Posts by Eponymous Cowherd

Re: "The absolute worst we could do is wipe out... ourselves"

I'm not a "foaming-at-the-mouth avengers-of-gaia type". I am simply aware if my insignificance in the grand scheme of time and space. You, I and, indeed, the whole Human race, exist, and will only ever exist, as an infinitely small mote with respect to the vastness of all that has been, and all there is.

The Earth has, in the past, recovered from a number of massive ecological disasters. Disasters far bigger than anything we Humans could ever inflict on it . It will certainly suffer from them in the future, whether that be from the actions of Humans (or whatever species follows us, or we evolve into), or from massive volcanism or asteroid strike (as has happened in the past).

Whatever we Humans do here and now will have little bearing on the state of the Earth's ecosystem in 4 or 5 million years time.

Re: Dead to me

Ditto.

Can't be arsed with half the races, and I refuse to pay several £hundred a year to the Dirty Digger for the privilege of seeing the others.

Still fuming over the underhand way the BBC, FIA and BSkyB arranged this deal. It's also particularly galling that those that do watch on Sky still have to pay the sodding BBC (via the TV licence tax) for the races that are shown exclusively on Sky.

Re: Green Bay Packers

Green Bay Packers?

Are they anything like Fudge Packers?

Certainly no a footie team I've ever heard of......

Frankly, I don't give a.........

"The question is whether the post attracts humourless, impatient diktators or creates them out of ordinary people."

Frankly, I don't really care. Politeness and civility costs nothing. If you can't put on a polite and civil demeanour when dealing with members of the public, particularly sick and worried members of the public, then perhaps a career change is in order.

Oh, and congratulations. You being a bona fide psychic, and all that. I mean, how else could you realise that I had no idea what role a medical receptionist performs. Adding it to my notebook right now:

Note To Self: A Medical receptionist is the gateway to the NHS. Be nice to her, no matter how awkward, rud and obstructive she is or ye will certainly DIE

Huh?

I try a few things out and some twatspanner downvotes me?

Tarka Masala?

Like Tikka Masala, but a little otter.

Quality

On the devices we use:-

Wii: Hardwired network: 480p component into a 42" LG TV: Obviously SD quality, but considerably superior to Freeview. Though Freeview is 576p, the compression artefacts give a much lower subjective resolution. No problems with buffering or quality drop.

Android: HTC Sensation: Very good quality on the phone, but appears blocky when plugged into the HDMI dock (same TV as above). Does seem to drop quality occasionally (becomes pixelated) rather than stopping to buffer.

In comparison to the other VOD service on those two devices (BBC iPlayer), it is *far* superior with regard to quality and reliability.

Not the same processor

This thing has an MSM7225A ARMv7-A (Cortex) based cpu, whereas the Blade has an MSM7227 (ARM11) ARMv6 based cpu.

So you *should* get more grunt per MHz from this and it *should* be able to run Flash.

Already happened....

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/05/applecorp_settles_applecomputer/

and Apple Corps got its arse reamed.

And it would continue to be shafted by the BBC....

The BBC gets your licence fee whether they show all, some or no races. You have to pay the BBC to watch F1 *live* in the UK irrespective of who *else* you also have to pay, be it Sky or Apple.

Yep, just you.....

Feeling so ronery?

There is nothing "cool".....

about an adult playing with an action figure.

His Ian McShane what?

I have to ask.....

Edit:

Please provide us with and acceptable telephone service rather than waste money trying to sue Google.

Enforceability

Agree with the enforcement bit. There is a stretch of road near my home where there are frequent accidents, many serious, and a couple of deaths.

It was a national speed limit zone (60mph, for those outside the UK), the local council dropped that to 40mph, in light of one fatality. The accidents continued. They now want to reduce it to 30mph. Will is make any difference? Not a chance.

All the speed limit does is inconvenience law-abiding drivers, who will feel compelled to toodle along at 30mph, while the boy-racers will ignore the 30mph limit (just as they ignored the 40mph limit) and blast along at 70mph+ (the wazzock in the last crash was estimated to be doing 75mph).

In all the time I have used this road (at least twice a day for the last 20 years), I have *never* seen a speed trap or police car. There is no point introducing a law if Plod is unwilling or unable to enforce it.

Drat, drat, and double drat.

Get that pigeon. The infinitely annoying "funky" pigeon.

All those ads do is make me reach for the shotgun, with an overwhelming desire to go and blast as many of the annoying flying rats out of the sky as I possibly can.

Yep, absolutely atrocious,

I mean, fancy turning on your device only to see a boring grid of icons.......

Oh, wait.

While I admit that Palm lost its way, the early Palm devices were cracking pieces of kit. I Had a Palm V, followed by a m515 and a T3. The V and m515 did exactly what they were supposed to, and did it well with Kindle style battery life. The T3 was a disappointment. Powerful for its time, but the build quality was awful. The slider fell apart in a couple of months (screws kept falling out) and the screen became impossible to calibrate within 18.

Also had a Fossil Wrist PDA. Pretty crap as a watch or PDA, but an interesting geek toy. Klingon watch face, anyone?

Pros and cons.

@+++ath0

The "con" is being expected to pay more for an eBook than the hardback version of the same title. An eBook that often has serious formatting problems and is doesn't appear to have been proof read. It seems these publishers think OCRing a book and releasing it as-is is good enough to, not only ask, but demand a premium price.

Nana Visitor....

Always made me think of Meals on Wheels.......

Nicely put

@Citizen Kaned:

Well put. Similar situation to me.

Every morning the alam goes off at 6AM and I'm out of the house by 6:20. Don't get home until about 19:30. Public transport not an option (doesn't run at that time of the morning) and would mean getting home at 20:30 in the evening (I did look into it).

Its all very well whining and saying we car-commuters are the problem, but its a choice of car or benefits and I'd rather be a working, tax-paying, self supporting "problem" than a sit-on-my-arse-and-scrounge-off-the-state kind of problem.