Posts by David Barrett

Re: I know his pain, partly

Silly question, but could you not have asked for a refund for the cost of the mini PCI card and fitted it yourself?

Of course, Id have expected some other compensation as well. memory and some cash maybe...

I just had to have a look on-line because I thought that 3 should make the cancellation easy if you were still in the cooling off period and found this:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/12/cooling_off_mobile_phone_online.html

Another reason to do everything online, already knew about the distance selling act, but didn't realise that there was no cool down for contracts bought in store!

Re: A logical problem with a physical answer

Fair enough, have the resus team on standby!

Re: Surprised?

You know that as you zoom in it switches from satellite to aerial (I.E. Taken from a plane) photography don't you?

Re: That message will appear on all XP desktops.....

If you don't have automatic updates enabled anyway then the end of support probably isn't going to affect you...

Re: Undesirable?

Im in the north west, doesnt seem too far off the mark. :)

Re: Balmer for the win!

Not sure that including no dos support will help in an argument which is focused on the issues from being tied to.old software....

Re: Schol Reform

One actual problem with that... You talking about kids doing 8am-5pm days?

So a 9 hour day... For kids, how much do you think they will take in in that last hour or so?

That's more than I work full time and I cant concentrate at the end of the day!

"Water is getting harder and harder to source"

Two points, I disagree that water is getting harder to source, last I heard the sea was made of it and there's loads of that.

secondly, there may be areas where water is difficult to get hold of, but lets face it, if we can get ink to those places now, we can get them water too..

Re: Hmm,

Anyone who thinks glass can be worn safely while driving I set you this challenge, focus on the glass of your windscreen (not out side it- the actual glass) next time your driving...

now imagine the person behind you on the motorway, driving a little to close, is doing the same thing.. Feel safe?

Re: The Problem

You raise some good points, but the basic idea of having these services available "under one roof" is convenience to the employees, If I'm having to rush out to collect dry cleaning before the shop shuts, or post a parcel in my lunch break then its going to be a distraction for me whilst I am working - offering the services within your company means that the employees do not need to worry about whether they can be back at work in time.. It reduces stress and is a great way to make your company stand out from the crowd when you want the best people... Or they could offer higher wages, but I doubt that would help the current situation...

Re: Conflation?

"he contents of the two are inextricably linked - BP in particular makes no sense without Colossus. Moving them apart would be daft."

That's the point though, BP trust are erecting a physical fence (At least that's what I have read) to keep them separate, they don't want Colossus to be part of BP, probably because it is part of the NMOC and they would have to pay for their guests to access it....

Re: It looks like NO ONE ever audited X Windows

This is the internet we don't need to provide sources, or proof.

Re: Microsoft Fail

"Microsoft will have to cover the cost of fixing said bricked Xbox's as owners can claim a child was messing about with the controller and they happened to hit the sequence shown."

Probably not as its not just a key combination that was mentioned, there was a URL that had to be entered into a text field as well.

I doubt that you will get away with "my 3 year old was mashing the keys, somehow got to the xbox settings menu pressed Left Left Up Down Right Shoulder Left Shoulder A B X Y then typed in 'dev.microsoft.com' into the text box and then pressed start to save the whole thing" *

* This isnt the actual key sequence or URL, I only saw the instructions briefly and ignored them.

Re: Surface Pro?

"(I'm confused how he thinks he'll play it on an iPad)."

He will probably download it from the app store and just play it.. theres been a version of minecraft for IOS for ages, wife had to take it off her phone because the kids kept nicking it for toilet visits!

Re: Question:

Other games are available.

I have a 6 and an 8 year old (Actually they are only a few weeks from 7 and 9.) but they play minecraft, mario cart, Unreal Tournament and Halo amongst others.

Of course unreal and Halo are the more violent amongst the games that they play but its cartoon violence, no worse than power rangers.

The only person to have mentioned GTA is you, by any chance do you read the mail?

Re: So...

Lies, using my Nokia 620 right now, been on fb and twitter... Don't have a live/passport/whatever they are calling it today account set up on the phone...

Re: Nice to see them catch up with the girls

"Without brain-washing, atheism is the default position of any educated person. And by "educated" I mean actually educated with and understanding of critical thought and the scientific method."

Id argue that its the default position for EVERYONE not just the educated - whether you remain atheist depends on your upbringing, there has never been a religious baby born (to my knowledge).

Re: Fine.

"Indeed. Fandroids can be dismissive but anything Apple does tends to get imitated by others."

yeah, anything.... Maps? *cough*

Re: 8, 8.1, 8.2, 9.0

Ahh yes, because the jump between windows 7 and LINUX is much smaller than the jump between windows 7 and windows 8...

Unfortunately like copy and paste this will be missed in iWatch 1 but will make an appearance in iwatch 3 to much fanfare and screams from the media about how original it is.

manual?

Manual seriously?

Its the 21st century there is no paper manual but there is one in the form of an eBook preinstalled on the nexus.

Id guess alot of people buy these to get away from printed books, what's the point of printing a manual?

Re: Pseudo-random?

Bash the keyboard like a mental monkey... Pretty sure I saw this message in some encryption software in the 90s.

Re: What would I do if I was running Apple's TV project

Quote: 'tuners (too much localisation work) so input by HDMI'

Yeah HDMI I'm certain that apple wont ditch that for their own proprietary connection then sell you a $100 adapter.

Re: iNexus

The mini is 7.2mm thick the nexus is 10.4mm thick

So its 3.2mm thinner, why bother posting something so easily disproven?

Re: I still like

@Giles Jones --

At least with optical if nobody can see the screen then nobody can scan it.

I imagine that grabbing a screen shot of your QR code could be quite easy... at the simplest wouldn't it be trivial for a member of staff with ill intent to hide a small web cam near the scanner? At least NFC has some level of security.