rubbish...
a simulation is ALWAYS capable of being performed mentally... just extremely slowly... idiots...
this judge needs slapping with a very large wet fish...
Posts by paulc
770 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2007
High Court: Computer simulations can get patent protection
Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked
Lancs shale to yield '15 years' of gas for UK
Thursday 22nd September 2011 16:18 GMT
15 more years of procrastinating
15 years of more procrastinating more like... you know what will happen... they'll put off deciding until yet again it's too late to get them online when the gas runs out... New Labour had 13 years in which they managed to decide nothing. The need for replacements was known back then... we could have had them on stream now, but the greenies got in the way and Labour decided that the question was too tough...
HP sued by investor over PC and TouchPad antics
Bike Hub
Galaxy Tab remains illegal in Germany
9/11: The day we lost our privacy and power
Monday 12th September 2011 07:19 GMT
Patriot Act...
""[...] voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country." - Herman Goering"
Which is precisely why Bush called it the Patriot Act and promptly said that you were either with us, or against us thus poisoning the debate against anyone who dared to speak out against it...
Plods to get dot-uk takedown powers - without court order
Monday 5th September 2011 08:27 GMT
tame judges...
are the reason the warrants are worthless as the police and other authorities have tame judges who will sign any court order without question.
The same would be the case in the UK as I have no doubt that the police know precisely what skeletons are in which Judge's closets...
Plus they're all bl00dy Masons anyway... the chief constables and judges...
Green energy and jobs will cripple the UK economy
Monday 5th September 2011 08:27 GMT 
Meanwhile...
The Chinese continue to wreck their own environment in order to ruin western economies... There was a report only this week whre vilages in rural areas of China are suffering from monrtous subsidence because the Chinese can't be bothered to back fill the seams of coal they're mining because it would double the cost of the coal...
And this coal theyre' mining is being used to fire blast furnaces and coal fired power stations which have NO emissions controls in place... and the Greenies have had to add yet another fudge factor into their AGW models to account for cooling caused by the rampant sulphur dioxide emissions and other pollutants from China!!!
TomTom fights falling satnav sales with iPad app
Friday 2nd September 2011 09:34 GMT
Map updates...
just wait until it tries to take you over a bridge that now designated buses and taxis only and doesn't know at all about the new bypass that's available... As a result, you get hit by the enforcement ANPR camera and don't know about it until a couple of days later when the fixed penalty notice hits the mat...
Even Google Maps doesn't know about the new rules for Llanthony Road bridge or the new bridge in Gloucester and the bridge has been open over four years now!!!!
I stay current by using Open Street Map on my Garmin sat nav and the beauty of open street map is that I, the user, can make updates to the map myself
Thursday 1st September 2011 13:28 GMT
Technological Convergence...
Is the name for this phenomenom...
Smart phones and "Fondleslabs" will eat the specialised item unless the specialised item has functionality and value which enables it to compete.
People are already using iPads in their cars with mounts for them to use as moving maps for driving and media players when stationary, although I'm pretty sure there are some stupid users out there who would watch video while driving...
TomTom have got to seriously work on the features of their hardware or else succumb to being just another app provider...
Antitrust nemesis accuses Google of 'WMD program'
Thursday 1st September 2011 09:03 GMT
correct...
if anyone doesn't believe these spamming tossers do this, then set your browser agent to pretend to be google and you'll see what they show google when google spiders them. then contrast this with the crud you get when you follow the link with your normal browser agent setting...
It's almost like the rotten trick they used to do with white text on white background (or black on black) at the far end of the page consisting of hordes of words they want to be indexed on but are completely unrelated to the content they're actually showing you... Google stopped that by programming the search placement algorithm to ignore pages with such shenanigans going on...
What vegetables are best for growing in Spaaace?
Ultra-cheap HP TouchPads to hit UK at 6pm
Ridley Scott confirmed for Blade Runner pre/sequel
Monday 22nd August 2011 15:31 GMT
Sound?
They still can't get sound right... it's usually very badly miked and the only time you can hear dialogue really clearly is when they've redubbed it back in as it was incomprehensible even to the director... What doesn't help is when the soundtrack music overpowers the actors... who should really be sent to diction classes to stop them from mumbling...
AES crypto broken by 'groundbreaking' attack
Saturday 20th August 2011 23:17 GMT
There's a reason for this...
If Microsoft has them, then the competition doesn't and therefore cannot leap forwards leaving Microsoft wilting in the dust. Microsoft is singlehandedly responsible for so much damage to the progress of computing... we'd be well on the way to practical real time speech recognition and translation software by now if Microsoft wasn't performing their dirty tricks.
Reg readers ponder LOHAN's substantial globes
Samsung-Apple Wars: Galaxy blocked Down Under
BT on site-blocking: Every case will need a court order
PC mountain accumulates in Blighty
Chinese lecturer demands his students acquire iPads
Monday 25th July 2011 12:32 GMT
platform agnostic...
wish my daughter's software courses were platform agnostic... sadly, as the college she attends sucks the Microsoft tit, all software courses use their development tools etc. and insist on her laptop being capable of running access etc. just to do the programming assignments... Tony Blair has got a lot to answer for... that shady deal where Bill Gates got a knighthood and all public sectors getting a big discount on going fully Microsoft was a serious setback to open source in this country...
X2 triplex super-chopper in final flight
Tuesday 19th July 2011 12:53 GMT
Hot & High performance is all very well...
but it tends to get lost when the customer insists on filling the aircraft up with armour plate... such that it needs to taxi forwards in order to take off as it can't cope with taking off inside the downdraft created by its own rotors when trying to take off vertically...
Energy scavenger eats leftover wireless signals
Google: The one trick pony learns a second trick
Ballmer begs partners to love Microsoft clouds
Tuesday 12th July 2011 14:45 GMT
pay people to use it...
it's the only way Microsoft can get people to use their services... they paid people to use Bing by giving them vouchers when they purchased items found using Bing searches... they paid Nokia to switch to WP7... no doubt Boeing and American Airlines are being paid to use Azure...
Paid not in so many words, but paid as it Microsoft gave them money back in other services etc. provided they used it...
Parmo v poutine: The ultimate post-pub nosh deathmatch
ALK CoPilot Live Premium HD
Bug-Byte Manic Miner
WTO: China being naughty over rare-earth exports
Thursday 7th July 2011 08:41 GMT
CFL's... meh...
"Almost all of the ballasts for CFLs and other light bulbs are made in Illinois: these good high-paying jobs would have to move if rare earths could not be exported from China and only products made of rare earths could be."
a far better solution would be to switch all indoor lighting over to low voltage DC and use LEDs...
Generate the DC voltage in the consumer unit and then you wouldn't need such bulky devices in the bulb holders and it would also kill so much electronic noise in the house by getting rid of the circuitry that's currently in each CFL that generates ridiculous amounts of noise... (I would be able to play my guitars with single coil pickups rather than having to use my guitars with humbucker pickups when the lights are on...)
LEDs last far, far longer than CFLs anyway... it would in the long run be far better for the environment as you wouldn't be wasting all that material on building the CFL electronics or using that Mercury either...
Microsoft inks Bing deal with Baidu
Microsoft bags two more Android patent deals
Friday 1st July 2011 10:36 GMT
because...
begin_quote "Actually, interesting point. Why don't companies making Android devices ship an ext2 driver for Windows as part of the application suite for their devices, and remove Fat support? After all, most users are used to putting buckets of crap on their Windows systems as soon as they get a new device. Why not a new filesystem? I know that there will be problems using cards from other devices, but how often to most people do that? Most people use the microSD card as fixed memory, and I'm sure that many would have to think hard about where the microSD card actually is." end_quote
Microsoft will make it very awkward for users to install said driver for alternate filesystem by holding up the signing process and possibly stalling the signing process for any other drivers from that company that need resigning... nVidia fell foul of Microsoft by supporting Linux too much with the open source GL drivers for nVidia cards... Microsoft retalitated by holding up signing nVidia's drivers for Vista...
They'll also sneakilly ensure that said driver when installed unsigned will result in deliberately lost files every now and then and the occasional scrambled filesystem... just to rub it in... try providing evidence of this underhanded deliberate crippling of alternate products will be extremely difficult and involve huge legal costs...
Google left out of $4.5bn Nortel patent deal
Bloke ordered to remove offensive numberplate
Wednesday 29th June 2011 12:38 GMT 
HOT 69....
me dad used to own it... sold the reg on for £7000 way back in early 80's to some yuppie from the city...
anyway... the cops should be pulling him over for illegally spaced digits on his plate... the 11 is too close to the BO... they get far more brownie points for that...
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/Motoring/PersonalisedRegAndNumberPlates/DG_181503
"Vehicle registration numbers must be correctly displayed on your vehicle number plate. It is an offence to rearrange them to make them look like names or words or to alter them in any manner that makes the vehicle registration number difficult to read or identify."
"What could happen if you display incorrect number plates:
The police can issue fixed penalty fines for illegally displayed number plates. Offenders could face a maximum fine of £1,000 and in some cases the number plate may be withdrawn."
it doesn't help though that the example plate they show doesn't actually comply with the spacing requirements...
Microsoft nails second Android device maker
Tuesday 28th June 2011 21:49 GMT
old days???
!!!In the old days, an inventor got a *temporary* monopoly of her / his invention as recompense for all the hard work of inventing. After the time was up, anyone could exploit the invention and, if possible, improve on it.!!!
Boulton and Watt just sat on their invention and didn't bother to carry on making further improvements... therefore the entire steam revolution was stalled until his patent expired...
http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/do-patents-encourage-or-hinder-innovation-the-case-of-the-steam-engine/
!!The second downside of the patent system is the devastating effect it has on incremental innovation. From 1786 to 1800 there was no increase in the duty of steam engines at all, as Boulton and Watt successfully sought to prevent competition by suppressing innovation. This should be a cautionary note for people who think that the current wave of patent litigation triggered by a system of software patents created by the courts is likely to have a beneficial impact on software innovation.!!
Microsoft are basically doing the same and computing and software development are suffering as a result... just think how fast software development would be proceding without software patents... and look at this remark from Bill Gates himself which shows just how hypocritical he is:
"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete stand-still today. The solution . . . is patent exchanges . . . and patenting as much as we can. . . . A future start-up with no patents of its own will be forced to pay whatever price the giants choose to impose. That price might be high: Established companies have an interest in excluding future competitors."
http://skeptics.stackexchange.com/questions/4176/do-software-patents-stifle-creativity
ps I do wish we could use simple formatting to wrap quoted text with quotes....
You have to have standards – or do you?
Microsoft loses Supreme patent fight over Word
Friday 10th June 2011 13:46 GMT
Eat their cake and have it too???
ah yes... Microsoft want patent reform, but patent reform such that software patents remain legitimate... typical... They'd have stood far more chance of fighting the patent if they'd gone for the jugular and had all software patents revoked as a non-patentable field... but they wanted to keep their own patents in place...
Facebook quietly switches on facial recognition tech by default
Wednesday 8th June 2011 11:24 GMT
Unfortunately...
the one config setting I DO want isn't given to you... the setting to prevent people from even tagging you in the first place... it's all very well not suggesting you... or telling you when you've been tagged... but I do NOT want people to tag me in the first place... telling me I've been tagged after the fact is NO good even if I do delete the tag (which I consistently do) as FB have already got the data stored that I was that shape in that image...
rather amusing though is the ridiculous tag spam that unscrupulous FB page owners do to promote their wares... you know... the stuff whre you see one of your friends announced as having been tagged in a picture of some rubbish online tat for sale... and when you examine the picture, you see it's stuffed with very small tags of all the people who've ever made the mistake of liking that webshop FB page
must annoy the hell out of %uckerberg as his servers are filling up with garbage tag data
Apple defends iOS devs from patent holder
Renault readies sub-£7000 e-car for Blighty
Royal guests free to tweet and hang out with Facebook friends
WikiLeaks releases classified files on Guantánamo Bay
'Real' JavaScript benchmark topped by...Microsoft
SpaceX unveils new Falcon Heavy rocket - WORLD'S BIGGEST
Judge hits police with massive bill over false Operation Ore charges
Tuesday 5th April 2011 19:49 GMT
clearing cache?
not good enough... images deleted remain accessible to those with the skill and knowledge... the only way to be reasonable safe is to browse with loads of ram and your cache in a RAM drive.. anyway, every image you ever pull down is accessible via your ISP's records of every thing you're browser has ever requested... why do you think they want ISPs to keep records then? To cope with people using encryption on their discs
so start browsing using https and insist of websites supporting https...
Men at Work lose Down Under plagiarism appeal
Friday 1st April 2011 08:54 GMT
sory mate...
I'm an amateur musician and songwriter... but current copyright is ridiculously long... It should revert to the original periods as set down in the Statute of Anne... just 14 years... after which the work passes into the Public Domain... 14 years is plenty of time to make money off of a piece of work... there's no way you should be able to continue rent seeking off a work any longer and preventing others from building on it and using riffs and melodies from it in their works after you've enjoyed your 14 years...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
