Coelacanth?
No, Brian Canth. I'm hith brother.....
(God alone knows why I remember that.)
9433 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
Old lags at the top eventually get cheesed off with paying subs, cheesed off with buying expansions, cheesed off with repeated account pwnage being ignored by Blizzard or discover the multiplayer version of sex and leave.
N00bs at the bottom get turned off by wandering around amidst hordes of gold farming meatbots and don't bother going any further.
Subscriptions fall.....
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"....the QNX® Neutrino® RTOS brings a potent mix of speed, reliability, and flexibility to the new BlackBerry® Tablet OS from RIM...."
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That'll be the same BB Tablet that's currently being marketed as a stonkingly overpriced Flash appliance, yes? As RIM would seem to think that this is their only selling point, you'd like to think it at least existed......
"...the agency also announced an elite cyber team of experts to combat online threats."
What, no humungous vat of nutrient solution full of wetwired monkey brains, hooked to the internet and foiling / retaliating against cyber threats in picoseconds?
Shame on you DARPA......
The thing that has kept brass cased ammo around and the, theoretically vastly superior, caseless variety in the lab, is that the brass casing takes a lot of heat with it when it's ejected.
Now I can that the insulating plastic case keeps the heat out of the breech, a good thing, but that heat has to end up somewhere. Presumably more of it heads off down the barrel and out the business end, but that surely implies more heat in the barrel and associated barrel heating problems?
......when was the death of vinyl supposed to occur?
Also in 2012: death of COBOL, year of Linux desktop, end of world, UN campaign to provide every forest-dwelling bear with a flush toilet.
"....music site Side-Line which says it heard whispers...". So not just bullshit, but rumoured bullshit.
AMD release a chip aimed fair and square at heavily threaded server loads.
A load of enthusiast sites grab one, run a load of lightly threaded desktop/gaming benchmarks over it and find that, er, it's not very good at that sort of thing. Guess what? Bears shit in the woods too.
When the promised desktop variant ships with its clocks upped, more cache and a ceepie-geepie "Fusion" setup to push FP performance, then we can start to judge.....
Jag are probably right about the impact and it'll still disengage cruise when the brakes are touched, as that control is implemented "hard" rather than "soft", for obvious reasons. They'd be shitting bricks otherwise, rather than playing it down.
The fact that they allege no customers have noticed quite probably means that the actual cruise functions (set, suspend, resume, up, down) are all OK and it's just that you sometimes can't turn the damned thing off. Any Jag owners care to comment?
Personally I favour the GM system, which has no on/off control. It's always there when you want it, effectively sat permanently in the "unset" state if unused.
Which is why they'd be barking.
The success of Apple under Jobs was in spotting something newish and good that wasn't being "done right" and producing a "right" version.
Everyone knew what was wrong with MP3 players; the cruddy User Interface and the inconvenience of getting music onto them. Apple fixed that.
Everyone knew what was wrong with smartphones; buggy, unreliable, underpinned with cruddy OEM drivers, byzantine UIs, no updates after sale and a vertiable diaspora of application sources. Apple fixed that, although I have to add here that I reckon that RIM fixed that one first and just forgot to sell it.
What's wrong with your telly? Everyone else has had donkey's to work on this one. If anything, the trend here is towards a panel, a source (cable, sat, Apple TV, BD, whatever), a sound system and to work toward interoperation between manufacturers. Producing a "walled garden" solution here looks suspiciously like swimming against the tide. Also here, producing one "ideal" telly ain't going to work. Size *is* important.......
I was stuck in a training course last week and missed this completely 'til now.
Anyone know when the next one's due?
I'd also like to know where Mr Camping gets his bibles from. All the ones I've seen appear to be missing the bit where it says; "Raptures will be scheduled on an ad-hoc basis throughout the early part of the 21st Century. Exact numbers and timings to be dependant on demand."
Absolutely correct. The bit most people appear to be missing is that they are under no obligation whatsoever to disclose any of 'em to *you* or, for that matter, me.
Part of the licensing arrangement, for those who actually need to see them, is an NDA.
Given the willingness of the Big Boys who have seen 'em to cough up, you have to say that whichever ones are at the heart of the Android licensing are sound to the extent of not being even worth *trying* to contest.
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Aha, funded by Big Oil!! Obviously a massive con to discredit the ecological movement and the fact that these figures appear to show that the earth is warming proves that it isn't!!!!
Oh.......hang on........<Head Explodes>
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Nokia could be playing it safe here. Let the others stick their heads over the parapet and wait to see which way the lawsuit dust settles when the inevitable happens.
Now it would seem to be obvious that, when the contents of some punter's bank account mysteriously disappears, the handset manufacturer can't be held liable[1]. However, we are talking about a process in which lawyers will probably be involved.......
[1] Then again, "we didn't design NFC payments, we only implemented it" does have a touch of the "Nuremburg defence" about it........
This 'ere rental car has been taken by a previous hirer to this address!!
And the risk here is what exactly?
If Big Brother wants to know where you went in it, he'll just ask the ANPR database. Also, if that data *is* of any importance, wiping the unit's memory or having the address data stored elsewhere will make sod-all difference. Anyone with half a brain will just read the "deleted" log information from its flash memory before it's overwritten with new stuff.
Fat bloody chance! It'll be IP geolocation locked like every other bloody thing.
Already the deal that MS has with the Beeb for its back catalogue is IP restricted to the UK......who can get the Beeb services anyway(!)
Now, you'd have thought that the "killer app" for TV delivery over the internet would be serving markets outside the usual availability of the programming in question. After all, if you are in the UK and want to see UK telly, you can bung an aerial on the roof, take a cable or put up a sat dish. No need for Xboxes, Apple wossanames or any other overly complex idiocies.
Apparently not and those elsewhere are restricted to dodgy usage of Sky, fannying around with proxies and the providers in a game of whack-a-mole, or trying to understand what it is that's so important about Chris Waddle........