Re: Decades of road safety research

Actually, for reasons I cant fathom, the M6 seems more accident/tailback heavy in the good conditions of the summer than the bad conditions of winter.

Re: Corks (was Works with Bics too)

Bear would also filter the smaller glass shards out with his kidneys though.

I've got an Nexus One as well...

Never had ANY trouble with either of the SD cards I've had in it (I upgraded to a bigger one), either using the stock ROM or one of Cyanogens.

What on earth were you doing to the poor thing?

I had to

read that 3 times until I got it into my head it was Windows Phone and not Word Perfect...

You might want to revisit Radio 4...

...because believing it plays 'music for the retired' just makes you sound stupid.

From Wikipedia:

BBC Radio 4 is a British domestic radio station, operated and owned by the BBC, that broadcasts a wide variety of spoken-word programmes, including news, drama, comedy, science and history

Thats a bit of a fail actually...

I thought that very thing...I tried to use an old-ish laptop thinking that OnlIve would be a killer app, but it needed (IIRC) Shader Model 2 (or something)

Not only that...

they collect filthy water in the tray under where your hands go and then dribble it down the side of the unit onto the floor (or, hilariously, onto the power socket that feeds the thing if you happen to work here I do).

Then the groove round the yellow fancy trim at the top starts to fill up with mankyness. I do not lke them.

Being Medion...

I wouldn't touch it at any price. I've some some decent stuff of theirs in the past but recently any Medion/Tevion stuff I've tried has been rubbish.

They're the new Amstrad .

Google

LRX and Evoque...

In that case

an iPad is NOT a PC...it does what Steve wants it to do.

A tablet from anothe company, however...

"With a bluetooth keyboard a tablet is much better for typing"

So by the time you're lugging around a keyboard, and presumably a mouse to make your tablet "much better for typing", and something to keep the tablet in an orientation thats useful how is it any different from a badly designed, underpowered netbook? Albeit one thats probably incapable of running the software you routinely use on your desktop...?

Horses for courses...tablet <> desktop replacement or indeed notebook replacement.

Email...?

Hmmm..I think that says more about iPhone users than abut email...I check my mail on my Android, but nothing beats a keyboard when you actually need to reply.

As for tablets in meetings. I've been to very few meetings where laptops have been generally used. Paper and pencil, yes, laptops, no.

It sounds to me more like the tablet is supplanting clipboards and smart phones than PCs.

To be fair...

without IBM there might have been less need for IBM. I seem to remember reading a book about their data machines being very useful for organizing the holocaust.

But it is...

Its Microsoft on a phone. People who were plagued by earlier iterations are not going to know nor care how different 7 is from the previous offerings. They'll just stay away.

Not seen EFI yet...

but supporting PCs for about half a dozen friends and family the very last thing I want is a user friendly version of BIOS. I want text based. I REALLY want command line based. I want it to scare the crap out of them if they stumble into it.

That way they dont play. They break Windows...I dont want them breaking the BIOS (sic) as well...

Mine disappeared...

completely.

I foolishly let Kubuntu update itself...back to the command line :(

Luckily that machine is basically used as a network device, so I'll reinstall Maverick rather than fiddle about.

Primeval...

Mind you I still watch on a CRT so what do I know?

None of which means..

that people will actually bother to USE the 3D. My telly has a tuner, but Ive not used that bit of it in 3 years.

Talking of Straw Men...

"It's like messing around with the engine management software in your car to circumvent that annoying reverse collision detection system system you don't like 'because it is your hardware' . The result is a less safe car, and in addition to voiding the warranty and your insurance you should also be liable if you reverse over someone"

Ford will not care if I do something like that - they may decline to honor the warrentee, but they won't care. Likewise, as long as I inform my insurance company they can up my premiums, or decide they no longer want to cover me, but beyond that they won't give a damn.

Real world, tech example. Nexus One. When I unlocked the bootloader Google explicitly told me that if I went ahead my warrentee would be void. They did nothing to stop me. Likewise they did nothing to stop me rooting. I might have lost root with one update, but it was trivial to root again. They might not warrentee my hardware any more, but they dont care enough to stop me using their services or stop sending me OTA updates.

THAT is how its done.

Missing the point...

If you only want to commute and wanted to be environmentally friendly whyw would you drive a Bloated Parody, instead of something lighter, nippier and properly Mini?

Well...

1) 5 1/4" floppies (no idea where you get 5 FOOT floppies from...).

2) They were no more than medium size - I remember (just) 8" floppies...

Ridiculous

If I own a car and take it ploughing then yes, the manufacturer will not honor the warrentee. They wont TRY and stop my ploughing though, and they won't issue an update to disable all those cars that have been used for ploughing.

As for modding the engine, as long as it conforms to the laws of the road there is no problem. A dealer might not like it, and insurance will go up but if I want to put a V8 in a Mini I can. No-one will stop me.

Likewise, my Nexus One is cracked and rooted. When I cracked the bootloader (fairly trivial) there was a warning "Do you want to do this? Cracking the bootload voids your warrentee". Google did'nt try and stop me though, and OTA updates still work (they unroot it sometimes, but I can easily root again.

Your arguments are, at best, spurious.

Yes, yes you can...

I saved £70 by buying an Acer Revo with Linpus instead on Windows installed.

Mind you, Linpus was such a bag of nails that it didnt even come with the wireless drivers that the Revo actually needed. Acer could hardly have been more halfhearted if they'd shoved the all components in a shoebox with a piece of paper suggesting that the bits plugged together in some way before shipping it.

Kubuntu solved the problem nicely.

Yes, but...

Seeing as the most popular version of Ubuntu runs on the same hardware as Windows thats hardly suprising.

Its kind of like complaining about coverage and review of PCs based on Intels new revolutionary chip family on the grounds that the chip was pre-existing and someone just shoved them into a PC to sell them.

What remains to be seen is how well Ubuntu handles being tabletised compared to Win7, and whether said tablets are sold without the Windows tax.

One would hope...

That VLC comes as a suprise to no-one on this site...

Ho hum.

If you think about it...

the case would do a pretty good job of ensuring that the microwaves would do nothing to the platters. Depending on which way up you put the drive you might fry the electronics, but looking at a handy 3.5" I have here shows it has a pretty damn solid metal case.

Does this TV set

actually make much of the dross thats out there actually worth watching though? Rubbish is rubbish regardless of how many dimensions its in and having it repeated every 3 hours (yes, History Channel) does not get better in 3D only.

I'll move to 3D when they start producing stuff compelling enough to persuade me to go to the cinema or bother with a TV licence.

Might be different if I was a gamer.

Yes, of course they can...

Mind you, based on previous evidence it might not be 'Windows' as we know it...

Cut down? Incompatible with any of the current range of software? I'd say those are not unlikely. However, it might provide a cheap source of tablets that can be re-flashed with whatever flavour of Linux takes your fancy...

easy

a games console does not use network data -unlike a new smart phone; which will use lots.

Not quite...

you can pick up an MP3 player for less than a tenner...besides which its pretty easy to move data between CD and MP3. That works less well for books and e-books.

Well...

its not that easy to read the time from it in those pictures, so I'd imagine the phrase 'not at all' would still apply when it was dark.

You could always illuminate it with the mobile phone.

I feel your pain....

I was with Orange Broadband for a while. Then I was audacious enough to move house and was forcibly shown the error of my ways...

I save £70....

on a Acer Revo by having it with Linpus (horrible but easily replaced) instead of windows. Windows would have added a THIRD to the purchase price.

Theres your need.

Kind of what I was thinking....

What the world needs is an MS-Works replacement (unless Im missing something...). I spent an evening trying to convert a friends Works document into something the rest of the world could read, without much joy (not having MS Office).

I use AbiWord and Gnumerics when I dont need the grunt of OO, but TBH they're both flakey and not software that I would trust or roll out to someone who I am defacto support for.

So how

is your post NOT a form of document?

And how are your email, forum entries, blogs and wikis created, if not by something that is, by any other name, a word processor?

No need....

The screwdriver bit will be lost within DAYS. Either that or the hospital will throw it away when they remove it from the hole its gouged in your leg.

You can probably kiss goodbye to your mobile screen as well if you happen to use the wrong pocket.

Not even that...

The iPad is transformed into a Z88 (yes, I have one sat on my shelf...) right down to connectors incompatible with the rest of the world...

Awesome.