Disqus - Latest Comments for dansumption

Re: Nokia Siemens Networks accuses me of bias toward Nokia

smstextnews — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:26:03 -0000

Woops Dan you're absolutely right -- I was trying to keep the headline as short as possible. I'll make the changes.

Re: Nokia Siemens Networks accuses me of bias toward Nokia

dansumption — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 23:04:18 -0000

Bit confused here - you say you've been accused of bias *toward* Nokia, but it sounds from the article as though you've actually been accused of bias *against* Nokia.

Re: How far have we come?

dansumption — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:03:08 -0000

I showed my HTC Hero's photo app to the 11-month old baby we're fostering: drag down on the screen and the photos is pulled down, to be replaced by another one. She got it instantly, and spent ages doing it herself. Finally phone interfaces are becoming intuitive.

Re: Thursday night at Leo Burnett’s

dansumption — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 03:24:32 -0000

Oh yeah, I also kept up my end of a conference call from underneath the desk the following day, without the party on the other end (Morgan Stanley's American global branding team) being any the wiser.

Re: Treacle Song, Radio 3

dansumption — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:14:26 -0000

Hmm, seems I'm being invaded by interesting spam-bots. It's enough to loose [sic] my heart.

Re: Treacle Song, Radio 3

dansumption — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:54:05 -0000

Very good, but "ohne" means without, not "one" - I feel this
fundamentally undermines your analysis.

Also, I seem to remember that I spent ages dithering over "cooking
chocolate" vs "cook's chocolate", before settling on "cook chocolate".

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Re: Improvised off-camera flash technique

dansumption — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:22:17 -0000

Haha, you guessed it Yoshi. I always have to have a hand free for my bottle of beer!

Re: Sue Schofield

Nomme — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 11:08:33 -0000

It was knocking about at the time of gopher etc. Wide Area Information Server. Mostly used by libraries I think (as was gopher at the time).

See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_area_informat...

Re: Sue Schofield

Dan Sumption — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 08:16:05 -0000

What was WAIS? Don't think II eveir useid thait oine.

Re: Sue Schofield

Dan — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 03:30:15 -0000

Test comment

Re: ITV gave me my BBC Micro

Rob — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 06:03:59 -0000

I did type that in the comment above originally, it still amuses me to this day!

Good old Research Machines!

Re: ITV gave me my BBC Micro

dansumption — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 05:44:40 -0000

For my first two or three years at secondary school, we only had one machine between approx. 1,000 pupils (a Research Machines). Us "computer club" members used to take turns every lunchtime to sit in the office and type in programs.

Usually of the variety that ended with:
20 GOTO 10

Re: 2009/01/14/adobe-air-apps-photo-video/

Dan — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 17:05:39 -0000

I know it's UK only but... BBC iPlayer Desktop?

Re: Twitter is brilliant, brilliant, brilliant for famous people

dansumption — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 06:34:55 -0000

Yes, spot on. Turns out you *do* get it (though I still say there's a lot more to Twitter than celebs defending themselves against the media).

It's been very interesting following @wossy's comments on the Daily Mail.

Re: My arse with Twitter. Help.

Dan Sumption — Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:23:36 -0000

Yes, you're missing the point. And you should probably use an app like Tweetdeck or a site like Tweetree to get the context that you're missing.

Re: London

dansumption — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 00:47:43 -0000

NB "Lions are drinking" is a term used by London boatmen, for times when the tide is so high that it reaches the lions on London's Embankment.

Re: 2009/01/03/my-twitemperature/

Dan Sumption — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:37:17 -0000

So your twitter temperature is based on how much you are saying exactly the same thing as everyone else is saying? In other words, the most unoriginal Twitter user is the hottest?

I hope I can stay cool.

Re: Iomega drive on last legs

Dan Sumption — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 01:01:16 -0000

I've never bought another Iomega product since the nightmare that was zip drives, 12 years ago. We had so many of them, had so many crashes, and lost *so* much data (inluding most of the websites I worked on during my first couple of years online) that I will never, ever, ever trust that company again.

Re: NokiaWorldWatch: The 8 megapixel question – where are the handsets Nokia?

dansumption — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 23:47:12 -0000

There's a fourth factor, more important than processing software and directly related to the lens: sensor size. Trends towards thinner mobiles mean that lens and sensor can only get worse, and even 5Mp is pushing beyond the number of photons that a mobile's tiny sensor can reliably pick up. 8Mp phone cameras are purely a marketing gimmick and, like Nokia says, will actually produce worse images than 5Mp ones. All credit to Nokia for bucking the trend and aiming for real quality rather than just easily-marketable headline figures.

Re: FAD » Blog Archive » Time Out’s New Street artists to watch

Dan — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 05:35:01 -0000

Wot, no Kid Acne?

Re: Bitten by a Police Dog

Dan Sumption — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 19:10:45 -0000

No need for an attorney - I'm not dead yet.

Re: Bitten by a Police Dog

Dan Sumption — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 05:25:33 -0000

I wanted to sue, but left it too late - I'd heard that you had 3 years to act in, but apparently the original complaint needs to come in the first year.

Re: “Who” do you think you are using that RAZR camera?

smstextnews — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:38:26 -0000

I think I need to approve it as you aren't registered!

Re: “Who” do you think you are using that RAZR camera?

Dan Sumption — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:12:27 -0000

Anyone know where my comment went?

Re: “Who” do you think you are using that RAZR camera?

Dan Sumption — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 17:07:54 -0000

"So what makes people think this tiny little, what does a RAZR have, 1.2 megapixels on a good day?"

Your photos above are 500x375 pixels - I make that less than 0.2 megapixels. Sure, they were more than that when you took them, but posting them at 0.2 megapixels doesn't do much for your point.

My first digital camera was 2 megapixels, but I only ever used it at 1.2 megapixels because 2mp photos took too long to write to the card. I've printed those photos at up to A4 and I bet they look better than anything you could produce with your N95.

Pixel dimensions are pretty much meaningless unless you're going to print at over A4 - lenses and sensors are what count. As mobile companies try to squeeze more pixels onto ever smaller sensors at shorter focal lengths, the picture is only likely to get worse. Never mind the marketing, do the physics! If I used a mobile-phone-sized camera, I really wouldn't want it to do more than about 2mp.