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Yeah. It's not so much the ones in the middle of the night that are the problem, ok, they might be a little scary and annoying. It's the ones when you're miles away and your phone tells you that your house is burning down that are the ones that seem to get people!

I've not heard anything bad about the Nest thermostat tbh (it's just the smoke alarms that seem to be awful), only other than people moaning that it only works properly with a combi boiler. You can use it with a non-combi, but you need to keep the existing programmer and wire the nest into...

No, just curious! I still have a read of the nest forums every now and then and people are still complaining about it. The people I know with them suffer from the false alerts, but they were early adopters. Just wondering really whether the situation was better in newer hardware (which the...

@Danny133 @Jay_A Curious, did any of you guys get nest protects in the end? Have you had false alarms?

It was hilarious. People really couldn't see the bigger picture which is that not everybody is a PC/forum geek. Email+Facebook+Web. That's what most people use a "PC" for at home. iPad ticked all of those with one swoop. I still fail to see how people were arguing against it back then!

This is one of the "classic" apple issues that they refuse (for whatever reason) to budge on. This shouldn't have been an issue from iOS2 onwards, but today, it's still a f**king issue. Androids differentiation between App Drawer & Home page is right and something Apple have wrong. if I don't...

Jony Ives spending 5 minutes talking about how they reinvented the pinwheel is enough to put off anybody but the most virgin of virgins. Not only does it look shite, but you know the first person you spot wearing one in public is going to be a complete and utter tool. (P.S I still love Apple...

Soz. Its just too hard to resist! Lol

Don't forget to optimise disk space after installing everything by using: sudo rm -rf /

I don't doubt that graduates couldn't tell you low level algorithms, they're all schooled in java these days. f**king java. I often find myself modifying c compiler settings on a file by file basis or sticking things in particular places in memory (ok that ones an embedded thing). My boss...

Yeah, although working in 256 colour modes had its limitations! Crafting palettes, those were the days. I write every piece of Desktop software using Qt, I appreciate that it's probably not that easy to meld Qt and Direct X what with DX being all COMified and Microsofty and stuff! But Qt...

Can I just saw.... EWW MFC!!!! Barring that, awesome stuff as ever. One day when I get some time to spare I might try my hand at a basic ray tracer, nothing that fancy though. I remember making my peers marvel when I wrote code to draw a gouraud shaded polygon (in pascal, in DOS back in 1991?).

I watched it on the hospital TV when I was in there and I had to bloody google it in the first couple of minutes to find out if it was CGI. It's so realistic and at the same time the characters have features that aren't, so it really f***s with your head. Also watched Hugo the other day and...

And on that subject, has anybody watched the tintin movie? It's a real head f**k because the characters are so life like that it starts playing tricks with your brain. You know its a CGI animation, but your eyes are telling you something different.

Bad timing as they released the pi 2 today! lol

Bluetooth virtually consumes nothing (we're talking in the microamps range) when not in a paired state, once you're paired the current increases to the milliamp range and then spikes during transmission. I know this because I work on a product that includes bluetooth and I spent far too much...

The issue was to do with being able to accidentally turn the protect off by waving your hands, that's why they were removed from sale. When they went back on sale all they'd done is turn off this feature. The false alarms is a separate issue that still plagues users. It just shouldn't happen...

No worries. Usually I do a lot of research when buying stuff and take "problems reported on the internet" with a pinch of salt as people generally only make noise when something doesn't work right for them, but given that the people I know who have them have all experienced this issue....I can...

Also remember that the "life" of the protect is 7 years, so after that 7 years the protect has to go in the bin and you have to replace with a new one, just as you would a normal smoke detector....but they're much cheaper and often have a longer life cycle. I've read things of people installing...

I know people with nest protects and they pretty much have nothing good to say about them. Constant false alarms off them. Nothing worse than being out somewhere and being told your house is burning down (apart from your actual house burning down).

They're on a frequency that the oneplus doesn't support.

The bit at the bottom on the 360 where the sensors are would drive me f**king mad!

Easy peasy. 1. Infrared reflow on the memory device and remove it from the fucked board. 2. Clean up bottom of removed memory device and reball (and reflow device) 3. Infrared BGA reflow and remove the memory device on doner board. 4. Clean up pads on doner board. 5. Apply solder paste to...

Normality drive has been re-engaged!

It's only the very latest update (last few days) that's rendered it pretty much unusable though, it's been fine up until then (apart from the odd crash). Doesn't bother me now as I've reverted to Tapatalk Pro and it's back to being perfect now.

You won't find it directly on the store, you have to go into the google play app, then my apps, then click on show all apps (or whatever it's named) and then scroll through the list till you find Tapatalk Pro, then you can reinstall it. You won't be able to search the store and install it as...

Yeah. Odd statement! It works fine or rather it worked fine until this latest update where they made the UI monumentally bad. I'm sure they'll fix it, they know they've made a bit of a f**k up. Still, the fact I can go back to Tapatalk pro means that I'm back in a quick to navigate and easy...

Incidentally these "new ui features" have caused a s**t storm on their own support forum and they've at least acknowledged that they've cocked up a bit. Everybody has the same gripes, threads unnecessarily taking up too much screen space and the forum navigation being basically awful now. I...

And to move about forums you have to keep going back to "Home" and then back down the heirarchy. Piss poor. You literally now see a handful of threads because they've made every thread huge. Piss poor. They've taken something which crashed a lot but was functionally usable to something that's...

See my recent time machine thread. Just because you think it's backed up and you can see some files, don't assume ANYTHING with time machine. It's a piece of crap.