Posts by Steve I

Re: Terrorists?

".......Arabic has given more to computing than most cultures." Like what?

Those funny squiggles we use to count things? you know, numbers?

Re: Why would you ever want to do this?

Got to agree - Objective-C syntax isn't *that* different from Java and the hard bit is learning all the API's and what they can do, which you're going to have to do to take full advantage of the platform, not matter what language you code it in.

Could be usefull though if you've 1,000s of line of core application Java code (the 'model' of your MVC) which would just be a pain to recode in Obj-C.

Is one Japanese 'We-changed-our-name-so-you-don't-realise-we're-Datsuns-in-disguise' car company more classy than another Japanese 'We-changed-our-name...etc, etc" car company?

Re: Really?

"Disney is making another movie".

Really! Wow! When's it out?

Re: Just goes to show...

Wow - I was expecting such ridiculous, anti-Mac bollox to attract far more up-votes.

Re: Console name

"surely it should be the Companion Cube."

How about "The Game Cube"? Oh, hang on...

Re: It shouldn't be too hard

"to write software that methodically compares each map to a known authoritative source "

Perhaps they could have referred to some sort of officail Australian reference source?

Re: Disgusting that....

It's ok - it was a joke: Sideshow Bob (in "The Simpsons") "I'm being incarcerated for a crime I didn't commit - I mean, attempted murder..." etc etc.

It would appear that "Attempted piracy" isn't currently a crime...

" i didnt want it to use my £2000 B&W speakers or anything. 7.1? nah, can i just use some tinny little speaker on the pad...."

You won't need your 80" 4K TV either - just use the low-res screen on the Gamepad.

Re: USPTO

"It's time for Judges to tell patent trolls if they are not using "their invention" they should lose the patent."

The danger of that is the scenario of one man in a shed who invents the teleport. He'll (probably) never be able to build it so should he lose it? His only hope is to licence it which would fit this definition of patent trolling.

Re: The iPad mini screen is quite low tech

"is basically just a larger sized blank cut from the same process..."

But this alone can affect yield rates, as seen in digial camera sensors. Full frame are much more expensive due to lower vield rates despite often being the same tech as smaller sensors.

An example:

Let's say the die from which your sensor is made has on average 4 defects in random places, which would render a sensor useless. If the sensor is small, you might get 100 out of each die. The 4 defects might (if you're lucky) affect only 1 sensor; they might affect 4 different ones. Yield rates are, on average, between 96-99%

For a large sensor, you might get 10 per die. Your 4 defects will still affect between 1 and 4 of your sensors, but this now represents 10-40% of the sensors on the die, lowering yield rates to an average of between 60-90%.

So although the difficulty to manufacture hasn't changed, the yield rates have declined dramatically.

Re: Zip Drives?

"I really hoped the 2.88M floppies would at least get a mention"

2.88Mb? Pah! The Amiga had 3.5Mb(ish) drives...