Posts by MrT
644 posts • joined Tuesday 9th October 2007 08:49 GMT
Interesting idea...
...and by not actually show the content of the tweets it neatly avoids the snafu that Starbucks made with their attempt at the Natural History Museum.
OTOH there's always the chance to set the wall flapping away with a well-timed tweetstorm as some dignitary steps up for a close look - thinking of Total Wipeout's 'sucker punch' wall there...
That 'effective lock-in'...
...also gives Google near real-time updates about situations such as the one you mention, which it can presumably use to inform other Maps users navigating in the area.
But they could get that whilst still showing more of the area, so perhaps they're trading off map tiles against images along the route. I for one would prefer the multi point routing on Android, to match the drag'n'drop rerouting on the desktop version - it's impromptu stuff like that, rather than planning a complex route on a laptop and saving it ahead of the journey, which the Android version lacks.
They're thinking of Glass users here though since some of the ideas seem to make more sense over a HUD.
Yahoo may be ahead of you there...
...especially if they do buy Tumblr ;-)
I first read it as...
...pinochle - Sundar Pichai is the jack of diamonds and he knows the secret identity of the queen of spades...
it's a GM warranty...
... and the 100,000mile limit includes the flight from earth, unfortunately.
This little rover is seriously impressive though, no doubt.
"Furious nerds"...
... made me laugh. Am now wondering how that might look on ThinkGeek or Spreadshirt products... :-)
Double check...
... nope, I see no fine old Viennese etchings in the kit photos, Carstairs.
I liked the cross-series dig...
...in 'Once upon a time' where the florist shop is called "Game of Thorns"... It's a bit more subtle than spotting all the Firefly references in Castle, but adds a bit of fun ;-)
Renting vs buying...
... after about 18 months the calculation swings in Adobe's favour, at whatever level or license model (full suite, per app, educational, etc)... I upgraded from MX2004 suite to CS6, which might be an extreme but the old Macromedia titles did what I wanted, plus the Gimp or Serif titles for the other stuff. However, I would have definitely looked elsewhere if in the pricing demanded a monthly rental fee that would have amounted to paying for the software six times over in the ten years or so between...
Bill Bailey: "Three blokes go into a pub...
"... Well, I say three; could be four or five. Could be nine or ten, doesn't matter. Could have been fifteen, twenty - fifty. Round it up. Hundred. Let's go mad, eh - two-fifty. Tell you what, double it up - five hundred. Thousand! Oh, I've gone mad! Two thousand! Five thousand! (adopting auctioneer persona) Anyone? Five thousand, six thou, six thousand, ten thousand! Small town in Hertfordshire goes into a pub! Fifteen thousand blokes! Alright, let's go - population of Rotterdam. The Hague. Whole of Northern Holland. Mainland U.K. Let's go all the way to the top - Europe, alright? Whole of Europe goes - I say Europe. Could be Eurasia. Not the band, obviously, that's just two of them. Alright, continents - North America! Plus South America! Plus Antartica - that's just eight blokes in a weather station. Not a good example.
"Alright, make it a lot simpler, all the blokes on the planet go into the pub, right? And the first bloke goes up to the bar and he says "I'll get these in." What an idiot!"
How many read this site? Better find an obscure bar for that first drink back... ;-)
Posted in The UK's copyright landgrab: The FAQ
Re: Excellent summary.
Definitely - and given that Andrew's earlier article (coining the name "Instagram Act") has been referenced/quoted by many news sites, hopefully this one will be equally influential.
Can it...
...work out which side of a window is open?
And if it loses uplink to control, does it hold station by flying around the ceiling light fitting endlessly until comms is re-established?
There was a recalibration trick...
... that HTC recommended for original Desire owners though, so it seemed the battery management software waw being fooled about what was '100%', rather than the battery chemistry itself.
IIRC the method was to charge to '100%' with the phone on, then turn it off and charge for another hour, then switch it on again for another hour's charge, then unplug and restart the handset. On mine, it used to yield around 10% more usable life, which gradually faded again over about 2 months if the phone was just charged whilst left on. I've only tried it once on my GS3, which doesn't seem to be as prone to this.
Mind you, since the software is designed to protect the battery from damage by overcharging it may have been set a little over-cautious by HTC.
Not by much though...
...PC Mark Milton, West Mercia Police, was prosecuted and acquited of speeding in a Vectra V6 at 159mph on the M54.
C-I-I-I-O
Ah, that's why it's called a server farm... Helps if the CIO's name has three syllables, maybe of Scottish origin, and 'old' in this case is 'over 35'...
"a website's colour palette gets two weeks of workshops" - only if the CMO has seen or been shown CSSZenGarden... "We need it to look like the the scrolling radio tuning dial, but vertically. And make it look modern, but in a traditional sense. It's not a big job, is it, because it only took a few seconds to change the way the whole site looked on the example I've seen..."
Good stuff; keep it going!
Cossies...
... were offered to all forces, but at the time they cost roughly twice as much as a tuned Astra GTE variant. A friend on the West Yorkshire force said these were far more usable in urban environments. This was back in '88, and he said that the Astras were good for short, very high speed bursts, but if used to chase something very high speed over longer distances then they would need engine attention afterwards.
Both equally nickable, mind, and response times would be severely hampered by the need to unchain the Cossie from the garage floor (an extreme scurity method employed by one guy I know who has an RS500).
Cool wasn't even an option... ;-)
Mods and hacks...
...stuffed with malware, Trojans etc. is an old story - no such thing as a free lunch.
I remember back in 2000 an encounter with a nasty on a friend's PC (IIRC that had arrived as part of an unlimited cash hack on Need for Speed: Porsche Unleashed) that set me off helping with Magnus Mischel and co on Trojanhunter and then on to work with Paul and Robin Laudanski at CastleCops. Even then, the idea of hidden payloads was old news - but it was the early days of the shift from ad-hoc dial-up access to always-on broadband and free stuff was flowing ever more energetically than back when 28.8kbps was fast.
They all need power from somewhere...
... regular manual winding, automatic winding, button cell, solar etc. Yes, it's a faff to have to plug something in and wait a while, but so long as that can happen when I sleep then it's not much inconvenience.
The aren't any truly fit'n'forget systems for powering any type of watch, but, in the absence of wrist-mounted atomic batteries, solar comes close. My own watch is a Citizen Eco-Drive Chronograph - the whole face is a solar EV collector. There's a small rechargeable cell inside to cope with darkness, but in 12 years of use it hasn't needed any attention.
Back in the 80's I used to have a Seiko UC-3000 in chrome, which often needed a hefty powercell replacing that was probably the most high-maintenance watch I ever owned, (there was another in the keyboard/dock, which used a wireless induction loop to transmit stuff to the watch). I've still got a Seiko 5 somewhere that is an automatic winder, but not very accurate.
Then again, I've a friend who swears by the Casio F-91W, which can still be bought even after all these years.
There's an interesting collection of older digital watches at http://mysbfiles.stonybrook.edu/~delton/Articles/nerd_watches.htm. No penguins or detached limbs in sight...
Re: Just resting...
"CC: Erwin Schrödinger" ... ?
Not for long...
...if Google push their robot cars out soon.
Food for thought...
Clearly this is the lo-calorie option for zombies on a diet, (undead cheerleaders maybe?)...
Posted in The ten SEXIEST computers of ALL TIME
Re: Wot no SGI?
I used an Indigo back in about '94 - it even looked better on screen.
It always made me wonder when this amazing system was sat in the same office as a brace of early 486 PCs that it got mostly ignored in favour of Windows 3.11, even for some of the more intense QSAR and modelling stuff for which it was bought.
Have it print...
...print a picture of the item and then print the price paid...
Or fit it on a flimsy shelf above the nearest office chair. Works best if it's a HP 4s and the shelf is fixed using Pritt Stick...
It sounds disappointing...
...but is probably the right decision. Aside from all the LEO to-and-fro, which is more commercial these days, NASA always made more sense pushing boundaries. New ideas, distant goals and other stuff that extend limits.
Earth-moon Lagrange point 2 space station seems to be a more suitable near-future target for manned NASA missions, as a driver for the SLS heavy-lift rocket development. Any associated mid-point transit station could be used to assist lunar development, and the EM-L2 outpost could use lunar resources to push out to the asteroids and Mars.
Still, that means looking elsewhere for the space elevator...
in this case...
...it looks like the app was legal but some part of the content it provided was not (or is at best borderline).
This ruling would have implications for example for book reader software since it now implies that app scrutiny for the Chinese market has to go further into the content and examine links/metalinks before approval.
Consider it..
...a badge of ownership. I'm not sure who is the owner and who is the pwned in this deal though... ;-)
Just "a" follower?
Don't be so modest - there are more than a few with a follower or two, but I think you need to factor it up a notch though - you might be the only one with a queue of followers, a very long one at that, usually hanging around FOSS and/or MS threads waiting in anticipation for your next comment... ;-)
I saw 'boards'...
... but read it at first glance as 'beards'...
Now it was just about okay with "ensuring that organisations' Beards are representative", but it then fell apart with "at Nesta we're glad that our Beard has moved closer to gender parity". Unless Nesta is picking particularly hirsute ladies...
One month later...
"Curiosity control: Rover reports full system functionality is restored"
"Command to move error: motors functional and responding: telemetry indicates no-go"
.
<self-portrait later shows rover on bricks with all wheels missing: chassis tagged with "Ulla, suckers..." and "Watch the skies...">
I wonder...
...if the eyesight limit is the same? There shouldn't be the need to have any restrictions (beyond the MoD limits) except maybe that the RAF might be picky about pilots all being capable of crossover roles in the future.
Back when I went through Officer and Aircrew Selection (in the days when they ran it at Biggin Hill), none of this remote-control stuff was an issue. Tanker/transport aircrew could develop the need for glasses and still fly VC10, for example, but anyone with contacts or that new-fangled laser correction couldn't fly anything with an ejector seat fitted.
Finality...
...is not the end.
It is not the beginning of the end.
And it is not even the end of the beginning...
.
"Oh, that was easy!" says Man, who then goes on to prove that black is white, and gets killed at the next zebra crossing.
Mystery solved...
...ElReg now filing reports by Dirac beep. James Blish would be proud...
Eagerly awaiting the reports filed in Common Time.
Hindsight...
...is always the clearest.
Doesn't this already happen?
The FB app permissions are only one part of it...
Nice to see...
... Francis Maude completely failing to focus on the main issue of the report. Still, twas ever so, since government spin was first spun, so I don't even know why I expect otherwise.
The cognitive dissonance thing...
... is also a bit bogus. It already happens when a driver glances at the instruments. What the example shows might be a clever way of fitting the text in with the image perspective, but it distorts the letters. This might be better for HUD systems, since it is less distracting than having text floating over the important stuff (traffic, pedestrians, etc), but assuming this will more likely be seen on a dashboard display it makes the text harder to read at a glance - drivers will spend more time decoding the distorted text, and even a fraction of a second could make a big difference in city streets.
So...
...adding more electronics to a Renault will solve the problem?
I'm kidding - my grandfather had a Renault, up to the point he died peacefully in his sleep. Unlike his passengers...
OK, so that isn't true either - he had a Volvo, but with the Renault V6 engine...
On a lighter note, are the system designers saying that truck drivers never fall asleep at the wheel? Renault make trucks as well. Plus there'd have to be some way of mitigating all the convoy members getting ticketed if they latch onto a foreign wagon that's going flat out through, say, a 50mph average speed check in roadworks. Just because someone drives for a living doesn't always mean they behave professionally at the wheel...
Posted in Sony joins iWear face-off
Big...
"Does my bum look through in this?" - no, unless you're wearing them in a really low-slung way...
Poems, Prayers and Promises...
Google Glass, take me home
To the place I belong;
Not West Virginia, but Mountain View yeah
Take me home, country roads
Something about teardrops in eyes suggests the image projection is turned up too bright...
IETF has documents on both...
... and it seems the main reasons boil down to transparency. MPTCP is transparent to NAT and firewalls, and it presents a standard TCP face to applications. SCTP trips up on these two points, so isn't as easy to drop into the existing infrastructure. SCTP is a different transport that needs a new API and program support, whereas MPTCP looks like TCP to the upper layers. SCTP has features that are missing from TCP, which MPTCP provides.
Check www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/multipathtcp/current/msg00072.html - "TCP modification vs switching to SCTP"
Recycling...
... of neodymium and samarium has been in the news a lot in the past few months - the market value of these minerals governs how economic methods like separating them from iron (for example) using ionic water become. Even if these methods get close, the political benefit of decoupling from monopololistic suppliers carries weight.
However, if the Japanese are willing to collect stuff from miles underwater, it suggests that the recycling tech isn't quite in the ballpark yet - but it'll get there.
So...
... unlike channel bonding, this will run all available connections flat-out independently from each other, and from their website the data transfer can survive the drop-in/out of one or more of them. I wonder how long it will be before this becomes default? Even if they are pitching it at data centres right now, it's got benefits even down to mobile phones (like in areas covered by wifi and cellular, but with variable or marginal signals), where often the switch between them mid-transfer drops the file and a restart is needed. Good stuff, well done.
Don't ever send her to...
...a security metrics conference then. If she can't stand dongle references then she'll blow a fuse when the discussion turns to reminiscences of fingering network users, ip, taking a tcpdump and packet sniffing... etc.
I can see it now...
"Can you fly that thing?"
"Not yet" <Looks at control panel and activates Voice Search with chosen keyword> "Tank; I need a pilot program for a V-212 helicopter..."
Hang on...
..."soon-to-be House of Lords peer Martha Lane Fox" ? Scheduled for announcement on 1 April, surely?
Checking cereal boxes and McD's Happy Meals for the Write Your Own Letters Patent toy...
Really...?
So that app doesn't actually work...?
Damn.
Still, at least I've got something to look forward to - have just replied 'yes' to all of the penis enlargement offer emails - my suits are at the tailors already being altered as we speak - and am waiting for the package to be forwarded by the Irish ambassador who is holding it for me in Dulles Airport...
YMMV...
...my S3 has just killed a 16GB Lexar class 10 card. Since the LL2 or LL3 software update around Christmas, the card has been corrupted on about 8 occasions, with folders and files being randomly renamed etc, and then the card locking to read-only. Up until a week ago it responded to DISKPART but now is not recognised. I agree that the phone pushes any card as hard as it can go - after aligning the card I was getting 7.9MB/s write and 17.3MB/s even in exFAT - FAT32 yielded 2-4MB/s more depending on sector size.
Handset is stock Samsung GT-I9300 on XXEMB5 firmware, Android 4.1.2. I've heard of other stability issues relating to RAM (the S3 and Note2 both seem prone to issues with SD cards) and also that one dev flashed ASOP 4.2.2 onto an S3 that resolved the stability issues, suggesting there are things to sort in firmware and/or drivers. Hopefully Samsung will address some of these items when they finally roll 4.2.x out.
Once bitten...
... twice shy. I think if people find another reader that they realise they like as much or better then they won't be going back.
You'll know things have gone too far...
...when it swoops down, grabs the controller from the operator and flies itself to freedom.
