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From: Peter Ceresole on 18 Feb 2010 05:17 Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > Even modern digital clocks drift quite a lot, so it isn't surprising > that all of his reported different times. <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144525.htm> One second in 300,000,000 years. I guess it'd do me. You'd need a big fob pocket for it, though. -- Peter
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 18 Feb 2010 05:27 On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 09:35:34 GMT, Martin S Taylor <mst(a)hRyEpMnOoVtEiTsHm.cIo.uSk> wrote: >Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote >> Any time that there's a jailbreak for the current OS, anyway, which >> there is at the moment for all iPhones > >Is that true? I thought that 3.1.3 hadn't been broken yet. Certainly true for >3.1.2 I'm running 3.1.3. There are issues with newer 3GSes that come with the latest 'baseband' (the mobile networking firmware) that mean they cant be carrier-unlocked, but I believe all iPhones are jailbreakable at the moment. You do need to have access to a Mac and do it the long way around with PwnageTool rather than QuickPwn/Blackrain. Cheers - Jaimie -- You can tell when you're working with "Enterprise Software Solutions" because the vendor freebies are red t-shirts.
From: Chris Ridd on 18 Feb 2010 05:30 On 2010-02-18 10:17:29 +0000, Peter Ceresole said: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >> Even modern digital clocks drift quite a lot, so it isn't surprising >> that all of his reported different times. > > <http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416144525.htm> > > One second in 300,000,000 years. I guess it'd do me. You'd need a big > fob pocket for it, though. I really meant wrist watches. Casio publish accuracy figures of +/- 15 seconds a month on theirs. -- Chris
From: Woody on 18 Feb 2010 06:00 David Kennedy <davidkennedy(a)nospamherethankyou.invalid> wrote: > Richard Tobin wrote: > > > > Sinclair was British industry at its very worst. > > > > Sorry to disagree. Yes their product line was shoddy but no one has come > close* to BLMH yet for that particular prize. Briarcliffe Lakes Manor Homes in chicago? -- Woody
From: Woody on 18 Feb 2010 06:00
Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > On 2010-02-18 09:51:31 +0000, Woody said: > > > Richard Tobin <richard(a)cogsci.ed.ac.uk> wrote: > > > >> In article > >> <1je3791.14uyxcux7m7i8N%real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid>, > >> Rowland McDonnell <real-address-in-sig(a)flur.bltigibbet.invalid> wrote: > >> > >>> That's what Sinclair did. One reason Sinclair and the other British > >>> micro makers died is that they did spend the money on half-decent > >>> customer service > >> > >> What??? Did you live in some alternate 70s and 80s? > >> > >> This is the Sinclair who never made a product that didn't fall to bits > >> within a month of purchase, assuming that the bits could be forced > >> together in the first place - it's not for nothing that many of them > >> were sold as kits. > > > > I found it fascinating as a kid, My uncle worked for cambridge research > > and then sinclair in the 70s when they made the calculators and the > > black watches. He had a drawer full of the black watches that he would > > go and check occasionally to see if they were still working or told > > anything like the right time. They always said something different. > > Even modern digital clocks drift quite a lot, so it isn't surprising > that all of his reported different times. Hmm.. this is many minutes a day. That is not really a drift! -- Woody |