Posts by BristolBachelor 2200 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jan 2009
"Clearly a bid to bring down the cost of netbooks"
I doubt it. I expect it is an attempt to stop the manufacturers moving to ARM and away from the dark side. I expect it is a politics/business decicion.
ARM's response? Probably none, they will continue to develop low-power processor technology, and license it to anyone that wants it.
"One can only imagine how many facebook liketards would be online at the same time to generate the fraction of consumption of Netflix...?"
I've seen some of the "facebook liketards" in action, and I'd guess it only takes about 10 of them to equal a good quality HD stream!
BTW you owe me a new keyboard for "facebook liketards"
The problem is that they will probably say the equipment has to automatically locate itself by pinging something on the internet which will geolocate it from IP address.
That's great, except that when I am in the UK, my IP address is for Madrid. When I am in Madrid, depending on the wind direction and other such things, my IP address is Madrid, Docklands, or Portsmouth!!
Also in Madrid, the town 8km from me uses different frequencies, and the main transmitter for most of the city uses yet still different ones. If you consider the whole Madrid area in total, there probably isn't much whitespace with all the fill-in transmitters to overcome the hills and moutains. Meanwhile, the IP addresses don't resolve to anywhere near that level of accuracy because the IP address pool seems to be shared across the whole area.
Yeah, what a good idea. Give the developing world mobiles. Never mind that they may not have sufficient food to eat, clean water, or electricity to charge a mobile. It doesn't matter if there is no network, or any networks are too expensive because there are few users, and lots of people have very little disposable income.
Oh apart from all that, I can (and have) already bought an LG mobile for £3 brand-new, unlocked and complete with charger.
If you want, I can buy a job-lot and sell them to you for $10 each; you can do what you want with them!
The new WorldWide® "kitchen" regulations come into force today to prevent children from hurting themselves on sharp objects. All sharp objects (including scissors) must now be kept in a kitchen or workshop and all kitchens and workshops must be registered with worldwide authorities. Registered kitchens and workshops must be available for instant surprise inspections to ensure that children cannot access sharp objects.
Arguments are still ongoing about the new "media room" regulations. Some countries disagree about what percentage of time a police officer must be in all registered media rooms to guard against copyright 'theft'. The US wants 100% police presence 24 hours a day. Also some countries are unhappy that all rooms containing a music / video player or PC have to be registered as a media room, leading to issues where some dwellings may need a team of 5 or more police officers to guard them.
How about this law "If it is illegal in the real world, then it is illegal on the internet" ?
Sarkozy ≡ Fuckwit
"So put your own router in between their router and your network - problem solved."
Unfortunately not. My problem isn't that they might snoop on me. My problem is that I have incoming services, and when they reset the router, it removes the settings for port forwarding (& DDNS which is needed for each time they change the IP address).
I'm waiting for the Hylas broadband sat to become operational and see what my costs of SAT broadband would be...
I have an ADSL router provided by my ADSL provider (non UK). I changed the Admin password pretty quickly too (user: Admin, Pass:Admin !!) as well as setting up DDNS. Unfotunately it lasted less than a week, when the Admin password was reset and DDNS turned off.
There is a setting in the router to disable the operator back-door, but obviously that option is greyed out....
Personally I'd prefer to use my own, but since they won't tell you any settings for it, you can't get it to connect to their network.
Now I thought that the tanks holding liquid O2 on normal rockets could only do so for a short time, as the stuff is nastily corrosive. If you've ever seen a lanch scrubbed, you will know that they spend ages filling the tanks just before launch, and if it's scrubbed, they take it back out pronto to protect the tanks.
So what happens if you want to re-use the same tank for every launch (something that I think has not been done before) ?
It's the fault of gravity; it's stronger now than it used to be, so he couldn't ascend properly.
However if he goes to get to the top of a very high building, and launches himself into the air, the (very very slightly) reduced effect of gravity means that he will be able to ascend and the world really will end.
From the 3D films I've seen, the director and DP have gone out of their way to have scenes that "show off" the 3D. Well in my opinion these things flying around and "out of the screen" just get in the way of the film. It seemds that 3D has taken over like special effects (and also slightly vis. effects) did when they were just getting started.
When 3D dies down a bit and is just a part of the film instead of some spectacular to show-off the latest fad piece of equipment, then 3D will be OK.
"The next thing you know, they suddenly think that design needs to be translated into every single Microsoft product."
What do you mean like the UI that a certain company put on a certain touch based music player, and then on a phone, and then on a tablet, and then on a TV, and then they decided that it'd look good on a desktop too? :-p
How many features can an email program have?
When there is one window open where I have to type something (e.g. someone's email address), I can open another window (e.g. an email) to copy/paste the information I need for the other window.
At least in the Exchange / Schedule days you could copy something from Exchange to Schedule, now since it's one program it seems that once you open a dialogue box, you have to close it before you can do ANYTHING else in the program! Get with it MS; it's not DOS anymore!
When I select "Send from account X" it actually sends the email from account X. It doesn't send it from a different one without telling me, and then even lie when I look in sent items telling me that it did send it from X, when it really sent it from Y.
how many features can a word processor have?
For starters:
When it autosaves, it doesn't completely hang. (Or if it does, it autosaves during the hour the screensaver is active, instead of 10milliseconds after I get back to my PC to finish what I was doing before the interruption.)
It repaginates BEFORE the print job, so it says "page 1 of 234" on page 1 and "page 234 of 234" on the last one, instead of varying "Numpages" throughout the document while it's printing it in a non-humerous fashion.
If I set the document language to something, it keeps it set to that, instead of randomly changing the language of individual words when a copy and past a paragraph from one place to another.
I could go on....
"...Up to 220 MB/sec"
"the warranty says Intel's SSD 320 will "substantially conform" to these performance numbers"
Ah, but it's like ADSL UPTO. As long as it doesn't go OVER 220MB/sec, it is covered by the specification.
0 MB/sec sir? It's still in spec sir unless it's OVER 220MB/sec so there's nothing we can do....
I have questions about that; were grocers banned from going to school?
Were they the only ones allowed to put in superfluous apostrophes?
Is it becoming more prevalent because of the large numbers not going to school, or going there and not learning?
Next your be tell me I dont speek proper neither.
Yeah, that may be, however I'm not that convinced that there are many experts there.
When I've looked at the answers they often seem to be answering another question, or have missed relevant bits of the question (for example answering questions about Excel 2003 telling poeple to select this or that from the RIBBON!)
I like the way that this looks like the sub pixels are all on top of each other instead of next to each other as for normal colour displays. I suspect that could make the biggest difference as to how easy on the eye colour e-ink displays are compared to "normals". I think that seeing a full single colour pixel instead of 3 different brigtness RGB sub-pixels near each other will really help.
As for CMY instead of RGB, it all depends on how their layers work. Obviously the RGB boys have layers that reflect that colour when activated, so even though the display is reflective, the different bits that are reflected add, hence RGB. Ricoh's layers obviously attenuate when activated and so are subtractive.
As far as black is concerned, it all depends on how attenuative their layers are, like my LCD TV which despite having a claimed contrast of 100000000000:1, can't do black unless I turn it off.
So MS says that Intel mislead us, but won't "lead" us right, so we are all still mislead...
Great, that was really helpful MS, thanks! (Should we have expected more helpfulness?)
"You all think the wrong thing, and you are wrong and we know but won't say. Ner ner ner ner..."
"Oh I'm a PC by the way..."
There is a good article here:
http://www.clarkvision.com/imagedetail/eye-resolution.html
It says that the angular resolution of the eye for a line pair is 0.59 arc-minute.
So if you have a display with 300ppi made up from 3 sub-pixels next to each other (R,G,B), and 2 green pixels next to each other, then you will see them as a single green block if you are further away than ~49cm. (unless my trig is failing me quicker than my eyesight, which is likely!)
As a quick test with the diagonal white boxes in the "Android App of the week" advert on the right, I had to be 2m from my monitor before the diagonal lines became straight instead of stair-cases, which is the right distance for 72ppi.
If you are closer than that, then you will see the two green pixels as two green pixels with a black pixel between them. Of course your brain will see all the pixels on the screen like that and may try to ignore it, but I guess that may cause eye-strain or reduced quality.
Also ITAR items:
- FPGA
- Static RAM
- Serial bus transcever
- N-Channel Mosfet that survives in space environment
- Communications satellite (regardless of what it is made out of)
And if your in-company EMC facility moves to another address, you have to change your ITAR paperwork, because you are "supplying" your "munitions" to a different address, even though it is the same people and is only for 2 weeks.
At the office we are changing to Office 2010. The new licenses do not cover use at home like the old ones did.
I have a home license for Office 2003. It covers use on 3 PCs (even simultaneously). I have it on the desktop, an 18" luggable and netbook. I looked at changing to 2010; With 2010 I can only install it on 1 (Can you imagine buying a CD and being told you can only play it in 1 player!).
"...what if you do have Cancer? Are you going to consider it helpful ..."
If you DO have cancer, and you find out about it because you checked yourself because of one of these things, then you might have a chance of getting rid of it before it kills you...
So I guess that you might find it helpful.
If however you want to remain ignorant, I'd suggest going back to eating all your food uncooked, never washing your hands and drinking everything you find in a bottle.
When you start selling 1.5TB disks for backup at £15 a pop, I'll listen.
(However if that takes 2 years to happen, the price I'll pay will go down, and the capacity will need to go up)
Oh, I'll also want WORM capable disks that I can add data to, but never overwrite or delete from.
I was thinking the opposite. This makes sense for MS. Practically everyone else uses SIP for VOIP (or supports it). Yet with Skype, it's a proprietry "standard" or nothing.
(Hold the press, I can now pay Skype a monthly fee to get their "free" calls into my SIP VOIP exchange...)
But you will have to work out which version of me you want. Buy the wrong one, and no, sorry I cannot connect to that network, you need a different version for that.
Some of your users want a different user-interface language? Sorry you have to buy a different version and re-install for that (or you could buy a different version that allows you to buy language packs for it, but you can't get that on your license scheme, and the different version won't work properly with the others on the network.)
I would very much prefer windows like MAC; only 1 version. Everything is included with each one. If you want a different language, just select a different language. If you want a network just connect them together; none of this Windows Vista won't talk to an XP machine, Windows 7 won't talk to a Vista machine; Or "If you want a network of PCs that work together, you need the new feature only in Win7 and all machines need to be Win7" crap.
Obviously I am biased. I cannot play BD content on my old TV, because they changed the spec for HDMI, and my laptop will not output BD to my old TV because it doesn't trust it.
Then I get a new BD disk, and it won't play in my laptop. I have to update the S/W, and then it won't play my old BDs or DVDs anymore. I have to update it again, and then it downloads another update (all are ~58MB and paying for my net in 5MB chunks, this makes me happy!)
Now with the new update, I can watch all the disks on my laptop again, but now I can't even watch them on the new TV; now I get an error but it worked before.
I'm for putting all my BD content & DVDs on disk and playing them using my set-top without Intels new whizz-bang.
With all people's eggs in one barsket, it's a bit obvious that this site would be a target.
Why the downvotes for peyton's comments FFS!
(Or is it because they suggested a Paris level of intellect and understanding on the part of the people who set-up and ran a system that allowed weak passwords and was so vulnerable to hacking that it was compromised twice independantly in a week?)
Yeah, but with piano keys, the same key always make the same sound.
With keyboards, you notice how the different keys jump around all over the place depending on who's PC you use, and which keyboard they have. I especially hate having to hunt around for the @ and \ symbols and then give up and type their ASCII codes instead.
Also the collection of ´ different ` apostrophe ' symbols that you get from different keyboards and the fact that nothing appears until you press another key makes me extra happy.
The review will also include recommendation to free up access to "orphan works", where the original rights-holder cannot be contacted, according to the Treasury report.
Does this mean that if I write to SONY BMG and they do not get back to me, then the works become "orphan" ?
However I'm not sure that this will make up for the companies that deliberately remove the copyright information from photographs and then claim that the rights-hold cannot be contacted (e.g. BBC)
Does that mean he got in the way of their tazer?
It actually shows the UK police to be a bit more restrained. They only shoot people who have hidden "weapons", like a table leg in a bag, or a copy of Metro on the tube. How can you claim that a naked person had a hidden weapon?
I don't see the point really, if it still has disk and still runs windows and applications, then you still need to manage it and it still borks itself over some obscure setting in the registry that means the only option is to nuke it from orbit.
To my mind a thin PC has a screen & keyboard (mouse if you're lucky), and only enough flash to store the singular program that it runs, which just displays the graphics packets that come down the wire & send back what the user does. Everything else can live on the monstor in the basement.
Is this a case of ZTE making stuff and sticking Huawei's mark on it to rip people off, or is it a case of ZTE buying HUAWEI stuff and selling it as HUAWEI stuff?
If it is the former then Huawei should rightly crush ZTE to dust. If it is the latter, then Huawi can burn in hell along with Levis, Sony and other companies that say shops can only sell their goods with enormous mark-ups on.
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