Posts by Jason Irwin
21 posts • joined Wednesday 20th June 2007 12:00 GMT
Simple answer
Have the passengers take the baggage to the gate. It can be checked in there and lugged down by the baggage gorillas.
I've used this facility at some airports where traffic has made me late. It may delay some flights, sure, but at least people can take a change of clothes!
Posted in Canadian loses $20K in phony eBay sale
*sigh*
"Six weeks after he wired $20,000..."
Well, he only has himself to blame.
Beer?
Budweiser is not beer! It's near tasteless, fizzy yellow water. Ick.
@Oi!
Get a grip.
Hoover? Sellotape? Names pass into the common vernacular and no effort by idiotic lawyers will stop it. It's a great advert for their product any way.
Customer: I need to photoshop some images, what should I buy?
PC Store Clerk: Durr....what's a computer?
Customer: Oh, look, that box says "Photoshop", I guess I can use that to photoshop.
PC Store Clerk: Software...is that a pullover?
Customer: I will definitely purchase this "Photoshop" product so I can learn to photoshop and wow my friends with my now photoshopping skills!
PC Store Clerk: What is a "friend"?
Save the gator!
It didn't attack anyone in the traditional sense, elevenses just ran into its pool and, well, y'know....stuff happens.
The crook has effectively committed suicide by gator.
Give the cold-blooded one a medal.
Posted in Marvel launches digicomics initiative
Urgh
Horrible interface, hard to use, poor rendering, waste of money.
I use FireFox - maybe it works better on IE.
There's one born every second
If these people pay for something through an untraceable/unrecoverable means (i.e. not backed by a credit card) then that's their own fault. Can they really be that pathetically stupid?
It'd be nice to live in a world where you can trust folks, but we don't live in that world. The fact that people still all for these scams staggers me. Don't send cash, don't pay by cheque, don't use wire transfer, don't pay for big ticket items without seeing it; and (the big one) if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't true!
The only way to be safe on eBay is to use PayPal backed by a credit card and if it all goes pear-shaped to beat PayPal over the head with the backing of your CC company should they not perform (although PP were really helpful when I got stiffed by a deadbeat seller.)
Posted in Speed-cam fines topped out in 2005
Police keeping numbers up
Nice to see the police keeping the stats high though
http://tinyurl.com/2xbnjz
90 in a 60 is an instant ban isn't it?
Posted in Microsoft opens Xbox 360 Arcade
Huh?
It only costs £140 in the USA, but will cost £200 in the UK/Europe. Bloody cheek.
Posted in L1NUX number plate roars onto eBay
Uh-oh
That plate is illegal (letter spacing). It should be "L1 NUX".
Posted in One plug to rule them all
What's important?
In descending order...
1) Ease of use
2) Battery life
3) Voice clarity
4) Durability (impact, scratch and water resistance)
5) Other features
Unfortunately manufacturers are more concerned about widgets and crap which have no real bearing on the phone's ability to be a bloody phone!
Numberpad...
...should be on the left for right-hander and on the right for left handers. That's why the "+" and "Enter" ("=" on a calculator) are larger so they can be easily bashed with a thumb. The pads are, after all, based on the old adding machines.
As for the increase in lefites - I doubt there is. But there is now no suppression of using the "dirty" hand for tasks such as writing.
Posted in Vista attacked by 13-year-old virus
Huh?
"...security firms have a duty to maintain protection against older threats for just this kind of eventuality."
What about OS manufacturers producing software which can't be hacked to within an inch of its life by a 12-year old with a few scripts and "PCs for dummies"?
It's MS who should be getting strung up for this - they've have 13 years to sort their security.
Posted in TV makers go ape for 100Hz LCDs
Yawn
Call me when they get a decent telly which only draws 100Watts at full steam (and 0Watts when off).
Until then I'll stick with my old CRT until it collapses.
Posted in Goggle box content comes to iTunes UK
Bargain? My arse.
If I am not going to get the physical box, extras, free artworks etc. then I want to pay a damned sight less than the DVD price. Also the portability issue (I can play the physical DVD in any device I choose and don't need to "authorise" it) still makes the DVD more attractive. PC, Laptop, Console, DVD player, portable player; all quite happy to chunter through my DVD and no DRM to stress over.
For just a download of the show I'd stump up (maybe) 50p. Tops.
Hello law suits
Transporting personal details across international boundaries? Corporate espionage (which is what the content scanning would be)? Spying (again, back to the content scanning)?
If this ever does come to pass it's just more of a reason to use the (much, much better) alternatives like OpenOffice, Thunderbird, Ubuntu etc etc.
Google should...
...allow me (the suer) to determine what data they can keep, what they can't and for how long it can be identified against me. Personally I'd have them either anonymise it or destroy it within hours.
Matt...
...the story is in "Bootnotes" FFS.
Which football
"Football pitch" could refer to a number of different games and thus pitches. Association Football, Rugby Football, Gaelic Football, American Football, Australian Football or even Wall Football (still played - Eton Wall Game).
"Soccer" is a contraction of "association" so really is the most correct term to use as "football" is just too damned ambiguous.
Of course the whole this is moot as "football" (whatever kind) is a rather pointless game and just an excuse for old men you watch young lads run around in small shorts.
One more reason...
...to drop proprietary software and go Open Source.
Of course, and there's the radical plan, companies like Adobe could stop ripping off UK business by charging twice the US market price for their software.
Office 2007 at work, OpenOffice at home
I use Office 2007 at work and I hate it. It's bloated, takes me an age to find some menu items and Outlook if bug-ridden crap (randomly locking and erasing email contents during edit etc).
OpenOffice, by contrast, is tiny and does everything I could want. I fed it some complex word docs and the graphics did jump about; but it took me all of 10 minutes to reset them. For the price, it knocks Office into a cocked hat.
I have not yet looked into developing on OpenOffice, or checked out the compatibility with Office 2007 (I'm running an older version of OpenOffice); but with its speed of development and improvement, I don't think it will be long before MS find a serious contender in the marketplace.
Christ I hope so.
