Posts by Luke McCarthy

Re: Big deal, I can get tech into girls ..

Sorry but vibrating dildos and "dongles" are objectifying men (they are an object that replaces the man). Not that I have any objection to objectification personally, but the feminists seem to be adamantly against it.

Re: Sounds sorta familiar...

Well no, he's not in an embassy and the Chinese govt have said they have no interested in extraditing him (yet).

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.

Re: Wait for the case of mistaken identity.

http://ipayroadtax.com/

Re: Disagreed

Higher DPI screens means we can emulate CRTs all the better!

Re: Watch the film "Branded", and see that advertising is mental pollution.

It's "ads", not "adds".

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.

Re: "I'll be dancing on the grave of optical drives"

Tape is magnetic...

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.

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: 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?

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.

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.

8 core laptop?

Where do you get one of those? Or do you really mean a 4 core hyperthreaded laptop...

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.

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.

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.