Posts by Eddy Ito

GoGo Girl??

"Is she a goer? Nudge, nudge, know what I mean?"

Bless 'im

Pandering moron that he is you really do just have to stop in wonderment at the words that come out of his mouth... and think wft is this guy on?

"... with Windows geeks bringing up the rear."

I see what you did there.

Different

"Dallas had revealed to jurors the man had previously been accused and acquitted of rape. He was re-tried in October last year, convicted and jailed."

Is there no equivalent of "double jeopardy" in UK jurisprudence? Of course I suppose it's possible something new might have turned up so it didn't apply but it seems odd from a US perspective.

Also, it looks like El Reg missed a bit. The defendant was on trial for assault in the current case, not rape.

Tempting

Do I legally change my name to "Fuck Google" just to sign up knowing I'll never use it? Maybe I'll just try sneaking something little past them and sign up as Mike Oxmall.

Hear that?

That's the sound of overclockers getting giddy at the thought of hitting THz with laser cooled superconducting Android tablets and running Crysis.

Hoping

Finally, portability at a normal price. I expect/hope it will have better battery life than intel/nvidia and much better graphics than intel alone. Netbooks were a great concept, too bad they were killed by their own processor... oh and tablets didn't help either.

Need more data

After a little digging around the xprize site, I notice the rules aren't quite fully fixed. For instance the competition guidelines page states:

"The winners will be the three solutions achieving the highest diagnostic score regarding a set of 15 distinct diseases in a group of 15-30 people in three days (full details will soon be available in the Competition Guidelines). This diagnosis must be performed in the hands of a consumer, independently of a healthcare worker or facility."

Pay special notice to the "will soon be available" bit as they "are still in development". How easy to do is going to come down to what 15 diseases they pick and the associated metrics that will need to be collected. It will also be a question of how squeamish they decide the "consumer" is.

Interesting choice

They took styling cues from El Reg's bird logo for the red one and I'm guessing it was a catfish for the blue one.

Swing and a miss

Sure everyone is talking about Facebook and Twitter because they seem to be the big players but it seems pretty clear to me that Google+ is chasing a different and much more important rival, LinkedIn. This is Google trying to make its search as relevant as a LinkedIn search. I'm sure Google could care less about indexing Facebook or Twitter but if they could deeply probe LinkedIn they would be really happy.

Compare LinkedIn's >135M users with Facebook's 800M+ and you'll notice that a few of the Facebook accounts are there only to play games so that a user's "real" account isn't overflowing with Farm Wars & Mafiaville junk. Facebook is where folks go to kill time, microblog, and chat. LinkedIn is where folks go to do business, get leads, and job prospects so folks have a financial incentive to "keep it real" that doesn't exist on Facebook. Sure, folks will still use all their social networks for finding jobs and the like but if you're doing a search, you might not want to start on Facebook but if you do you'll probably get a few invites to sign up on LinkedIn.

It seems the wii has its own market niche leaning strongly on fitness games but I also assume that some of the zumba and just dance sales were the kinect version. It would be interesting to know how those two split as a comparison of wii vs kinect and perhaps kinect vs regular xbox controller. It does seem pretty clear that couch potato play is more popular than either wii or kinect but perhaps we just need a title like "Battle of Yoga Masters 4: the Kama Sutra Warrior".

Wouldn't be easy

In the US, Apple would most likely have to sue at the state level or make some quick phone calls to their congressional lackeys^W legislators to get some laws passed. As it stands only about 20 states recognize rights of publicity. In California it extends for 70 years after death and in Illinois it is 100 years. In the other 30 states, you would have to sue to find out what the judges think. As for the rest of the world, I can't imagine it would be much less murky.

Of course this assumes that Steve left his rights of publicity to Apple in order for them to even have standing in the case. Alternatively, Apple might play the valiant knight and be willing to back any case the family would choose to raise. PR wise, I don't see much of an upshot to the former option but who knows, Apple certainly has been keeping the lawyers of the world well fed of late so maybe they are only concerned with stimulating the legal economy.

And...

Which word didn't she understand?

Oh dear

To re-spin an old joke; WPS, where security is job none.

Pants!

So how will it do when folks move their wallet to the other side?

Tom Lehrer was right

"We will all fry together when we fry. We'll be french fried potatoes by and by."

That's chips or perhaps pommes frites for those of you on the other side of the pond.