Posts by paulc 770 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2007
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...
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
"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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
"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
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.
"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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
and removing means for changing how desktop customisations worked. When I found I couldn't tell the screensaver to use a different directory for the slideshow images and the gnome developer had a smugger than thou "we know best" attitude when it came to bug reports. Gnome using a registry was also a major fail for me...
Ran off to Mint Debian with LXDE and rolling updates... none of that praying the update works every six months or finding it was better to wipe and do a fresh install after having a borked upgrade.
can't figure out how to monetise their web content, so they want to tax everybody instead... yet another dinosaur industry destined to go the way of the buggy whip makers if they fail to innovate their way out of their trap... THEY have to make US want to actually pay for their content... Either bring in really sensible very low micro-payments or else charge a suitable low subscription fee... The Times blew it when they made their subscription cost ridiculously high... in fact they were giving it away with hard copy subscriptions and people still didn't take it up in great numbers...
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