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Whojobs?
Of course he was a great guy but it's not really in the same league.
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This box is ticked by default, which I personally think it shouldn't be.
The effect of this is that "Uploaded maps will be visible to anyone on maps.google.com"
Just untick the box if you're concerned about privacy.
I use Endomondo (at the same time as My Maps) too - the autopause feature is useful.
Being a sysadmin, when my wife's car needed fixing last month (power steering and brakes causing trouble in this case), I called my local wreckers / car repairers and booked the car in, then dropped it off with them later in the week. Next day they called me and said they'd found the parts needed in another wreckers on the other side of the country (not Canada, but quite large anyway) using some no doubt similar website to the one you found after about a week's worth of digging. They told me how much it was going to cost, got the parts and fixed the car.
End result, I did a week's worth of sysadmin tasks and don't even know the name of the website, or whether it uses flash.
I bought an Acer netbook from the UK and had it shipped to Australia in June last year. I contacted both the vendor and Acer Australia when the hdd died recently, and Acer agreed to repair it - even paying for shipping. They claimed to be unable to reinstall the original linux os install; I should get the machine back next week.
So, it seems that the new policy may already have been unofficially implemented already - I had been fearing that I might need to pay for return shipping to the UK.
How does this compare to tethering your wifi (or bluetooth) enabled device to a suitable 3G phone?
Surely everything the mifi offers can equally well be achieved though tethering (assuming the 3G phone is unlocked). Such a 3G phone offers the added advantage of being able to make and receive phonecalls.
I've noticed that these reviews never include the supported WCDMA frequencies - OK all phones are now quad-band GSM - but if one is interested in using a phone on a particular network (Telstra NextG / WCDMA 850 in Australia in my case) it is useful to know which frequencies are supported.
In this case, a bit of looking around suggests that this one is WCDMA: 850/900/2100 (Tri-Band) - does this make it the first Android handset supporting 850 WCDMA?
Please add supported frequencies in reviews in future.
For all those who have moaned previously about el Reg not having reviewed the Acer Aspire One, here's the link:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/03/acer_launches_one/
Personally I'm quite please with the eee PC 4G I picked up from eBay for around GBP120 last week.
Let's see what Dell offers.
... and came to the conclusion that it's cheaper / better to build a PC based on a mobo with 4 sata ports, particularly if, like me, you have old PC cases with power supplies hanging around.
Mine came in at under 100 quid (excluding disks) with a low-end Core 2 processor and 2Gb Ram.
"Customers do have to buy a display, mouse and keyboard if they don’t have spare ones already though” says the article.
I interpret this with the following caveat: "However, if they do NOT have a display, mouse OR keyboard (AND they can prove it (terms and conditions apply)) they are exempted from this compulsion to purchase.
I realise that these are just UK ad figures, but how do the figures stack up as a whole (ITV vs Google)?
Also, how much more growth is available to Google - i.e. if one assumes that the (global) budget available to be spent on advertising is a slowly growing amount, how much longer can the revenue growth previously seen by Google continue?
I've been looking at Fon on and off for ages too; what makes this different and maybe worthwhile is the access to BT OpenZone.
However I'd expect most of the useful BT OpenZone hotspots to be 'premium hotspots' and hence excluded.
The Find Hotspots link on btfon.com didn't work for me (due to it being beta.bt.com / firewall / noscript / who knows) - has anyone checked and managed to find one in an airport / railway station etc?
Temperature!
We need proper units for describing how hot things are. My suggestion for the base unit is
Cold enough to freeze the balls off a brass monkey (bM).
Bath temperature (bT) = 3.14159 bM
Piping Hot (pH) = 5.43656 bM
Now we can start to cook something:
Deposit 1.414 Bulgarian airbags of water in a saucepan and heat to 1.7 pH (9.24 brass monkeys). Add a chicken egg (0.35gf) and wait until it's cooked - 1 sbut if you want to dip soldiers, up to half a wtita if hard boiled is more to your liking.
Mmmm ... time for breakfast
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@Christopher Emerson
Of course I expect M$ employees to use hotmail addresses when they are perpetrating 419 scams - why not?
Obviously they don't fake the 'From:' header because they want to receive the reply - Doh!
"The price of $135-$200 is actually for the PSP satellite navigation add-on 'Go Explore'."
But in the article it says:
"David Reeves, President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe, claimed PlayTV would extend the "broad entertainment credentials of PS3". He said the accessory would be priced between $135 and $200."
Who is right?
Incidentally, why should the "President of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe" be quoting a price in $ at all?
Are they as bad as the Yorkshire asbo clamper?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/05/25/car_clamping_asbo/
Round here they're quite friendly - I left my car obstructing the driveway to the local court house and returned to find a note written on a piece of paper saying they'd made a note of my registration and asking me not to park here again!