Posts by Dazed and Confused

New?

Haven't these been on the website for weeks?

I'm sure the Gen8 DL360 was there a few weeks back when I was speccing out a G7 (coz they're cheaper) one for a project.

Like the idea of the new blade, 512GB in a half height blade, there are precious few SuperDomes out there with more than that and you can get 16 of these buggers into a single enclosure.

I just wonder

Its great to see them using Linux

but

I just wonder how many will still have Linux installed within an hour of them being handed out.

Many great discoveriers are

made by young people without enough experience to know that what they are trying is known to be impossible. And because they don't know its impossible they find that they can do it.

I'll live with

Oracle being able to stop anyone else using Java, if IBM promise to stop Oracle selling SQL databases.

I'd class that as:

a) a result

b) the biggest own goal in history

Not so much Samnsungs gain

More Nokia's loss,

Nokia are down from shipping over a million phones every single day.

What about...

OK, not a home machine, but the HP85. Designed and built by their calculator division, so had native BCD support in the 8bit CPU and all implemented in 6V logic (5V is a difficult concept to someone who thinks in terms of batteries).

Lovely implementation of BASIC, which lots of expansion capabilities via plugin ROMs. Ours had matrix support, printer/plotter ROM, and...

32K of memory and 32K of main ROM plus 6 plugin ROMs at 8K each.

Did they ever actually ship a New Brain? I thought it died before reaching production.

I really fancied the box running Forth, much more fun to tinker with. The Linux of the 80s.

I got a copy of Forth for the Excidy Sorcerer from one of the lectures at my 6th form college and a rich mate parents had bought him the Sorcerer. I remember writing Space Invaders on it, complete with generating the characters by re programming the character generator. Do think I'd have managed it in BASIC.

Why no PET though?

@Shrewd

The accusation in the US court case is that the front company were asked whether this was being acquired for Apple and they denied that it was. Hence the complain about the improper acquisition. Otherwise I'd agree with you that it was shrewd.

What this report really tells us

Is that most people ask don't actually do any work on their PC/Laptop.

I like my (or as I keep reminding her, my wife's) tablet, it great for lots of things. But most bits of real work need more, most especially they need a keyboard.

I wonder how long before we see the news filled with stories of RSI or other complaints again with people working on tablets.

Can't have anyone from Google

Not after yesterday,

The Daily Fail's headline was that Google wouldn't back the Fail and Government's plan for a magic pixy dust firewall to stop kiddies seeing porn. Apparently Google pointed out that magic pixy dust doesn't exist and that parents should be responsible for their children.

So we can't have that now can we.

Google :

a) clearly won't tow the party line

b) don't understand kids

c) don't understand parents

but mostly

d) clearly won't tow the party line

On the subject of Farcebook and the magic pixy dust, a mate's daughter was being somewhat out of order recently so the selected punishment was to ban her from FB for a period. He prompty added FB to the block list on his home firewall. Less than 30 minutes later she's back on FB. Oh I just used a proxy since you wouldn't let me get their directly. Said daughter is 11, and clearly has a much better understanding of the Internet than either the government or the Daily Fail.

So?

Will MS head off to Germany to take out an injunction banning Moto in the US enforcing anything?

These lawyers must be raking it faster than a time traveller in a casino.

I've been wondering for a while

When or whether anyone would come up with a practical way of implementing this.

I can think of lots of potential uses. As a photographer you choose where to focus in a picture. Later on someone might be interested in a different part of the picture to you and wished to have something else in focus.

Presumably when converting these images to a standard image you could chose different focus points for different parts of the picture. So I love to show faces in really low light, F1.4 on a 50mm or 85mm lens, well at the point the depth of field in measured in millimetres, at least your likely not to be able to get both eyes in focus. Personally I like the effect, but I can see why people might want to generate a print where both eyes were in focus and you then allow the rest of the picture to go soft as it would normally do.

so-called "most favoured nation" clause

Is the real kicker here, it guarantees that prices are prices are at least 30%- a whisker higher than they would otherwise be.

If someone else was happy to carry ebooks as a loss leader, then the clause ensures that the public can not benefit.

misleading information

> giving misleading information on a dating site

Isn't this mandatory?

S*&t I always thought it was.

Don't tell me that lying to market researchers is also not explicitly required.

Apple owns the OS

thanks rather to the largess of the regents of a well know University and the Open Source community.

PS, bad example to choose Woz, HP (your old employer) own quite a few Operating Systems.

So hows this going to work then?

Am I going to be able to sue the ISP/government if a connection I've not authorised shows someone having a wardrobe malfunction?

The number of porn sites on the internet is one of the closes approximations to infinity known to mathematics. Their rate of expansion is also astronomical. So how do they propose to know what sites are porn and which aren't. And that is a problem just for sites that are primarily aimed at being porn sites. How do they intend to deal with other sites which might well show something that is considered perfectly OK in its home jurisdiction but falls foul of some jealous old fart who decides to make it their business to ruin everyone else's lives.

I run parental control SW on my kids PCs, I've also told them I can, if need be monitor, what sites they visit. I've never tried testing the limits of what the SW is capable of, I've always thought it was to some extent a rite of passage for the kids as they grow up to find their own ways around the cracks in world. I'm sure the SW isn't perfect, I'm sure it isn't possible for any system to be perfect. Lets face it the whole of the US went into shock because some publicity hungry pair of performers decided to flash a ladies nipples in the middle of prime time TV, they couldn't stop that. How the hell do they think they are going to stop the smut on the web? without infringing the human rights of everyone over the age of 18 to be a total perv if that is their choice.

kerrrrrrChingggggggggg

Watch that share price soar

144DPI, ultra-high resolution graphics ?

Ummmm

doesn't seem that impressive to me.

My old, circa 2002 Dull 8500 packed 1920x1200 into a 15.4" screen which clocks in at about 147DPI. Surely they'll need a lot higher density if they are planning to run with anything that can be considered an upgrade on 2002 level tech. That 15.4" screen you mentioned clocks in at about 340DPI, which sounds very nice.

Would help if...

They just stopped back sliding on the plans for BT "infinity" and actually got on and did that.

EMC wants to be the Linux of big data

Great, can I go to CentDisk and down load a free version of a 32TB disk array then please

key?

What key?

Other sources

> The only ray of hope for these firms in the long term is that more rare earth materials are found outside the People’s Republic.

Except of course that other sources are likely to be found in Africa, where China is pouring tons of "no strings attached aid". So it likely to be in a good position to at least influence the trade here too.