Posts by Andy ORourke 613 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Nov 2007
Look, last time I used public transport I went to Oxford to see a comedy show, I thought me and the wife could make a day of it so we left early (4 hours before we needed to be in the venue, train journey was advertised at about an hour or so) on a Saturday afternoon, got the bus just across the road from our house (how convenient).
Or at least tried to, it turns out that that particular bus at that particular time doesn't go into town (I live in Basingstoke, not some little vilage) I asked the driver where / when we could get the next bus to town but he didnt know (or maybe didnt understand my question). Walked to the other end of the street where we know another bus service runs and the next bus wasn't for an hour which meant we would have missed our planned train service.
I got the car and drove to the train station. Parked in the (frankly astronomically priced car park where I couldnt even leave the car overnight so no drinking for me) and wandered down to the station only to find that the train we had booked for had been cancelled due to lack of staff!
The next train from Basingstoke to Oxford was in an hour and meant we would have missed the start of the show (which, as it turns out, we may have had to leave early to get the last train back). Can you guess what happened next? that's right, off to the car (where I had just paid £8.00 for 10 minutes parking) and drive to oxford.
Now at this point public transport did work because I used the park and ride which was excellent, the drivers were knowledgeable and helpful so Kudos to Oxford.
This weekend me and the wife are off into London on Sunday to a TV show recording, Just checked and found it will cost us £45 on the train and there are many works going on on the tube lines so guess how we are getting there? thats right, Me, the wife (and Jane from Tom Tom) are going to drive into London (probably faster than the 1 hour 5 minutes journey time and not having to stop twice to change cars)
WiFi, Pah, I'd settle for something that gets me there faster, cheaper and more efficiently than my car. Public transport, it's a nice idea if it wasnt just so fucked up!
May I be the first to welcome you to the BOOTNOTES section. That is the section of El Reg which needs no excuse whatsoever to publish stories of a totally non-it (i.e. sexual) nature.
However, for your information, Vibrators are battery powered and El Reg has a great interest in the development of current and future battery technology for use in "leccy Tech"
There's your IT angle :-)
"Meanwhile thousand of users are unable to work, ... and again you cannot give any information to your users ...
Sorry but excellent example of how it shouldn't be done ...."
Petard. Hoist. Own, do these words spring to mind? you have "thousands of users" but only one provider?
Sorry but excellent example of how it shouldn't be done ....
How many iPhones Apple would have sold if it wasnt exclusive to one operator in most countries or if they had dropped the price just a little.
Said it before and I'll say it again, never had an Apple product until I bought a second hand 2g iPhone (which I still have)
BEST. PHONE. EVER (in my opinion!)
IF "they" could guarantee that my £6.00 would go to building FIBRE TO THE HOME and NOTHING ELSE and that once the infrastructure was built the tax STOPPED.
I would also like:
my Up to 8 meg connection to get 8 meg.
my "unlimited" downloads to be unlimited by either speed or cap
world peace and an end to starvation
a cure for cancer and AIDS
to be married to Paris
Still, a chap can dream can't he?
I recently received 3 large boxes from Ciena containing various PCB's and 5 x unknown part numbers.
I had two boxes which had the unknown part number marked on the outside so I figured I am missing 3 of whatever were in these not insubstantial boxes. I didnt raise the order so I got onto our supplier and asked where the other 3 things were.
He laughed and asked me to open one of the boxes. Inside (sandwiched neatly beteen anti-static foam, inside a large ant-static wrapper was and A4 envelope, inside the envelope was an A5 "certificate of authenticity" for two of the PCB's we received. Inside the other box was another "certificate of authenticity" for the other 3 PCB's we had ordered. You couldnt make this up some times!
Handing out a driving ban to a disqualified driver?
Asking if you are a member of a terrorist organisation on the card they give you ON THE PLANE?
Or an other of the myriad of stupid ideas law makers / judges have to give the attempt that people are being punished / protected?
You are right, the picture there <http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/images/mer-20090731b.html> looks like it could have been taken on any beach just about anywhere on earth, it even looks wet!
I call conspiracy, we didnt go to Mars, they have just been taking arty farty photos on Pendine sands!
<<The iPhones will probably have coding or else IDed by IMEI that indicates they were destined for countries that ban SIM locking so the firmware that is installed will lack the SIMlocking code.>>
"Which countries are these? I only know about Finland - and I have no friends going to visit that country..."
I might be wrong but isnt France in a similar situation?
Read his comments!!!!!
Like me he works for a hyper global mega corp who specify he uses IE 6 (FFS) and will probably sack him if he starts installing unauthorised (no matter how much "better" they are) applications
Some of us have to suffer every single day using this outdated POS and the majority of the adverts on El Reg dont go to the places they should, most pages dont render properly and the Fu$king Hiscocks POS crashes my browser every time!!!
You sir owe me a new keyboard!
I was just about to say at $2.20 for a wash and dry that is about 18 wash/dry cycles per week so iether they are doing the laundry for everyone in the apartment block or, as you suggest the machines are incredibly small requiring the washing of each item individually
$40 per week, $200 per month, fuck me just throw your old clothes away and buy some new stuff.....
Come on, admit it, you dont have an iphone do you, you are inferring that you would brush the mute button with your ear aren't you, or recounting a tale that a mate of your wife's aunty heard from one of her freind's.
I use my iPhone as a phone al the time and I would disagree with you completley, the speaker is SHITE, I dislike the tinny, awful quality but as a phone, I answer and talk then hang up, I have NEVER accidentaly muted a call.
I have however accidentaly knocked the "Mute" button on the side near the volume buttons which meant I missed calls because I couldnt hear the thing ringing (but then I do have big fat sausage fingers, not your usual Apple demographic stick thin geek type!)
It's a phone FFS, if you dont like it get a different phone. Far more worrying is the news that every iPhone in the world is about to be hacked by a simple text message!
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/article.html?Text_message_hackers_could_hijack_every_iPhone&in_article_id=711927&in_page_id=150
Me too, I got a DVD the other day that I didnt want (a cock-up from love Film) and decided to stick it on Ebay...........
Fuck that, pissing about, can't add P&P costs for that category, are you sure it is legal for you to sell this etc etc. Two minutes later and bang, Amazon now has another copy of the film on it's inventory!
the residents of this place where I spent some time on manouvers whilst in the forces called themselves?
Suggestions:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=Wank,+84359+Simbach+am+Inn,+Rottal-Inn,+Bavaria,+Germany&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=39.797418,89.384766&ie=UTF8&t=h&z=16&iwloc=A
See, the research was right, you are all clinging to your beliefs that the sky is blue because of this Raleigh scattering (although implying there is a massive bike scattering blue light everywhere sounds kind of crazy to me) rather than the more plausible explanation of it being a reflection of the sea (even in areas were there is no sea!)
Surely if Google is a search engine that indexes the internet then to discriminate against companies it doesn’t like is anti competitive?
"Googled" Search Engines - Top Sponsored Ad was for Bing, top "real" Ad was Dogpile (with Google at #3)
"Binged" Search Engines - Top Sponsored Ad was for AdCentre (Whatever that is), top "real" Ad was for searchenginewatch.com (With Dogpile at #3)
Google didn’t feature at all on Bing search results, go figure! I was going to "bing" for "Google" but got scared!
"So he's worked on the F-117 and F22 in the past, what's the betting he's working on the F-35 now though?"
From the legal document on page 2 (I know, many people don't make it that far without getting bored!) it looks as though he is a "realtor" (estate agent?)
"On behalf of the United States of America, Realtor Darrol O. Olsen files this..........."
Must have been really good at his last job then?
"(Bill of Rights Act 1689, section 6: No man may be penalised, have property seized or be subject to punishment until deemed guilty of a crime in a court of law by a jury of their peers)."
Good luck with that next time you get a parking fine!
http://www.parking-appeals.gov.uk/about/circulars/Bill%20of%20Rights%20Act%201689.pdf
The 1689 Act is relevant, but there is no conflict between it and the
decriminalised parking scheme brought in by the Road Traffic Act 1991.
"Maybe Paytards if 90% of us refused to pay for it we would get the big software for a reasonable price. No?"
No, if the major producers of software and "content" took a 90% reduction in income, there would be very few Major software / "content" producers around.
"As for the music biz, FUCK THEM ALL! If i can send my money directly to a music artist then you will get money out of my cold dead hands. Those Cork Sokers are ultimately responsible for the proliferation of music piracy too!"
No, People uploading / sharing music on the internet and a generation growing up to beleive that everything should be free (so long as they get paid for what they do) is ultimatley responsible for the proliferation of music piracy.
As someone else on this thread has pointed out, if it is OK to rip CD's / DVD's off the web then why not just walk into HMV and take what you want, it constitutes the same thing doesnt it?
I am assuming the other button is marked :
"Fuck right off"
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"We can’t give the content providers a completely free ride and continue to give customers the [service] they want at the price they expect"
Stop selling Fucking unlimited packages then. I have an always on, "up to" 8Mbps (Yeah, like that ever happens) UNLIMITED* (up to a certain fair use limit) internet connection. Now if I want to spend all day streaming video to my desktop, downloading Linux ISO’s via bit torrent (because that’s all it is ever used for, I have never met anyone here who does anything else) or simply doing continuous pings to an IP address across the pond then that is my prerogative.
The Internet Service Provider is providing me with a connection to the internet, nothing more nothing less. If they do not have the infrastructure in place to back up the number of unlimited data packages they have sold then that is their problem, not mine and not the content provider.
I suppose it comes from the good old days when you invested in a big switch and massively oversubscribed because not all subscribers would want to make a call at the same time. Guess what ISP's that model doesn’t work with always on internet customers.
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