Posts by Paul Renault

Logitech Lapdesk too big, at 37 x 26mm, to stow in a case?

Dang! That's not even big enough to put my mouse on, let alone a computer.

What's your computer case? A wallet?

/tongue firmly in cheek.

//yes, copy'n'pasted from the, er, copy.

9.7 inch screen? Wow!

It's almost as big as this one's:

http://www.irextechnologies.com/irexdr1000/specs

(10.2 @ 160ppi) (oh, and the whole unit's smaller)

And the Kindle has an on-screen tablet, eh? And an open development environment?

Sigh.

And it doesn't have a 'lowercase-i capital-someletter name'.

ROTM?

Rise Of The Merde?

So, did they have smoke machines in space?

So we can see the laser beam?

And (scribbling furiously on the back of an envelope), if there are enough particles between the plane and the missile to bounce the laser beam, so that we can see it...then why/how did the beam not get wider or disperse completely. I'm sure that there are a few kms between the plane and missile, no?

(more scribbling, more cogitation...)

Oh, the laser 'beam' is a computer-generated animation! THAT's why there's no explosion!

So watching Avatar is the equivalent of ...

..listening to a recitation by the Poet Master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem "Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning," where, in one noted instance, four members of of his audience died of internal hemorrhaging?

Boffins builds?

So, is "Boffins" Mikhail Noginov's nickname? Or his company's name?

Or, does Tony Smith just like getting mail from grammar Nazis?

Better Travel Radio, the Eton FR150

Eton FR150 Travel Radio:

http://www.etoncorp.com/product_card/?p_ProductDbId=353085

Bonus: a flashlight, and a cell-phone charger... And it's cheaper than the FreePlay and much much lighter FreePlay: 112 x 60 x 186mm and 700g: Eton: 126 x 60 x 46 mm and 200 g.

While the specs on the webpage lists an extra weather radio band, mine has two shortwave bands. (Because I purchased it outside of the USA?)

OK, I'll be first, and just get this one out of the way...

"For £10,000, it'd better not just be the bottle that get's hand-blown."