Posts by MJI

Motörheadphönes ears-in review

Re: Other brands.

Was interesting that these are not cheap.

I also have Sennheisers.

Flat tonal response is best.

Sounds like these are trying for flat

4K vs OLED: and the winner is...

You are allowed to watch other shows

You do know Xcraptor is not compulsary.

My wife says she can keep fully up to date if she wanted in 5 minutes of daytime TV.

There are other programmes.

OK I will admit I do watch Doctor Who.

Drinking too much coffee can MAKE YOU BLIND

Stuff coffee have a beer!

Barista sounds, so, so, umm wet.

It is just a coffee shop!

<---- proper drink

Re: acquired taste

Well I can't be bothered trying to acquired it.

I still think those roasters which put coffee fumes out on pavements should be banned.

Hang on the pubs are open now, hmm Thatchers or Westons decisions decisions

Re: and Tea?

I am interested too

Re: I hate coffee

I forgot to say, and they are not yet open.

At least 8 near work selling decent stuff - my dinner time task is to test them.

I hate coffee

Never liked it, hate the smell, never understood why people like it.

Normally drink decaf tea - caffeine makes me feel het up.

What will that do for my eyesight?

Luckily a drink I like is available in the next building to our office building.

It is just after 10 and I feel like a pint.

Sci Fi recomendations?

What I recomend is

Go to a SH book shop and buy everything you can from the following older (and a few current) authors.

Isaac Asimov

Greg Bear

Gregory Benford

David Brin

Arthur C Clarke

Orson Scott Card (8 Enders universe books)

Harry Harrison (some great series - my favourite is To The Stars trilogy)

Poul Anderson (Tau Zero is excellent)

That is a year sorted

There are a few new British authors who are good

Stephen Baxter

Richard Morgan (Takeshi Kovacs)

Alastair Reyolds (Revelation Space series)

There are many many more worth getting as well.

One final thing, if they are alive, and you like their books, or have a question email them, Authors generally reply, so far no failures. They love to hear from their fans.

Sony suspends slate sales

Previous model

I have seen it in use, the owner loves it and ran an app to control his work PC

Major Freeview EPG revamp to go ahead after appeals rejected

Re: Renumbering

We won't get more HD 4G is stealing the frequencies

Retune and mad deletion time again!

An annoying game

Fed up of it

I think I simply will not bother

Whopping supersonic-car rocket rattles idyllic Cornwall

Education

I know (sort of - related to my wife) one of the education team.

She is always busy, they are at exhibitions.

Got a photo somewhere of my sons next to a Bloodhound exhibition model.

Yes it is inspiring the young, lots of these type of projects did, remember the interest Beagle 2 raise even though it broke?

Wing Commander.

You do realise that is the current rank of the driver don't you?

Apple: Blue-shirts can fix iOS Maps in their spare time

Spock & McCoy

Why are they supposed to do the maps?

Why not the red shirts?

Or do they die too easily?

Purpose of RFID finally discovered: It's for pairing up socks!

Re: Clip them together..

Too much effort

I'm sticking with day socks!

Sock matching

I just match the Monday sock to the Monday sock - easy

Scott & Virgil are easy as well.

OK so I have two weeks of daily socks - different though and some Thunderbird socks but all of mine are pairable

Thank Freeview for UK 4G by mid-2013 - NOT the iPhone 5 nor EE

Re: WCML

Whoops!

Well they are both bus companies and I was sure it was First group!!!!

WCML

First Group are not competent to do it, look what happened to the East Coast Main Line when they bid way over the odds.

Keep it for HDTV

Stuff 4G we want better HDTV

Nominet mulls killing off the .co from .co.uk

Not workable

I have <aname>.org.uk, someone else has <aname>.co.uk, so who gets <aname>.uk?

Democratic congresswomen 'less feminine in appearance' than Republicans

Widdicombe or May

I'll give you Widdicombe

May is not too bad, better than Short or Waquie

Flint or Menche not bad at all.

Group Of Pictures

What does it have to do with politics?

That democrat woman

Looks like Spocks sister.

Event Horizon Telescope spots source of black hole jets

My first thoughts were

Hell

Analogue TV snuffs it tonight on UK mainland

Freeview picture quality

Degraded over the years

Back in 1993 BBC1 looked fantastic on DTTV, really really good. (I know don't be pedantic)

This was with a Wega tube IDTV. DVDish bitrates.

Since then they have been squeezing the bit rate down and down.

Now BBC 1 is actually quite ropey.

Using DSTV BBC1HD is not that different in picture to how BBC1 SD used to look when it first started.

The last change to DSO really made BBC1 look bad. (Oh and above IDTV was not compatible - good job I sold it to someone with a sat box)

Bloody phones

Knicking the broadcast spectrum.

I wanted high bitrate HD not more bloody mobile frequencies.

For decent HD you to go BluRay now.

Want to see poor HD, try Gardeners World with a busy picture - looks like SD.

Thumbs down and Comments

Re: Oh. There you are, annonytwat thumbs-downer.

I noticed, 2 down

Don't worry I upvoted it!

Scientists: 'Castration is the key to a longer life'

Longer life vs exercise

Thought this watching joggers and cyclists.

Lets say 1 hour a day over 50 years.

Over 2 solid years exercising.

Will they live that much longer?

Sky ruled OK to hold broadcast licence without Murdoch at helm

How many people won't touch with bargepole?

I don't, one of the reasons I won't have it is Murdoch, for fun the others are.

Cost

I want my own kit not substandard this is what you have like it or lump it kit.

How hard is 3D printing?

There are other uses

It is getting popular in the model railway hobby.

Short runs of unusual wagons.

Base coach bodies for sticking etched sides on, interiors done, underframe not bad, etched brass sides look good, in smaller scales.

Parts for models.

Even slimmer PS3 out next week

Re: Well, a size reduction is always nice, but ...

Why Fifa - sounds totally boring.

Why not something fun?

Or Good?

Or all 3 Uncharted games?

Quite a few don't

Lad opposite me - got PS2, no PS3, wants one

NASA working on faster-than-light drive capable of WARP TEN

Warp 2.15 thankyou

I see someone posted while I was calculating it

Ballmer: Win8 'certainly surpasses' Win95 in importance

Win 95 launch

I remember where I was

The launch of Real/32, now that was a good operating system

Haynes Build Your Own Computer book review

Re: Roll your own, keep your sanity and your checkbook safe (maybe)

I do as much as I can,

Strip a quad cam V6 to change valve seals - check

FIt LPG to a car - check

Build a PC - check

I used to run an old car and I knew it inside out, replaced lots of bits, bigger engine, forest suspension ect.

Now I would not trust a mechanic to do the cam belt - one said to me do not need the locking kit - so why is it adjustable to fractions of degree?

LPG - seen professional systems mess up, my DIY install didn't

Am I superman then?

Built our last home PC

Rebuilt old components into a childrens PC

Changed a timing belt on my car 3 years ago, and doing again soon, and it is a quad cam engine and has multiple points of adjustment.

Re: Huh?

Yes, it is cheaper and less restrictive than buying a ready made.

I wanted multiple terabytes of HDD. Not bothered with absolute speed so got Samsung drives

I wanted a hot processor in my case a quad

I wanted XP Pro - still have to run some older packages

I wanted a BD Burner - video editing

Then bought suitable components.

Boffin named Jubb to fire whopping hybrid thruster

Re: Hard as I try

I know one of the education team, I have seen a picture of my twins with her at a show.

And you can see the family likeness with my wife.

Airbus predicts catapult takeoffs and formation flying by 2050

Re: New York to San Francisco

Less than a day for a HST, but then you would need to refuel it.

Proper high speed like the French are researching 10 hours

New York to San Francisco

Hmm I got to about 23 hours with Diesel and 16 if you used a TGV.

Proper not flying anymore airliner would have been about 2 1/2 hours

My thoughts

Airliners peaked in design a few years ago - nothing flying now as good as a decade ago.

Wing in ground effect is more efficient - cross oceans at low level using less fuels.

I think for land masses high speed rail is the best solution

Emotional baggage

Can't do that lesson

I had this at O level/CSE.

Put down 2 sciences, tech drawing, metalwork.

Couldn't do metalwork so had to do youarepeeing studies, managed a nice low CSE for it, I think 3 or 4 of us did it due to no metalwork.

The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?

Re: Disappointing

lens sensors amd megapixels

Yes I have taken lots of lowish megapixel pictures of quite decent quality.

Lens good - well it is for a domestic video camera.

sensor - pretty good again, but low megapixels.

My last video camera was about 1.2MP and the quality was OK even at A4.

Newest does 6MP as it is HD and I have some nice pictures off it.

Hmm

Minders, how tempting was it to wallop one?

One of the phones to me just had loads of red squares not obvious what they were.

Internet Explorer needs fresh dev infusion for a full recovery

IE

Actually I find the version still on my home XP PC might be 7, may be 8, is very sluggish, seems to take a while to do anything, FF is quite quick in comparison. (I needed to compare 2 Ebay accounts).

Q8200 so no slouch.

My daughter recently got a new Win 7 laptop, she installed Firefox rather rapidly

Re: It's not cool to bash IE...

I have upgraded past IE8 on XP - Firefox 15

For XP with IE dead ended FF and co are the best browsers to use.

Organic food offers basically no health benefit, boffins find

Re: Organic Better?

Do they taste nice?

Apart from small size sounds like a pre intensive UK farm

Re: Properly raised and butchered meat is better

Well in the UK we do not add hormones and antibiotics are only used when necessary.

Sheep as mentioned before are only paperwork away from organic, pasture cows - no problem, pigs should have room to run about.

Chickens - as long as free range.

So get decently raised meat and a decent butcher - you get decent meat.

Supermarket cheap stuff has not hung at all.

Re: Not sure...

No issue in the UK we have very high levels of control on livestock welfare

Freesat eyes YouView USP for next-gen UI

Re: I like the 'my recordings' UI

How did you get that many on it?

I think after 50 it gets rather full and that is BBC 1 hour shows, stick on longer stuff and even less can be stored.