Robert E A Harvey • User • The Register Forums

Wyse does a cloud on the desk for iPad, iPhone

Sunday 25th September 2011 07:25 GMT Robert E A Harvey

what?

so just any external file server is a 'cloud' now?

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Ten... all-in-one inkjet printers

Sunday 25th September 2011 07:25 GMT Robert E A Harvey

@AC 17:07

ALL of HPs printer software is bleeding annoying.

And they don't fix bugs.

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Lingo iMini DAB/FM iOS pocket tuner

Sunday 25th September 2011 07:25 GMT Robert E A Harvey

shazam?

Why would you need to identify tunes? don't DAB stations put the title in the data stream? And don't the inane^W DJs tell you what they are playing these days?

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HP dumps Apotheker for Whitman

Friday 23rd September 2011 07:06 GMT Robert E A Harvey

"careful and thoughtful deliberation"

That will have been a new experience for them, then

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Microsoft exec departs after tweet about Nokia phone

Friday 23rd September 2011 07:06 GMT Robert E A Harvey

CE

There are loads of industrial things, e.g. touchscreens, running CE. I wonder if the system designers knew how MS was going to leave them in the lurch when they adopted it?

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Wednesday 21st September 2011 06:50 GMT Robert E A Harvey

8?

Turd, meet Brasso. Brasso, meet Turd...

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Apple sued for iPhone, iPad chip 'patent rip-off'

Friday 23rd September 2011 04:38 GMT Robert E A Harvey

See

Now those actually sound like sensible things to be able to patent.

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Capital gets trendy address: .London on its way

Thursday 22nd September 2011 09:10 GMT Robert E A Harvey

As far as I can see it is a superb method of filtering. By avoiding anyone with a .london name I can stripout all the self-important, opinionated, tosspots at a stroke.

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Microsoft: Mango arrives in two weeks

Thursday 22nd September 2011 08:51 GMT Robert E A Harvey

ripe?

Every time I buy a mango I have to leave it in the fruit bowl for weeks until it is any good.

When is SP1 due?

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Google now a serious rival to Microsoft in cloud email

Monday 19th September 2011 16:26 GMT Robert E A Harvey

eh?

When did webmail become cloudmail?

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Irishman's coke-packed abdomen poses for police

Sunday 18th September 2011 11:39 GMT Robert E A Harvey

>not even vaguely following the outline of the gastrointestinal tract

I was worried about that, as well as the clarity of the pics and the absence of even an outline of other organs.

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Sony BDP-S380 Blu-ray player with IPTV

Sunday 18th September 2011 11:38 GMT Robert E A Harvey

if you want 3D you can always go to a theme park.

grin

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BT trying for fibre 'monopoly', claims TalkTalk chief

Monday 12th September 2011 16:47 GMT Robert E A Harvey

Ballcocks

No-one is stopping talktalk getting a licence and digging up streets and pulling fibre.

Get on with, don't try and freeload on other people's ducts and then call them names

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Cancellation technique doubles wireless throughput

Monday 12th September 2011 06:33 GMT Robert E A Harvey

doubtful

Every local reflection of the transmitted signal is going to add another copy at another phase that will want subtracting.

And the front end is going to have to remain linear over a huge dynamic range to avoid intermodulation (mixing) with arbitrary phase products.

It still sounds to me like something you can get working on a bench, but not in real life.

(Although I do believe some of the satellite-pirate phones do this, albeit with a very controlled signal path (no multipath, no local reflections) and a stable loss budget, to steal access in the guard bands)

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Galaxy Tab remains illegal in Germany

Friday 9th September 2011 15:40 GMT Robert E A Harvey

Schiphol

As I came through Amsterdam Airport on Tuesday the KLM lounges had displays of tehtered samsung tabs and phones, and jolly nice they looked too.

I bought a camera instead.

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Apple seeks product security boss after iPhone loss

Thursday 8th September 2011 06:01 GMT Robert E A Harvey

Oh?

Is he going to follow every employee into the toilet in bars?

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Dixons drops Motorola Xoom price... again

Tuesday 6th September 2011 11:26 GMT Robert E A Harvey

Interestink, but

It still needs another £150 off.

PC whirled, for example, have a SAMSUNG NP-NC110 for £249. And that has a 250G hard disk and a keyboard. And 11 hour battery life. And it's purple.

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Facebook deletes hacked Pages, destroying years of work

Monday 5th September 2011 20:18 GMT Robert E A Harvey

yes, and Yes. And yes.

"use it to engage" - absolutely. Clever exploitation of a new niche

"depend solely upon it" - stupid idea, giving control of your business method to someone over whom you have no contractual control.

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Monday 5th September 2011 20:18 GMT Robert E A Harvey

"He needs to put his hand in his pocket."

Yes.

But that is how he got into this problem in the first place, isn't it? Not putting his hand in his pocket.

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Monday 5th September 2011 20:08 GMT Robert E A Harvey

Yes, But

The right way to use Farcebuk is to use it grab your customers and funnel them to a web site. If necessary, feed and cater for them there, with daily content changes, webcams, feedback forums, special offers.

>There are plenty of businesses that solely survive on being on facebook.

If they have no other plans they could be in real trouble. No-one plays golf with one club, or sets out to shoot a rogue elephant with a single bullet.

Like ebay traders who were suddenly soaked for bigger ebay premiums, or the entire country of Uruguay exporting only the one thing - corned beef - you are in severe danger of catching a cold in a monculture.

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Monday 5th September 2011 12:30 GMT Robert E A Harvey

Dong business on the cheap

I have little sympathy.

If someone's business model is to freeload around the media space, and depend upon the cybergypsies they pick up along the way, then the old biblical tale of building a house on sand sounds like a far better planned arrangement.

Look, cheapskates, there is a reason that hosted web sites and web designers cost money: they are a proper way to do business. The electronic equivalent of flyposting is not.

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Amazon's cloudy vid-tablet breaks cover: Not an iClone

Monday 5th September 2011 20:18 GMT Robert E A Harvey

@ Eddy Ito.

Good call.

But No deal. Thank you very much.

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Monday 5th September 2011 13:36 GMT Robert E A Harvey

I expect so

I was quite taken with the colour Nookie thing, but it is, and always will be, US only

Bit like XM satellite radio, or NASCAR

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HP plucks webOS team out of departing PC division

Monday 5th September 2011 20:18 GMT Robert E A Harvey

What I fail to understand

Is why there are any boffins still there. I would have run the moment the product line was scrapped.

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Galaxy Tab 7.7 pulled from IFA after new Apple moves

Monday 5th September 2011 20:18 GMT Robert E A Harvey

Sounds like a business opportunity to me

A few white vans to Turkey, or wherever, and back

Homburg hat, trench coat, black oxford shoes, big poacher's pocket

Night time, street lamp, (black and white view)

"Psst - wanna buy a Galaxy tab?"

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HP Pre 3 webOS smartphone

Monday 5th September 2011 12:28 GMT Robert E A Harvey

and once again

and once again, the short-termism inherent in a stock-market driven economy that only cares about quarterly results has grabbed defeat from the jaws of victory.

I am immensely saddened by the whole sorry fiasco

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Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy Note

Sunday 4th September 2011 01:25 GMT Robert E A Harvey

re: Why not integrate Bluetooth headset into pen?

Why not? There is a long tradition of sticking a pencil behind yer ear.

Or of the Man from Uncle talking into his pen.

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Saturday 3rd September 2011 16:01 GMT Robert E A Harvey

The market for this is who exactly?

Well, me perhaps.

I like the bluetooth headset idea (why isn't it integrated and sold with it?).

I like the stylus idea.

I could use it as a super notepad for working on things, and making notes as I go, photographing serial numbers and writing down test results.

It would make a fantastic satnav for those of us oldies who take a long time to change focus from infinity to tiny writing on the autobahn, especially at night.

nearly sold. Does it take two sim cards?

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TomTom fights falling satnav sales with iPad app

Friday 2nd September 2011 22:01 GMT Robert E A Harvey

@JohnG: on WP7?

AIUI the Navigon WP7 app is still only 'promised'; iGo myway's web site talks only about the iPhone. Trafficmaster's website says it will be available soon on WM6.1, so that's not too promising either.

I doubt that the correct response to TomTom ignoring WP7 is to change both yer software and yer phone.

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Thursday 1st September 2011 15:38 GMT Robert E A Harvey

DiskAid

DiskAid? That's not to do with Bono is it?

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Thursday 1st September 2011 15:38 GMT Robert E A Harvey

I'll buy from somebody else.

good luck with that.

Do pop back and let us know how you are getting on.

if you can find your way.

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Domino's to serve pizzas on the Moon, apparently

Friday 2nd September 2011 17:09 GMT Robert E A Harvey

Hmm

Chap I was at school with won a seat on the first Pan-Am flight to the moon. I think he still has a ticket.

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Bury council defends iPads for binmen

Friday 2nd September 2011 13:26 GMT Robert E A Harvey

No

Yes, there is a landfil tax.

But the hole in the ground is usually owned by some faceless company who will charge for that too.

I am afraid councils pay quite a lot for landfill.

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Friday 2nd September 2011 13:26 GMT Robert E A Harvey

id

We have RFID on our bins. The council were going to weigh and charge until there was a stink about the idea, then they said they were not going to use the RFID.

However when one bloke took his tags out and posted them to the chief executive, the council stopped collecting his bins in a fit of overzealous pique. Look up "Brynley Heaven" on the FWSE

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