Posts by charlie wallace
31 posts • joined Sunday 25th March 2007 18:25 GMT
apple pioneered?
Are you sure about that ?
http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_VAIO_X505_series/4505-3121_7-30886049.html
Posted in Opera shrugs off Google Native Client
seems like a tactical mistake
i think they're going to start worrying too much about 'purist' ideals rather than making usefuly stuff.
as for javascript matching native client, i just can't see it, cherry picked example runs at half the speed, javascript might get faster but so will native client.
impressive?
So i don't get the whole google chrome speed thing, its rendering static text and images quickly, ok its quicker than some of the other browsers buts its only because they're at 1990s level of speed in the first place, its like being fastest in a one legged sack race.
I mean the OS's render quickly, games renderer way more stuff at a phenomenal rate, with considerably more complex data.
But yeah congrats for rendering some text and images quickly.
Posted in Twitter on a ZX Spectrum
real hard to guess
what that pdp is, when its written underneath for the "next"
iphone battery good?
I must just be really unlucky, it never lasts a work day for me, and if i actually used it in a way apple suggest on its TV ad's ( ha ha ) it wouldn't last more than a few hours.
I have two mophies that i keep one on charge all the time.
For some reason people seem to think the current iphone os isn't multitasking, it is. they just don't switch it on for 3rd party apps. Granted it gets a lot worse when you do, try using one of the gps trackers with a 3g connection and see how short it'll run and well as how hot it'll get. But even without it the battery life is terrible. But that happens in background or foreground mode.
I get the iphone, the apps are great, but seriously it sucks as an actual phone, you see everyone blaming at&t& in the usa for the bad reception, but it was never this bad on other phones, my little candybar 6820 nokia outperforms it in every way as just a phone. The only thing that stops me switching out is the usefulness of the applications.
Posted in Man of God backs Beverley porncoder
HDM watching too much american media
maybe hired an american journo ?
Posted in Apple yanks Wi-Fi detectors from iTunes
uh oh
I've got a few apps on the appstore that use private frameworks (core graphics), wonder if they'll get noticed :)
Who cares if an app uses a framework that stops working, it'll get updated and fixed, and if no work around is possible, then no one can do anything about it anway.
but
the problem in the floriduh' was they shipped physical material to the state.
so then
cydia
Simpson, Homer Simpson...
doh... indeed
Posted in Steve Wozniak, your time is up
seems fair enough
But man i think you better start hiding out, the fanboi's are going to be foaming after this...
Posted in Google slapped in domain name spat
google have done a Streisand
Never heard of groovle til now. Thanks google!
not so
Uh,, Yes, yes they do, you can write your own games on the 360 with the paid creators club, something similar to the net yarouze except that you don't need special hardware.
Microsoft provide a wealth of free tools, source, documentation
peek
I picked up a peek, email variety, for the grand total of $4.95, but only for the purposes of seeing what its capable of hack wise.
Posted in Leaked Lotus doc hints at e-Evora
umm
this was pretty much announced on 1.5.09 by mike kimberly the ex ceo.
reasonable expectation of privacy?
Its unreasonable to expect a 'secure' network, you should always assume a conference like this to be bugged, regardless of any advertising or assumptions made, soceng 101. Maybe those that are upset should stick to a different type of con.
xcode?
You're joking right ? XCode is a toy compared to developer studio, its mostly just a front end that most programmers editor can match, its closer to VC 6 than 2008.
Way better plugins, tools, support for many more languages, xcode just drives makefiles of a sort with a few property pages.
Still at least its not PWB.
NO_TS bit
Problem is with some software that doesn't run on 7, it won't run on the virtual XP either because it thinks its in a terminal server and isn't licensed for it.
Apple going after jailbreakers as possible terrorists.
Lets hope the jailbreaking terrorists never find about this flaw and end up crashing high ranking officials daughters iPhones, we all need those drunken facebook photos to start the day..
Paris coz she's been a jailbird crashing high ranking facebook coffee time saviour.
Nobody uses C++ anymore ?
I still haven't gotten over the nobody uses assembler, C, now we're not using C++ ? I'm still on C+
What language will nobody be using next, hopefully Java, that almost happened but then google f'd it up and restarted it.
tsk
damn i thought this was going to be a story about my beowulf cluster.
don't let the door hit you on the way out
1 down, 2 to go.
Not first ever
The GPL was tested ages ago in the USA with Drewtech and the SAE.
Posted in Google goes spear phishing on MySpace
It seems MySpace users aren't a particularly cautious lot.
It seems El Reg has gone a bit soft here, cautious ?
They're just upset.
That instead of the offcials/politicians being bribed for the information on sensitive sites, the bad guys can get it free off the internets.
Google earth doesn't really provide the information, the mapping company does, its them they should talk too.
Here be dragons, for instance.
paying for services
biswas, so can i come over and have sex with your girlfriend/wife, since its just a service you're not really loosing anything ?
What would be the point if it weren't easier.
Computers/technology make things easier, for most everyone, wouldn't be much good otherwise would it ?
If you're dumb enough to get roped in ( creating a false trust is one thing, sending money another ) lets not give up yet more personal responsibility just because some sucker was born a minute ago. Scraped knees build character.
Posted in Satnav driver's car totalled by train
selective vision
so she says the satnav didn't show the railway lines on whats presumably a 7inch screen on the car, yet she failed to notice actual railway lines with effective infinity resolution and screen size, so how exactly would it have helped having them on screen, and perhaps it was there after all.
if it truely were darwin at work, the car would be fine and she'd be the one down the track.
Likely Story
I seem to recall either a skit or news story about the geek squads being the new plumbers for the bored housewives, and after dropping all the hints, ultimately she was scorned.
Who invites a stranger in and then tells them they're going for a shower and time to setup a phone camera, while they wander the house, plus its going to be obvious there.
the little red dot was probably the voicemail or something, and what happens if someone called the phone.
plus i've tried this before, the lens just steams up and the shower curtain gets in the way anyway.
Already been and gone on eBay
The suit was already up for sale on eBay after the military snubbed it, it didn't make the reserve either.
Got to $35K
http://cgi.ebay.com/The-Trojan-full-body-armor-designed-by-Troy-Hurtubise_W0QQitemZ190079888295QQihZ009QQcategoryZ25552QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
