Posts by wolfetone

Re: Eeek!

Unless you own a Hotpoint/Whirlpool/Indesit dryer, then you might have to worry about it getting a bit too warm.

Re: @DougS

But where are the iPhone innovations?

Removal of a headphone jack isn't an innovation.

Re: Is it just me

"Is it just me or does this only happen with business class seats?"

I wouldn't know, I can't afford anything above cattle class.

I know, but the one in Barcelona will have taken 144 years by the time it's supposed to be completed in 2026

Re: and how will they verify details?

I hope the BBC watches me telling it to fuck off.

Re: The past was not always so good

It is funny how an older English gentleman will bemoan the system of measurement created by an even older English gentleman because he believes Johnny Foreigner invented it.

Re: VM Television is fairly pants

The mother-in-law-to-be has Virgin, and has the TiVo box. I don't understand how they could put this in to the home of people? It's slow to load the guides, it's hard to navigate the listings. It's just an awful, awful experience. Then you get the whole "There's been an unexpected problem with this channel".

I have, reluctantly, signed up to BT Infinity as they were a few quid cheaper than Virgin for the same service. The internet is good, it hasn't gone down in the 9 months I've had it. But the YouView box is actually really nice. It's easy to use, responsive, it's everything that the Virgin TiVo isn't. Plus it's handy that the extra channels I pay £10 a month for are sent via the internet, meaning I can plug in a YouView box upstairs and watch the same channels at no extra monthly cost.

Re: our humble family.

"The humility always shines through whenever the penguins are posting!"

Hmm, you're either one of those poor souls who have been nagged to death by Micro$oft, or one of those souls languishing in a fruity walled garden environment that requires you to pay £1,000+ for a new computer ever 2 years.

Do you need a hug? x

Re: Damn

Vauxhall made good cars? When?

I know that time will come, but the diesels will be banned long before an 18 year old petrol car will be.

Re: Impressive!

"I picked up Opera around version 19 or 20 (I think) because I wanted to try something else but I don't trust Google enough to start using Chrome"

Erm, not sure how to tell you this, but you're still using Chrome.

Re: Hang on a minute...

"If so, why do they have insulation round the part of the circuit that's in the fuel tank?"

Might be an insulation that allows some heat to be transferred from the coolant to the fuel at a steady rate. So instead of having (however hot) coolant entering in to the fuel from the word go, it instead loses some of its heat gradually as it travels around the circuit in the wing.

The other reason is that the insulation is there to either stop the fuel from supporting corrosion of the metal pipe work of the circuit, or it's simply preventing the coolant circuit - if it became electrified - from passing through the fuel to cause a spark.

Re: Careful El Reg

Nuclear devices are just there for show, they're not actually meant to be used. I know it's hard for American's to accept that, especially as they're the only country to use one in anger - and won't apologise but hey ho that's a different discussion.

Mutually Assured Distruction is the very reason why nuclear weapons work and aren't used. IF America were to use their nukes tomorrow against Russia they'd be wiped out. Why? Russia have more nukes. But when all the nukes are used, what are you left with then? A country, nay, world, that is inhabitable.

But I'm not even a politician, nor am I in a position to be one, and even I know that. And, really if you ask a question once and are given an answer, the only reason you should ask the same question twice more afterwards is if you either don't understand the answer or don't understand the answer. Trump asked that quesiton 3 times.

Just buy an older phone? Like a Nokia 3310? Actually most Nokia's up until Microsoft's takeover had removable batteries.

Re: WTF?

You telling me you don't eat a pastry while on your computer?

If you deny this then we want to see the state of your computer keyboard. And I wouldn't be doing a Hillary Clinton if I were you.

Re: uBlock Origin

"Their lack of support for Safari..."

Plenty of support for Firefox, and it's on a Mac.

You don't have to spend all your time inside the walled garden, come out for a play amongst the flowers x

Re: I'm Done

"since you have an iPhone (as opposed to an Android phone) you don't have to do that at all. Just spend a few minutes in your settings."

Don't part quote what I said just so you can have something to base a comment from. I said I'm coming to an end of using the iPhone - i.e. getting rid of it. And it's laughable to suggest that there is any thread of privacy on an iPhone compared to Android. There's plenty on the iPhone that phones home etc, or Apple can access regardless of what you do in the settings.