* Posts by Dan O'Donovan

8 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jan 2008

Norway warns Amazon against Kindle launch

Dan O'Donovan
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Good for them!

Well done Norway, good to see someone taking a firm stance on shifty marketeering - just like our Office of Fair Trading a surely doing here in the UK. Uh, hang on..

HP packing workers seal bosses in conference room

Dan O'Donovan

By HP Standards

They'll be packed away with plenty of space then ..

B-bum tish.

Rail workers get shirty with see-through blouses

Dan O'Donovan

Cunning Stunt

> National Express chief exec Richard Bowker is "famous for not wearing jackets or ties"

Well that's a claim to be proud of, do you think that'll be his epitaph?

Chillblast Fusion Juggernaut gaming PC

Dan O'Donovan

FSB?

Maybe I'm being a divvy, but why do you need a cpu with an FSB speed of 1333 MHz when your mobo can only tackle up to 800 MHz?

And surely half the fun of overclocked gear is building / breaking and overclocking it your self?

Amy Winehouse pitches for Bond theme

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Re: Mark Ronson

>> Mark Ronson does too have talent.

What? He's a guy who gets other people to play songs he didn't write and then sells the product (product - not music) under his own name. Rip off!!

Hacker blasts Mac clone maker's licence 'violation'

Dan O'Donovan
Jobs Halo

after care? support?

These guys can't even fix their site to render correctly with Apple's Safari, what hope have they of getting an entirely non-supported OS to function?

Model checkers get Turing Prize

Dan O'Donovan
Boffin

@JP Strauss

Turing Prize != Turing Test ... It seems the Turing Prize has been awarded most years since 1966, or weren't you expecting to live very long? ;-)

'100% accurate' face recognition algorithm announced

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Hmm

Sounds like a typical 'overfitting data' mistake... How would their algorithm fare with new and unseen data? My bet is that it'll be a balls up, sigh.