Posts by Hubert Thrunge Jr. 176 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2011
Assange has been fitted up by the men in black so once he's in Sweden, they can lift him out of there to the 'States and he can have some fun with a bit of snow boarding. Well the snow may have melted so it's going to be water, but hey, what's in a word...
Isn't it odd that this Swedish "crime" came to light just after Wikileaks released the Cables?
One would have thought that Sweden would have told the US where to go in the light of what GM did to SAAB!
Is there a way that we can tax this extra CO2 absorption? If not, then it's not happening, and the scientists are crackpots. Global warming will continue until the populous has been taxed sufficiently.
In reality, the planet is doing what the planet does. Ignoring what we do, and doing what the sun tells it to do via solar flares, solar geomagnetic activity, etc...
This information is nothing more than a re-focussed snapshot on this planets recent history. For much better information on what Mother Earth has been doing for about 400,000years, look at the ice core data.
You can clearly see that mankind has been buggering up the planet's ecosystem for hundreds of thousands of years (not!).
It's all natural and cyclic. Live with it.And while you're at it governments, stop imposing "green" taxes on us because it's NOT our fault. It is caused by a number of factors all of which are far beyond our control. All of this taxation and "carbon footprint" crap is like King Canute sitting on the beach commanding the tide to go back out!
I've read the reports of many of these ice core studies, and one thing stands out clearly. The Earth's temperature rises and falls in cycles. It gets hot, it cools down, and so on.
Considering the time span found in some of the cores drilled at Vostok, for much of the time, in fact in the way of things, mankind was only (possibly or probably is not important right now) a small factor in what was found, because 100,000 years ago, we weren't a significant impact on the planet's ecosystem.
What was evident that after the peak of every rise, there was an increase in atmospheric dust, followed by a sudden and dramatic fall in temperature. One can only guess that this dust was volcanic, and we therefore went through a period of major eruptions that spewed billions of tons of pumice into the sky, blocking the sun for tens if not hundreds of years, bringing about ice-age transformations.
We could be at another peak now, or in another year or three thousand. The geologists have been discussing super-volcanoes for a while now, expecting Yellowstone to go up sometime soon (soon in Earth terms could be any time now, or again, in a few hundred, or thousand years) and when it does, they expect a "volcanic winter" to take place, with global temperature drops of anything up to 15, maybe 20 degrees due to the dust occupying the upper atmosphere and blocking most of the sun.
I have no doubt that what we - humans - do has cause an acceleration in climate change, but what we do is minor to the effect of the sun. It affects sea currents, sea currents affect the jet stream, the jet stream affects our weather patterns. Solar magnetic storms also have an effect on our own earth's core, that in turn has an effect on seismic activity, with also is inter-related to tectonic activity.
I don't for one moment think the sea is going to rise by the levels the scaremongers keep whining about. Get a glass of ice, top it up to the brim with water. Wait for the ice to melt, now see the level. It will have fallen!! We're not seeing the sea rise, we're seeing the plates FALL in some areas, where they are rising elsewhere.
And we're allowing people to debate it, and legislate against us, who are thinking of one thing only - taxation of the populous. Climate Change is the new religion. Stone the heretics. Persecute the unbelievers! Praise taxation because it's the only way we'll stop it. Now will someone give King Canute a bigger fork to push the sea back.
Simple. We get taxed more because of it. Whatever it is. Whether or not we need it.
So are the ice core samples taken at Vostok false then? (showing temperature cycles over many many millennia?)
Just wait until Jellystone National Park erupts in the 'states. Then we shall have winter. Any time now (in Earth terms that's anytime in the next 3000 years).
I blame the dinosaurs myself, driving around in their nissans and buicks.
So, they've re-invented the old "Securicor DataTrak" system which was developed by the Royal Navy, and patented :
US5173710
Navigation and positioning system and method using uncoordinated beacon signals
Old old old. And it worked too! Maybe not as accurate as GPS is, but they can work on that I'm sure.
So there.
AFAIK the EU 2 yr warranty thing applies to consumer sales (members of the public).
Business to Business stuff does not apply. Therefore your Dell/HP Business PC/Notebook can still have a 1 year warranty, or even three months if they felt like it.
If Apple are flouting the law, then they need their knuckles rapped, but for a company the size of Apple, €900K is only a tickle. They need a bigger stick - at least double that - plus the shops shut and imports banned for a month in the whole EU!!
I had Pipex Business Broadband in my office. Pipex got bought out by Tiscali (and the alarm bells started to tinkle a bit...), but service was still good, low contention, good speeds all day (I did a lot of work in the evening with no drop in quality). Then TalkTalk bought Tiscali and announced that they were upgrading our service to use their backhauls, etc... Being on a ADSL2 exchange at the time, not a 2+ I had a solid 8Mb, with a throughput of up to 6.8Mbit/s with Pipex pretty well all day. After TalkTalk's "upgrade", the day performance rarely exceeded 4.6Mbit, and the evening performance was typically 360Kbit/sec. What's more they insisted that they could upgrade me to their up-to-24Mbit service, even though our exchange wasn't due for upgrade to 21CN for 18 months. They tried to blame my line, the exchange, all sorts of things. In the end I asked them to leave my life and signed up with another business grade ISP, and as if by magic, my line performance is back to, and if not better than, how it was with Pipex. It took quite a few attempts to get rid of TalkTalk, from asking them to go, it took three months for them to acknowledge the fact and tell me that "in 30 days your service will terminate", and a further 90 days for it to actually happen! I think they've gone now.....
And as for 3 - I've been a customer of theirs since the day they launched, I am a "Founder", and never once have I had cause to complain. When I've had to call them, I've resolved everything with just one call. I think I've called them three times since March 2003. Compare that to o2, who I used for a business shared contract, we seem to be on the phone to them regularly! Though, they do, on the whole, sort stuff out well.
Firstly, yet another idea to kill the pub atmosphere. First we had wide screen TV with bloody football every minute of the day, now it's WiFi. What happened to going out to socialise with other people?
Secondly, the writer of the article is obviously either a shandy drinker or a eurofizz lover, or has only sampled it in bottles or cans which are nothing like the real thing what so ever. A well kept pint of Abbot that's not too fresh (or too old), is nectar in a glass, and should only be taken whilst standing. Persons attempting to drink Abbot Ale in a sitting position may find their knees inoperative after a few. The best way to serve it is "from the wood" - ie a wooden "pin" on the bar, and these days the only way you'll see that is where the landlord takes it to the brewery personally to get it re-filled.
IPA is known by some as "Bury St Edmunds Sugarbeet Factory Effluent", or just plain "Bury Ditch Water". When they brewed IPA at three sites (before becoming GK PLC), both Biggleswade and Furneaux Pelham produced superior IPA.
Old Speckled Hen is an abomination of what it once was, it doesn't taste anything like it used to when brewed at Morland's brewery, same goes for any of their other stolen ales.
Chemically the water may be made to be the same as the original brewery's water, but it doesn't have the same taste. And Bury St Edmunds area tap water has a funny twang to it. Probably due to the Sugar Beet Factory.
Cellar management is an art, and sadly there are not many landlords that do it properly. GK pubs often suffer from spiralling rents, and when that happens, the beer suffers. They love to send out the "plate counters", and if your kitchen is doing plenty of work, the put the rent up. The more you do to counter that, the more they put it up until you just can't afford it anymore. The next tenant comes in on a super cheap deal and it starts again. I can see GK putting the cost of these WiFi hotspots onto their tenants rent too!
There is no such thing as free beer, especially with GK.
I'll stick with my "burning platform" phone with it's 1Gb of RAM and 64Gb of mass memory. I like the little flap over the micro usb, it keeps the crap out of the connector (we don't all live in cleanroom environments like some of you!). And I have a car dock for it - it slides UP into it and stays in place (made by Brodit).
It multi-tasks quite happily with it's puny single core processor, with apps running in the background - not stalled waiting to return to the foreground.
OK the app store isn't very volumous in it's offering, but I already have everything I need on the phone - the ability to make and receive t-e-l-e-p-h-o-n-e calls, to send and receive text and multi-media messages, to send and receive emails, to do a bit of web surfing - watching FLASH as well as HTML5 content. The only thing that peevs me about it is the sync app with the computer - since Elop ordered that it was not to be supported by the great Nokia Suite app, I have to use Nokia Link - which works well, but isn't as good because they have stifled the bluetooth sync from the PC end (it's in the phone).
And I have a game of throwing avian projectiles at swine.
My verdict on the Lumia 900 is "Elop is still Bill Gates' bitch" It still looks like "My First Smartphone" with those crap tiles, and WHY does it need a "home" button, in fact why do you need any more buttons other than the hardware on/off, and volume? It's got a touchscreen FFS, put the controls on that!
Think of all of the sick people that would benefit from the donor organs!
The Americans (and other capitals) need to install Trolley Buses* to keep up with the iPodestrian generation, and the demand for transplant organs.
The World population will benefit as halfwits will be removed from existence, leaving people with common sense left. Which means that we won't need as many health & safety rules, and once more our children will be allowed to climb trees, play conkers, and run around the house with scissors in relative safety.
*= Trolley Bus - electrically propelled bus, powered by overhead power cables, which runs on conventional wheels/roads, unlike a tram which requires a track. Because they are almost silent in operation, as known to the locals as "The Creeping Death".
The Judge makes a ruling on the case : Motorola - Microsoft - you both win or is it lose. I award $1 to each party, legal costs can be born by yourselves. No appeal, and if you ever file another case like this (either of you - against anyone) I'll sentence your CEO, management team, and legal department to 5 years hard labor (note American spelling) in Texas under the control of Sheriff Joe Arpaio. Now get the f**k out of my courtroom!
I once had an interesting chat with a Eco-fundamentalist. She was almost frothing at the mouth at how the human race was destroying the planet, and how it must change NOW!
I asked her one question - "do you have any children", she replied "yes - four".
I pointed out to her that SHE was part of the problem that she describes, and that to save the planet from the human race, she should have set an example by having no children at all. She then went off into another rant that it was a womans right to have children..... I pointed out that it is NOT a right, it is a gift of nature, but if humans are the cause of nature's downfall, why did she create four more humans to speed it's destruction?
Up to that point, she hadn't thought one bit about what she was doing in life, or indeed her part of the ecosystem.
We have an affect on the planet. But unless we blow this rock to bits, or some how lose the atmosphere, it will survive beyond the human race, maybe not in the way that it was in 1923, but it'll still be here.
It's called evolution.
That's that then. Any ideas about WebOS coming back to do anything in that organisation will be killed, and replaced with embedded versions of windows. All HP printers will now require a ctrl-alt-delete trio of keys.....
Can't wait for an ex-MS exec to weedle their way into Cupertino, that could be interesting....
Why should RIM sell itself?
A couple of investment wankers, errr I mean bankers want to make a profit so tell RIM to commit hare kare. No, sorry. FOAD is what they should say.
A MS/Nok buyout would kill RIM dead, just like the marriage between MS and Nokia is slowly killing the once greatest mobile phone maker in the world.
So RIM made a faux pas moving into the tablet market, So what!? Put it behind yourselves and concentrate on the core business - mobile telephony with business applications.
Thankfully the joint CEO's of RIM still own most of the company, so they can offer the single finger salute.
Far too many companies have been destroyed by some profit mongering bankers whim. Come the revolution brothers, they're among the first up against the wall!!! ;0)
I was speaking with a friend who works for o2/Telefonica, and I prodded him about the Nokia N9, to which, "Nokia & Microsoft have been badgering them to take the Lumia 800. They tried them out and were far from impressed, so are trying very very hard *not* to carry them at all.
There was a willingness to carry the N9 in the UK, but Nokia wouldn't supply them in the volumes they wanted/expected to shift, nor would they brand it for O2 UK.
I personally get the feeling, looking at o2's list of phones, and how few Nokias there are, that they have fallen out of bed with the Finnish phone giant, and are only carrying a token handful of handsets. Once upon a time, Nokias made up 75% of their offering, now it's only about 10%.
I'm sure you'll find that someone at Paramount Studios had something like this in mind on the set of Star Trek - The Next Generation. Look closely and you'll see lots of touch screens, some which appear locked, but with a few presses or swipes become unlocked.
Prior Art in my mind, and Gene Roddenbury's estate should be the patent holder because all of that pre-dates any of Apples contentions designs.
The data shows that the global average temperature has risen "dramatically" over the last 130years.
What it doesn't show is how cold it got during the "mini-iceage" in the middle ages. If you take the ancient records of temperatures recorded by the monks, you'll find that we're not back to where we were then. They didn't have cars, factories, or other "spawn of economic & global evil devices" to ruin the planet then.
There were things grown in the UK that would not flourish well in todays climate, well perhaps they might in a few years... only if it stops getting colder here as it is again....
I am not a sceptic regarding global climate change, what I am in no doubt of is that the CO2 protagonists need to start looking at all of the data available - solar, ice cores, etc.. and you can see that mother earth's climate changes on a regular basis, going from hot to cold to hot to cold. In ancient times we would have just migrated, but in modern civilised societies we don't do that, we bitch and moan and have to blame someone/something for it, stay put, and starve.
Make that 11.
Nokia N9 - it comes from a company that makes mobile telephones, so that side of it will work properly - it has a much nicer operating system - you can remove it's battery - you won't be a follower like all of the other iFanbois, or little robots, certainly no walled garden when you run a Linux distro on a Nokia (no money to pay to Microsoft in terms of patent infringments - it goes the other way!) - it has a big screen that goes to the outside of the box!! and finally - every one sold is a poke in the eye for that halfwit Stephen Elop who is trying to rape Nokia on behalf of his former master Gates.
I'm glad to hear that the Jobsians have been kicked out on this one. But App Store? App is an abbreviation of Application - an program that works on a computing device. Store is a shop - place where you buy stuff.
No case to answer. Now go back under your rock and do something useful with your time.
This is what happens when you employ lawyers - they make work for themselves.
Come the revolution brothers, they can be the first ones up against the wall! ;0)
Meego is far from dead. As someone signed up to the Meego (handset) development mail groups, I can tell you that it's development is still on-going, and the heart of it is still in Nokia.
The N9 has already sold out on pre-orders in Finland, and is heading to do the same elsewhere - a phone that "nobody" wants?? Doesn't look like it. In insider at Nokia has said that they get 100 enquiries for unreleased N9's compared to, let's see... one for it's Mango phone...
Rolling other developments into the Meego mix makes it bigger with more clout - and will speed up development towards maturity. It's still only a young product, and Elop made sure that the development team was trimmed to the minimum to try and stifle it - which isn't happening. It'll bit his hand.
So - Zombie? No. Seedling - yes.
As has been pointed out by many - Intel are looking to bolster their business by getting into bed with anyone who will help sell their chips.
MeeGo (Phone) is still being developed as a phone platform at a rapid pace, not quite as rapid as it would have done if Elop hadn't been put in charge of destroying Nokia.
There are still other forks of development of MeeGo - including Automotive (and other embedded systems), Tablet, Netbook, etc.. it's far from dead.
Is the author on the payroll of Cupertino or Redmond perhaps?
If the MeeGo OS developers threw money at marketing like Apple do, then MeeGo would be big bold and everyone would have to have it.
As has been said before - the first problem to solve is Zimbabwe. Mugabe's regime has raped the country - Africa's food bowl - to the point where it cannot feed itself. It once was a net exporter of food products, responsible for supplying over half of central/southern Africa. Fix that, and you have a major part of Africa's problem solved.
With regard to subsidies funding the rich farmers, hold on a moment - what about the rich factory owners, or rich shop owners - they run a business, not a charity! The sole idea of subsidies is to allow them to continue to to produce and be profitable, whilst depressing the market price for you and I to benefit from cheap food. Remove the subsidies and our food prices rise because the world market price will rise without them. It is the world market price that defines our food prices, and while there are more and more of us every day, there is the same, or less, food produced. It's a supply & demand market. To reduce the price, you either have to increase supply, or reduce demand.
The Human species is the only one on the planet that is stupid enough to keep increasing in numbers beyond a sustainable point. Unlike nature, we don't operate on a survival of the fittest to strengthen our species, we go completely against it. How do you fix that? Well, you can't. We're too "intelligent" to do it. The human race is a herd of lemmings, running around in their millions, just searching for that cliff to leap off.
Oxfam feeds on, and supplies, that stupidity.
Civilisation is it's own worst enemy.
There is NO right answer, because the question is wrong!
I have spoken. My phrase is simple "I told you so".
Wireless waves have no regard for boundaries. Signals moving in the general direction of UP often have no scenery to attenuate them.
When a Boeing makes an unexpected landing because it's ILS system was fubar'd by a bit of non-compliant PLT, Ofcom will select top gear and pedal backwards furiously.
They refused to licence GPS re-radiating devices for in-car in the UK use that have a real measurable range of no more than about ten feet because "they *might* interfere with aircraft", yet they allow devices that emit a fair amount of noise in the 108-136MHz spectrum used by air traffic control. Add the amplification of the noise by switched mode power supplies and you could potentially have a few-hundred watt signal generator in certain circumstances, using the house wiring as the aerial system (ants have antennas, radio transmitters use aerials - or radiators to be more precise!)
When one is installed near a coastguard station and causes interference with 156MHz marine distress frequencies, I'm sure there will also be some frank discussions.
It is my feeling that Ofcom were leaned on by BIS in the UK, who were probably cavassed (paid off) by BT who were happily giving the devices away with their Home Hub systems as a cheap alternative to decent wifi/network equipment. Wouldn't it have been better to give each user a 305ft roll of CAT5, some boxes an IDC tool, and some plugs?
I'm a radio professional - I do radio for a living, and emergency comms is my mainstay. This whole saga stinks of brown envelopes.
An EPIC FAIL on their part to uphold the regulations they are supposed to administer.
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