Posts by Luke McCarthy
198 posts • joined Thursday 21st February 2008 19:44 GMT
Re: How are Apple (or Amazon) acting illigally
Exactly, but it is easier and more popular for politicians to blame the "evil" corporations for their own stupid tax system.
Re: So... how do you boot?
Coreboot hopefully. Please, no UEFI.
Re: Crime and Punishment
I think in many cases people would just be happy to have their property returned with maybe some compensation from the perpetrator. Prison is an obsolete system that doesn't work and costs far too much, and should be phased out for the majority of crimes. It should be reserved only for people who are a constant physical threat to life.
What the heck are they using ColdFusion for?
What about Clover Trail / Bay Trail notebooks and hybrids? Surely they can be classed as netbooks?
I was thinking about getting an Ultrabook. But I might just get a Bay Trail hybrid when they come out.
Should have been extended instead
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Arxiv
Anything posted on Arxiv should be taken with a grain of salt...
Word 2113
Is a non-problem. Stop using proprietary, undocumented data formats and the problems solves itself.
Maybe they'll make Windows for Workgroups 8.11
Credibility
I wasn't aware that the European Parliament had any to lose.
Re: Wait for the case of mistaken identity.
http://ipayroadtax.com/
And so it begins
Expect more of this to come until Google Glass is shunned and ridiculed and anyone wearing them become social outcasts (if most users of such uber-geekery aren't already). I can see potential future niches for the technology in certain kinds of work, where it will be very useful and acceptable, but for daily use it is DOA.
Re: Disagreed
Higher DPI screens means we can emulate CRTs all the better!
Looks more like Mars than Chile...
Posted in Firefox to spit out third-party cookies
Re: Watch the film "Branded", and see that advertising is mental pollution.
It's "ads", not "adds".
Posted in Linus Torvalds in NSFW Red Hat rant
UEFI
UEFI is a bloated piece of crap and is now a wedge for Microsoft to prevent alternative operating systems. I wish mobo vendors would switch to Coreboot (LinuxBIOS) or something simple. All I ever want in a BIOS is hardware initialization and a boot menu that can load ELF images from ext2/3/4.
Re: Thanks for the memories
Current Intel processors can only address 32GB due to an external address bus much smaller than 64-bit. Expanding this would mean more pins and a new socket. It is the future though to remove the concept of volatile storage, especially when post-NAND technology is commercialised. Filesystems will become obsolete and databases would be much simpler to develop.
How does it work?
Does it present the whole flash memory as if it were RAM, with the RAM caching reads/writes?
Re: "I'll be dancing on the grave of optical drives"
Tape is magnetic...
Dear God
I thought GNOME could no longer jump any more sharks, this time it's doing it with somersaults and fireworks!
Re: I admit
It's not just "social networking" site. I dug up some embarrassing posts a cow-orker of mine posted on Usenet in the 90s. In fact posts of Facebook are more likely to be buried and lost than Usenet, web forum or logged IRC posts.
Re: PC Variation?
But VIA have their own x86 processor, which they could build an SoC around.
1000 Hz
I don't see what use this could possibly be except in high-speed cameras (for slow-motion). Even 120 Hz is overkill in my opinion.
That looks like it has been interpreted and reinterpreted alternatively as ISO Latin 1 and UTF-8 several times...
Wrong! It's a portable computer with cellular connectivity. I look forward to the coming 4GB and 8GB "phones".
Re: 17:07
Download Google Music Manager, tell it where your music is and it will upload it all to Google's servers. Then use the Google Play Music app for Android to play music. Works very well.
Re: Storage too small for us cheapskates...
You're a cheapskate yet you own a >16GB iPhone?
Re: 17:07
Same here, but I ordered 2 hours later than you.
Re: Teachers do their usual thing - find fault
I think it's the usual case of "those who can't, teach". Why would any rational person with a modicum of programming knowledge waste time and money being a teacher?
I too welcome the RPi as a home device, not necessarily because it's cheap (although that helps) but because it's simple, accessible (from a programming point of view), and not running Windows. It has its flaws such as USB/SD compatibility issues, underpowered CPU and overly proprietary GPU but these can be overlooked.
Dreamweaver makes me laugh. Isn't it just a glorified text editor for people too lazy to learn HTML?
Nominative Determinism
Taygan Forth loves coding
Alex Blunt “You can have someone at your control.”
Re: Booble drive more like
Sounds just like my experience with iCloud. But Dropbox and Wuala work perfectly so far.
Re: It's not on an empty lot either!
Goodbye Pruneridge Avenue
Re: Lovely
They were demoing on an N950, so probably. They're releasing an SDK which will enable you to build it for any device, in theory anyway.
Re: Lack of software
Good point. If there was a killer app that required the latest processor or GPU technology then people would be upgrading. The current state of software is disappointing to say the least.
Since it might take a while for enough stock to be available
I might wait until the 21st to see what Jolla announce. Kind of getting fed up with Android.
Posted in Apple iPad Mini 8in tablet review
Knock £100 off the price and I would probably buy one just to play games that are not available on Android, but since I'm not an Apple believer I'm not willing to pay the premium.
I was a victim of fraudulent selling some years ago. The scam website I bought from was linked to by Google Shopping (Froogle) which is why I never trust Google Shopping any more except for well-known sellers.
Re: Poor choice of materials?
That's one thing Samsung have in their favour. The flexible plastic back covers on the back of the Galaxy S II for example are very tough and don't scratch. Although the side plastic is shiny so is probably more prone to scratches. I've always though Aluminium is a poor choice of material due to its softness. I'm surprised they haven't come up with some high-tech alloy yet.
Posted in Why is solid-state storage so flimsy?
Flash is a transitional technology
Hopefully it will be replaced by more reliable tech currently in research labs.
8 core laptop?
Where do you get one of those? Or do you really mean a 4 core hyperthreaded laptop...
Confusion
There seems to be a lot of confusion in this thread. It's really nothing to do with the CPU architecture, but the platform e.g. address and function of hardware registers for peripheral devices, I/O, etc. which vary between SoCs. These are not specified by ARM who only supply the CPU/ISA. But the PC platform has most of these pretty much standardised (first by IBM and copied by the clones, then later by Intel), or at least specifies a way for the OS to automatically discover them. You could have the exact same problem with x86 if you created a new incompatible platform using that processor.
Re: Slightly OT
Windows 95, 98 and Me all reported a 4.x version number with the 'ver' command. Windows NT had parallel version numbering with the 9x series (probably for marketing reasons) until it eventually replaced it with XP.
I've had a similar poor experience. The wireless cuts out at least daily. Some days it requires rebooting several times.
Re: Have used...
Well duh, that's why I give them an old mobile number I never use any more and a ${pricecomparisonsite}@mydomain e-mail address.
Posted in 3G Google Nexus 7 inbound
Re: WiFi Only
The only problem I have with that is my phone's battery dies really quickly when it's in wifi hotspot mode, so I just tend to avoid using the Nexus 7 outside of wifi range unless I really need to.
How much fossil fuels will need to be used by these ships? How will solar panels work with so much cloud (I assume it will move over land).
Posted in Sony preps PS3 with old-school design
Still looks pretty big
I guess it will never get down to the size of the PS2 slim.
The Register needs a filtering system
So I can filter out all the Lewis Page posts.
Re: "The application suite has been rewritten from the ground up"
It's not Microsoft's fault if you make poor life decisions...
Hilarious
Spending $100K to clear a mine which cost Iran a fraction of that.
