Posts by Robert E A Harvey

Err..

I had no idea that Facebook could or did display search results, so I don't suppose it matters very much.

umm.

Cloud to cloud backup.

OK.

Tell me again why the cloud is better than local storage?

I am in two minds

Look, I am a pacifist and repelled by violence of all kinds.

Is it wrong of me to think this is unutterably cool?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/laser-gun-us-navy-unveils-new-weapon-in-video-9916776.html

(US navy has laser gun and permission to use it)

Yep

Got one, don't need two.

too late, too expensive

These sorts of screens are what I was looking for five years ago. The fact that Laptop vendors are still peddling x720 screens now is the main reason I have not bought one. (the other was W8) I just feel they are taking the piss.

Frankly, given where other consumer electronics have gone in the intervening period, these screens should be available on anything north of a 500 quid flaptop.

in 5 years...

What was the predicted start date for Skynet?

I Wondered if the diassapeared sister had been the trees, or in charge, or summat. Which is why the younger one could hear voices?

simple response

Good.

continuing the trend

So, Powerpoint induced people to think and present facts in a particular way.

Sway appears to do it all for them, so they don't have to bother with the thinking bit?

I am simultaniously not impressed and very impressed. How did they do that?

Headset

The obvious thing for makers of giant phones to do is incorporate an earpad/bonephone thing thatbparks in the phone to recharge, but can become earhung for conversation.

And yes, I have proposed this more than once.

Bound to be a success

After the recent run of stageringly shrewd business decisions at HP there is no way this could possibly be a mistak.

Harvey's law

I travel all over the world for work, and stop in accomodation ranging from a guesthouse to a 5 star business hotel.

Harvey's law says that the higher the price of the room the more likely you are to have to pay for internet access. And the slower it will be.

I've spent €30 a night in a gasthof in Germany, and got free super-fast internet, and paid $250 a night at an airport in the USA and been unable to connect to an nntp server despite paying an extra $50 for the right to try.

Why it got waved through....

... Because the government are a mental bunch of useless twats? Who couldn't point to a horse's arse even while holding a copy of 'start at the tail' by Desmond Morris?

Slight dissapointment

cynical remarks aside, my disappointment is that I will have to wait 6 months longer before building my post-XP MACHINE.

Nowt to sell

A shop with nowt to sell is bound to close. Had the management not noticed they only had one supplier, and an agreement due to run out next year anyway?

wrong end of stick

The biggest problem with TV is not the user interface. It is what the user interface brings forth.

Sloobs

I don;t understand the hype. Why do people want to look at these pics? Do celebs have different bits than the rest of us? Are they trying to look at Mr Film Star's Boomlong? or Mrst Film Star's Sloobs?

Or is this just more fluff about the "look at me" people?

Things

I used to work on Seismic Survey ships. On one of them there were three diesel compressors, each owned by a different investment company or pension fund or something. They used to turn up once a year, in a wholly uncoordinated series of raids, to check their compressor. As long as they saw a thing the size of a combine harvester with thier serial number on, they were happy.

I noticed that two of the three owners had carelessly logged the model number instead of the serial number in thier asset lists. Of course, all three had the same model number on. So I could show the visitor any one of them and they would be happy. One bloke did say "I thought ours was the Port one, not the Starboard one" and I said "Port in the Northern Hemisphere is Starboard while we are down here". "Oh, of course", he said, making a note of it on the form.

Oh ye glods, not more

What I fail to understand is why all these people who are so keen on football are not in a park somewhere kicking a ball.

head/hands

"brand" "on trend". have we come to this?

Make good stuff that sounds OK and does not charge more for being pink or in a box with some hedonit's photo (or monogram) on the cover, and I might, just might, buy it. If I like it. If I need it. If I can afford it.

If you think that strutting about like a peacock or listing all the people you have persuaded to strut with you will not convince me of anything. If you try to cram in lots of extra functionallity that I probably don't want just because other people are cramming it into other things, then I am quite likely to walk past disinterested.

If I want something that will fret about my health, weight, exercise routine, and general wellbeing I will marry one. In fact I did.

{Hedonit was a typo for hedonist, but I have decided it makes my point better as it is]