Posts by a well wisher

"Rishi Chandra, general manager of the Google-owned smart home outfit, sent an email to all Nest customers on Wednesday" - Must have used second class email as no such email received here yet

And as an exhibitor, it was always a lottery as to where your company would put you up, posh hotel if they booked early, or a local B&B, and anywhere in between, and just how long your morning commute might be to the show ground, sometimes having to stay up to 50 miles away - I'm sure the local economy will miss the opportunity to book out rooms at significant prices at show times.

One particular year, I remember getting on a show shuttle bus at the hotel bound for the show, which was logo'ed up, sponsored by and fitted out by a Sat Nav manufacturer. We were taken on very, very long mystery journey to the show, at several points on the journey, frustratingly we could see the showground across fields in the distance, but still the driver couldn't get there, all the passengers remonstrated loudly with the driver to use the ***** ing Sat Nav - but he admitted he had no idea how to work it ( of course this was some time before the ubiquity of Google Maps ) - a completely wasted marketing opportunity by the Sat Nav company

And the weather at the showground could be pretty brutal, stepping outside one of the halls in to horizontal rain or snow delivered by gale force winds was a great way to clear the head after the parties the night before - of which there were many. As a exhibitor, a good portion of the day was devoted to seeking out the best party ticket for the coming evening

"It is also important to highlight that flying at below 500ft kept the Sensat drone well outside the hugely complex airspace restrictions over East Sussex, which includes the approaches to Gatwick Airport."

How ? - is the Gatwick runway above 500ft ?

As a model flyer of both RC planes and 'drone's am well aware of the 400 ft rule - BUTtotally unaware that with an observer and line of sight flying I could legally go to 1000ft !

The 400 ft rule just seem eminently more sensible and safer

Although not sure my drone would actually be visible much above 500 ft - no no line of sight since out of sight

Shows the need for that large spike on the steering wheel to be reconsidered to remind drivers whose bum is going to get bitten if things get a little bit out of shape

Probably a little something he picked up in South Africa, I recall stories of flame throwers being installed under cars for dissuading carjackers in Joberg

Seems I do recall right ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaster_(flamethrower)

Finding fault capacitors with high current PSUs used to be the norm

Back in the early 80s when repairing old memory boards, at a time when 48 KB was a board about 2 foot square with a gazillion small decoupling caps and one of them was dragging the psu down

A quick application of a car battery to the 12v line would sort the men from the boys capacitor wise and reduce fault finding time no end

Note: No I can't remember what chips they were that needed a 12v line either - but certainly remember the process

Seems its not only the product name thats Hyper !

I'm sure we would all be shocked at what the design agency charged for that change or maybe we wouldn't

Probably just a co-incidence then that the majority of C level execs all dumped large quantities of shares just days after this happens despite allegedly having no knowledge of the actual hack having taken place

"Rent up a few bots though, and no chance of disease,"

Are you sure ?

Rental cars I'm a bit less fussy about , after all I only sit on the seats,

But I'd want some sort of guarantee of a full hygiene valet of a rental sexbot !

But once its bottled, Its "use by date",will be two weeks next Tuesday

"Full disclosure: my startup OpenTRV has received funding from EU and UK government sources"

Is it all that red tape thats holding the OpenTRV project up ?

To quote Captin Mannering ...

"I think you're entering the realms of fantasy there, Hyphen-howe "

But you said they did a drainage check ....

And presumably ignored the results, since even killer roots don't grow that fast

"and would be happy to engage in any discussions as to how we can continue to better the consumer’s online experience"

As an Ad-Blocker ? - Just block ALL the adds !!!

Last 2 cars I scrapped, were due to the excessive cost of replacement of a failed engine management unit

This looks a lot more complicated !

But hopefully I would still be able to drive the car ? or maybe not

Do they think the people who want to fly 'off piste' are really likely to register ?

Just like DVD anti -piracy messages at the front of DVD playback only going to penalize the guys whos doing the right thing

All ideal products for Harry Enfields shop "I saw you coming"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVvcD4Czx4Y

Except for those muppets who take their phone on holiday and forget to turn off roaming,running up and come back complaing of 100s, maybe 1000 pound bills - When they become poverty increasing devices !

So he would have preferred it just to run him down !

Complaining it stopped seems a strange argument

Bit of a pain if you spin off on the far side of the track - but suppose an F1 driver shouldn't do that

Pure Douglas Adams ...

Who describes their (Sirius Cybernetics) marketing division as "a bunch of mindless jerks who will be the first against the wall when the revolution comes",

If the cap fits !

Just call him Von !

Just maybe they meant,

A selfie stick can be used in two modes, one as the name implies, but also in 'periscope' mode to get a better shot or view of the action which it looks like the original Aussie tweet was addressing

But never let the (possible) truth get in the way of a good rant against iPhone wielding narcissists

Dumped ?

Has Brin's Google Glasses girlfriend (Amanda Rosenberg) been axed too ?

With the average UPVC door they DO need to be locked from inside !

"errm, virtually all doors these days don't need locking to be secure. You need to key to open them from the outside, to get out from the inside, just push the handle."

With the average UPVC door they do !!

if you don't want your house broken into + car stolen !

Very common for a large bent lever to be pushed thru the letter box to apply downward pressure on the handle - Bingo ! door open, car keys usually on the hook by the door

http://www.diynot.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=188463

Another good try from Netgem

Netgem have had a number of good outings in the freeview arena usually ahead of the curve , there was the original Netgem freeview box with full wireless keyboard, then later the quite popular Tesco HD pvr from Fetch TV which was a re-badged netgem unit/software - but Fetch folded killing that box ( can't remember exact cause now)

Netgen : always the best man but never the groom and if BT buy EE the same may happen again -

Chips have been cashed ?

"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary"

And this could be the hotels obit !

Thank Sonos : Que ?

Not entirely sure what we are thanking Sonos for here ?

Link seems fairly tenuous to me

To quote ....

"I'll give you my gun when you pry this lump of 3d molten plastic from my cold, dead hands"

Not related to / prompted by the recent Microsoft / Dropbox tie up then ?

mind games

Can Uri Geller bend one - just by stroking it of course ?

Just need to sort out the of content now then !

Cancelled my trial after 1st month due to lack of new content

He would do well to team up with ;The Gadget Show' in the UK they also perform equally mindless and irrelevant 'testing' on all sorts of kit