Posts by Gomez Adams

Presumably as long as the relative timestamps received from the visible satellites locked onto stays the same the device's will still work out its correct location?

You do know a John Hancock is more commonly slang for something else?! :o

"bastardized" is a bastardised spelling is it not?

No matter what the specs say this is the kind of detail that an experienced developer would have checked back on.

Never mind the last mile. The tricky bit is the last 20 yards over broken, rough ground, steps, blocked with cars and toys and blocked by overgrown shrubbery.

Should also be asking why the poor woman did not notice the car bearing down on her with headlights blazing.? She seem to neither hear nor see it and as her face is a mass of fuzzy pixels then can only postulate why.

Still using my Lumia 820 with WM8.1 and dreading the day when I am finally forced to move into the Android leakosphere. :(

What was he expecting the LA Fitness staffer to do?

Can I throw pengo-second into the mix which is an indeterminately small unit of time where the smallness is dependent on the context so can arbitrarily be equated to a milli / micro / nano / etc second.

Text: "Coming for a pint?"

Text: "Ok?"

In pub: "Have you heard about Going Under plc?"

:/

At the computer centre where I worked the occasional unexpected incident which could not be explained in any other way was put down as a neutrino hit on the CPU. :)

Could be the police ticketed the meatsack as they did not know how to ticket a tin can?

USB connectors are intrinsically flimsier than headphone jacks and not really suitable for use with the phone kept in a pocket where it is subject to repeated minor movements. But if you are going to make an adaptor why not make one that is a solid unit (as seen with many old-school FM transmitters) with the jack socket to the side rather than having a cable?

Even if and when Ocado get to 100% they still need to tackle the much more complex problem of getting the shopping the last nine yards from the vehicle to the customer's kitchen over possibly rough broken ground, squeezing past badly parked cars, past overgrown hedges, up and down steps etc.

Another staunch Clip+ user here running the third-party Rockbox firmware which out-performs and out-features anything else out there whether a dedicated PMP or a music-player app for a phone.

One advantage of using a dedicated PMP is that you don't get annoying notifications interrupting your listening pleasure while exercising etc. There are several other advantages.

Delivering parcels in the real world ...

... does not mean trundling along flat level pavements up a flat level driveway / path to a customer's front door. In the real world there are steps, rough ground, overgrown shrubbery, awkward accesses etc etc. I think we are still many years away from a CAV that can handle real life.

How does the autonomous delivery vehicle make the last hundred yards across rough ground, broken paving, steps, steep slopes though narrow alleys clogged up with bikes and bins and up stairs to flats?

Wireless QI portable power packs exist

I know, I have one and use it. I can be recharging my phone while it sits in my pocket.

For once I am happy with an Apple decision as it means that it will grow the market for such devices - I would really like one with the capacity of the leading non-wireless power packs rather than the two-shot full charge I get from my current one.

Not clear why Mr Angry could not do his business through the normal channels. Comes across as a self-entitled arrogant prick looking for someone to shout at a safe distance. Would they have given out their own home address so the authorities could send round "the management" to discuss his issues face to face? I doubt it.

Will Apple be selling designer peeper-keepers at designer prices to use with these to stop them being lost down the loo?

What happens to the audit trail?

If you allow changing of login ids? There is an audit trail I hope?

We had a group in our IT department called "End User Computing". Somehow the sign on their office kept being changed to

"End User Computing - Now!"

;)

Tell me the banks are not storing the biometric data in plain or even encoded as that is extremely bad practise. They should be storing the result of hashing the data with a secure key stored only locally on the device.

"A key part of that system, according to the draft German law, will be determining when an automated system requested that the driver take over, putting the onus on companies to develop software that is suitably cautious, and on human drivers to maintain vigilance while driving"

Aka at the dawn of motoring as "The man walking in front with a red flag" law.

Why do smartphone reviewers spend so much time on the camera and so little on all the other features?

Massive increase in mobile phone use yes. But how much of that is actually holding the thing against your head making a traditional voice call?

Is this why their app no long runs on my Android tablet? :(

How much do I yearn to use an instruction like SNZ (store negative zero) again? :D

And have they sorted out the TDATE$ word format issue that will blow up in their faces come 2028?

I have used a standard memory card in the sat-nav I use on my motorbike for over ten years with no problems from vibration, damp and heat. A solution looking for a problem? Hell, it even survived an unplanned trip bouncing down the road on its own!

Wouldn't it be easier and less cluttered for stores to have a symbol to show where *no* mobile tracking is in operation? And educate the masses to assume they *are* likely being tracked otherwise.

BTW does putting my phone into Airplane mode offer sufficient protection (which I do anyway when visiting my GP or the cinema rather than turning it off altogether)?

Hope they get it fixed soon. I am suffering Dr Karl podcast withdrawal symptoms ... :(

The obvious solution to avert the total obsolescence of so many devices is to retain one MUX as DVB-T hosting the main channels (and radio) in SD.

You are missing the main source of discrepancy

Until and unless your eliminate the "Time In Motion" difference (due to different parameters as to what counts as being in motion) it makes no sense to compare the rest of the stats.

How about downlighters flush in the ceiling void?

With a well designed small speaker enclosure built into the ceiling tile?

Beat me to it!

A solution looking for a problem?

The need for such a device suggest cyclists are so unaware of their surroundings that they are unable to take in at a glance the information displayed on your usual sat-nav screen as other road users seem able to do. This I do not accept.

Can El Reg avoid calling remote controlled devices robots please?

So who is responsible when a parcel goes "missing" after being picked up a random stranger?

Had similar some year back when parking my motorbike by the side of a race track and it would not start. Turned out to be the timing loop built into the track. Wheeling the bike back away some distance from trackside and all was OK.

Another good reason to stick with my fifteen year old car for some time longer yet.

Hurrah!

Visited link colour back to noticeable.

Marking read links: Very slightly better

I now see that read links are coloured a very slightly different shade of grey. But only noticeable if I look at my laptop screen full on in good light. Need more contrast guys,

Plug ugly?

Compared to all the currently available smart watches it is a Venus de Milo.