Posts by Steve John

Rotation lock switch

is what I'm most pleased about. Using it as mute was pointless given there is a volume rocker right next to it.

Well done chaps...

Just saw you on the BBC 6 o'clock news. Good work!

UMA

Orange offer UMA which routes calls over your home WiFi. They don't seem to shout about it though - I found out from a friend. I'd love to use it, have a dreadful signal at home but my Android handset doesn't support it.

Hmm

Why is The Doctor running towards a giant wheetabix?

Does it work with MCE?

So, does this allow playback of blu-ray movies through Windows Media Center (Win 7).

Evolution

Bringing the rendering engine up to standards compliance is to be applauded and will make a lot of developers lives *slightly* easier.

The rendering engine isn't the only factor, especially with more complex or security oriented web apps.

The main thing they need to address is their security model. I can see the logic behind some of it, but it can be terribly hard to deal with. I've had cookies that were intended to make the site more secure blocked by the browser, and the countermeasures to deal with that make a mockery of the intended purpose of the cookie blocking anyway.

Conversely, we wouldn't have AJAX, the beloved "Web 2.0" technology without the MS Outlook team getting XmlHttpRequest built in to IE.

So,

Hey ho. Dealing with this stuff keeps us employed!

Oracle

Isn't this essentially what Oracle were trying to do 10 or so years ago?

I personally like having local data and local processing power, but I would - being a software engineer.

I can actually see this possibly taking off with the MySpace generation though. As long as they can access the websites they like on the device - it'll do.

Reckon it'd have to run on cheaper hardware than a "full fat" PC/Netbook though, otherwise you'd (read: I'd) buy the general purpose one that could also access the internet.

Sudo

http://xkcd.com/149/

Heh.

Windows CE/Mobile

How many apps are available for the Windows mobile (CE or whatever) platform?

Also, don't start a sentence with "And". :-)

Life on Earth is mostly ugly?

Come on, that's not fair.

I'm no hippie, or mental anti-g8 activist that thinks Humans or capitalism are the scum of the Earth, but the diversity of species and the difference in how they look and how they all go about their business is facinating and beautiful.

It's pretty shit really...

... think I've seen most of the *new* ones, and must admit that if it wasn't for fond childhood memories I'd have stopped watching a very long time ago.

That said, I was a bit disappointed when Chrstopher Ecclescake was announced to be leaving, but thought David Tenant turned out to be excellent.

So we should give the new boy a chance. And if Russel T Davies is writing less episodes, it can only be a good thing.

Double Standards

Isn't this a case of double standards, what with not allowing OSX to run on non-Apple hardware?

If Apple made cars, they would only allow you to drive them on roads built by Apple.

Great...

I like Fedora, did some development on it a couple of years ago, and found it OK.

By OK, it mean a mean of the following:

- Great: More responsive than XP on the other partition. Loved the multiple desktops.

- OK: Can't just poke around the UI for settings - have to look stuff up and open terminals (not a problem as such - I grew up with command line interfaces, just, well, aren't we past that now?).

- Poor: For all of these improvements mentioned in the article, will they make it "just work" with my laptop's inbuild wireless. Tried to install it at home, and everything went smoothly apart from the bloody wireless. After working at a PC all day, I just couldn't be bothered to put in the time to figure it out in the evening.

Developers?

"The goal is to shield developers from complexities typically associated with Web 2.0 application development,"

HTML & JavaScript is about as simple as development gets. If a developer wants to be shielded from this, I would suggest that they should not call themself a developer and maybe get a McJob.

@AC 7th July 2009 10:52 GMT

So you call me lazy for not following the link, then say that the link takes you to a page where there is, in fact, a simple mailto: link. Confirming my guess, nice work feller.

My point wasn't in defence of the situation, I was simply saying that the situation probably wasn't discovered as a result of snooping as the black helicopter brigade would assume.

Have they sorted out wireless setup yet...

... last tried to get wireless working with Fedora 8 on my laptop and failed.

April 1st

See title.

...considering the BBC's response..

"Mike says he's considering the BBC's response and its offer, although he notes he's not entirely satisfied with the explanation"...

Reather, wondering whether he can take them for any more cash no doubt. I'm not saying they're blameless, but they won't use it again, he's £75 better off and no-one was hurt. Job done, move on.

@Simon Painter

That word replacer is genius.

The following link contains swears!

http://www.wordreplacer.com/cache/g090206171612101983

Yeah, that'll help.

Replacing what is probably the most recyclable part of the PC anyway.

Doing something about being able to recycle the myriad different substances within would be properly useful.

Didn't think...

... that 7-Elevens sold Gagh and Blood Wine

@AC 15:44

Very good, would rate the comment if I could.

Good article

As always, a well written and well reasoned article from Lewis Page. Looking at the comments so far, I wish people would read the entire article before venting.

Keep up the good work.

Yeah, an attempt at viral marketing, but...

...anyone notice the "respond to my touch" line early on and think about an allusion to iPhone type UI things going on?