Posts by lord_farquaad

oops, sorry made a mistake.

Currently, there is a 100$ reduction in the US, and the price given by El Reg included the bargain and the one I gave did not.

So, in fact, you can get the Windows 8 version at 1499$.

iOS 6.1.1 update is now available

http://support.apple.com/kb/DL1631

This is bad.

The 'those are not ads but product placement' is a joke.

Not a problem

Lewis Pages is controlling ice melt.

No impact of CO2 or mankind activities (Lewis Page is god).

Nasa is a nice band of marketing teenager that never understood engineering.

And, proof above all, Curiosity has found positive temperatures on Mars, although there is no mankind activities there.

Sorry for polluting this topic.

On a low note, the firm has finally decided to cancel its registration ...

Apple must act

As a developer, I consider that Apple must act quickly.

They must act quickly, not against people getting their hands on iOS beta releases, but against people complaining against iOS beta releases not being supported by App developer.

Last year, from beginning of July to end of September, my app got several 1 star note and negative comments by users of iOS5 beta complaining because of crashes.

This is really a burden.

This year, the day after iOS6 beta 1 was out, I had a 1 star note from an iOS6 user, because of a standard telephony feature my application is using, and is in IOS since version 1, and that is broken in IOS6 for the time being. It was not even a problem of my application not working correctly under iOS6.

Apple should prevent those people from noting apps on teh market. Apple must act quickly on that.

Waow.

I am impressed by your imaginative way of using use of fire by prehistoric man to pretend that gengerating CO2 is what makes us human, and trying to get to our minds that we have to continue to generate the more CO2.

Brilliant Thesis.

What about demonstrating that lying is an essential part of being human ?

We have an actual proof here ...

Really sorry, but I rated the article as 'utterly terrible' because it obviously lacks plenty of information to make it bringing any value to someone actively interested in it

reactor n°2

1000 millisivert per hour this morning in some water found in reactor n°2.

Everything is fine.

Radioactivity released in the environment keep on growing.

What you can't understand, is that the crisis is not because of the current situation, but because of where the current situation could drive us.

Before the tsunami, all that happened could never have happened.

After the tsunami, the "experts" told us that as the reactor had been stopped, this was just a cooling problem.

After the first explosions and the first releases of radioactive elements, again "experts" start to pretend that there was no problem as the situation was under controlled and only short halflived element could leak.

Every assertion done by "experts" in the last weeks have proven wrong.

Do we really have to wait for the situation to go to the next level to have the right to say that this is a crisis ?

Google TV

Hello,

As far as I know, it is the same for Google TV at this time ...

But I never heard any noise about this one.

Is that linked to the "limited" success ?

great !

Any comment from the 500 millisquivert per hour near nuclear reactor 2 ?

Is this no harmfull for TEPCO employees working on reestablishing the cooling system ?

radiation level close to reactor 2

"It remains highly unlikely that the workers themselves will suffer any measurable health consequences from radiation"

With levels of 500 millisiverts per hour close to reactor 2 today, they have a little more than 10 minutes to spend there before they should run away.

That does not give time to do a lot of work.

If ever this increase and prevent worker from working close to reactors 1 and 3 before being able to reinstate a proper cooling system, this situation might become critical.

Clearly, a triumph for the nuclear industry ...

very poor article

As already said by anonymous coward, natively, chrome OS is targeting netbooks and not tablets.

This is a very important distinction.

Is there a touch based layer at the time being in Chrome OS ?

I don't know.

But reading such a short article based on a single tweet, and mentioning twice that ChromeOS is targeting tablet is really clear on the level of this article : bullshit written by somebody of very little knowledge of the situation

GPL violation ?

So logitech will start selling in 2-3 weeks a device running mostly on GPL code, but the source code will be made available in summer 2011.

Looks like a GPL violation to me.

They have to offer the source code of all GPL based code they are using as soon as they start selling the device.

one last thing

Sorry for that, but this Mr X is the head of the blogging company most teenagers in France have been using the last 4 years. He is also the head of a radio plenty of French teenagers are listening to.

That's why it is worrying to learn what this person is capable of ...

independent

"a former independent label producer - Patrick Zelnick "

independent has if he had never been French First Lady (Carla Brun-Sarkozy) producer. Although her producer he has been.

surrender

The guy has surrendered this morning to the police in Monaco.

In the end, Mr Musulin was just another French looser ...

few things

First, French national figures : if you do consider the amount of suicides that are from teenagers, and if you do consider that there are no teenagers in France Télécom, then you can consider that the figures are more above French average than under.

Then, what is worth considering, is the amount of people that are commiting suicide, mentioning the main reason for that is their work, and because of the pressure of their work, they no longer can cope with that.

Then, this is very unusual. People generally comitting suicide because of personal problems. Not because of problems with their manager's pressure.

Then, yes there may be civil servant that were not used to work with pressure. Then, I was shocked to see people (not in this forum) saying that it was the wikest that were failing.

In fact, if you are looking at the average people that are comitting suicide, you discover that they were people that did succeed in the past, but because of the neverending structure remodelling, they were doing job they were not comfortible in, they were failing to cope with their workload, and their objectives. Then, themselves or their manager were telling them that they are weak and should leave.

They are lost and are commiting suicide.

Moreover, one important point to consider, is that in France, as FT is partially state owned, there has never been any redundancy plan. The government never allowed that to FT management, though that is necessary.

But there are great pressure from the management to see people leaving the company. The bonuses of managers are based on how many people from their service are leaving the company. Anf those people are sometimes harassing the employees and bullying them, to drive them to resign.

As a consequence of what, people are sometimes choosing a more extreme solution.

why not !

"It says the new box adds DTS decoding - that's surround sound ..."

oh, the DTS fans will love that one !

@Adam 10

1- can you give examples of such blu-ray players because that seems very interesting

2- and let's give WD a cahnce as the y have not yet announced the product nor the price. Maybe this could be as cheap as 30£ (pls do not comment on that one !)

lost copper ?

Does this Mrs Cooper has something against copper ?

safari4 beta ?

"In addition, Apple released a beta version of its Safari 4 browser earlier this week"

Was that really a beta ?

I thought it was the official release. I checked the website, and there is no mention of beta or RC.

unlocked

The phone is supposed to be for developers.

Moreover, one of the interest for developers is that the bootloader is specific and allows you to completely reflash the OS.

And for shipping costs, read the small lines ...

"Outside the US

For Orders shipping outside the US, shipping pricing includes cost of

shipping service and the applicable customs, duties, import and

country specific other fees."

lib vorbis ?

"Alchemy also lets you play Ogg Vorbis and Lib Vorbis that were previously unable to run in the Flash Player or AIR"

What is Lib Vorbis ? Isn't that rather a port of libvorbis that allows to play Ogg Vorbis content ?

unclear

apart from very poor spelling, the article is really unclear about the version of IE it deals with. Or is it me ?