Posts by TeeCee

Re: I'm not sure that I see the point of this experiment...

For something that hunts by jumping I'd have thought that the whole "not coming down again" bit would be rather noticable.

Re: I'd give it a go for 250 squids

...AND the Tegra 3 was replaced with a state of the art ARM SoC.

Er, you do know what a Tegra 3 is, don't you? Probably the most state of the art state of the art ARM SoC around at the moment.

Re: It's a launch pad

...if there's one lasting legacy of Wikipedia it's that it has hopefully taught people to be more critical about the source of their knowledge.

No. What it's taught us is that some people will believe anything if it's written down in black and white. But we knew that already.

Re: Or even

"...he was once my CEO."

I suppose that your name could be seen to limit your career opportunities. With that one, your only options are CEO or Traffic Warden.

Depends on how the OS initialises memory when it's allocated.

Just taking it as is and relying on it being "empty" is extremely bad practice with volatile memory, it just becomes astonishingly daft with non-volatile.

A cold boot will still be a cold boot, with memory being allocated and initialised as required, regardless of what may still be in there from previous times. If what was in there does cause a problem on restart, then you either have a bug in your memory allocation or a fault in the memory itself.

Having said that, a bit of code in the BIOS to zero RAM on a cold start would be a sensible precaution. Hey, the return of running through a memory check on boot!

This is likely lead to better software, as any failure to correctly initialise allocated memory is far more likely to become painfully obvious in testing with non-volatile memory.

Re: Apple haters can start getting their rotten tomatoes ready now

I'll give it a miss as it's scripted by Sorkin.

Any sycophant who's had their tongue that far up Zuckerbitch's tradesman's entrance makes me cringe.

Re: Unclear

The best "assembled in..." I can think of is for German made cars.

Meanwhile in the real world, where perception is uncoloured by prejudice, the VAG cars assembled by Czechs yield consistantly superior build quality and reliability to those assembled by Germans.....

Re: Curious argument

Cobblers. Most of the large companies have coughed up including Samsung, who are not afraid to go toe-to-toe with the 500lb gorilla of tech lawsuits, Apple.

Thus you have to suspect that whatever MS are licensing for Android is sound as all the other big mobile players have shut up and coughed up. This is more about Google deliberately picking a fight by proxy. Presumably the plan was that wielding the Moto patent portfolio would force MS into a cross-licensing deal, but that appears to have blown up in their faces.

Re: Why doesn't Apple buy Dyson

Someone's got to say it......

Don't Apple already have enough things that suck?

Re: Oh no!

... but nearly all the exploits are Windows-only?

You are confusing the exploit itself and the malware out there availing itself of the exploit. Just 'cos nobody's hitting it on other platforms doesn't mean it's not there. Why do you think Adobe keep shipping new versions of Flash, Reader, etc for Linux? Just for the sheer fun of it?

Re: Could I patent 'Patent Trolling'?

No, you can't have that for this reason.

Unfortunately the professional trolls are much better trolls than you are.

Re: Name of a Pub?

So you think that stone tablet is a sign of the times?

Re: All so establishment in old age...

"I want to see Henry Rollins flogging Hello Kitty..."

Ooooooh, I think the Dead Kennedys would be far more amusing for that one.

Re: what interface

You need an old soundblaster card.

Then you can plug the paddle[1] into the joystick interface port.....

[1] If you don't get it, you're not old enough.

Re: >"when exactly was Bilbo rescued from Wargs by Eagles, after all?"

Wargs are kind of like big dogs.

Yes. In the same way that nuclear tipped ICBMs are kind of like firework rockets....

Re: You forgot a couple

....when its designer explains that what it's done is horribly wrong, the computer chooses suicide.

Another thing now looking terribly dated. Here's the modern version:

"And what is the penalty for murder, M5?"

"Thirty years confinement, with time off for good behaviour. Hell, I'm permanently confined in this engine room anyway, so screw the time off. Might as well have some fun and get stuck into some serious arse-kicking..."

Re: Energy output like that...

Don't be daft. To make toast really quickly you'd need two of these so that you could toast both sides at the same time.

Re: Completely Dead Duck

...could scale to a petabit in 1cm^2.

I have a sneaking suspicion that the bit of the SD card spec that mandates FAT32 is going to have to go.