Oooh, I think i rented a vhs vcr for about £10 a month as i couldn't afford the £600 or so to purchase outright. I did buy a black and white 14inch TV for £50 brand new around the same time.
Hah, maps not stored on the iphone! Stupid apple losers! My Nokia N95 has maps stored on it. Okay, when I updated the firmware (to get a slightly less deprecated flash player) the nokia update software only ran on a certain service pack of windows. And deleted the maps. But I managed to download the maps to it again! But the updated firmware is crap and gps now only works 1% of the time so the maps are fricken useless. What was I saying again?
Your mind will be hyperboggled by the amount of paperwork, business trips and expense account lunches the project will generate. The engineering will look like chump change.
I wonder if the phrase 'thank blimey I don't have a gun, it would only make me a target' went through the mind of any of the old people who were chosen as victims because of their frailty?
I stick by my statement. For the same dry road with good visibility (literally the same geographic patch of real road), a well maintained 70's car with crappy brakes and narrow crossply tyres is perfectly safe at 40mph while a modern car is a huge menace to all at 31mph. Maybe next week it will only be safe at 20mph, or 10. Can we solve the unemployment problem by reverting to a flag-bearing chap walking in front of each vehicle?
If our lords and masters lower speed limits far enough ALL road deaths will have speeding as a contributory factor.
Speeding = being judged to be travelling faster than an artificial and arbitrary limit which does not take account of vehicle or driving conditions, by fallible people using fallible measuring equipment.
America's obsession with guns sickens any normal person. Instead of this insane scheme to put guns in the hands of the elderly, why not do what we do in england, run outraged stories in the newspaper and on television every time an elderly person is attacked?
Obviously the police can't protect the old as they have their hands full with drivers maybe going briefly over the speed limit occasionally.
Hurrah! In the future, when i switch off pointless Aero crap, it will free up lots more cpu cycles for the annoying microsoft apps i need to run to see simple 2d spreadsheet data sent to me by retards who use proprietary microsoft file formats. Microsoft FTW!!
The government _are_ wankers. If they wanted to save taxpayers' money (which in itself is unthinkable) they could have not bid for the stupid olympics in the first place.
Not only is DVD quality good enough, people are happy with LESS than DVD quality. Look at the naughty copyright infringers, they still go to the bother of transcoding to xvid/divx even though they are charging $0 for the product. If people cared about quality surely all the copyright infringed content would be distributed as bitwise copy of the original (apart from enhancements such as removal of DRM crap such as region encoding)?
So ISPs are guilty of 'shortsightedness and greed'? Is this an objective level of shortsightedness and greed or a comparative level of shortsightedness and greed when viewed against the shortsightedness and greed that has pretty much fscked over all areas of modern life?
It would certainly stir up the old nature/nurture development thing. On the other hand, would we have to pay compensation/reparation to the Neanderthal as 'his people' settled the planet first? Where would his reservation be established?
Perfect for systems that need to be written to once, then read lots, available with minimal delay (no spin-up) and maximum reliability. ie pr0nz server. Immense sales for this market sector alone should bring prices down.
What a great way to spend 200 million euros, a statue without physical presence. Why not spend another 200 million on a companion piece in Alexandria of a lighthouse with no luminous parts?
The easy method would seem to be: 1) timestamped images of the meters as often as you decided 2) image processing using good old retina/brain 3) type readings into custom software for the crunching of the numbers 4) ??? 5) profit!
Your reasoning only works if the industry is staffed by decision-makers acting in the best interests of the industry, rather than themselves and their own careers.
While he was at work, a neighbor's house was broken into this spring. The burglars entered through his attached garage, and used the victim's own power tools to then open his safe right in his bedroom.
It must have been a crappy safe. Or patient burglars. A decent safe will take several hours to open using the right tools against the weakest point.
Unlimited broadband seems to be going away, bandwidth caps are coming in, traffic shaping is already here and Microsoft want to move the processing to remote data centres? I look forward to scanning a photograph, editing it with CloudPaint and printing it out on my local printer using the generous 9kbytes/second upstream 200kbytes downstream i get from Virgin Media. I don't think i will even bother looking at CloudVideoEditor.
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Oooh, I think i rented a vhs vcr for about £10 a month as i couldn't afford the £600 or so to purchase outright. I did buy a black and white 14inch TV for £50 brand new around the same time.
Hah, maps not stored on the iphone! Stupid apple losers! My Nokia N95 has maps stored on it.
Okay, when I updated the firmware (to get a slightly less deprecated flash player) the nokia update software only ran on a certain service pack of windows. And deleted the maps.
But I managed to download the maps to it again!
But the updated firmware is crap and gps now only works 1% of the time so the maps are fricken useless.
What was I saying again?
English is my only language (UK). FWIW I read it as 'emergency', but I see how, at a stretch, it could be read as 'iphone'.
Your mind will be hyperboggled by the amount of paperwork, business trips and expense account lunches the project will generate. The engineering will look like chump change.
Meh, if the new tech provides an additional source of power, the phone manufacturers will simply fit batteries of lower capacity.
I wonder if the phrase 'thank blimey I don't have a gun, it would only make me a target' went through the mind of any of the old people who were chosen as victims because of their frailty?
I stick by my statement. For the same dry road with good visibility (literally the same geographic patch of real road), a well maintained 70's car with crappy brakes and narrow crossply tyres is perfectly safe at 40mph while a modern car is a huge menace to all at 31mph. Maybe next week it will only be safe at 20mph, or 10. Can we solve the unemployment problem by reverting to a flag-bearing chap walking in front of each vehicle?
If our lords and masters lower speed limits far enough ALL road deaths will have speeding as a contributory factor.
Speeding = being judged to be travelling faster than an artificial and arbitrary limit which does not take account of vehicle or driving conditions, by fallible people using fallible measuring equipment.
America's obsession with guns sickens any normal person.
Instead of this insane scheme to put guns in the hands of the elderly, why not do what we do in england, run outraged stories in the newspaper and on television every time an elderly person is attacked?
Obviously the police can't protect the old as they have their hands full with drivers maybe going briefly over the speed limit occasionally.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/7754092.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317152/Half-of-elderly-fear-attack-at-night.html
Hurrah! In the future, when i switch off pointless Aero crap, it will free up lots more cpu cycles for the annoying microsoft apps i need to run to see simple 2d spreadsheet data sent to me by retards who use proprietary microsoft file formats. Microsoft FTW!!
The government _are_ wankers. If they wanted to save taxpayers' money (which in itself is unthinkable) they could have not bid for the stupid olympics in the first place.
Not only is DVD quality good enough, people are happy with LESS than DVD quality. Look at the naughty copyright infringers, they still go to the bother of transcoding to xvid/divx even though they are charging $0 for the product. If people cared about quality surely all the copyright infringed content would be distributed as bitwise copy of the original (apart from enhancements such as removal of DRM crap such as region encoding)?
So ISPs are guilty of 'shortsightedness and greed'? Is this an objective level of shortsightedness and greed or a comparative level of shortsightedness and greed when viewed against the shortsightedness and greed that has pretty much fscked over all areas of modern life?
"Sweet zombie jesus! Get the Bloating Department on this, stat! We need Windows Seven to piss all this performance away just running the wallpaper!"
It would certainly stir up the old nature/nurture development thing.
On the other hand, would we have to pay compensation/reparation to the Neanderthal as 'his people' settled the planet first? Where would his reservation be established?
Surely "Dawn" ?
Perfect for systems that need to be written to once, then read lots, available with minimal delay (no spin-up) and maximum reliability. ie pr0nz server. Immense sales for this market sector alone should bring prices down.
What a great way to spend 200 million euros, a statue without physical presence. Why not spend another 200 million on a companion piece in Alexandria of a lighthouse with no luminous parts?
The easy method would seem to be:
1) timestamped images of the meters as often as you decided
2) image processing using good old retina/brain
3) type readings into custom software for the crunching of the numbers
4) ???
5) profit!
As to which devices are costing the most; you can get power measuring doohickeys like http://www.maplin.co.uk/Module.aspx?ModuleNo=38343
Good luck with the money saving.
I hope they go after those evil, piracy-enabling, hard disk manufacturers next.
The Crushinator? (googles) Yes, Crushinator http://futurama.wikia.com/wiki/Crushinator
Your reasoning only works if the industry is staffed by decision-makers acting in the best interests of the industry, rather than themselves and their own careers.
Pfft, noob. I replaced the 500mhz crystal in mine with an old morse key, Overclocking to the MAX, Yeah!!!!111
It must have been a crappy safe. Or patient burglars. A decent safe will take several hours to open using the right tools against the weakest point.
Unlimited broadband seems to be going away, bandwidth caps are coming in, traffic shaping is already here and Microsoft want to move the processing to remote data centres? I look forward to scanning a photograph, editing it with CloudPaint and printing it out on my local printer using the generous 9kbytes/second upstream 200kbytes downstream i get from Virgin Media. I don't think i will even bother looking at CloudVideoEditor.