* Posts by davolente

5 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jul 2007

Brother creates direct retinal imaging specs

davolente

Glasses half full

Just right for making a spectacle of yourself.

Your phone is winding me up

davolente

Good trick if you can do it.

Can't believe you you've got to keep winding whilst on a call. Well nigh impossible with it held against one's ear, I would have thought, unless you're a contortionist. 'Spose you could always use an el-cheapo wired hands-free mic/earpiece, because if, presumably, you were without power, a blue-tooth version's battery might be flat as well.

Eurocrat demands MP3 player volume limit mandate

davolente

Loud

Might sound relatively unimportant until you actually find yourself sitting next to some brainless cretin blasting away his drum, bass and garage (is that the correct modern terminology, squire?), so loud through his ear buds that it's surprising his ears don't bleed. Annoying or what?

Microsoft Windows patent will spy for advertisers

davolente

Hair-brained idea.

Just who has the devious mind to sit down and work out all these ludicrously fiendish schemes? We`re all living on the same planet, for goodness sake. Do the designers not consider what it would be like for themselves to be afflicted with their own plans? The great god "money" is the motivation - pretty obvious, really. I`m also teetering on the brink of switching O.S. and this might just do it, if introduced.

Chinese fight rat plague with giant saucepan

davolente

Rats

You want fries with that?