Many fruitless hours have been spent this week and last week trying to convert my Angles Calculator App from iOS to Android.
What a pain it all is.
It seems that when you go from the Main Activity (i.e. view) to another sub-Activity then the Main activity is destroyed and when you leave the sub-Activity the Main Activity has to be created again.
That is not how it works in iOS. Maybe I am missing something I usually am. In iOS you load a View Controller on top of a View Controller and then when you unload the View Controller it just shows the old one again. You don't recreate it. How inefficient is that.
Oh well, I was crap at iOS for approx 2 years so maybe that is how long it will take to get to grips with Android.
I'm too old for all of this and it is too late in the evening for me to be bothered anymore.
Roll on Blackberry 10. I will be converting my Android Apps to Blackberry since it is supposedly very easy to do. Ha. I will see.
At least the track that is playing on my Stereo is good. Soundgarden - Big Dumb Sex. From 1989 back when I was a fresh faced idealistic purveyor of death dealing software for the Military Industrial complex. How times have changed.
http://www.essence-computing.co.uk
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/artist/essence-computing/id333177404
http://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/essence-computing/id333177404?mt=12
Thursday, September 27, 2012
Wednesday, September 26, 2012
Changing you mobile number to another provider
I spent 30 minutes today trying to get the PAC code from O2 so that I could transfer my mobile number to GiffGaff.
I did eventually succeed but the wait was excruciating. Why I hear you ask? Well, they chose the most awful muzak to play while I was waiting for them to answer the phone.
The best track they played was by Gary Numan/Tubeway Army. Can't remember which one.
The worst I am still trying to erase from my memory. Some utter drivel about a dance floor done by the sugarbabes (I think, sounded a bit like them).
Why do they insist on playing such rubbish. In my case I nearly hung up twice I could not stand what was being played.
Maybe that's what they were hoping would happen. Make a certain number of people hang up in disgust so they can clear their calls.
When I did get through the man tried to persuade me to not change providers. I said that GiffGaff were £10 and unlimited data. He said that he could not do unlimited data for that price. He then told me I wasn't even using 250Mb a month so I should not need unlimited. I then told him to tell me the PAC and I said goodbye and hung up.
Why can't you get the PAC from their website? Is it because they want to talk to you to try and persuade you to stay? I should think so.
I did eventually succeed but the wait was excruciating. Why I hear you ask? Well, they chose the most awful muzak to play while I was waiting for them to answer the phone.
The best track they played was by Gary Numan/Tubeway Army. Can't remember which one.
The worst I am still trying to erase from my memory. Some utter drivel about a dance floor done by the sugarbabes (I think, sounded a bit like them).
Why do they insist on playing such rubbish. In my case I nearly hung up twice I could not stand what was being played.
Maybe that's what they were hoping would happen. Make a certain number of people hang up in disgust so they can clear their calls.
When I did get through the man tried to persuade me to not change providers. I said that GiffGaff were £10 and unlimited data. He said that he could not do unlimited data for that price. He then told me I wasn't even using 250Mb a month so I should not need unlimited. I then told him to tell me the PAC and I said goodbye and hung up.
Why can't you get the PAC from their website? Is it because they want to talk to you to try and persuade you to stay? I should think so.
Completely forgot about this blog
Amazing what you find when you search for information about yourself.
Monday, October 31, 2005
Drinking on public transport
So the government is to ban drinking on public transport.
Why do we need to do this? Is it because some people behave badly when they are drunk and upset some small minded people or is it because the government thinks it will show them cracking down on loutish behaviour.
If this sort of crap carries on I for one will not be voting for Labour at the next election. I have voted for them for the last 20 years but I'm getting sick of being told what to do by the state.
Why do we need to do this? Is it because some people behave badly when they are drunk and upset some small minded people or is it because the government thinks it will show them cracking down on loutish behaviour.
If this sort of crap carries on I for one will not be voting for Labour at the next election. I have voted for them for the last 20 years but I'm getting sick of being told what to do by the state.
Twenty Billion (minimum) to be wasted
The UK is to spend 20 billion to update their Trident Submarine nuclear threat.
What a waste of money.
We should not be spending more money on something we will never use. It had a purpose once but it does not now.
We should set an example to all the other countries who have nuclear weapons and either a) scrap them now or b) keep them but only until they are past their lifetime.
We do not need nuclear weapons.
What a waste of money.
We should not be spending more money on something we will never use. It had a purpose once but it does not now.
We should set an example to all the other countries who have nuclear weapons and either a) scrap them now or b) keep them but only until they are past their lifetime.
We do not need nuclear weapons.
Tuesday, October 25, 2005
MMR cleared
MMR has been cleared of causing Autism. Or as I like to call it 'Naughty child syndrome'.
Most children (in my unscientific opinion - but just as valid as any other parent's unscientific opinion about MMR and Autism) are just plain naughty. They have been mollicoddled since infants and so cannot cope with the fact that when introduced to the real world of other people that these people are not equally attentive and fascinated as their parents.
Parent's everywhere need a good slap and their children need to be gagged and ignored until they can behave in public. It does not stiffle their creativity to do this. If it did how and where did all these creative people come from in Victorian times when children were not even seen let alone heard.
Most children (in my unscientific opinion - but just as valid as any other parent's unscientific opinion about MMR and Autism) are just plain naughty. They have been mollicoddled since infants and so cannot cope with the fact that when introduced to the real world of other people that these people are not equally attentive and fascinated as their parents.
Parent's everywhere need a good slap and their children need to be gagged and ignored until they can behave in public. It does not stiffle their creativity to do this. If it did how and where did all these creative people come from in Victorian times when children were not even seen let alone heard.
Religious Hatred Bill
So the government is still trying to get its Religious Hatred Bill passed. This is the bill where the state has to protect people of a religious bent from us nasty secularists, aethists and all other religions that disagree with all other religions.
Who is going to protect my right to criticise all religions as morally wrong. Apart from some of the self-enlightment religions there is not a religion in the world that is not implicated in mass genocide of people who were not of the correct religion.
Throughout history religion has been used to justify the most atrocious acts.
When will the people of the world grow up and realise that all the benefits of religions, such as cohesion of purpose, brotherly love, helping others can be had without all the stupid religious stuff about a higher being.
There is no god. There never was. God (capitalised only because it is the first word in the sentence) was the creation of people who initially understood little of world and so invented beings to explain the world and its workings. After some time it mutated into a way of maintaining control over a population and justifying the unusual and generally abhorant practices of the people at the top.
How can you trust a person to make sane decisions when they believe that god created the world and at their death they will go to heaven or hell.
If you talked to someone who was equally believing in Aliens you would not trust them as much but this is no difference. There is no god and the 'Absence of proof is no proof of absence' argument is just tosh.
Who is going to protect my right to criticise all religions as morally wrong. Apart from some of the self-enlightment religions there is not a religion in the world that is not implicated in mass genocide of people who were not of the correct religion.
Throughout history religion has been used to justify the most atrocious acts.
When will the people of the world grow up and realise that all the benefits of religions, such as cohesion of purpose, brotherly love, helping others can be had without all the stupid religious stuff about a higher being.
There is no god. There never was. God (capitalised only because it is the first word in the sentence) was the creation of people who initially understood little of world and so invented beings to explain the world and its workings. After some time it mutated into a way of maintaining control over a population and justifying the unusual and generally abhorant practices of the people at the top.
How can you trust a person to make sane decisions when they believe that god created the world and at their death they will go to heaven or hell.
If you talked to someone who was equally believing in Aliens you would not trust them as much but this is no difference. There is no god and the 'Absence of proof is no proof of absence' argument is just tosh.
Tuesday, October 18, 2005
Selling weapons
From the Independent (18/10/2005) Johann Hari's column
The majority of weapons in the world are supplied by the 5 permanent members of the security council - USA, China, France, Russia and Britain.
Arms suppliers in the UK receive 990 million pounds in subsidy.
The UK Ministry of Defence says that only 60,000 jobs are sustained by arms suppliers.
To win a 40 billion pound sale to Saudi Arabia it seems we are to deport 2 saudi disidents.
The majority of weapons in the world are supplied by the 5 permanent members of the security council - USA, China, France, Russia and Britain.
Arms suppliers in the UK receive 990 million pounds in subsidy.
The UK Ministry of Defence says that only 60,000 jobs are sustained by arms suppliers.
To win a 40 billion pound sale to Saudi Arabia it seems we are to deport 2 saudi disidents.
Tuesday, July 05, 2005
Failing Countries
All countries should have a licence granted to them by the UN to operate as a country.
Countries that meet certain criteria for failure to operate as a country should have their licence revoked and the UN should step in with professionals to decide what to do.
Criteria for failure should be:
1) Inability to feed own citizens
2) Blatant corruption
3) Civil war
4) Genocide
5) etc
What to do with such countries:
1) If viable as one country then should be administered until the country is properly back on its feet. Administration should be by professionals from a country not directly related to the country. All monies obtained by such officials will have to be explained at the end of their term of office. Inability to explain would result in a long prison sentence. Administrators would be directly responsible for corruption of employees.
2) If not viable as a country then the country should be split up and administered independently. If it can be shown that part of the country can be combined with another working country then this should be done. If it can be combined with another part of another country and that country is failing then both parts should be combined and administered.
Countries that meet certain criteria for failure to operate as a country should have their licence revoked and the UN should step in with professionals to decide what to do.
Criteria for failure should be:
1) Inability to feed own citizens
2) Blatant corruption
3) Civil war
4) Genocide
5) etc
What to do with such countries:
1) If viable as one country then should be administered until the country is properly back on its feet. Administration should be by professionals from a country not directly related to the country. All monies obtained by such officials will have to be explained at the end of their term of office. Inability to explain would result in a long prison sentence. Administrators would be directly responsible for corruption of employees.
2) If not viable as a country then the country should be split up and administered independently. If it can be shown that part of the country can be combined with another working country then this should be done. If it can be combined with another part of another country and that country is failing then both parts should be combined and administered.
Solving Poverty and Debt
If each of the top 1% richest people in the world gave 10% of their wealth for distribution to the poor in Africa and other places then all of the problems would be solved.
This is a pure guess and none are going to do it since they would miss that million plus pounds they would have to give.
This is a pure guess and none are going to do it since they would miss that million plus pounds they would have to give.
Live8 concert
Why was there an enormous semi-circle in front of the stage in Hyde Park ?
Was it so that all celebs and liggers did not have to share their space with the plebs, hoi-polloi and the scum. I think so.
The concert was absymal. None of the stars did it for any other reason than to boost their record sales.
Was it so that all celebs and liggers did not have to share their space with the plebs, hoi-polloi and the scum. I think so.
The concert was absymal. None of the stars did it for any other reason than to boost their record sales.
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Sneeze Free Cats
A Company in Los Angeles has announced that they are to make allergy free cats by genetically modifying them. They are already taking $250 deposits for a kitten. The small print says that the deposit is non-refundable even if a kitten is never provided. They hope to be producing 200,000 kittens by 2007. Each kitten will be $3500. That's $700,000,000 a year.
They will be eliminating, by RNA interference, the FEL D 1 protein that is secreted into the fur which causes the allergy. This has never been done before. Even if it works this may not stop you being allergy free around this type of cat since they produce many other allergens and you may be allergic to one of these.
Once again I say What is the point of this type of work when there are many more important things to do in life.
They will be eliminating, by RNA interference, the FEL D 1 protein that is secreted into the fur which causes the allergy. This has never been done before. Even if it works this may not stop you being allergy free around this type of cat since they produce many other allergens and you may be allergic to one of these.
Once again I say What is the point of this type of work when there are many more important things to do in life.
40% of bottled water dangerous
Reports just in that of 68 commercial bottled waters from 16 countries tested 40% had bacterial contamination. Thanks to Dutch scientists for this information.
They say that normal people will be OK (but when have we heard this before) but people with impared immune systems should drink tap water.
I say we should all drink tap water. I have been all over the UK and have only a couple of times found the tap water undrinkable. In a couple of cases this was a temporary problem. Anyone who buys bottle water in the UK is just wasting money.
They say that normal people will be OK (but when have we heard this before) but people with impared immune systems should drink tap water.
I say we should all drink tap water. I have been all over the UK and have only a couple of times found the tap water undrinkable. In a couple of cases this was a temporary problem. Anyone who buys bottle water in the UK is just wasting money.
Pet Transplants
How can anyone in the world justify pet transplants when around the world people are starving to death. You pet is not that important. Let it die like all pets do.
If you have to do it then I think you should give the same amount it costs to have the transplant to one of the proper charities around the world to help people in the less well off world.
And finally some questions that I do not have answers to:
If you have to do it then I think you should give the same amount it costs to have the transplant to one of the proper charities around the world to help people in the less well off world.
And finally some questions that I do not have answers to:
- Where to the organs that are used for these transplants come from ?
- Does someone breed cats and dogs, etc just to provide the organs ?
- Are there animal organ harvesters who kidnap other people's pets to provide the organs ?
- Humans reject organs because of incompatibilities and all have to take suppresant drugs so do pets have to take similar drugs ?
- Which drug company worked on these drugs if they exist ?
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