Posts by TheProf 1122 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2008
I can see the value of having a phone with a sticky back.
No more phone sliding off a slightly inclined surface.
Can stick it to the dash of my car.
Stick it to the fridge when I'm cooking in the kitchen.
Difficult for pickpockets to pickpocket it..
Helps remove fluff and lint from my coat.
Digital minister Matt Hancock described nuisance callers as "a terrible blight on society" and welcomed the service.
He said: "We’ve forced companies to display their numbers when they call you, "
Well that's not going to work when an overseas call centre uses a fake number. And doesn't BT still charge £1.75 a month for providing the caller ID service? Of course if the caller withholds their number you can use BT's Anonymous Call Rejection service that won't let numberless call through. That'll cost you £5.80 a month.
I'm planning, in the next few years, on constructing a hat using yet-to-be built technology that will be able to see inside your mind and the yet-to-be determined wearer of said hat will have access to all your yet-to-be established secrets.
I bet you're quaking in your boots now.
Well it worked first time for me. Correctly.
Which is more than I can say for the Americans I've met who couldn't understand my British (Liverpool but locals ask me where I'm from) accent.
"Excuse me, could you tell me where the bathroom is?" Blank look on American face.
(With phoney American accent) "Excuse me, could you tell me where the bathroom is?" "Oh yeah! Over on your left."
"The camera can shoot in RAW mode, so you can remove the parallax effect that’s ubiquitous in phone cameras."
It's isn't a parallax effect, it's not just phone cameras, and it's got bugger all to do with shooting jpegs!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallax
Next time: Ranting about people using trifecta incorrectly.
I found Microsoft were selling the Xbox One S (Minecraft edition) cheaper than anyone else last (black) Friday. £199 compared to the £229 everyone else seemed to be flogging them at. And they added an extra Forza game.
Maybe the pound had done a funny u-turn or something last week.
"the first Soyuz design was large for its time and very powerful. While it was designed to be flown with a three-man crew capsule on top"
Are you sure about that?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vostok_spacecraft
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voskhod_(spacecraft)
The original manned capsule was designed for one person. The following capsule design removed the ejector seat and fitted a second couch allowing for two crew. Dispensing with spacesuits at launch allowed for three crew members.
I read a book several years ago written by an engineer who had worked on the Russian rocket programme. It provided a fascinating insight into the politically motivated space programme. (Sorry I can't remember the authors name. I'd like to read it again sometime.)
"I get a voucher promising bonus points for spending more than £90."
I get vouchers and they offer a 15% discount on my shopping. The spend to qualify has inched up to £60 from about £30 a few years ago so I don't use all the vouchers Sainsburys send. However when a new film comes out on Blu-Ray I'll get that (because they're £15 everywhere) £15 of groceries and £30 of wine.
All this and Nectar know in return: where I live and what I buy.
Re Timex Sinclair 1000 in a shop window.
I've never understood why shopkeepers display things that they aren't prepared to sell. 'Ooh sorry, you can't have that, it's on display.' If they want to just display stuff they should open an art gallery.
I've frequently sent members of staff from my friendly-neighbourhood comic shop (Hi Worlds Apart!) into the window display to get the last copy of 'Captain Neutron and The Star Wranglers'. They seem to have a grasp on how a retail store makes money.
I was 'used' in a catalogue scam a decade ago.
Someone who knew I was out at work ordered 2 mobiles from a mail order catalogue using my name and address.
Soon after the parcels were left with a neighbour, a second person called at the neighbour's house using some excuse about wrong goods being sent, and collected the two parcels.
I find out about the scam a couple of weeks later when an invoice for two phones turns up at my house. Fortunately the catalogue company believed me and didn't make a song and dance about things. (Which led me to believe that I wasn't the only pawn in a crooked undertaking.)
It sounded like an inside job to me.
ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINE Great British Pounds for a wobbly cardboard table?
Well done Mr. Dabbs, that is surely the funniest article you have ever written.
(I opened the video in a separate tab and the other videos on the offered appear to be German Benny Hill style smut. Well done for keeping such good company.)
Do they still play adverts on heavy rotation? Last time I heard Absolute the same adverts were being played every 15 minutes or so. After an hour I turned the radio off and wondered how long I'd get for burning down the heavily plugged solicitors office.
I've not listened to them again. Or burned down any other solicitors offices.
"Tesco Bank customers were notified of the breach by emails and text messages. One reader reported receiving a text at 5.40am."
Is there a convenient time to receive bad news? Would the 'one reader' have been happy if the text hadn't arrived?
(Yes I know the 'one reader' would prefer not to have money taken from her bank account but she's whining about being texted.)
"typically, a victim is tricked into performing sex acts on webcam by someone pretending to be a potential paramour."
And this is how people are 'introduced' to each other these days is it? I still prefer meeting a young lady under the station clock at 8pm. I'll be wearing a white carnation in my buttonhole and carrying a copy of The Times.
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