Posts by SYNTAX__ERROR

Re: Pah..

+10 internets for an excellent analogy.

Re: What a crap judgement

Actually, the "Easy-" part goes on the beginning of the term in question. That makes it a PREFIX.

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Plane phones

Only time I've seen one being used was in Die Hard 2.

Icon: "I'm not playing chicken with a two hundred ton plane!"

Re: More information please

I think you are a bit confused. Aviation fuel is not a high explosive.

Therefore the speed of flame propagation < the speed of sound.

Re: Clearways

A clearway simply designates that no stopping is allowed on a section of highway.

It is NOT an offence to cross or walk on one.

Re: Serious Question

"MS probably hope that folk will not change the default from Bing"

And they would be right. People will just use Bing to search for Google.

Re: Insulation

Well actually there are quite a few newer houses that use foil-backed plasterboard on the interior walls. I don't know the real reason why they make that stuff but it can cause havoc when you WANT to get a WIFi signal throughout your house.

The exterior walls though: we make those out of slightly more permanent materials like bricks.

Re: Nothing to worry about here!!!

You owe me a new sarcasm detector as this one has overloaded and the needle on the meter flew right off.

Re: Pick a side!

That's just John Leyden for you. He doesn't know whether he is British or American.

His brain immediately forgets the keys his fingers press as he is typing. If his eyes were ever to move back along the line of text to verify the words he has just written, then his head would immediately explode. Not to mention the implications for the space-time continuum.

Even the sub-editors daren't read his work as it will forever haunt them in their sleep.

Re: "What is the cost of keeping this plant operating under capacity?"

From TFA:

Alone among British water companies London's Thames Water does actually possess a single desalination plant, at Beckton on the Thames Estuary, but this only has the capacity to produce 150 million litres a day - less than 10 per cent of the city's requirements - and it is run at low output or *completely shut down* most of the time.

Re: "Send Corrections"

There's no point.

You see, what that link doesn't tell you is the destination for said corrections. Which can reasonably be assumed from observed evidence to be a black hole.

No

They are not allowed to do that as the laws of Apple state the products must be the same price everywhere.

So either they cripple all non-Apple sales by increasing the price or they just take a loss for the privilege of reaching iThing users. Many businesses work on mark-ups of less than 30%.

Not to mention that the in-app purchasing is an absolute nightmare. You can't implement or test it until your app is approved. And then you have to manually add each product you want to sell to the iTunes store via a web interface. Future maintenance of the product catalogue thus becomes more demanding.

I had similar experiences to you

When I used to use a Windows Mobile 6 device.

Now on Android 4.0 and it is very close to everything I expect.

You need to get a new phone, man.

Re: Paranoia justified?

No, your paranoia is not justified.

MAC addresses are used for delivery of frames at the data link layer.

Google do not get to see this information.

No-one outside of your local network can learn of the MAC addresses in use at your site. The frames that carry packets outside your network will be addressed with source and destination MAC addresses of each of the router hops in question.

No

Only stuff you put in the Dropbox folder is synced.

Re: Humidity?

Heat yes, but the radiators of an air conditioning unit do not release moisture.

Dehumidification happens inside the building, and condensate finds its way to the drains.

Re: Raspberry Pi?

You have a Raspberry Pi?

FTFY

Everyone USES technology.

Few people UNDERSTAND it.

Re: Interference

Except for the fact that generally it is wasteful for cellular masts to send their signal up into the atmosphere, so usually they are designed to minimise that.

Not only is it really annoying

that they have to invent snazzy-sounding names for standard well-established products like a router, which confuse both me and nontech users alike;

but every "HomeHub" I have had the misfortune to come across has been flaky as hell.

Re: Recording private / public places

Yes, the section 44 reference is relevant if you're a photographer, that is actually doing the recording overtly and in person.

For CCTV things are slightly different. One is obliged to take measures to avoid recording images of other people's private property. If it was just a small corner of the image it's unlikely anyone could object but it is easy to use a bit of masking tape. CCTV images captured for personal use are not subject to the Data Protection Act.

If an organisation wants to record images, they are obliged to do so overtly unless there is a good and specific reason for the surveillance to be covert. Part of being overt about it involves placing signs to draw attention to the monitoring and for what purposes it will be used. Generally, the system must not record audio.

Importantly, if the surveillance is contracted out then the contracting company must obtain a license from the Security Industry Authority.

See http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/topic_guides/cctv.aspx

Re: I'm with Apple on this one

"Or, if you're that stupid, don't have kids."

Unfortunately, stupidity and likelihood of having children are directly proportional.

Re: Transformer...

You say "plug a USB drive into the router" - what do you mean by that exactly?

Do you have a router at home that has a function to host USB storage? That sounds like a really good idea. My curiosity would be sated if you could say what model it is.

Re: FPS controllers

I second that. Control pads worked really well when I played the Super Mario Bros trilogy on the NES.

In almost all types of game except for platformers, a gamepad is a poor kludge - for FPS it is either impossible or the auto-aiming takes any and all skill out of it. For driving it is also next to useless.

I can honestly say the only recent game that I felt worked well on a gamepad (after a bit of getting used to it) was Red Dead Redemption.

@ Jemma

Not really sure how your quote is relevant - as it covers vehicles which are adapted for use by disabled people.

I wouldn't see it as a good trade-off to actually become disabled in order to ride one of these bikes!

Garth, that was a Haiku!

Whoaaa...

Re: "Delete Facebook"

Believe me, if it were that easy, I would be more than pleased to oblige.

Alternatively

RAID can also be said to stand for a Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

Some people prefer to see it as such as it then encompasses the cases where extreme performance and redundancy are both desirable.

As has been said before, horses for courses.

@ DAN*tastik

Fear not, Dan. No longer must you fight alone.