* Posts by Trevor Marron

152 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2010

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Fans' loyalty questioned as iPhone popularity plummets

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Re: iphone 5 ... too many problems

"How many Android phones will work with your car without an adaptor?"

Most of them will work just fine over Bluetooth, and that is music, track lists etc. to a Bluetooth car stereo which has full control over the phone.

Can an iPhone not do that?

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Re: Behold....

Who? AAPL or APPL? Make your mind up!

New York tech firms form 'bucket brigade' to fuel flagging servers

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Re: Suck versus Blow

""why the pumps weren't waterproof (or submerged in the diesel tanks), along with watertight electrical feeds to them",

I suppose the problem is no electricity right now."

As long as you had enough fuel to get the generators running then they could power the pumps too.

EDF: We'll raise bills 11% - but only 2% is due to energy costs!

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Re: localzuk --> Posted Friday 26th October 2012 14:00 GMT

No one has a method of STORING energy and then RELEASING it ON DEMAND in the quantities we need (currently approx 37GW for the UK; any idea of HOW to store 37GW of power; never mind releasing it efficiently )

No, but power stations like the one at Ben Cruachan go some of the way to doing this. Anyway you are over dramatising the problem, we will never go from zero demand to a requirment of 37 GW.

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Re: Don't import more oil

Current estimates of UK coal reserves are just under 3.2 billion tonnes. There is plenty of coal, just no will to allow large open-cast projects as they would upset the country folks (who typically vote Tory) and deep mines would take a large investment with no short term gains before they hit profit, which would be about 15 years for full production.

The only way we can resolve the energy issue is to nationalise deep mine coal production and get digging.

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Re: Don't import more oil

Yes, but Thatcher made sure none of those mines could be re-opened. So the cost of getting that coal is now prohibitive. We could be mining coal in this country for about £66 a tonne if the mines were still open. Imported coal of the same quality is currently about £81 a tonne.

Not only do you have to multiply up the difference over millions of tonnes, you also have to factor in the savings in benefits etc. to those in areas where mining used to take place, the reduction in natural gas use for power generation etc.

We are still paying for the war against the miners, and we will for the rest of our lives.

4G: Bad coverage, crap battery life - but at least it's really expensive

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Re: 3 for good data? Really?

Cost more? If you can stand the daft name GiffGaff does all you can eat data for £15 a month.

Samsung posts record profits as Galaxy sales crush Apple

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Joke

quote - Generally, if someone I know has a Samsung TV, phone, microwave or anything else, I am oblivious to it. If someone I know has an Apple device, I am made aware of it on a regular basis.

Question - There are 20 people in a room, one of them has an iPhone 5, how can you tell who it is?

Answer - You don't need to work it out, it won't be long before they tell you!

Theresa May gets a smile out of Gary McKinnon at last

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FAIL

Re: If Only...

Would this be the same Human Rights Act that the Tories want to get rid of?

British car parks start reading number plates

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I have been invoiced for parking in private car parks with ANPR in the past, but as I was not driving then I had not entered into a contract with the people trying to collect the money. As there is no requirement to keep details of who was driving a non-company vehicle, and no requirement to pass the details on anyway I simply put the letters in the bin.

I would advise anyone in the same situation to do exactly the same.

Skydiver Baumgartner in 128,000ft plunge from brink of space

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Re: Pardon My Ignorance

That would depend on the altitude, the higher you are then the thiner the air and the less wind resistance you get.

Cloud company foraged for hard drives to stay afloat

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Is that why there are so many high-quality caddies for sale?

Some eBayers are showing that they have literally hundreds of iomega caddies for sale, it makes you wonder where they came from!

O2 flogs logs of mobe locations to anyone with a wallet

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FAIL

Goodbye O2

That's all.

Fans rap Apple's 'crap' Map app

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It really is not a problem, they sold 2 million of the handsets before anyone had even seen one. What does it matter to any of those people? They don't care what it does or does not do, it is the latest Apple phone and they MUST have it.

Google acts against prostitution app after complaints from Congress

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Re: Selfish Politicians

Yep, it is all about supply and demand. If the app creates an increase in demand then prices will rise and the congressmen will have to pay more!

Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review

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Re: What's with that connector?

Because there is no money in it for Apple. Next question?

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Joke

Re: Expensive?

"Expensive?

Samsung Galaxy S3,16GB, sim-free: £499

iPhone 5, 16GB, sim-free: £529

£30 difference doesn't seem like a huge "Apple Tax" to me."

Nooooooo! Don't go saying that an iPhone is only £30 more than an S3, all the fanbois think that Android users are too poor to buy Apple kit!

Fanboi beats 'e-trespassing' rap after using GPS to find stolen iPad

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Re: Cerberus app

"Each iPad has an unique identifier.

Turn it on and connect it to the app store.

Then see what happens...

If apple wanted, they could brick the iPad remotely."

Yes but then they would not make any money by

a. Selling a replacement item (as if they were useless when stolen no one would steal them)

and

b. selling apps & music to go on the stolen item

So no money for Apple if the kill the device. So no way will Apple (or any other manufacturer for that matter to kill their device)

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FAIL

Re: Western Leagal Systems are Borked.

"At the end of the day, if we send someone to prison who was not guilty, they can never be given back what was taken from them. If we fail to convict someone who is guilty, they can be prosecuted later when more evidence comes to light."

If we do it first thing in the morning is it all right then?

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=at%20the%20end%20of%20the%20day

Trevor Marron

Re: Western Leagal Systems are Borked.

"Theft, you work it off in government ran work programs... I.E. have them building roads & fixing pot-holes"

Why should my neighbour who works fixing the roads be put out of work by criminals? Or are you saying he should get paid to stand and watch them do it?

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Re: Odd system

Indeed.

And in the UK there are criminals who have been brought to book even when their personal DNA was NOT on the system but because of a family DNA match they were traced. And if they can trace you for that then by extension they could trace or identify you for other reasons, reasons so sinister that we can not imagine them at this time.

HTC's 4G patent beef could get iPhone 5 BANNED in US

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When will some people realise that we DO NOT all want an iPhone 5 or an iAnything. It has nothing to do with the price either. If I wanted an iPhone 5 and an iPad 3 and they were in the shops right now then I could go and buy one with the cash currently in my wallet.

I don't want an iPhone. Stop assuming I do!

Why is the iPhone so successful? 'Cause people love 'em

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FAIL

Re: but I thought I just read that Samsung sells more phones than Apple.

I went to that site and stopped reading when I got to

"Car buyers know that depreciation matters. Some cars lose much of their value the second you drive them off the lot. Others cars you can sell after a few years and recoup most of your initial payment. Cars with high resale value have strong demand, high reliability, and happy owners. A high resale value is the market telling you, “this is a good car.”"

Because many of the prestige cars (like those in the £60K bracket) often have a resale value of £15K or less when second hand at 3 years old.

So anyone comparing the economics of cars to the economics of phones should be avoided.

Ten... all-in-one inkjet photo printers

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Re: When is £300>£499?

I have refillable cartridges for my Epson, they work out at about 30p a fill!

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Re: When is £300>£499?

It is the most expensive Epson in the test. Although it is NOT the top of the range, that is (AFAIK) the Stylus Photo PX830FWD which is currently on Amazon UK at £179, well below Epson's £300 RRP.

Google loads Moto Mobility cannon, fires patent shells at Apple

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Nexus7 and Flash.

Funny how my Nexus7 is running Flash right now. OK, not in Chrome, but it works just fine in Firefox.

Apple now most valuable company OF ALL TIME

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Re: Correction:

At least El Reg have got the terminology almost right, the BBC have been reporting all night that Apple has become the world's BIGGEST company, and size-wise I would not think that Apple are even close.

Apple 'offered Samsung $30-per-mobe' patent licence truce

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Re: Android should stop using multi-touch

What the hell is with this APPL crap, are you too lazy to write Apple? If you are trying to be clever and use the NASDAQ code then that is AAPL.

Oooh-la-la! 'iPhone 5' bares all, strokes tiny nano-SIM in pics

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FAIL

OMG!!!!!!11111

OMG!!!!!!!!!1!! It has rounded corners, just like a Samsung!

(For those who don't do the internet, the comment was sarcasm, look up sarcasm if you don't understand it)

Google Nexus 7 shipping cock-up enrages fandroids

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FAIL

Out of stock in bricks an mortar shops round here....

Picking mine up tomorrow from my local Tesco, Tesco direct have (had?) stock. £189 as voucher code still works.

When the one I bought from Google Play turns up it will be going straight back, heck I will just refuse to sign for it.

Fail icon for Google Play, when I ordered it nearly four weeks ago they said 2 weeks for delivery.

Android Firefox: Screaming, awesome, you'll go blind etc

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FAIL

Re: Hello? Anyone there?

I assumed he meant catch-up on features, speed etc, no numbers of users.

Stonehenge WASN'T built by ALIENS - Boffins' shock claim

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Re: Act of unification?

There is no evidence that slave labour was used.

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Wait a minute - Those women were in the nip!

Online bookie can't scoop £50k losses made by 5-year-old

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Re: Does anyone really think...

From what I make of the judgment it matters not who was alleged to have made the trades, the law says that the catch-all aspect of the contract is unfair, and in finding it unfair the court put the onus on the site owners to prove the account holder made each and every one of the trades, and they can not do it.

The sites business contract is flawed under UK law, the moral aspect of who did, or did not make the trades is a secondary issue, and not for the courts to judge.

Fake Angry Birds app makers fined £50k for shock cash suck

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O2 won't

O2 in the UK will NOT bar all premium SMS services to or from a user's number.

I know because I currently have £10 worth sitting on my bill that they won't even remove, claiming I must have asked for the messages to be sent. The girl even suggested my donation to sports relief was somehow a trigger for these messages being sent.

Vodafone on the other hand do let you bar them, and even say on their web forum that some messages are sent by scam companies who just pick numbers at random!

So it looks like Goodbye O2, Hello Vodafone.

Mars rover Opportunity spots WALL-E in crater ramble

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That's not Wall-E

That's a bloody Gatso!

Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Mealy pudding v migas

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Re: Get it right!

I am from Perth and would confirm that, I have had many mealy puddings, but NEVER for breakfast. No in Perth we are too posh for that, we have fruit pudding for breakfast!

HTC phones held up at US ports after Apple patent ban

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FAIL

Re: HTC woes

Yellow stains on what keyboard exactly?

Glider pilot 'swallowed camera memory' say plunge tragedy cops

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Probably a load of shit. What they find when they READ the card may be a different matter.

SUNKEN LINER Titanic iceberg riddle answer FOUND ON MOON

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Re: the rudder did it

Size is not everything, design is more important. For the design of the rudder, the one on 'Titanic' was too small. A better design, like the ones on the Cunard ships of the time would have been much better.

As for the Britannic after she hit the mine she simply shattered and fell apart. That was because of the poor steel and rivets, the same poor steel and rivets that opened up on the Titanic.

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Re: There were warnings from the look-outs.

Only in those days you could not steer a boat if it was in reverse. So by putting the two screws that had gearboxes into reverse and stopping the main turbine screw the vessel was doomed.

The rudder was also very small and basic as the White Star Line save money by not designing a better, bigger, more up-to-date one.

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Re: Common misconceptions

Because they used cheap steel and rivets.

The sea trials took 6 hours and involved none of the crew who sailed her, as they refused to pay for any that were longer.

The crew were untrained on the Titanic for the same reason, all training was to take place when the ship was under way.

There was only one row of lifeboats because any more would have spoiled the look of the ship and encroached onto the first class accommodation, yes the law was based on tonnage, but the numbers of boats were cut back to that limit.

For an hour after the impact the passengers refused to get into the lifeboats as White Star's PR had told them the boat was 'Unsinkable' which was done to get revenues up.

To save on the cost of steel the watertight bulkheads stopped short of the deck.

The signal warning of ice was not taken to the bridge as the wireless operator was too busy transmitting the signals that made money.

The binos were missing from the crows nest and no spares were carried to reduce the costs.

She was steaming flat out as they wanted the good publicity and increased passenger revenues that a fastest maiden crossing would bring, indeed they wanted to get into New York in time to make the morning papers.

There are more reasons, I could go on and on, but trust me, although the first class accommodation, fixtures & fittings were plush, that is where the extravagance both started and ended.

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Re: Common misconceptions

However it gets dressed up, if you do a primary root cause analysis on both the sinking of the Titanc and the high loss of life, the root cause analysis points to the suggestion that the White Star Line was trying to save as much money as possible on one hand, and on the other trying to make as much money as possible.

BBC iPlayer boss: smart TVs not sufficiently simple

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Re: iPlayer is the broken bit

iPlayer works perfectly on my Sammy BD-D8500M, as does every other app, including Love Film. Funny how the majority of apps are ones you have to pay to use and they can get them to work just fine.....

Airport bomb Twitter joker in second fine appeal bid

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As eny fule nows.....

A fake cast is the way to go on a holiday flight, you get straight to the front of the queues both at chack-in and you get called first to get on the aircraft. And so does anyone else travelling with you.

Telly makers failing to turn punters on to smart TV

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If you have an Android device look up SammyGo Remote on Android Market, it allows you to use your device as a remote and has a keyboard option.

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My Samsung TV does

When connected to my Samsung Freeview recorder - Blue Ray - Media Centre all in one thing/Xbox 360

More Brits desert high streets to spend £50bn online

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Mastercard

I never have to put any extra details into the Mastercard secure system, the transaction just goes through.

Perhaps if people voted by moving their account to a bank that uses a Mastercard backed payment/credit card.

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FAIL

Why go to town anyway?

My last major purchases have been domestic appliances that no-one holds in stock and offer next day delivery.

So as an example, a Bosch tumble dryer I bought just before Christmas. Go to Currys in the high street, queue to get into the car park, pay to park 3/4 of a mile away, have to deal with the store staff, eventually get through the check-out after discussing why you don't want the 3 year warranty (Bosch was doing a free 4 year warranty at the time), pay £680 and they will deliver it free tomorrow, because they only dispatch that model from the warehouse. Alternatively buy on-line during works time from Dixons for £579 and guess what, free delivery tomorrow.

Just had the same on-line experience twenty minutes ago buying a dishwasher. Cheaper from Dixons and free delivery tomorrow, but not a stock item on the high street.

Little wonder the high street is dead.

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