Posts by aidanstevens
21 posts • joined Monday 4th June 2012 19:44 GMT
Positive feedbacks
It's all well and good looking at the carbon cycle, but unless you look at the positive feedbacks caused by 2 degrees of warming (which will almost certainly push us towards 6 degrees in short order) then this study can't be taken seriously.
Re: Well
This is perhaps the most ridiculous comment on climate change I've read on the El Reg forums, and that's saying a LOT.
So desperate are you to attack climate science, you dream up a theory that climate scientists are secret psychopaths and want to wipe everyone other than themselves off the face of the planet .
I completely despair.
Orly?
SIMs store last numbers dialed? In that case, why do you never see the last dialed numbers if you put a SIM into an unused phone? And if it's true, what other data is stored on SIMs that isn't obvious?
Choice
I would prefer to have the choice, like an option in about:config, rather than Mozilla devs deciding what I do and do not want to see.
What was so good about Google Reader?
It was a clean, fast, reliable RSS reader.
But somehow Google's "brainbox" Yonatan Zunger (six figure salary no doubt) has obviously not realised this.
Definition please
How does one define a smart phone? Does something like a Nokia Asha 201 (basic qwertyphone with no 3G or wi-fi) count?
Posted in New WordPress vuln emerges
Minor correction
That should be the .htaccess file, not .httaccess
Not surprising that no meaningful action on climate change is being taken when we have the integrity of journalism that Lewis Page brings.
Posted in 20 years of GSM digital mobile phones
Memory lane
I've owned, and destroyed, loads of phones in this list, even ones I'd forgotten about.
Nokia 5110 - everyone had one of those. Stupidly I sold mine for a Ericsson A1018 which was rubbish.
The Ericsson R380 was a great phone but took over an hour to free the message memory (about 100 texts). I dropped it in a Tesco car park and the buttons all fell out, it was never the same after that.
Nokia 7650 was a phone ahead of its time but I bought one with a faulty earpiece on eBay and tore the ribbon connector trying to replace it.
Orange SPV - buggy as hell and mine packed up in short order. Shame as it had potential.
Nokia 6310i I had for 5 years (longest yet) - the power button fell out die to being dropped too often and soon after I was given a E65 which got nicked soon after.
Current phone is a Nokia C1-01 - good hardware and software. I bought a N95 on eBay a few months ago only for the display connector to pack up, so the C1 it is for the foreseeable future.
So?
Even if it does turn out to be technically possible (and it seems to me like the aviation industry is just pushing the dream of abundant supplies of biofuels in order to argue for expansion), aviation would still be an incredibly fuel inefficient form of travel, so you'd still be better off using the fuel in buses, trains, even small cars instead of gas guzzling planes.
Re: The IPCC
The head of the IPCC is an unpaid role. 1/10 for your trolling attempt.
The IPCC
Is inherently conservative in their estimates of future climate change.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ipcc#IPCC_processes
[...]The structural elements of the IPCC processes have been criticized in other ways, with the design of the processes during the formation of the IPCC making its reports prone not to exaggerations, but to underestimating dangers, under-stating risks, and reporting only the "least common denominator" findings which by design make it through the bureaucracy.
Also...
[...]Conservatives promoted the IPCC's clumsy structure, which consisted of representatives appointed by every government in the world and required to consult all the thousands of experts in repeated rounds of report-drafting in order to reach a consensus.
Posted in DAB dad Pure deploys DVR
Alan Carr Chatty Man?
Just the mere presence of this makes the review invalid IMHO
Posted in Humanity facing GLOBAL BACON SHORTAGE
Idea
Instead of feeding cereals to pigs which then get slaughtered and eaten, why don't we just eat the food we grow directly? Would make sense in a world of 7 billion people and rising.
Tethering
How do they know when your phone is being "tethered"?
Find out for yourself
Look at Resource Monitor (or equivalent software for your OS) for network activity for the Skype process, if the destination IP matches your friend's IP, chances are you're alright.
Posted in Build a bonkers hi-fi
What was the point of that?
All El Reg did was to Google really expensive hi-fi seperates and then list them, it's not like they actually ordered them and listened to them, let alone in comparison to other equipment. I could have done the same in 15 minutes.
Hi-fi articles are very welcome but can we at least have something a bit more serious?
And in other news...
the world is only 6,000 years old.
Re: Sad day
You can still do the menu number combination on my budget year-old Nokia C1, though if you use one of the softkeys for a "Go to" menu you hardly ever need it.
I would agree on the excessive number of phones in their product line-up, it's too confusing for users and the support suffers.
I'm sad to see Nokia self-destruct. I'm loyal to their brand having exclusively owned Nokias for the last 8 years but doubt I'll get another one. I'm happy with the C1 though, with Opera Mini and Google Maps it's pretty powerful for a cheap phone, despite the lack of processing power and a few software bugs (but what phone hasn't?).
Posted in Firefox 13 now available for download
Smooth scrolling...
I really do not understand why such a pointless feature feature is included, let alone enabled by default. Can anyone enlighten me as to how my life will improve by using it?
