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Re: What are Your Top 10 Sci-fi TV Shows?

artymarty — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 15:49:23 -0000

Not in order;
Blake's 7
Red Dwarf
BSG (remake)
Doctor Who (no need to split it up, it's not a reboot, I grew up with it, it's just the next series)
Stargate
Space 1999
Firefly
Futurama
Thunderbirds
...and Star Trek (no particular series, and yes, all together. No need to split it up)

you know, after reading my list, I now realise why I've never been that excited with Star Trek. No emotional attachment with the characters ... It's the only show where even though the show was cool, I didnt care if they live or die...

And I would love to include XFiles and Fringe, but by your definition they are Fantasy more than Sci-fi

Re: Philips Fidelio speaker docks now in stock at Dick Smith

artymarty — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 10:06:45 -0000

Does the Bluetooth support ATP-X ? Without it, good quality speakers are a bit of a waste as the compression the music goes through negates the speaker quality.
With ATP-X protocol, it's basically lossless transmission over bluetooth. My headphones siupport it, and it sounds like you have them connected via a cable.

Re: Telstra leaks HTC One XL launch details, free Beats Audio headphones with each pre-order (update)

artymarty — Mon, 28 May 2012 03:21:19 -0000

Noone has achieved root & S-Off on the One X, (quad core Tegra chipset)
but how about this one, The One XL (dual core snapdragon) Is root & S-off available for that?

Re: Rumour: HTC One XL to launch on Telstra’s $59 Freedom Connect Plan

artymarty — Sat, 26 May 2012 17:37:02 -0000

Well, I think locked as in the way that it is normally locked... and anyway, the HOXL has been cracked (s-off) already hasn't it?. Unless they have patched that exploit... which would be a bad PR move ...
Most likley Telstra left a bunch of R/W stuff on the system partition that should be R/O making a huge hole in security...

Re: Rumour: HTC One XL to launch on Telstra’s $59 Freedom Connect Plan

artymarty — Fri, 25 May 2012 20:42:20 -0000

Oh, by the way, I was talking to someone in the know last nigh, the reason that the One XL has been delayed from Telstra, is because when they put their Telstra logo in the boot up, they screwed it up, and HTC had to re-flash all the phones and was having trouble locking them....

Re: Your Phone. Your Thoughts. Tell Us What You Think

artymarty — Sun, 20 May 2012 00:10:17 -0000

To unlock or not to unlock....

* You put S-On phones and annoy the heck out of your users = FAIL
* Carriers ask you to do it, but the hacking community keep removing it anyway = FAIL
* The head of your company Peter Chou said that you would not lock phones any more, yet you still do, so your and his credibility trust and honour is massively damaged (actually destroyed) = FAIL

Stop it now... Ship your phones S-Off & Unlocked. Your users will love you, Peter Chou gets reputation back...

The only point above that is not covered if you ship unlocked phones is the carriers. In response to that - The Samsung Galaxy III has been cracked and rooted BEFORE its release. Do you seriously think the carriers will refuse to sell it now? Of course not!!! The carriers will still think Samsung is their Golden child.
Samsung does not care that their phone was cracked. All the phone enthusiasts will move to Samsung instead of waiting for the HTC One X or your future phones to be cracked and rooted.

The One X will be the last in a LONG line of HTC purchases I have made if I don't get full access to my phone that I paid for in full and OWN soon.
I will probably switch to Samsung. Samsung's build quality and finish on their phones is horrible compared to HTC, but at least I can have full control over the phone I own.

HTC used to be the ONE to look up to in the phone market. How the mighty have fallen (along with their shares). Have you given up? or do you want to get back in the game?

HTC, by shipping S-Off, unlocked phones you AND your users benefit.
You can rectify the situation in a day.
Release all your new phones S-off and tell the carriers "Sorry, that's just how it is" (hint: They will still sell them!)
The ones that have not been unlocked by the hacking community yet, and you unfortunately have existing agreements with the carriers that they are locked, - just leave some anonymous hints on the XDA.developers forums to speed the hacking process up.

It is a SIMPLE problem to solve.
It is simple to save face and get your honour and reputation back.

Sincerely, Marty

Re: Your Phone. Your Thoughts. Tell Us What You Think

artymarty — Sat, 19 May 2012 00:03:55 -0000

I do need a reply too Darren - it.s a big problem for me not being able to use GPS

Cheers Marty

Re: Your Phone. Your Thoughts. Tell Us What You Think

artymarty — Thu, 17 May 2012 08:14:33 -0000

Darren, I have a problem with my One X
It was purchased in Europe, and has all the correct frequencies for Australia.
I live in Australia.
Everything worked till the over the air update came out. Now the GPS no longer works, and it jumps around basically showing random direction/location while the car is moving. When you stop it slowly figures out where you are.
Basically it is useless for navigation however.

I had a similar issue on my Sensation when running a custom Rom, and it was caused by some country specific settings that were not 'friendly with Australia' in the system/build.prop file and system/etc/gps.conf file A quick edit of those files fixed the problem.

As I have not rooted/unlocked/s-off my One X, I cant change those files. If I do root/unlock/s-off My phone I void the warranty. So I am not prepared to do that.

HTC Australia support tell me to change the location settings to Australia.
There is no setting for Australia. That is also something else I could fix with root/s-off access.

So what do I do?

The phone clearly has an issue and it is under warranty..
If I send it to HTC Australia to fix it will they fix it or tell me that its not a HTC Australia Phone, it sucks to be me, and just send it back still faulty?
If I send it to HTC Europe to fix it will they fix it or tell me that it works fine in Europe, they don't support the settings in Australia, it sucks to be me, and just send it back still faulty?

The phone is covered by HTC warranty. It has nothing to do with carrier frequencies not being compatible. so please advise what I do to get this issue sorted under warranty.

I think HTC phones are amazing, and I upgrade nearly every year which I have been doing for 4 years now.

The fact that I can't fix a simple software fault because HTC have decided to lock down the phone is very annoying. I cant be without a phone for several weeks while HTC look at it, with all likely-hood of passing the buck and just sending it back still faulty.
I remember Peter Chou saying HTC would no longer lock bootloaders. That would be nice if implemented as promised, however as it has not...

For now though Darren, please advise do I send my phone back to HTC Europe to get the GPS issue and Country location sorted under warranty (and if so I think HTC should pay for the postage and insurance) or do I send it to HTC Australia to have the GPS and Country location fixed under warranty.

Warmly, Marty

Re: Google 'not happy' with Android Market purchase rates, many changes coming

artymarty — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 05:21:50 -0000

Yeah, the 20 year old anecdote is about as relevant as you bringing up apple in a blog about the Google marketplace....
... Oh and there is no malware on my XP machine... I see you are one of those apple fanboys that may have been brainwashed into believing that apple computers don't get viruses/hacked/malware...
Probably why apple computers are almost always the first to go in the PWN to OWN contest each year...

The "PC's get a virus" is sort of the fanboy little kiddie comeback equivalent of "Yeah? well you stink" when you can't think of anything intelligent to say... Especially when, like I mentioned, we are talking about the google marketplace..

Yawn....

Re: Google 'not happy' with Android Market purchase rates, many changes coming

artymarty — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 03:35:57 -0000

Apple customers pay a premium for additions to their apple stuff.... I am not saying they are stupid, they just pay it - where it is warranted or not.

I used to work in IT many years ago - and if you remember back in the days of the fantastic Amiga computers. They used SCSI hard drives.
I looked in a wholesale catalogue for an 80mb SCSI drive (yeah I know 80mb - but it was huge back in those days).
There was an Apple section of the price list, and an IBM section. The exact same drive was listed in both sections (apart from one model number had a "A" at the end of it and the other an "I" at the end of it.
Yep the same Quantum hard drive. Oh, and the one ending in "A" was $100 more.
I asked them why explaining to them that I had an Amiga, and SCSI is just SCSI. The sales guy laughed and said...
"I know, Apple users just pay more"
I said "Ahh sort of an stupid tax then?"

.... Just saying.... and 20 years later - nothing has changed....

how ARE those re-branded eneloop batteries going in your mouse by the way? was it really worth paying the apple tax on those too?

Re: Google 'not happy' with Android Market purchase rates, many changes coming

artymarty — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 07:10:59 -0000

Well, since they made the return period 15 min, I have not purchased any apps, because it is impossible to download an app, configure it, try it out and get a refund if it does not do what you think it will in a way you like in 15 min...

THIS is going to hurt devs... Think of an app like doggcatcher (the worlds best podcast fetcher) - you cant try that out in 15 min....
even 24 hours is not long enough for that.... which is why I obtained a version from 'other means' and tried it for 2 weeks. decided it was frikkin awesome, and paid for it....

To be honest Icant even be bothered trying to find things through 'other means' - its too much trouble. I just look for a free version of the same thing....

I have worked in marketing, the whole idea is to make it as EASY as POSSIBLE for the customer and you will get the sale.
They would have been better off making the return period 48 hours... people are more likely to forget to ask for the refund, and it takes the pressure off the customer so they are more likley to download it to start with

So if the app is good, you will get MORE sales, not less....

Re: BAE Systems develops e-ink camo for tanks and war zone e-readers

artymarty — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 18:41:17 -0000

It's all great until you end up looking like a blue phone box and cant change to anything else...

Re: DIY ArduSpider robot battles household pets, beats other homemade gifts

artymarty — Fri, 14 Jan 2011 03:10:54 -0000

That is amazing... 8 legs would also be cool, or some sort of scorpion sting - then again it was made for a little girl....
I might make one I think...
It Rocks! (Literally and figuratively)

Re: McIntosh MCLK12 wall clock sports fancy face, massive price tag

artymarty — Tue, 11 Jan 2011 17:52:22 -0000

or you can make the same thing uising an arduino for about $150-$200 if you buy top end parts...

Re: Visualized: the real Android fragmentation

artymarty — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:46:43 -0000

what is the URL of the test? - or do I have to pass the test before Ican go to the URL?

:o)

Re: Visualized: the real Android fragmentation

artymarty — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 05:42:32 -0000

Thats the same as my desire, and yes, anything is good that you are USED to... why they have to make every phone different, is beyond me... and to make things worse, to get more than the set number of combinations with 4 buttons, they start leaving random buttons off, just to squeeze a few more combinations.

I hear that next year, they will start having buttons repeated. One phone has 4 search buttons, which could have been good, however they all lead to bing.

(and yes, when you use a friends phone and keep exiting the app because its a back button instead of search drives me friking insane)

Re: Apple's dead pixel policy leaks out, up to 15 anomalies 'acceptable' on 22-inch and above

artymarty — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 20:55:32 -0000

Dont you need the iKite for that?

Re: Apple's dead pixel policy leaks out, up to 15 anomalies 'acceptable' on 22-inch and above

artymarty — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 13:07:53 -0000

Even better, we could put it inside the LHC and smash it into one going the other way... Two birds with the one stone....

Re: Apple's dead pixel policy leaks out, up to 15 anomalies 'acceptable' on 22-inch and above

artymarty — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 07:21:18 -0000

well, hypothetically... Just keep poking at things with your two wires till the magic smoke escapes and the display goes blank... 9v should do the trick on a 3.3v chip.. and if no joy there, the 12v from a PC power supply will no problemmo.... Not that I would do that or recommend it....

Re: Apple's dead pixel policy leaks out, up to 15 anomalies 'acceptable' on 22-inch and above

artymarty — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:20:14 -0000

A friend of mine said that he does not see the problem, 9v battery, two wires where they should not go, and you are not taking it back for a dead pixel... it just ummm stopped working - please replace under warranty... now I would never do anything like that, even if someone tried to rip me off... :o|

Re: Actroid-F: the angel of death robot coming to a hospital near you (video)

artymarty — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 03:42:13 -0000

Actually its Blade Runner - BSG was giving a nod to that however thanks for the +1

Re: Actroid-F: the angel of death robot coming to a hospital near you (video)

artymarty — Wed, 27 Oct 2010 02:44:46 -0000

The constant air compressor cutting in for the hydraulics is a but off putting, but in another 5 years you probably wont know the difference.

There will be skinjobs walking the streets....

Re: HTC HD7 vs. Desire HD: battle of the 4.3-inchers

artymarty — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:02:05 -0000

HTC support is outstanding. They are very polite on the phone, get back to you when they say they will and keep you updated on progress...
(Which is good, because in Australia Telstra sell you the phone, and then leave you for dead until your contract is almost up - only contacting you to sell you a new phone and try and lock you in again)

Re: HTC HD7 vs. Desire HD: battle of the 4.3-inchers

artymarty — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:58:39 -0000

Is there a way to root the Desire HD yet? if so, my girlfriend is going to get a Desire as a hand-me-down, and I am upgrading baby!

Re: HTC HD7 vs. Desire HD: battle of the 4.3-inchers

artymarty — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 17:56:12 -0000

@ gloom303 and @ wesley Houston

It's called an accent.... Until you can live in a world where every one is a clone and all identical, get used to it.
God imagine that, a world full of people like you or....... ughh....