Posts by Robert E A Harvey
2413 posts • joined Sunday 8th October 2006 16:17 GMT
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How could you persuade a judge that it is easy to confuse a tap-n-type toy and a vacuum cleaner?
Posted in John Lewis JL22LCD HD
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I for one welcome our new employee-owned overlords. Once they've done Sofas and Suits and Tellies and Washing machines, how about a John Lewis car?
Never Knowingly Undersealed?
I'll get my fashionable and surprisingly well-made jacket
Posted in Acer CEO whips out iPad rival
trust
would you trust Acer with another linux product after they caved in to M$ on the netbooks? I'd be worried about lack of updates or support
Posted in Technisat HDFS Freesat HD receiver
'ow much Gggrrranville?
My local radio shop, no longer even a tiger member, has a 26" panasonic 720p TV, , with 360g hard disk, dual freeview HD tuner, and DAB radio for only 5 quid more than that. It's got an ethernet port, but that seems not to do nothing not yet.
Why should I care?
This whole funding model invites fraud. They only just noticed.
Odd how they are keen to take action when it hurts their pockets, but have left every product for the last 30 years open to hijacking my computer,
Someone stiffed M$? Shame.
Where is the yawn icon?
Nah
Nah, that's the cooling duct down to the reactor. Don't you know anything about narrative arcs and story imperatives?
obvious, innnit?
That's what submarines have done to dive for the last century.
I had to laugh
$MEGACORP's latest laptop image had autorun turned on, and because they enforce the image settings every time I logged onto the company network it got turned back on again.
Oh how I laughed.
Agree with all that...
except "Pay the penalty, get refund later on proof of purchase."
Who refunds penalties in this miserable world?
iPud
I hope the scanners will be big enough to get an iPud under them.
L U E
I'm waiting for 42.42.42
Expenses
"though we're still working out how one gets an accounts-department-acceptable receipt printed out."
For as long as I've been claiming expenses, in many $MEGACORP, bridge tolls, rail fares and bus fares have been claimable on trust. Even the inland revenue don't expect reciepts for train fares, as long as you can demonstrate to have been at both ends of the journey in some casual way.
Old news, Old nes
uk.rec.sheds discussed this in February, and decided then in was oblox. The thread, if you care to search for it, was uniquely titled "Unique".
Do try to keep up at the back.
I'll get me coat. We use them in the shedde as well. Mine probably smells of creomite.
Stanstead
Stanstead has a proud banner saying that they processed 5.8 million people and identified 120 "threats" to the UK.
I'd issue threats if I was at the back of a queue of 5.8 million people.
Mines the one with "All coppers are ..." in lead foil letters inside the lining
you were lucky!
I got
"PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 01D9E0A6"
But
Scuse me Egon? You said crossing the synergies was bad!
No
"because someone can use your product for bad, illegal uses, doesn't inherently make that product bad."
Maybe, although that seems irrelevant here.
What made limewire bad was all the junk it installed on kids computers. I nearly made a living cleaning up after it.
Posted in Samsung NX10
Very very tempted
But I am a bit concerned about investing in a new, tied-in, single-source lens mount. If we could be sure that 3rd party lenses and adaptors were to be available, then I'd be scaring the moths from me wallet now.
The results from your sample shots verge on stunning
Posted in Election 2010: The sillier options
ouch
I tried swinging both ways once.
I really does yer back in.
I've only Twat twice
A fiend of mine points out that the past participle of 'twit' is probably 'twat'. SInce I was boss-bullied into signing up on Twitter I have preciesely two postings, one of which was to find out what would happen. So I've only twat twice.
Posted in Intel wades into smartphone wars
Umm.
Did you really mean 'hottest'? Shouldn't that be the main thing they are trying to avoid?
Posted in Jobs: One million iPads sold
How very odd
4 upvotes, 4 downvotes? Will this lead to a sort of matter-antimatter anihilation, and will that power the reg. servers for a million years?
It's good to be even handed. Perhaps I should become a LIberal Democrat.
Posted in Jobs: One million iPads sold
No
"Jobs sitting in Dr. Evil's chair, saying"
Saying "There are one million. Now turn on the embeded Thought Wave Modulators. One Million Minions are MINE to command. Ha Ha Ha "
Ogg?
IRTA 'Nanny Ogg' and got confudled.
Hang on a minute
I'd have expected OFCOMM to have a list of premium numbers already. How on earth do people get a number, if no-one is keeping records?
Innovation good
We've had WIMP interfaces since the 1980s. Where is the next big paradigm shift?
Where is my talking computer? When will I be able to thought-link to it? Why can't I log in by holding a power ring up to the green lantern? or by blinking at the camera in morse code?
Random thought waves
All of this makes me realise how clever the Victorians were, when every household had several anti-maccasars
Mine's the one with the Rowland's stains on the collar.
Limits
I have a lifetime ipud limit. It will never be exceeded. It can be expressed in terms of fundamental numbers as 1+ e^(pi * i)
old story
Alistair Cook told a WW2story of an old man ignoring all the regulations at an airstrip in the USA. Just striding out, getting into an airplane, and flying off. No log book checks, no flight plan, no pre-checks.
When Cooke commented on it his host said: 'yep. He ain't got no pilots licence neither.'.
Cooke asked why he was flying then.
'That's Orville Wright. Ain't no-one got the cheek to ask him to sit a test'.
Posted in Nokia: digital SLRs are doomed
And in other news
The availability of the Sinclair C5 causes Aston Martin, Morgan, and Range rover to go out of business.
Posted in Police send Reg hack CRB check database
this is the title
#or, indeed, the bosses who did not provide training about data security and encryption
robot takes to Welsh skies!
It's dustproof then?
Posted in Jobs to iPad skeptic: 'Are you nuts?'
Of course he's nuts...
...he is trying to buy an ipud
Mine's the one with the one without the oversized pocket.
Posted in Police send Reg hack CRB check database
Gail Foley
The existence of a “senior manager of public confidence” is a very good reason not to have any confidence
title
I'dhave thought anything that brought a charge would be welcome
Posted in Sky posts 3D TV pub finder
yep
That was my thought. Oh goody - a handy list of unattractive dives
Posted in iPad apps flood Apple's App Store
still the most pointless title requirement
Yes, I agree. But now people can buy pointless apps for their pointless box.
Posted in Woman finds Romanian living in shed
no no no
"the Mail is pandering to its readers' petty xenophobia"
s/petty/olympic grade/
well quite
I've never heard of them.
Posted in Nips slip past Apple censors
Oh?
Quite a lot of classical statues have a todger in full view. I wonder if those would be OK?
camera car
I want that photo to have come from Google Streetview. Please say it is so.
Paris, because all of this gossip and twittering (in the old sense) is not about IT it is about fame.
This has to stop
How the blue blistering blazes can a patent be granted or enforced if it is applied for after the products being complained of came to market?
Posted in LG InTouch Max GW620
well quite
And in the same manner, I'm sure an LED can output far more light in a short burst than it could cope with continuiously.
Bad taste
Your cow with the flaming flatulence was in extremely bad taste indeed.
Good show, keep it up.
yes
Good effort lads.
Posted in SanDisk flips out 32GB mobile phone card
sansa clip
I'm sure it would look very nice in my sansa clip mp3 player. Or my Safa R700C recorder.
oh look, there is such a thing as a VTec MD80 Micro Digital Video Camera. That uses micro sd
Posted in Office IT: One size doesn't fit all?
Oh what a surprise
Yes.
You forgot the biggest failure - not asking the user what they need the computer FOR.
I am a commissioning engineer. I have to programme PLCs and HMIs that imply I need a laptop with RS232 or parallel ports. But the IT department does not know that, even though they have had to re-order my last 3 laptops. Making the same mistake twice is stupid, but making it 3 times because of over-rigid centralisation is just a waste of perfectly good money.
My latop is a spanner. I fill it up with software to talk to programmable controllers, compilers, devices to configure drives and motors, and to talk to stacks of instruments. When I then call for tech support because my email stops working I don't want all that lot deleting by remote services "because it is unsupported"
