started to wish his coronary had been more serious. However, the calendar on his Blackberry, being kept charged dutifully by his temp. PA, gave the clue.
I suspect that's the sole reason Nokia 'outsourced' all Symbian employees to Accenture.
If Nokia'd made them redundant, massive payouts. Ship 'em to Accenture, with a lot of mealy-mouthed words as to job-security, then let Accenture kick 'em out after a few months. No doubt, Nokia would slide a back-hander to Accenture for the compensation, having saved a few million euro's.
Incidentally, one of my older passwords was a Finnish word, in which, when written in capitals the letters all contained angles of 45 or 90 degrees...More memorable than the book of Deutor...Dewter...something-onomy.
1) I reckon my single-speed Jopo* can go faster than that, unaided. It's only got one brake (back-pedal to activate it), but it seems to break an ancient English law, forbidding travel by witchcraft
2) Here, it's ILLEGAL to ride on the road, if there's a footpath. You must use the footpath.
3) Until recently I could ride my moped on the footpath. Unfortunately, that's been curtailed. So have a lot more young moped riders in the last 2 years.
Grief, being shown around the old 405-line TV transmitter as a teenager.
Thing was stuck together by duct-tape. I remember seeing an old resistor (not colour-coded as was, but coded with rings and spots - wartime stuff). It was hanging in the air, tied each end by a bit of twisted wire...Made me proud to get home, switch on my old monochrome 10" Murphy, knowing the signal I was watching was going through that resistor, 20 miles away.
When I saw the piccie here (on the article), with what looks like an alien trying to shove a spawn into its mouth at the top, and a 'Hutt' - like tail at the bottom, the only words out of my mouth were..
"FUCK. ME. SIDEWAYS!!!"
Oh, man that's impressive for 50 years' ago, let alone now
We've too much money, let's spend it on a war someplace. As long as the country starts with a vowel. Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Idi Amin's back garden, Neither Russia nor China do, but Engl...oh...
So, not having security makes it utterly useless??? Sorry, I don't get your reasoning. Look, I didn't want to go around the school to give 'em passwords. I just announced at coffee-time to switch WiFi on, and look for "N8-00". Grief, just use the damn thing, M'kay? Only a couple of hours or so, no big deal. Cost me nothing (phone on charge entire time) as I'm on an "as much as you can eat" tariff. For about a fiver (€6 - $7) a month. Brilliant.
1) When the city's free internet went down, I switched on "Joikuspot" on my N8, and everyone in the shool was happy.
(@ Jemma - maybe I'm just altruistic...)
2) This was the 'blocking patent' I wrote about which I couldn't be arsed to do, 'cos I'd have got the price of a decent Friday night out, for a couple of weekends work... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/nokia_apple_sims/
"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.
"Space travel is bunk" -Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of
Britain, 1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik.
"Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody
They could've written in Java, I guess ("Write once, run anywhere") but I reckon the time to let the bird fly, to seeing where it landed would've used up an entire tea-break.
Java: "Write once, run anywhere - fuc*king slowly"
Mate of mine at Nokia wrote a few, he got about £300 a pop. (year 1998)
I came up with one, and the boss told me to patent it. When I looked at all the horrendous paperwork, (which I'd have to do in my spare time (go figure!), it simply wasn't worth the effort.
It was a 'blocking patent' - to prevent other manufacturers from using it. £300 for a few weekend's work, with no guarantee of success? Fuc*k that, I'm taking the missus to Cyprus for a couple of weeks.
"We do note that there seems no reason for the ground cameras to stay so far away from the intrepid birdman during launch"
Yep, noticed that. I also queried the need for the 'assistants' to run away sharpish - out of camerashot - in the opposite direction to supposed flight. That got me instantly. Plus, ever seen a hang-glider wing flex? I have, and from being strapped underneath it. I had wires from the control bar ("A-frame") to the centre of the wing, and even then the thing flexed.
I thought it was great, but now I'm inclined to call 'fake'. However, I'd love to be proven wrong.
I understood the rule of thumb was 10 degrees (non-libyan or American degrees, but Celcius) increase in operating temperature meant 50% decrease in MTBF...
It's that bloody simple. Find a cooking site that lets you have a phone app, and it's...Android.
Same as Angry Birds for the newer games, newspapers...whatever.
They're (the companies who punt the apps) aren't interested in Windows, nor Symbian. OK, iOS, but I reckon that's not keeping up.
Makes me weep I bought a Nokia 08 sometimes. Pity those poor folks who shelled out for a Meego 09. They got nothing except a pretty (expensive, as well as aesthetic) phone.
EVEN THE REG!!!
"The easiest way to get The Register App on any other mobile devices is to point the device at:
m.reg.cx
It will either sniff out your device and help you download the correct app, or it will present you with a list of manufacturers and operating systems that you can walk through to find the right app for your device.
Where do you think your 5V or whatever is going? Into the 'phone's switch-mode PSU!
It ain't that fussy, particularly as the charger's probbly made at Foxconn, and 5v is just a rule of thumb...
(Why 5V? Thought mine was 8,4? Check when I get home...)
IIRC, 5V was chosen in the dark ages (TTL chips being dark on the outside) as the transition between the Zener effect and the Impatt effect. Thermal stability.
Definitely open to corrections - I remember this from a 1977 lecture.
We once got hounded by one of their high-pressure door-to-door salesmen - a job he later told me he absolutely loathed.
The encyclopaedia is definitely worth owning, and I'm seriously considering shovelling £1200 to get the last version. (Thank God, even unemployment lets me keep a credit card or three...).
Encyclopaedia Britannica is one of the Icons of American Literature (don't let the name fool you).
It's a bit like translating Canterbury Tales to modern English, or releasing Samuel Pepys' diaries on CD.
She'll kill me, but Greek holiday - Britannica - Greek holiday - Britannica....Hmmmm....
Wallace & Gromit's first film springs to mind, somehow...
Having said that, Lunokhod 2 was a serious achievement. Leaving secondary school* at about the same time it was launched, and now looking forward to my pension in a few years...(Gotta be polite - Russian border only 200 miles away, Gulag not much further...)
*about then, I was struggling to build a two-valve radio.
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Acrobat pro?
Ooh, I just cant wait to download it on Ubuntu....
Errr...just a minute...
"Any company that can only get out of their financial hole by outsourcing is already insolvent."
Yep, and their customers see it.
Another way to commit "customer suicide"? Get your invoices sent by a factoring company. Speaks volumes about your solvency!
Oh, I was right...
http://www.yle.fi/uutiset/news/2012/04/hundreds_of_nokias_outsourced_symbian_developers_leaving_accenture_3380429.html
Google Tap was my favourite
I reckon some wag will actually do this! Brilliant!
https://mail.google.com/mail/help/promos/tap/index.html#tap-features
Alex (telegraph.co.uk)...
started to wish his coronary had been more serious. However, the calendar on his Blackberry, being kept charged dutifully by his temp. PA, gave the clue.
(Nice one, El Reg.)
Mwahahahah!
http://www.capita.co.uk/careers/pages/careers.aspx
Deputy Head of Corporate Advisory, Registrars
"Capita obviously regards its employees as its key asset."
You gotta see it to believe it....
Re: @Homard - "Most cyclists are sensible. "
"but need an entire lane to themselves if they actually get stopped at traffic lights"
We fuc*king do, so some prat in a lorry has a vague chance of seeing us, between episodes of Angry Birds or the girlfriend on his mobile.
Fuc'k me sideways, Dave, can you even ride a bike? Believe me, in traffic, it's not fun!
Re: This is how it is working for us....
I suspect that's the sole reason Nokia 'outsourced' all Symbian employees to Accenture.
If Nokia'd made them redundant, massive payouts. Ship 'em to Accenture, with a lot of mealy-mouthed words as to job-security, then let Accenture kick 'em out after a few months. No doubt, Nokia would slide a back-hander to Accenture for the compensation, having saved a few million euro's.
Someone tell me it's not true??
Devious millionaire bastards.
!!!!
"We think that 60 hours of overtime a month would be reasonable and that 36 hours would be too little"
OVERTIME??? Did I read correctly??? Can't be correct. Surely?
Plus,
"We are worried we will have less money to spend". But more time to spend it...
Isn't this a better explanation....?
https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/p480x480/545673_410885292274263_205344452828349_1485632_1708851888_n.jpg
All I said was...
...that piece of halibut was good enough for <CLUNK!>....
Does this work?
סיסמה
Re: re: sibboleth (*)
Me too. Got beaten also...RATS!
Incidentally, one of my older passwords was a Finnish word, in which, when written in capitals the letters all contained angles of 45 or 90 degrees...More memorable than the book of Deutor...Dewter...something-onomy.
Beats the living daylights out of me...
1) I reckon my single-speed Jopo* can go faster than that, unaided. It's only got one brake (back-pedal to activate it), but it seems to break an ancient English law, forbidding travel by witchcraft
2) Here, it's ILLEGAL to ride on the road, if there's a footpath. You must use the footpath.
3) Until recently I could ride my moped on the footpath. Unfortunately, that's been curtailed. So have a lot more young moped riders in the last 2 years.
* http://www.finnishdesignshop.com/outdoor-bicycles-jopo-bicycle-white-p-2831.html
Without Nigel Hawthorne...
..I doubt it'll work.
Rubbish!
They simply employed penguins! Tin of sardines a day, job done!
...title and cast/director... (for the wedding video)
Title: "My left hand". Apologies to the maker of "My Left Foot" which is brilliant.
Director: Rick Moranis. Well, looks like no-one would want to marry him. Not even Audrey. "Ohhh, Sstheymour!"
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Re: London != || == civilisation
BBC4? Radio 4?
Oh, you mean the "Home Service". Now I got it,
Re: Joe Drunk
LUXURY!!!
When I were not even born, Ma'd send us down 't pit...(etc)
Ahhh, Sutton Coldfield...
Grief, being shown around the old 405-line TV transmitter as a teenager.
Thing was stuck together by duct-tape. I remember seeing an old resistor (not colour-coded as was, but coded with rings and spots - wartime stuff). It was hanging in the air, tied each end by a bit of twisted wire...Made me proud to get home, switch on my old monochrome 10" Murphy, knowing the signal I was watching was going through that resistor, 20 miles away.
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That's awesome!
When I saw the piccie here (on the article), with what looks like an alien trying to shove a spawn into its mouth at the top, and a 'Hutt' - like tail at the bottom, the only words out of my mouth were..
"FUCK. ME. SIDEWAYS!!!"
Oh, man that's impressive for 50 years' ago, let alone now
Re: If you really have too much money ...
Hit the nail on the head, squire!
We've too much money, let's spend it on a war someplace. As long as the country starts with a vowel. Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Idi Amin's back garden, Neither Russia nor China do, but Engl...oh...
"Whom the GodS would destroy....
...they first make mad". Possibly by enabling comments from trolls on these forua...
...is this a epic pram moment involving toys...
It might be more of a snake's hollow tail full of beads....Never know when it's gonna strike.
(Nice one, PXG)
Re: "There's nowhere you can drive at that speed"
Silverstone would prove your point.
Unless, natch, there's a cop in the pit lane eating do'nuts....
How do blind folks manage??
Oh, come on, someone photoshop a bloke standing in front of a glass door with his guide-dog's head through the glass!
Please...Pretty please..
A downvote?
....with no reasoning behind it?
Well, that's just un-reason-able.
Re: Tethering...
You're referring to Joikuspot, I guess.
"...which makes it effectively utterly useless."
So, not having security makes it utterly useless??? Sorry, I don't get your reasoning. Look, I didn't want to go around the school to give 'em passwords. I just announced at coffee-time to switch WiFi on, and look for "N8-00". Grief, just use the damn thing, M'kay? Only a couple of hours or so, no big deal. Cost me nothing (phone on charge entire time) as I'm on an "as much as you can eat" tariff. For about a fiver (€6 - $7) a month. Brilliant.
I referred to this in 2 previous posts:
1) When the city's free internet went down, I switched on "Joikuspot" on my N8, and everyone in the shool was happy.
(@ Jemma - maybe I'm just altruistic...)
2) This was the 'blocking patent' I wrote about which I couldn't be arsed to do, 'cos I'd have got the price of a decent Friday night out, for a couple of weekends work... http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/22/nokia_apple_sims/
Yle (Finnish newspaper) reports:
http://yle.fi/uutiset/news/2012/03/rovio_not_ignoring_windows_phone_3358313.html
(Does Rovio view Windows 7 as a bit of a pig??)
Are you with the Royal Society, Sir?
"Radio has no future. Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible. X-rays will prove to be a hoax." -- William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, British scientist, 1899.
"Space travel is bunk" -Sir Harold Spencer Jones, Astronomer Royal of
Britain, 1957, two weeks before the launch of Sputnik.
"Fooling around with alternating current is just a waste of time. Nobody
will use it, ever." - Thomas Edison, 1889
Java?
They could've written in Java, I guess ("Write once, run anywhere") but I reckon the time to let the bird fly, to seeing where it landed would've used up an entire tea-break.
Java: "Write once, run anywhere - fuc*king slowly"
HOAX!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-17487366
(Pity, really...)
Nokia patents...larf-a-minute!
Mate of mine at Nokia wrote a few, he got about £300 a pop. (year 1998)
I came up with one, and the boss told me to patent it. When I looked at all the horrendous paperwork, (which I'd have to do in my spare time (go figure!), it simply wasn't worth the effort.
It was a 'blocking patent' - to prevent other manufacturers from using it. £300 for a few weekend's work, with no guarantee of success? Fuc*k that, I'm taking the missus to Cyprus for a couple of weeks.
Re: Not quite there, drat!
You could post something worth viewing, or 'Get a Life'. (JOKE!). Or, like me, be unemployed, and have bugger all to do at the pub. (ah...)
Nonetheless, I've upvoted you to help you achieve the coveted Holy Grail of the Sofa Potato.
(I'm at over 830 upvotes, but I wonder if there's gonna be a 'special prize' for the number of downvotes... Sarah Bee, come back, all is forgiven!)
I'm a smoker and I think it AINT a HOAX. I bet I could fly too.
Depends what you're smoking.....
Re: Errm...
Sorry, mate, I'm on the dole. What does a £50 note look like? Could you kindly post a well scanned copy of both sides? Ta muchly.
El Reg. questions...
"We do note that there seems no reason for the ground cameras to stay so far away from the intrepid birdman during launch"
Yep, noticed that. I also queried the need for the 'assistants' to run away sharpish - out of camerashot - in the opposite direction to supposed flight. That got me instantly. Plus, ever seen a hang-glider wing flex? I have, and from being strapped underneath it. I had wires from the control bar ("A-frame") to the centre of the wing, and even then the thing flexed.
I thought it was great, but now I'm inclined to call 'fake'. However, I'd love to be proven wrong.
Heat and MTBF (Mean time before failure)
I understood the rule of thumb was 10 degrees (non-libyan or American degrees, but Celcius) increase in operating temperature meant 50% decrease in MTBF...
Corrections gratefully received.
Gosh, the Downvotes on many of these comments!
Is there an Apple employee running amok?
Quick, El. Reg., delete Steve Jobs' account!
It's the apps!
It's that bloody simple. Find a cooking site that lets you have a phone app, and it's...Android.
Same as Angry Birds for the newer games, newspapers...whatever.
They're (the companies who punt the apps) aren't interested in Windows, nor Symbian. OK, iOS, but I reckon that's not keeping up.
Makes me weep I bought a Nokia 08 sometimes. Pity those poor folks who shelled out for a Meego 09. They got nothing except a pretty (expensive, as well as aesthetic) phone.
EVEN THE REG!!!
"The easiest way to get The Register App on any other mobile devices is to point the device at:
m.reg.cx
It will either sniff out your device and help you download the correct app, or it will present you with a list of manufacturers and operating systems that you can walk through to find the right app for your device.
My N8? "Sorry, your device isn't supported..."
Snakes on a plane.
Not remotely funny....
'Black-box' thinking from most commentards.
Where do you think your 5V or whatever is going? Into the 'phone's switch-mode PSU!
It ain't that fussy, particularly as the charger's probbly made at Foxconn, and 5v is just a rule of thumb...
(Why 5V? Thought mine was 8,4? Check when I get home...)
IIRC, 5V was chosen in the dark ages (TTL chips being dark on the outside) as the transition between the Zener effect and the Impatt effect. Thermal stability.
Definitely open to corrections - I remember this from a 1977 lecture.
How's about...
4xaa's and a series diode? 'bout close enough.
Alternatively, try the 'McCoatover' solution. Spare, fully-charged ancient old phone in suitcase, swap SIM if in shi*t. Worked for me a few times.
The concept of the plane being angled at over 90 degs...
seems ace! Nice few pints/beermats well spent/drunk.
It is, in a way, quite sad...
We once got hounded by one of their high-pressure door-to-door salesmen - a job he later told me he absolutely loathed.
The encyclopaedia is definitely worth owning, and I'm seriously considering shovelling £1200 to get the last version. (Thank God, even unemployment lets me keep a credit card or three...).
Encyclopaedia Britannica is one of the Icons of American Literature (don't let the name fool you).
It's a bit like translating Canterbury Tales to modern English, or releasing Samuel Pepys' diaries on CD.
She'll kill me, but Greek holiday - Britannica - Greek holiday - Britannica....Hmmmm....
A grand day out
Wallace & Gromit's first film springs to mind, somehow...
Having said that, Lunokhod 2 was a serious achievement. Leaving secondary school* at about the same time it was launched, and now looking forward to my pension in a few years...(Gotta be polite - Russian border only 200 miles away, Gulag not much further...)
*about then, I was struggling to build a two-valve radio.
...Corporate Bellendery...
Another keyboard gone down (via?) the tubes.
Ta Muchly, Captain....oh, not another...SNORT!
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