Re: Doesn't surprise me ...

Even a home user can generate vast amounts once you start playing around with video. I'm currently taking my recordings of this year's Tour de France and encoding them in mp4 so that my brain-dead Sony Bravia can play them off my NAS and I can have some space back on my DVR. The raw data files run at something like 160 GB!

Re: LOL

You ever tried to use the search system on Amazon lately?

<shudder>

Re: Soft buttons in landscape mode

"Wonder how hard it is to accidentally trigger the soft buttons when holding it in landscape mode?"

It was a pain only for the first couple of days. After that, you adjust.

Not one for the ladies?

"Certainly not a phone for the ladies which after all is 1/2 the market."

Um, let's see now. I'm five foot four, female and slim. I also have a Note 1 which fits in all my pockets and have no trouble holding it with one hand.

Not quite enough in the Note 2 to tempt me down the upgrade path with a year to run on my contract, particularly as a lot of the software improvements are supposed to be coming to the Note 1 in the firmware update that;s already started rolling out in Germany.

" rapists - now there's a deserving test group."

I think you'll find that there's fairly detailed evidence from the Czech Republic for the efficacy or not of the treatment.

In fact I'm surprised that the investigators didn't use the Czech Republic to test their theories.

Re: 15 desalination plants

Battersea Power station.

The Stag Brewery in Mortlake now that it's closing down.

The current WRWA waste disposal depot at Smuggler's Way.

And that's just what I can think of off the top of my head up in my end of town. Further east, there are considerably more possibilities. Part of the Tate and Lyle site would be an obvious candidate.

Re: Audit?

The regs say that emails have to be kept. They don't say anything about whether they have to be online or instantly available. It's going to be absolute chaos in whatever offsite tape store Goldie uses.

Besides, anybody with any sense who wants to be rude about the client doesn't say so in an email that will be archived -- they send a Bloomberg instead.

Re: it's a silly typo

"It's a silly typo, it should read 31/4/12 but it wont really be pi day until 3 years time on 31/4/15 at 9:26:53 (and 589.)."

If you manage to find a 31st of April, you will have done better than Bergholt Stuttley Johnson did when redefining Pi as 3... and we all know what the sorting machine managed.

Re: Lost a few round here too

Yup, here too. And if you can't keep a Sony Centre running in Richmond upon Thames, there's really no hope.

As an example of how expensive the Sony Centres are, though. I just bought a 26" Bravia (don't laugh! It's the only bloody flatscreen that fits in the the space of our book shelves once I've taken out a shelf) from John Lewis online because it was seventy quid cheaper than the Sony Centre in Kingston. Somehow I suspect the Kingston franchise will be joining the Richmond one in the very near future.

Re: Re: Do Europeans go swimming a lot with their phones?

@Stuart McCarrick -- some of us are just people who habitually keep our phones in our trouser back pockets. The iPhone that is no more had hit the toilet floor from the back pocket many times before the day when the bloody thing popped out and headed bowlwards as I was sitting down.

Re: "smart" TVs

I've got one of those Sonys as well. Drives me up the wall with what it can and can't do (the not playing Apple lossless files being one of the current bugbears). Although it does actually play nicely with my NAS (Seagate GoFlex), which still startles me.

But if you asked my husband whether we had a "smart TV" or not, he'd be completely flummoxed and probably say no, despite the fact that he was rootling through YouTube on it a couple of nights ago . . .

American Ship In Her Place . . .

We did that! The problem is that the USS Chesapeake got dismantled in 1812 to build the mill up the road from Portsmouth in Wickham (sadly it's now only an antiques shop rather than the flour mill it originally was).

How much?

A quick shufti at three.co.uk says free on a two year contract.

Pity about only 16Gb though. I'm in the market for a new phone -- my iphone 3GS having not recovered from an impromptu trip down the toilet -- but half the memory and no SD slot on which to store music or videos is not an upgrade, particularly when a screen like that is provided.

The emails are in plain text in the body of the message.

Definitely not what one expects to find in the <emails to ancient account box> in the morning.

Seems Quite Dear

@TWB - it's not as bad as that. They do a whole UK 1:50,000 for about £150.

However, the 1:25,000 national parks and trails series, which is what I'd want if I'm up a mountain in the fog, are £127 a pop!

Re: Does anyone know if ...

@Symon "...Virgin let you use a simple cable modem on their line? Nothing but cable <-> ethernet, something like that? Also, one which they can't unilaterally update at their whim."

Nope. It's a violation of the terms and conditions if you attach any modem (or, indeed, any piece of kit at all) to a VM cable that has not been approved by VM.

Obviously, there's nothing stopping one cloning the MAC address of the cable modem and swapping in one's chosen piece of kit -- until the day that VM stick an update down the cable . . .

No WiFi client has used WEP since like 2006

Oh yeah? On which planet?

14 wireless access points visible from the machine on which I'm writing this:

Two unsecured (BT openzone/BTfon),

Six WPA2-PSK (nice to see that I'm not the only person here with up to date kit -- which was the case a couple of years ago when I moved in).

Two WPA-PSK.

Four WEP. Of these, one is labelled BTBusinessHub -- you can take your pick as to which of the businesses at the top of the street that one is -- my money is on the extremely expensive dress shop whose owner/designer tends to sit front of house with her macbook doodling designs when business is slow.

Archive != current edition

The archive is everything more than a year or two old back to 1851. It's always been behind a paywall unless you're a subscriber.

How about a fortnight ago?

Asus and Samsung both announced this form factor at CES.

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/01/05/ces_asus_eee_pad/

http://www.reghardware.com/2011/01/05/ces_samsung_tx100/