Posts by miknik

Was he flying from....

..........Robin Hood Airport?

the digital equivalent of three miles to the gallon

Three miles to the gallon generally equates to 32DDs with endless legs on the fun stakes, your notebook analogy is flawed

Re: Why does plastic make it 'cheaper'?

"The advertising worked on you then?"

No, I own a vehicle repair company and have spent 20 years in the automotive repair industry..

I've stripped enough auto gearboxes and differentials to appreciate the differences between the ones fitted to a 250Nm torque engined car and a 700Nm engined one and I can appreciate that a brake setup involving eight piston calipers and fully floating drilled and vented brake discs (rotors) is more expensive than a solid disc set up with a single piston sliding caliper, no matter who you buy it from. Don't get me started on hydraulic active suspension components and the like...

My company specialise in Mercedes-Benz, current engine variants were introduced between 2005 and 2008. No European manufacturers use 80s engine tech.

Re: "clear blue bathroom sealant" WTF?!

You are confused, clear does not mean colourless.

The glass in my car is clear and blue.

a cupful of DNA would hold “a hundred million hours of high-definition video”

Provided I can select the content of the high definition video then from a hundred million hours worth I could supply many cupfuls of DNA.

Have I just created a perpetual motion machine?

Not so anonymous then...

Bet he is regretting verifying his paypal address now!

Mugging deterrent more like

Once the nasty man on the tube sees you shooting laser beams out of your eyes he is going to run a mile. Pretty sure Clark Kent could do this and that boy kicked ass.

Kryptonite equipped muggers may be an issue, but if you hang in those circles then you will need to find your own solution, or wait for Specsavers to start doing second pair free.

The irony

of hearing I will struggle to receive the data speed I expect to from a company who I associate solely with receivership is not wasted upon me.

His real secret

1) Get in early while everyone has shitty 33.6k modems ,or 56k if they are lucky, or 128k ADSL if they work somewhere cool.

2) Create a search engine which isn't Yahoo and loads absolutely nothing but company name and a search box , rather than the page Yahoo has which will sap 2 days of your bandwidth to load.

3)?????????

4)PROFIT!!!!!!!!

Obviously point 3 was actually sell advertising, but you all knew that anyway. This isn't a criticism, I'm fine with what Google do and applaud the fact they give most of their services away for free*, but the fact is they got rich by nailing search at the right time. Everything else they have done is a consequence of that. The end result is to retain that initial revenue stream they created, not because they love you.

*In exchange for your data, so they can sell more ads. (You knew that too though, right?)

Mega FAIL is the new tech launch protocol

Haven't you heard?

If your product launch isn't FUBARed in some way then nobody notices it. Fuck things up and get column inches from everywhere. Google Nexus 4 and Apple Maps are recent examples, it just shows you Kim has his finger on the pulse.

Although I have no real opinion of the guy I'll be cooking up the popcorn for this one. Having the cash to rent a huge mansion and live the lifestyle he does might be enough for some people to quit once they get raided by gun toting law enforcement officers but I'm pleased to see Kim's balls are in proportion to the rest of his body when it comes to dealing with government agencies and mega corps.

For reference, my attempt to register via my Virgin connection is currently greeted with an egg timer set for hard boiled ostrich.

Re: Good plan

I'm hoping Kim Dotcom is the buyer, and he is going to turn Manhattan into some sort of Tracy Island from which he can sit beneath this building in front of a wall of video screens, stroking his cat and running his evil empire.

Somehow he can escape capture from the US government at the end of each episode so we can all enjoy "moar lulz" at their expense. Perhaps John McAfee and Julian Assange can rock up there at some point too.

Funny how these things go full circle

The wrist watch became popular because it was seen as more convenient to have your watch on your wrist, rather than carrying a pocket watch.

Nowadays many people don't bother with a watch. Instead they rely on their phone, which they keep in their pocket....

I've already got an A tube

it leads to my A hole. It might not be hip and modern but it works. Call me old fashioned but I think I'll keep doing it my way.

Re: Rather humbling

Until I hear of the sad passing of one Bruce Willis then surely I don't need to concern myself with such things?

Re: I want to remain anonymous when I travel

You had better leave your mobile phone at home then

I can't be the only person...

...who actually just wants a dumb tv?

Spend the money on a good panel and making the hardware performance top notch. I don't want it to overlay my twitter feed on to what I am watching or any of that nonsense. I certainly don't want that coupled with countless gaping vulnerabilities.

While I'm on the subject I don't even want speakers. Audio and smart features are better handled by connected devices so I would rather not pay for duplicated functionality which is not only inferior but that I will also never use.

When I see phones without it I think its a scam to force people into expensive models/replacements.

Its a £239/£279 phone which is better specced than many costing double. I felt like a scammer buying one!

Re: Touch down

The simple solution would be to post on Twitter before you fly out about how you are going to tear up the USA on your rampaging holiday. The TSA will ensure you never make it out of the airport.

Does Robin Hood airport have flights to the USA?

Re: I'm impressed

"more nuanced and well-grounded than Charles Arthur manages at the Guardian (a good journalist and a well-informed man, but manages to sound like a fanboy even when he's trying not to be)"

Charles Arthur is a rabid fanboi, in his iPad mini review he tried to justify the letterboxing on video content viewed on the 4:3 mini by including a screenshot of a Nexus 7 playing a 2.35:1 video and saying "look, it has big black borders too!" A tech editor who doesn't understand aspect ratios? C'mon....