Posts by andreas koch

iTV

Will ITV have to change their name?

earth rotation?

If Mr. Kuhn of Cambridge should be correct, albeit only for 2ns, with the planets rotation influencing the result (in relation to what point?), then surely the earths travel around the sun, the solar system orbiting the galactic centre and the general speed of expansion of the universe (ok, maybe not that, that's not really a speed in the usual sense, more a stretching of space) should have an influence, too.

These speeds could add to the earths spin, or subtract, depending on the composite direction of all the vectors, which I can't calculate.

Mr. Kuhn, your call to check whether that accounts for the missing 58ns.

@Simon Hobson & JimC

Look at some of the vehicles in earlier races, it's all been tried: inclined panels, rolling tunnels (?) asymmetric sidecar-like designs. They seemed a wee bit unstable.

I'd already feel a bit unsafe in a car that is essentially a Reliant Robin Roadster with 2 ping-pong tables strapped to the top traveling at 70 mph. Now think of those being tilted sideways...

The first lump of dried platipus poo on the road would probably make you briefly advertise your presence to the oncoming 4-trailer road train.

Maybe I'm just a wuss.

Siemens?

0zapftis

That string triggered a something. I can remember it also turned up in the last issue (58) of Benq-Siemens' mobile phone firmware for the last model (EF81) built in the Kamp-Lintfort site.

I would have a look at the guy who wrote that. Don't quite remember his name, but it was somewhat Polish, Stanislaw Nebowski or similar. Might be a 'signature'...

...but it's not an IPAD!!!

I mean, this is not really an IPAD, is it? I bet it's not even built by APPLE itself, so why does tmobile want to sell it? If they can't afford IPADs, they should wait until they can. I bet you can only get programs and stuff for it, not even real APPS!

religious laws

I'm a Pope of the Discordian Faith; and there's a company out there, that uses an Apple, a holy symbol for us Discordians, as their company logo. And they use it to promote the absolute most un-Discordian ideas!

Since this is religious, can I have them stopped?

why not bill by cctv anyway?

You just go and park there. Done.

As they are taking thousands of pictures with the cctv networks anyway and you can be fined being caught on one of these pix, why can't they just assume that you wanted to pay if you park and send you a bill for the time?

Would be a clever use for all these cameras, I think.

But then, 'clever' doesn't feature very high on the usual council's list...

sounds familiar, unfortunately...

Wasn't a similar system employed in Germany in NSDAP and later (in the east) SED times? No matter what the political system might be (and whether an indoctrination will take place [perfect opportunity, isn't it?]), stopping parents to look after their kids is just somewhat against human nature.

But a least you don't h a v e to send your kids there.

Not yet.

@ shippers and polyclockers

If you start a lot of ships with a frequency of one ship per day, then, after the first ship arrives (assuming they carry identical load...) it will seem to the observer who only sees the endpoints of the journey as if a ship makes the trip in one day. If you now start another ship (or two or such...)slightly offset in time, then it will look as if they take less and less time. ? What an idea! Let's call it 'superscalar pipelining'.

RMS, PMPO, jpabncilg (stands for: just picked a big number 'cause it looks good) is all a bit meaningless if you don't specify what is delivered at that power level. There are amplifiers out there that sport a kW per channel in a relatively small box, and they deliver it by PWMing something like 200kHz from a SPS with the audio signal. Loud, yes, nice, not. THD should be given with the power rating, as well as a curve comparing P to k and f. And then listen to it. After all, you don't blisten to the label, do you?

Oh, btw, some makers actually measure amps like this:

1. Volume to max

2. attach voltmeter to unloaded output.

3. 0 db white noise to the input.

4. measure fast and memorize.

5. same with ampmeter, only look faster.

6. multiply open output voltage with shorted output current = (lots of digits of your choice)

7. Profit (oops, wrong channel, sorry)

economy

But...

the economy is going up, isn't it? The house prices have started to rise again, which is the most important bit, isn't it? Who needs exports and manufacturing and trade, when the house prices are rising? We'll all be rich soon again.

Oh, wait, I'm renting. Blast that.

I'll just hope that my company doesn't lay off too many people then.

lg watchphone price calculation

@ Ihre Papiere, bitte:

You got it wrong, mate;

the ex rate is 1.1664 making the first of your calculation £342.

Follows: £342 * 1.15 = £393.30 * BWCtax = £786.60

Next x99.99 is too close, so add 20 and then round up to next x99.99 = £899.99.

Price not feasible, so don't market in UK.

-----> Available over ebay for geek premium of £100 + £38 p&p (footnote in the auction: you're bidding for an original LG Watchphone box).

-----> £1037.00 for a bit of cardboard (please allow 48 weeks for dispatch).

.- profit

The 'whateverinfringement' patrol

<sarcasm>

Anyone been to sisvel's website? That company is an agent for other companies to 'protect and exploit' patents in the CE sector, so they are just doing their job, like MPAA and RIAA (which will surely learn from this). So hopefully we will be seeing Zoll and Bundesgrenzschutz (German version of the 'Feds': just so that you Register guys don't mistake them for playground supervisors...<g>) at concerts next, to confiscate instruments from the bands because they played a riff that 'the artist formerly known as 'the artist formerly known as Prince' once used.

Wow.

</sarcasm>

That the Zoll guys carry pistols is quite normal. In Germany you usually find all policeforce armed. Which, I think, is not all that bad, because there is a much higher resistance to shoot someone than to club, mace or taser him; also more persuasion to stop when told for the guy beeing chased, if he knows that he won't be out of range 6 feet away. I know policemen who haven't taken out their pistol other than in the shooting gallery for ten years. And that was Duisburg, not the exactly the quietest place.

BTW, @ 'Hot Babes With Handguns': probably not Glock, usually SIG Sauer or Heckler & Koch.

Mine is the heavy one with the tiles in it...

genuine question to the readers:

I keep reading the terms 'police officer', 'pcso', and 'parking enforcement officer' in close proximity and it leaves somehow the taste as if they where all the same. Which to my understanding is not so: the 'parking enforcement officer' is a meter maid and the 'pcso' is a playground supervisor. Or am I getting that wrong, (my usual excuse is being kraut and only living here for 2 years...) and these people have actual executive powers?

But then, wasn't there a story about some of these pcso's letting a boy drown in a pond, because they weren't allowed to intervene before a proper pc was there.

someone enlighten me on this, I am genuinely getting lost here.

"Zad Leica in der pocket of der coat iz not míne, herr polizist!

@Ben Bonsall

>The bigger the car, the more congestion.

simplyfied, that.

A Peugeot 807 carrying 8 causes 4.8m of solid congestion with a fuel consumption of around 30 mpg. A fleet of Smarts carrying 8 causes (4*3m +safety distance of 3*2m =)18m of solid congestion at ~(70/4=)17.5 mpg. Or do I get the calcs wrong here?

Of course it's not true, but not anymore untrue than your's, Ben.

So watt?

What a waste of time this bra thing is... ;-)

I'm probably spoiling the fun research, but why would you try a bra generator if automatic watches have been around for about 200 years. Surely the movement of a jogger could power a modified mainspring winding mechanism enough to charge batteries, whereever you attach it.

There's LED torches that are charged with a motion not unlike the one that might be provoked by deep research into this breast motion thing, so why not IPods?

Stick them things on schoolkids at break time and the schools lighting during lessons would come for free.

PDAs, mobiles, handheld games and so on, stick it detachable to outerwear and the wash thing won't be a problem either; possibilities galore!

Mine's the 'PowerMac'

stop p2p

Is this the end of the BBC iPlayer?

sales math: 1+1+1=3

a.) I've heard about people buying a PS3 and a Wii; there's people buying an Xbox and a Wii; and there's people buying a Wii.

Do the maths.

b.) Granddad and grandma go to the gamestore to buy a console for grandson, asking the salesguy which PS3 they should buy and after 30 minutes of '40 or 60 GB harddisk' (isn't that a back injury, George?) and 'plays PS2 games as well, well some, ah, most of them really with the exeption of [list goes here...]' and Bluray (some recent kind of Betamax)..... What? Thankyou, we'll think about it.

Go to next Gamestore; repeat with Xbox.

What about one of these Wii things, George? Oh lets's ask about them.

Wii. Yeah. Ok. All said, we'll have one.

Blaming Nintendo for cheating in the 'console wars' by coming up with some new novelty fad every quarter is like saying 'woah, these people at Toyota only build good cars to sell them, that's not fair play against [insert hate brand of personal choice here]'

After all: none of them care if you play the console or not. MS does not care if you buy 15 Xboxes to scrap them as long as you do and they make some money out of it.

If somebody would guaratee that a PS3 would sell twice as many units if coated in Marmite and crushed daisies then it would be stupid not to do that, wouldn't it?

Nintendo had a good idea, and they keep them coming. So what.

Mine's the one that says Miyamoto Shigeru in the collar.