It seems as though half of twitter already live-tweet during shows such as Britain's Got Talent, so the social aspect of watching TV hasn't gone away, and unless all your social circle are using the Orange app, no-one will - another chicken&egg situation that Orange would need to surmount!
And this is where we get in to the usual issues regarding audio products; it's all subjective. As I said, having demoed the Teac alongside a similar product from Sony, the Teac sounded awful. Absolutely awful. And the mrs was grateful that i said as much as she thought it stank too and was worried I'd buy it regardless ;)
As to the speakers/mini system distinction, if you've got the room for a Zep' Air you have more than enough space for one of the systems I mentioned. Okay so it isn't an all in one package, but when you're spending the kind of money being discussed here, being able to move the speakers for better stereo separation is no bad thing in my book.
I liked the Fidelio but the mrs wasn't as impressed with the sound, although it was miles ahead of the other all-in-one systems we tried. There was another Philips similar to the Teac that was god-awful as well, worse than the Teac in fact. And as I said there was also a similar Sony. If those two products were also tested then there would have been a nice round ten products on test :)
The Teac *does* sound abysmal. We tested it against a similair styled Sony and the Sony sounded a million times better.
But why no Denon Ceol / Marantz 603(?) / Sony G2 series? Have auditioned these all recently for myself and ended up with the G2BNIP (ie DAB and AirPlay/Wifi) as the Marantz and Denon both took the best part of a week to start playing from an iPhone once it was plugged in.
Can LBE Privacy Guard be installed on *any* android phone straight out of the box, and work with immediate effect, or do you need to root it first (i.e. is it an all-users or a techie-users approach)?
If you need to root the phone to get this kind of functionality, then Android is as bad as iOS. I'm sure if you jailbreak you can find something on the cydia store to enforce similair permissions, but this stuff needs to be baked in to the operating system!
And it still doesn't allow you to revoke permissions and have all previously captured data deleted...
Anything using "private" data (GPS, contacts, SMS database, etc) should have to request permissions for each item individually, not in an "all or nothing" approach. You should be able to e.g. block GPS from FaceBook but keep it for Twitter if you so wish, without having to opt to not install any particular app.
The problem you end up having is you can have a request saying "Allow app access to address book?" with a "Yes" or "No" but then you need to ensure you have the "Remember this for next time?" checkbox, as well as a way to revoke these permissions at a later date if you foolishly opt in to giving your data to FaceBook now but then want it taken away in future...
And then you get another problem. If I revoke permissions on the app on my phone, I want that communicated back to FaceBook so that they delete all the data they have slurped previously. How long before that actually starts happening? Or will they insist that once you have provided that data, tough?
...but this is why a proper enquiry is needed. There have been too many knee jerk cover ups to screw justice and protect those who are meant to be our servants...
We were hit by this on Thursday evening, around 630-7pm. Thought it was due to the snow we were having, or due to the fact that Sky's systems were being upgraded at the time. When Sky's service status page started up again the next day, they reported it as being an ongoing issue outside of their control. Around lunchtime they added the fact that it was down to cable theft. We finally got our broadband back at around 4am on Saturday morning...
but in practice, having to replace all of your light switches and power sockets with (for example) PLN capable ones would be bad enough, let alone having to make sure that they were branded by your choice of fruit or robot to ensure compatibility...
Turn off mobile reception in one store, walk to another & turn it back on, et voila! Either your IMSI stays the same and you "teleported" or you get a different IMSI...
If current warranty terms mean that for every five drives they make, they sell four and keep one in reserve, and these new terms mean they keep one from every ten drives made, then this is just a way of them putting more drives in to the channel at a time when reserves are low & prices are high?
I have very vague memories from uni where we were told that the design of the 4004 was actually carried out by an intern / gap year student, and design flaws were carried through a number of iterations of follow-up chipsets to retain backwards compatibility. This story was probably apocryphal - it's nearly 20 years since I heard it so I cannot remember any more details! Anyone else heard anything about this?
But no answer to the age old question of how many pages should your cv cover?
Is three or four pages of *relevant* experience & technologies overkill? Is a one or two page summary going to get you binned because you just mention where you worked & for how long?
Their services are being used to pass around illegal drugs, weapons, child pornography!! Ban this sick filth NOW! Won't someone think of the children??
I currently have seven distinct inputs in to my Onkyo, and as the Marantz supports audio return over HDMI I would consider this an eighth that I would need! From looking at the picture of the back I can easily envisage twelve inputs into this, so what does the software actually support?
It's annoying enough when the bluetooth on my head unit crashes and i have to power cycle it by switching off the engine ... but to have to do that *while driving* just so you can stop the car from auto-accelerating??
Ummm that is what is claimed in the article. My post was hypothetical though - given that I don't have an Xbox 360 or Forza 4 (hence the quotes around your and my)... I could have said "my iPlayer traffic" and it would still have fitted with the claims in the article. And it would have been just as incorrect, too, given that I rarely use iPlayer.
Do you know (or can you test) if Zone 2 works alongside bi-wiring/7.2 support? The picture of the rear connectors suggests as much... my Onkyo 607 will only run 5.1 alongside Zone2 :(
(actually nothing in the pic suggests biwiring is supported at all; something to check for in the manual?)
Your post on here suggested that according to the Which article, people were buying BluRay discs and receiving DVDs instead, with an adjusted White Balance. There was a claim that the suppliers knew this and yet had received no complaints. I was not saying that I didn't believe you, but as an owner of several BluRays (some still unwatched) I wanted to know which 12 were really DVD discs so that I could kick up a stink and get my money back!
The first few words in the "pub trash talk" comment asked if you had read the article yourself. I asked this because Which articles can be notoriously unavailable to non-subscribers, thus preventing us from going back to source and validating your comments (and finding out which of our discs may really be DVDs).
The only Which article relating to BluRay / DVD comparisons online (which I linked to) painted a different picture to your comment. The discs received *were not DVDs* although for several of them (8 from 17 tested, not 12 as per your comment) the improvement in quality was not really significant or noticable when compared to the DVD. This is different from saying that the consumer had received a DVD in a BluRay case!
The Which article that I found did not backup your claims, which is why I had hoped that you would confirm whether or not the online article in question was the same as was in the printed article. You say you know what you read, but if it was the article I linked to, then it appears that you are giving a false impression of what you read.
Five of the discs tested were found to be "outstanding [...] far superior to their DVD equivalents". From the remaining 12 (is that where your figure came from?), four were found to be "a significant improvement on BluRay [...] significantly better than the DVD versions".
Of the remaining 8 discs, "A significant proportion of the Blu-ray discs on test failed to offer a significant improvement over their DVD equivalents, even though they tended to look superior. In some cases this was thanks to the high-quality picture of the DVD itself."
So the BluRays tended to look superior to the DVDs, although the improvement was not actually great enough to justify buying the BluRay over the DVD.
At the end of the day, while not supporting your claims, this article doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know. i.e. that money grabbing studios will rush out any old shit transfer on to BluRay and sell it for £25 to try and con gullible Joe Public out of his hard earned beer tokens. It was the same when DVDs first came out, and it will be the same when the next technology emerges. Caveat Emptor!
Did you read the article, or did you just summarise from someone else's comment on a web forum that someone had posted after reading a blog about his mate in the pub saying that ....
I just googled and the Which article I found where they tested 17 discs in December 2010 didn't say anything about the physical discs being DVDs as opposed to Blu's (as your comment implies).
They found that with some of the 17 discs tested, the picture quality wasn't significantly better than the DVD version of the film, when played on the same player & TV in a side-by-side comparison. BTW this was "man on the street" comparisons, not geek / expert analysis on DNR and grain etc AFAICT.
The reasons suggested were that some of the DVD transfers were pretty stunning in the first instance, and thus the Blu's didn't offer anything extra. Some of the Blu's were noted as being significantly better than the DVD equivalent.
And some of the Blu's were apparently a crock of shite and not worth spending any money on. I'm guessing they were ones that didn't have a proper transfer, then!
For people who already have the box sets, £60 is still *way* too much money to buy the films again. Especially given that the original bluray's had transfer issues, a lot of people are going to be very wary of splashing out on these.
So that will translate to an RRP of £90 here with VAT added! Ouch!
That's quite an ask, expecially for those who spent around that anyway in buying the three extended editions on DVD with the figurines! Especially when the non-extended-edition blu's can be picked up for ~£15 for the set!
Jolly Roger, as that kind of price pretty much encourages people to downloaded the inevitable mkv rips that will appear!
A different experience depending on who you speak to?
I have had a couple of calls with "Lena" in the Philippines, apparently they are getting a LOT of calls due to these changes!
On my first call back (she needed clarification when I spelled out that I was affected to my detriment) I was told that I was affected and that as a goodwill gesture only they could add the mobile broadband upgrade to 3Gb (normally £12.77) for free until the end of the year.
After I rejected this a couple of times - I stated that I would be out of pocket in 12 months compared to when I took the contract out - she said that she would call me back again.
On my next callback she confirmed that as I am on an iPhone contract I would *not* be affected by the FUP change. I have asked for this in writing!
I had earlier pointed out that the website currently tells you something different to the SMS that was sent out, so I wonder if that was incorrectly sent out to people with iPhone / Android phones....
I picked up an Onkyo 607 a few months ago from BetteroffAudio mentioned above, for around £300. This was just as the '08 range was coming out, as the 607 is HDMI 1.3 and 1080i upscaling only. Fine with me!
From a quick look at the Quick Setup PDF, it has 5 HDMI inputs at the rear so will more than accomodate the three you have going in to your TV currently. It has two sets of component input, and four full sets of composite input, as well as two audio-only composite in (Tape loop & CD). There are two coax digital inputs and two optical as well.
You haven't said what you need the 6 digital audio in for but don't forget that HDMI includes audio. As such a PS3 or bluray player doesn't need HDMI as well as digital input; the HDMI does it all.
Does the DVD player not do any audio at all over the coax output? It should be able to do all audio through the coax, and with a scart->composite cable you can have it pass thru the amp and be upscaled along the way out to the TV over HDMI.
Otherwise, something along the lines of the Onkyo 607 will do the biz!
The only thing it is missing is the 5.1 input, which is getting quite rare on amps these days. The idea is that the amp does all the grunt work and your DVD player is just a content provider.
You have the bad guy ahead of you, due north. There's a strong wind blowing east, so you actually aim to the west of the bad guy for the trajectory of the bullet to hit him.
However, what if there are some innocent kids playing soccer at some point north-west of your position? Does this uber-rifle take in to account the fact that you're now pointing the gun 45 degrees away from your intended target? How many bystanders will be killed before the army ask to add on a second sight showing what the gun is actually pointing at?
If you have a website or a specific IP address on which your bots rely, those can be taken out rendering your botnot sterile.
But with Twitter's searchable timeline and suitable hashtags, you could post from *any* public account and your bots could find the commands.
And if you make the control commands into inane comments about eating breakfast, or getting your norks out in aid of vouyerism^Wcharity, they'd go completely un-noticed!
The Sony version of 3D TV costs £100 per pair of glasses, because that is the active version. Check out the alternative passive version, as briefly mentioned in the article. This uses the same 3D specs that you get at the cinema, which cost a quid each. Same effect, no Sony-tax.
Looking at buying a new TV soon but not sure I want to pay a premium to get a 3D compatible one...
the device isn't released until August 27th... so is it SWMBO's birthday a handful of days from now, or from then. Cos if it's her birthday before August 27th, an email showing you've ordered her something due to arrive three weeks later generally doesn't wash...
... that ten minutes after Apple announce that they have a new official map application that doesn't use Google Maps at all, Google will be sending a new Google Maps app to the AppStore submissions team!
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Shakespeare subs....
I'm fairly certain that and a couple of the other "Bluray only" extras are on my DVD version of the film....
A bit late to the game...
It seems as though half of twitter already live-tweet during shows such as Britain's Got Talent, so the social aspect of watching TV hasn't gone away, and unless all your social circle are using the Orange app, no-one will - another chicken&egg situation that Orange would need to surmount!
Re: Oh and remember folks...
Sadly a number of ISPs (e.g. Sky) are adamant that you use their supplied router. Which usually sucks or has severe limitations in configurability.
Re: I disagree....
And this is where we get in to the usual issues regarding audio products; it's all subjective. As I said, having demoed the Teac alongside a similar product from Sony, the Teac sounded awful. Absolutely awful. And the mrs was grateful that i said as much as she thought it stank too and was worried I'd buy it regardless ;)
As to the speakers/mini system distinction, if you've got the room for a Zep' Air you have more than enough space for one of the systems I mentioned. Okay so it isn't an all in one package, but when you're spending the kind of money being discussed here, being able to move the speakers for better stereo separation is no bad thing in my book.
I liked the Fidelio but the mrs wasn't as impressed with the sound, although it was miles ahead of the other all-in-one systems we tried. There was another Philips similar to the Teac that was god-awful as well, worse than the Teac in fact. And as I said there was also a similar Sony. If those two products were also tested then there would have been a nice round ten products on test :)
I disagree....
The Teac *does* sound abysmal. We tested it against a similair styled Sony and the Sony sounded a million times better.
But why no Denon Ceol / Marantz 603(?) / Sony G2 series? Have auditioned these all recently for myself and ended up with the G2BNIP (ie DAB and AirPlay/Wifi) as the Marantz and Denon both took the best part of a week to start playing from an iPhone once it was plugged in.
If they have any sense....
this will be disabled if the parking brake is deactivated.
Like I said, if they have any sense......
Re: Downvoting
That'll explain why a comment I made about an error in the original article was downvoted three times, then!
Issue with the screengrabs?
Both appear to show the same thing; suspect the one purporting to show the prices hasn't been correctly linked to!
Re: Re: Wind: Whether it's iOS or Android...
Can LBE Privacy Guard be installed on *any* android phone straight out of the box, and work with immediate effect, or do you need to root it first (i.e. is it an all-users or a techie-users approach)?
If you need to root the phone to get this kind of functionality, then Android is as bad as iOS. I'm sure if you jailbreak you can find something on the cydia store to enforce similair permissions, but this stuff needs to be baked in to the operating system!
And it still doesn't allow you to revoke permissions and have all previously captured data deleted...
Whether it's iOS or Android...
Anything using "private" data (GPS, contacts, SMS database, etc) should have to request permissions for each item individually, not in an "all or nothing" approach. You should be able to e.g. block GPS from FaceBook but keep it for Twitter if you so wish, without having to opt to not install any particular app.
The problem you end up having is you can have a request saying "Allow app access to address book?" with a "Yes" or "No" but then you need to ensure you have the "Remember this for next time?" checkbox, as well as a way to revoke these permissions at a later date if you foolishly opt in to giving your data to FaceBook now but then want it taken away in future...
And then you get another problem. If I revoke permissions on the app on my phone, I want that communicated back to FaceBook so that they delete all the data they have slurped previously. How long before that actually starts happening? Or will they insist that once you have provided that data, tough?
Way off topic...
...but this is why a proper enquiry is needed. There have been too many knee jerk cover ups to screw justice and protect those who are meant to be our servants...
We were hit by this on Thursday evening, around 630-7pm. Thought it was due to the snow we were having, or due to the fact that Sky's systems were being upgraded at the time. When Sky's service status page started up again the next day, they reported it as being an ongoing issue outside of their control. Around lunchtime they added the fact that it was down to cable theft. We finally got our broadband back at around 4am on Saturday morning...
Home automation is nice in theory
but in practice, having to replace all of your light switches and power sockets with (for example) PLN capable ones would be bad enough, let alone having to make sure that they were branded by your choice of fruit or robot to ensure compatibility...
at a guess
Turn off mobile reception in one store, walk to another & turn it back on, et voila! Either your IMSI stays the same and you "teleported" or you get a different IMSI...But the technology side is all overpriced crap!
and the sales droids try selling you £50 HDMI cables!
Using OpenDNS already, and no typing the IP in directly does not work...
Tor works, which completely sidesteps any blocks.
Surely....
If current warranty terms mean that for every five drives they make, they sell four and keep one in reserve, and these new terms mean they keep one from every ten drives made, then this is just a way of them putting more drives in to the channel at a time when reserves are low & prices are high?
Butter *and* marmite? Are you insane??
Wow
$200k and they didn't think to mention that it should be able to handle temperatures using the Fahrenheit scale ;)
I have very vague memories from uni where we were told that the design of the 4004 was actually carried out by an intern / gap year student, and design flaws were carried through a number of iterations of follow-up chipsets to retain backwards compatibility. This story was probably apocryphal - it's nearly 20 years since I heard it so I cannot remember any more details! Anyone else heard anything about this?
I got better 3G signal in the middle of nowhere in third world asian backwaters than I did at home in a commuter town 30mins from London KX.
Two pages of good advice....
But no answer to the age old question of how many pages should your cv cover?
Is three or four pages of *relevant* experience & technologies overkill? Is a one or two page summary going to get you binned because you just mention where you worked & for how long?
Quick, someone ban Royal Mail
Their services are being used to pass around illegal drugs, weapons, child pornography!! Ban this sick filth NOW! Won't someone think of the children??
How many distinct sources does this support?
I currently have seven distinct inputs in to my Onkyo, and as the Marantz supports audio return over HDMI I would consider this an eighth that I would need! From looking at the picture of the back I can easily envisage twelve inputs into this, so what does the software actually support?
"It’s the plot that makes this came a classic" - game, surely? Surely the plot wasn't *that* exciting?
It's annoying enough when the bluetooth on my head unit crashes and i have to power cycle it by switching off the engine ... but to have to do that *while driving* just so you can stop the car from auto-accelerating??
If I am awake at 2am Sunday when the clocks go back and we get an extra hour, I don't envisage spending it with my nan ;)
Sounds like a noisy holiday destination...
Are all the cars there Hong King?
Ummm that is what is claimed in the article. My post was hypothetical though - given that I don't have an Xbox 360 or Forza 4 (hence the quotes around your and my)... I could have said "my iPlayer traffic" and it would still have fitted with the claims in the article. And it would have been just as incorrect, too, given that I rarely use iPlayer.
So much for net neutrality then!
BT decided that "your" IOS5 data was less important than "my" Forza 4 data, and thus prioritised my traffic over yours? How do you like them apples?
How very dare you! Sauce with steak? Enjoy the meat for what it is instead of drowning it in alternative dressings!
(etc etc)
*cough* damned *cough*
Oh. Not so good, then. In which case I will revoke the previous WANT! - it doesn't offer me the one thing I would actually upgrade my 607 for!
(tho if someone wanted to offer me a freebie)
Zone 2 support
Do you know (or can you test) if Zone 2 works alongside bi-wiring/7.2 support? The picture of the rear connectors suggests as much... my Onkyo 607 will only run 5.1 alongside Zone2 :(
(actually nothing in the pic suggests biwiring is supported at all; something to check for in the manual?)
Either way; WANT!
Just had a mail...
From Marks & Sparks! So it's not just customers of US companies having their details sold down the river....
@Jessica Werkz
Your post on here suggested that according to the Which article, people were buying BluRay discs and receiving DVDs instead, with an adjusted White Balance. There was a claim that the suppliers knew this and yet had received no complaints. I was not saying that I didn't believe you, but as an owner of several BluRays (some still unwatched) I wanted to know which 12 were really DVD discs so that I could kick up a stink and get my money back!
The first few words in the "pub trash talk" comment asked if you had read the article yourself. I asked this because Which articles can be notoriously unavailable to non-subscribers, thus preventing us from going back to source and validating your comments (and finding out which of our discs may really be DVDs).
The only Which article relating to BluRay / DVD comparisons online (which I linked to) painted a different picture to your comment. The discs received *were not DVDs* although for several of them (8 from 17 tested, not 12 as per your comment) the improvement in quality was not really significant or noticable when compared to the DVD. This is different from saying that the consumer had received a DVD in a BluRay case!
The Which article that I found did not backup your claims, which is why I had hoped that you would confirm whether or not the online article in question was the same as was in the printed article. You say you know what you read, but if it was the article I linked to, then it appears that you are giving a false impression of what you read.
Five of the discs tested were found to be "outstanding [...] far superior to their DVD equivalents". From the remaining 12 (is that where your figure came from?), four were found to be "a significant improvement on BluRay [...] significantly better than the DVD versions".
Of the remaining 8 discs, "A significant proportion of the Blu-ray discs on test failed to offer a significant improvement over their DVD equivalents, even though they tended to look superior. In some cases this was thanks to the high-quality picture of the DVD itself."
So the BluRays tended to look superior to the DVDs, although the improvement was not actually great enough to justify buying the BluRay over the DVD.
At the end of the day, while not supporting your claims, this article doesn't tell us anything we didn't already know. i.e. that money grabbing studios will rush out any old shit transfer on to BluRay and sell it for £25 to try and con gullible Joe Public out of his hard earned beer tokens. It was the same when DVDs first came out, and it will be the same when the next technology emerges. Caveat Emptor!
So can you
confirm that the printed article is the same as the online one I linked to?
Erm
Did you read the article, or did you just summarise from someone else's comment on a web forum that someone had posted after reading a blog about his mate in the pub saying that ....
I just googled and the Which article I found where they tested 17 discs in December 2010 didn't say anything about the physical discs being DVDs as opposed to Blu's (as your comment implies).
They found that with some of the 17 discs tested, the picture quality wasn't significantly better than the DVD version of the film, when played on the same player & TV in a side-by-side comparison. BTW this was "man on the street" comparisons, not geek / expert analysis on DNR and grain etc AFAICT.
The reasons suggested were that some of the DVD transfers were pretty stunning in the first instance, and thus the Blu's didn't offer anything extra. Some of the Blu's were noted as being significantly better than the DVD equivalent.
And some of the Blu's were apparently a crock of shite and not worth spending any money on. I'm guessing they were ones that didn't have a proper transfer, then!
That Which report
http://www.which.co.uk/technology/tv-and-dvd/guides/blu-ray-disc-quality/blu-ray-versus-dvd-
You will find...
They still do it, they just know not to CC you any more ;)
The thing is....
For people who already have the box sets, £60 is still *way* too much money to buy the films again. Especially given that the original bluray's had transfer issues, a lot of people are going to be very wary of splashing out on these.
Apparently this is listed as $120
So that will translate to an RRP of £90 here with VAT added! Ouch!
That's quite an ask, expecially for those who spent around that anyway in buying the three extended editions on DVD with the figurines! Especially when the non-extended-edition blu's can be picked up for ~£15 for the set!
Jolly Roger, as that kind of price pretty much encourages people to downloaded the inevitable mkv rips that will appear!
A different experience depending on who you speak to?
I have had a couple of calls with "Lena" in the Philippines, apparently they are getting a LOT of calls due to these changes!
On my first call back (she needed clarification when I spelled out that I was affected to my detriment) I was told that I was affected and that as a goodwill gesture only they could add the mobile broadband upgrade to 3Gb (normally £12.77) for free until the end of the year.
After I rejected this a couple of times - I stated that I would be out of pocket in 12 months compared to when I took the contract out - she said that she would call me back again.
On my next callback she confirmed that as I am on an iPhone contract I would *not* be affected by the FUP change. I have asked for this in writing!
I had earlier pointed out that the website currently tells you something different to the SMS that was sent out, so I wonder if that was incorrectly sent out to people with iPhone / Android phones....
Same avatar across multiple sites?
They probably use "gravatar" or something similar to set it... have a google and you will be able to change it.
Onkyo rocks!
I picked up an Onkyo 607 a few months ago from BetteroffAudio mentioned above, for around £300. This was just as the '08 range was coming out, as the 607 is HDMI 1.3 and 1080i upscaling only. Fine with me!
From a quick look at the Quick Setup PDF, it has 5 HDMI inputs at the rear so will more than accomodate the three you have going in to your TV currently. It has two sets of component input, and four full sets of composite input, as well as two audio-only composite in (Tape loop & CD). There are two coax digital inputs and two optical as well.
You haven't said what you need the 6 digital audio in for but don't forget that HDMI includes audio. As such a PS3 or bluray player doesn't need HDMI as well as digital input; the HDMI does it all.
Does the DVD player not do any audio at all over the coax output? It should be able to do all audio through the coax, and with a scart->composite cable you can have it pass thru the amp and be upscaled along the way out to the TV over HDMI.
Otherwise, something along the lines of the Onkyo 607 will do the biz!
The only thing it is missing is the 5.1 input, which is getting quite rare on amps these days. The idea is that the amp does all the grunt work and your DVD player is just a content provider.
I may be wrong on this one, but....
You have the bad guy ahead of you, due north. There's a strong wind blowing east, so you actually aim to the west of the bad guy for the trajectory of the bullet to hit him.
However, what if there are some innocent kids playing soccer at some point north-west of your position? Does this uber-rifle take in to account the fact that you're now pointing the gun 45 degrees away from your intended target? How many bystanders will be killed before the army ask to add on a second sight showing what the gun is actually pointing at?
Clever thinking!
If you have a website or a specific IP address on which your bots rely, those can be taken out rendering your botnot sterile.
But with Twitter's searchable timeline and suitable hashtags, you could post from *any* public account and your bots could find the commands.
And if you make the control commands into inane comments about eating breakfast, or getting your norks out in aid of vouyerism^Wcharity, they'd go completely un-noticed!
ah, but....
The Sony version of 3D TV costs £100 per pair of glasses, because that is the active version. Check out the alternative passive version, as briefly mentioned in the article. This uses the same 3D specs that you get at the cinema, which cost a quid each. Same effect, no Sony-tax.
Looking at buying a new TV soon but not sure I want to pay a premium to get a 3D compatible one...
ah, but
the device isn't released until August 27th... so is it SWMBO's birthday a handful of days from now, or from then. Cos if it's her birthday before August 27th, an email showing you've ordered her something due to arrive three weeks later generally doesn't wash...
All this means is...
... that ten minutes after Apple announce that they have a new official map application that doesn't use Google Maps at all, Google will be sending a new Google Maps app to the AppStore submissions team!
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