Posts by boatman

Maybe companies should only brag about their sales of overpriced commodities to 1st world users?

I work in the aviation industry and the second biggest reduction in crashes, after the invention of the gas turbine, was taking control away from the pilots.

A modern passenger aircraft will fly and land itself with no input from the two meat bags positioned in the room with the best view. There is a TV show "air crash investigation" where you get ample opportunity to see the chain of events leading to some of our worst incidents, and it will shock you the number of events that are directly caused by the crew or at least compounded by their actions.

A flight crew is rigorously trained with hours of simulated failure scenarios and still they make mistakes. Now compare that to some of the the fuckwits on the road.

Bring on automation, it will lower deaths and serious injury's, reduce insurance costs and taxi you home when you have had 6 pints of old peculiar in the lazy cock on a Friday night

Re: no thanks

The main difference between the 2 walled gardens is the choice you make to use them.

You buy an Idevice and you really need to use Itunes

you but a PC you may never use Steam, but many people are happy with there balance between DRM and convienence

Re: A common misconception

Maybe worth a read

http://xato.net/tag/brute-force/

Re: Smaller still means hotter right ?

Thanks for correcting me.

every days a school day eh :)

2.3.3. is available on the desire!

location based settings are already available

Have a gander on android market for a app called "llama" (location aware mobile app)

its has quite alot of options you can play with to toggle various phone settings depending upon location and time.

For me it turns on wifi when I get home, turns on my bluetooth for 3 mins when I leave home or work so that if i get in my car it auto connects to my hands free system. turns off bluetooth when car hands free disconnects and no other bluetooth device is connected.

I think the part in this article about this new WiFi method saving 54% of smartphone battery cant be correct, as system monitering of my phone shows that wifi is only responsible for 12% of battery usage. So I assume it will actually save 54% of that 12% used by the wifi thus actually saving only 6% of my total battery usage....

Still, interesting article.

landscape

The cradle for the sensation supports the phone in landscape not portrait.

this something must contain something or something

I get trouble streaming from the beeb too, but newsgroups give me a solid 50Mb/s connection.

I just figured the beeb has a poor upload