Posts by a well wisher
50 posts • joined Wednesday 16th March 2011 10:40 GMT
on the side lines ...
Lets hope he is sidelined too!
But can't see being any job which counts as being 'sidelined' paying 1/4 of a million a year
On the other hand this is the BBC we are talking about
none really ...
Nor any comment either,
but just couldn't resist the chance to post the old line - too good a chance to miss really
Paris - Because shes also known to receive swollen goods
I'll get my coat .....
Often no discouragement from staff is required
"leading to staff discouraging travelers from using e-Gates."
Often no discouragement from staff is required
Its often the case that users i.e. Me choose not to to use the E-Gates, due to the delays caused by the system
A quick look a the 2 queues will indicate the quicker option even when the manned queue is many times the length of the e-gate queues
In addition to the long recognition time - the inter user gap seems to be inordinately long for a computer based system
Horizon of 35+ years ago
Wasn't this the very same question posed by the BBC tv program "Horizon" ( when it used to a science based program) some 35 + years ago on the rise of the microprocessor , that was going to see us all sitting in deck chairs twiddling our thumbs too while the micros took over all the admin functions etc, but it didn't happen. in fact more clerical jobs were created (only later to be destroyed by the bankers, rather than the micro)
Aren't pilots 'drivers' too - the only reason they are still sitting up front is to install confidence in the passengers if it all goes tits up - so in a similar manner they are machine minders
I imagine the same will happen with lorries and trucks - the driver will 'mind' the truck rather than drive it and only be called into play when the **** is about to hit the fan
The only fly in the ointment is ....
"The user can configure their route on a PC before downloading it to the stick via Bluetooth."
tf the use is compos mentis enough to achieve that, then they probably don't need the stick !
" But Verizon and Ericsson reckon mobile users will forgo the convenience of being able to control playback for the increased network efficiency made possible by Evolved Multimedia Broadcast Multicast Service."
Surely the major benefit of using 'multicast' accrue to the operator rather that the end user
"And the answer(s) to -4^(1/4) is +/-sqrt(2)i"
So you get links to SQuiRTing movies - whos suprised ?
an uncertainty of a microsecond.
" I find it cool that the computer which does my video recordings knows the time with an uncertainty of a microsecond. "
Unfortunately its not something the UK broadcasters ( ITV,BBC) care a jot about and will start & finish program minutes off of scheduled times. to suit themselves and or trying to get the upper hand over the other channel
Whos idea was to put all those holes in the case anyway ?
How many ?
130,000 frames per second ?
Another case of over inflation of the figures - maybe
Thats one hell of prize - I'm sure demand will be er, massive
Its clearly not not about the winning - It must be about the taking part !
Lawyers ears prick up !
At least the lawyers will make killing out of this
Since theres no doubt about it - Someones going to get sued !
U sane ?
Oh so thats why we haven't seen the "say bye bye to buffering " ads lately
At least Richard doesn't have to rely on VM for his net connection on his island - but what about our island ?
GIF ?
Everyone uses PNG now don't they ?
If its taken GIF this long to make the OED - how long will that take for PNG make it into the OED ?
WTF
Data Migration - I'm sure they must have head of it ???
Any why are they paying for space to save records which they won't access ( well can't afford to access)
"probably because he has already sold his company to Facebook for $715 million. "
Its bound to take the edge off, and might induce a laissez-faire attitude in the best of us
Contract ?
Does Gran really need or want a monthly contract - surely PAYG is more suitable
but may be less profitable for the 'charity'
VR
They really are living in Virtual Reality world ?
Whats does it do for the battery life, though ?
massive battery life was the original advantage of e-paper
more usable ?
" (at one time I even had a customer coming in to ask "how to get rid of that weird black background...."
MS possibly didn't think that thru - if anything the black background makes it more usable not less
design ?
"he telco had a hand in its interface design"
Thats odd since it looks just like the 'other' implementation of YouView to me
Unless stamping your logo on something counts as "interface design" nowadays
Kamikaze Wood Pigeons
Its wood Pigeons for us in Berkshire (uk) - we get 3 or 4 strikes a week , the evidence is left on the window as an often perfectly silhouette of the birds outstretched wings. killed quite a few too, one literally exploding on impact due to a very full crop ( I kid you not)
I'm sure I read about some special anti bird strike class just recently ?
Big picture windows and short garden backing onto woodland , giving a refection that looks like more woods - seems to the problem here
But if my TV could guess ....
" but if my TV could guess what I might want to watch and lay it out on a plate for me then that is cool, "
I though that is/was the basic premise of the TiVo box
Posted in Fujitsu trials anti-phone fraudster tech
Unheard of in UK ?
Surely the 'boiler room' scams which often prey on the elderly are a clear case of 'overtrust'
but if you can read the Bluetooth signal coming off it .....
I'd be quite surprised, i thought it hopped about all over the place
stick with the morse code I say
Posted in Stephen Fry's Pushnote goes titsup
A bit like the dolphins then ..
So long and thanks for all the fish - sorry - Money !
scratch programming ?
Is that where you buy the 'punch' cards from the local newsagent ?
No tip ?
Good for him
Restaurant staff should be paid properly for the job, owners shouldn't expect diners to be 'shamed' into leaving a tip - no matter how many billions in the bank
Horrible american practice, that we in Europe need less of not more
Aero :glass & transparent title bars et al
it always was and still is a triumph of form over function !
"Nevada is the first state to devise licensing procedures for autonomous vehicles,"
Can't help thinking this is the sort of thing that should be set nationally - not on a state by state basis
Posted in Biennial boner blights Beemer biker
So ..........
Is he a numbnut or does he just have a case of numbnuts ?
Posted in YouView: You're delayed - Sugar
Re: How long does it take....
Why cobble them together at all , isn;t a Rasberry/Pi just about cheap enough ( in volume) for the job
Another Nascom'er
Sounds like we trod a VERY similar path
Whilst I originally started with an SC/MP project from Elector magazine
I too moved on to a Nascom 1 ( although mine was a home build based on the circuit diagram of a mates official unit, on a large wire wrap board) - I think its safe to admit that now !
Also added a home brew disk controller based on the old 1771 chip IIRC
Even more of a coincidence, I too ported Sargon to it from the 'paperback', that was a lot of lines of assembler to wade through - worked though ! - was well chuffed at the time
I thought the Netherlands was only an hour ahead of us, but it seems April 1st has come early for them
Posted in Ten... IPTV set-top boxes
8320HD is good, but it's buggy but mostly sorted BUT
It seems that IP vision, the company behind the box have just gone tits up !!
so it may well lose the ability to access iPlayer and the long promised user interface update very unlikely to surface now !
Calm down - Its only an average
Its an average across the day of 9 mins / hour - so they can really cram them in on the 'popular' stuff and put nothing in the low rating stuff
Posted in KitchenPad
point missed
"perhaps setting a primary timer for the six-hour turkey roast, which then triggers secondary timers that tell you when to put the roast potatoes and other items into the oven as well."
Certainly missing a trick there - When I first saw it I thought that was the very point of it -i.e. to set a target time for the dinner to be ready and prompt accordingly
Still maybe on the next version ?
Ah so the kids have graduated from leaving the shops Spectrum running a for / next loop printing a smutty slogan
I wonder if the mum concerned realises just how easy it is for the kids to find that sort of thing on their home computer
But there was a Limit ...
According to this article - owner claims there WAS a limit - so not sure why she proceeded to fufull the massive over subscription
"It was agreed that 1,000 vouchers would be made available between February and July this year for 12 cupcakes for £6.50 with Need a Cake taking £2.20 and Groupon pocketing the rest"
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/s/2103829_bakery_burnt_by_groupon_fiasco
Posted in Man builds smartphone dock into arm
Captain Cyborg (Kevin Warwick) will be devastated
That this guy beat him to it
If they pinched ideas off the Winklevosss, then why not off google
how do you find out that sort of thing
"they tell the chip to reset at an inconvenient time, and it doesn't reset. It does however throw an interrupt"
or is that standard hacker knowledge
truth will out
Out of the mouth of ex CEOs
"....bill them,...."
thats the end game
And 46 million on staff retention
quite small beer to a co founder of E-Bay
$228m - Small change
Maybe, But the trick is in getting Google to pay it YOU, when it might seem like quite large change !
altruisim ....
Whilst there is no doubting the truth of the statement re HDMI cables - fools and money etc
Clearly this is more a move to buy cheap publicity for his own company than an altruistic consumer education program
Oh errr
""a mad scientist stitch together three victims face-to-bottom" "
"The principal focus of The Human Centipede II is the sexual arousal of the central character"
That'll be the one in the middle then !!
Paris ; cos no doubt she enjoys a good roasting , (allegedly )
Posted in Israeli couple dub sprog 'Like'
Barking ...
I thought it was the preserve of the so caled 'celeb' to saddle their kids with crass and stupid names
Shame Johhy Cash isn't still with us
Posted in Sexy eco-bulb wins Design of the Year
designers pah !
Cracking design, seems you can't even close the lid of the 'inspection lamp' they chose to display it in
Pointless form over function
