Posts by I Like Heckling

It's nothing new

I've been doing this for years, my current ISP allows me 10 email addies and I normally have 4 on the go at any one time.

If I want to do something new, or a short term thing.. I create a new one specifically for that task... it only takes a couple of minutes.

If that email addy then starts getting spam, not only do I know that the company in question is passing my details on and not to be trusted... But I can simply delete the account when I'm done and replace it with something else if needed.

So I can hardly congratulate MS for figuring out something that I've been doing since the 90's.

Listen to the naysayers

I think this is brilliant... another first for the history books and another one of Da Vincis ideas brought to life.

The tow cable from the car is released and the flapping begins, the vehicle shows no signs of slowing down nor of falling. Gliding loses height with forward momentum and there is not enough lift at ground level to provide anything. To maintain the same height at such a speed at that low a level.. lift *IS* being generated.

This is a proof of concept vehicle, and it's done it's job. Expect the design to be improved upon in the years to come.

Crap joke alert

Does the author of this article work at an iPhonesnot4U store?

I did warn you it ws a crap joke... you've only yourselves to blame for reading it.

AVG no better these days

I too would have recommended AVG in the past... in fact I have installed the free edition on dozens on systems for friends and family.

But the latest incarnation is nothing more than bloatware too... I upgraded from 8 to 9 and it was uninstalled within 48hrs. in excess of 12 background processes running constantly, not to mention the fact it disables parts of windows and supplants itself in it's place without permission.

So I no longer recommend AVG to anyone at all, but I do recommend Microsoft security essentials... and I can't believe I'm promoting an MS product... but as far as free AV software goes, this is tough to beat. I am now upgrading everyone I can as 99% of them are getting sick and tired of the nearly full screen ADs from AVG trying to get them to pay for an upgrade... another reason to ditch it.

Only 2 more to go

Who cares... they're both closed and proprietary systems and I'm honestly sick and tired of reading about them. Both companies are only interested in cash and exploiting customers to get more of that cash.

So thanks for posting yet another apple related story... it's gotten so bad in recent months that we actually have a little pool each week in the office to see who can get closest to guessing the number of apple articles each week.... In the last 4 weeks I've won £25 because I guess high.

So only 2 more articles this week.. and not only do I win, I get the exact number right... which means a bonus payment of a free coffee from the coffee shop across the road from each pool member, and that's 10 free coffees next week saving me an extra £20.

But if I'm honest... I'd rather be losing this pool than reading another little lapdog article.

CHAAAAACHINGGGGG!!!!!

So the whole process creates a methane by product, and methane is a viable alternative to fuel cars (will fuel LPG conversions for example).. ok so you won't get great MPG's using it, less so than LPG at present (although tweaks to systems could probably improve it). But it creates a potential new fuel source that the military can sell to help pay for it's own upkeep... Want new planes, sell the fuel so the taxpayer doesn't have to foot the bill.

Imagine how worried the oil industry would become if the military suddenly started making fuel for 'General' consumption (no need to salute, it's just a Major pun)... No chance of a price war with the US military because those guys actually have guns. :)

I'd gladly buy my fuel from them if it helped fund proper equipment for the troops being put in harms way by govts scrambling to secure (irony alert) oil supplies.

Self fullfilling prophecy

Syphilis can also cause heightened pleasure and arousal... thus increasing an infected persons desire for sex... which thus increases the chances of passing the infection on to some one else.

If that was the case, then this could be a lot worse than reported... and wouldn't be restricted to just facebook but would in fact be happening in real life. The relatively low numbers being reported could simply be the actions of 1 or 2 untreated individuals.

Shame on the Telegraph for stopping to Daily 'Hate' Mail reporting standards... and a total non story that the Reg should not be spreading unless taking the piss out of such bad reporting standards.

What's the point?

Super speed USB... what's the point when the choke point of any data transfer is the hard drive itself. USB2 speeds would rarely ever get above 20mb/s when using read/write to my external HD... regardless of IDE or SATA drive. Even internally SATAII drives don't get about the 80-90mb/s mark (standard drives not the 10k/rpm raptor types).

Unless devices are going to be using SSD drives over a 6gb/s ... then it's a pointless exercise in my opinion... Because the majority of devices offered as USB will still be crippled by slow hard drives.

For storage devices.. it's a waste of time trying to fool people with hype about it being so much faster... it will be only if the internal workings of the devices using the bus are capable of keeping up.

Anyone spotted the problem...

There's a flaw in ebays scam.. I mean plan.

If you look at those prices... then try actually sending them for that price (including purchase of packaging materials) for anything other than the cheapest, most basic postage... which doesn't include recorded and so forth... then it leaves the door wide open for scammers to claim they never received it.

I never send anything through ebay that isn't recorded... too many thieves pulling that kind of scam.

It's not worth selling anything on ebay any more... you pay them twice, you pay paypal and you are at high risk of getting scammed now over the new postage limits.

I'll stick to buying cheap items and get decent stuff from proper shops.

I don't believe it....

People spend less on alcohol in a severe recession... next they'll be telling us people have less money to spend, can't find work and can't afford the latest piece of crap from Apple.