* Posts by Gary Wood

5 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2010

People-powered Olympic shopping mall: A sign of utter tech illiteracy

Gary Wood
Happy

I've had a brilliant idea

Why doesn't the government bung this company, say, £100bn of our electricity bills to fit a strip of these tiles along all of the railway lines in the country. Trains are big and heavy so they'll generate so much energy that they can power the trains with them! And have enough left to power some of those windmills polluting the countryside so they'll look nicer by spinning all the time!

When somebody works out induction charging for electric cars, they can do it on motorways too!

Pioneer SC-LX85 9.2 AV receiver with AirPlay

Gary Wood

I've got the '75

And it's a beast. The speed of delivery over my old Yamaha amp is what really sets it apart though.

I've had no problems with HDMI passthrough on my XBox (newish shiny black one) or for my HTPC.

UK, Oz won't get latest AMD ThinkPad

Gary Wood
Thumb Up

But ..

We get faster core i3 models instead that aren't sold in the US/those other markets. Know which i'd go for.

Google sets Android on pirates

Gary Wood
Grenade

Great until ...

... I go on holiday and disable data for 3 weeks.

As long as they set sensible limits, I'm happy with this ... maybe a big re-validate all button on the Android config screen to give you a month of grace?