2: Agreed, they are nowt but spam. It's very rare a followback person tweets anything more than followback shite.
3: Agreed, again spam.
4: Only the nasty ones, some of them tweet the goad the celebs but are quite funny and aren't nasty. It's also quite ammusing to see celebs losing the plot at them and tweeting death threats etc.
5: Agreed, this is the single most annoying bug on Twitter.
6: They need to fix it, but if you use a 3rd party app on your phone, you'll probably find it fixed in that.
7: Can't comment on this one as I've never been effected by it.
8: While you can't do it on the Twitter web site, nor in the official Twitter applications on phones, there are twitter apps for phones which allow you to mute people. This means you can be polite but not fill your timeline with crud and if they reply to you, you still get the reply in your mentions.
A couple of the best apps for IOS and Android which I've used which have this functionality are..
IOS - TweetLogix; (I use this now, done 15,000 tweets with it and it's superb, far more features and nicer to use than the Official Twitter app. I've tried all the Twit apps on IOS and this is by far the best IMHO YMMV)
Android - Twicca; (I used this one when on Android. Done 13,000 tweets with it before moving to IOS. It was my fav client and I settled on the above for IOS as it resembled Twicca the most from a functionality and usabillity point of view).
I was *stupid* and impatient enough to buy a set of 'Dr Meh' beats headphones a couple of months ago when I lost my Etymotics I'd been using for years. I wanted something I could pick up from the local shops on my way to the train station and Beats were as good as the shops had.
The reviews made em look good (though I didn't check too many), and they were certainly expensive and looked well made, so they must be good.
Bollox.
I'd describe the sound as like listening to an angry bumblebee trapped in a biscuit tin for the treble and midrange while an elephant fell over and had an epileptic fit beside you for the bass.
In short, complete and utter crap waste of money.
Needless to say I very quickly got rid of them and got something a bit better which were the Shure SE535s.
What about the theory of the universe expanding at faster than light speeds?
Morning,
Isn't there some theory somewhere that the universe is expanding at faster than light speeds? Which if true, would put this nothing goes faster than light speed theory in a box and bury it!
Oh and to the person who says we don't understand gravity, we do!
Simply put it's the force exerted on speace time by the mass of an object sitting on it.
The reviewer admitted to carrying an episode of 'Glee' around with them FFS.
They'd probably give a 80% rating to a piece of lettuce with a steaming turd on top. Though that particular item would still be better than the cheesy TV program for 10 year old's!
I've got a HTC Hero which I bought on Orange when it first hit the market. It seemed Ok but as it was Android 1.5 or 1.6 (can't remember which) it did have issues, nothing major just little niggles. Those niggles were fixed with the HTC release of Android 2.1 for the Hero, but Orange dragged their heels over releasing it for months.
I got so fed up of waiting that in the end, I rooted and installed the worldwide one.
I then started playing around with some of the custom roms and realised that actually, while HTC Sense had some decent ideas and features, that it was actually a bit bloaty and was slowing my user experience on the phone down. So I tried some of the custom roms. I could do this because I had root access.
I've never seen Sense since :-)
I use a 2.2 Froyo Rom now, something HTC say they will never release on the Hero. It's fast (much faster than the stock htc rom), it gives me access to better apps in the market, far better newer features and because it's rooted it allows me to customise it to how I like.
Any apps I don't need which were part of the base 2.2 rom (FroydVillian) I've removed, I can overclock the phone and do making it faster to. Oh and I've learnt a bit of Android so I can fix the ickle niggles like facebook always going to the mobile site rather than touch site. On my phone it goes to the touch site, changed by a bit of digging around in Android using ADB etc.
I've no intention of upgrading my phone for quite a long time due to being able to root and put custom roms on. I've a phone which is exactly tailored to e so why would I want to?
I think this chip HTC have put in their new phones which stop you doing things what I've done, is probably just a way of trying to generate a guaranteed cash flow per customer for both them and the networks . After all people always want the latest and greatest features and if the only way to get them is by upgrading your phone for a new one, then most people will be sheep and do just that.
Hopefully some of the talented people over at XDA and such sites will find a way round this chip. HTC will simply then not bother putting it in future phones. If no way is found, then it sets a dangerous precedence. Operators doing an iPhone and taking the tethering feature out of Android, and not allowing 3rd party apps to be installed anyone?
You do not need to buy tracks from Apple to get Gapless playback on a IPlod. I've been ripping my own substantial CD collection using ITunes for years and get gapless playback on the cd's which are continued mixes like DJ mixes, Pink Floyd albums and the like.
Don't really sound all that great. I've heard previous incarnations of these speakers when hifi shopping and wasn't all that impressed by them. Fairly plodding, slow one note bass, and screatchy treble. That could have been down to the room, setup etc but I don't think it was.
The new ones look very similar so probably sound similar.
Far better getting a pair of these for 5k which sound fecking fantastic. They really do disappear once the music starts playing, leaving you just a pin point soundstage both height and depth wise. Johnny Cash smoking a fag while playing? You'll hear the spiralling waft the smoke takes as he blows it out never mind him smoking it. As for bass, my kids are genuinely frightened when I turn the volume up.
This is nowt more than some big players trying to get licensing rights on something so they make more money. They get this in then everyone else has to start paying them a license fee to put the new ports on the back of their products and we'll all need to go out and buy new tv's, blu-ray players, consoles etc as our old uns will be incompatible.
Then, just as we get used to the new standard, having spent a fortune getting the new kit some other consortium will come up with something else and the process will start again.
Garlands had one of the highest staff turnovers of any company I've ever worked for. They paid low, and didn't seem to care very much for their staffs welfare, gripes etc. They would employ just about anyone, even staff who had been sacked for fraud from other companies!
I worked there for a couple of years, taking a job in their Orange call centre when I was desperate for work and there were no IT jobs in the area to which I'd just moved to be with the significant other. Out of the 30 people who started the same day I did, only 3 survived to the end of the 4 week training course. Every time a bunch of new starters came in, it was the same thing. Out of 20 starting, 1 or 2 actually stuck it out.
I went in to the job knowing that the minute something else came up doing what I normally done, I'd be out of there. As it happened,within 3 days of completing my training on how to answer a phone, a job came up in their IT department and I got it and moved there. They did treat their backend staff better than the agents to be fair, but the agents were like cattle to them.
In the end I left after over two years there having been what I felt was constructively dismissed as I was effectively sidelined so the boss could get his best mates in to do the job I was doing. This was after the guy who was boss when I started left due to the same sort of treatment.
He did warn me before he went that I was likely to be next.
However, to be fair while that guy was there he put me through some certs, and got me into telephony, IVR'S etc. Due to that my career progressed quite nicely after a I left. So while I left with a lot of grievances towards the company, they very quickly subsided and I was thankful to my old boss for furthering my career. Kind of 2 steps back to go ten steps forward.
The one thing that used to irk me badly though was that they employed anyone. Some of those employees customer services mannerisms were terrible and must have gave the mother company their contracts were offered to a very bad reputation. A lot of the agents just thought they were there because they had to be and it was their god given right to be as rude to their customers as possible.
That IMHO does not make for a good company reputation.
However at the end of the day, it's a shame they have gone as no one likes to see lots of people being made redundant and there was some very good people working there.
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New just in.
The Memorial service is taking place on Friday, after which he'll be buried down the back of a sofa..
some extra info on this
Prices were cheaper last week but they've since stuck them up..
It's not very robust apparently as it's only designed to used on average once a month..
/gets coat
Terrible.
I'm disgusted by Sky's antics and have left them a message in my inbox to let them know!
Eh..
No Bruce Willis?
I seen a documentary a while ago where he took a team up and mined an asteroid. So he's got the experience..
Dave
Well..
I'm just glad this wasn't another story about the Higgs Boson.
They cause mass hysteria..
/gets coat
P.s, I'm in no way shape or form associated with either of the two apps recommended in my last post, I just like(d) using them.
Dave
Anon,
1: Agreed, they are nowt but spam
2: Agreed, they are nowt but spam. It's very rare a followback person tweets anything more than followback shite.
3: Agreed, again spam.
4: Only the nasty ones, some of them tweet the goad the celebs but are quite funny and aren't nasty. It's also quite ammusing to see celebs losing the plot at them and tweeting death threats etc.
5: Agreed, this is the single most annoying bug on Twitter.
6: They need to fix it, but if you use a 3rd party app on your phone, you'll probably find it fixed in that.
7: Can't comment on this one as I've never been effected by it.
8: While you can't do it on the Twitter web site, nor in the official Twitter applications on phones, there are twitter apps for phones which allow you to mute people. This means you can be polite but not fill your timeline with crud and if they reply to you, you still get the reply in your mentions.
A couple of the best apps for IOS and Android which I've used which have this functionality are..
IOS - TweetLogix; (I use this now, done 15,000 tweets with it and it's superb, far more features and nicer to use than the Official Twitter app. I've tried all the Twit apps on IOS and this is by far the best IMHO YMMV)
Android - Twicca; (I used this one when on Android. Done 13,000 tweets with it before moving to IOS. It was my fav client and I settled on the above for IOS as it resembled Twicca the most from a functionality and usabillity point of view).
Dave
...
So the company told him to piss off.
Hmm
He got his up and commance, his
Fisher Price..
and something I've just noticed.
Your forum server times are still running an hour behind..
May I be the first
to welcome our close living Alien overlords.
Well
I think what the pub and public has managed to do here no mean feat...
/Gets coat
I thought
He did a great presentation, I especially liked his use of bulletpoints..
Hmm
You can buy this from the usual online portals..
She asked if she could unzip his flies with that..
Try the all new McDonalds menu..
Now with hump steak.
Let me
Just welcome our new tea eating alien overlords.
Dave
Do you hear that?
It's definitely not the sound of a violin..
New title for the scammers
The lads from LAG OS.
Dave
Arse..
Computer games do not effect people.
I played Pacman as a kid. Did I end up running around in dark rooms, munching pills while listening to repetative music?
Erm...
Was it on the yeastbound carriageway?
/Orders Taxi.
Hmm,
Dicks on Ipads..
/Gets coat
Dave
Does this mean that you get a black and white coffee simultaneously in one cup?
Rob
Does it do gapless?
A very important feature for lots of folks.
Eye Surgery!
The code didn't look like ths by any chance?
A
AZ
YUO
cbdkdio
iseeclear
Alchemy - there's a CRAP for that..
I think we need someone to write a Research Pepper...
/gets coat and is dragged off stage left.
I just hope he didn't try using said spikey dead mammal to wipe his backside afterwards!
Does this mean..
That the computers we have in future will scratch our furniture and wake us up in the morning with dead animals at the foot of the bed?
D.
Completely agree with the 'ANGRY' post
Because it's true.
I was *stupid* and impatient enough to buy a set of 'Dr Meh' beats headphones a couple of months ago when I lost my Etymotics I'd been using for years. I wanted something I could pick up from the local shops on my way to the train station and Beats were as good as the shops had.
The reviews made em look good (though I didn't check too many), and they were certainly expensive and looked well made, so they must be good.
Bollox.
I'd describe the sound as like listening to an angry bumblebee trapped in a biscuit tin for the treble and midrange while an elephant fell over and had an epileptic fit beside you for the bass.
In short, complete and utter crap waste of money.
Needless to say I very quickly got rid of them and got something a bit better which were the Shure SE535s.
Dave
I heard
She's going on out a limb with this accusation.
What about the theory of the universe expanding at faster than light speeds?
Morning,
Isn't there some theory somewhere that the universe is expanding at faster than light speeds? Which if true, would put this nothing goes faster than light speed theory in a box and bury it!
Oh and to the person who says we don't understand gravity, we do!
Simply put it's the force exerted on speace time by the mass of an object sitting on it.
Simples.
Robb
A credible review?
I think not..
The reviewer admitted to carrying an episode of 'Glee' around with them FFS.
They'd probably give a 80% rating to a piece of lettuce with a steaming turd on top. Though that particular item would still be better than the cheesy TV program for 10 year old's!
Dave
Hmm
Sounds like Eharmony are cupid stunts.
Dave
When he phoned in.
All he said was "iSick".
Dave
I'll bet...
The autopsy on him was a bugger. I'd imagine it a bit like opening a Russian Doll.
What this article
Written by a iFan perhaps?
Rob
I have
I've got a HTC Hero which I bought on Orange when it first hit the market. It seemed Ok but as it was Android 1.5 or 1.6 (can't remember which) it did have issues, nothing major just little niggles. Those niggles were fixed with the HTC release of Android 2.1 for the Hero, but Orange dragged their heels over releasing it for months.
I got so fed up of waiting that in the end, I rooted and installed the worldwide one.
I then started playing around with some of the custom roms and realised that actually, while HTC Sense had some decent ideas and features, that it was actually a bit bloaty and was slowing my user experience on the phone down. So I tried some of the custom roms. I could do this because I had root access.
I've never seen Sense since :-)
I use a 2.2 Froyo Rom now, something HTC say they will never release on the Hero. It's fast (much faster than the stock htc rom), it gives me access to better apps in the market, far better newer features and because it's rooted it allows me to customise it to how I like.
Any apps I don't need which were part of the base 2.2 rom (FroydVillian) I've removed, I can overclock the phone and do making it faster to. Oh and I've learnt a bit of Android so I can fix the ickle niggles like facebook always going to the mobile site rather than touch site. On my phone it goes to the touch site, changed by a bit of digging around in Android using ADB etc.
I've no intention of upgrading my phone for quite a long time due to being able to root and put custom roms on. I've a phone which is exactly tailored to e so why would I want to?
I think this chip HTC have put in their new phones which stop you doing things what I've done, is probably just a way of trying to generate a guaranteed cash flow per customer for both them and the networks . After all people always want the latest and greatest features and if the only way to get them is by upgrading your phone for a new one, then most people will be sheep and do just that.
Hopefully some of the talented people over at XDA and such sites will find a way round this chip. HTC will simply then not bother putting it in future phones. If no way is found, then it sets a dangerous precedence. Operators doing an iPhone and taking the tethering feature out of Android, and not allowing 3rd party apps to be installed anyone?
Rob
New statement
Segway - There's no flys on us
How long before
Someone little oik discovers a security vulnerability in the feature to pin shortcuts which can be updated to the start menu.
I really don't like the sound of that feature one bit from a security point of view.
Rob
Hmmm shouldn't it be
"We rely heavily on Git(s)"
Or in Scotland Gets
D
Over 30s??
Over 30s, you cheeky little whippersnapper.
Some of us over 30s were making pc's do things you can only dream about getting them to do, before you were even swimming out of your daddies nuts.
And breathe,
Rob
Err you're wrong I'm afriad
You do not need to buy tracks from Apple to get Gapless playback on a IPlod. I've been ripping my own substantial CD collection using ITunes for years and get gapless playback on the cd's which are continued mixes like DJ mixes, Pink Floyd albums and the like.
Rob
They look nice but...
Don't really sound all that great. I've heard previous incarnations of these speakers when hifi shopping and wasn't all that impressed by them. Fairly plodding, slow one note bass, and screatchy treble. That could have been down to the room, setup etc but I don't think it was.
The new ones look very similar so probably sound similar.
Far better getting a pair of these for 5k which sound fecking fantastic. They really do disappear once the music starts playing, leaving you just a pin point soundstage both height and depth wise. Johnny Cash smoking a fag while playing? You'll hear the spiralling waft the smoke takes as he blows it out never mind him smoking it. As for bass, my kids are genuinely frightened when I turn the volume up.
http://www.wilson-benesch.com/discovery/discovery.html
You'll still need the source, pre and power amps though :-)
Rob
Altogether now
"Flash ahh ah saviour of the universe"
Why!!!
When I goto the very article on the BBC and hover my pointer over the pic does it show a link back to el reg?
This is using Chrome.
Am I missing something here, or perhaps just being thick?
D
Not another...
Stupid, useless fecking connection standard
This is nowt more than some big players trying to get licensing rights on something so they make more money. They get this in then everyone else has to start paying them a license fee to put the new ports on the back of their products and we'll all need to go out and buy new tv's, blu-ray players, consoles etc as our old uns will be incompatible.
Then, just as we get used to the new standard, having spent a fortune getting the new kit some other consortium will come up with something else and the process will start again.
Cnuts
Rob
Err
The maggots were only trying to fly
Gets coat and exits --------------->
D
No they didn't.
Garlands had one of the highest staff turnovers of any company I've ever worked for. They paid low, and didn't seem to care very much for their staffs welfare, gripes etc. They would employ just about anyone, even staff who had been sacked for fraud from other companies!
I worked there for a couple of years, taking a job in their Orange call centre when I was desperate for work and there were no IT jobs in the area to which I'd just moved to be with the significant other. Out of the 30 people who started the same day I did, only 3 survived to the end of the 4 week training course. Every time a bunch of new starters came in, it was the same thing. Out of 20 starting, 1 or 2 actually stuck it out.
I went in to the job knowing that the minute something else came up doing what I normally done, I'd be out of there. As it happened,within 3 days of completing my training on how to answer a phone, a job came up in their IT department and I got it and moved there. They did treat their backend staff better than the agents to be fair, but the agents were like cattle to them.
In the end I left after over two years there having been what I felt was constructively dismissed as I was effectively sidelined so the boss could get his best mates in to do the job I was doing. This was after the guy who was boss when I started left due to the same sort of treatment.
He did warn me before he went that I was likely to be next.
However, to be fair while that guy was there he put me through some certs, and got me into telephony, IVR'S etc. Due to that my career progressed quite nicely after a I left. So while I left with a lot of grievances towards the company, they very quickly subsided and I was thankful to my old boss for furthering my career. Kind of 2 steps back to go ten steps forward.
The one thing that used to irk me badly though was that they employed anyone. Some of those employees customer services mannerisms were terrible and must have gave the mother company their contracts were offered to a very bad reputation. A lot of the agents just thought they were there because they had to be and it was their god given right to be as rude to their customers as possible.
That IMHO does not make for a good company reputation.
However at the end of the day, it's a shame they have gone as no one likes to see lots of people being made redundant and there was some very good people working there.
D
I must say...
That if I ever visit your house, I mustn't forget to wipe my feet on the way OUT...
Robb
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