks
Trading standards. Sale of goods act. Directive 1999/44/EC. Woof.
If they still weasel, local newspapers, facebook, twitter. There is no excuse for this sort of bollocks.
If they still carry on, they will go the same way as Dixons, and no greater loss either.
Re: A shame in one sense
There is a tiny little mobile phone shop in our tiny little town where I can by a USB cable for under 2quid on a sunday or a microSD card for online prices.
We have a 2-man computer shop that repairs old base stations and will sell you a hard disk for the same price as amazon if challenged. You want a 700 quid i7 with a terrabyte disk and stupid amount of ram? be ready for you tomorrow morning sir. and, no, you don't have to have it with Windows.
They had 70 quid android tablets in the window 2 years ago.
Re: @Alan Firminger: There's truth in both camps
There is a little local hi-fi shop in Stamford that is run by a handful of blokes who know exactly what they are talking about. They will show you all sorts of entertainment stuff working together in the shop, deliver it to yer house and connect it all up - including taking a brick cutter to the wall, burying the cables, and skimming and painting the wall afterwards.
If something doesn't work, they make it work. If a customer says "it doesn't work" their first assumption is that the customer is right, not an idiot. If something stops working they are usually there within the hour, and will only charge you for new parts, not their time.
They sold the first Plasma TV I ever saw, routinely install DLNA systems, and will sell you a linux micropowered server instead of leaving a PC on all day. Their first love is hifi, not 7.1, and certainly not oxygen-free cables with arrows on the side. Go in for a DAB radio and they will try to persuade you to stick to FM unless it is clear there are stations you know you want.
They have been in business more than 30 years and I expect them to be there in 30 years time.
Curry and Dixon both moved out of the high street in recent years. There is one of the megashedds on a nearby estate, but I don't know which one as I have never been in it, and judging by the car park no-one else has either. When we had the snow that end stayed unsullied till the thaw.
letterbox screens?
They won't be selling one to me as long as they insist I only need 600 or 700 vertical pixels.
Give me a 12" one with the same number of dots per inch as modern phones and I will have their hands off, mind.
Mcdonald
... or just eat the phone.
Posted in Hands on with the Nikon D3200 DSLR
affordable
in the US at $700 including a lens, seems very attractive.
Posted in Punters want BBC iPlayer in TVs, not 3D
waste of money
why run the survey? why did they not just read el-reg forums?
this is why I read El Reg
See, this is possibly the most important bit of news this week, and certainly the most exciting. And none of the 'big' web sites are covering it.
Presumably because it is not about football, or illustrated with a candid nap of an x-factor judge's gusset.
Can I offer...
... this:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/all-three-versions-will-be-shit,-promise-microsoft-201204185136/
"...One major development is the absence of the 'Start' button, which was removed on the grounds it gave people the impression that something may actually happen...."
Posted in Toshiba Regza 46YL863 46in Smart TV
no no no
I'm 62. I' d have to change me specs to shift my view from the middle to the edge.
Posted in Ten... Bedroom Gadget Treats
Last picture
The last picture is deeply scary and reminds me of something from 'the prisoner'
Questionable management
"this is probably the first time the company had got into the cellular phone business "
Probably?
He's the President of the company and he doesn't know for definite?
What else are they doing he's not told them about?
The real point
How do you miss a bug as big as that?
Not testing? or maybe they have a fleet of internal malcontents who would not bother doing anything about it if they did find out?
Either way, it is a management failure.
And yes, the response is uncharacteristically swift - but that should not engender praise: it is exactly the sort of response one ought to be able to expect.
@DrXym
Are you saying it is supposed to look stupid? or just that it looks stupid?
Posted in How can you omit freefall?
How can you omit freefall?
Ok, I'm a bit in love with Florence, but you got to admit this bloke must be drawn from life:
http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff2200/fc02174.png
I tried reactos, but at the time hardware support was poor and very few applications (e.g. Serif ones) would even install. Not bothered recently.
Posted in Eight... Rugged Cameras
Pentax Optio WG-2
So was the weird shape a good idea or a bad one? easier to use or awkward?
[big question mark icon]
Posted in HTC One X Android smartphone
@Rebajas
Well, quite.
I just had a 'chat' consultation with a Dell salesdroid who confirmed the highest resolution they offer is 1920x1080, and that on top end devices. He said that people were "choosing lower resolution over other advantages" although how much choice is actually available escapes me.
So will Make's customers suddenly discover they can only order via a web site, and that what is delivered will have two parts of the original order missing? And customer service will tell them they never ordered them in the first place?
Posted in HTC sues fans for premature unboxing
Ye glods and green things!
It's only a phone, lads, only a phone.
Why are the children so excited about filming it coming out of its box?
And why the blue blistering barnacled blazes are HTC getting so bent out of shape. They make hundreds of phones. If they hadn't said we would not have know n it was not last years!
Suits me.
I bet it will run xBuntu.
Sod the size
Can it address LCDs with more than 1080 pixels?
"Really, there's no need for that kind of filth here"
Oh damn.
I've obviously been reading the headlines wrong for the last 8 years thenn
Posted in Vote now for the WORST movie EVER
Interesting
Phantom Menace, while not out in front, is currently beating The Happening. Which means that M Lite shamalamdingdong's worst stinker is better than Spielberg's worst stinker.
Which does not mean that Emm Line Shawaddywaddy is a better director than Steve, does it? Does it?
Re: Wrong day
Thing is, I'm so disinterested in Rim now, I don't care what the stories say, true, enemy action , or spoof.
You do the hokey kokey and..
