Re: Logical Conclusion

No commercial TV? Is it BBC all the way for you?

Re: No Slide outs?

I would like to have seen a slide out keyboard too. It was essential on the Nokia N97, as as the on screen keyboard took you away from the page you are tying into, and still use it on the HTC Desire Z.

Haptic feedback just isn't the same as the touch of real keys. I subconsciously feel along the keyboard for the right key, which doesn't work for virtual ones.

Re: 12 months porridge for a FB 'hack'?

All depends on the intent and who the unnamed American is.

If he was just trying to frape a friend into having a status of "I blow goats lol" then its usually a slap on the wrists.

If he was trying to post as Obama that 9/11 was faked or get someone's personal info for nefarious gains then his feet wouldn't have touched.

Re: Hey Paul, this is an opportunity

Rather than cutting them dead, there are a few things you can get everyone to fix their PCs

1. Contact the ISPs with a list of user IPs. Let them know they will be flooded with calls at the switch off, by their customers, unless they are proactive and contact them first. A simple letter from the ISP with "Read this or be cut off" in big letters on the front should get action by the end users.

2. On the switch off date, don't just turn it off. Point everything at one meaty server hosting a page telling them they are infected with a list of basic steps to get themselves fixed.

I have delt with people who refuse to believe their PC is infected with a virus and have to almost tie them to a chair so you can scan their PC.

Re: As the old adage goes.....

"....you can't con an honest man."

Tell that to poor old grandpa who had his savings taken by some conmen who convinced him he needed a lot of work on his roof or it would collapse.

Being gullible doesn't make you dishonest.

Re: I don’t use Twitter

There are plug in apps for twitter, that let you go past the 140 limit. If you don't have the same plug in, all you (cont) http://tl.gd/crap

Re: Also remember:

Different twitter accounts for different things, like companies, campaigns, fanclubs, spoof sites, etc.

Facebook, you can run them all from one account.

Re: Why does this matter?

But what about the drunken students, heading back home after a hard afternoon at the pub.

Easy to remember the number for BBC1, but does anyone, without kids, know the channel number for CBBC (Sky or terrestrial) off the top of their heads? Try doing that through the thick fog of beer. It was hard enough with just 4 channels when I did it.

Won't someone think of the poor students.

Re: I agree

"Another concideration is that of the length of cable..."

You can get extension cables for USB2, and expect the shops will have some USB3 ones knocking about too. Run one down the same conduit as your link to your DVD player/sky box/video player/etc

Actually...

...midweek sounds a good time.

Most would have bought their weeks travel before Monday morning. Leave it too late towards the weekend and you get all the weekend traffic getting their top ups.

Can't please everyone.

Re: already installed one

"A government one would probably have rules against tampering/modifying..."

And if someone was going to do something illegal, they would borrow your car and remove/disable the device (as its location will be known on the car if its covered by any legislation) before they go joyriding/bank robbing/mowing down pedestrians.

These things only get in the way of law abiding citizens.

@Ian Ferguson

There were complaints, due to the restrictions put on them by Apple, but one managed to jump through the hoops and get accepted.

Re: Seriously, you utter utter twats

Bit tricky getting a couple of spare servers and a UPS on the back of that one.

Re: Wow, a perfesser. He so smart.

A bit like helecopters. And look how popular they are up in Aberdeen at the moment after another one splashed down in the sea.

And thats choppers being serviced on a regular basis (every day) by trained mechanics.

Who knows someone who has a rusty old clunker with bits falling off it? The kind that only get to see a garage when its MOT time and half of it needs replacing. Going to be messy.

Re: Paging David Banner

"...they decided "Bruce" wasn't butch enough, and went with David..."

Or maybe they didn't like Stan Lee's double initial fetish.

Re: Add a ; for fun

Ah, forgot it did that. Shame the 128's reset button make it too easy for the shop to put it back to normal.

Re: @Blofeld's Cat

But do you strap the captured mouse to a table, turn on the laser and walk away letting the mouse escape?

Re: Add a ; for fun

Even more fun (and those with a handy emulator can try it too)

When it printed too many lines, the spectrum would have the prompt "scroll?" and anything except space would let it continue.

At that prompt press the caps shift and symbol shift (extended mode) and your prompt turns to "RUN". Press enter and get random words from the basic interpreter.

Even more fun when poking values to 23606 and 23607. Poking 8 to 23606 would put the character set out by one. Poking 0 to 23607 points the character set to the start of the rom and turns the characters to unreadable dots.

Can't believe I knew those addresses off the top of my head.

"Does it say in the bible that everybody's got one?"

Who wrote that bit of the book? John the Baptist/Gynaecologist or was it attributed the big invisible fairy who did all that stuff in Genesis without any witnesses and never told anyone?

Re: jumpers for goalposts

Had the 128 version.

Moved the button on to a home made grip (a dead tippex bottle) and a flying lead as it wasn't a great placement for a stiff button. Wobbling that expansion unit slightly can cause it to die as any ZX-81 user will tell you.

Still got the old tape for it. Will have to hunt for it in the parent's loft and bung it all on ebay.

Re: Lots of idiots

"They've got to be technically competent enough to allow installation of applications from outside the Play market "

Its even harder to do on an iPhone and I know of a few knuckle draggers who have managed it so they can install hacked versions of apps.

The more popular a platform, the more likely it is to filled with nutters who will install anything on it.

Re: Murder = Murder

"...only reinforces the belief that premeditated murder is acceptable."

So, you are saying we can't put the mad dogs down. But does that also mean we cannot lock them up, as it would be showing that it is acceptable to hold someone against their will thus promoting kidnapping? Its an extension of your argument.

And we have the Hannibal Lecter types in permanent lockdown. If they get loose and gnaw a guard's face off there isn't much more they can do to them. Safer to everyone if they get humanly put down.

Re: This gives me an idea

Just imaging the queue of men trying not to get too close to the guy in front or behind though fear of bumping into them.

Re: Serial port?

Yes, but aren't they moving on to newer technologies? Everyone else is.

The office ceiling mounted projector isn't new enough have all the HDMI inputs, but it has USB and Ethernet ports along with serial for the legacy connections.

All this new one has is serial.

Most systems are doing away with serial connections. Rare to find a PC with one for example.

Re: Do they still have a stupid login page?

Does anyone give them real information?

And if anyone has an email address of 'notonyourbloodylife@hotmail.com' I apologise for getting you spam from some pub's wifi point at the weekend.

Re: This is news?

Microsoft have been showing off their wares with product placement on the likes of Hawaii Five-O.

"...look them up on Bing"

"I've put it on my Skydrive"

etc

Re: Radio ham

DAB is hopeless to start with. I had a third floor flat (top floor) with a good view in all directions. My DAB alarmclock only picked up a signal in the kitchen. Hopeless thing.

Re: Viewfinders!

Lack of viewfinder has stopped me upgrading my 2mp camera. Viewfinders are helpful in bright light or for saving the battery by not powering the screen.

@Crisp

They like to contradict the quiet part with their loud boot sound. I think they have let it stay quiet in newer phones.

Re: a limited number of models have been having an issue getting a GPS position.

But the fix is only available to some satnav models.

Re: I don't want to step on toes, but

Have always found it weird.

Claim to see ghosts and get locked up as a nutter

Claim to see Jesus and you'll probably be made into a saint.

Re: Piss off Cameron!

I'm reminded of the scheme to place bugging devices in lampposts to spy on terrorists. Piss ripped out by Andy Parsons who pointed out the last place a terrorist would have his meeting would be under a brightly lit street lamp.

Re: Can I bring my near 11 year old Nokia 5185?

"And once again, I get back to the fact that I want a telephone to be a telephone. Nothing more, nothing less."

Does that include being wired to a land line? After all, thats a 'normal phone.'

Oh, but wait, you want it to do something more. Like be portable. No you can't have that because someone else wants phones just to be wired devices.

And you can't ever be connected to the internet either. Your home and work connection is via phone lines. And phone lines are for voice only.

You want something more than a device tethered to a wire. Other people want more than being tethered to a voice only device.

No one is forcing you to surf the internet on a pocket device.

Re: More power != better picture

I remember when I still had analogue. The picture was much clearer than any standard def digital signal due to the compression. Things don't fade between light and dark, it has massive chunky steps. But I suppose thats one way to sell the HD by throttling the SD down to a nasty compression level.

Tuning in a TV on the move is a bit more tricky with digital. Hired a campervan and toured the UK a few years ago. Got a directional antenna and a cheep freeview box for it.

In areas where there was analogue, you tuned the TV till you got a bit of picture, moved the antenna till it got better and tuned it in a bit more. Picture might look fuzzy but you can still watch it.

Digital was a whole lot more fun, since you need a good signal to tune the box but you cant work out where the good signal is till the box is tuned. Needed to go online, find where the nearest tower was, find yourself on a map with GPS, work out compass bearing...