Posts by BristolBachelor 2200 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2009
Yeah, it's a bit crap. That resolution looks nice on the original note, but will lok very poor by comparison on a 10.1" tablet. Since almost my entire reason for a tablet is to show a portfolio, this comes in a very distant 2nd place to the new ipad. I was hoping desperately that they were changing the screen when they did the design respin.
A very long time ago, I had to have a MS account for acces to some dev resources (I think it was for Wince). So I created the account fine, using a fairly long but not exessively so password, and the found thst the website, ftp, dev program would only allow something like 8 chars, so I couldn't type it.
At the end of the day though, history has shown that you just need to say you've lost your password and type in what uou find looking on Google (ask Sarah Palin)
You do know thst the stylus system in the Samsung Galaxy Note is actually from Wacom, don't you?
I'm actually hoping that this beast is the Note tablet (although the early prototypes were 10") I was very disappointed when I heard that the 10" version would only have the same resolution as the 5" Note.
I thought that they weren't a bank anyway? ISTR that they even put in some rules to try to prevent the carpet baggers turning up, raping the building-society turning it into yet another bank-zombie before running away (Like happened to Northern Rock, Leeds, Woolwich, etc.)
No you are not. And it pisses me off royally when I try to go to a machine on the local net by just typing it's local name, and the browser then automagically decides that actually I want to search for information about "prometheus" instead of connect to prometheus, or that when I type "oracle", that I wanted oracle.com
I'd be careful with that. Heard a very funny story here about people putting PV panels on their houses to save their elec costs. Some of them have completely over-done it and often end up supplying energy to the grid. The funny part is that the meters do not meter the direction of power flow, just the quantity of power running through it. The outcome was that their bills went up, and they were supplying the grid!
One of the power engineers here said that it was because the designers assumed that negative power delivery meant that the meter had been fitted backwards so the meter just counts it as forwards power.
"If you don't like that, bugger off somewhere else"
However, as I understand it, you cannot give-up your British nationality because you are not a "guest" of Britain, you are a subject of the queen. I know someone who had to surrender their passport to change to a new nationaility (the things people do for love!), and he was told by the Brit embassy that it doesn't really matter, he can just apply for a new passport again; there is no such thing as giving up your nationality, and they just ignore the request.
The thing is that "Blighty" doesn't really own any of this type of thing (AFAIK). Blighty does go and buy the stuff that it wants on the commercial market, but that obviously comes with rights to use it, and the pricing would be prohibitive if they wanted to just give it away free; there would be no market left.
Spot image runs quite a lot of the services and are just about to launch another new sat to carry on when the old ones stop working. You can see a fair amount of their imagery free on Google Earth, and if you get the paid option, you can get things like better imagery and selecting which imagery, rather than just the latest.
Probably OZ gets a very good deal because having a ground station there adds considerably to the data they can capture each orbit, so both OZ and the US do nicely out of the deal. In theory it could also spoil the market for SPOT imaging who are self financing 2 of their new sats, but since they can offer resolutions as high as 50cm, they might still have a market.
"Prior art really has little place in community design registrations (aka design patents in the US), you're confusing them with software patents.
Ordinarily I'd agree with you, but looking at the particular community design registration in question, it looks exactly the same as the prior art cases mentioned (I don't have the link to hand, but it was posted on the Reg in the last 2 weeks). That is; they have got a community design registration for something that already exists.
Does that mean that all Samsung have to do is also get a community design registration exactly the same as the others, and then they'll be OK? If that's the case, then community design registration should be taken out and shot.
I'm sorry? If you take a 5W USB charger and make it a 100W charger it doesn't have to be any bigger, because it's USB? Surely a 100W charger is the size it needs to be to convert 100W at mains voltage to 100W at 20V? Putting a USB socket on a 100W charger will not "make it much smaller".
/sarc
If your post was a reply to sabroni, then I think their post was sarcastic. I mean; the Reg site is just a website, and modern phones should all render it fine (The Galaxy note does fine). I have only ever had to use the mobile version, and that was on a desktop and because of a javascript bug in IE.
Yup. Worked on a weapons system that had a signal Watch Dog For Test that allowed you to adjust the hardware watchdog so you could develop the system or perform system testing without it continually resetting. WD4T certainly helped everything go smoothly :)
That said, there was also an occasion where all the drawings, documentation and front panels had to be changed because there was an indicator for Wheels On Ground. Perhaps lost productivity of these changes caused by these people who do no productive work is the real reason everything has gone to shit recently?
I think that's still too high. I think that 0.5Mb/s is still fairly common upstream, and normally you want a phone call to be bi-directional. It's strange too considering that ISDN only gave you 64kb/s and that has no compression at all, and ISTR that GSM only had a datarate of about 14kb/s for calls (including various coding / error corrections).
"Supreme Court has reversed the decision, saying that the relief sought by the group was likely to prevent or partially stop infringements."
Perhaps someone should sit these people down and tell them what a computer is, then perhaps how to use one, and maybe even as far as what the internet is. If they still think that what they have suggested is likely to "prevent or partially stop infringements", take them out the back and retire them.
I'm a bit lost here. This detector would seem to operate using similar principles to the nuetrino detectors that already operate (Except possibly the ice cube). As such, it surely will react to neutrino events? If we wish to subtract the expected neutrino events based on measurements previously taken with neutrio detectors, how sure are we that those nuetrino events previously recorded were not in fact WIMPs as well?
(I won't even get into the whole Dark matter is only needed to satisfy some models that assume "redshift" == "Dopler shift" and could not be caused by variances in the fine structure constant or photons losing energy in collisions with electrons in plasma clouds)
I'm not sure who "we" is, but I suspect you are in the USA? Just to be sure, is this the USA that spends more on "defense" than any other country on the planet by a large margin? Is engaged in wars with various contries? Has to borrow / print new money to pay the interest on its debts? The same USA that also has to rely on charity to feed some of its people or provide them with essential healthcare?
Just askin'
I'm sorry SuperTim, but I'm not with you that switching it off and on again is ever an answer to anything. Imagine your doctor saying that you just have to die and be reborn to solve the illness you have. Nor has "turning it off and on again" ever helped me when I couldn't save a document.
There are various systems that are always powered for life and they never have to be switched off and on again to work properly (e.g. the alarm/immobiliser in your car, your RSA security token/cotag access pass, and many other things).
Things should not be designed so that they need to be reset to work properly.
IMHO the reason that the SD1 failed was that every with every month that passed, the launch date moved back about 3 months. By the time it was launched, years late, everyone else had something else Canon / Nikon / Pentax, etc. Personally I have Canon. Also the other CMOS / CCD sensors improved a lot in that time, but it seems that the spec for the Fovian sensor was set in stone and has not kept up. By now I have 3 camera bodies, but that is not where my investment is. I can change all the bodies, and all the lenses fit on the new bodies. I will generally keep a lens for (much) more than 10 years. The SD1 won't work with any of my Canon lenses, and even if I had a Sigma lens for my Canons, it still wouldn't work with the SD1. The price of the camera is almost nothing next to the cost of all the lenses.
Very, very poor low-light performance from all of the Fovian sensors doesn't help either, and even though this camera is cheaper than the first, it's still about the price of a Canon 7D or 5D MkII, but is built like the cheapest bottom end camera with controls requiring the vulcan death grip to press buttons and operate dials at the same time. I wanted so much to like the SD1 cameras when they finally came out, but they just make me think of the car of the same name; a footnote in history.
So imagine the scenario where there are two jupiter sized bodies orbiting each other. With the centre of gravity between them, neither is a planet? Since neither is orbiting a planet, neither is a moon? Does that make them fekin giant asteroids? (If so, how many shots does it take to make them disappear on my Atari?)
Agree completely. 7200 is a minimum. I've used Samsung and now Hitachi 7200 and have been very happy with both. I was warned off the WD line because the drives fail for times of up to 7.5 minutes (measured) if they have a hiccup, and their RE drives are just too expensive with no benefit in performance or likely reliability.
WD missed the boat a long time ago, and might only be saved when the Hitachi and Samsung brands disappear.
"I'm sure if Samsung wanted to push out plain vanilla Android to their phones "
It's worse than that. They also pander to all the networks who also get to put their crap on top of the Samsung customisations. That means that if you bought your phone directly from Samsung, it won't get an update until after all the operator customisations are also done (sometime around the next ice-age).
I used to have a pair of the Wharfedales that I got for rear speakers. The lack of image isn't a problem for rears, so I didn't mind that, but the sound was just so muddled that I couldn't stomach it.
As for putting them on the front of my phablet; I'm not convinced that there's enough glass that isn't already occupied by actual screen, and tbe borders are getting smaller if anything. However, on a surface computer I could imagine it working.
This seems all very reasonable. In the bar we expats meet up at in Manzanares el Real, a single beer will cost you 2.50€, the tapa will be a couple of crisps and if you buy food it comes with bread you could build houses from. The when you do the maths, you still can't work out how 3 beers=9.37€
I assume that you read "The box will also tap into DLNA servers too, Sony said, but that will require a release TBC firmware update." and are just miffed that it needs an update to do it?
However, I'm not sure that I'd buy it based on my experience. I have a Sony Bravia TV that plays a few file types from USB, but won't touch them on DLNA. It's also fussy over which DLNA server it works with, and for example won't touch Twonky, but is OK with the PS3 media server. Sony support says it does what it does, and no more. Also had a problem with it not working with a large USB drive, and the 'help' from Sony support was that it only works with Sony USB drives...
OK an update here. It doesn't play on the workstations that have the latest Firefox, but certainly not Flash, it asks for a plugin. On a normal PC with IE8 AND including Flash, just a white square.
Is it just me? If I logout and try from a different IP address will I be allowed to see it?
I think that 0 out of 10 might be generous.
That's because they haven't seen this Japanese woman. Saw her on a show when I was in Tsukuba; In the show she also did calculations from a board on one calculator and calculations someone was saying on another. Also the presenters tried to do just the calculations read out at the same time as the woman. I seem to remember that one got lost, and the other one got the answer wrong!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srg2uxeM4F8&feature=youtube_gdata_player
I agree with Tom. We only upgraded LR to get functionality with the new Canon 5D III. Before that it was PS7 and then CS3. Only upgraded to CS5 again for compatibility with new cameras. LR still doesn't work nicely with networks, and don't even think of being able to work on networked files switching between laptop and desktop without practically copying all your work each time you swap (must be the only cloudy company that doesn't know about the existance of networks)
As for skipping upgrades; the upgrade saves so little that you only have to skip 2 updates to save money. You don't miss much; the nice tech they showed off as new 2 years ago didn't even make it into the version only just released :( Oh and the same bugs are just carried over too.
I normally charge mine every night, but when I've forgotten it's not a show stopper. I normally only do 20 mins calling, but normally a good few hours surfing on 3G or if lucky WiFi. I've got a spare battery (£10 from Samsung), but not actually used it yet.
Only time I seemed to have a problem, a rogue app was constanty asking for location updates; turned out easy to find out what using the built-in task manager and battery gauge. uninstalled, restarted problem solved.
Oh and I never close apps either
Imho this is a fail on so many levels. They claim that it's to overcome congestion, but we barely have the fuel to run the cars we've got, and all they have to do is accelerate a bit and climb the occasional hill. Now they want helicoptors that need significantly more fuel to defy gravity? That's even before considering all the extra plant food (CO2) that would be released.
I suggest a better idea is to remove the requirement of people to travel so much. Work at home, or work places and living places together, instead of cramming al working places in the centre of a huge city, so that people have to travel for miles from the living space areas to the working space areas. Helps solve both the congestion and burning fuel problems. For the rest, get mass transport working properly
Individual flying machines only seem to increase the problems.
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