Posts by Gordon 10

Shame Lewis felt the need

To include his last paragraph. On the surface at least his arguement seem to make sense for once.

Coming to a rover near mars....

Cyanogen Mod - Red Planet edition.

Anyone wondering if you can brick a rover?

Nice Conceit but wishful thinking

When the companies that own your data also own or provision the tools that let you manipulate that data - why on earth would they allow this utopia to happen? They would be cutting their own throat.

Simple answer they wont and moreover will never feel the need to until such time as the inconvience of having every internet indescretion outweights every element of percieved utility from the product and or service.

Even then all that will happen is people will move on to the next worse offender.

People as a mass are fundamentally lazy and as long as the user experience is 90% Yay/Meh and 10% Aarrrggh they will not change en mass.

Startups in Silicon Roundabout

Need not apply.

Motion Resolution

What on earth is this? Is it some marketing metric aimed at the gullible or is it something thats actually measurable? What is all this talk of lines like its some 1990's CRT?

Not that I necessarily care either way I would just like to know. Im not one of these frequent commentards who feels you cant have a subjective review and demands an objective one - but I would like to understand the whether its techno babble or marketese.

Meh

Given that you have been able to get similar clips on ebay for years for peanuts and with longer battery life Im not sure what the USP is.

Unless of course it has a specially shortened QUALITY set of earbuds. the only problem I found for the aforementioned ones on ebay was having to tie my sennheiser core up with a bag tie to shorten the cable.

what are the keys made of?

glass scratchiing easy typing hardness

glass friendly nasty typing softness

Much as it pains me

Im with BT on this one. For all their slurping in the trough they actually are willing to entertain new areas.

When was the last big roll out (to potential new areas) from VM.

Cutting their own throat?

Surely a deal with B&N to get the nook onboard would have been better to protect their bricks and mortar business?

attack of the mutant clippies.

I can just see the Rozzer Clippy now.

"Good Morning! What would you like to do today?"

1. Upload kiddie pron to Perps phone.

2. Upload call records and texts from Al Qaeda

3. Text "ICE- Wife" with Saucy Suzie Call.

4. Just fusck up the phone.

5. All of the above?

You have to admire Amazon

For all IBM's decade old wittering about Grid computing the only ones with the vision to truly implement it on a global scale were Amazon. Not the first, not the best - but close enough to both to make it a winner and have a considerable lead over the rest.

Call Lester and the SPB

Someone should find out what the trigger was to capture the balloon burst. The SPB might be able to use it for Lohan.

Unless its just a video stream still of course. Even then a camera focused on the balloon with a simple contrast detection routine might be usable for Lohan.

Way to go guys

So Yahoo are dying on their feet - albeit slowly and the best thing they can think to do with the cash from this is "return it to shareholders".

Way to go guys - god forbid you might actually use it to fund another round of investment or actually supercharge your R&D. A 700% ROI is pretty good by anyones measure.

/slowhandclap

why is this so hard

Sounds like they are running Access or similar as this "clerical system".

Still the base problem shouldnt be that difficult to correct. You should know when the record was created in the new system. Therefore you can go back to the old system and calculate arrears at that date, and transfer the opening balance across.

Obviously Im sure there are some subtleties not mentioned but it doesnt seem like rocket science.