Posts by Spender

"80 million people in Britain"

Last time I checked there were about 64 million people in Britain. Where did the other 16 million come from? That's a pretty big margin of error.

Clearing up misconceptions

Typescript is **not** a web language, and is never intended to be used directly in a web browser. Typescript is a standalone language that brings many advantages over Javascript (many of which were mentioned in the article). This is **not** an attempt by MS to subvert an existing web-technology by causing fragmentation. Anyone who sees TS and comes to the conclusion that MS is simply repeating the tactic that they employed with Java is sorely missing the point.

The most important thing to realise here is that the compiled output of TypeScript is JavaScript. The purpose of TS is to provide compile-time type-safety so that code written by developers is more easily checked and enforced at compile time. Once compiled, the output is standard, vanilla Javascript.

Anyone who thinks that this causes disadvantage to the web at large simply doesn't understand what TypeScript is and the aims of the TypeScript project.

+1 to Microsoft for finally "getting" the web.

That's just astonishingly negligent. I'm taking my custom elsewhere with immediate effect (it will be my next action after posting this message).

Those morons don't deserve my business. Thanks for the heads-up, reg.

Metro?

Isn't it TIFKAM now?

"can soak up so much of the stuff ..."

"can soak up so much of the stuff that a fuel tank stuffed full of the compound could match a conventionally-sized fuel tank for energy potential"

Can you define the difference between a "tank" and a "conventionally-sized tank"?

Censorship by machine...

...is definitely possible... and certain to be shit. I'm somewhat worried that yet another politician climbs on a soapbox preaching that this is a clever idea.

Unfair advantage given to Virgin Tivo

As the only product that is only available as part of a larger subscription (and very much tied in to the Virgin package), I'm not surprised that the Virgin offering is the winner. However, a review that is nominally about DVRs and MediaStreamers (as opposed to the quality of the subscription product that none of the other candidates carry), I find this article disturbingly biased. Are you sure Virgin didn't pay for this one? Seems a little too much like an advert to me.

the people who built our world are dismissed as geeks and bottom feeders?

I think somebody has self-esteem issues.

RICHIE

Rocket Ignition Chamber for Hypobaric Integrity Experimentation

NFC?

WTF?

Good to know

that my donation to WikiLeaks is being spent on furthering their cause and not on lining the pockets of gutter filth litigation lawyers.

Is it just me...

It seems that the benefit to the developer of co-operating to allow tabs of other sites to perform well seems to be very slight. OTOH, when coupled with a "name and shame" interface telling the user about sites that perform badly in the background, this might take off, but otherwise... meh.

Dude's better off...

...without a job from Big Brother.

"allow offenders to adapt or restrict their behaviour...

... to conduct which falls short of our prosecution threshold"

Isn't this the point of laws?

"Double Hard Reset"?

WTF? A quick search of "the brain" reveals that this is common iPhone parlance. Once again... WTF?

"particularly when it's a plugin that only works on Windows boxes"

Actually, there's a mac version of silverlight. Can't vouch for how well it runs though.

"England and Germany look nice and close"

Um. Yep. I'm really sold on this analysis.

master locksmith?

my 10 year old car has a fantastic pair of devices associated with the petrol cap called lock and key. take note that the link to the video seems to show a cheap replacement petrol cap that were all the rage in the days when it was possible to leave your petrol cap on the roof of the car and drive off. In fact the chief benefit of the lock/key combo is that it prevents this from happening, as your keys remain attached to the cap, which makes forgetting to replace the cap near-on impossible to achieve. Are we to believe that the robot is also a master locksmith, and it is simply the modesty of manufacturer that stops him proclaiming this far greater technical achievment?