I dunno.
They seem to have managed perfectly well with refillable gas bottles.
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"I found that the same tracks sounded considerably better when played back from an iPhone connected to the irDock"
So the Wolfson DAC and common-or-garden crystal used in most iphones/pods/pads sounds better than the Wolfson DAC and low-jitter crystal in this bit of kit? Does that mean these audiophile components are a load of pony or your hearing is shot?
Or perhaps it simply means that you should use actual test kit to review audio equipment rather than a fallible old pair of human ears. Hey! Maybe then you could then give some actual information on performance rather than such trite and meaningless adjectives as "detailed", "transparent" and "clinical".
Fucking "clinical". For the love of fuck.
You can't trust the mucky British air to properly carry either EM or sound waves. It ruins the fruitiness of the clarinet and entirely detremblizes the lower notes of the piano. If you're still listening to your music through Blighty Air then you may as well throw away your vinyl and buy yourself a stylophone.
"Doubled carbon levels are normally viewed in the current state of enviro play as a scenario that would lead to catastrophe; that is, to warming well beyond 2°C"
The model they used gives warming of 1.94°C reducing to 1.64°C.
And the lead 'boffin' was very careful to state that this research does not undermine the current consensus on climate change:
""This feedback slows but does not alleviate the projected warming," Bounoua said.
I know I shouldn't expect competent reporting of science in a magazine written by server-jockeys but really ... this is just a failure of basic comprehension. Whether that is due to illiteracy or dishonesty on the part of little Lewis is a moot point.
The Tax Payers Alliance (or rather its charitable arm, the catchily named "politics and economics research trust") is already under scrutiny by the Charity Commission after complaints last year.
Your attempt to be condescending was terribly sweet, but perhaps next time you get to wondering about something, you could just look it up.
that used its charitable arm to dishonestly gain tax relief to fund research and lobbying?
Have they had their irony and hypocrisy glands surgically removed?
And really, Reg, you are supposed to be journalists. A key part of your job is to apply a bit of critical attention to press releases, not just blurt out their conclusions verbatim.
you may have discovered a whole new business model!
If they reduced their online readership to ... oh ... zero ... they could reduce costs by 100%. And if their paper readership drops to zero they can reduce their printing and distribution costs by 100%. Then they can sack all their journalists and editors ... why ... eventually their costs could all be reduced to zero!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_comma
On the other hand, I think we can all agree that you should have put the word "and" in quotes and put a comma after the word "Actually".
Internet Rule 5: posts correcting grammar or spelling will almost inevitably feature worse mistakes
You can buy an FM transmitter for under a tenner that will work with any OS or in fact any hardware with a headphone jack. For the extra few quid all I appear to be buying is some slightly flaky software on a mini CD and a wasted USB port.
80%? Are you suffering A-level grade inflation?
Far from saying "Analogue radio must die" it actually says
"for the foreseeable future, the Government will consider FM radio to be part of the broadcasting firmament"
and discusses the future of local BBC and commercial FM stations and even AM stations.
Perhaps you should just have posted a link to the report rather than writing an article that makes it sound like they're proposing to hang Wogan from Tower Bridge by his entrails and ship the cast of The Archers to Guantanamo bay.
If you throw away the overpriced and unnecessary McAfee software and the business service option which is clearly not comparable with a standard warranty then the total for the Dell is £428.98 or about £250 cheaper than the mac mini. So what everybody seems to agree is an overpriced PC from one of the more expensive suppliers is still £250 cheaper than a mac mini.
I'm not entirely sure what point it was you were trying to make. But it must be true because it is in IMPORTANT UPPER CASE with exciting! exclamation marks so I suppose I'd better shut the F*CK UP.
You re-draw the screen multiple times to reduce flicker. In (non-digital) cinemas where the film frame rate is 24 fps, they typically flash up every frame three times to give an effective rate of 72 fps. You still only get 24 different images, but the flicker is less noticeable.
Digital TVs can be a bit more clever and imitate motion blur by interpolating between frames rather than showing the same frame several times in a row.
I suspect the move from 100Hz to 200Hz is just a marketing number though. I don't know anybody who can detect a flicker or stuttering motion on a 100Hz television. Or at 72 fps in a cinema for that matter.
I can't really fault the general direction of this article, but if you are going to sprinkle it with technical info then you really should get it right.
CSD and GPRS are both digital. CSD does not convert data into audible tones. The difference between CSD and GPRS is that one is circuit switched and one is packet switched. The clue is in the name.
EDGE is categorically not a software upgrade, it uses an entirely different modulation scheme.
I put on my pedant's mortarboard at this point and clicked the comment button. I could probably be equally tedious about the rest of the article for the price of a pint.