Recovery mode for a TV
That alone says that LG are doing it wrong.
And then there's the spy telly incident.
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How many times have you rung a call center recently and wished that you’d spoken to someone even more thick, or rendered by processes even more incapable of resolving the dispute, than the minimum wage of offshore staffer who you actually spoke with?
None, but many a time I've wished they'd just let me access whatever intranet site the call centre people use. It'd be a thousand times cheaper than the shiny new voice recognition thing (sorry, AI) that will be installed and ten times more useful than phoning the call centre.
Can't really add much more to what's been said above. I can however add a translation of the TV interview which was done in 2011 after he'd spent 5 years in the village.
Some family members have come to see and they always come in like this [mouth open] because it's a shock. I'm a Londoner, it's a radical change. Let's go in and see where I work.
My luxurious office. I work here every day using the Internet. I'm a journalist. Six months ago we launched a paper plane from 30,000 metres. It was a success. We appeared all over the world, in the press. It’s the beer’s fault, as usual. Here’s the famous plane, and here’s the famous Playmonaut.
[Subtitles: The plane was lifted up with a helium balloon, 30km above the surface, and the flight lasted 90 minutes.]
I live here with my family and I’ve got five dogs and five donkeys. Well, I’ve changed clothes and let’s go and see the donkeys.
This is the best place there is. Here, in the afternoon, with a beer and a view of the Sierra.
This one is called Ruperta[?] and the foal is called Bella.
The people in the village showed me how to care for donkeys. The most difficult thing is to go out in winter to feed the donkeys hay. If we don’t sell the male donkey we’re going to have more donkeys. Donkeys are an extravagance these days. Before coming to Spain I didn’t have a dog, a donkey, or anything. I’m not going to give this up for anything. I’m going to get changed again and we’re going to see a little of the village.
They received us quite well here in the village. It was a little bit strange for them… a family from England arriving in a big lorry full of things.
L: Hey, Venancio, how’s it going?
V: How are you doing?
L: Well… bad weather at the moment.
V: Yes, it’s really bad.
L: How are you?
V: Well, good.
L: Venancio.
V: Well, what do we do here… Work a bit when it’s good weather. On the fields, with the livestock.
TV: How many people live here?
L: 10.
V: We don’t get bored.
L: Six years.
V: Six years, he’s one of us now.
L: The same… more or less. Thanks Venancio.
V: Thank you.
L: See you later.
As an Englishman it’s impossible to live in a village without a bar, so the solution is set up a bar. This is my son Rui, he’s come over from England to work on the bar project.
L: What do you like most about Spain?
R: The weather…
R: I’m going to move some tiles.
L: Go ahead lad, get working.
There’s been no bar in this village for at least 40 years. We need something now.
TV: Do you think it’ll be profitable?
L: Well there are many people in the area, it’s not just the village, yes it’ll be profitable.
I’ve got time to play the guitar a bit. These days I only play it a little, for my daughter, she likes Paulina Rubio a lot. I bought this guitar 20 years ago or more, 25 years ago, yes. It’s a Japanese guitar but it’s very good.
[Plays “Paulina Rubio - Ni una sola palabra”]
Thank you Los Narros and good night.
I came to Spain because I’m quieter now. I’m a quieter person. I wanted to leave England because there are a lot of people there.
L: Are you there Katarina, let’s go to the mountains. This is my daughter Katarina.
K: Hello.
TV: How old are you Katarina?
K: Nine.
TV: What do you like most about living in this village?
K: Playing with my dogs.
L: Let’s go in the car, then.
L: We’re going to El Barco de Ávila, but we’re going to go through the mountains a bit.
L: I had friends in Salamanca and I came here a lot, I came to Castilla y Leon for 20 years, I like it. We came here, we looked at houses, we bought one in five minutes, and that was that.
Here we are in La Sierra de Gredos. In the north of England there are places like this, but not so harsh. This is a harsh area.
We’re passing over the river Aravalle very close to El Barco de Ávila. In the distance you can see the old bridge above the river Tormes and Valdecorneja castle.
When I’m in the country side I’m rustic, authentic. When I’m in the city I’m urban. You can change, can’t you?
This is Valdecorneja castle. We have a lot, Spain does as well, I like castles. I’ve learnt a lot of vocabulary living here, watering can, scythe, road, alpaca, things like that, country things. I’ll never forget my homeland, I don’t miss England but I still like it.
L: Afternoon.
Person in bar: Wow, Lester, how’s it going?
L: How’s it going?
P: I got to know him almost as soon as he arrived here. He’s still very English. He’s got a feel for the area, it’s like his mother. When he arrived he drank pints, now he drinks bottles…
All: Cheers.
If I were to leave here I’d really miss it. It’s a beautiful place, here for example we’ve got the fountain where people washed their clothes before. There aren’t any places like this in England any more.
L: How’s it going?
L: This is Danilo, another neighbour. We’re going to say hello to aunt Maria who had her 103rd birthday last week.
TV: The oldest person in the village?
D: Of course.
L: Of course.
TV: Let’s go to meet her.
L: Yes, let’s.
L: I think that the clean air and water has got something to do with it, without a doubt.
M: I was born here. I was baptised in Santiago, in Aravalle. Old people have always been renowned. Now there is nobody, we’re alone. They all left, the lords aren’t there anymore. Good. [At least I think, I might have missed something.]
L: It’s always interesting to talk about the past with older people.
M: Before people lived very well here. [People had] respect.
L: Aunt Maria… how was your birthday last week.
M: Good.
L: Did you dance a bit?
M: No.
M: [Something to do with Lester taking her photo outside]
L: That’s it, there you are, aunt Maria.
M: But I was younger.
L: Yes, 100 years old. Just 100.
M: Yes.
L: Goodbye from me and the the residents of Los Narros. See you later.
Apple believes Nokia partnered with trolls so that lawsuits against Apple come from various companies that evaporate at the first sign of trouble. If Nokia sued Apple directly for infringed nonsense patents, Apple could counter-sue in the same manner.
That would be the Apple which has structured their entire company around tax avoidance and the Apple which which has run suppliers into the ground if it'd save them a couple of cents getting precious about spun off companies because it means their army of lawyers has to work a bit harder to avoid paying for GSM patents. My heart bleeds.
Not all of Apple’s innovations have been stellar successes, some of them have indeed been trail blazers …
Unfortunately the 3.5" jack is ubiquitous because it does the job in the same way as WiFi/Bluetooth/USB if not more so (plug it in, it works), this is just a way of locking in Apple-brand headphones. Bluetooth headphones still aren't as practical or sound as good after all this time.
I bet it's some bobbins hand-rolled protection (e.g. you can't set the OS clock forward or back to read messages you shouldn't or something), in which case it would be more of a service for everyone if they could set up their own time server and spam that.
It will be called AI, but it will really be 'OK bank, what were my last five transactions?' and 'OK bank, I've had my cards stolen'. This is not AI, just voice recognition bolted on to the systems they've already got.
When it can handle, 'OK bank, tell me the best combination of products which pay the highest interest based on my financial history' (and really handle it, not just recommend whatever they're flogging at the moment) then we might begin to start thinking about calling it AI.
But now there's a general all-purpose Internet banhammer, and when you've got a banhammer everything looks like a nail, MPs sitting in committees can come up with the same cheap all-purpose solution for anorexia/bulimia, bullying, and so on. But will any of societies' ills be fixed?
I'm sure a nice shiny clean Internet (for people who don't know what a small ISP or a VPN is) will have the kind of success at tackling homelessness as moving the homeless on does.
A device running on a battery is covered by your main home licence. You have no main home licence so it's not covered if you use it to watch live TV via any transmission method or use iPlayer.
Taken from:
Students (scroll down and click on "Who doesn't need a TV Licence?" too).
On the other hand if they had put London on the MUXes without a regional feed and all hell would have broken loose (metropolitan elite, etc... etc...).
If the BBC were monopolizing MUXes with regional feeds then all hell would also have broken loose (special treatment for the BBC, etc... etc...).
Is changing over to SD so difficult if you want regional news?
Shame Apple's security page doesn't mention it.
So I don't know if 10.12.2 has a bundled EFI update meaning you have to install the OS update to get the EFI update, you can't decide to skip it and install a later combo update as you won't get the EFI update with that.
16GB is the max as the Intel chipset limits LPDDR3E memory to 16GB. If they were to go with 32GB then it would have to be DDR4 memory which uses more power. They want longer battery life so their OS can hog it.
Second point - how would the CPU address e.g. 512GB/1TB of SSD?
If it's like Sierra on my 2012 MacBook Pro, it uses it up displaying the spinning wheel. It's like Windows 3.1 all over a-fucking-gain.
Ye gods, why did I upgrade? You can tell they don't know how to do OSes any more, just make a new kext with the latest nVidia/AMD/Intel reference drivers and layer more and more iOS-style graphic effects on top.
Spread the knowledge when the training budget has been blown on jollies in other countries by those who are always somehow first in the queue and the grunts can't even set up internal workshops in the same office because those hours aren't charged to an end client?
Then people complain about mediocre software.
Website operators would not be required to display notices asking users to consent to the use of cookies for behavioural advertising purposes if the privacy settings on users' web browsers are already configured in a way which signals that consent, according to the proposals, it said.
So that means removal of the cookie notices, because servers can't query client settings.
It also means huge, "please allow us to set your cookies" notices if servers set a cookie and later find it's not there... like if you're running an ad blocker.
Yeah... not sure if being badgered into accepting Revcontent and Taboola clickbait crap is an improvement.
And telecos can get in on all that too it seems.
You'd expect Luke would have been said, "Oh God, the fuckers burnt my aunt and uncle and dumped them outside the house! Why God, why?!" at least once. Or Leia is left with PTSD and flashbacks after being shut in a room with the floating needle drone and Vader and tortured.
They didn't really address the violence.