Posts by uncle sjohie
41 posts • joined Tuesday 28th November 2006 08:10 GMT
Re: tempted
I was born with a heart defect, but I was successfully operated at the age of three, and have been proclaimed healthy by my cardiologist. Still, 35 years after the operation, the occasional pain/cramp in my chest like everybody else has once in a while, makes me wonder.... So knowing isn't always a good thing in my book.
And with the current medical diagnostic possibilities, they can find something minutely wrong in anybody. But that doesn't say anything about a cure for what they found.
Re: If I ever meet that Dell f*cker
I am dutch, and you are welcome to come and checkout my basement. If you confused the Netherlands with Belgium, where a sick fellow called Dutroux did some terrible things to little children, locked up in his basement, you should go and visit an geography teacher.
Re: God that thing is ugly
Those professionals sometimes would like a good keelhauling for some of their customers. One female member of the Ford family is know for walking on her semi-finished yacht, pointing to the solid walnut veneer in the master cabin, and say "paint it all blue". Making the 3 expert carpenters, who had been working 2 weeks nonstop on those panels, leave the wharf whilst crying their eyes out..
Ongoing
This has been ongoing for at least 2 years that I know of in my own city, so it isn't all that new to be honest. These are mostly used in area's with apartment buildings or in older parts of the city, where fixed roadside communal bins are a waste of precious public space. Added bonus is that these bins can be emptied by a one person garbage truck, in stead of one with a driver and 2 collectors on the back.
For more rural area's we now have garbage trucks with a robotic arm, operated from within the cabin, and only one "helper" to line up the bins. The robotic arm automatically weighs the bin, scans the embedded rfid tag, and bill the corresponding household for the kg's of rubbish produced.
Macro's?
A lot of company's, their paying customers, use macro's for a lot of things. From simple letterheads to complex reports with graphs. We have at least 20 that I know of, so how would this fit in our (ISO) certified workfow?
I hope they didn't copy the old one, since that didn't really work all that well for the people who thought it up..
Re: NUKES IN SPACE!!?!
How about we shoot off those green types in the next rocket to mars?
Re: RE: what else do you want - parallel printer ports?
Some of our customers, local governments to be precise, dictate the software, and the version of that software you have to use for the job, in the tender. This means, that as engineering firm, we still have to use software , secured with parallel dongles, just to get contracts. Some of our acoustic modelling software uses different calculating modules, and the specify those too.
Posted in Retina Display detachment
Re: I don't get the fuss
It takes a minute or so to get some DVD's to chuck into your laptop bag, but a little longer to download them. :-)
Posted in Bang & Olufsen Beolit 12
Re: titles are for toffs.
If you used to sell B&O products, you should also be aware of their excellent service, even 10+ years after purchase, or in the case of the old beocenter 2200 of my parents, >25 years. When my father asked for a replacement needle for the turntable a few years ago, it was on stock at the distributor, and at the shop ready for pickup 2 days later.
And let's not forget the excellent manuals they provide with all of their kit, made by actual people, and not by running the Chinese thru babelfish like most companies do. I remember my parents buying an beocenter 9500, and me running off for some speaker cable. When I got back, my mother was busy programming the radio-stations.
These things and service cost money too...
My own HiFi system sounded better than the 9500, at half the price, but my mother couldn't get it to work...
Posted in Ten... freeware gems for new PCs
Soluto
I would add Soluto to the list. That program lets you delay or pause the starting of programs during windows-boot, and speeding up the process.
Re: It's all so depressing...
That doesn't really matter, since you can move the airbase it flies off. Just park the carrier roughly in the right area, and presto.
Posted in Motorola Razr Android smartphone
The Hulk?
Around the internet, there are reviewers talking about a green hue on the display, but the screenshots here, look ok?
Posted in HTC knocks out the Beats
Actually
There are some good reasons to buy monster cables, especially their higher end hdmi cables with guaranteed bandwidths. Those reasons don't apply to your average home, so in that case it's a waste of money. But if you have a dedicated home theatre room, you don't want to rip out the wall to replace the hdmi cable going to your new and shiny 4k projector hanging on the ceiling in 2 years time, and then it starts to make sense to spend a few hundred quid on a more futureproof hdmi cable. There are some interesting youtube video's comparing cheap, medium priced and the hig end monster cables, with a skeptical audio-journalist and testing done at the Aussie moster cable lab. The results may be an eye-opener. :-)
Posted in TomTom Start 20 satnav
Dashboard holder
@ Alun Taylor. If you really want an uncluttered view, try a Tetrax Fixway. With that little gem, you can mount any PND on a ventilation grille of your choice. That way, there is nothing on top of the dashboard blocking your view of the road, or creating a blind spot.
It doesn't come cheap, but it held our 4.3" Navigon in place, even when we were rattling about on the Tuscan dust trails. And you get a few extra metal "knobs", so you can use it to mount different things on the holder, like an mp3 player.
Posted in Reg ed rattles the Red-Headed League
Red headed Women?
To quote from the song "red headed Women" by Bruce Springsteen:
Well brunettes are fine man
And blondes are fun
But when it comes to getting a dirty job done
I'll take a red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done
Well listen up stud
Your life's been wasted
Til you've got down on your knees and tasted
A red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done
Tight skirt, strawberry hair
Tell me what you've got, baby, waiting under there
Big green eyes that look like, son
They can see every cheap thing that you ever done
Well I don't know how many girls you've dated, man
But you ain't lived til you've had your tires rotated
By a red headed woman
A red headed woman
It takes a red headed woman
To get a dirty job done
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And he can say that. because he has been married to a red headed woman for a long time.
Contrary to popular belief
Producing music actually cost time and money. The session artists, mixers etc at the studio have to be paid a livin' wage, not to mention all the supporting staff you need for running a modern organization. Ditto for the admins of those iTunes servers, the artists who design the cover art, etc etc. These are average people, who want a decent salary to pay there mortgage, not the kind that whizz around in stretched hummers with bowls of Bolivian marching powder in the back, and just tell each other how important they are for the record industry and mankind in general. :-(
So saying there are no damages at all is just as ridiculous as the claims those cokeheads make about the trillions they claimed they lose.
Actually
The vectra is more saab then vice versa, and there are fundamental differences in the suspension, most noticably the passive steering rear-axle in the ssab. Besides, the same thing can be said about a R8 and a Gaillardo. :-)
And both the vectra, and the saab even more so, are known for their reliability. There is something to be said for proven technology.
Numbers
They did a survey a while back, and in turned out that Dodge cars got closest to their claimed fuel consumption, and some hybrids consumed 40% more fuel then claimed. It had something to do with the fact that here in the Netherlands most of the hybrids are lease cars, which spend most of their time doing 130 km/h on the highway, where that dinky 1.4 or 1.6 has to keep all those batteries moving. A punto evo or polo greenline is moch more economical, but not as cheap, thanks to our government.
Not so formidable
During one of those huge NATO exercises in the Atlantic a couple of years ago, one of our walrus submarines sank not only a nimitz class carrier, but one of the escorting cruisers and one SSN. NATO is just sending their varsity, that's why there's no carrier.
Mines the one with the periscope sticking out...
Top Gear?
Why not strap the car to some rockets? Just ask the guys from Top Gear.
What about physics?
Aerodynamics and physics dictate the more or less same high-speed train designs used all over the world...
Palm?
We all know they could use some help, right?
I have been there
Having flown to Ornskoldsvik with the SAS, I now know why the stewardess was such a tall blond woman wearing knee-high leather boots. I was one of the guardians!
Posted in BOFH: Weapon of choice
Pants
Now all I have to remember is where I stored those yellow pajama pants 18 years ago, I always knew I'd end up wearing them to work one day!
ESRI
ESRI used to have a habit of sending ~50 retail packages if you have 50 licenses, we had to alter our contract just to get 1 box shipped, no matter how many times we told them we do a network install including the demo data, and we really didn't need a pallet full of those boxes 2 times a year.
Posted in BOFH: The Christmas party
Well worth the wait
and I hope we'll learn next week if they remembered to put the balls in the freezer?
Posted in Dutch plan 'Energy Island'
What about the Germans?
I'm dutch and just wondering, a lot of Germans come to our beaches, and as everybody knows, they like to dig holes there.. Why not use those instead? And of course we still have our beloved IJsselmeer, it wouldn't be all that much of problem to use that, we just have to make it a little deeper..
Posted in NXP sues to silence Oyster researchers
@Michael
They've had the original report for some time now, and have been sent a copy of the definite report, which we are talking about now, too. So why haven't they verified the results and fixed the problem? And as far as I know, they have better protected chips they can use, this is a fairly old design, but I'd wager it's cheaper?
Paris, because she's both cheap and expensive..
Posted in Yes! It's the Knight Rider satnav!
Voices?
Tom tom has a few very nice voice to choose from here in the Netherlands, one is an adult actress called kim holland, and she tells you to "get off" at the next turn in a very sultry voice, but it's kinda hard to translate it. Paris, because they're almost in the same line of work, only kim uses a better camera..
iPhone?
So the iPhone 3G will have DVB-H too???
Posted in Dutch MP releases anti-Islam movie
I'm dissapointed
Here in the Netherlands it has been talked about for ages, and now it's finally there, most people are almost disappointed about the "softness" of it. We expected something controversial, this is unlike Geert Wilders, who usually manages to offend the whole dutch islamic population within 2 sentences when he starts talking. The most talked about is the fact that he used the Danish "mohammed cartoons" without permission, and a picture of the killer of Theo van Gogh, mohammed B, which turned out to be the cover of some obscure rap CD, made by an even more obscure rapper, posing as mohammed B.
Even more stupid, he was asked by some islamic forums/groups to join them in a debate about the islam in general, and how they could all work against extremists, which he of course categorically rejected, only to invite them to do the same after his "film" came out, telling everybody it was not meant to hurt or insult, just to generate a discussion.. You should see the questions he and his fraction ask our council of ministers, they're hilarious!
How about the big ones?
We use OCE TDS-400 large format Laserprinters her at the office, and they use an "controller" which consists of a dell PC with some custom software on an embedded NT installation. Imagine, A0 sized "enlargement" messages... Given the large size of the plotfiles (~100Mb+ easily), they're connected via our LAN. Uncle sjohie reminds himself to check for updates from OCE really soon..
The Netherlands
They tried something similar here in the Netherlands, but as you can see from the article, the distribution of funds to the musicians is a joke, they're about 4 years behind, and they have no decent overview about what money goes where. (if I start a one man company, the accountancy laws are a hell of a lot more strict for some funny reason.)
There is one nice thing about our laws, due to some "quirk" of the copyright law, I can legally download any music I like, only the sharing/uploading part is illegal. This doesn't fly for software though. I do believe there should be some compensation scheme like the blanket license they proposed in France, that way everybody wins to some extend, and that should be clear to the record company exec's by now you'd think.
No more R&D stuff
It would be nice to see some actual working fuel cells, I mean how long have they been dangling those things in front of us?! Enhough with the R&D, show me some working consumer product!!
Posted in BOFH: Workplace accidents = 0
Aaaah
Allways nice to have the quiet support of higher management.... :-)
Posted in BOFH: Budget cuts
Nice one..
Halfway reading the story I expected something about leopard too, but nice to see you didn't take the easy way...
Posted in New strain of Gozi Trojan prowls the net
Here we go again
Even PDF's aren't safe anymore, now what?
Posted in Can blind people see in their dreams?
does everybody dream?
Funny, but I can only recall one dream I had ( a nightmare) in the 32 years of my existence. In the article nothing is said about the amount of dreams. or if everybody dreams. Maybe that's an idea for a follow up story?
Uncle sjohie
http://www.sjohie.com
Posted in Asus W6 leather-clad laptop
A ferrari red notbook with tan leather?
Hmm, maybe they could do a combo with their Ferrari branded notebook? Ferrari red with tan leather would be nice, allthough you could probably never find it again in your car.. :-)
Uncle sjohie
http://www.sjohie.com
