Posts by Neil

iPhone 3.0 beta reveals mixed blessing

Not quite the end for some

The new MMS feature won't work on the original iPhone so those apps which provide this service will have a bit of breathing space for a while.

Harvey Keitel to experience Life on Mars

Not their first try

Of course this isn't their first attempt. A few months ago, I got my hands on early studio pilot (through Bittorrent) that featured Colm Meaney as Hunt with Jason O'Mara as Sam and it was set in L.A.

Unfortunately despite the impressive 1971 sets (they changed the year so they could include more references to historic events), it paled into insignificance next to the Brit version prompting the studios to cancel plans to film a series until they'd reworked it. This is obviously their second stab.

Apple lobs $100 credit at iPhone buyers

Apple haters...

...who are criticising the company for offering 100 bucks back are the people who are so pissed off with Vista that they wiped their hard disk and re-installed XP. How much did Microsoft refund them on a product that they, the so-called smart PC users now deem unusable? - nowt. They don't shout about it from the rooftops though, they just shut their pieholes and load some more bullets to shoot down a company that at least goes some way towards putting things right when it makes a mistake regarding its' customers.

Euro consumers favour plasma over LCD

About LCDs 'plastic' colours

It's a fact that when manufacturers set up the defaults on LCD sets, everything from the backlight to the colour saturation is turned right up. This is so it can grab your attention in a dimly lit shop sales area but the picture you're looking at isn't natural.

I've got a 40" Toshiba and when I first started using it, newsreaders had orange faces. To correct this, you need to calibrate the set (which is true of most LCD screens). Searching on the net led me to instructions on how to do this manually and this made a tremendous difference to my viewing experience - backlight down by 24% and colours corrected using a DVD as source material. I also found out that for around 20 quid, you can buy a professional calibration DVD that outputs through your player and leads you through proper calibration on screen. The results are supposed to be very good.

This is something about LCDs that nobody seems to be aware of - especially the salesmen who flog the things.

Speedy evolution saves blue moon butterflies

Another one for Danny...

Sorry Danny. Quick query. You say that everything we see could not have arisen from 'nothingness' but if God is real, then who created Him?

You can see the problem here can't you? In order for God to be a creator, surely he in turn must have been created and so that begs the question: who created whoever created God? Or who created whoever created whoever created etc...

Bit of a tricky one that one.

Just one more then Danny...

Yes...all these dead things buried in layers all across the globe. How come we don't find fossilised rabbits in the Cretaceous period along with all of the other animals that died within weeks of each other?

moving it on a little...

Danny, as someone who clearly believes in the Bible and therefore the story of Noah's Ark, could you explain to me why a ship that preserved every animal in the world and came to rest in the middle east was responsible for the saving of a bird called the kiwi which has only ever been found in New Zealand.

Can you tell me how just one pair of these small flightless birds were able to cross significant land and water masses from one continent to the other without difficulty or coming to any sort of harm?