Posts by Mad as a Bat

"like X-ing the Y"

like trying to secure Windows

Teeth marks?

Where were the frikin' laser scorch marks?

Pot. Kettle. Black.

Anyone remember the Apple Lisa? You know the one with the GUI that was lifted from the Alto developed by Xerox PARC.

vodawho?

Just come out of contract on Voda. Current contract 600 mins + unlimited texts, their upgrade "deal" was 200 mins + 300 texts same money. Nice going Vodafone. Checking through their site out of curiosity; new customer Samsung Galaxy S free + 600 mins + unlimited text + 500Mb data = 30/month, my upgrade price for the same deal = 35/month. Nice. I rang them about SIM only deals. Apparently if I have an iPhone I can get a SIM only deal that includes data + free WiFi access through BT Connect. However as I have an Android phone this deal is not available, data only with no free WiFi access. And they wonder why I requested a PAC from them.

lets hope this guy is not a songwriter...

I hope for United's sake that this guy is not a songwriter...

http://www.davecarrollmusic.com/ubg/

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YGc4zOqozo

Whatever happened to the service economy?

Having done their level best to drive manufacturing into the ground during the '80s and early '90s the Tories finally realise that we can't just have an economy based on service industries? A little late but kudos to them for eventually realising that we need manufacturers. Of course they are only talking hi-tech industry here and there is no money up for grabs but at least its a step in the right direction.

Just what we need.

Yep, we really needed another short-range wireless standard to join Bluetooth, 802.11, 802.15.4/ZigBee, UWB et al. On the up side at least they've kept away from 2.4Ghz.

Got to fund a moon mission somehow...

Are things that tight at NASA since old Obama decided that the USofA can't afford space travel that they've got to raise money with iPhone apps?

"If you've ever been enjoying yourself at the pub only to be seized by an uncontrollable urge to know the position of the International Space Station - right. this. minute. — sweet mobile relief has arrived courtesy the good ol' US of A space agency."

On the other hand you could just save yourself some pennies and check out Heavens-Above on any browser and find the location of gazillions of satellite things: http://www.heavens-above.com

Whose handset is it, anyway?

Surely someone ought to tell O2 that all iPhones belong to Apple.

Is it me?

But isn't that guy wearing the exoskeleton the Janitor from Scrubs?

@AC "Simple solution"

Apple aren't making it easy to love them as a developer. Yes you can easily get an SDK for the iPhone from Apple but it only runs on Leopard and Snow-Leopard. So if I want to develop for the iPhone I have to shell out for an overpriced iPhone contract and buy an overpriced Mac. On the other hand I could just continue to use a free Symbian SDK and have a larger target market. If I really feel the need to expand to another market then the Windows Mobile SDK is readily available and also gives me a much larger market than Apple.

Re: Re: And what about the C905

This differs from my experience with the C905. Reception on mine is not as good as previous Sony Ericsson feature phones. It's one of the worst performers I've had. If I carry my phone in my pocket then I get little or no network coverage; when the phone is just sitting on the desk the signal is all over the place. This in areas where I used to get good coverage on older phones.

See through walls?

"The boffins believe that in future their subjects will be able to "see" through fog or smoke - and even some distance into solid walls, floors or ceilings."

It'll be interesting to see how they do this given that bats don't like flying in fog or rain 'cus it screws up their echo locating. AFAIK bats don't see through solid objects either. And don't try using bats (or humans) to echo locate a F-117... http://www.batbox.org/sonar.html

Is it just me?

Why would anyone from Zwartepoorte be searching for the words "Zwartepoorte" and "bankrupt"? Do they know something that we don't?

@Colin MacLean

Check out the guy on the right of the picture. Isn't that Tony Blackburn wearing a fake beard?

bmibaby has same problem

I booked a couple of days ago with bmibaby to Ireland. There site has insurance already ticked as well. Deselecting this option causes a pop-up to appear that is worded to make it sound like the world will end if you don't pick their insurance. They also have the additional 6.99 charge for manual check-in although this falls to 3.99 if pre-booked online or nothing for online check-in. Go figure.

They also charge to pay by credit/debit card but this charge does not apply if you pay by a bmibaby Mastercard. Funny I thought that the credit card companies charged for every transaction and it didn't matter whose card you had. At least its not as bad as the ridiculous Ruinair "handling charge" that adds a booking fee per-person per-ticket (i.e. each way). For all Ruinair's headline figures of £1 or £0 tickets it still always works out £20 cheaper to fly bmibaby to Ireland than to fly on Ruinair and you don't have the rugby scrum to get seats on the aircraft.

I beg to differ...

...as a Yorkshireman I take exception with the rather pathetic quantities of pudding offered by the Royal Chemistry Society's recipe.

Here's a recipe that gives 6 good servings of pudding:

6oz plain flour

1/2 pint milk

3 eggs + 1 egg white

salt to taste

Blitz the lot with a hand blender. Leave to stand 30 minutes.

Heat a tablespoon of goose fat* in a full-sized roasting tin in a hot oven. At least 220C for a fan oven and as hot as it will go for a conventional oven. The oven needs to be up to temperature before adding the roasting tin. Get the roasting tin good and hot before adding the mixture. Give the mixture a final blitz then pour into the roasting tin and shove into the oven for 15 minutes and DON'T OPEN THE DOOR!

Cut up and serve slices with gravy as a starter. I usually hold back a little of the mix to thicken the gravy.

*goose fat has a higher smoking point than beef or pork fat but you can use beef/pork fat if you want a kitchen full of smoke.

Well I had considered doing an OU course but...

... now I think I will decline.

The worrying part for me is that the tutors involved had failed to read the paper in question in detail. It's not cheap to do an OU course, I'd like to think that the tutors involved were taking it seriously. This whole episode calls the tutor's involvement into question. I don't think that I'll be throwing any money at the OU anytime soon.

I for one...

... welcome our twatdangling overlords

Implied consent?

I was a BT customer at the time of the BT/Phorm trials. I took my company to another ISP because of the Phorm trials. And somehow I'm supposed to have given implied consent to such a trial?

RGB gamut?

"The screen can show 16.7m colours - many laptop panels only do 260,000-odd - using them to display 90 per cent of the colours within the RGB gamut."

So which "RGB gamut" would that be then: sRGB, AdobeRGB, ProPhotoRGB or a.n.otherRGB?

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ah the GIMP

That'll be the image editing software that doesn't understand colour management and craps out on Windows the whole time then. The GIMP, free and worth every penny.

Here's a belter of a role from Reg Jobs...

How's this for a brilliant role:

http://jobs.theregister.co.uk/uk-jobs/113311826/search-delphi/West-Midlands-Shropshire/Delphi-ASP-NET-Developer.html

A whole £1 to £100 per annum. I can't wait to apply, at last I can pay off the mortgage and relax in the sun...

your chance to have your voice ignored...

Sign the e-Petition to save Jodrell Bank and have your voice ignored by our Gordon.

http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/RadioAstronomy/

Mine's the white lab coat.

bye BT

Well done BT, you've finally hammered in the last nail in the coffin. You want to spy on my browsing habits and sell this information on top of all the 'free' crap you keep trying to push at me - 'free' that is apart from the much higher fees than charged by your competitors.

I'm off to another ISP, mine's the one with the 'Sod off BT' logo on the back.

That explains...

...why their beers all taste like shite:

"The company has fingered higher aluminium, cereal and crude oil costs as the cause"

Hardly a massive sample is it?

While not a fan at all of the iBlob I hardly see 20 testers as a representative user sample. A sample of a few hundred testers per handset would be statistically more meaningful.

@John Stag

I can also remember seeing a Vulcan scramble at Finningley airshow in the late '70s. I can still hear the noise...

@Anonymous Coward

The rovers use VxWorks as their OS, not Linux.