Posts by hi_robb

Dolly the Sheep creator scientist Keith Campbell dies

R.I.P

P.s have you met his identical brother yet?

Drinking too much coffee can MAKE YOU BLIND

Oh dear

I have several cups of coffee each day and a wank!

I'm buggered..

Who queues for an iPhone 5? Protesters, hipsters and the jobless

Hmm...

There doesn't seem to be many waiting at the min, the one's who are, are in a below average iQueue...

Toothbrush fixes ISS’ stuck bolt

Hmmm.

If the toothbrush tool hasn't helped fix that bolt properly and it falls off causing accidents in later years, the resulting investigation and scandal will probably be called...

Colgate.

The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?

Re: SD card

I'll answer this one for you to,

Some of us are in really to music and have an awful lot of it. I've got about 500 12' vinyl dance records. With an average of 3 mixes per record that lot on their own is 1500 tracks.

Then on top of that I also have about 1500 cd's (of which 98% are albums). Each CD probably has on average 10 tracks ((most have more but I'm being conservative) so there's another 10,000 songs. However, at least a 3rd of those albums are double cd (or more) albums so that's at least another 5000 tracks.

So I've got at least 18,000 tracks in my collection and I know I am being conservative with my figures.

Now on the second part of your question. I don't listen to them all at the same time, I chop and change often, some songs / albums go years without being played. But then one day I'll decide I want to listen to one, do so, get back in to it and then decide I want to listen to it when out.

My phone only has 4S only has 32GB of space so I end up having to clear an album on the phone already to fit the one I want on there on. For me it's no great issue as my entire library of music is already ripped (I spent a long time doing it a long time ago), but it would be convenient to be able to fit everything on in one go.

PS, the reason I have an Iphone is simply that I like them, I like the music player on them and for a long time they were apart from sony devices the only devices which would play gapless playback. My library was ripped in apple format years ago when I had an original ipod and I'm not about to spend years changing it.

Dave

Red hot chilli peppers floor Bristol shoplifter

I'll bet.

This story made the local peppers down there..

/gets coat

New UK immigration IT system late and £28m OVER BUDGET

Hmm

The reason they are having so many issues with this system is the Jamaican lead programmer is having issues getting de software de ported...

/gets coat

Can neighbours grab your sensitive package, asks Post Office

From the PDF

"Ofcom strongly prefers to receive responses using the online web form at

http://stakeolders.ofcom.org.uk/consultations/royal-mail-delivery-neighbour/"

I'm assuming they want web response because they don't want the responses delivered to the next office whom they don't trust?

D

Android Jelly Bean won't get Flash Player

All together now..

Flash - argghh ah, saviour of the universe.

Reborn UK internet super-snooper charter to be unveiled today

But...

We 'MUST' think of the children!!!

And I do baby, every single night..

China and US argue over smog tweets

Erm..

Is this what's known as micro smogging..

/gets coat

Flying Dutchman creates dead cat quadcopter

Superb - some thoughts..

1: Now we can really check if a room is big enough to swing a cat..

2: When at full speed as it wizzes by your head, does it make a 'meeeeoooow' sound?

3: Can you control it with a mouse?

4: If you nearly crash it, you can honestly say you avoided wrecking it by a whisker!

5: Has he called it the heliclawpter?

/Gets coat, and is dragged off stage left.

(The black helicopter icon for obvious reasons.)

UK High Court split over Twitter airport bomb joke

Daft

This should have never come to trial in the first place. A waste of time, resources and even the airport didn't take it seriously but had to log it as a standard procedure.

And in case the authorities are watching, I have no connection to any terrorists nor do I condone the threatening of blowing up of airports!

Praise be Allah

Wireless remote control inventor zaps out at 96

New just in.

The Memorial service is taking place on Friday, after which he'll be buried down the back of a sofa..

From the Department of WTF: New USB tampon flash drive

some extra info on this

Prices were cheaper last week but they've since stuck them up..

It's not very robust apparently as it's only designed to used on average once a month..

/gets coat

Ofcom probes Sky News over Canoe man email hacks

Terrible.

I'm disgusted by Sky's antics and have left them a message in my inbox to let them know!

Google founders, James Cameron, go asteroid mining

Eh..

No Bruce Willis?

I seen a documentary a while ago where he took a team up and mined an asteroid. So he's got the experience..

Dave

Swiss, German physicists split the electron

Well..

I'm just glad this wasn't another story about the Higgs Boson.

They cause mass hysteria..

/gets coat

Twitter slams top five spammers with legal suit

P.s, I'm in no way shape or form associated with either of the two apps recommended in my last post, I just like(d) using them.

Dave

Anon,

1: Agreed, they are nowt but spam

2: Agreed, they are nowt but spam. It's very rare a followback person tweets anything more than followback shite.

3: Agreed, again spam.

4: Only the nasty ones, some of them tweet the goad the celebs but are quite funny and aren't nasty. It's also quite ammusing to see celebs losing the plot at them and tweeting death threats etc.

5: Agreed, this is the single most annoying bug on Twitter.

6: They need to fix it, but if you use a 3rd party app on your phone, you'll probably find it fixed in that.

7: Can't comment on this one as I've never been effected by it.

8: While you can't do it on the Twitter web site, nor in the official Twitter applications on phones, there are twitter apps for phones which allow you to mute people. This means you can be polite but not fill your timeline with crud and if they reply to you, you still get the reply in your mentions.

A couple of the best apps for IOS and Android which I've used which have this functionality are..

IOS - TweetLogix; (I use this now, done 15,000 tweets with it and it's superb, far more features and nicer to use than the Official Twitter app. I've tried all the Twit apps on IOS and this is by far the best IMHO YMMV)

Android - Twicca; (I used this one when on Android. Done 13,000 tweets with it before moving to IOS. It was my fav client and I settled on the above for IOS as it resembled Twicca the most from a functionality and usabillity point of view).

Dave

IT urine bandit fired and charged

...

So the company told him to piss off.

Nintendo DSi sends child abuser to the slammer

Hmm

He got his up and commance, his

Fisher Price..

100 EARTH-LIKE PLANETS orbit stars WITHIN 30 LIGHT-YEARS!

and something I've just noticed.

Your forum server times are still running an hour behind..

May I be the first

to welcome our close living Alien overlords.

Lawyers of Mordor retreat from The Hobbit

Well

I think what the pub and public has managed to do here no mean feat...

/Gets coat

IT guy answers daughter's Facebook rant by shooting her laptop

I thought

He did a great presentation, I especially liked his use of bulletpoints..

Life-size Portal gun to shoot onto shelves soon

Hmm

You can buy this from the usual online portals..

McDonald's punters offered sex in exchange for Chicken McNuggets

She asked if she could unzip his flies with that..

Try the all new McDonalds menu..

Now with hump steak.

Billions of potentially populated planets in the galaxy

Let me

Just welcome our new tea eating alien overlords.

Dave

PayPal dispute ends in 'violin destruction'

Do you hear that?

It's definitely not the sound of a violin..

Web scam-busting trio thwarted by mystery DDoS rocket

New title for the scammers

The lads from LAG OS.

Dave

PROVEN: Violent video games mess with your head

Arse..

Computer games do not effect people.

I played Pacman as a kid. Did I end up running around in dark rooms, munching pills while listening to repetative music?

Erm...

Jarmageddon: Marmite spill sparks biohazard threat

Was it on the yeastbound carriageway?

/Orders Taxi.

Demon Currys iPad showered kids with HARD-CORE smut

Hmm,

Dicks on Ipads..

/Gets coat

Dave

Chinese boffin uses panda poo for world's priciest cuppa

Does this mean that you get a black and white coffee simultaneously in one cup?

Rob

Sony Walkman NWZ-A866

Does it do gapless?

A very important feature for lots of folks.

Machine translation cracks 18th century occult cipher

Eye Surgery!

The code didn't look like ths by any chance?

A

AZ

YUO

cbdkdio

iseeclear

Crap alchemist jailed for poo-into-gold experiment

Alchemy - there's a CRAP for that..

MIT boffin: Salted disks hold SIX TIMES more data

I think we need someone to write a Research Pepper...

/gets coat and is dragged off stage left.

Lincs bloke fined in deceased hedgehog outrage

I just hope he didn't try using said spikey dead mammal to wipe his backside afterwards!

DARPA shells out $21m for IBM cat brain chip

Does this mean..

That the computers we have in future will scratch our furniture and wake us up in the morning with dead animals at the foot of the bed?

D.

HTC sinks $309m into audio tech from Dr Dre

Completely agree with the 'ANGRY' post

Because it's true.

I was *stupid* and impatient enough to buy a set of 'Dr Meh' beats headphones a couple of months ago when I lost my Etymotics I'd been using for years. I wanted something I could pick up from the local shops on my way to the train station and Beats were as good as the shops had.

The reviews made em look good (though I didn't check too many), and they were certainly expensive and looked well made, so they must be good.

Bollox.

I'd describe the sound as like listening to an angry bumblebee trapped in a biscuit tin for the treble and midrange while an elephant fell over and had an epileptic fit beside you for the bass.

In short, complete and utter crap waste of money.

Needless to say I very quickly got rid of them and got something a bit better which were the Shure SE535s.

Dave

Paul McCartney's ex-wife makes phone-hacking claim

I heard

She's going on out a limb with this accusation.

Sorry, time travelers, you’re still just fiction

What about the theory of the universe expanding at faster than light speeds?

Morning,

Isn't there some theory somewhere that the universe is expanding at faster than light speeds? Which if true, would put this nothing goes faster than light speed theory in a box and bury it!

Oh and to the person who says we don't understand gravity, we do!

Simply put it's the force exerted on speace time by the mass of an object sitting on it.

Simples.

Robb

Apple Digital AV Adapter

A credible review?

I think not..

The reviewer admitted to carrying an episode of 'Glee' around with them FFS.

They'd probably give a 80% rating to a piece of lettuce with a steaming turd on top. Though that particular item would still be better than the cheesy TV program for 10 year old's!

Dave

eHarmony plays down data breach on dating advice site

Hmm

Sounds like Eharmony are cupid stunts.

Dave

Steve Jobs takes 'medical leave of absence' from Apple

When he phoned in.

All he said was "iSick".

Dave

Benoit Mandelbrot, father of fractals, dies at 85

I'll bet...

The autopsy on him was a bugger. I'd imagine it a bit like opening a Russian Doll.

Android rebellion: How to tame your stupid smartphone

What this article

Written by a iFan perhaps?

Rob