Posts by TeeCee

Re: Sea level rise, what sea level rise?

He's a bloke, so presumably he's exaggerating how big it's going to get........

Re: Go on then

siht tnirpnu

Re: Good grief people

No, Lightsquared's plan was scuppered by being unworkable shit dreamed up by chancers in fancy suits who knew fuck all about physics.

It's the same business model as SCO. When your business proves to be the utter sack of shit everyone knows it is, hire lawyers.

Re: End of an era..

Look on the bright side, it'll fit on your coffee table......

Re: That's the rumour mill circulating round my work

Oh well, now it's started you might as well milk it for all it's worth.

Try sidling up to a few people and saying "'Ello, 'ello, 'ello?" with a suggestive tone and in a Yorkshire accent. That should get things going nicely.

Re: Shades of VBScript

"...if Google can make Dart completely open and it's better than JS then why shouldn't people adopt it?"

Er, because they don't have to?

Because they'd have to write everything twice, once in Dart for Chrome and once in JS for every other ruddy browser?

Because if it ain't broke you don't bloody fix it?

The only way this'll take off is of Google do a Microsoft, leverage Chrome's user base and rip JS out of Chrome, forcing the use of Dart. Trouble is that MS only got away with it by dint of being the only game in town at the time. These days all that would cause is a massive exodus from Chrome to FF, IE, Safari, possibly even Opera.....

Re: That's all well and good

Hang on, how long have Samsung been making hobs?

Could that be..............prior art?

Re: Where have I heard this idea before...

I've been using one for over a year in this 'ere laptop.

The words "ludicrously quick for the money" would be about accurate. They take a few weeks to get up to full chat as they need a bit of use history to optimise the caching. Once it's got its feet under the table, boot times and load times of regularly used applications are comparable with SSDs.

Just don't defrag 'em. It banjaxes the cache history and takes you straight back to square one on performance.

Re: too all the nay-sayers and trolls...

Bollocks!

Daewoo cars are still around, badged as Chevrolets these days. The reason Daewoo cars went titsup was that the whole Daewoo empire (of which the car bit was a piddlingly small part) did, as its books were cooked and it was being treated by the founder as his personal plaything and piggy-bank.

The reason secondhand prices were low on early Daewoos was that they were all rebadges of obsolete GM models for which Daewoo bought the tooling and nobody in their right mind wanted the things. They sold new, 'cos stupid people got taken in by the NEW!!111!!!ness and bought 'em in preference to a better, secondhand car, but secondhand you couldn't give the ruddy things away.

1/10. Please try to find a better conspiracy theory.

Re: It's not about selling memory cards

"...it will need to be >50gig so a memory stick no longer cuts it...."

Er, why? The current Xbox manages quite well with only a DVD drive (max 9Gb) and yet sports many, if not most, of the same titles seen elsewhere. Games distributed on BD are rattling around in there like peas in a submarine. Ok you may be a bit light on the hours of glorious, "look how clever we are", 1080p cutscenes that the PS3 format is justly famous for, but if I'd wanted to watch a movie, I'd have bought a bloody movie rather than a game.

I'd have thought a 16 or 32Gb SD card should be OK for the near future, larger sizes are already available and bigger ones are appearing all the time.

Re: @ I ain't Spartacus

I'd just like to say that in my family there are a number of professional musicians[1]. The only thing that keeps the wolves from the door and makes that job a viable career is those repeat performance and syndication fee cheques that turn up in the post on a regular basis.

Without that continuous, low-level trickle of income from previous work you condemn "music" to becoming only what's trendy right now and bugger all else. The world would be all the poorer as a result.

[1] That's real musicians, who make their money playing actual instruments for concerts, film soundtracks, CD recordings, advertising jingles, etc ad nauseum. Not some talentless prick with a fat gob and a necklace poncing around on a stage.

Re: zzzzzzz

No you're not.

I tried it once and found it got screamingly tedious after the first ten minutes.

Actually my guess would be that having 'em made in the NAFTA area rules out the possible impact of any "swingeing tariffs on electronic goods from China" shenanigans that may be in the offing.

Re: Splendid

Been done: "Raise the Titanic".

A budget-busting, gold plated turkey that prompted one of the all-time great quotes from Lew Grade; "It would have been cheaper to lower the Atlantic".

Re: Oh dear

Yup, that's genuinely awful.

The front end looks like someone's applied the styling of a Daimler Dart to a Kubelwagen. An interesting concept that begs the question; "Why would you want to?".......