"Here's what we're in for..."
Who is this "we" of whom you speak?
Oh and ISTR that the "upgrades only for retail" rumour did the rounds prior to Se7en shipping. They were proved to be bollocks then too.
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Amazon UK leaks Windows 8 retail box, TV ads
World+Dog hails 50th birthday of the LED
Six months under water and iPhone 4 STILL WORKS
Serenading mice can sing along if you hum a few bars
Edge-of-space skydiver grounded by ANOTHER bout of bad wind
Wednesday 10th October 2012 15:04 GMT 
Re: Not Ti, Not U, W
The Starstreak missile system uses that to effect. One missile splits into three "darts" (effectively unpowered mini-missiles, each with its own guidance) once the boost phase completes. The casing of each dart is tungsten, which fragments when the small explosive charge inside detonates, tearing the living shit out of the aircraft it hit with the resulting very hard and sharp pieces of shrapnel.
Bloomberg's bomb: How SEC shredded Facebook's pre-IPO claims
Big Blue bigwig: Tiny processor knobs can't shrink forever
Wednesday 10th October 2012 12:09 GMT
Re: Meyerson predicted Intel's move away from speed to cores?
...because of the amount of cooling required to achieve that speed.
And the reason you need that phenomenal level of cooling is to deal with heat from the current leakage of a processor running at a honking overvoltage and ludicrous clocks. Or "exactly what he said" in other words.
Campaigners roll out political-correctness Voight-Kampff CAPTCHAs
STONEHENGE: Attack of the RAYGUN HISTORIANS
Wednesday 10th October 2012 11:18 GMT
Re: still seems funny to me
"This is all well-known and has been for some time."
There's quite a lot of circumstancial evidence from the monuments and the surrounding landscape to back up some of it, but most of it's pure speculation derived from; "What might our ancestors have been thinking when they built this?". Falls under the general category of "Ritual use", or "No idea, but this is as good a guess as any." in plain English.
Microsoft trials Digits finger-sensing bracelet
Wednesday 10th October 2012 10:25 GMT
Yet another in an ongoing series.
Everything coming out of MS at the moment seems to revolve around making the touchy-feely tech of Win 8 work when the thing to be touched or felt is a full arm's reach or more away.
Kinect-a-like, doppler sensors and now this.
It does seem that they have the cart (Win 8) before the horse (the enabling tech).
UK bungs £250m to factories stung by climate-change policy
Wednesday 10th October 2012 08:19 GMT
Re: Back to the 70's?
Actually it would not appear to be that at all.
Here we have perfectly productive industries whose energy usage leads to them being sacrificial cows on the altar of the Carbon Cult. You then couple that with the fact that as many place do not levy swingeing energy taxes, due to treaty exemptions for "developing world" countries, the inevitable outcome is relocation and the loss to Britain of these industries and their associated jobs.
The real question here is if we are going to, in effect, nullify the carbon taxes for those hardest hit (i.e. the highest energy users) is this an admission that the whole arrangement as it stands is a right, royal pig's ear and merely a fig leaf to keep the greenies on message?
Assange chums must cough up £93,500 bail over embassy lurk
Tuesday 9th October 2012 13:31 GMT
Re: And the alternative is...
@Psyx
Yes, that one is a little daft, especially when you factor in the US has a "fast track" extradition procedure in effect with Britain that they lack with Sweden.
So, if they want him, it's very much against their interests that he goes to Sweden. If you want a conspiracy theory with legs, start asking how much the US is paying the Ecuadorian government to keep him stuck in the UK while they make a decision and possibly move to get the paperwork sorted out........
USAF declassifies ‘flying saucer’ design
Tuesday 9th October 2012 13:02 GMT
The problem they found with both designs was that as soon as you get into the forward flight mode, a circular "wing" is unfortunately crap.
AVRO had an engineer so addicted to the concept of round wings that he even penned a conventional, fuselaged design sporting a circular wing (like a flying saucer cut in half and glued onto each side). Wind tunnel tests proved that it was still crap.
None of the projects would have got anywhere near as far as they did, save for the US military being all starry-eyed over the idea of OMFG REAL FLYING SAUCERS!!11!!!!
That horrendous iPhone empurplement - you're holding it wrong
Skydiver Baumgartner's 120,000ft spacesuit leap delayed by bad wind
SpaceX's Falcon places Dragon in desired orbit
Monday 8th October 2012 09:40 GMT
Re: Well that was exciting - ok, now I'm bored.
Yes, I have seen that engine glitch reported elsewhere. The "without incident" bit of the sub-head would appear to be incorrect. Interestingly, SpaceX's own website still reports the launch as an "unqualified success", which would also appear to be spinning the truth a little. Success? Yes. Great success? Yes. Unqualified success? No.
Things like this are to be expected[1]. The important bit is ensuring you have sufficient levels of redundancy in the system to mean that they're incidents rather than accidents. Also important is to learn from them, a process which starts with not trying to brush them under the carpet.
[1] Let's face it, this stuff is bleedin' rocket science.
WoW cities wiped out by 'exploit'
LOHAN plugs into some hot LiPo treatment
Motörheadphönes ears-in review
Friday 5th October 2012 14:03 GMT 
Other brands.
".....but these ‘phones don’t necessarily deliver the best audio experience for folk who like tunes."
That explains something I did wonder at. Not too long ago I bought a pair of rather nice sounding Sennheisers. When I bought them I also tried a humungously expensive pair of "beats audio" objects (and quite a lot of other stuff too).
Without a doubt the most overpriced crap I have ever listened to. I had to go into the really cheap shit to find anything that sounded worse. Like a headphone version of a 1980s boom box with the graphic equalizer set to the de rigeur "all the way up at both ends".
Makes me wonder why more producers don't commit suicide, knowing that their carefully worked mix is going to be fed through something like that.
HP's Whitman: 'I will turn this company around – by 2016'
Friday 5th October 2012 08:21 GMT
"HP needs to quit giving away the farm and charge its enterprise customers more."
Trouble is that on the big server side, it goes like this:
HP Enetrprise customer: "If I'm going to be forced to migrate all my crap from PA-RISC to something else, why would I go with your Itanium products?"
HP Rep: "Er, er, er...............we could give you a huge discount?"
Archaeologists resume Antikythera Mechanism hunt
Friday 5th October 2012 06:55 GMT
Re: There aren't any
I wouldn't expect a ship to carry any, there were known navigation methods that didn't use one and as you say, it would have been hideously expensive (you'd need to buy about 5 years of the time of someone like Archimedes to get one).
I saw one theory that said that the missing dial on the back (period deducible from the gearing) might have highlighted the major games. A sporting almanac for some super rich merchant? That makes sense, wealthy sports fans spend ludicrous amounts on being one up on their peers to this day. Think of a device that tells you when's a good time to make a bet (this event, that conjunction of planets).
When evaluating the various theories on offer, there's one thing to consider. People back then were people, not aliens. We don't have ordinary merchant ships with above military grade experimental navigation systems today, but we do have sports nuts with more money than sense.
Apple: Blue-shirts can fix iOS Maps in their spare time
Simon Cowell plans X Factor for Tech
WTF is... VoLTE
Tuesday 2nd October 2012 11:47 GMT
Re: Erm, like, who cares???
How weird, my experience is the opposite.
My tech-savvy friends all avoid Faceberk and Tw@ter like the plague. Too full of bloody sheep. I tried FB for a while and just got deluged with trivial crap from extended family members. There may have been something interesting in there somewhere, but I couldn't be arsed wading through the crap to find it.
You can replicate the Facebook/Twitter experience by standing in a Mancunian Bingo hall and listening to the conversations going on around you.
Tuesday 2nd October 2012 11:39 GMT
Fallback.
All well and good, but this imposes a short but potentially noticeable delay - from two to four seconds, according to insiders - when a voice call is initiated by an LTE handset or a call is routed to one.
A two to four second delay on call setup could be considered a minor annoyance. I'd have thought that the elephant in the room here is what happens when your LTE handset moves out of LTE coverage and is forced to negotiate a slower connection and fallback mid-call? There doesn't seem to be any mention of how that would be handled and it would seem to be a basic requirement to me.
Forcing calls to initiate on 2g or 3g might be the sensible move here.
Spam Text Revenge
Hardware fault?
Tuesday 2nd October 2012 09:56 GMT
Update.
Apparently now solved.
One of his offspring has a Harry Potter game. An update to this got pushed out the other day and the Mac hasn't gone titstup since.
While I'm all in favour of having cause and effect, I'm still scratching my head trying to work out why an iffy game that isn't running at the time can cause a machine to shit itself on a regular basis. Presumably something in there has its claws in the GPU subsystem in a way it really shouldn't.
Friday 28th September 2012 10:03 GMT
Hardware fault?
A mate's got one of them Mac things (Quad core i7 - 26" Cinema). It was fine for a couple of months and then developed a repeated fault where the screen will go completely blank and stay blank until it is rebooted.
Apple had the thing for four weeks(!) and returned it with no fault found. It took all of 10 minutes for it to do it again when he started using it.
He's obviously a tad peeved, having spent a small fortune on a computer that doesn't work from a manufacturer who doesn't give a toss. Googling the problem shows umpty-something similar issues for Macbooks, but nothing for the vanilla article.
Anyone got any ideas, before some "genius" wakes up with a horse's head in his bed?
Beached whale on Suffolk coast - Reader snap
Tuesday 2nd October 2012 08:33 GMT
Re: Yep.
It's a nice theory.
Unfortunately, while the use of Active Sonar[1] has pretty much gone the way of the Dodo, it's decline has made no difference to whale strandings.
[1] Active Sonar has an unfortunate side effect of also going "OUR SONAR INSTALLATIONS ARE HERE!!!" to anyone having a passing interest. All the clever detection stuff is done with Passive Sonar these days (listening very carefully with hugely sensitive microphones backed by clever analysis computers), which allows you to find out where everything else is without also telling them where you are.
Boffins suggest orbital dust-up to combat climate change
Tuesday 2nd October 2012 07:06 GMT
Eh?
There’s currently no technology on offer to relocate something as big as Ganymed’s 130 million billion kilos, so Bewick suggests moving smaller asteroids into a cluster at L1.
Er, last time I looked we didn't have anything capable of trotting off out there to move smaller ones around either. Thus whatever does it is going to be something completely new, so we might as well build it to shift the bigger one.
Euro bigwig turns heat on 'unacceptable' Apple warranties
Mosley thrash'n'tickle vid case against Google opens in Hamburg
Monday 1st October 2012 13:30 GMT
Re: He should have heeded Paul Staines
Well that's one approach.
Another would be to either ensure that the only copy of your "home video" is kept somewhere safe or, better still, choose your videocamera moments a bit more carefully.
I'm always amazed that allegedly clever people manage to get themselves into a situation where someone who'll happily fuck them over for a bit of cash ends up with their rumpy-pumpy footage.
Firefox's birthday present to us: Teaching tech titans about DIY upstarts
Monday 1st October 2012 10:50 GMT
Learning from mistakes.
"[When] Mozilla released the Firefox browser[, r]eviewers lauded Firefox's speed, size..."
More importantly, they stuck to that and didn't let it become the bloated, sclerotic pile of shit that Netscape evolved into, which was what allowed MS to get their size twelves in the door in the first place.
I remember when we ditched Netscape Communicator and went Exchange / Outlook / IE, it was like getting double the memory and a liquid helium cooled overclocking job on the CPU.
Graun Aid: Don't They Know It's Christmas 2.0?
Mozilla's Persona single sign-on service enters beta
Icelandic town demands vulva museum
AI game bot HUNTS DOWN ENEMIES, passes Turing Test
Friday 28th September 2012 08:32 GMT
Re: Is it a bad sign ...
Too damned right. Always makes me laugh when yer SF-movie hero knocks out half a dozen lasers in a corridor or room by diving and firing, while the automated defense systems repeatedly miss him.
If it were real life, he'd be doing a passable impression of a colander before he got to think about the first trigger pull. We already have automated guns (rather slower than lasers, so hitting a moving target is harder) that can turn targets moving at supersonic speeds in their field of fire into swiss cheese pretty much instantaneously.
Adobe scrambles to revoke stolen cert
Event Horizon Telescope spots source of black hole jets
Google spikes old MS file formats
New I-hate-my-neighbour stickers to protect Brits' packages
McFlurry McMisdemeanour costs Welsh lass McJob
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