Posts by MrT

"...a little disconcerting to see it always showing capital letters..."

... just like the standard iPhone/iPad keyboard then - not exactly a deal-breaker. Are any of the ported Android apps ones for alternative keyboards?

Announcement from the WINE team...

... "This development sponsored by Kingston and Crucial"

Full-blown Windows apps on Android? We're going to need a bigger microSD card... ;-)

Splash proof cover needed...

...for soup fans who use iPhones and Twitter, for the times when those new 6-second videos hit the mark. Apart from looking like a tiny toilet, the next move could be to fit a subwoofer in the base and what the soup rock to the beat.

Autonomy gave rise to useful stuff...

... like the Autology push-search system. I saw that demonstrated about 6 years ago when they sold it for a ridiculous fee and it's still available, only for a much more reasonable amount. I think they basically threw the whole Internet at the Autonomy engine and data-mined it. They don't just sell to Tesco for connecting up the dots in Clubcard data. If they got their heads around that they might be able to pull something out...

Good stuff...

... gaming, similation, modeling are all part of the same spectrum. It's not so much what is used but the learning that takes place - back in the mid 80s we used software on BBC micros to practice and enter a national economics modelling competition sponsored by BP (and won it one year - 7k of HP touchscreen PC and plotter). Working in the early 90s in a friend's dept in Liverpool JMU, I used QSAR simulation software to model pharmaceutical tests. Same basic thing - i.e. modeling - but with a different purpose.

Later, I've seen students learn teamwork and planning using the Day of Defeat mod over Half Life v1 ( pre-Steam so it let us install 5 copies per key) - that came from a group of gamers in Sheffield. Games offer plenty of scope in learning and educational shows like BETT usually have plenty of stands to give ideas to schools. Good teachers will be open to using learning experiences from all over the place.

The Millennium Falcon...

... is the Chuck Norris of spaceships. It slaps hyperspace back into red shift and rides the tidal wave of energy for free to its destination.

Quick...

...must . post. something...

Growth hormone...

...kicked in early on that one - a one-year old mind in a body the size of an eight to ten-year old. Miniaturisation or OS upgrade needed... but at least if they went for the latter then reskinning the UI means something more literal than just adding a fancy clock or weather app.

"itsoknoproblembro..."

... what? Has Joe Dolce moved to Tehran and taken up hacking?

For a minute there...

... with that headline I thought you'd just bankrolled LOHAN, more giant lasers, LOHAN's big sister fitted with giant lasers, and any other bonkers SPB ideas...

As easy as...

... POKE 35899,0 ...?

<<- we need an 8-bit icon ;-)

Google Glance (TM)...

... Google pioneering ad revenue from a swift look.

"Most powerful amateur rocket..." ?

Top Gear's Rocket Robin pushes this close - I know they didn't exactly measure the final version, only that it was "in excess of 8 tons", which is about 7.25 tonnes

Here's a link from the guys that built it...

Graham Cluley...

...clearly has a refined and subtle sense of humour.

Couple of things spring to mind...

Will they provide a phone dock/charging kit for those cases where the phone nav is mirrored onto the car (it's not just LR thinking about this either)?

Will they please change the awful synthesised voice guidance? Regardless of who provides the nav, if the system talks like a stilted robot it won't add to the quality feel of a Range Rover, let alone anything reasonably affordable. I'll take my old Becker any day over Google Maps/Navigation on my SG3 - it even says "Please" when giving directions, which must be novel for a German unit ;-)

They'll also need to think how they can build back in stuff that most sat navs include but Google doesn't. Custom displays would be nice, day/night mode, driving information as opposed to simple navigation. I use mine more for speed based on sat nav system, since swapping wheels for winter alters my actual car speedo gearing slightly.

If they're on about integration of drivers' handsets, why not go further and embed bluetooth OBD and the excellent Torque app? Or at least be able to mirror that info onto the car display as well...

Again IIRC from reading the latest issue of Top Gear, there's one manufacturer thinking of having the car security system tied to the driver's mobile phone - are these things going a bit too far?

Does the robot have...

...optional head accessories?

"Peter! Peter! I need you to hold my ears..."

Who wants chowder?

Parkes...

[Off-screen]

Rudi Kellerman: "Who goes there?"

[sheep heard bleating]

"Interestingly

... the study revealed that virus writers** improve their chance of evading detection by keeping a low profile."

**Also works for spies, tax evaders, love cheats, burglars, Santa, stealth bombers, the Higgs boson, etc, etc, etc.

The DotBO is sponsoring some cracking studies lately...

I've seen...

... rack mount servers held in just using the bottom two bolts before - makes my screwdriver hand start twitching as I try to work out which patch panel (usually held in with 4) donate a few spare ones, but probably not something that would cause immediate worry... how heavy are these storage things? Most servers, SANs, are still only held in by a few bolts even if they are in a sliding mechanism.

Not quite enterprise level installations, but at the bottom of each of the cabinets in systems I've managed or been involved have been properly heavy things like UPS - definitely not something that would go at the top of the rack!

Interesting report as usual...

I'll not be commiting myself...

... until Service Pack 1, on any mission-critical systems.

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Oops, sorry, mixing up my in-depth, detailed reports from the Department of the Bleedin' Obvious there.

Anyway, I thought that high heels gave a longer stride, not a faster pitter-patter Essex girl trot... (at least that's what I guess they're saying from the bits with pictures). For a control, they should've at least visited a range of theatres showing "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" and observed all the lads from local rugby teams dressed as Frank. Again, risks a punch in the face, but that's no less than they deserve for their efforts.

《《 this would have been the Sherlock icon if the m.forums site let us pick them...

End of an era...

... no more 'headphone cable too short' comedy moments. Like in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'. Only funnier.

Did you know 'headphone' is a Greek word though?

would also help if...

...they had the names 'Kwazii', 'Peso', 'Shellington', 'Barnacles', 'Tunip', and 'Professor Inkling'.

Oceanauts, to the launch bay!