Posts by druck 4200 publicly visible posts • joined 6 Jun 2007
Use Windows Calculator - you are joking? The program that produces two different results for 2+3*4 depending on whether it's showing a simple or complex button layout. (Standard gives the wrong answer of 20, and you have to switch to scientific to get the right answer of 14).
I didn't even have a Psion 5 but get misty eyed about them. I remember I great photo I took of two of my uber geek friends in the back of the car during a tour of Europe, tapping figures in to their Psion spreadsheets to work out our expenses in 5 different currencies - those were the days!
...but your pension company might be forced to. The rules of some pension funds compel them to invest in the 100 largest companies on the stock market, and Facebook will become one of them. So while you might avoid making personal investing this ridiculously overvalued tatmonger, your pension might take a big hit when the social networking bubble inevitably bursts.
"As the human race, we've effectively regressed from the spaceplane era, back to the thowing-guys-up-in-the-air-in-a-tin-can era."
Worse, we don't even have the tin cans able to get to the moon any more.
Even back inside the atmosphere, we've given up on supersonic passenger flight.
Many countries are now abandoning nuclear power.
The way things are going (rapidly backwards), it may well be time to start up flint axe production again.
I've got a 46" Samsung TV and sit 10' away, my Humax HD recorder allows watch a HD channel and send either 576, 720 or 1080 line resolution to the TV. Even with my tired 43 year old eyes, I can quite clearly see an improvement in detail between 720 and 1080, and enormously so over 576. Now obviously the lower resolutions have to go through two lots of scaling, but if the original content is 1080, it makes sense to watch it at that resolution for the best results regardless or optical resolving theory.
I wish my Samsung dumped the unprocessed audio out of it. 5.1 can go in via an HDMI input, but it only outputs stereo via HDMI or optical. So if I want 5.1 from my Humax HD Freiview box I have to feed that in to my surround sound amp (also Samsung) directly via optical. Both those units have the ability to ad a delay to the audio to match the picture, but it's a pain having to switch audio source and use a separate remote for volume (a good all-in-one remote is on my wishlist).
DrXym writes: "Scientists are telling you calmly, dispassionately, repeatedly that the climate is changing and backing up those statements with studies, analyses, figures, error bars, charts."
Scientists may do that, but in your previous post you prefer to hysterically and passionately brand anyone not agreeing with you as "conspiracy cranks / evolutionist / holocaust deniers"
And you go on further: "Some people it seems do not like hearing bad news and pretend it's all some vast conspiracy by scientists for grant money. Or something."
Alternatively, some people, i.e. you; are just arrogant, offensive and wrong.
The shuttle's cross range capability wasn't just useful for military missions which were never flown, but also to be able to read a far greater range of landing sites in the case of either a take off abort or an abort once around. It also made it a lot easier to use the alternate sites in the case of adverse weather at planned landing sites, without the need to burn a lot of fuel changing orbit.
Luckily a take off abort was never performed either, but if there had been only limited cross range capability, many missions would not have been cleared to fly, as an abort would have lead to an enviable ditching in water or a crash landing. The shuttles cross range capability allowed at least a good attempt being made to put down on a dozen different long runways around the world located within gliding range of the downrange track.
AC wrote: "Currently fingerprints work, because the sample held is small, in comparison to the general population. Therefore any match is more likely to be what you are looking for. Now expand the sample to be a much larger subset of the general population. Running a search could throw up 2,3 or more matches. "
2 or 3 hundred matches more like, and you can't eliminate most of the suspects like you can with the criminal fraternity - many either already behind bars, dead, wrong MO, etc, etc. If the police had the resources to follow up every match, you'd be seeing hell of a lot more of your local nick, and you'd better start keeping a diary so you can remember what you were doing on the night of the 17th six months ago.
"So, as a proactive measure we've invalidated your SourceForge.net account password. To access the site again, you'll need to go through the email recovery process and choose a shiny new password."
It's not enforcing a shiny new password though, I just successfully set my old one again, which should be prevented if a compromise is suspected.
Just as Microsoft was forced by the EU competition regulator to put a ballot screen up for the choice of browser, how about one for choice of OS on a new machine?
The installation images for Windows and various other OS's can easily be contained on a modern system's hard drive, so the user can pick the one they want, and let it install itself. If you don't choose Windows, you get an automatic refund.
The sanity of anyone choosing to pay for hotmail would have to be questioned. However, sometimes Microsoft tries to take that choice away, as my sister found out when her mailbox got too large, and Microsoft demanded she move to the paid for version to continue to access it. Luckily sense prevailed, she refused and went over to yahoo.
Screw the 30,000 muppets who volunteered to be first throw money away on Labour's ID scheme, caveat emptor!
What about the rest of us which need to have passports for travel and have seen the costs quadruple since 1997, much of the increase being a stealth subsidy so ID cards could be offered at £30.
I really enjoyed the utterly condescending responses. You'd have a petition which went along the lines of:-
Proposition: We oppose 90 day detention without trial for littering.
Signatures: 10,000,000
Response: We understand your concern, but it really is for your own good.
Nothing like getting an email 6 months later with that in to raise the blood pressure through the roof.
This was Labour's idea of democracy, being something out of a single party state, with the added bonuses of collecting the names and addresses for dissidents for future re-education. Let it die.
I've got a Galaxy S, the wife has an iPhone4. Each of us loves our own one and thinks the other isn't as easy to use, but objectively it's pretty much a dead heat in terms of hardware and software features. It will be fascinating to see what the next model from Apple and Samsung are like, and if either manages to pull ahead decisively.
