Posts by Irongut

Re: Fuck 'em

We'll forget about our privacy laws the day they repeal their right to bear arms.

(yeah never)

Re: Why not launch from altitude ?

The big boat was built on the Clyde in 1996 iirc. I used to watch their progress from a 20th floor window on the other side of the river. It's reusable.

Re: Anything to stop TV companies buying it?

The term is ConDem, not ConLib.

@AC, 18:49

That's nice for you but here I sit in my just outside city centre property with 12Mb down/1Mb up and that's the best I can get. Despite being the city with the largest population in my part of the UK, 30 minutes walk from the city centre and with lots of businesses in the area there's no fibre, no cable and I can't even get the 20Mb broadband I was sold even though I'm less than 1km from the exchange.

And when are BT going to install FTTC? That's anybody's guess because they've been puching the date back 3 months, every 3 months for the last year.

Re: Bushnell?

"There'd be no home gaming market today had Nintendo not come along"

Bull. There were plenty of good and profitable games for home computers from the Spectrum / C64 era to the Amiga / Atari era and onwards that had nothing to do with Nintendo. The console market died in 1984 but home gaming did not.

Re: It's logical really

Acually in my experience the patient comes into the doctor's office, the doctor doesn't really listen to them & prescribes a drug from whichever company took them golfing most recently, the patient says "I can't take that I'm allergic, it says so in my notes", the doctor prescribes another drug, the patient takes it for a week & it makes them violently ill but no better. Eventually the illness goes away by itself.

At least that's how it goes for the missus.

Re: I'm not to sure...

There are plenty of reasons not to use DropBox. Lack of encryption of your data, staff having access to your data, if you're in Europe you need to consider the Data Protection Act because their servers are in the USA so you're transferring data outside the EU... I'm not saying I would use Mega or that it solves all these problems but DropBox is not the amazing and obvious choice many think it is.

Re: What did I just read?

Agreed, that nonsense about now showing open windows had me wondering if the author has ever used Fedora before and I lost all faith in what he was saying.

As for the "only experienced users need apply" comments, Fedora 17 works perfectly for my gf who was on Ubuntu untill they decided to turn it into spyware. She's had no problems with the transition and likes Gnome 3. Admitedly she had me to set it up for her but I didn't think it any harder than the Ubuntu or Win7 installers.

Re: Another day, another "Let's bash BT" article

Another day, another lie from BT.

Just because Virgin lie as well doesn't mean we should let BT get away with it.

Re: Industry led?

No it's like saying IT policy should be set by IT people, not beancounters or the teaboy.

Re: The benefit of a monoculture.

Beacuse "The researchers said the malware also has the capability to steal data from smartphones including Android handsets, iPhones and Windows Phone mobes - including Nokia, Sony Ericsson and HTC models." clearly indicates it only infects one platform.

Similar in size to a gnat's chuff. Obviously.

Re: Android, iOs, BB Will by year's end Dominate.. WIndows anything? Whatever...

Office and Exchange integration? Works perfectly on my S3, don't need a WinPho for that.

Re: Ré Kettle

Since it's an 800W kettle boiling water on the hob would definitely be quicker.

Hell boiling water in the sun would be quicker!

My kettle uses more power than Lester can get.

Re: of course the TV is on...

Some of us want decent quality audio when we listen to music. Not the crap your TV can produce.

I could have shown you how to make bendy PCBs 25 years ago. It's a lot easier than you might think.

Re: Audio Quest Coffee cable

Go read about the cables from Locus Design, they make the Audioquest cables look like a Ford Fiesta. :p

Re: Funny...

"Ah yes, those were the days when the 64 in a computer name meant 64K of Ram, not the size of the word. ;-)"

Except it didn't. It meant the size of the memory, including both RAM and ROM. So the 48K Spectrum had 41K of RAM and the Commodore 64 had 30 something. A fact Commodore owners never liked to hear.

"Until then, Windows 8 is about as painless to use as trying to find apps in Android by wandering through the huge flat-list-of-icons App Drawer"

Actually it's worse! At least in recent versions of Android you can have the App Drawer automatically order itself alphabetically which makes apps easy to find if you can remember the name. TIFKAM has no such feature so the app you want could be anywhere in the multicolour mess of giant squares.

Re: When Journalist become flamers...

"Incidentally, 15 years does not equal energy security give the time it take to build say a nuclear reactor and make it operational..."

You're assuming the only gas we have will come from fracking. I can assure you there is more than 15 years worth of gas in the North Sea gas basin. Most of it is even in large fields which are easy to exploit.

Re: Which Korea?

Particularly in light of SK's recent launch.

Re: Why doesn't Apple simply 'Man Up'?

"The reality is at least on an iDevice you get Apple Maps AND Google Maps (as well as plenty of other 3rd party ones)."

Except the reality is there is no Google Maps app for iOS. Or did you mean you can go to their website? Hardly the same thing now is it?