Posts by paulc
431 posts • joined Tuesday 23rd October 2007 08:55 GMT
tosspots...
you'd think they'd stand up for their customers but no... it's all about the money honey.
Re: Microsoft shill?
"Though your last comment is a bit silly, with 100 million Windows 8 licences sold."
if Windows 8 was really successful, then they'd be crowing about the number of activations by users. As it is, they're reduced to bleating about licences sold to OEMs who have to buy huge quantities to take advantage of the cliff-tier pricing discounts for volume purchases.
Re: Name for the new power state
Chillaxed would seem more appropriate
Just outlaw "Software" and "Method" patents
that's ALL he needs to do.
Aiding the Enemy?
Surely you have to officially be at war for that charge to stick?
This could backfire spectacularly if the defence is permitted to cross examine the prosecution to get them to define the enemy that he allegedly handed it to. After all, is Wikileaks "The Enemy"?
well some of those tabs will never be visited by me...
I shall be very annoyed if I can't re-arrange the tab order to allow new tabs to push the "Social" and "Promotions" off the default view.
Old news
n/t
Re: Really?
"That's not a lot considering that land is rising with up-to 1 cm / year in Scandinavia. Just during my 30 years I can see the difference."
That would be the very slow rebound from all that ice from the last ice age having gone... Scotland's still rising as well.
Can someone please get these looney scaremongering climatologists up to speed with modern geology... Plate Tectonics has been mainstream for decades now, what textbooks are they still using then? Ones from the 1950's?
Re: Sadly,
RAF drone pilots are commissioned officers and they've introduced a different pilot wings badge for them so you can tell they're NOT real pilots... There's still no need for them to be commissioned really, but the RAF is just one big flying club still for the pilots and they need their real pilots to be in the real chain of command.
They don't really need carriers either
Just launch these babies off catapults like they used to launch Hurricane fighters off merchant ships for convoy protection. At the end of the mission, have them fly into a big catching net (deploy a brake chute at the right moment).
machines that go ping?
where were they? I was brought here under false pretenses...
Long Service & Good Conduct Medal...
AKA the 15 years undetected medal...
I has one...
I so wish they still had the "working model" requirement for patents
ie, you can't file the patent unless you also provide a working implementation of said invention...
Impossible to follow conversations in comments anyway
I've seen plenty that have no obvious order to how they're displayed at all... it's not possible to easily find replies to your comments in posts that have attracted quite a few comments on them... basically FB is NOT fit for purpose...
you honestly believe they'll leave DVDs & BluRays alone!!!
poppycock...
this technology gives them the means to stuff DVDs full of region specific ads and recyle the ads every year as they re-release it in slightly different packages...
They ain't gonna let this opportunity slip past...
we already suffer "unskippable" trailers and other rubbish in DVDs...
Posted in LOHAN slips into tight rubber outfit
Re: Polystyrene? Bubble wrap? Aerogel?
popped bubble wrap and ruptured polystyrene STILL has structure that hold things apart and the air that has gone is replaced by vacuum... a far better insulator with the only mode of heat transfer from one side to the other being conduction through the plastic and radiation across the vacuum... bubble wrap and expanded polystyrene have the additional mode of convection inside the cells...
all in all, popped bubble-wrap and ruptured expanded polystyrene will still have a very good insulation figure...
I'm not sure aerogel will deconstruct as it is an open celled structure in the first place so the air will be replaced by vacuum...
in fact, aerogel was exposed to open space in the Stardust spacecraft as a trap for particles from comet Wild 2
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stardust_%28spacecraft%29#Sample_collection
Posted in LOHAN slips into tight rubber outfit
Bubble Wrap & Space Blanket...
to wrap around the body to keep the heat in...
or if you want to go high tech low mass insulation, use aerogel...
Better still...
"So what are honest customers to do if they need to use Office on more than one computer, or if they plan to buy new PCs before the next version of Office comes out? Anyone who has been following the latest Office launch should already know Redmond's answer to that: those customers should skip the retail version of Office 2013 and get Office 365 subscriptions instead."
I have a better idea... dump them when it comes to the bitter point when the machine breaks down... Invest some time into using LibreOffice in preparation and only use Office for those few things you can't quite do yet in LibreOffice...
Re: Meanwhile...
turnover, then they can't use dodges to make the profit vanish into offshore shell/parent companies
OK, now how easy is it to wipe the Google cr@pola off?
and stick a sensible Linux on instead?
I just want to run Ubuntu on my tablet...
not putz about with a layer on top of Android or futzing around using a dock... I want to wipe Android off a tablet and stick Ubuntu onto it full stop... the hardware should be capable of doing it... so what's stopping them?
according to my parsing...
the "-4^(1/4)" is mathematical symbology for minus 4 to the power of 0.25 and is a perfectly legal term to have in a search string...
Basically still not "Fit For Purpose" as a replacement for Petrol/Deisel
All the whinging from Elon Musk just advertises this fact even more... Streisand Effect in action...
Embedded Visios?
How the heck do you get it to open up embedded visio files using visio? Currently clicking on a visio just brings it up as a picture instead of the embedded object it really is...
we use embedded visios and Jude diagrams a lot in our software documentation...
don't forget...
the "This way up", "Other side up" decals on the wings... plus the playmonaut needs a blister/window...
Burn the tax codes and start again...
Calamity Brown made it far to complex... it needs to be destroyed and replaced with a system SO simple that there are NO loopholes available...
Flat rate income tax, flat rate internet VAT based on where the purchaser is located not where the hypothetical box office of the multinational corp is "located", NO sneaky paying royalties, IP fees to the offshore based unit to minimise the actual profits of a specific operation in a country (Starbucks, Microsoft, you know you're guilty). Very simplified allowances to be offset against profits/income before applying the flat rate income tax...
No choice in PC World...
It's Windows 8 on your windows box/lappy or an Apple box/lappy.
No windows 7 machines at all... no Linux boxes either unless you count the stealthy Linux lurking on the routers, printers and smart TVs
Mind you, was able to get my daughter a very decent 15.6 inch display laptop with 6G RAM and DVD writer drive for only £299; pity she could only have Windows 8 on it... I got her start menu and proper desktop back using a third party download...
Three finger salute...
there's even a three fingered salute for some mission computers... a combination of three hardware switch inputs that will never normally occur together to be used in the event of it freezing. Monitored on the hardware level in simple logic circuits and will force a cold restart when they occur.
Re: Wonder how much tax HMV paid
forgot VAT, which HMV were billing UK customers at 20% and paying to HMRC at 20% while Amazon etc. are billing customers in UK at 20%, yet paying to Belgium at a much lower rate and pocketing the difference...
Posted in Review: Mio Cyclo 300 cycling satnav
Re: Cycle routes?
What is most annoying and results in them being disused is the stupid tendency for planners to do the cheap option and put cyclepaths on the normal pavements and expecting the cyclist who is supposedly going in the same way as the main road is to have to stop and cross EVERY flipping sidestreet... the sidestreet traffic should be giving way to cycles... not the other way round.
We always do things on the cheap in this country and then they wonder why it isn't working properly...
Posted in The best e-readers for Christmas
bleeping LoveFilm...
Amazon will only stream it to Kindle Fires... My Galaxy S2 is perfectly capable of handling the stream, but Amazon won't bless it... won't work on Linux either as it needs DRM and that doesn't work on the Moonlight client...
come on, pull the other one...
"Channel partners have been "clamouring" to get hold of a Surface device, James Akrigg, Microsoft's head of technology for partners, told us."
Rubbish, no one wants it...
Re: Over reaction as usual
which is why they want to make copyright infringement a criminal offence... then the police have to get involved... and us taxpayers have to cover the costs of the police doing the copyright owners dirty work.
Re: @tkioz -
to defend this, you have to go to court which costs loads of money... fail to turn up, they are awarded the judgement by default...
This is demanding money with menaces... the menace is that the court costs will cost a lot of money whilst paying their lower demand makes the problem go away...
This sort of legal attack using the courts to fleece people of money should be outlawed...
the point of the investment...
"Those $12 Billion you paid for Motorola are turning out to be a great investment, right Google? First fire most of the staff and now the patents are worth pennies."
not really... the main point is that others who are hostile to Google don't own/control those patents now... just think, they could be owned by one of Microsoft's non-practising entity shell companies that they use for arm's length attacks
I still find it amazing...
that the replacements for incandescent lights contain all the circuitry in their bases to convert the AC into the required supply for the light... surely it would make far more sense to have a decently specced conversion unit that then runs the required supplies to the lights and thus removing all the excessive gubbins that currently gets sent to hazardous waste landfill because of the mercury in the tube... then the mass going to landfill will be far smaller and far fewer resources are required to manufacture the bulbs themselves...
if people went onto LED lighting for their homes, then the lighting circuits could be plain 12V DC.
Re: I am Legend of Coders!
"There is a reason we have Rolls Royce jet engines built in Britain and Nike trainers made in China - it's something to do with the skills needed to do the job and the value of the finished product."
bit behind the times here... engine production is being outsourced now to plants in Poland... I suspect engine servicing and engine testing will be going the same way as well...
Rolls Royce Derby is being slowly but surely outsourced...
Rare?
I wouldn't consider them to be rare...
tell them to get stuffed...
Shared Seed??? what about "code" of the day/hour/minute combined with time of the day to ensure channels hop in synch in secure radio systems? The also used "shared" keys for encryption/decryption of data transmitted over these secure data links... IT'S NOT NEW... I've been using Crypto Fill Guns for loading codes into systems since the early eighties...
anyroad... I believe there's loads of eggheads in secret government departments that could easily find prior art used in secure government comms between parties...
Get yourself into the security cleared jobs market...
There's no shortage of work for those of us who have achieved the right security clearances... can't outsource or insource those jobs...
Show Homes?
What happens when said show homes become real homes?
Re: Tedium
sounds a bit like the scene in the film "Man Of The House" where Tommy Le Jones rings the suspects phone and the cow starts ringing...
from what I can tell...
it would be my Arnova 8c G2... which came at the bargain price of £120 with Wifi only, no GPS, no bluetooth, no proper USB port (doesn't support USB On-the go so can't plug a keyboard into it) and only an 800x600 display...
I can run Angry Birds on it with no problems in response... also damn good for reading de-DRM'd ebooks so Amazon can't remotely wipe my Kindle App books...
PS. we need an "Android" icon...
'kin huge Mach diamonds...
google them... some nice images
So the caption didn't give it away then?
"How's about that then?"...
Brainwashing the young...
they've been steadily indoctrinating them in the schools for the past ten years and this is why the belief in man made global warming is so strong over there...there is no science to back it up, just faith and constant denial of the true scientific process... get them while they're young and malleable and you can shape them any way you want...
They refuse to accept the evidence that the Earth is now entering a cooling phase.
Boing Boing and Slashdot are particularly filled with true believing warmists...
Story? What Story...
users ask about escorts, get information on escorts...
a real story would have been them censoring the results and having Siri come back with something like "I'm sorry Dave, I can't let you do that" ...
Re: differentiators
not all Android tablets support USB on-the-go and just have the absolute minimum USB slave interface...
Re: At least Canadian severance is ...
"In UK you get 1 weeks pay for each year worked between 22 and 40 . and 0.5 weeks pay for any other years. Tax free upto £30k."
that's discriminatory and downright ageist... it makes it even cheaper to lay off the experienced older staff and the young fresh intake from schools. I can't believe that is still the actual requirements now that the age discrimination ban part of the Equality Act 2010 came into effect on the 1st of this month...
the iPad name...
Apple didn't innovate that name... do some googling... they had to buy the company that originally had an iPad on the market so they could get the rights to the trademark.
