Posts by jai

if the specs are similar, and the chipset is very similar, presumably this will make it very easy for developers to write games for both systems? so perhaps no longer any need for a title to be on one device and not another perhaps?

How would you know your machine was part of a botnet these days?

install something like LittleSnitch. That'll alert you to anything new that starts communicating from your machine to the outside world.

It's a pain for the first week or so, as you get alerted to everything, and have to acknowledge the ones you're okay with and investigate the ones you're suspicious of. But after you've got it bedded in, then you know that any alert that comes up which you didn't do anything unusual to initiate is likely malware trying to dial home, and so you can kill it.

Re: I've been trying it.

Apple's desktops have long since had native PDF ability. Since 10.2 i think.

Because of this, not only can you view pdf files with just the system tools, but also makes it very easy for any app to render a pdf doc - hence Safari has been displaying PDFs from the web for years without needing to install a plugin. A nice side effect is that because it's part of the system, any application on a Mac that uses the default Print dialog should be able to print directly to a PDF document instead of a printer.

So i assume the same Quartz code that is baked into OS X was also included in iOS from the start as well.

Re: Gates quote

Totally agree - i think he's just trying to find something to say to give the end of the piece a positive spin.

Windows 8 - too early to call, but if it's the "key to the future" then it hasn't had the greatest of starts.

Surface - again, doesn't seem to have done anywhere near as well as they would have liked it to, but need more time to tell i guess

Bing - "people have seen is a better search product" i dunno about that. i switched from Google to Bing after all the UK tax issue, but i'm going to be switching back again because Bing just isn't as good, the top results often aren't the ones i'm trying to find.

XBox - while yes, it's been a successful product, it's at the end of it's life and hasn't really done anything in the last year, has it? Everyone is looking towards the next XBox, not the old one.

Re: "The device is called an EyePad not to primarily annoy Apple"

EyeTV is already used by Elgato:

http://www.elgato.com/elgato/int/mainmenu/home/what-is-eyetv.en.html

Re: People actually read the Wikipedia front page?

i had no idea there was a front page! i usually just go straight to the topic i'm looking for directly from google or bing.

possibly this whole Gibraltargate is an attempt to make people aware that such a front page actually exists?

Re: Engineering judgement

are the birds the result of Space X and Tesla? or just solely the result of his vast piles of cash?

Re: Iphone4s DDOS update.

that would be the networks the phones are tied to!!

O2 is the network that the iphone was originally tied to. but so far, haven't heard of anyone on O2 having this problem.

Re: Don't go into that TRAP DOOR!

thank you sir! i'm going to be humming the theme to that show now all day

(which is not a bad thing, so again, thanks!)

So basically there is no practical use for this discovery

depends, the number of calculations for this kind of thing are huge. so i suspect, the scientific drive to find these number does, in part, fund the research into making faster and faster computer systems. and eventually, that research filters down into the graphics cards that allow us to play such great looking games on our PCs and watching stunning CG fx in movies.

Re: poor FX

Can NASA make it look better? Yes, for barrels and barrels of money

while my original comment was made somewhat tongue in cheek, what i meant was, couldn't they run the video through a filter to remove all the noise and speckles? that wouldn't cost barrels and barrels of money, i'm sure something as simple and free as iMovie can both remove camera shake and despeckle the video image.

it's like they left all that in, to purposely make it look like it was a poor video sent from the middle of space.

Re: Saints Row 2 vs GTA 4

did you play the Episodes From expansions to GTA4? they seemed a lot more fun.

the characters and the missions were a bit more outrageous than those in the main game.

Re: Aren't you forgetting something?

you got the wrong icon, you should have used the Thumbs Up one :)

Re: But%20at%20what%20price%3F

really? Amazon are selling the Hitachi 4tb Desk for £150 and the 4tb Pro for £175

those prices don't seem astronomically high to me. i remember when an 80gb drive would cost that much!

Re: Nah.

i'm not sure i'd class a Thinkpad as a workstation though. it's a laptop isn't it?

the OP didn't say the Mac Pro was the most recognisable computer in the world, he's talking about the kind that people normally hide out of the way under the desk, not sit on the train with it on their laps.

Re: Sad lack of hip-hop knowledge

yes, that's what they _want_ you to think

but it's cunning the way that the silver top of the microphone, round like an eye, sits in the middle of the pyramid shape

and lets not forget, Destiny's Child was originally 3 people, then Beyonce left, leaving 2 behind. and 2 plus 3 = 5

and what did this superbowl performance take place in? 2013. 2 0 1 3. or 2 + 1 = 3 or "the other two" plus "Beyonce" = "Destiny's Child"

there's no escaping the numerology of it, numbers do not lie.

time to face facts: the eschaton is about to be immanentized whether we like it or not

<fnord>

</another afternoon of consuming too much sugar to keep me awake until going home time/>

Re: I'm worried...

apparently tv execs are convinced that kids have no attention span.

this is probably because no one makes tv shows for kids that are any longer than 30 minutes so they're not used to the idea of paying attention to a developing plot.

Re: nice idea but..

Well then watch it on mobile phone or tablet or PS3 or Smart telly.

fantastic!

it's only the first of February and we have a firm favourite for Best Alliterative Headline of 2013 !!!

well played!!!

Re: Why the obsession with market share

because Anna has an axe to grind and market share is the only stat available that fits her agenda.

Re: Black Ops 2? Really?

Well, "awards" such as this are no more than popularity contests. Were the award based on the merits of the software itself, then there's no way that Dishonored would have come below a rail shooter like Black Ops2.

Re: NFC Lock

Agreed.

NFC for phones seems to be like 3D for TV. Not really as useful for the general public as the manufacturers would like to think.

And in a few years, we'll all wonder what all the fuss was about.