Posts by EddieD 1117 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
She was probably carrying a Samsung.
As famous last words go, not too memorable, and up against:-
God damn you --- George V - not a particularly good final few words - maybe he realised the brompton cocktail was to get him into the first editions...
but infinitely better than...
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist.... which were the highly inaccurate last words of General John Sedgwick a commander in the US civil war.
Skype - and other video messaging services - are getting there. We maintain proper video conference suites at work, but, certainly over the last 3 years, my cheap and cheerful vid conferencing over skype has been used in preference for at least a dozen PhD vivas - it's a lot more compatible with less well funded institutions.
Video messaging is going to take off soon - even my folks who don't get on with tech love it - hearing is so 20th century, seeing is what people want
Tech will get smaller, privacy is being eroded, and we're going to run out of resources....
Gee, you don't say.
The upcoming watergeddon has been predicted for decades - there are currently many major disputes in the middle east as one country drains an acquifer and the next country along gets peeved (http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/27/israel-palestinian-water-dispute).
You don't become a sage by stating the bleeding obvious.
After a full patch cycle and a wee bit of optimisation, Vista will run cleanly and consistenly - but Win 7 came out very, very soon after they got Vista working, so most folk haven't seen it.
Similar interface to 7, so it will be familiar, and, as speaking as a techy, if the support techs say it's for the best, I'll agree with them.
The waiting list for a sleep study in my health service area is approximately 16 months - it's a fairly intense procedure, full 12 wire cardiogram, eeg, respiration, etc, and the results take about another 11 months to come through, so something like this which could save some valuable spaces in the ward (7 beds) is to be welcomed.
My tests turned up negative for apnœa, but positive for insomnia, which is a problem.
Just don't ever reply to anyone in the Academic institution with your personal account, simples. Cos if the rozzers find an email from you to someone else that you haven't disclosed, or if the mail relay logs or network logs (which must be surrendered on subpoena) indicates that all your mail goes to foobar@gmail.com they may get a tad peeved.
Aye, if you have a corporate Google agreement, you get different services. The same as using MS 365, sorry 4, 3...
This article is about using /personal/ accounts - and there's no way that I know of that a person with a personal account can order google store your stuff, securely, unscanned, and in the EU.....
I work in technical support at a University, and it's quite tricky getting the academic staff to accept that the convenience of Gmail, Hotmail et al, comes with a bit of a price - and even harder to get them to understand that personal is not the same as private (keyword scanning etc...).
Also, at a meeting on data security and encryption, we were told, in no uncertain terms, that by law, we (as in University staff in general) could not store any personal information related to our work on any computer systems that were not "secure, and within the bounds of the European Union" - which would rule out most academic staff using a global e-mail provider.
Could get interesting, sooner, rather than later.
If I was interested in what had happened, I'd have logged in, or had an RSS feed or something.
I have a scroll bar, I can look back.
I currently have to have ?sk=lf at the end of my shortcut to FB to get the view I want.
I better be able to have this still and not have to rake around what facebook laughingly calls "top stories".
My brief flirtation with "social networks" is looking to be abbreviated further if they keep fiddling.
And eBooks have saved me from having to tax my DIY skills and add more bookcases...
I have a Kindle, and I love it, but I hope that Waterstones make this work - competition is good, and increasing the profitablity of high street books stores and therefore keeping them on the high street is better - whilst I use the Amazon services a lot, and think they are damn good, I sometimes worry that we're creating a juggernaut that will drive out local shops. There's something magic, for me, about wandering round a book shop (or indeed many other types of shop) and just browsing - you can't get that from an online store.
But not with a partner. That just doesn't work.
...in the comments about Steam and Game and other retail entertainment emporiums.
Shopping on-line is, if you know what you are looking for, and are willing to buy sight unseen, a lot, lot easier than going to the high street.
If I want clothes or food, I want to check what I'm getting, for everything else, there's a price comparison site....
Okay, I'm being a little severe here - sometimes I will trog round the shops looking for inspiration, but when I see it, I go home, and look for it 10-50% cheaper
I like Steam - I get most of my games that way.
No media to lose, no boxes to store, no license to enter, and games work offline (well, those that make sense to, anyway), plenty of freebies (I'm having fun with Team Fortress at the moment)
Just the virginmedia download caps get in the way, but I'll take that rough in amongst all the smooth.
A few more similar services would be most welcome.
I'm not an expert in this, but there would be significant costs to the various folk if they forked Android - at the moment all they must do is put their interface (okay, that's not a small all, I know) - maintaining the code base of their Androidesque distro would probably require a not insignificant number of man hours, and that cost would go into the phones.
Apple may not need to sue the Android tablet industry to stay ahead, it seems likely to slowly, but surely, implode.
Which would be a shame - competition is a good thing, mostly.
Most people are consumers - throughout the history of the home computer, they've been bought with the excuse of learning technology, but end up being used for games (80s and 90s) and web browsers in the noughties.
The social media explosion has given a new use for home machines, but the screenboards are enough for telling everyone that you're going to the loo.
Beyond that, bluetooth mice and keyboards are not hard to find (and most folk I know with tablets actually lug both round with them)
Games - the obsession we have with farmville, bejewelled blitz, angry birds etc, shows that lavish, multi-dvd games that require bleeding edge hardware are of interest to a minority only (and current phones/tablets aren't particularly short of processor power anyway)
They all now automatically work with things like airplay/dnla, so streaming to your telly/audio device is not an issue, and easily setup, so you can enjoy the torrents you're consuming on your plasma telly, not the 7" screen.
The only real issue is the lack of local storage, and most of Joe Public have no problems with cloud storage, and it will only be refuseniks like me that sync to a local nas-box, but again, this is not tricky.
Yep, I can easily see the benefits, and can easily see that they will take over, and sooner rather than later - I'll probably keep my current set up for a few years, but will get a tablet soon, and I'll bet large sums of money that it will rapidly become my primary device.
That's roughly 2 liters, which would be 8 units (most ales) or 10 units (Stella) which would be between 56 and 70 units a week.
Just a tad more than the recommended levels...
As I'm currently 46, I wholeheartedly (no pun really intended) endorse this particular study...
Evidence based policy making, which would revolutionise our political attitudes to so many things, e.g. drugs, is not going to make much headway against Daily Mail/News International based policy making, alas.
I may just take a copy of this article to my local supermarked so I can point out that I'm not an alchy, I'm just middle aged and looking after my health :)
A friend at UC Berkeley says that the campus plods patrol on Segways - and I'm fairly sure that I saw some Dutch plods on them, but I had been in the Netherlands for a few days and the cakes I got with my coffee may have clouded my judgement...although not enough for me to take one of the Segway tours.
Nice ideas, but too expensive for the advantages that they give.
Not significant - there are probably more damaging leaks of my data from other places - e.g. websites with my credit card details, medical history from my doctor's office, than from the census, which, when it comes down to it lists my name and address (in the phone book, with my phone number), my date of birth (not hard to find), my vocation and salary (as I work for a publically funded organisation it's a matter of open record) and very little else.
I do hope though, that the ICO fines the holders of this data a significant sum.
Per record, of course.
Whilst it is true that shale gas produces less CO2, methane, the primary constituent of shale gas, is a far more potent greenhouse gas than CO2, and when the total impact on greenhouse constituents is considered, shale gas may be a greater contributor to global warming.
http://www.springerlink.com/content/e384226wr4160653/fulltext.pdf
As with all these things though, you can find arguments to support either point of view.
All the best
No more ringing up trying to sound pathetic with generalised symptoms, now you have a whole arsenal of ready made symptoms to reel off to your boss (I've always favoured the inner ear infection route for sickies - no external symptoms...and no embarassing fictions about toilets...but I digress)
The first chapter of "Three Men in a Boat" has the author reading a medical text book in the British Museum Library, and convicing himself that he has everything written in it. Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose and all that.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Three_Men_in_a_Boat/I if you're interested. I wish modern doctors responded the same way, rather than handing out unnecessary antibiotics
I laughed quite considerably. My right-leaning friends were less impressed, but because of the political implications, not the vulgarity.
Times change, standards change, values change. Looking at TV from the '60s, it seems incredibly restrained. Now most soaps have the occasional sh1t, p1ss, no-one seems to mind.
The audience for the News Quiz are, well, Radio 4 listeners, and I doubt many of them were too upset, and Sandi played it for laughs with skill. The fact that there doesn't seem to have been a complaint I think indicates that the outrage from John Whittingdale, Conservative, Maldon is more akin to the reaction I mentioned above.
I think a go forth and multiply is called for to this "outrage".
All the best.
Funny you should mention Orwell, as I was thinking of one his other works...
"The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Animal Farm
Closing open sources, removing apps - they're turning into Apple
In other news, the pope is said to hold catholic beliefs and ursine creatures defecate in arboreal areas.,
Knowlege is power - and you can substitute data for knowledge in this age..
What remains to be seen is if the greater public can realise that their data is valuable, and can actualise its value before the corporations wrest control - and whether rear guard actions by Viviane Redding (having heard her speak, I've gained a lot of respect for her) and other legislators can protect us from the corporations
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