Posts by Richard Cartledge
472 posts • joined Saturday 25th August 2007 08:58 GMT
Sounds like these Koreans should be forced to attend an Equality and Diversity Awareness re-education event.
Re: Minor point
"Oh if only he wasn't a British citizen and completely free of obligation to adhere to US laws..."
Try telling that to the British man who sold some batteries to Iran, Christopher Tappin.
Doing 35 years in the land of the 'free'.
The Iranian President is just a fall guy or puppet, the public face of The Assembly of Experts (Majles-e Khobregan) who are not democratically elected. It hardly matters who wins.
Posted in Honk if the car in front is connected
Re: This is all going to end in tears...
We use Audi Connect which is an online account which syncs to the car's systems via it's 3G connection. It works very well for syncing contacts, finding google POIs and adding media to the MMI, internet radio. e.g. when in google maps on a computer, one can hover over the drop pin and choose other>send to>car - but I would like to do more, such as add new features, and have a better insight into telematics such as mpg history, telematic status of systems from a computer. It would be good to change settings of things in the car from inside the house and upload them rather than sitting on the drive using clickwheels and buttons..
Maybe someone is missing a trick about an incar OS with it's own app store and online ecosystem. Are motor manufacturer's own second-rate offerings enough?
And it came to pass that the Khazarians replaced that currency with one made out of thin air.
I love it, it reminds me of the good old days before we had to be upsold and upsold bloated upgrades every 2-3 years.
Looks like a 'weather balloon'.
They are OK, but they are late to the party and are just MS's take on existing ideas. Nothing new. There is also no room for another player unless they offer something new and radical.
iPod & iOS drove Mac OS sales.
Win 8 phone will not drive Win 8 sales as the sales are small and win 8 desktop won't drive win 8 mobile sales as the sales are small so they are in a catch 22 disadvantage.
The best thing would have been to make Win 8 desktop more palatable and I think ordinary users would have enjoyed the seamless transition between Win 8 devices that is offered with MS ID login and skydrive.
So we still get a floppy disk symbol for Save?
Something nobody under 16 can remember.
Good old Microsoft.
Re: So based on reliabily record to date...
Fair play to VM, they settled my modest claim (which some may say was vexatious and trifling) and court fee immediately - about 5 years ago when I raised a claim with the small claims court this was mainly for having to call their paid-for number from a mobile and time wasted being given 'the runaround'..
I only clicked the story because I was interested in the cactus bulb on the photo, but no mention of it.
To a great extent, general user needs have stagnated, and they don't wat to do THAT much more that they did 7 years ago, so a 5 year old compter can still watch youtube, type a letter, edit and print a photo, rough-edit a movie or surf the net just fine.
Re: ...and they last for XXX years...
I agree, when they are driven hard enough to produce task light, they often blow or flicker after a few months.
Re: LED lighting instead of fluorescent 'haz mat'
Same is true in most of Asia, they like 'mahtab' CFLs not 'aftab' but sometimes have eclectic mixes of both.
One by one, we are replacing our domestic CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Lights) with SMD (surface mount diode) 'corn cobs'. The latest SENCART branded ones we have from dx.com are superb, even better CRI(colour rendering index) and cosiness than old tungsten bulbs and they are full brightness instantly unlike most CFLs.
I don't know why they still make CFL, they should be phased out and replaced with SMDs so they can be made cheaper in greater volumes.
Not surprising it's going this way. For the iPhone 5S, Apple are in talks with utility companies about taking a cut of the charging cost in return for exclusivity lock-in.
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These guys look a barrel of laughs.
richard.cartledge@snc.ac.uk
10 years too late.
put "123456" in the number two slot for 2012; the same sequence was used by 37 per cent of all user accounts at the Anonymous-hacked Greek finance ministry.
Sounds like these were initial passwords for new/never-used accounts, I don't think the 37% would be representative of individual-chosen passwords.
I'm calling my daughter Plaintalk Microphone.
So if they told you to take off your Hublot Big Bang and wear a Patek Calatrava you would think that's OK?
Purlease.
I vowed never to buy SONY again due to poor lifespan, arrogance and uneconmical repair of expensive products.
I now buy cheaper LG or SAMSUNG fayre which is just as good and looking, better warranty, support and almost disposable prices.
"We've got one here who can see." - They live. 1988.
Apple will be suing Krispy Kreme soon then.
Re: This is so funny
From what I have read, Apple could have continued to use the google bundled apps for another year under the current agreement anyway, but they cut their nose off to spite google's face.
They should name it Andriod Maps.
Following convention, 2012 should have been the Windows version, and 2013 the Mac version.
The MS website says if you buy Office 2011 Mac now you get the next version free, so I wonder if they will homologate both on 2013?
In all of those I've seen/used, it comes out in a waterpistol jet, not a mist as in the photo.
You need something light that you can hold in one hand and adjust aim by wrist tilting.
The form factor of being stuck to a heavy and cumbersome smartphone which you have to hold like a smartphone would make it very hard to aim.
Posted in Volkswagen Beetle car review
£18k for that!
The interior looks very basic.
I like the wheels though.
"Humans share over 90 per cent of their DNA with primates"
- and ~45% with a cabbage, ~60% with a fruit fly, so not really surprising when you put it into that perspective.
Re: If Apple don't
a) It's slow
b) Every time you background it, it resets, so no dipping in and out.
c) It is not an API so the google maps are not used by other apps such as Find my Friends or Fixmystreet.
Posted in Sony KD-84X9005 84in ultra-HD TV review
I don't see this is useful, because at this physical size, the optimum viewing distance would be so large, that the increase in resolution is moot. They should concentrate on higher bit-rate 1080p and higher frame rates that are smoother in fast action scenes before going onto the next step of resolution.
dx.com has more interesting and cheaper LED/SMD lights than this, and what's more you don't need a smartphone as they come with their own dinky remote or can be programmed with a spare button off your existing TV/video recorder remotes.
If the batteries are duff in 3 years time (how long they lasted on my pre-retina) I'm sure no-one will mind ripping them out with a pry bar.
I rather like the Audi Connect system.
The car connects via wifi or 3G to your Audi Connect (free) account and picks up your uploads, contacts, addresses and settings.
Nothing new here, people have been making gasoil from waste oil and fat for years and Virgin flew a flight using kerosene made from waste oil. It's all vanity and diversity & sustainability policy portfolio codswallop.
Re: @ Mr Client with the optical disk
Don't do business with someone who can't spend £10.70 inc. P&P on an USB DVD drive.
Hello, you could even post them the DVD & DVD drive and say don't bother posting it back.
Re: Incredible...
£29 is just too much for a USB DVD drive?
In fact, you can get a caddy on ebay for under £5 and pop in al old one from your spare part pile or some 5 year old Acer.
Posted in IBM prepares to demo 125TB MONSTER tape
It is interesting that when you compare the surface area of a HDD's platters with that of an unspooled tape, the capacity of tape is so much lower. I can understand why it's lower, but it must be 1000s of times lower density.
Re: Free speech
Yes, that's what free speech is, as soon as people being offended takes precedence, we lose freedom of speech as everything will offend someone. This turd should simply be publicly identified and let the people unleash free speech.
Re: Steve must be turning in his grave
Jobs' advisor was Tim Cook and he told him not to apologise and Jobs talked about "the problem with smartphones" rather than iPhones. Genius.
Posted in Vote now for the ULTIMATE BACON SARNIE
Some of that bacon looks minging, that over-salted coarse texture foreign catering type with unpuffed oingy-boingy fat.
You know when you bite that sandwich and withdraw, the chewy bacon will be hanging out your mouth and draped across your chin.
Posted in Ten digital radios to suit all budgets
My only experience of DAB is in our car, an Audi A8. While it can sound better than FM, it is still far from CD quality which should have been the aim. When I say CAn sound better than FM, I mean some popular BBC stations only, the rest sound like way too low a bitrate and no high or low frequencies. I also think with these lower bit-rates the noise to data ratio is higher, so it bubbles mud. I would like to see mandated 256kps bitrates, even if it means fewer stations, and boosted transmitter power.
Can you say Facebook.app?
