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Posts by Blane Bramble
22 posts • joined Friday 11th May 2007 18:42 GMT
Already out for the lowly Desire
http://www.sandvold.as
Seems to run pretty happily. If only HTC could keep up with the amateurs!
@Desk jobs?
Or on-call. Seen 4am far too often due to that in the past.
Posted in Sea eagles menace Scottish children
@Spelling
They'll be changing the spelling of Eigg next!
Not that hard to find...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Silverhill-Point-Star-Torx-bits/dp/B003ALOG06/
But where is the beer?
All I see is a machine that flings cans of fizzy flavoured water.
@Gangsta
Spot on, they need to make an iPad that can fit in a shirt pocket, now *that* would be a useful device.
@Phil: I don't get it
The examples you have given are either games consoles or appliance electronics (in the case of blu-ray). They are designed for a single purpose, and subsidised by the manufacturer (in the case of games consoles), with a levy on the software supporting this subsidisation.
The iPhone is not subsidised by Apple (in the UK it is usually subsidised by the supplying Network provider, again supported by income from your monthly contract), and is designed to run applications. It is pushed as a device that "has an app for that". However, if "that" does not fit in with Apples view of how the iPhone should be, it simply will not be approved.
How many other "smart" phone platforms can you mention where the owner of the device is not the one to say what applications they can use on it?
How many other computer platforms (and we have been repeatedly told that a smart phone is a portable computing device) can you mention where the owner of the device is not the one to say what applications they can use on it?
Now do you begin to understand?
Co-operative multi-tasking is still multi-tasking
Incorrect. Windows 3 had co-operative multi-tasking, and task switches were performed when you relinquished control by polling the message queue for your application - as long as your application was processing messages, tasks would be switched correctly. If you decided to sit in a loop and not poll the Windows message queue, you would lock up the system.
Posted in Business host DataGate vanishes
Nominet transfers
As long as he is the registrant, he can transfer the domain directly to another tag via Nominet by filling in the correct form and paying the relevant fee. If he is not listed as the registrant, then there is a lesson there about using a decent registrar in the first place.
If it's about efficient usage
then surely the solution is to charge those using 25KHz bands and allow use of 8.3KHz bands for free - or am I missing something here?
Posted in Synology Disk Station 409Slim
409slim?
GREETINGS, I AM THE MOST HONOURABLE 409SLIM. YUOR DISK STORAGE DIED RECENTLY AND LEFT ME WITH ONE BILLION BYTES (1,000,000,000) OF YOUR DATA LOCKED AWAY IN A VAULT. TO RELEASE YOUR DATA PLEASE SEND ME DETAILS OF YOUR NAME, PASS-PORT AND ADDRES
In this remake...
the aliens will all have British accents.
Reconstruction?
Playmobil reconstruction or it didn't happen.
Token ring vs Ethernet
Back when I worked for a trading bank, we could remote boot and access all our data over a 16Mb Token Ring network, whereas the side of the bank using 100Mb ethernet had serious problems just accessing data and people often had to work on files locally.
"as you rarely come across software that makes proper use of four cores"
Those of us who deploy servers would heartily disagree, particularly in the non-artificially restricted Linux world
@toby powell-blyth
Presumably it's no good at detecting Hobbits then either...
Open source not secure?
"Some open source projects cannot meet our needs for quality or security, and we are not prepared to compromise on those,"
Which is why, of course, sites favour IE over other browsers. Or it might be complete incompetence on the part of the web developers in understanding the whole idea behind HTML.
Posted in Another ISP throttles bandwidth
Fairly tpical of Pipex
Seems fairly typical of expected events since Pipex took them over.
Posted in Satnav driver's car totalled by train
Yup, all satnavs fault
Mine is just as bad - doesn't tell me to stop at traffic lights, which side of the road to drive on, when to change gear, anything like that!
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David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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