Posts by adnim

Microsoft Runes

How it's supposed to improve productivity for power users is a mystery.

How do I distinguish bugs from features?

"With Windows® 8™, Microsoft® has taken an innovative approach and discarded this taxonomy....

...An aspect of the software’s behaviour may be a bug, or it may be a feature."

Are they just not letting on???

Context switching... Alt-tab, there's my dev environment. Alt-tab there's my graphics editor. Alt-tab there's my email client, Alt-tab, there's my browser. Ohh what are these icons on the toolbar at the bottom, What do they do when I click on them? Wow they switch the context of running programs.... I am so confused.

After reading through that guide I am of the opinion that it is a joke/hoax or Microsoft are far more patronising and arrogant than I believed.

Accused?

I thought it was common knowledge.

Not enough

The company here didn't make mistakes or errors that resulted in those callers facing massive bills. This was an organised and premeditated action.

It seems to me that this company was running a scam under the guise of a competition and all they face is a fine. This company should be shut down, it's directors banned from ever running a similar business again, perhaps even imprisoned for a short time. All the company's assets should seized and the victims fully recompensed with any remaining assets put into the public purse.

Not quite there yet

i5

8Gb Ram

Matte IPS 1920x1080 13"

256Gb SDD

USB 3/Thunderbolt

Gigabit Ethernet

Wireless

SD/SDHC

1.6Kg max

Would be a fair spec for the £800-£900 price point.

Point me to the above spec for less than £1k and I would buy one tomorrow.

The taxman

doesn't have my email address. I think It was very nice and kind of him to go out of his way to find me by email.

I am looking forward to my tax rebate.

Everyone...

was a noob at sometime.

My first PC was an Epson PCe, my second was a 386SX33. Through various upgrades over many years that 386 is now an i5 2500k. Every component has changed several times so that nothing of the original remains, but in essence it is still that old 486. I was a mobile engineer at one time, I wonder which is the greater, the number of miles I drove or the number of machines I built or setup.

I is surprised

Google have resource to knock up something to rival Virustotal in a week or two.(presuming AV vendors respond to Google partnership requests in a timely fashion) I can only presume the reason for Google acquiring Virustotal is that this aquisition provides Google with a ready made service AND removes competition at the same time. I just hope one does not have to sign in to use the service.

I am thinking of...

investing in my very first smart phone (seriously, I have not needed one until now).

However when I read this..."delivers uncompromised, studio-quality sound for your music" on the HTC website, I closed the tab and decided to look elsewhere.

I have worked in a recording studio, as a sound engineer, so this statement makes me wonder what else they may exaggerate or just plain lie about.

</shrug>

LG? Samsung?

"...and the integrity of the game very seriously"

Not seriously enough to create a bullet proof product, but seriously enough to make coin from an exploitable product.

But then, as a software developer they are not exactly alone are they? They stand shoulder to shoulder with the "best".

To most

people planning such a supply chain system this would be considered common sense.

To a patent official who may or may not get confused trying to find the "any key", it is rocket science.

OK I exaggerate the incompetence level of the average patent official to some small extent. But it does seem to me a certain kind of expertise is missing from amongst their ranks.

Turn the items in the shopping list into queued data requests from a browser for instance and it starts to look how routing on the Internet works.

At the risk of becoming even more abstract...T o a living room designer this kind of a system would be called Feng´-shu`i.

I don't care

I created a Farcebook page to promote my business.

I then created an personal account to associate with that business.

I then created several other accounts just to work out how the Farcebook privacy controls work and who could see what.

If Farcebook close all my accounts, I will sleep soundly in the comfortable knowledge that I have lost absolutely nothing.

We need a shrug icon.

Apple

Should provides a free app that does this, an app that pops up a warning every time any application accesses any data that is even slightly personal or any data which may aid in the identification of the user.

refcontrol

is a Firefox addon

I wouldn't have guessed

Healthy fat people have less chance of dying than unhealthy fat people and if we remove all the unhealthy fat people from the stats, it shows that fat people are no more likely to die than thin people.

Did someone pay for this research?

The really big deal clincher for me

the thing that would certainly make me buy a pair is the promise of peripheral vision advertising.

Subliminal ads coming in from the sides as you look at the main point of interest in your field of view would be awesome. I could end up buying loads of stuff I don't want or need and never understand why.

Will the the lenses go opaque when viewing a Samsung device and rose tinted when viewing Apple procucts?

There must be

at least 100,000 people out there with 2+Ghz Quad core machines who would willingly help crunch this data. Why do they not create an application along the lines of Seti@home?

Trust common sense

Your data is in the cloud... Someone else has access.

Heavily encrypt it or don't cloud it.

Usenet

SABnzbd+

Never visited Pirate Bay.

Will we

as a species make it to 3000AD?

What will

96dpi web images look like on such displays?

Will web images need to have the resolution upped to look good?

If so, that extra bandwidth is gonna cost someone.

Anyone out there shed some light on this?