* Posts by JDX

6847 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2010

Microsoft: Don't overclock Windows 8 unless you like our new BSOD

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Re: Hold on...

Don't be daft, he thinks he can entrust all his data to a single 486 desktop running Linux - no need to backup either. After all, it's Linux.

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Re: Bullpat

You're talking nonsense. Problems due to overclocking are statistical in nature... Intel clock it at 2.5Ghz because that means it statistically gives a very low failure rate, at 3.75 they are not satisfied with reliability. The fact your chip runs at this speed just means you got lucky, or that it hasn't broken yet.

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overclocked CPUs are more likely to make a Windows PC crash

Um, no s**t Sherlock. Running a CPU faster than designed raises the possibility of problems? Surely ANY computer running ANY OS is more likely to crash in such cases.

Sozzled Americans nagged by talking urinal cake

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It would be better if it detected you'd actually been drinking too much and warned you you were over the limit. Though does urine allow that?

Google.eggfaced: Chocolate Factory spaffs cash in dot-word bungle

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URLs such as dogs.are/cute or fast.est/swimmer

Oh jeez. Gone are the days of URLs that make sense then.

Apple's Mountain Lion to offer automatic security updates

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Apple's New Security Policy

Every time a component or application is found to have vulnerabilities, just turn it off.

Reg hack attempts gutsiest expenses claim EVER

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Pint

€1.10 for a beer?

yum

Google claims Chrome is the world's most popular browser

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Re: Even if IE9 is alright

That's stupid. Stop acting like a child.

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Agreed IE9 is pretty slick and the integration with W7 is something cool too - seeing tabs as separate previews on the start-bar for instance.

Regarding spell-checking... you can get spell-checking for IE9. I've got it installed and it's identical to how FF/Chrome do it.

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Would be nice if Google actually created something from scratch.

Well done for totally missing the point of open source - creating software so that people CAN create great software (free or commercial) with it.

If you want to demand people put back in "their fair share" to the community start your own "it's only fair" license to compete with GPL, MIT, Apache, et al. I'm sure you'll get plenty of MPs supporting you.

Dixons and Best Buy start selling Google Chromebooks

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graphics performance equal to a $1,000 conventional laptop

That'll come in handy for rendering web-pages.

Google wingmen rain Project Glass on San Francisco

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$1500 isn't eye-watering. And I thought this was only vapourware, not something they actually had working! Where is the CPU?

Android Firefox: Screaming, awesome, you'll go blind etc

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Re: Why the non-IE drowser partisanship?

You betray your ignorance.

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Are they going to replace the default Android browser with Chrome, i.e. make Chrome the built-in browser?

Microsoft: We tried to use Azure ourselves last year, and couldn't

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Re: MS

"decades of experience" means you're an old, past-it has-been :)

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I'd expect products and services get tested before initial release

You misunderstand. Testing is done, but actually making people use it for real is not the same as testing. i.e. checking all the features of Word work and it doesn't have bugs is testing, but forcing all your staff to use the new version in day to day use is "dogfooding".

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Back to basics

If the story is true, then for that at least they deserve some commendation. Though they should be eating their own dog-food to start with really!

YouView 'launch event' to take place next week

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Ignorant about this...

...it's passed me by. Is the idea it's a single way for BBC, C4, ITV to deliver streaming video - in effect a new additional tool alongside iPlayer which supercedes it?

Given the massive difference in quality between iPlayer and 4OD, I'd be worried it won't be as good as iPlayer is to begin with (although iPlayer implementations on non-PC platforms tend to be pretty hit&miss).

Or did I misunderstand totally?

Microsoft says tablets will trump PCs in 2013

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Apple are dominant because they're the first to launch a decent mass-market product... just as they were with iPhone. Yet now iPhone is not the dominant market player. Tablets will become less brand-specific eventually, or will die out.

Raspberry Pi to skipper microship across Atlantic

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Re: Too small?

I don't think rowers travel at only 1knot. Also, a rowing boat is less susceptible to being blown backwards by the slightest breeze...

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Joke?

This won't make it more than a mile the moment the wind reaches F5 or above.

NASA counts down to nuclear tank invasion of Mars

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Re: Excuse my ignorance...

All measurement systems are totally man-made and a foot is no less rational than a metre.

The only rational unit might be to measure everything in Planck lengths!

Nokia details 808 Pureview release

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What to do???

How about wait until it's launched, reviewed, and tested before deciding to buy one or not.

Microsoft: no plans to make own phones

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Makes sense

Many companies are already good at making great phones. But only Apple has shown form in making tablets and they're not going to get on the W8 route :)

Facebook replaces non-Facebook mail addresses on Timeline

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I have a FaceBook email address, but I've no idea what it is or how I access it. And I don't want my email address shown on FB anyway.

I am a bit surprised FB are even promoting email, rather than DM/PM functionality.

Bonking for money to be built into the next iPhone

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Re: Is it needed?

Yes but with cameras you don't have a network effect - you build a camera into a phone and it's a camera. If you build a payment device into a phone, it's only useful if 100% (or close) of vendors accept it. Which they won't... so everyone will HAVE TO carry their credit/debit card with them as well.

I'm more interested in using my phone at an ATM I reckon. Do they plan to do this?

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Is it needed?

New credit cards already let you pay by touch and I always have my CC with me so while it's a cool nerdy trick, does it gain users anything? I never used it so it's a real question, ware there real use cases?

Even Apples sometimes have worms in them, admits Cupertino

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Re: PC

A Mac can get Windows viruses if you use BootCamp. This is not some hacky "void your warranty" thing, BootCamp is mainstream software on the Mac.

Western Digital My Book Thunderbolt Duo

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How much do 2 external 2TB drives cost?

Google Nexus 7 price, details confirmed in pre-I/O leak

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Re: That can't be right

Really? That's still funny?

Huawei Ascend G300 budget Android

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Sounds pretty amazing

I'm still on my Nokia N81 and finally considering upgrading, but I want to stay on O2. I imagine the £100 price on this means it's locked to Vodafone?

I've been looking at the Lumia 710 and I would be interested to know how the two stack up. Note I am not after high performance or external storage or the ability to root my phone... I want a solid phone which can also do internet/email on the side.

Why I love Microsoft’s vapourware tablet

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Re: Hmmmm tough call.

Given an iPad costs £400 where do you get £600 from?

And if you've ever used an iPAd it's far superior to a £200 android tablet.

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Re: "About the same as an ultrabook"

As explained above in answer to my question, that's only for the x86 version which basically IS an ultrabook. If an ARM version is the same cost as an iPad I'm interested to get one (if I didn't already have an iPad 2).

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The Crash

meaningless, even iPads have done this at launch IIRC.

A price of £1k would be a massive deal-breaker though. Compete directly with the iPad perhaps but costing more is crazy... unless that's for the Intel version only and the ARM one will be considerably cheaper. After all an Intel tablet kind of IS like an ultrabook only even smaller and smaller means pricier.

Apple's iPhone 5 connector said to be a control freak

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Seems a bit daft, the vast majority of addons are not sold by Apple so what do they gain?

Neo-Nazis scoop YouTube ad revenue from UK telcos

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Re: Did Jesus exist?

Well it's good to know 2 thousand years of academic discussion has now been cleared up once and for all by a partisan website and an internet nobody.

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Free speech does not equate to being allowed to be a complete arsehole

Discuss..

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Re: Confusing

a)because they're forced to by local laws

b)because as they say, they don't include "hate speech" as part of "free speech"

Iran: Our nuke facilities still under attack by US, Israelis 'and MI6'

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Re: "Windows 7 was my idea"

You're keen on a nuclear accident?

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Re: Hey Iran...

I doubt it's the fault of Windows... you have to assume ANY system CAN be broken if an attacker has to access it. As well as semi-joking about internet access, it should be a fully closed system.

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Hey Iran...

...please unplug your nuclear plants from the internet, for your own security and everyone else's safety!

Kepler space telescope peers at hot alien couple

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If those planets have moons, you would get some truly astounding views as both planets rise/set... and you wouldn't melt from the heat either.

NASA sniffs water ice on Moon – maybe

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Re: Mars is boring!

You realise this article is about the moon, not Mars?

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That doesn't really seem an answer, simply a slightly related fact. You don't say what temperature sublimation occurs at for instance.

On a related note... isn't 40K quite warm for a crater which never sees the sun? Has the sun, over the eons, heated the entire moon up to 40K? Or is there residual heat from the moon's core?

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The colourful moon is much nicer, let's have that version.

On a serious note, doesn't ice sublime in vacuum and would therefore disappear without an atmosphere?

Apple flat-screen TV to ship by holiday season?

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Why would Apple sell a 4K TV when there's no 4K content?

Why would they decide 3K is what a 13" laptop needs?

Finnish PM rules out Nokia rescue package

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upgrading existing handsets is impossible

>>Microsoft has recoded the platform so that it shares kernel features with Windows 8, which is good for integration but bad news for smartphone vendors, since upgrading existing handsets is impossible.

Is this just bad reporting... why does changing the kernel automatically mean handsets can't be upgraded? Surely if people can hack their iPad to run Android or get Win98 running on a phone, getting WP8 onto WP7.5 hardware is possible?

Vatican subtly shifts its position on The Blues Brothers

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Re: I'm guessing.....

Or End of Days.

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What about...

...Nuns on the Run?

Crime Map

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Re: Apps unnecessary

Does the police site do AR?