Posts by Annihilator 3788 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jun 2009
I'm wondering, I seem to recall O2 also offered you the chance to buy yourself out of your existing contract to get an iPhone 4 early. As part of that, you agreed to give up your 14-day cooling off period. Wonder how this affects them, but frankly I reckon if you were foolish enough to stump up that money....
"The Telegraph notes that studios are working on "at least" 24 new 3D films for next year, while mulling whether or not to continue with suicidal plans to convert the likes of Star Wars or Harry Potter into the format."
Hmm, would Lucas take the opportunity to further dry-hump his franchise into money spinning ridicule? I'm frankly amazed he hasn't re-re-re-mastered it for blu-ray yet - 3D seems like just the sort of thing he'd do, with all the characters played by Ewoks (apologies to South Park)
I reckon you're spot on. I noticed that phrase as well - whether the MS cannon fodder have seen that statement and made some massive assumptions, I can't tell yet. Be interesting to see this backfire massively.
Perhaps they just meant "available to buy early" which also wouldn't surprise me.
I am a member and know about the real benefits - I just chortle when I get the vouchers and give them to the nearest Blue WKD drinker I can find.
Maybe it's just me, but every ale I've tried in JDW tastes like it's been sitting in the cellar for far longer than its meant to - my suspicion is the MO is to buy stuff that is close to the limit on the cheap. Not to mention they tend to be utterly soulless.
It could just be that I'm spoilt by good locals in the area that consistently have a set of 5 rotating guest ales from various large and micro-breweries.
(not sure why I ticked AC in the original post..)
If you think the articles are good, you should read the comments section. Poolie_Pete's is currently my favourite:
"If it was England she would not of even got sentenced, she would of got 50 hours community service and then started partying with Jordan..."
"One of the traditions we have is that the President doesn't get involved in decisions around prosecutions, extradition matters"
Note, he doesn't say "can't"
Maybe Hil-dog is the one to deal with then as Sec of State? Given Cameron is opening up a review of the release of the Lockerbie bomber, you'd think there would be a little squid pro yo. Oh, wait, sorry, I forgot which way round this works.
Well, to paraphrase him, he's saying there isn't a real problem. Or actually, there is, but it's the same as other phones. And it's so much of a non-issue, we're giving away a rubber case to fix the problem that doesn't exist.. Or a refund that you'd be entitled to (in the UK) regardless of what Lord Steve deems appropriate, and a vague answer on what happens if you've bought via AT&T/O2 etc
His claim that problem is due to not enough cases to fit the new design, shurely we'd have seen the same effect with the original iPhone and the 3G?
One question though - what changes after 30th September that a free case is no longer required?...
I got very very scared and wondered just what this "disablement" consisted of. Banishment seems ok, compared with some of the "snooker ball in sock" treatments I envisioned..
But carry on. I would even go so far as to replacing the "stop" icon with an "odfo" equivalent for us mere mortals to enjoy.
PS - removing the "where's the IT angle" icon wouldn't even slightly deter these commentards, I'd imagine.
I saw this briefly in the Metro this morning and refused to read it as it wouldn't compare to the brilliant journalism that would be applied by you guys. I've refused to read anything else this morning.
Should point out that she hasn't broken her 84 minutes record yet though - she could well be let go after 20 minutes again!
Penny: What are you doing here?
Sheldon: A reasonable question. I asked myself, what is the most mind-numbing, pedestrian job conceivable? And 3 answers came to mind: toll booth attendant, an Apple Store “Genius”, and “What Penny does”. Now, since I don’t like touching other people’s coins, and I refuse to contribute to the devaluation of the word “genius”, here I am.
They want their argument back. What's a job with kids got to do with anything? Besides they're not applying it retroactively, so choose not to get involved in the forums.
You realise that *everyone* will have their real name, don't you? So anyone doing the abusing will be identified as well. Not to mention that I'm sure not everyone's name is a unique identifier.
I find it astounding that we're taking such offence to the notion - real names would have been the de facto standard around 15 years ago.
If it matters to you - don't use the forums.
Yes, it's part of the Fraud Act 2006. Given how recent the law is, I really think a defence of "I didn't know" is quite a good one. Using me as the yardstick, I didn't know.
Interestingly, I can't find any evidence of it being illegal in "real" auctions, which @pete 2 alludes to. I find that very very odd indeed.
As I recall, his defence was that he didn't realise shill bidding was illegal. I'll be honest, I didn't know this until reading this case.
Seems a rather crazy law to me. Granted it's not very nice (and I'm sure has happened to me), but you choose to keep bidding up to the artificially high price...
It's also trying to force the 3-D effect only via binocular cues. Completely misses the monocular cues, which is one of the reasons for the headaches. One example of monocular cues is depth perception via your focus shifting (accommodation).
Frankly, I think the "3D" efforts in cinemas are fucking awful.
In a word - "no". Frankly I think the 3D solution (though as pointed out already, it's stereoscopic, not 3D) is appalling. The problem I've got is that I can't get on board with what is effectively dressing up to watch my TV and without the special glasses the image is useless.
Cinema can just about get away with it, but in my own home, the TV does NOT command my full attention at all times.
Bring in proper 3D without any glasses and we'll talk. Until then, it's a gimmick and can die a slow painful death for all I care.
What a wonderful gimmick that would be even more wonderful if he hadn't done it all before, I suppose he's switched from the Mail on Sunday which is a step in the right direction.
A real shame, he used to be a brilliant artist who just seems to be gradually turning into a parody of himself...
My thoughts:
* The iPhone 4 is definitely more susceptible to attenuation as demonstrated by Anantech - crippling so, I don't think so
* Attenuation does indeed happen on every phone. On testing today, I've discovered that my old Sony Ericsson w800i experiences a drop of 20dB from being on the desk to picking up and holding "naturally", 25dB with a "death grip"
* The bars are demonstrably skewed the wrong way - a 20dB drop would have a devastating effect on this
Despite this coming across as defending Apple, I do believe that it is incredible that they've gone from denying all problems with it, to saying "ooh it's software" while not acknowledging that the aerial design is not the best idea they've ever had. It is rather insulting to say the least - but it's also PR spin.
Perhaps, but I've just tried this in a number of phones and the worse example I can find is a Sony Ericsson w800i (TechMode activated by *585*0000#) which shows a 20dB loss from "no grip" to "grip" - identical to the iPhone4's loss and without the same media hoo-haa. In fact this was generally a brilliant phone.
Equally, have tried it on an iPhone 3G (FW 3.1.3) which shows a 13dB loss using the Field Test menu, much "worse" than the 3GS apparently is.
I think it's fair to say that attenuation can vary by as much as 20dB in *any* phone, depending on conditions, user etc.
anandtech discovered this I think Apple will find. Has already been linked to on here but is well worth the read.
http://www.anandtech.com/show/3794/the-iphone-4-review/2
Hands up who thinks no-one will believe this as a fix though and that Apple are just releasing a patch to give a new false-positive signal display?
Rather brilliantly summarised, except:
"The real irony is that A&A are apparently getting a good ADSL2+ service out of Be (an LLU Operator) and I'm pretty sure that Be use BT almost exclusively for their backhaul"
Be don't use BT as far as I'm aware for backhaul, certainly not exclusively - the reason I know this is that when Paddington blew up, Be weren't affected.
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