Posts by david bates

Well...

1) 5 1/4" floppies (no idea where you get 5 FOOT floppies from...).

2) They were no more than medium size - I remember (just) 8" floppies...

Ridiculous

If I own a car and take it ploughing then yes, the manufacturer will not honor the warrentee. They wont TRY and stop my ploughing though, and they won't issue an update to disable all those cars that have been used for ploughing.

As for modding the engine, as long as it conforms to the laws of the road there is no problem. A dealer might not like it, and insurance will go up but if I want to put a V8 in a Mini I can. No-one will stop me.

Likewise, my Nexus One is cracked and rooted. When I cracked the bootloader (fairly trivial) there was a warning "Do you want to do this? Cracking the bootload voids your warrentee". Google did'nt try and stop me though, and OTA updates still work (they unroot it sometimes, but I can easily root again.

Your arguments are, at best, spurious.

Yes, yes you can...

I saved £70 by buying an Acer Revo with Linpus instead on Windows installed.

Mind you, Linpus was such a bag of nails that it didnt even come with the wireless drivers that the Revo actually needed. Acer could hardly have been more halfhearted if they'd shoved the all components in a shoebox with a piece of paper suggesting that the bits plugged together in some way before shipping it.

Kubuntu solved the problem nicely.

Yes, but...

Seeing as the most popular version of Ubuntu runs on the same hardware as Windows thats hardly suprising.

Its kind of like complaining about coverage and review of PCs based on Intels new revolutionary chip family on the grounds that the chip was pre-existing and someone just shoved them into a PC to sell them.

What remains to be seen is how well Ubuntu handles being tabletised compared to Win7, and whether said tablets are sold without the Windows tax.

If you think about it...

the case would do a pretty good job of ensuring that the microwaves would do nothing to the platters. Depending on which way up you put the drive you might fry the electronics, but looking at a handy 3.5" I have here shows it has a pretty damn solid metal case.

Does this TV set

actually make much of the dross thats out there actually worth watching though? Rubbish is rubbish regardless of how many dimensions its in and having it repeated every 3 hours (yes, History Channel) does not get better in 3D only.

I'll move to 3D when they start producing stuff compelling enough to persuade me to go to the cinema or bother with a TV licence.

Might be different if I was a gamer.

Yes, of course they can...

Mind you, based on previous evidence it might not be 'Windows' as we know it...

Cut down? Incompatible with any of the current range of software? I'd say those are not unlikely. However, it might provide a cheap source of tablets that can be re-flashed with whatever flavour of Linux takes your fancy...

easy

a games console does not use network data -unlike a new smart phone; which will use lots.

Not quite...

you can pick up an MP3 player for less than a tenner...besides which its pretty easy to move data between CD and MP3. That works less well for books and e-books.

Well...

its not that easy to read the time from it in those pictures, so I'd imagine the phrase 'not at all' would still apply when it was dark.

You could always illuminate it with the mobile phone.

I feel your pain....

I was with Orange Broadband for a while. Then I was audacious enough to move house and was forcibly shown the error of my ways...

I save £70....

on a Acer Revo by having it with Linpus (horrible but easily replaced) instead of windows. Windows would have added a THIRD to the purchase price.

Theres your need.

Kind of what I was thinking....

What the world needs is an MS-Works replacement (unless Im missing something...). I spent an evening trying to convert a friends Works document into something the rest of the world could read, without much joy (not having MS Office).

I use AbiWord and Gnumerics when I dont need the grunt of OO, but TBH they're both flakey and not software that I would trust or roll out to someone who I am defacto support for.

So how

is your post NOT a form of document?

And how are your email, forum entries, blogs and wikis created, if not by something that is, by any other name, a word processor?

No need....

The screwdriver bit will be lost within DAYS. Either that or the hospital will throw it away when they remove it from the hole its gouged in your leg.

You can probably kiss goodbye to your mobile screen as well if you happen to use the wrong pocket.

Not even that...

The iPad is transformed into a Z88 (yes, I have one sat on my shelf...) right down to connectors incompatible with the rest of the world...

Awesome.

Hmmm...my Nexus 1 is awesome...

easily the best phone I've ever owned, and really has nothing that makes me go 'hmm' on a daily, or indeed weekly basis. Except perhaps the external speaker.

You must have been doing it wrong...

Nooo.....

Austin-Healey made Sprites - bugeye and otherwise.

Morgan, suprisingly, make Morgans....

If you release a device with a suboptimal OS

you forever scar that device. How many phones have we seen with rubbish OS's, which are only remembered for having rubbish OSs even when later patches have fixed them.

Better to wait a bit if you're planning to charge premium prices.

The last time I used British Gas

I was rung up by an Indian callcentre because I had'nt paid a bill within 3 days of it arriving. The guy was aggressive, demanded my bank details and refused to put me through to his teamleader.

When I complained to BG they were unable to track down who made the call. And so they lost my business for good.

Banning food and drink....?

Thats never worked with me.

Thats why we have coats with big pockets....

I wanted one as well...

I hadno problems buying one from Google. Ir arrived, engraved, lewss than a week after I had ordered it. This was during the Volcano Dust Cloud business, so I still dont know how they managed it.

No...

I can do that on my Nexus - if Im using something bigger and clumsier I at least want a keyboard and not have to hold the damn thing like a clipboard or put it flat down on a surface.

Hmmm..the whole 30 degrees thing.

I like my clothes to

a) Be clean

b) Not smell

I've never heard whether achieving that at 60 degrees is worse than 30 degrees with the extra detergents and stain removers etc I'd want to use.

I dont trust these detergents that say they wash clean at 30 degrees - if thats the case why does Ariel detergent now sell alongside a range of boosters and stain removers that Ariel has been telling us for the last 30 years that we dont need?

Not necessarily...

ONe of the new Chinese car manufactureres (I forget which one...) decided on a new safety system where, if the car detected a flat tyre it would automatically apply the brakes to stop you dangerously driving on a flat.

It was then pointed out to them there might actually be very good reasons for needing to stay as much control as possible in the even of, say, a blowout.

Foreign continuity announcers...?

I can only think of one with a non-uk accent and I've never had a problem understanding him.

Besides, they have Charlotte Green, so they can be forgiven a lot...

Good point

Presumably WD drives are also NOT suitable to use in NAS units, PVRs and the like either, as they tend not to run Windows

Primeval?

Which that genius Michael Grade binned.

Beyond that I suspect you have a point...

And how does that work

for your GPS, which presuamably spends much of its time stuck on the windscreen probably in direct sun.

I think the issues you're talking about are leaving things in closed cars in the sun, where temperatures can be spectacular. You dont expect electronics to quit just beacause the weather is a bit warm.

Rules on licences?

Las time I checked those are the ones printed on the back of the licence. Its been a while as I dont do anything that requires a licence.

I dont do 'catch-up TV' either, as hotel-based research suggests that most of it is dross, and PC based viewing is not my thing.

Sounds very alarming....

These robots are designed to squeeze into small spaces. Presumably in order to retrieve you you'll also have to be capable (or MADE capable) of fitting through said small spaces, or torn into pieces of the correct size.

Either way theres going to be a fair old bit of healing required once rescue is complete.

silly...

What about if the astronauts find that the real moon simply does not match the fake moon of so many years ago? eh?

Nasa can hardly play the 'franchise reboot' card....

AA Batteries

Short one out - see how warm they can get.

Go green with DAB?

Thats hilarious...I have several battery FM radios that will run for MONTHS on a set of batteries. Show me a DAB unit that can do ANYTHING remotely close to that.