* Posts by Al42

14 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Feb 2011

Why do Smart TV UIs suck?

Al42
FAIL

Top up tv crap...

Sigh Early software used to be good you used to be able to select your favorite channels ...

Turn it on and no More shopping / crap...

Of cource a software upgrade removed this...

A top up bar at the bottom of the EPG so you have to scroll up not down

Its. absolute crap

Now the f.... Thing cannot record one channel

And let you watch another without wineing that it wants to download content ...

AAARGH............

Obama win may mean NASA 'nauts to Deep Space as soon as 2021

Al42
Angel

nasa v uk space program from the uk

SIGH. I was watching breakfast TV this morning and some charity rep was moaning that the UK

was cuting the £280 Millonare grant to India

This is a country with lots own space atomic reactors and weapons etc

Where over here British aerospace cut research and development in a htol a single stage to orbit engine / plane

Google reaction engines...

And weep for a further dose of misery look for the TV program Rocket Men

NOTHING THAT NASA COULD DO DOES CAN BE WITHIN any magiude of this

Happy birthday, Compact Disc

Al42

Sony Cdp101

Ah Nosatalga Went to Laskys to buy a Nakamechi Tape Dec ...

Listened to a Sony CDP101 Went round the corner to Buy a Dire Straights CD

Could not leave the shop without the Cd Player ...

In the days when Sony was a quality Hardware maker !! ( I think I have The Circuit Diagram Still)

Dous Anybody Know what the Blue Ribbon Socket on the Back was For ????

Foxconn allegedly hid underage workers from inspectors

Al42
Unhappy

Re: Re: @arctic fox

Being Forced to watch Daytime Tv AAARGH

Have YOU No Compassion

Boffins make graphene micro-distillery

Al42
Linux

Look out for Tactical Nuclear Penguin ++

I'm shure they will be brewing a Graphine Distilled Beer Shortly....

Hmmm 32% abv £3.00 for a shot in My Local OUCH

GAGA prepares to inhale some grass

Al42
Happy

GaGa

Paint It PINK and call it Lady...

NASA detects 'heartbeat' of pint-sized star-sucker

Al42
Go

Printer !!!

HP Laserjet 4 When Hp Made stuff that lasted than the Warranty ...

Bristol boffins bring qubit computing a tiny step closer

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Thumb Up

See This Acorn Valves

http://www.antiquewireless.org/otb/acorntube.htm

NASA busts booster booster

Al42
FAIL

(Rocket Launch Icon) OOPS...

It's a bit of a blow to the Register Secret ^H^H^H^H Special Project Team

How's the bid on The Spare Branson Balloon Going ???

Blue Screen of Death gets makeover for Windows 8

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Happy

I Much Prefer

Guru Meditation Error

Nuke plant shut down after US earthquake

Al42
Holmes

Grazer

Read David Brins novel Earth...

Its a Gravity Laser using miniture Black holes ...

CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment

Al42
Holmes

Poo...

Anybody else noticed Pooh Bear in the bottom right of the Map ?????

HTC 'dismayed' by Apple's bizarre patent allegations

Al42
Megaphone

Prior Art

Try Amateur Radio Trancievers, late 1970s They had a synthasizer for setting the channel used radio networks (REPEATERS) and of cource had a speaker

For early packet radio networks google "aloha" a Packet Radio Network in hawaii

Then AX25 uk networks

DEC: The best of systems, the worst of systems

Al42
Happy

Dec started Me out in Computers

Spent the Dinnertimes at Tech College playing Lunar Lander on a Dec PDP ??

with RK08 disks GT40?? Vector terminal

I Went From this is GREAT (How do I Build One)

Then to the 77-68 Then Acorn Atom BBC A/B Amiga, I all ways Wanted a Alpha

By The Way You COULD Screen Edit On A PR1me

We Had Dacoll Terminals with a Custom ROM it could display Teletext also

(Any Colour as long as its Green ) & Software on the Prime to Do Full Screen Editing...