Posts by Andy 115 139 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Sep 2009
"AFAIK detection of a TV LO from an unlicensed premises gave them cause to enter the premises to search for the TV they already know is there."
Except they had no legal footing for entering said premesis (unless they managed to dupe te occupant with lies) Their only option was to apply for a warrant, which rarely happened as they weren't prepared to submit their "evidence" (detector van fairy stories) for scrutiny by the court.
Win 7 laptop / iPhone / iPad can all access internet fine individually but as soon as win 7 and ios device on at same time, win7 gets full speed whilst ios device got a couple of Kbps to Internet (but still full speed on internal network). Very odd
Interim fix was to connect a separate WAP to HH via Ethernet port and separate wifi access between ios and win7 onto separate WAPs (all got full speed then)
Long term, HH's replaced with different hardware.
Is it really such a surprise that figures are not forthcoming?
The last 3 iPhone launches have been for a single model with pre-orders.
This year we have 1 model that is "re-cased" from last year on pre-order (some variations sold out for launch day) and a new model that has no pre-order (apart from in China?)
I would much rather put my money on an announcement AFTER launch weekend for the 5s…
After all, the 5s is the main event here (new features and 64bit).
As title
I'm glad that it isn't just me that gets infuriated by clicking on a link only to be unceremoniously dumped onto the restricted content mobile site, forced to "your country" home page (AFAIAC, that should only occur on the homepage itself - never deeper into the site)
Or just as bad, being taken to an excellent mobile site only to find as soon as you click on any further link you get dumped on an (touch) unusable desktop site.... Grrrrr
I have done that, it stopped the snot-o-grams from TVL for all of 4-6 months....
Why the F*** should I have to "prove" to TVL that I don't need a license? I have told them using their website and forms numerous times and I'll be fucked if I'm going to wait in for them, providing them access to my property (that they have no legal right to), to confirm something that I have already told them…
They can go and swivel!
"What's not clear is whether the fact that you could watch Internet broadcast TV but don't is enough to remove the requirement for a license."
Actually it is VERY clear…
The mere possession of equipment capable (even tuned to the correct frequency) DOES NOT GIVE RISE TO THE REQUIREMENT TO HAVE A LICENSE.
A license is ONLY required if such equipment is use to watch or record broadcasts (from any source, even the continent) as they are being broadcast.
I could have been previously licensed and watching BBC1, turned of my TV and cancelled my license, my TV is still tuned into BBC1, but as I am not watching or recording it, I need no license.
HTH
Office 2013 (Yes I know this is about Outlook!) drops support for .doc or .xls or .ppt files (i.e. Office 2003 and older) just like office 2007 dropped support for PPT files created prior to Office 97/2000.
A Royal PITA when you have 1000's of schematices that were converted and saved into PPT from Office 95 and 97 (because, hey, everyone in the company has it installed) that you can't open in PPT 2007 (yet annoyingly you can see the contents in the preview)
Can be opened in Office2000, (and up-saved) but oh yeah, the windows 2000 computers that have Office 2000 aren't allowed on the network anymore....
Burns disk with files from network
opens files on old computer
up-saves to office 2000 format
re-burns disk
virus checks
opens files in office 2007
Or have the manufacturers got themselves caught up in their own reality distortion fields?
TVs were (relatively expensive) and the vast majority of people only "upgraded" due to the fact that the old one died.
Then came along digital (or was it thin TVs that didn't look like they were being watched through a Vaseline smear?) and a large chunk of people upgraded in a relatively short space of time.
The manufacturers saw this and assumed that this (one off) rapid upgrade cycle was going to be the new norm only to find out that people really aren't interested in incremental upgrades like FullHD, 3D etc. etc.
They only need to look back 20 years to see there was no "mass upgrade" simply because fasttext, Dolby surround or flat (CRT) screens were introduced - people saw these as features to consider when upgrading, NOT (generally) a reason to upgrade of itself.
This certainly isn't the preserve of the financial world, I'd hazard a guess and say that the cancer has spread to most FTSE companies.
Certainly the pharma I used to work for would do much better in developing treatments for human cancers if it treated the human-resource cancer first!
"Just wondering: do you have NoScript or similar installed?"
No.
UK based and have NEVER been redirected from apple.com to apple.com/uk…
An as the homepages often show slightly different content (no sniggering at the back re: the current subject matter) it would piss me off a lot if I were redirected from the .com to the regional site…
Apple.co.uk redirecting? Now that may have happened (never thought to try it before though)
If you don't know (based on past cycles and rumours) when the new ones are out…
There is nothing FORCING people to upgrade the moment their contract ends; if you were coming out of multi-year contract in June 2012, more-fool-you if you didn't have the patience to wait for the updated phone that (on past cycles) would be released in 3 months.
In the EU there is a maximum of a 24 month contract on phones.
Why is the device obsolete when a new one is released, does it suddenly stop working? Does is stop getting updates?
…exactly twice in 12 months:
Last November to rip Elton John's "Rocket Man" to use on an iMovie featuring a firework show (I was too lazy to find the hard drive containing my iTunes library after a re-org)
A couple of months ago to install some Elgato tv software (the enclosed card said "download the latest software from elgato.com/gettvsoftware but I missed that in my excitement)
So, 12 months and 2 uses, both of which could have been easily avoided.
Having just installed an SSD in my early 2008 iMac (doubled the speed, TYVM!) I can't actually see me upgrading any time soon, but when I do, I'm quite sure everyone else will have followed apples lead so it just won't be a consideration anymore.
"Same with TVs. That's how broadcasters can tell how many different TVs there are in a building when they're doing a raid, looking for people watching TV without a license..."
Oh dear! You have fallen victim to the TVL propoganda machine my friend…
IF this were true, many thousands of people would have been prosecuted for TV license evasion based on the evidence provided by "detector" vans. As it stands though, not one person has ever been prosecuted based on such eveidence (HINT: it is too unreliable)
Incorrect!
You are free to get rid of the license at ANY time so long as you do not watch or record TV broadcasts (using any device) whilst they are being broadcast....
You are free to keep the freeview to listen to the radio if you were so inclined.
Unfortunately, TVL will not spell this information out clearly an unambiguously and will try and convince you that you must somehow PROVE to them that you no longer need a license (even resorting to faux legal threats of court summons and "investigations being opened"...
Reality is a bitch (for them) -The onus is on THEM to prove you ARE breaking the law, NOT for YOU to prove that your AREN'T breaking the law!
Actually a very simple reason...
The phone is trying to determine IF the network connection it has is open to the wider Internet. (Or if it is locked behind a paywall)
It explains why often "login to use" wifi connections often show www.apple.com in the browser address bar
Of course, if some wifi site owners REALLY wanted to screw iDevices up, they could presumably allow free access to apple.com
You are free to get rid of the license at ANY time so long as you do not watch or record TV broadcasts (using any device) whilst they are being broadcast....
You are free to keep the freeview to listen to the radio if you were so inclined.
Unfortunately, TVL will not spell this information out clearly an unambiguously and will try and convince you that you must somehow PROVE to them that you no longer need a license (even resorting to faux legal threats of court summons and "investigations being opened"...
Reality is a bitch (for them) -The onus is on THEM to prove you ARE breaking the law, NOT for YOU to prove that your AREN'T breaking the law!
That info doesn't tie up with the story I saw of a micro sim with snap-out nano sim....
However to imply that the alternatives were all contact compatible and the apple design stood out for not being is misleading in the extreme - the Nokia design had them all along one edge!
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