Posts by James 51

And still no Amazon instant video app for android never mind windows or BB10.

Was I the only one who saw this and immediately thought of applications in space? Imagine the sole of boots and gloves in spacesuits covered with this. New designs for tethers. Robots could use it too. Could be a good way to grab a satellite you wanted to do maintenance on. Instead of grabbing it with a robot arm, have the arm end in a pad of this stuff and put it against the best surface you can manage.

Wouldn't you need to come up with the audio track seperately (unless your drone has whisper mode of course)?

The power lines application sounds good but what happens if it crashes into said lines? Plus the time they would be most useful would be when lines go down e.g. during storms. Might that be that useful.

I was going to ask about DuckDuckGo, nice to see it included.

Getting windows 8.1 64-bit into 8" tablets would probably do a bit to boost sales.

Don't blackberry already have an envrioment to do this with qt and c++?

Perhaps the self-drive electic cars could have pedals fitted so you could generate power for the gadgets in the car and get less unhealthy at the same time.

Must read for goverment officals everywhere.

Can't come soon enough. Next thing will be being able to call other countries in the EU without being charged an enormous price for it.

Can you have movies not bought from the xbox/amazon on those external hard disks and watch them? Would be a big plus if so.

So, their going to turn mobile phones into walkie talkies. Looking forward to the hack that allows you to call people within 100m without piggy backing on anyone's network infrastructure. Could be handy when abroad.

Pcpro has a review of a chromebook with 4gb or RAM for £200. As long as it's fairly easy to stick linux on, why not?

The obvious solution for that would seem to be to have a touch screen built into your desk (though a camera based solution might work as well).

I bought one of the first 256mb drives that was available in the UK. Ten years later it's still my off line back up for all my documents. My 32gb stick is a bit small for playing video on the xbox and the other 32gb doesn't hold that much video on the satellite box.

Dlo the chinese have a commerical program to speak of?

Jules Verne on Arianne 5

How long would it take to get the rocket and module rated for human flight?

there's bound to be some ARM version of linux that will run in it. 1gb of ram is a bit small, 2gb would be nicer.

That seems like very expensive data. Any reason why I shouldn't activate the wi-fi hotspot on my 4G enabled phone and let everyone else use that?

The 1020 is the only windows phone I had considered getting with my contract expired due solely to the camera. The lumia line has just taken a big hit.

If binge is your think and they don't have that many shows you want, you could always binge or a month or two, leave and then go back in six months or a year and repeat the process.

They need to expand their fibre network for one thing if they want to see a big jump in subscribers.

Picked my second playbook up cheap, will probably still be using it for another two or three years till the battery goes. That combined with the increase in the cost of living means I don't see a reason to but another tablet no matter how cheap it is.

At last, someone who understands what the playbook was/is. The split between the personal/business apps and data in BB sounds like it's exactly what you're after.

It will be interesting to see what cpu they use. Main reason I would hold off on the current generation of 8 inch windows tablets is 2gb ram/32 bit windows.

It's the old calculation. Is it cheaper to cut corners on costs you can measure like development and testing or the costs you can't measure or come out of soemone else's budget which deal with the fallout when things go wrong.

Would this not also be an issue for blackberry handsets which are encrypted and then wiped?

Or is this a matter of need secure comms? We have this unbreakable encryption called enigma we got from the nazis after the war you might be interested in.

"he will never return home until corruption is quashed in his country."

He's going to be waiting a long time to go home.

How long are these patents good for?

This happened to me but I had everything backed up so the quickest thing was to create a bootable usb with 14.04 on it and reinstall wiping the previous install out.

I've read this story every few years. The other side of the story that is not told is the managers' goal of 'driving up quality while driving down costs' and IT staff are usually seen as costs.