Posts by BristolBachelor

Advantages vs. disadvantages

ADVANTAGES:

I can save the 10 seconds it takes to pick-up the charger plug and plug it into the socket on my phone.

DISADVANTAGES:

It will cost more for no additional device functionality.

Inductive charging automatically means no "energy star"

My iPod automatically charges anyway when I put it in the dock on my HiFi.

The £0.50 USB cable I use to charge my phone at work will now be a £?? mat and always take up desk space*

The £0.50 car cable I use to charge my phone in the car will now be a £?? mat and the phone will slide off it on roundabouts*

* OK so I could still use a cable to charge at work and in the car, but if I use a cable then, what's the point?

Come back when it can charge anywhere in my house and I'll give you my money.

Networks in America

"...and with LightSquared already building a new national network in America there are questions about how many networks the country needs."

I've not been to the collonies, but from what I read on here and other places, the networks that are already there are practically falling over and bursting at the seams. I'd say that the country needs at least as many networks as it takes for there to be at least one good one, so that capitalistic competition forces the others to improve.

Just my $0.02

Biased statistics

OK, so there is no such thing as unbiased statistics (especially not with government), but:

"Over four in five adults thought that congestion was a serious problem for the UK and nine in 10 said that it was important for the government to tackle the problem."

WTF?? I don't think anyone where I used to live thought that congestion was a serious problem for the UK. Who did they ask? The workers at Capita?

Just 5% of workers ever truly leave the office

That is to say that:

Of people who are on a system to work away from the office, only 5% of a small group of them surveyed, don't in fact work away from the office.

Have I summarised that too much? Why is this news? Is this just advertising for iPass?

Also when will iPass have to change their name, becuase it sounds like something that Apple sends to journos to let them into iExhibitions or iPressreleases?

power to levitate objects

LucasFilm owns the rights to everything Jedi-related, including (but not limited to) the "...power to levitate objects ...

Is that why MagLev trains are so slow to enter service, and only in places like China? LucasFilm keeps sueing them?

Cheap NASs

I have bought and hated cheap NASs in the past.

How well does it stand up to sustained work? Some die while you are trying to copy multi-GB to them (uploading the contents of your digi-cam or cam-corder).

How fast (or slow) is it? I take it for granted that you can read files off it, but does it take all week?

What is this software you talk of? It doesn't work without it? It is a VERY long time since MS PCs needed extra software installed for file-serving. Are Verbatim living in the 80's?

These extra USB / eSATA ports for additional storage, how do they work? Do they all show up as separate drives? How does that work in their viewing software? How much slower are they?

Not impressed

I'm not really impressed with a lot of modern monitor stands. They are all a bit flimsy and the slightest movement seems to make the monitor start oscillating back and forward.

Now look at the figure 4, which seems to be designed like a spring to test theories of simple harmonic motion. Touch the screen and see how many times it wobbles back and forth before it stops.

A better idea IMHO is a prop leg out of the back of the monitor that allows the angle to be adjusted, but holds it in a more stable way. I haven't patented my idea because:

1. It's probably been done already (and I don't i-work i-for i-apple)

2. It's obvious to anyone (except those who work on i-touch i-screen i-monitors)

amnesty shamnasty 2

I would say something that is MUCH more significant is the THOUSANDS who are murdered as a result of governement lead actions overseas (Think Afganistan, Iraq, Iran, Vietnam...) compared to the 1 or 2 who are capitally punished (regardless of innocence, guilt or your thoughts on capital punishment)

There can only be limited resources available to Amnesty. Deal with the biggest problems first.

Voda warranty

So Voda says: "Our warranty allows you to get faulty handsets repaired through us even if you don't have insurance on the condition that your phone is running Vodafone approved software and it is within your contracted period."

And Samsung says that there are some bugs that are fixed by changing the software to version JM1.

So surely the Voda warrantee will change to the new software in order to repair the handset? Doesn't the user doing that themselves at home therefore save Voda a load of money in their servicing centres?

Vodafone, I say this from the heart: FOAD

MOON SHRINKING FAST - WTF?

So the estimates put it that the radius has shrunk by ~100M in the last billion years. So you think that a rate of 0.005% every billion years is FAST?

Tell you what, why don't you lend me some money? A million quid should do. I'll pay you a HIGH interest rate of 0.005% every billion years.

Now, where is the nearest bar........

Energy Saving Trust

"And ignore the many worthy public organisations - for instance the Energy Saving Trust ..."

You what? Worthy?

They convinced my dad to "upgrade" to a combi boiler. Now he has to run several L of water to waste each time he wants hot water. Sometimes that water starts off hot when the tap is first opened, but cannot really be used because the water then goes cold while the combi decides to fire-up after an unbelievable delay. What is the energy cost of treating that water and heating the water that is lost?

Then in addition he was unable to install solar water heating because he has a combi boiler.

I don't even want to think about how much energy was used to manufacture the new boiler in the first place when the old one was fine, or think about how often the latest boilers need to be replaced compared to the older ones. He was told that the energy savings will make the boiler pay for itself in 15 years, but that assumes that it lasts 15 years (only has 2 year warrantee), and that the credit to pay for the boiler had 0% interest.

Permission to talk form

I hereby request permission to talk to people in your mall.

Name: A. Person

Persons(s): Cuties between 20-28.

Topics for discussion: How cute they look. What they are doing in a place like this. If they would like a drink...

Are you selling / giving anything away?: My wild oats