* Posts by stucs201

1293 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Feb 2010

Intel shows off wine-powered processor and biometric boffinry

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Why couldn't they have just used a potato like normal people?

How am I supposed to make GLaDOS jokes when they use wine instead?

Apple ships new iPods in 'SPAAAAACE ... Gray'

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To quote Apple's own web site (*)...

..."One word. Capacity".

How about increasing it instead of messing with the colour?

(*) On the classic page

Apple quietly revives iPhone charging and syncing docks

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Re: Only Apple

I too can't see a good reason for not also bringing back the changeable insert of the old 'universal' dock (I wonder if that name combined with the 5's incompatible connector was why they tried to get rid of docks?)

WAIT! Don't you dare send that ad-spaff email without 'specific' consent

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Sounds good...

...but will it actually get enforced?

OK, forget the 3D telly fiasco: 4K is gonna blow you away - say tech giants

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Re: over compression

Which is one reason I still prefer my HD films on a shiny silver disc than as a download.

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Re: Would prefer higher framerate

Not just frame-rate. Dynamic range is overdue for improvement too. Either of these would do more for realism than more pixels (not that I'd turn down more pixels if it was "as well as", rather .than "instead of").

Of course 4K is (contrary to some other posts) easier to find content for. Plenty of films are shot at a suitable resolution (that version would just need distributed beyond the cinemas). However very few are shot at higher frame rates (I can only think of The Hobbit) and as for higher dynamic range, thats probably limited to still images from high-end cameras.

China, India the key to Micr-okia's fate says IDC

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So what happens to their feature phones?

Do they stay because they make money?

Do they go because they don't run an MS operating system?

Tiny fireball exoplanet completes one year in 8.5 hours

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Re: Search for Earth II

Oops. Ah well, at least I didn't post any Vogon poetry.

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Re: Search for Earth II

Also, having the Vogon's explode Earth I first is going to be inconvinient.

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Re: Mandatory XKCD link

Akima: You can’t call a planet “Bob.”

Cale: So now you’re the boss. You’re the King of Bob.

Akima: Can’t we just call it “Earth”?

Cale: No one said you have to live on Bob.

Akima: I’m never calling it that.

Titan A.E.

Happy birthday MIDI 1.0: Getting pop stars wired for 30 years

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Happy

unique applications that have nothing to do with music

That'll be midi maze on the ST then.

We even have an icon for it --->

So fondleable Windows 8 didn't work out so well: Why not try it IN 3D?

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The machine was rather difficult to operate.

For years radios had been operated by means of pressing buttons and turning dials; then as the technology became more sophisticated the controls were made touch-sensitive - you merely had to brush the panels with your fingers; now all you had to do was wave your hand in the general direction of the components and hope. It saved a lot of muscular expenditure of course, but meant that you had to sit infuriatingly still if you wanted to keep listening to the same programme.

'But we like 1 Direction!' Rock gods The Who fend off teen Twitter hate mob

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Not just The Who

A 'song' about some other song they can't remember? Sounds like they're ripping off Tenacious D too.

Samsung Mega 6.3: Enter the PHONDLESLAB

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Facepalm

Re: suit jacket.

All very well if you wear a suit jacket all the time. I'm not sure I can remember ever wearing one except at an interview, wedding or funeral (all of which are good occasions to leave the phone in the car). A coat pocket is no good either, I tend not to wear a coat inside or in warm weather/ If a phone doesn't fit in a (front) trouser pocket its insuficiently portable to carry unless you're a woman with a handbag.

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WTF?

watching movies....is more productive

Since when is watching movies more productive on any size screen? More enjoyable on a larger screen maybe, but not more productive.

Elon Musk unveils Hyperloop – the subsonic tube of tomorrow

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Re: And how much are we paying for HS2?

Inevitable petition:

http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/53736

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Re: 35 minute trip with no bathroom?

Its not exactly unusual to go that long between boarding a plane and it getting into the air and the seatbelt signs being switched off. Or drive that long between motorway service stations.

Possibly more of an issue in the case of a breakdown, but for normal journeys it'd be fine.

1,100 haiku heading to Mars on next NASA mission

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Re: This limerick's devoted to beer...

What do you mean you can't find bars on Mars? I've been hearing about Mars bars since I was a kid...

Google Glass: Would you pay a mere $299 to plop one on your brow?

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They need to work out how to mount a lens in them,

Mostly for the people who already wear glasses, but even a plain glass lens will also make them appear more normal (which you may or may not consider a good thing).

Despite Microsoft Surface RT debacle, second-gen model in the works

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No, no, no

Concentrate on the Pro version, that would probably have done better without the RT version tarnishing the surface name and creating customer confusion.

As for what to do with RT? Is there any more space in that landfil site where they burried the ET cartridges for the Atari?

Barbie paints Red Planet pink with NASA-approved Mars Explorer doll

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Barbierella?

See title.

Peter Capaldi named as 12th Doctor Who

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Coat

Re: download rice

So, unlimited rice pudding for all then...

(the one with the bag of jelly babies in the pocket)

Apple files patent for iPhone enabled auto-adjustable auto interior

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Re: It might have merit

I'd be more convinced if they were proposing a standard than filing a patent.

China Labor Watch gumshoes uncover TOP SECRET PLASTIC IPHONE

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Re: Plastic iPhone?

Back material does seem to be cyclic:

Metal first, then plastic for inproved signal, then glass for less scratches, then metal so it doesn't shatter... Plastic was just next in the cycle.

Microsoft lobs second Windows 8.1 preview at enterprise IT admins

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better yet would be to suck less in general.

(I'm not too hopeful of that though)

LG's curvy telly and Samsung's Galaxy camera seen in the wild

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Joke

I used to have a curvy screened tele

Used to curve the other way though.

Vulcan? Not on our tiny balls. Pluto moons named Kerberos, Styx

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Happy doggies

So the Disney dog is joined by a 3-headed dog and they're off to chase sticks.

Windows 8.1 Start button SPOTTED in the wild

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Re: Bunch of nancies

Actually even though I hate TIFKAM I have to agree the Win 7 start menu was cramped compared to the XP and earlier versions. I always assumed cramming the start menu into the corner on Win 7 was in preparation for the smaller screen of tablets, but since they introduced TIFKAM for that I have no idea why they got rid of the proper cascading XP style menu.

The Tomorrow People jaunt back to the airwaves

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Re: Thought there'd already been one remake

The article thinks there has too : "The show came back for a short 90's revival.... "

They WANT to EAT YOUR COMPUTER - welcome your ANT overlords

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Call for Ponder Stibbons

We obviously need to start building computers like Hex instead of messing around with electronics.

(The robe and point hat. Pass my staff while you're at it, yes the one with the knob on the end)

NASA signs off on sampling mission to Earth-threatening asteroid

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Re: So...

You mean it could return 100% of the asteroid as a sample?

Boffins find world's oldest virgin water trapped in Earth's crust

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Re: Silurians 2.0?

I don't think so. Apparantly its pre-cambrian life forms they're searching for - underground - that can mean only one thing:

Graboids!

Monitor-makers ponder Android-powered touch screens

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You want to sell more monitors? Give us better ones.

Not only do monitors not really wear out, they're not particularly getting obsolete either since resolution seems to have been (mostly) stalled for several years (or even gone backwards as 16:9 has gotten more common with 16:10 getting harder to find).

Apply some of the tech improvements which currently seem confined to tablet screens to desktop sized screens (better DPI, not put a computer in there) and they might find they sell rather more once there is a reason to upgrade (if at a sensible price) .

Boffins: Tireless star spurted deadly jets for half an hour at a time

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Mushroom

Re: I wonder

All of them?

Google tool lets you share data from BEYOND the GRAVE

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Ghoulgle?

See title.

Veiny green 'scum' meteorite may be first visitor from Mercury

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Its clearly not from mercury.

Its either:

a) A lump of purest green.

b) From Krypton.

Pick the pop-culture reference you prefer...

SimCity 4

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Can anyone explain the railways to me?

I never could get the inhabitants to use them, even when no alternative existed. Never understood how I should lay them out in order to work.

Keyboard, you're not my type

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Re: One issue, what was the last bit of kit you had a PS/2 port on?

Both my home desktop and the docking station for my work laptop have them.

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Re: PPC

I very much doubt the PPC had a proper mechanical keyboard. Although I never used one I suspect they were basically the same as the cheap keyboards used by the desktop equivalents (after all the whole point of buying an Amstrad PC was they were so much cheaper than most of the competition). At least the PPC had all the right keys and in the right places though.

Apple takes aim at accessory makers, files iPad stand patent

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A second iPad as a keyboard?

Well thats going to make the keyboards for Microsoft's surface seem very reasonably priced in comparison.

As for the book-like configuration and moving content between the two screens: Courier anyone?

Dalek designer Ray Cusick passes away aged 84

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Everything you need to know about Daleks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWn_1yOFpfU

Happy birthday, LP: Can you believe it's only 65?

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I also miss such warnings as:

"This stereo record can be played on mono reproducers provided with a

compatible or stereo cartridge wired for mono is fitted. Recent

equipment may already be fitted with a suitable cartridge. If in doubt

consult your dealer."

Of which the best and most memorable example was of course:

"This stereo record cannot be played on old tin boxes no matter what they are fitted with. If you are in possession of such equipment please hand it into the nearest police station."

Clarkson: 'I WILL find and KILL the spammers who hacked me'

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Striking Back

I'm reminded of this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tsXKAtpLm4I

Microsoft: Office 2013 license is for just one PC, FOREVER

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Re: Ship of Theseus for the modern age

“This will become, in time, the ax of someone’s grandfather,” said the king, lifting it out. “And no doubt over the years it will need a new handle or a new blade and over the centuries the shape will change in line with fashion, but it will always be, in every detail and respect, the ax I give you today."

Traceroute reveals Star Wars Episode IV 'crawl' text

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Re: Wonderful

I find your lack of faith disturbing...

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Unable to make the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs

If you want to read the whole thing you might need to increase the maximum number of hops beyond the default.

Ask Google this impossible question, get web filth as a reward

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Re: There's porn? On the interwebs?

Nope, that link wasn't Avenue Q.

But this one is : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-TA57L0kuc

Register reader Ray revs radio-controlled Raspberry Pi race rover

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Re: Looks like he invented time travel too...

Are you sure? Cool as this is I doubt it'll manage 88mph.

Public told to go to hell, name Pluto's two new moons

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Stick with the dog theme

One of them has to be Cerberus.

200 million office workers gagging for a... Microsoft Surface?

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Re: The other numbers are even funnier

> And what the fuck are those 50M non-iPad/Android/Windows tablets used at work?

WebOS?