Posts by monkeyfish 513 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Apr 2012
So why not have the permission for the internet connection disabled for apps that require it for adverts? I've not got ad supported apps for that reason, I don't like apps that have free rein to fetch whatever they want. I'd prefer google to make separate permission that is 'internet access to the ad network' as opposed to the whole internet (i.e. the app only has permission to access a single ip where the ads come from). Then that option could be un-blockable from app-ops.
I found 4OD on it last night, and can confirm that it works on the cheapest Roku LT. Yey! That was the only thing missing when I bought it as far as I was concerned. Christened with the first episode of Adam & Joe. Green Wing tonight! I realise I could watch it on the computer or any of the other devices, but I just can't seem to be bothered to watch TV on anything other than the TV. Probably the best £35 I spent this year.
I bought a roku box when the chromecast was first mentioned (on the suggestion from a helpful commentard right here on the reg). It was £35 in Dixons at the time, and works with iplayer and netflix. Unfortunately that's about all it does, no 4OD for example. But for turning an older TV set into a semi-smart one at a low cost, it's perfect.
EDIT: 4OD might well be available for it as of last month! If this site is correct, I'll have to check tonight. http://advanced-television.com/2013/11/27/4od-joins-now-tv-roku/
The distinct lack of urinals should also be be a key indicator of being in the wrong area altogether.
I, too, have been caught out by out toilet lights off system, but managed to wipe, flush, and escape without injury or embarrassment. I think they lengthened the time after pretty much everyone taking dump got caught out in the first couple of weeks.
" what's the driving force behind "just like USB, only square"?"
It was also intended that USB A was the host (i.e. PC) and USB B was the peripheral (i.e. printer, scanner, camera, whatever). But then USB flash drives came along and it made sense to put USB A on the peripheral so you didn't need a cable. There should never have been USB A to A cables, but not everyone followed the standard, so the standard was screwed. Plus things like digital cameras, for example, pretty much never had a B connection even though they should have, something to do with the fact it could also be the host (plugged directly into the printer)? The nice thing about USB standards is that there are so many to choose from!
Quite, at least Amazon use the tax avoidance to make things cheaper, unlike starbucks that didn't pay tax but still charged the same. They are also the path of least resistance, since the many alternatives will involve me shopping at multiple places rather than a single source. Amazon are also fairly trustworthy and have always made it easy to return crap that didn't work/wasn't as advertised, who knows what the alternatives will do? As for screwing local shops, aren't quite a lot of the products on amazon actually third parties anyway, usually someones local shop.
I'm guessing it's because they are trying to be all things to all people? Yahoo (and AOL) attempted to keep you only on their site by providing all kinds of services like news, messaging, email, search, all inward pointing links. Facebook does email, messaging etc on top of the social network thing, now they've added news to that too.
Upvoted for that idea. Brilliant. That would save all kinds of trouble when installing stuff, instead of just blindly clicking 'OK', force the user to type something meaningful like 'yes I really do want you to install the yahoo! toolbar with that'. Or force users to actually open the terms for service by typing text from paragraph 12, line 3... The possibilities are endless!
Some of the winpho ones, while not great, are on the line of acceptable. Certainly less vomit inducing than the current crop of ipad/iphone "designed in california" ads. But yes, MS are generally terrible, remember the win7 "designed by me" ads? Presumably win8 was designed by someone else.
As the article suggests, if you'd been playing PC games then maybe the cut-scenes weren't that new. But if like me you had a megadrive until the PS came down to about £200 a couple of years after launch, and Tomb Raider was released about the same time, then the upgrade from Sonic 2 pretty much blew your mind...
@Oh Homer. I upvoted you, but mainly because you linked to the previous firefox article that shows the latest look of firefox is to become... chrome. Seriously what is the point of them making an identical browser? Same with Opera. I stopped using chrome because:
a) Constantly changing the version number makes it impossible to search for issues/bug fixes (if I have an issue that applies to v15 through to v24, how on earth do I search for that?)
b) Constantly changing the UI annoys me
c) I like a separate search box
Since Firefox 4, a) and b) were already like chrome, and c) was all that was holding me to them. Opera were great until v15 also. Why are they all falling over themselves to look and behave like Chrome? If I wanted a browser that looked like Chrome, behaved like Chrome, and pushed me to Google search like Chrome, I would use bloody Chrome!
/rant, deep breath, I really should stop caring so much about these things, I'm sure there are more important things in life...
It seems to me that what we need is a 'standard' electric vehicle battery, standard in terms of shape, size, connections and nominal voltage. Make it modular enough that a high performance car or large vehicle just has more of them. That way, when you come to replace the battery, you can replace it with the latest and greatest battery technology without any further modifications.
Or to put it another way:
53 per cent have not worked while on vacation
80 per cent of parents have not worked while at a child's event or activity
73 per cent of people don't work while eating out
81 per cent of people have not worked while going to the bathroom
So that's most of us then...
I've been looking at using google drive to backup photos and such should the house burn down. I already use an external HDD for local backups, but do it manually. I'm looking for some recommendations for software that would handle backing up files to the external drive and a cloud service. But I'd like to stay away from using, say, googles own drive software, because I might decide to use dropbox, or MS, or whoever (or utilise all of the above for maximum storage). I want a single backup program to rule them all, and running in win7, please. Any ideas?
Don't be ridiculous man! Don't you realise Facebook and Twitter are the lightning rods of the internet? Where have all the spammers gone? What about all the crap chain emails, or pictures of puppies with cute slogans? It used to come into your inbox. But all of that crap circulates on twatbook now, avoid these places and you avoid all that junk as well!! Don't say they've never done anything for us.
To be fair, I don't think the The Gadget Show was ever supposed to be a serious look at modern technology. It's on at a time when kids are still up, and its something you could watch with them. If they started doing pieces on the relative merits of tech privacy vs using your data to give you a service, they'd probably loose their audience (both figuratively and in reality).
Somewhat controversially however, the police have the right to take photographs, DNA samples and fingerprints. Without your consent. You can only get these erased from police databases six years after your arrest, whether or not you are convicted or even charged with anything.
That bit. Obviously the police will have to take fingerprints/DNA in order to convict you. Fair enough. But holding them when your acquitted or found innocent? Not fair enough. After all, if you commit another crime they already have you name and arrest details, so they can match that to the newly taken (for this case) fingerprints/DNA. This will link you to the previous case. They don't actually need to keep the data in between.
If they want a barge in Europe they will have to build it here.
Nah, they'll just swallow it up in the Google supertanker that this is all a cover for, then they'll slowly take over the entire worlds commercial shipping fleet, before finally refusing to ship products from Apple!!!!111! Mawahahahahahahahahhha
I actually think DNT would be in a better position if IE10 (and the rest) had stayed opt in, not opt out. If you opt in then you definitely care about it and don't want to be tracked, with opt out facebook get to ignore it as not all users 'wanted' DNT. If there is only a small subset that want DNT and turn it on, then really, the advertiser shouldn't worry about lost revenue and support it. After all, if you've enabled DNT you probably wont click on the ads anyway, and anyone who will click on the ads wont have turned it off.
It's much the same with adblock or facebook privacy settings, those who care use the tools to lock it down, but we're such a small and insignificant portion of the user base that it's really just a blip on the data set.
EDIT: I suppose the reg might have a bit of an issue here, as a large portion of the user base will have blocked the ads, but for normal websites it wouldn't matter.
Personally I just block images, only allowing them as I want to see them, rather than any fancy adblockers.. So text ads will still get through.
That's been going on for a while longer than the PSX. Mastersytem had 2 revisions, Megadrive/MegaCD/32x, Gameboy/Gameboy Pocket. Gameboy Advance/SP/micro. Even the ZX had several different versions with different memory/sound chips etc. BBC Micro A and B, the list goes on... I would be surprised to find hardware differences even when there are no case size differences.
Your 60°C sample is coming from the hot water tap? Your heating system puts a great deal crap from the pipes into the water (which is why you shouldn't drink it), what affect does that have? You'd have to filter and boil both samples from cold in order to be sure you had the same mineral content.
It's a fair point, but I still use a single password for unimportant crap like this, and better unique ones for email/paypal etc. If the reg ever gets hacked you may use my details to log into all manner of other online forums and post whatever you wish.
As an aside, it would be interesting for the reg to aggregate all the passwords used for this site to see how may are 1337 or similar.
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