* Posts by Adam 1

2545 publicly visible posts • joined 7 May 2012

Windows 8.1: So it's, er, half-speed ahead for Microsoft's Plan A

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Re: LOL yet another big FU from MS

" would you be complaining about the fact the Start Menu is really fiddly to use with a finger?"

Yes. TIFKAM works well for touch and the start menu doesn't. But what is your point?

Have the swipe events bring up TIFKAM and the keyboard or mouse click the start menu. Or have a preference setting where you pick your preferred application launcher. It really isn't a problem that couldn't be solved.

The future of cinema and TV: It’s game over for the hi-res hype

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Boffin

Re: used to play Quake and UT all night?

IDKFA

Leaked docs: GCHQ spooks secretly haul in more data than NSA

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Re: That's an awful lot of porn for anyone to watch.

Why Pa.... Nevermind.

Google staffing boss: Our old hiring procedures were 'worthless'

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who knew?

"except for one guy who was highly predictive because he only interviewed people for a very specialized area, where he happened to be the world's leading expert."

Their streetview team was trained by the stig.

Vodafone Oz launches '100 Mbps' 4G service

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Stop

"presuming that there aren't too many other users in the cell"

The way Vodafone has been going recently, it is quite plausible that there wont be too many other users in the cell..

Surprise! Intel smartphone trounces ARM in power trials

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Re: no mention of the elephant in the room

According to the NDK website

" These requirements mean you can use native libraries produced with the NDK in applications that are deployable to ARM-based devices running Android 1.5 or later. If you are deploying native libraries to x86 and MIPS-based devices, your application must target Android 2.3 or later."

That doesn't seem like a show stopper in 2013.

US Supremes: Human genes can't be patented

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Re: Clarification needed

Or even if some sequence was believed to be synthesized but later found to be naturally occurring in some south American bee...

Headbangers have a gas, gas, gas in mosh pits

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Junket much.

Apple unveils hints of Monday's new-product announcements

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Re: 7 ... X

I am pretty sure that they are merging their 2 UI from ios and OSX into one. When you boot up your next iMac you will be presented with a begin screen full of icons. The old desktop will be behind one of those icons but the other Apple store apps will get an icon as well. To get back to the begin screen full of icons you just move your mouse to one of the corners and wait for the new icharm menu to display.

Seven all-in-ones that aren't the Apple iMac - and one that is

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Why is the lack of an optical drive annoying and the counter point to the useability of the hp but just an omission on the Mac?

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Re: All fugly except the mac

" It would actually make a very interesting case-study they'd documented the process that lead to such a disgusting turd of a design."

Maybe they were looking for a design that matches the OS it is running.

Google accused of hypocrisy over Glass ban at shareholder shindig

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Re: Hang on here...

You get a thumbs up because you made me laugh, but I still think that there is something ironic about the situation and Google are trying to argue both sides of the fence in different situations.

No doubt these are the sorts of philosophical questions we need to ask ourselves in the future. For example, it is certainly within reason to expect various hearing implants and similar technology for vision impaired people may gain the ability to record or live stream to a cloud of some sort. We may even get to a point where we can store and retrieve our memories from some hard disk-like system as if it were our brain to help sufferers of dementia or similar diseases.

YES, Xbox One DOES need internet, DOES restrict game trading

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Re: Not only deny it Internet access

I'd go as far as denying it shelf space.

MYSTERY Nokia image-mangling mobe spotted in public

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More than just sensor size

I'm no pro, but I do have a D70 which I got nearly 10 years ago now which I used (alongside several books) to teach myself the skills. Without doubt, the computing power in a modern phone is substantially better than the D70. Asides from the quality of the optical zoom (which you have limits of physics and substantial costs), modern point and shoot cameras and camera phones can take excellent photos. My big personal problem with them is that it is infeasibly slow to use any manual mode due to the fact you have got to go through menus for a few minutes to setup your shots.

If there was a way of getting a few more rocker switches so that you could quickly change the aperture (maybe limited possibility due to physics), shutter speed or dial in some EV compensation, it would definitely be an option for more than a look-at -me facebook post.

That and a proper flash would go a lot further to creating good photos than a gaizeeelion terapixel sensors. A physically large sensor with downsampling will go a long way towards ensuring that each recorded pixel is as close as possible to what comes through the lens. The real challenge is to ensure what comes through the lens is what you want.

iPHONES and 'Pads BANNED in US for violating Samsung patent

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Re: Er..umm

The argument is that Apple failed to license the patents for some of the technologies these specific devices rely upon. My understanding is that they are related to standards and therefore Apple is entitled to a FRAND license deal just like anyone else who wants to use those same technologies. If Samsung are not offering a deal consistent with FRAND Apple can get a hearing on that. But we don't want to pay anyone anything is not an option Apple has unless they remove the offending feature. Being a CDMA radio I think that they will need to pay something or stop selling those devices.

The next battle will undoubtedly be how fair and reasonable the FRAND offers are.

My bleak tech reality: You can't trust anyone or anything, anymore

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"easy to remember (and thus easy to crack) passwords"

You could staple a horse battery to the amount of incorrect in the above quote.

An easy to remember password doesn't need to be easy to crack. And I have seen plenty of "good" passwords which would take minutes to crack.

Finally – mind-controlled limbs without brain surgery

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I am sure it is altruism at play

All rehabilitation and nothing to do with exoskeleton robots for more regular infantry.

Just like how drones are just a really helpful search and rescue technology.

Film crew plans dig to find lost burial ground of Atari's E.T.

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Re: I'll tell you why it was bad.

WOW! The only way that would get worse is if EA bought the franchise.

Former Microsoft Windows chief: I was right to kill the Start button

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Re: He was wrong.

I think you will find it is TIME-SUCKING BLACK HOLES OF ULTIMATE FAIL!!!

NASA: Trip to Mars would exceed 'fatal cancer' radiation risk

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So much focus on the cancer.

So little on the superhero powers.

Australia's de-facto net filter has ZERO regulation

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Re: Conroy is still in power?

It's the red underpants we are forced to wear on our heads. They are just too strong.

We gave SQL Server 2012 one year to prove itself: What happened?

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Re: POWER VIEW

EXPENSIVE HEAVY BLOATWARE FAIL!!!

Stand by for PURPLE KETCHUP as boffins breed SUPER TOMATOES

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Re: I just had to point out

Lol. tinia.

Fibre boosters trip the light fantastic with 800G BPS LINKS

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units

800 GBPS != 800 Gbps

Kids these days. We all know the proper unit of bandwidth is Olympic swimming pools

Now it gets serious: Fracking could RUIN BEER

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Re: Lager is near frozen gnats urine. It is NOT beer

On behalf of my antipode brethren, I offer my apologies for Fosters

CSIRO scales up solar cell printing

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The CSIRO have form at picking good directions.

http://www.csiro.au/en/Outcomes/ICT-and-Services/People-and-businesses/wireless-LANs.aspx

Happy 23rd birthday, Windows 3.0

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Re: Short Memories

I was thinking that just last night after I found that my mobile was only transferring a video at 500KB/s across WIFI. Then I realised that would have been DOS 5 in under 5 seconds

Microsoft reveals Xbox One, the console that can read your heartbeat

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Stop

Re: It's £399

Why are kids these days such cynics?

Just the other day I received a lovely email from a Nigerian banker. I can't share too much right now, but lets just say I think I can find the £399 launch price.

Review: Samsung Galaxy S4

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The amount of people I see through phones down on their desks / in cars / you get the point, is unbelievable.

"throw"

Unless you are talking about people you are observing on the screen of your phone.

/Pedant

'Liberator': Proof that you can't make a working gun in a 3D printer

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Re: Your better off printing a sling shot.

Wake me up when a 3D printer can duplicate itself.

New Zealand to bar software patents, again

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Re: Obvious

Who am I to judge the reasons that another person has for picking their representatives in government?

But a government who wins the most seats where everyone votes has a good mandate. In a close contest or hung parliament this becomes important.

I think it crazy that so much money is spent just getting your base to attend a vote rather than convincing the electorate at large as to why you are the best man/woman for the job.

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Re: Obvious

At least compulsory voting stops disproportionate influence going to a bunch of nutters. That said, the law states that you have to attend the polling booth and get you name marked off. If you truly don't care, just fold it in half and drop it in the box.

'No discernible increase in piracy' from DRM-free e-books

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This is proof

Why do they let simpletons like this guy do copyright math? I mean an ebook file is smaller than an mp3. It should be a dead giveaway that the damage to the economy is bigger than for an iPod. The real losses could be as high as $16 billion per reader.

Nokia shareholder tells CEO Elop he's going to hell

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Re: Too late to switch again

I suspect there are a few billion "good reasons" to remain wp only.

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Re: Oh Dear

Obvious troll is obvious.

Google hit by building automation security FAIL

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Coat

Niagra Fails

Spectrum auction closes shy of $AU2 billion

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No Vodafone??

Suspected Chinese NASA spy smuggled smut not state secrets

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Re: MAFIAA fail?

That sort of theft would be at least $8 billion by my copyright math.

Google Chrome slips web fix to addicts suffering net withdrawal

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Re: You mean

No. It becomes innovative whenever it becomes supported by safari.

Plans for fully 3D-printed gun go online next week

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Re: Ammunition?

And of course that nail firing pin would look a bit suspicious too

So long, Hotmail: Remaining users migrated to Outlook.com

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Re: you mean a regular SMTP server...

HELO on_behalf_of_hotmail.com

Brit horologist hammers out ‘first’ ATOMIC-POWERED watch

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Re: Cold start time setting?

Pretty simple actually, you just hold both the hour and minute buttons down for a few seconds until it flashes and when you press the select button it stops flashing and the seconds are at zero.

Not cool, Adobe: Give the Ninite guys a job, not the middle finger

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Re: It's worse than you think.

+1 good commenter. Would read again

Judge sets the date for Patent Smackdown 2: The Damages

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pretty simple solution

It seems to me that they should just get judge Judy to decide who owes who what.

New Google Play terms ban non-store app updates

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Re: Hypocrites

Links?

(serious question)

Review: Nokia Lumia 520

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Re: Where's Eadon....

EPIC LANDFILL FAIL

Microsoft to unveil new Xbox console on May 21

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Re: Love it...

Always on by your definition of what they could mean is no different to the capability that all consoles have had for a long time now, even my Wii does that.

Clearly they mean a feature not present consoles don't have, otherwise it is hardly revolutionary is it?

If they proceed with a SimCity style always on connection, it will definitely be a turning point in consoles. It will be the end of the Xbox era.

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Re: Progress is good

Although TIFKAM combined with Kinect might just make sense.

Free French app app booted by Apple, triggers 1m-strong petition

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Google play still has dosbox. It is also easy enough to install apps from other stores.

The ad block apps worked as a man-in-the-middle interception for all web traffic without an explicit permission token. I agree it is incredibly convenient for an ad business to be allowed to block an ad blocker but it is hard to argue that this technique couldn't be exploited by malware.

Bill Gates offends Koreans after sticking hand down trousers

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Re: Maybe

" A better comparison might be Bill Gates dining with the queen and not stopping eating when she does."

Damn, I didn't know that one either.