Posts by Shades 911 publicly visible posts • joined 27 Mar 2008
"There DLNA "Play to" Integration is the Dogs Bollocks....
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If you think S0NYs DLNA Player / Aggregater (whatever...) is shite"
In UK* English the "Dog Bollocks" is slang for something being good. Just as in yesteryear bad also meant good and, nowadays, sick means good too.
*I'm assuming you're not from the UK as the term "Dog Bollocks" seems to pervasive from one end of this Isle to the other.
"UK users of the websites who have accounts with the defendants have infringed, and are continuing to infringe, the claimants' copyrights by copying the claimants' sound recordings on a large scale." - Mr Justice Arnold
What, all UK users? So, all UK users have illegally downloaded sound recordings from one or more of the claimants? I'd like to see him prove that in a court of law!
You're paying too much. £12 a month on Giff Gaff gets you 250 minutes, unlimited texts and unlimited data, plus unlimited Giff Gaff to Giff Gaff calls and texts for 3 months. Alternatively, £15 nets you the same except the minutes are boosted up to 400.
Still, I'm glad I'm not that side of the pond!
...it will be before the clever guys over at XDA Developers wrestle this onto the HD2? (which STILL gets more love than any more modern devices). The HD2 already runs full desktop Ubuntu... as well as Windows Mobile, Windows Phone 7, Android (even up to the latest version!) and Meego
"good 20mbit connection"
Your connection isn't as good as you think it is then, or your ISP is doing a bit of jiggery-pokery with the streams. I watched My Polar Bear Family and Me in HD a few weeks ago (on the BBC live replay thingy, the program had already started when I remembered it was on) and the quality was pretty damned good. This is with VM on a 10Mb connection.
"This could lead to civilizations much more advanced than our own"
If so, why haven't they found us and made contact yet? Unless they already have spotted us and thought to themselves 'They're like locusts. Consuming everything and anything, often fighting over or hoarding it, then moving on. Sod that!'.
@ChrisC: Your assumption is absolutely correct. My ideal drive would be one that effectively houses 2 seperate drives within one 2.5" shell, for instance a 64GB SSD and 500+GB HD. However, it would report itself to the OS as being 1 drive with 2 partitions (C: and D: respectively). Better yet, my ideal drive would maybe allow me to reduce the capacity of C: (the SSD part) which could then be used as a cache for D: (the spinny part) giving me the best of everything.
@deadmonkey: The drive wouldn't determine what goes where, I would. Much like I do now with my traditional HD split into 2 paritions: OS/Apps goes on C: and Data goes on D:
...faster than spinning discs but at £165 for a 240GB SSD as opposed £80 for a 1TB (2.5") HD, I think I'll stick with a spinning disc for now.
Incidentally does anyone know of a 2.5" hybrid drive that operates as 2 distinct partitions (SSD for OS/Apps, HD for other data) rather than appearing as 1 drive with a large SSD cache?
"someone loading the full fat version of a webpage on a tethered laptop uses [more] data than someone loading the mobile version of the same site on their phone."
Thats a bit of a disingenuous example. Not all websites have mobile versions and most that do are inferior to that of the full fat versions (El Reg being guilty of this, the BBC not so). Personally I tend to use the full fat websites even on my phone. This actually results in more data usage when browsing with the phone itself than browsing with my laptop tethered to my phone as I run FireFox with NoScript and Ghostery which stops many things from being automatically downloaded; Flash, images, scripts, etc.
I realise this is just me, and its an anecdote, but chances are I'm not the only one to find myself in this situation. Its also probably why I've never had a letter/e-mail telling me I'm being naughty by tethering; Even if my networks tethering detection is as good as they say it is (which I doubt) I'm actually using less data.
500MB RAM minimum for GB? You're kidding right? You must be running some massively bloated vendor-fiddled-with or extremely badly cooked ROM because my ageing HTC HD2 (which came with Windows Mobile 6) runs CyanogenMod 7 (GB) and every app I've thrown at it as smooth as silk... with only 400MB'ish of RAM to play with.
I'm pretty sure I wouldn't confuse "YouView" and "YourView" given that one is a telly box that connects to the internet (for catch-up services) and the other is a portal allowing businesses to monitor telephone and internet usage. Only a complete moron would confuse the two, and thats assuming they've even heard of one and the other.
Then again, after shoulder surfing my nephews Facebook news feeds there's an awful lot of complete f*cking morons, who seem to revel in their idiocity, about to be unleashed upon the world.
It gets worse than that...
That is just page 1 of 764 pages of results (20 results per page) for "all grown up"!
No matter how good/bad the story it, I fully expect that a good section of those who post here will claim the movie to be the Best Ever Movie and pelt the none believers with verbal diarrhoea and downvotes just because they don't adulate a company.
This post will be downvoted into oblivion but there is no disguising that some people worship a company/businessman with a worryingly frenzied obsessiveness which is completely unhealthy.
I will probably give the movie a miss as anything where people are undoubtedly going to woop, holla and cheer at a screen - and they will, they did when Apple announced places on a map! - will make me want to be sick in my mouth a little.
There, fixed that for you.
...for two Andrew Orlowskis?
"but has at least cost her family only €300 after pinching Finnish pop songs."
"Pinching"? What was she (or at least her father, as provider of her internet connection) found guilty, in a court of law, of downloading? And "songs", plural?
With the exception of anything to do with Apple I expect far better from El Reg. I'm cancelling my subscription, etc, etc.
Another ES File Explorer user here... I've got it linked up to Google Drive (5Gb), Dropbox (4.75Gb) and Box (50Gb - for free when signing up via the Android app!). Still keep the Dropbox client though as it automatically uploads all images/video taken with the camera as soon as they are taken (settings permitting) - There are smaller apps that do the same job but I've only found ones that just upload images and not video too.
The clever bit of (PC) software you might be interested in is XLink Kai. It allows you to play LAN enabled games (such as Gran Turismo for instance) over the internet. The software itself runs on a PC, connected to a router via ethernet, and with some wizardry redirects the PS2s LAN traffic (connected to the same router as the PC) via the internet! Very clever indeed.
It also works with XBox 360, XBox, Playstation 3, Playstation 2, Gamecube and PSP!
As I, not so long ago, posted to Facebook...
"If you've fallen for the recent "nobody can't use anything I post because I've included this bit of text" legalese statement:
Short version:
The impressive looking legalese statement has NO legal basis and is COMPLETELY and UTTERLY meaningless AND worthless!
Long version:
The statement references UCC 1-103 and 1-308 as some kind of legal backing for itself when UCC 1-103 and 1-308 are in fact actually part of the United States "Uniform Commercial Code". This governs sales and commercial transactions within the US and, besides having absolutely no relevancy outside of the US, it has absolutely NOTHING to do with laws surrounding IP (Intellectual Property), Copyright or Personal Data which the above statement purports to protect. Furthermore UCC 1-103 and 1-308 are part of Article 1 of the UCC which contains NO law itself, only definitions and rules of interpretation for the actual laws in Articles 2 through 9 of the UCC.
The whole of the UUC can be found on the (US) Cornell University Law School website: http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/
The ONLY protection afforded to content you create and subsequently post to Facebook, such as photos, is that of IP/Copyright law. Here in the UK almost anything you create, including but not limited to songs, paintings, poems, books, and even letters and status updates etc becomes, at the point of creation, your intellectual property and as such is protected by copyright law for the entirety of your life plus 70 years. Without delving too far into the law this is, in reality, really only of any use if any of your IP is being used by another for their commercial gain and/or you can prove you have suffered a lose due to its use. It is also important to remember that use of your IP can be licenced/transfered...
Facebook themselves can use ANYTHING you post HOWEVER they want because you have, just by USING Facebook, granted them a "non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook." Basically, this means that Facebook can do WHATEVER they want with your photos, status updates, comments etc, including passing it on to other companies/organisations, because you've ALREADY given them permission to do so.
Any information YOU publicly post to Facebook, which can subsequently being used by other organisations, authorities, agencies or individuals, has the SAME protection afforded to that of a conversation held, and overheard, in the street: NONE. ZERO. ZILCH. Facebook iis the online equivalent of a pub, park or street and there are absolutely NO protections in law to prevent others (either known or unknown to you) acting upon or using information that YOU have publicly revealed. NONE WHATSOEVER! For that to happen there would have to be a none-disclosure agreement between you, Facebook and ALL your friends. Given the nature of Facebook that would be completely unworkable/unenforceable and would practically defeat the whole purpose of Facebook being a SOCIAL network.
The ONLY other kind of information that has any kind of protection is that which you provided to Facebook, like any other business, for them to provision you with their services, such as name, address, email address, phone number, etc. Although that is protected by the Data Protection Act it could be argued, by Facebook, that it only applies to people who choose not to ALSO publicly expose this information on their profiles, so thats a bit of a grey area.
Here endeth the lesson! :D"
On the subject of "smart" TV's and their format support Samsung seem to have very good support for video... A Samsung TV I had a few years back never failed to play anything I threw at it, in HD or SD format where applicable... MKV, MP4, AVI, FLV, 3GP. Quite surprised me really and the UI actually wasn't all that bad. The audio (only) support was terrible though... MP3 and nothing else (not even the free OGG Vorbis format, which in my opinion results in a better overall sound than MP3).
Second image caption: "Comfortable to hold in one hand without straining"
Got my tape measure out to see just how "comfortable" 135mm would be in my normal human being sized hands and have come to the conclusion that either A) I would be holding it wrong, or B) I would need to surgically replace my hands with that of a Gorilla which, in Apple-world, should be no big deal.
"To all drivers: A non-working headlight, rear light or brake light will cause your vehicle to fail its MOT test of roadworthiness, so try *checking* them every now and again!
Wrong. It depends how many lights the vehicle has. For instance my car, by manufacturer design, has 4 tail lights, 2 in each rear cluster so a failure of 1 on either or both sides is not automatically an MOT fail.
If I were sad enough to have such a thing, that Fucking page would be my favourite page on Wikipedia:
"The Germans all want to see Mozart's house in Salzburg; the Americans want to see where The Sound of Music was filmed; the Japanese want Hitler's birthplace in Braunau; but for the British, it's all about Fucking."
"Everyone here knows what it means in English, but for us Fucking is Fucking — and it's going to stay Fucking."
Although the Germans are serious contenders in the places-with-funny-names competition by having a mountain called Wank where you can stay in the Wank-Haus, ride the Wankbahn, and you can also get yearly Wankpass. They also get bonus points for, at the top of Wank, being able to see the whole of the Zugspitze and the Wetterstein.
Yeah, I used to read Viz far too much! Fnarr Fnarr
you've got down votes for stating fact I don't know?! Is it not the case that the "authorities" can revoke the inviolateness of an embassy should they have (damned) good reason to and have, so far, only chosen not to so as to maintain diplomatic relations with Equador, and the fact JA can't exactly go anywhere?
...that I know (or knew, as is now the case) whom still play Draw Something is my ex, her mum and sister. The only reason I still played it was because my ex is an artist and her drawings were actually damned good little works of art. Everyone else I know stopped playing ages ago.
Indeed, that's why I'm always a dick about going to a McDonalds. I call them "Build-A-Burger" and refuse to acknowledge suggestions of eating at McDonalds until the third party making the suggestion realizes that I'm not going to agree to it unless they too refer to McDonalds as "Build-A-Burger". Then, after that little rigamarole, I simply tell them "No, why would I want to go somewhere where I ALWAYS have to (re)build the burger to get it looking at least something like a burger if not anything like those pictured on the menu boards?"
I don't get asked to go to McDonalds often. Which is kinda the point.
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