Posts by BongoJoe

Oops

They didn't deploy the iAntenna for the telemetry, did they?

Coat because I'll get my spacesuit

Remember when...

These things used to be useful - they were used to help correct scanned text of historical documents. I have no idea if they do this now and, if not, it's a shame that they don't as I felt that I was contributing something when trying to type in the name of some strange long forgotten Welsh village.

And in The Times...

...it's further claimed that the artiste in question is renowned for having a genital wart shaped like an ear.

Perhaps thankfully, no pictures were accompanying the article to back up this rather bizarre claim.

Strange outfit

I joined the BCS in 1982 and had been to lectures well before then and the only long standing opinion of the BCS was that it was mostly pointless.

I remember going to a lecture in the late 70s when someone asked one of the big-wigs whether they would be taking an interest in the new micro-processors rather than the Big Iron computers of the time. The man from the BSC then said that they would take no interest nor ever do so in micro-processor technology and computing.

True to their word, they really didn't. The society because more of thing for managers to share buzzwords and the occasional paper in their Journal would be interesting. But since the 80s I have always wondered what the point of the BCS was.

I ended up gather no end of professional qualifications from them without even trying and all they ever seem to do was to dish out letters to people at random. In one year I became chartered TWICE (good database, fellahs!), got some EU charter qualfication and a whole host of nonesense.

Any outfit which dishes out letters like confetti really can't be said to be relevant. My career? I work for myself now and don't need anything which doles out letters after their name.

I stopped being a member a few years ago when I realised that their relevance to the real world for the one man techie is precisely nil.

Another country

where it looks like Betfair may be blocked.

Stunned

I can't fathom how a major newspaper doesn't understand the basic principles of copyright.

No excuse for it.

Tome Replacement

I am still looking for a good alternative to the 1000+ plus wrist knackering computer texts which are littering my office.

It would be good to find something which replaces these books in PDF format and is as good as a text book but these eReaders just don't yet cut the mustard.

It would be nice to be able to curl up and digest a text book on the sofa or on public transport without having a few pounds weight of dead tree to haul about and handle.

The person who solves this issue is going to be very rich indeed.

beer - because having one right now seems to be a great option.

Audio?

So if you talk to me in the pub and describe the cup are you also guilty?

Then why?

Beerman, if it seems that all you are interested in is making calls then why do you need an iPhone in the first place?

I have a mobile which does just that, and texts brilliantly too. It's the Sony Ericsson rather extinct P800 but it does the thing that you mention rather well.

So why then the need for an iPhone?

beer - because we have a great little brewery here just down the road.

Er, I think that I'll wait

I won't be taking up this offer because:

1. The prices of sets will drop by more than 10% as they become more popular further on in time.

2. There's no DAB here, so what am I supposed to listen to in the meantime?

Digital Camera

I am looking on the Canon website to see if there's an update for my SLR to stop it receiving and storing any WiFi data which it may accidently sniff.

Oddly enough, there doesn't seem to be an upgrade for that.

I wonder why...

It depends...

I, for one, was disappointed by the Cameron Aliens. Just another gung-ho bunch of American Marines in a movie.

I have to say that I loved the feel of the Extended version of Alien 3. The cinema release of that, thank you production studio, was mangled and stank to high heaven but the 'proper' full cut was utterly magnificent and was actually one of the better films in the series.

Then again I'm not a fourteen year old kid waiting for mom to take me to the arcade in the mawl who loves to watch films with lots of explosions.

If Scott is involved with this one and, hopefully, helming these two films then I have high hopes for this idea. But, please let's not make this into another useless slug-fest. I've seen enough movies of John Wayne, etc., fighting the whole of the Japanese army with one rifle - no matter how it's translated on screen.

To be Frank

that looks more like the late great Mr. Zappa to me.

Besides, given that no contemporary pictures were made of Jesus then no-one really knows what he looks like. So, he may be walking around us for decades now and on his fifth or sixth Coming and still no-one takes a blind bit of difference.

MP3?

Does this mean that the music quality will drop? At the moment the quality of the Spotify stuff is far better than mp3 and this is the sole reason why I use it.

If the level of Spotifyness drops to mp3 standard then I won't ever use it. All my CDs are ripped down to .flac and I would accept no less.

And if there is an element of peer-to-peer shaing, even if it ends up encrypted, then surely this is illegal for the user to share his or her music because this is effectlvely publishing a copyrighted piece of work.

Fail. Because this has, well, fail written all over it.

Strange Behaviour, indeed

"Nothing is sadder than seeing the look on a little kid's face when you don't have the toy they want"

Isclearly how Apple see their fanboi customers and their own products.

"...who reeks of cigarette smoke". Or a free-marketeer. Or perhaps everyone who doesn't live the approved lifestyle of Apple HQ.

Each and every day I am getting more and more convinced that Apple are a bunched of crazed nutters belonging to a whacky sect. who suck in their disciples in a manner somewhat reminiscent of the not so Reverend Moon.

Er...

...haven't they been flying these drones for years for years here in Wales or have the journos just caught up with yesterday's news? One of the bays near here is littlered with the damned things that they've been flying and testing for decades.

Heritage

David24 shoudl remember that perhaps there are people who live in Ireland who do speak Gaelic and not English. Not only that the Gaelic language is just not cute and postcard fodder but is a actually an important part of one's history and culture.

Following on from your argument we ought to stop speaking Proper English and we all use American English because no-one in the world who speaks English can't understand the American version.

As a Welsh learner living in a Welsh speaking community I have learned to understand why Welsh is important. It's those looking in who have no idea why it is. The same would apply over in Ireland. And to counter your future argument; I know of families on the Lleyn who can't speak English - not won't.