You might have missed the bit in the article where it says that Internet Explorer was far more likely to end up with the 5th and last spot, with Chrome at number one. The reason for this (if it was deliberate, which I doubt) would be to avoid the inevitable storm of criticism and accusations of bias should IE end up anywhere else other than last.
So - criminals, unlikely. Plain stupid? Also unlikely. Loser? Somebody is, but in this case it's not Microsoft.
I do like. Microsoft seem to be getting their edge back - with Windows 7 and now this, they've realised that UI does count. Seem to have realised that a closed ecosystem reaps rewards too - have to see how that works out for them.
The poor English-speaking guy was clearly ambushed by the show's producers. He works for the scanner manufacturer (that's why he kept saying "Our product") and was probably informed before the show that the object was to demonstrate the tech.
So he's a tech demonstrator, not a trained scanner operator - and he was absolutely right that the jacket which contained most of the ingredients would have been taken off in an airport situation because it was outside the scanner boundaries hanging from the fat twat's arms.
Having said that, three things come to mind.
1) Whether or not he was aware of the show's objectives, he should have been prepared (and clearly wasn't) so only has himself to blame
2) The scanners are either ineffective already, or will be shortly when terrorists develop even better techniques of hiding things
3) Why would the terrorists bother to invent new ways, when they've clearly won already. I mean, even in their wildest and most deranged dreams they couldn't have hoped to have caused the chaos and misery that millions of innocent people already have to endure on a daily basis.
Your instant-on setup applies equally to this device - it has almost the same specs as your 10e and if you install the same OS will have the same characteristics.
Which doesn't detract from the fact it isn't optimised for small, efficient computing (and won't be even with <insert favourite brand of Penguin here> installed) - it'll still be a netbook in a straitjacket.
Lord Elpuss
Slagging off is easier than making things happen →#↑
...and ripping off is easier than either. This is a rebadged eKing S515, which in turn is a rebadged Huawei DigCube Z8. No original thought, of the plucky British kind or otherwise, to be found here.
And I agree it's doomed to failure with these specs - what made the Psion revolutionary was a small footprint, tuned, responsive OS on well-designed hardware and battery life that ran into days. WinXP + Atom in this context is nothing more than a "Because we can" exercise.
The PROBLEM is the US is over-inflating the charges, so he'll get about half a century in prison.
The PROBLEM is that the 'punishment' being discussed is vastly out of proportion to the crime committed (this is why we have grades of punishment - because not all crimes are created equal)
The PROBLEM is that this is a politically motivated decision, not judicial, and he will have absolutely no chance of adequately defending himself in the US given what's been stacked against him.
The PROBLEM is that comparing what he did to murder, which is what you did in your post not once but twice, is the same kind of reasoning the US prosecutors will almost certainly use, and why politics (and you) should stay out of the judiciary.
Your essay makes me sick. I hope one day you get to face your own brand of 'Justice', and when you're being carted off to the gallows for mis-typing your password 3 times or something equally trivial, you have the decency to log in to El Reg one last time to admit you were wrong.
"Let's say you have an affair with someone who happens to be married. Are you volunteering to be extradited to Sudan so you can be stoned to death, or do you have an expectation to be treated according to the norms and standards of your own country if that's where the affair took place?"
Oooh, I like that analogy. Kinda fits. Unlike most posted here.
PS my vote too to whichever political party changes this treaty*. Which'll be when Satan starts ordering antifreeze and woolly mittens, because they're all a bunch of ball-less brainless f*cked up retards.
Yes, I really do feel that strongly, and really would make a revenge vote issue out of this.
Did you actually *test* Win7 on this netbook, or are you just assuming it'll be rubbish?
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate (RC1) on my Samsung NC10, and it's behaving perfectly. Runs like a dream with the exception of Windows Media Center (which does run, but is painfully slow).
I've got all the Aero fripperies turned on, and on the 1024x600 screen it's gorgeous. I admit the taskbar is a bit hefty but when I've installed my touchscreen (www.fidohub.com) I think the size will be perfect.
Where do people _get_ those things? Drawing all day long on a hookah filled with heavy Afghan Resin while listening to Half Life's Professor Kleiner's explanations about bouncing people off Xen while watching BBC Science Program just CANNOT BE sufficient.
Does anybody know if Android can sync with Lotus Notes? I know that Nokia and Blackberry can out of the box, and WinMo by using EasySync Pro, but Android? Or the iPhone, for that matter...
And yes I know there are 3rd party apps to do the syncing for me, but I like a purist approach and would like the standard software that comes with the phone to handle the sync without loading my system with yet another app.
More substantially, can somebody explain how mobile networks can get away with charging that sort of money over in the US? A low-to mid-range phone, being sold on a 2-year contract, and STILL they want money upfront? Here in Europe for a similar sort of phone we'd be getting cash back from the retailer (yesterday I saw the LG Viewty FREE on a Voda 2yr contract (22.50 euros/month, about $30) with 150 euros cashback, and 2 free tickets to a dance festival thrown in for good measure.
Do Merkins really earn so much that money's not an object, or is it a question of monopoly pricing?
And Dell do go out of their way to make Linux an attractive option, and don't at all try to scare potential buyers away. Hell - I've been working in IT for 15 years and am about as tech-savvy as they come, and it almost scared me off.
Choose WINDOWS if:
You are already using WINDOWS programmes (e.g. Microsoft Office, ITunes etc) and want to continue using them
You are familiar with WINDOWS and do not want to learn new programmes for email, word processing etc
You are new to using computers
Choose UBUNTU if:
You do not plan to use Microsoft WINDOWS
You want to learn new programmes for email, word processing etc
You are interested in open source programming
Yeouwch - that'd be practically nobody then.
Oh and while I'm on a FUD rant, this statement...
"UBUNTU is not a Microsoft Windows operating system - and is not compatible with Microsoft Office programmes - so it's important you make the right choice"
...is designed to leave the uninitiated (and also a fair proportion of the initiated) with the impression that you can't create Word, Excel or PP docs on Linux. Technically correct, you can't run MS Office under it, but you can run OO, Symphony or similar which do the same job for nowt.
FUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUD etc. Repeat until bored.
Oh - right. Sorry, forgot for a moment there that you actually know everything there is to know about IBM's portfolio. Guess the reason it's Sam up there and not you is because you turned the job down.
Or could it possibly be because there are those that talk, and those that do?
Of course Psystar's image isn't helped by the spelling and grammatical errors on their Rebel homepage, not to mention JavaScript errors and images that don't load.
Doesn't inspire confidence in a quality product!
PS I'm using IE8 on Windows 7, so that might have something to do with the JavaScript and image errors, but the spelling and grammatical stuff is all Psystar's.
Obviously I misunderestimated* the strength of feeling in this thread. I'll be careful to preface my next facetious remark with <joke> and close them with </joke>
* Yes, that was a joke too. Google 'Bushisms' for more.
OF COURS IF THEY HADNT BOUGHT A PIECE OF iJUNK IN THE FIRST PLACE THIS WOOD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED TO THEM I HAVE MY OLD NOKIA 1010 WHICH I'VE HAD SINCE 1949 WITH NO PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER. APPLE ONLY MAKE STUFF FOR SHEEPLE WITH NO BRAINS, IF PEOPLE HAD ANY SENSE THEYD STAY AWAY. WHATS WRONG WITH A PHONE WICH CAN JUST CALL AND TEXT IF I WANTED A COMPUTER ID HAVE BOUGHT A LAPTOP: FOR CRYING OUT LOUD IM FED UP WITH SHEEPLE BEING TAKEN IN BY ALL THE MARKETING GIMMICKS AND STUFF AND THEN COMPLAINING IF YOU DONT LIKE IT YOU SHOULDNT HAVE BOUGHT IT AND YES IT SERVES YOU RIGHT BECAUSE IF MORE PEOPLE LIKE ME HAD THE BRAINS TO STAND UP TO THE ADVERTISNG BRAINWASHING WE WOULDNT BE IN THE STATE WERE IN WITH THE COUNTRY GOING TO THE DOGS AND ALL.
I'm undecided about this one. While he clearly could have used a bit more common sense, the path in the pic looks like it might just be able to take a car (at least until it ran off a cliff) and one would tend to think that if it's shown as a road on TomTom, it should be a road in real life. Then all of a sudden a cliff jumps out of nowhere and there you are, teetering on the edge with your axles on view to the world.
Yes, it's unwise to rely exclusively on satnav.
Yes, he could have used some common sense.
Yes, the AA was probably right to charge him for getting him out of his predicament, but being taken to court and given harsher penalties than yobbos who beat up grannies for their pension money? Come on.
In my fondest poetic justice dreams, I'm fantasising about the judge driving home from court, following his undoubtedly very expensive inbuilt satnav, and driving through his own front window because he programmed it to take him home, and it assumed 'home' meant in the living room, on the sofa.
Oh, and then being prosecuted for criminal damage, being pilloried in the press for not having the sense to program in 'driveway' instead of 'home', given a million billion pound fine, losing his license for the next infinity+1 years and being ordered to do 10,000 hours community service checking every inch of TomTom's maps to make sure they are accurate to the nearest millimetre.
Way to miss the point completely Marco. MarkOne wasn't talking about the quality, features or otherwise of the XBox, merely that the online advert was distinctly misleading by stating FROM 159 quid when in fact it's nothing of the sort after you've factored in the extra costs involved to get the product advertised.
Read the post properly next time, find somewhere to dump the chip on your shoulder, and you might be able to write something which doesn't make you look like a complete dick.
shame the tool's a load of bollocks. My ThinkPad X61 has *exactly* the problem described - I have the larger battery (6 or 9 cell, can never remember), it's about 2 months old, cycled 67 times. New, in other words. It gives a suspiciously low indicated runtime, about 2 hours on full charge, then when the charge gets to about 54% it suddenly drops to 4% and gives me a low battery alert. Total runtime before the battery dies is about 45mins to 1hr.
I'm also getting the error messages that it has a very low capacity and if I'd like to head over to Lenovo they'll sell me a new one for $lots.
So I was overjoyed when I saw this article, headed straight over to the Lenovo site and ran the tool in full confidence that it would see my battery for the steaming pile of doo-doo that it is.
BUT NO - the tool says everything is ok, and my battery is within the expected capacity range for it's age and number of charge cycles.
Damn - I was getting all ready to cut you to shreds for being frivolous and not adopting the proper respectful tone at the passing of a great man - but to my great shame and embarrassment I couldn't help but laugh at your comment.
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Lord Elpuss
Sueballs → #
Posted Wednesday 10th March 2010 16:14 GMT
In Ex-Sun boss punts Apple-Microsoft-world 'tried to sue me' missive
...gets my vote for Word of the Day
Lord Elpuss
Re: criminals or just plain stupid? → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 9th March 2010 09:13 GMT
In Microsoft rejiggers EU browser ballot after complaints
You might have missed the bit in the article where it says that Internet Explorer was far more likely to end up with the 5th and last spot, with Chrome at number one. The reason for this (if it was deliberate, which I doubt) would be to avoid the inevitable storm of criticism and accusations of bias should IE end up anywhere else other than last.
So - criminals, unlikely. Plain stupid? Also unlikely. Loser? Somebody is, but in this case it's not Microsoft.
Lord Elpuss
Mmmm → #
Posted Tuesday 16th February 2010 03:56 GMT
In Windows Phone 7 Series launched
I do like. Microsoft seem to be getting their edge back - with Windows 7 and now this, they've realised that UI does count. Seem to have realised that a closed ecosystem reaps rewards too - have to see how that works out for them.
Lord Elpuss
Lower voltage? → # ↑
Posted Tuesday 9th February 2010 14:08 GMT
In Microsoft tests show no Win 7 battery flaw
Except for the fact that in Europe we use 220/240V as opposed to the 'Merkin system of 110V.
Lord Elpuss
Oooh yeah → #
Posted Friday 5th February 2010 15:24 GMT
In Brits take iTablet moniker for 12in iPad rival
I'll take one!
Howdya like them apples?
Lord Elpuss
No system, or person, is perfect → #
Posted Sunday 24th January 2010 19:02 GMT
In Full-body scanner blind to bomb parts
The poor English-speaking guy was clearly ambushed by the show's producers. He works for the scanner manufacturer (that's why he kept saying "Our product") and was probably informed before the show that the object was to demonstrate the tech.
So he's a tech demonstrator, not a trained scanner operator - and he was absolutely right that the jacket which contained most of the ingredients would have been taken off in an airport situation because it was outside the scanner boundaries hanging from the fat twat's arms.
Having said that, three things come to mind.
1) Whether or not he was aware of the show's objectives, he should have been prepared (and clearly wasn't) so only has himself to blame
2) The scanners are either ineffective already, or will be shortly when terrorists develop even better techniques of hiding things
3) Why would the terrorists bother to invent new ways, when they've clearly won already. I mean, even in their wildest and most deranged dreams they couldn't have hoped to have caused the chaos and misery that millions of innocent people already have to endure on a daily basis.
Lord Elpuss
Retail version → # ↑
Posted Friday 8th January 2010 12:35 GMT
In Palm jumps to Verizon with two new phones
I suspect they mean that the phones provide wi-fi hotspot functionality out of the box, rather than via software you download yourself.
Lord Elpuss
Ass liking? → # ↑
Posted Wednesday 16th December 2009 16:39 GMT
In UK judges reject Lucas' appeal in Star Wars helmet case
... close enough.
Lord Elpuss
Instant on/Instant off → # ↑
Posted Monday 7th December 2009 16:20 GMT
In The return of the Psion-sized PC
Your instant-on setup applies equally to this device - it has almost the same specs as your 10e and if you install the same OS will have the same characteristics.
Which doesn't detract from the fact it isn't optimised for small, efficient computing (and won't be even with <insert favourite brand of Penguin here> installed) - it'll still be a netbook in a straitjacket.
Lord Elpuss
Slagging off is easier than making things happen → # ↑
Posted Monday 7th December 2009 15:53 GMT
In The return of the Psion-sized PC
...and ripping off is easier than either. This is a rebadged eKing S515, which in turn is a rebadged Huawei DigCube Z8. No original thought, of the plucky British kind or otherwise, to be found here.
And I agree it's doomed to failure with these specs - what made the Psion revolutionary was a small footprint, tuned, responsive OS on well-designed hardware and battery life that ran into days. WinXP + Atom in this context is nothing more than a "Because we can" exercise.
Lord Elpuss
@Throw away the key → # ↑
Posted Monday 30th November 2009 12:15 GMT
In Johnson refuses to intervene in McKinnon extradition
The PROBLEM is the US is over-inflating the charges, so he'll get about half a century in prison.
The PROBLEM is that the 'punishment' being discussed is vastly out of proportion to the crime committed (this is why we have grades of punishment - because not all crimes are created equal)
The PROBLEM is that this is a politically motivated decision, not judicial, and he will have absolutely no chance of adequately defending himself in the US given what's been stacked against him.
The PROBLEM is that comparing what he did to murder, which is what you did in your post not once but twice, is the same kind of reasoning the US prosecutors will almost certainly use, and why politics (and you) should stay out of the judiciary.
Your essay makes me sick. I hope one day you get to face your own brand of 'Justice', and when you're being carted off to the gallows for mis-typing your password 3 times or something equally trivial, you have the decency to log in to El Reg one last time to admit you were wrong.
Lord Elpuss
@Rolf Howarth → # ↑
Posted Friday 27th November 2009 16:07 GMT
In McKinnon family 'devastated' by Home Sec's latest knock-back
"Let's say you have an affair with someone who happens to be married. Are you volunteering to be extradited to Sudan so you can be stoned to death, or do you have an expectation to be treated according to the norms and standards of your own country if that's where the affair took place?"
Oooh, I like that analogy. Kinda fits. Unlike most posted here.
PS my vote too to whichever political party changes this treaty*. Which'll be when Satan starts ordering antifreeze and woolly mittens, because they're all a bunch of ball-less brainless f*cked up retards.
Yes, I really do feel that strongly, and really would make a revenge vote issue out of this.
Lord Elpuss
Oops forgot something → # ↑
Posted Friday 27th November 2009 16:07 GMT
In McKinnon family 'devastated' by Home Sec's latest knock-back
Johnson, you're a cock.
There we go.
Lord Elpuss
Works for me → #
Posted Monday 23rd November 2009 18:48 GMT
In Lenovo IdeaPad S10-2
Did you actually *test* Win7 on this netbook, or are you just assuming it'll be rubbish?
I'm running Windows 7 Ultimate (RC1) on my Samsung NC10, and it's behaving perfectly. Runs like a dream with the exception of Windows Media Center (which does run, but is painfully slow).
I've got all the Aero fripperies turned on, and on the 1024x600 screen it's gorgeous. I admit the taskbar is a bit hefty but when I've installed my touchscreen (www.fidohub.com) I think the size will be perfect.
Lord Elpuss
Please help me here... → #
Posted Monday 23rd November 2009 10:08 GMT
In Imation ships wirelessly-connected hard drive
I really, really don't see the point.
Anyone?
Lord Elpuss
@Destroy all Monsters → #
Posted Saturday 21st November 2009 20:35 GMT
In Triumph in Geneva! LHC beams up and running again
Where do people _get_ those things? Drawing all day long on a hookah filled with heavy Afghan Resin while listening to Half Life's Professor Kleiner's explanations about bouncing people off Xen while watching BBC Science Program just CANNOT BE sufficient.
ROFL
Lord Elpuss
@Paul Charters re virus-free OS → #
Posted Wednesday 4th November 2009 21:19 GMT
In Naked Win 7 still vulnerable to most viruses
'i' running on IBM system i. Oh, and all it's predecessors too - right back to OS/400 running on the AS/400.
There, fixed that for you.
Lord Elpuss
Syncing with Lotus Notes → #
Posted Wednesday 4th November 2009 11:36 GMT
In T-Mobile Pulse
Does anybody know if Android can sync with Lotus Notes? I know that Nokia and Blackberry can out of the box, and WinMo by using EasySync Pro, but Android? Or the iPhone, for that matter...
And yes I know there are 3rd party apps to do the syncing for me, but I like a purist approach and would like the standard software that comes with the phone to handle the sync without loading my system with yet another app.
Lord Elpuss
IBM can't afford it? → #
Posted Monday 2nd November 2009 22:50 GMT
In IBM board gives Big Sam another $5bn
Timothy-
Care to back up your statement that IBM walked away from the Sun deal because it couldn't afford it?
Seems to me that a company that exited the 4th quarter 2008 with more than 16bn in cash could afford to do pretty much whatever it wanted...
Lord Elpuss
Go, Moffat, Go!!! → #
Posted Saturday 31st October 2009 19:07 GMT
In Moffat leaves IBM after insider trading arrest
Oh, you did.
Never mind then.
Lord Elpuss
@Ian Ferguson → #
Posted Tuesday 27th October 2009 03:20 GMT
In Palm Pixi out next month
More substantially, can somebody explain how mobile networks can get away with charging that sort of money over in the US? A low-to mid-range phone, being sold on a 2-year contract, and STILL they want money upfront? Here in Europe for a similar sort of phone we'd be getting cash back from the retailer (yesterday I saw the LG Viewty FREE on a Voda 2yr contract (22.50 euros/month, about $30) with 150 euros cashback, and 2 free tickets to a dance festival thrown in for good measure.
Do Merkins really earn so much that money's not an object, or is it a question of monopoly pricing?
Please tell me!!
Lord Elpuss
Attractive Penguin → #
Posted Monday 26th October 2009 17:05 GMT
In Dell unveils exclusive Microsoft-branded Ubuntu OS
And Dell do go out of their way to make Linux an attractive option, and don't at all try to scare potential buyers away. Hell - I've been working in IT for 15 years and am about as tech-savvy as they come, and it almost scared me off.
Choose WINDOWS if:
You are already using WINDOWS programmes (e.g. Microsoft Office, ITunes etc) and want to continue using them
You are familiar with WINDOWS and do not want to learn new programmes for email, word processing etc
You are new to using computers
Choose UBUNTU if:
You do not plan to use Microsoft WINDOWS
You want to learn new programmes for email, word processing etc
You are interested in open source programming
Yeouwch - that'd be practically nobody then.
Oh and while I'm on a FUD rant, this statement...
"UBUNTU is not a Microsoft Windows operating system - and is not compatible with Microsoft Office programmes - so it's important you make the right choice"
...is designed to leave the uninitiated (and also a fair proportion of the initiated) with the impression that you can't create Word, Excel or PP docs on Linux. Technically correct, you can't run MS Office under it, but you can run OO, Symphony or similar which do the same job for nowt.
FUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUDFUD etc. Repeat until bored.
Lord Elpuss
@Man Mountain → #
Posted Friday 16th October 2009 15:51 GMT
In IBM wrings more profits out of declining Q3
Oh - right. Sorry, forgot for a moment there that you actually know everything there is to know about IBM's portfolio. Guess the reason it's Sam up there and not you is because you turned the job down.
Or could it possibly be because there are those that talk, and those that do?
Lord Elpuss
@Philyboy1 → #
Posted Friday 2nd October 2009 17:53 GMT
In Apple iPod Shuffle 3G
"Apart from this I love mine!"
Reminds me of the old quote "Apart from that, Mrs Lincoln, how did you enjoy the play?"
Lord Elpuss
Psystar's image → #
Posted Monday 28th September 2009 20:42 GMT
In Apple's move to kill Hackintosher suit denied
Of course Psystar's image isn't helped by the spelling and grammatical errors on their Rebel homepage, not to mention JavaScript errors and images that don't load.
Doesn't inspire confidence in a quality product!
PS I'm using IE8 on Windows 7, so that might have something to do with the JavaScript and image errors, but the spelling and grammatical stuff is all Psystar's.
Lord Elpuss
@Graham Marsden → #
Posted Friday 25th September 2009 09:20 GMT
In Geordi LaForge video-to-brain rig built at MIT
*Splutter*
Lord Elpuss
Don't tell them → #
Posted Friday 18th September 2009 19:47 GMT
In Facebook hack service smells fishy
Anybody who contracts to hack somebody else's facebook account is clearly up to no good and deserves anything they get.
Lord Elpuss
@Shakje → #
Posted Friday 18th September 2009 12:02 GMT
In Apple sends iPhones into 'Coma Mode'
Thanks :-)
Obviously I misunderestimated* the strength of feeling in this thread. I'll be careful to preface my next facetious remark with <joke> and close them with </joke>
* Yes, that was a joke too. Google 'Bushisms' for more.
Lord Elpuss
SERVES THEM RIGHT → #
Posted Friday 18th September 2009 03:51 GMT
In Apple sends iPhones into 'Coma Mode'
OF COURS IF THEY HADNT BOUGHT A PIECE OF iJUNK IN THE FIRST PLACE THIS WOOD NEVER HAVE HAPPENED TO THEM I HAVE MY OLD NOKIA 1010 WHICH I'VE HAD SINCE 1949 WITH NO PROBLEMS WHATSOEVER. APPLE ONLY MAKE STUFF FOR SHEEPLE WITH NO BRAINS, IF PEOPLE HAD ANY SENSE THEYD STAY AWAY. WHATS WRONG WITH A PHONE WICH CAN JUST CALL AND TEXT IF I WANTED A COMPUTER ID HAVE BOUGHT A LAPTOP: FOR CRYING OUT LOUD IM FED UP WITH SHEEPLE BEING TAKEN IN BY ALL THE MARKETING GIMMICKS AND STUFF AND THEN COMPLAINING IF YOU DONT LIKE IT YOU SHOULDNT HAVE BOUGHT IT AND YES IT SERVES YOU RIGHT BECAUSE IF MORE PEOPLE LIKE ME HAD THE BRAINS TO STAND UP TO THE ADVERTISNG BRAINWASHING WE WOULDNT BE IN THE STATE WERE IN WITH THE COUNTRY GOING TO THE DOGS AND ALL.
Lord Elpuss
Vulnerable → #
Posted Thursday 17th September 2009 13:09 GMT
In Premium rate regulator stops providers charging for free info
"...targeting the vulnerable..." - is that Politically-correct speak for targeting the thick?
Lord Elpuss
Hmmm → #
Posted Thursday 17th September 2009 09:27 GMT
In Italian Job sat nav driver cops £900 fine
I'm undecided about this one. While he clearly could have used a bit more common sense, the path in the pic looks like it might just be able to take a car (at least until it ran off a cliff) and one would tend to think that if it's shown as a road on TomTom, it should be a road in real life. Then all of a sudden a cliff jumps out of nowhere and there you are, teetering on the edge with your axles on view to the world.
Yes, it's unwise to rely exclusively on satnav.
Yes, he could have used some common sense.
Yes, the AA was probably right to charge him for getting him out of his predicament, but being taken to court and given harsher penalties than yobbos who beat up grannies for their pension money? Come on.
In my fondest poetic justice dreams, I'm fantasising about the judge driving home from court, following his undoubtedly very expensive inbuilt satnav, and driving through his own front window because he programmed it to take him home, and it assumed 'home' meant in the living room, on the sofa.
Oh, and then being prosecuted for criminal damage, being pilloried in the press for not having the sense to program in 'driveway' instead of 'home', given a million billion pound fine, losing his license for the next infinity+1 years and being ordered to do 10,000 hours community service checking every inch of TomTom's maps to make sure they are accurate to the nearest millimetre.
Lord Elpuss
Oh look... → #
Posted Friday 11th September 2009 13:02 GMT
In Motorola makes first Android phone
... it's a TyTN II.
2006 called, they want their design team back.
Lord Elpuss
@Marco Alfarrobinha → #
Posted Wednesday 9th September 2009 17:21 GMT
In EC to tackle 'misleading' online gadget sellers
Way to miss the point completely Marco. MarkOne wasn't talking about the quality, features or otherwise of the XBox, merely that the online advert was distinctly misleading by stating FROM 159 quid when in fact it's nothing of the sort after you've factored in the extra costs involved to get the product advertised.
Read the post properly next time, find somewhere to dump the chip on your shoulder, and you might be able to write something which doesn't make you look like a complete dick.
Cheers.
Lord Elpuss
Spot on problem definition → #
Posted Friday 21st August 2009 14:55 GMT
In Lenovo sounds duff ThinkPad battery alert
shame the tool's a load of bollocks. My ThinkPad X61 has *exactly* the problem described - I have the larger battery (6 or 9 cell, can never remember), it's about 2 months old, cycled 67 times. New, in other words. It gives a suspiciously low indicated runtime, about 2 hours on full charge, then when the charge gets to about 54% it suddenly drops to 4% and gives me a low battery alert. Total runtime before the battery dies is about 45mins to 1hr.
I'm also getting the error messages that it has a very low capacity and if I'd like to head over to Lenovo they'll sell me a new one for $lots.
So I was overjoyed when I saw this article, headed straight over to the Lenovo site and ran the tool in full confidence that it would see my battery for the steaming pile of doo-doo that it is.
BUT NO - the tool says everything is ok, and my battery is within the expected capacity range for it's age and number of charge cycles.
I cried.
Lord Elpuss
@Apocalypse Later → #
Posted Monday 17th August 2009 23:35 GMT
In Jetpod 'flying taxi' inventor dies in prototype crash
Damn - I was getting all ready to cut you to shreds for being frivolous and not adopting the proper respectful tone at the passing of a great man - but to my great shame and embarrassment I couldn't help but laugh at your comment.
Right. Harrumph. Very sad etc etc. Coat plzkthx