Posts by Ian K
185 posts • joined Monday 29th October 2007 17:07 GMT
transcription of spoken messages "wicked-fast" [sic]
Yeah, these weird tech kid-types and their crazy speak, eh?
Without the "[sic]" I would have taken that as a typo for sure.
Re: A Lannister always pays his debts
The might pay their debts, but Lannisters also aren't entirely against taking what they desire by intrigue or force of arms if circumstances demand.
I'm guessing that if they had BitTorrent available they wouldn't be too shy about using that either.
"Verizon: 96 PER CENT of state-backed cyber-spying traced to China"
Of course, that could just mean that the Chinese state-backed cyber-spies are particularly inept and leave obvious trails back home.
The states that are really behind 96% of cyber-spying have spies that don't get spotted at all.
Posted in British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'
Re: Re "famous Neil Gaiman"
@Kubla - Yeah, I did consider that...but as there didn't seem to be much to choose between "really not knowing who Neil Gaiman is" and "knowing who Neil Gaiman is but also thinking he's obscure" I when for the first option.
Still, if the OP wants to flaunt feigned ignorance rather and actual ignorance that's their call.
Posted in British bookworms deem Amazon 'evil'
Re: Re "famous Neil Gaiman"
If only there was some sort of "engine for searching" out there. Better still, one freely accessible to all, maybe on the internet or somewhere like that.
A ridiculous idea, I know, but one can always dream...
Hmmmm....
"The ruse is an extenuation of earlier scams..."
I do not think that word means what you think it means.
"You'd have to be very a sheltered adult, an immature adult or just plain ignorant not to see that."
It must give you a nice warm feeling to have the delusion that people could only disagree with you because they're retarded, ignorant, or both.
Re: desktop
A pretty feeble effort: 2/10
Would not respond again.
"I have a medical condition called nystagmus, basically me eyes don't ever stay still. So would this leave me unable to watch video, and with the screen auto-scrolling around like a flea on speed?"
I suspect the quick answer to that question's "Yes".
I suspect the longer answer's "Yes, unless you turn that feature off".
Re: Target Acquired?
Shurely Timmay meant "bringing a business to its knee's". :)
Posted in Paper computers: Not mere pulp fiction
"shit, I've just lost my entire book collection"
Alternatively, long live backups.
'First commercial space fleet'
Technically, don't you need more than zero craft to have a fleet?
Re: Riiiiight
There is no spoon.
Weeeellll...
I guess you could set up an induction loop arrangement where wireless power was broadcast to a set of these PaperTab thingies from under the desk, and use something along the lines of Bluetooth to handle their content updates. Then you'd only need a fairly tiny set of chippery on the PaperTab themselves, which might give you something like the system manufacturers are selling it as.
Of course, unless you had a mobile charger pad you could put a PaperTab on to walk around the room with (turning it into a Kindle, more or less) you'd only be able to work with the tabs at the desk.
"You may have heard that Lehman has had issues but clearing up the mess is a good gig."
Erm, I may be completely missing a joke here, but isn't the most significant issue in getting an IT job with Lehman Brothers the fact that it went bust in 2008? And in doing so started the ball rolling on the economic slump we've had ever since?
I'll grant you that that does leave a lot of opportunities for clearing up the mess, if you can find someone to pay you for the job.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman_Brothers
"...it's hard to push 20th-century products into [..] (god forbid) Lexx"
Not that hard; the final series was set on 20th-century Earth.
I'll get my browncoat.
About that picture caption: "Super-Earth HD40307g alongside its host star"
It's a very nice picture, with oceans and continents and fluffy clouds and everything. Which in the circumstances makes me suspect there really should be an "artist's impression" in that caption somewhere.
"Virgin has a working app that it’s currently mak[ing] small cosmetic tweaks to."
FFS, that's near enough what they had before they even started; the original, working, TiVo app that just needed a bit of tweaking to get the Virgin Media colour scheme on it.
What the hell have they been doing all this time?
Re: Bankrupt Stock Sale
>>what's being flogged off on the cheap
>Things that people have demonstably not wanted to buy already.
...at their original price.
As I believe the hip young types put it these days...
...pwned!
Re: the culprits could have just dropped a bunch of apple gear off
Not if they'd been locating the office with Apple Maps.
Re: Article a little behind the times?
@Adam McC: You know, I was so sure the update was to Jelly Beans, but just checked the About info and you're quite right; still on 4.0.4. C'est la vie. :(
@Owen: If you haven't got it already, download Kies from here to do the update. When you plug your phone in it should automatically detect and offer to install ICS as soon as it's available (which it wasn't 5 minutes ago when I tried). Also, it looks like your phone needs to have any lock screen unlocked as you plug it in for Kies to detect it properly.
@The 3 people that downvoted me: Thhhhhhhhppppt! :p
Article a little behind the times?
UK-based, operator "3", and Sammy's own Kies thingy cheerfully updated my Galaxy III to Jelly Beans on the 15th of this month.
Posted in Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review
[Hangs coat up...]
[...sits down and gets the popcorn ready]
This'll be good!
That's probably why they're starting with Promethius
Who'd want to pirate that in the first place?
Re: "with 8 people towing the line"
My work here is done.
"with 8 people towing the line"
Actually, "toeing the line". They're all metaphorically lining up with the same position, not pulling something on a rope.
"However David Harley, a senior research fellow at antivirus vendor Eset"
Can you really be a "senior research fellow" just because your commercial employer calls you one?
If you believe the online dictionaries, it's a position that's either academic or at the very least granted by a learned society...
Not sure that...
...this camouflage system is particularly tied to squidgy robots.
There's an element of synergy, as the flexy nature of the ink tubes allow the robots' core squidgyness to be preserved, but you could just as well put a flexy skin full of camouflage tubes over the top/around a lot of olde-type rigid robots.
Then put the ink tanks/power source/sensors/control systems inside the rigid core, something that seems far closer to doable than making the 100% squidgy setup autonomous.
As with the CSI classic
"I'll create a GUI interface with Visual Basic, see if I can track an IP address"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygB0ZviqXac
Oh dear.
Re: Syria is responsible for use of the tool, just like any tool it can be used for good or bad
Only to a degree; if you make lots of knives and casually leave some lying about wherever you go (in the street, outside schools, in pubs, etc...) it's hard to deny any sort of responsibility if someone picks one up and uses it to harm others.
"More pixels means more light, which means more power, and that sucks battery life."
*Do* more pixels mean more light? Shurely the light comes from the panel's back illumination, and for a given size of panel the same back illumination will do the job equally well irrespective of resolution?
Re: Thanks for the summary
If you actually want an answer to that question have you considered following El Reg's link to the report, then reading the "Open Access to Data" paged referenced at the bottom of it?
If not, why not?
Posted in HBO wants royal price for Iron Throne
$18,000?
For their presumption they get to pay the iron price...
Demand is mainly driven by [...] a surge in PC sales on the back of the launch of Windows 8
Good luck with that one.
Posted in BBC deletes Blue Peter from BBC One
Re: Peter Duncan in Flash Gordon...
@TRT: That was the one where the report showed a woman on a rack, wasn't it? IIRC they were swamped by pervy phone calls for some time after.
Fond memories...
At this point I feel I have to...
...mention rootkits. Solely to wind up Sony Fanbois, you understand.
Re: Blinkers and cherry-picking
It's a shame really - I gave a lot of credence to Lewis's early Reg posts on defence-related issues. He has a solid background in the area, and while there was always an irreverent style to his writing it did sound like he knew what he was talking about and was talking sense.
His frothings on environmental issues have been quite different, though; initially they looked reasonable in themselves, but looking at articles covering the same issues on other sites it became clear that Lewis was quoting fragments out of context and seriously misrepresenting things. More recently he's been doing what he's done in this article, which is quote the original research then draw completely incompatible conclusions from it and (presumably) hope no one will notice.
And given the lack of rigour demonstrated in the environmental articles, I no longer trust anything defence related he comes out with, either. :(
Posted in Ten... mad materials made into tech
"We want a laptop crafted from a slither of Mars and we want it now."
A "sliver of Mars", shurely?
Unless, of course, you meant a fragment from one of the 1920s Martian invasion force's geosnakes. In which case fair enough.
Mutant offspring of Matt Assay and Lewis Page?
I wouldn't say that's a completely accurate description. The guy's also got some of the gratuitous offensiveness of Orlowski.
Perhaps the product of some unholy ménage à trois after a 90s Xmas party?
Posted in Sony: UK ebook shop open for business
Introductory Special Offer
Free rootkit with every purchase?
Re: Sort of like
Not sort of like. Conventional insulation simply slows down heat transfer, but given enough time some heat *will* get through.
If the article's claims are accurate this new system completely redirects heat flow so shielded areas will never get warmer however long you wait. And can do completely new tricks, like concentrating heat.
Posted in Seagate strikes trillion bit HAMR blow
Re: Re: FAIL
When El Reg stops gloating-and-acting-like-a-smug-shit, so will we.
Probably. Perhaps.
Posted in So, what IS the worst film ever made?
Seconded.
Not only because it's a dire film (which it is), but because first Highlander was such a classic; far greater heights to plummet from.
Posted in Boffins make graphene micro-distillery
Andre Geim [...] won the Noble prize for physics for the work.
That truly sounds like a prize fit for a king. Does it have the same kudos as the Nobel prize, though?
"The spacecraft is now journeying beyond the 'bubble' created by the Sun's gravity"
Eh? There's no "bubble" as such related to the Sun's gravity; gravity's strength fades smoothly away with distance, and there's no point at which it stops or has any change in behaviour.
Do you mean the heliopause, perhaps, which is related to where the solar wind loses its influence?
Posted in HMV faces the music after crap Christmas
"The grizzly sales drop"
I suspect you meant "grisly sales drop"; one means inspiring horror or intense fear, the other means hair that's streaked with grey.
My work here is done.
"that story is going to come to a heartbreaking end"
Enough with all the wangst! I remember the good old days when most companions used to simply wander off content when their stint was done.
