* Posts by MJI

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Thank Freeview for UK 4G by mid-2013 - NOT the iPhone 5 nor EE

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WCML

First Group are not competent to do it, look what happened to the East Coast Main Line when they bid way over the odds.

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Keep it for HDTV

Stuff 4G we want better HDTV

Nominet mulls killing off the .co from .co.uk

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Not workable

I have <aname>.org.uk, someone else has <aname>.co.uk, so who gets <aname>.uk?

Purpose of RFID finally discovered: It's for pairing up socks!

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Sock matching

I just match the Monday sock to the Monday sock - easy

Scott & Virgil are easy as well.

OK so I have two weeks of daily socks - different though and some Thunderbird socks but all of mine are pairable

Democratic congresswomen 'less feminine in appearance' than Republicans

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Widdicombe or May

I'll give you Widdicombe

May is not too bad, better than Short or Waquie

Flint or Menche not bad at all.

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Group Of Pictures

What does it have to do with politics?

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That democrat woman

Looks like Spocks sister.

Event Horizon Telescope spots source of black hole jets

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My first thoughts were

Hell

Analogue TV snuffs it tonight on UK mainland

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Freeview picture quality

Degraded over the years

Back in 1993 BBC1 looked fantastic on DTTV, really really good. (I know don't be pedantic)

This was with a Wega tube IDTV. DVDish bitrates.

Since then they have been squeezing the bit rate down and down.

Now BBC 1 is actually quite ropey.

Using DSTV BBC1HD is not that different in picture to how BBC1 SD used to look when it first started.

The last change to DSO really made BBC1 look bad. (Oh and above IDTV was not compatible - good job I sold it to someone with a sat box)

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Bloody phones

Knicking the broadcast spectrum.

I wanted high bitrate HD not more bloody mobile frequencies.

For decent HD you to go BluRay now.

Want to see poor HD, try Gardeners World with a busy picture - looks like SD.

Thumbs down and Comments

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Re: Oh. There you are, annonytwat thumbs-downer.

I noticed, 2 down

Don't worry I upvoted it!

Scientists: 'Castration is the key to a longer life'

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Longer life vs exercise

Thought this watching joggers and cyclists.

Lets say 1 hour a day over 50 years.

Over 2 solid years exercising.

Will they live that much longer?

Sky ruled OK to hold broadcast licence without Murdoch at helm

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How many people won't touch with bargepole?

I don't, one of the reasons I won't have it is Murdoch, for fun the others are.

Cost

I want my own kit not substandard this is what you have like it or lump it kit.

How hard is 3D printing?

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There are other uses

It is getting popular in the model railway hobby.

Short runs of unusual wagons.

Base coach bodies for sticking etched sides on, interiors done, underframe not bad, etched brass sides look good, in smaller scales.

Parts for models.

Even slimmer PS3 out next week

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Re: Well, a size reduction is always nice, but ...

Why Fifa - sounds totally boring.

Why not something fun?

Or Good?

Or all 3 Uncharted games?

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Quite a few don't

Lad opposite me - got PS2, no PS3, wants one

NASA working on faster-than-light drive capable of WARP TEN

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Warp 2.15 thankyou

I see someone posted while I was calculating it

Ballmer: Win8 'certainly surpasses' Win95 in importance

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Win 95 launch

I remember where I was

The launch of Real/32, now that was a good operating system

Haynes Build Your Own Computer book review

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Re: Roll your own, keep your sanity and your checkbook safe (maybe)

I do as much as I can,

Strip a quad cam V6 to change valve seals - check

FIt LPG to a car - check

Build a PC - check

I used to run an old car and I knew it inside out, replaced lots of bits, bigger engine, forest suspension ect.

Now I would not trust a mechanic to do the cam belt - one said to me do not need the locking kit - so why is it adjustable to fractions of degree?

LPG - seen professional systems mess up, my DIY install didn't

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Am I superman then?

Built our last home PC

Rebuilt old components into a childrens PC

Changed a timing belt on my car 3 years ago, and doing again soon, and it is a quad cam engine and has multiple points of adjustment.

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Re: Huh?

Yes, it is cheaper and less restrictive than buying a ready made.

I wanted multiple terabytes of HDD. Not bothered with absolute speed so got Samsung drives

I wanted a hot processor in my case a quad

I wanted XP Pro - still have to run some older packages

I wanted a BD Burner - video editing

Then bought suitable components.

Boffin named Jubb to fire whopping hybrid thruster

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Re: Hard as I try

I know one of the education team, I have seen a picture of my twins with her at a show.

And you can see the family likeness with my wife.

Airbus predicts catapult takeoffs and formation flying by 2050

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Re: New York to San Francisco

Less than a day for a HST, but then you would need to refuel it.

Proper high speed like the French are researching 10 hours

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New York to San Francisco

Hmm I got to about 23 hours with Diesel and 16 if you used a TGV.

Proper not flying anymore airliner would have been about 2 1/2 hours

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My thoughts

Airliners peaked in design a few years ago - nothing flying now as good as a decade ago.

Wing in ground effect is more efficient - cross oceans at low level using less fuels.

I think for land masses high speed rail is the best solution

Emotional baggage

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Can't do that lesson

I had this at O level/CSE.

Put down 2 sciences, tech drawing, metalwork.

Couldn't do metalwork so had to do youarepeeing studies, managed a nice low CSE for it, I think 3 or 4 of us did it due to no metalwork.

The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?

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Re: Disappointing

lens sensors amd megapixels

Yes I have taken lots of lowish megapixel pictures of quite decent quality.

Lens good - well it is for a domestic video camera.

sensor - pretty good again, but low megapixels.

My last video camera was about 1.2MP and the quality was OK even at A4.

Newest does 6MP as it is HD and I have some nice pictures off it.

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Hmm

Minders, how tempting was it to wallop one?

One of the phones to me just had loads of red squares not obvious what they were.

Internet Explorer needs fresh dev infusion for a full recovery

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IE

Actually I find the version still on my home XP PC might be 7, may be 8, is very sluggish, seems to take a while to do anything, FF is quite quick in comparison. (I needed to compare 2 Ebay accounts).

Q8200 so no slouch.

My daughter recently got a new Win 7 laptop, she installed Firefox rather rapidly

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Re: It's not cool to bash IE...

I have upgraded past IE8 on XP - Firefox 15

For XP with IE dead ended FF and co are the best browsers to use.

Organic food offers basically no health benefit, boffins find

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Re: Organic Better?

Do they taste nice?

Apart from small size sounds like a pre intensive UK farm

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Re: Properly raised and butchered meat is better

Well in the UK we do not add hormones and antibiotics are only used when necessary.

Sheep as mentioned before are only paperwork away from organic, pasture cows - no problem, pigs should have room to run about.

Chickens - as long as free range.

So get decently raised meat and a decent butcher - you get decent meat.

Supermarket cheap stuff has not hung at all.

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Re: Not sure...

No issue in the UK we have very high levels of control on livestock welfare

Freesat eyes YouView USP for next-gen UI

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Re: I like the 'my recordings' UI

How did you get that many on it?

I think after 50 it gets rather full and that is BBC 1 hour shows, stick on longer stuff and even less can be stored.

NASA funds sexy, stealthy, sideways supersonic flying wing

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Unhappy

Concorde did make money

For BA but Airbus pulled the airworthy certificate

Facebook shoves your face in Microsoft's Bing thing

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Bit useless

Most people use Google or Yahoo - Bing does not sound like a search engine, but a tinplate toy manufacturer.

Number-plate spycams riddled with flaws, top cop admits

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Re: If I was in London

I would have fake plates for the congestion zone

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My car has show plates

Easiest way to get plates now, just use legal fonts and spacing - no issue.

4 MOTs passed

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Manchester to the City of London in 5 minutes

But I know someone in a team aiming for 12 minutes, no number plates though.

Fired Toyota coder trashes systems, steals data

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Was sacked once

Was classed as constructive dismissal.

Was given shit jobs to try to get me to leave. But I wanted more experience. Did 2 years more than I wanted there.

Got me finally on trumped up charges of insufficient testing (machine which didn't work had different graphics type to the developer computers and I didn't link in ONE lib). Oh and the site was used as our test site.

For at least 10 seconds I thought who can look after the program, HR gave me leave now or go to meeting where sacking will happen.

First stop was job centre, straight on to benefits, took a month to come through due to constructive dismissal.

Happy ending.

1) Been in current job a LONG time.

2) That employer shut shop locally.

Ten movies inspired by video games

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Re: Doom is awesome

I enjoyed Doom for what it was as well.

Worst ever film must be the Bob Hoskins Mario one

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Uncharted

I recommend the 3 BluRays of it, however you need a particular model of Sony BluRay player.

As to a remake - no thanks, they would use the wrong cast and the only actor suitable for Drake may be a bit too old, Elena looks like her actress though.

RIP Neil Armstrong: The reluctant American hero

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Re: I love the fact he did all that awesome stuff

Gone backwards.

No moonflights, no supersonic airliners

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Re: One of the greats who'll be missed

No they weren't - footballists were never there.

When I was young two jobs were in favour.

Astronaut or traindriver

Ubisoft: 'Vast majority of PC gamers are PIRATES'

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Re: Bundled network play is an issue too?

For Naughty Dog....

They are welcome to the money!

Oh and on Disc it doesn't fill your drive.

As to selling a game of theirs - philistine!

And just because you don't play does not mean your slot is reused, use multiplayer and a slot is taken, and not reused.

BTW I only MP ND and Guerilla Games, and have 100s of hours on them.

UK.gov's minimum booze price dream demolished

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Re: Minimum pricing

Premium brands - I'm happy with Westons and Healeys, however would like to see Strongbow banned and a complete ban on importing cider into the main cider producing country on Earth.

BTH most of the premium brand cider is over priced crap and the best stuff is smaller producer

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Minimum pricing

I worked out in only effected the cheapo stuff and not the decent stuff.

Sony PlayStation Vita sales crawl

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Company phone

So what do I play portable games on?

Lets say 7 days in hospital - PSP saved the day for entertainment, no games on work phone (got satnav though)

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Re: Show me the games

Stuff Mario - annoying little plumber - never been a fan, prefered blue hedgehogs but mainly early FPS.

I'd say Nathan Drake is more of a pull for adults than the above annoying plumber.

Finances are the restrictor at the moment, otherwith UC:GA would be mine.

When we get a Vita Killzone Mercenary will be ours too.

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Need to get two then.... arghhhh three

Boys Christmas presents then they go and announce a Killzone game - sorry I now have to get one for me.

Games we will be getting

Uncharted Golden Abbyss

Resistance Burning Skies

Wipeout

LBP

Gravity Rush

Escape Plan

Little Deviants

Tearaway

Killzone Mercenary

Already decided PS4 purchasing depends on Naughty Dog and Guerilla not the hardware division