Posts by RP84

Deadly pussies kill more often than owners think

Our cat has a bit of a thing for Indian dishes, we've had Pakoras, Samosas and mini Naan breads delivered straight to the living room floor.

Trust me, a circular Naan bread doesn't look like it should in the dark at 3am.

HTC struggling as profits drop 70 per cent

They appear to be 'doing a Nokia'

Releasing loads of handsets, all at the same time, pretty much all the same specs (but with silly differences like one has a 'X' coloured case or an integrated dog whistle or something equally useless in the real world).

You walk into a phone shop (or look online) and see a bunch of HTC handsets that look the same, then you see other manufacturers with this that and the other differentiating almost every model.

iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung

That might be

because the US provider's use of the term "4G" is totally different to that of the rest of the world. Try looking up 4G in Sweden for instance.

Apple one-day-only sale plans for Macs, iPads leaked to web

Life support machine?

Genetically modified mutants 'safe for release' into the wild

Attack of the Killer Shrews?

http://www.archive.org/details/The_Killer_Shrews

Voda in 3G blackhole probe by ASA

Here in Waterlooville

I spent 3 months constantly attempting to call customer services due to their network availability (lack thereof) and was consistently told "you should get excellent coverage there, including indoors" even when I was stood in the middle of a car park I had dropped calls, no data service, etc.

It was only when I looked at the map of 3G cell sites and 3G service apps that I personally managed to find the one rogue cell which was causing the dropped calls. It was taking communications away from working cells, then dropping them, which of course made this cell the desirable one as it had no traffic, so round we go again.

Even when given the full details, down to which cell it was on which tower, they still took another month to acknowledge there was an issue, and a further week to actually get around to looking at it. I got one months line rental back as I "had access to phone services, even if data wasn't available" even though dropping calls were experienced when talking to their customer service staff.

I'm not even going to bother explaining the "we don't update customer facing systems during working hours" before cutting me off while updating their call centre software at 1pm BST.