Posts by JDX

@Simon Davidson

I agree - $49/99 is a tiny fee even for a 1-man startup. You will pay more than that to get e-commerce in your website.

What I don't understand is why MS want 30% of sales - if they really want to get developers on board why not run it at cost, take 10% or even give the first X sales free.

Google should just have bought FB at 100m users, or whenever it was clearly taking off. Just like they did with YouTube.

"He also noted that females are much more resistant to pain during climax."

So they got women to rub themselves off in a MRI scanner, then slapped them when they came, and videod the whole thing?

here we go...

How many posts before someone uses the phrase "walled garden" in anger?

MS are more concerned getting WP7 to grow, than making the 360 gain universal phone-as-remote functionality. There are a lot of XBox users, and if they can put a USP on the phone that could get the ball rolling with user take-up.

£41pcm

Ouch

re:noscript

Sying turning off JS is a solution is a bit like saying you can make a computer more secure by not letting users run any programs... JS _is_ the internet to a significant extent in these days of AJAX and non-static pages.

interested to know how many Linux based customers lovefilm.com have

Surely the answer is very few... not only because Linux remains a (tiny) minority OS for desktop/laptop, but because Linux users are (statistically speaking) more into getting stuff for free.

I still want to know what's happening about mobile devices though. Netflix uses SL in the US but you can watch it on iOS IIRC... so does that mean special iOS/Android apps exist?

Maybe they should talk to Google

Would you take a vaccine from MS... no chance of a hotifx!

No Humax this year?

Outclassed or forgotten?

ouch

So you avoid carrying a tablet and phone, but have to pay the same amount anyway?

Controllability?

I had a cheap RC helicopter a while ago and was massively disappointed that it basically seemed to just go up and down. At what price point do you move from a gimmick, to something you can actually learn to fly - and any recommendations?

Isn't cracking the code supposed to give a password? If so how does just knowing the completion URL help?

Why shouldn't Apache want members to use the same infrastructure... as a developer I like that I know how things will work in advance.

And all this waffle about Git - it's just another tool, not a silver bullet.

As a Windows user I never 'got' quicktime, it just seemed like another annoying plugin/addon I had to install. The way others feel about Flash probably!

@TomR

Did you post purely to balance out the bias you saw in the article? Or did you think asserting several 'facts' without a single link would show us all the True Way?

If it's really that good, then this is perhaps less over-priced then MacBooks themselves?

Domestic energy bills will fall by 7% if we use 1/3 less electricity.

What a bargain.

On the assumption people posting here are FPS gamers

Then their weakly constructed, aggressively presented arguments seem to back up Mr. Wang.

It annoys me that I'm automatically logged into Youtube by Google. I use g-apps for business and I don't particularly want my work email linked to all the random youtube videos I watch.

bargain

I didn't think they could do anything for under £500k, let alone a fairly decent system (the fact nobody listens to it is a separate story)

Nintendo also make some games. But they are not the sole maker of games. And it STILL takes time to learn how to make a good game with a totally new input device, rather than as a gimmick.

Just because interest is falling

doesn't mean it won't go back up. It just depends who is in the news at the time... iPad3 rumours and Kindle Fire, etc. When Microkia start showing their tablets properly, we'll see.

re:There is no-way to go lower than 14nm

Well, now a random person said it on the internet, won't Intel be feeling silly!

Flex

Why does Flex being OS make it near death? In the Java world, OS tools like Spring/Hibernate are the core of Enterprise software, and opening the Flex SDK means the technology can now grow and develop unfettered by how interested Adobe are.

"I think though the plan was to make Bond more believable."

Have you _seen_ the stunts in the recent films? I'm thinking the chase scene at the start of one of the Craig films especially (can't remember which right now)

re:Imaginary mass, Rockstar physicists

1. "Imaginary numbers" are not imaginary. They were not 'invented', at least no more so that regular numbers were... which is to say both _were_ invented/discovered.

2. Feynman would also today be described as a 'Rockstar' - keen on popularizing science, liked talking to people, charismatic, etc. Attacking a scientist simply because they don't spend every hour in a lab avoiding human contact is asinine

@A 20

Shush, he was making an important point of principle, the facts are just an inconvenience.

@Mike_JC

If all those ribbon haters spent as much time (or even a fraction of it) learning how the ribbon works as they did complaining on the web about how it's too difficult, they would be able to _stop_ complaining on the internet, saves themselves a lot of time in the long run, and perhaps be a bit happier.

Still chavvy?

I was put of the N4S franchise a decade ago - I liked the driving but the whole chav vibe of pimping my car really annoyed me.

Is this still the background to the games, or have they grown up and the N4S name is more a brand than anything else?

Pro?

I find the whole concept of extending the Pro range to 13" versions a bit bizarre, to be honest.

Besides being really cool to look at, ... have a serious scientific point to the project

I think they just wanted the coil, and found some science to justify it :)

I think this one case where MS just made a better product.

So "it's better than Android" but still crap?

That seems to be the gist of the article - smooths Androids rough edges but not as good as iPad. What did you expect precisely?

re:Je suis sceptical

Human amputees can run pretty well on replacement legs that are essentially a single piece of spring-steel.

A real bird has to be long-lasting. A robot doesn't need to run for 10 years without wearing out.

Also, some systems that are efficient, can be ill-suited to evolutional processes if there isn't a way to get there through many gradual iterations. So planning the final result, it's possible to create something evolution would never have got to.

Why doesn't he just go to www.gmail.com? What am I missing here?

No

Apple doesn't have a monopoly on Smartphones. They can certainly sign a valid contract with a supplier to go exclusive with them... if the supplier accepts it. The supplier shouldn't, but it's a bit surprising Apple don't have the clout to push the issue considering how big a contract that is for the supplier.

Hooray

More pixels to drain the battery and strain the CPU.

We don't need it. 1600x1200 (or 1900x1200) on PCs has been fine for a decade because nobody wants more unless they have a giant screen, even though GPUs will drive more than that. Even gamers spending £2k on their rig are happy with it.