Posts by Haku533 posts • joined Friday 13th April 2007 07:13 GMT
The tablet would need to run Windows as there are some programs I use on my Asus Eee's that just do not exist on other OSs and there are no equivilants that do the same job.
So long as I can source 2nd hand netbooks in the forthcoming years I'll be happy, batteries are not a problem as the Chinese keep producing laptop batteries for laptops that aren't made anymore and if push comes to shove I could replace the cells in a pack myself, I do not have any desire for a smartphone or tablet, I like my portable computing devices to have real keyboards.
Oh come on, the whole premise of the film is right there in the fricken title!
That's like going to the supermarket and buying Hedgehog Flavoured Crisps and then complaining they taste terrible, WTF did you expect?
(I actually did have some hedgehog flavoured crisps as a kid, they did taste terrible, and I did like Snakes on a Plane because I knew what it was going to be like before watching it - a silly popcorn hollywood flick with no aspirations of being anything with substance)
Car-to-car comms could be used to find out traffic conditions ahead of you; average speed, density of vehicles, traffic jams, roadworks, roads closed (signs could put out their own signal) etc. by cars automatically transmitting data to each other.
But a significant amount of cars would need to have the system installed for it to be any use.
Watch this and tell me he wasn't just an actor:
Well if we're going down the pronouciation route, try asking an American to say "solder"...
Normally I'm not too bothered about words that are said/written incorrectly*, however for some reason I can get extremely annoyed whenever someone says or writes "LEGOS".
*people who use 'txt spk' on forums are an exception, they should be banned
Thank you for your confirmation of my oddness :)
Please tell me I'm not the only one whose brain can't help hear the words "She wore a raspberry beret" every time a Raspberry Pi story pops up on one of these tech news sites?
Back when I was a kid in the early 80s I had some button cell batteries for watches/early electroncs (LEDs primarily) and being a kid in the 80s pocket money was almost non-existant, couple that with the high price of button cell batteries I found I could charge them up a little so they'd work for a few minutes.
Until I charged one up for too long with too high a voltage and it went BANG, exploded out of my hands and into my face, no injuries but did give me one helluva shock and I've never tried charging a non-rechargable battery again since that day... :)
Because I once bought the Koyaanisqatsi & Powaqqatsi DVD but instead of being interesting I found them incredibly irritating to watch, long scenes of not much happening along with 'music' from Philip Glass. The 'music' irritated me the most as it was contrived crap which practically repeated the same boring sequence of notes for the entire length of the films with little variation.
I bought them because I had prevously bought Baraka on DVD and found it to be a very good 'film', amazing footage with a soundtrack to perfectly match it (even with the haunting imagery of the aftermath of how bad humans can behave towards each other; concentration camps, mass graves etc.)
But my vote went to "Phantom Menace - The Musical" because after watching the original menace film in the cinema and discovering how badly Lucas had tarnished his Star Wars world, if I had to watch a musical of it I would probably end up perforating my ear drums with any sharp (or blunt) instrument to hand after the first note is sang. The gauging out of eyes would also be an acceptable action to perform.
"When I put this T-shirt on for the first time, my wife left me!
Thank you, Three Wolf Moon T-Shirt! "
You need one of these t-shirts, just read the Amazon reviews for yourself!
You know those 2012 predictions where people think this year is going to be the end of civilisation? I don't think they're far off actually, it looks like the beginning of the end of being civilised.
In France they introduced a 3 strike law, online piracy dropped, so did media sales.
http://www.ghacks.net/2012/04/01/hadopi-cut-piracy-in-france-but-sales-down-as-well/
How exactly did that move help the media industry?
Perhaps the best ever book I ever bought for the BBC Micro cost me £2.75 from Toys'R'Us, it was an in-depth 'bible' of all the obvious and non-obvious tips, tricks, peeks & pokes of programming the BBC Micro that took you beyond BASIC and a little bit into the terrortory of assembly for enhancing BASIC code.
The state of the road surface in the UK is bloody atrocious, and some parts are just about lethal if you're on two wheels, the whole lot needs to be re-surfaced, not patched up by filling the potholes and not even putting tar around the edge to seal it up.
Totally agree.
If you spend £40-£60 on a new game and you really enjoy it then you'll likely to keep it and feel you got your monies worth, but if you don't like it very much you can sell it to recoup some of your investment and you (hopefully) won't have lost too much money in the process.
However if you spend £40-£60 on a new game which cannot be re-sold and you discover you don't like it then you're less likely to buy new games in the future for fear that you'll just waste your money again, even if you try & like the demo it doesn't mean the entire game will be as fun - just look at movie trailers compared to the actual films.
I tried but it overshadowed the leaflet campaign line, the best I came up with was:
"The Committee for the Lynching of Innocent Taxpaying Organisms and Removal of their Internet Serivce"
So suspected freetards will face piracy letters in 2014? Does that situation remind anyone else of that scene in Polymorph where they're all discussing what to do with the big ugly monster and Rimmer, who looks strangely like Rolf Harris, comes out with this:
"The time for talking is over. Now call it extreme if you like, but I propose we hit it hard and we hit it fast, with a major, and I mean major, leaflet campaign"
Slow news day?
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DIT
Program: Jet Set Willy
BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE DILLILLLIILLLILLILL.....
to the point where some can become quite religious over their passion for the OS, I cannot deny the positive impact it has had on computing in general.
Thanks, Linus.
<AOL> ME TOO! </AOL>
I wish there was a setting on the tv so you could turn up the intelligence.
They made one called "brightness" but it appears to be broken.
They were the first to break the $3m barrier on Kickstarter.
"The film that's sure to cause a stir...fry"
Iris projected imaging has been around for a while and is still being worked on, some guy recently took a Microvision ShowWX (pico projector that uses RGB lasers), added a very thick optical filter and projected the image straight onto his retina:
http://hackaday.com/2012/04/09/projecting-video-directly-onto-the-retina/
I wonder if the Google Goggles will use a retina projection technique, it'll mean you can still see the image in daylight conditions.
I got a re-branded iPad from a bloke down the pub who assured me it had 4G connectivity, only the drawing app seems to be working but the battery life is amazing, I haven't had to charge it up yet, it's one of those rare foreign red ones called a "hcteks-a-hcte" with a silver screen and two control knobs at the top...
Is there a way I can piss off both the Android and Apple fans at the same time?
Throw in some true augumented reality capabilities and we could do virtual graffiti on real walls and buildings - now that could get interesting walking down high streets and seeing user reviews and comments virtually plastered on the walls & windows of the shops.
Pre-millennium I had a notion of wanting to visit America one day, but now if I had to choose between going to America or eating a kangaroo scrotum I'd ask you to pass me the ketchup.
The most recent 5 Reg articles were posted at Saturday 06:00, Saturday 10:00, Sunday 05:00, Sunday 09:00, Sunday 10:00, which says to me they were pre-written and automatically posted at those specific times, I don't think anyone went into the office over the whole weekend.
"From April, DHS vets all passengers from UK heading to East Canada, Cuba, the Carribbean & Mexico" even though the planes don't enter US airspace.
Took me a little searching to discover it wasn't an April fool's joke by The Independent (the article date could have been faked), those Americans are taking the piss and the UK government should grow a backbone and tell the US to fuck off.
but the crunchy center is always tough to finish...
"The myth of someone sitting at the entrance to a shopping centre and harvesting everyone's details, is just that: A myth."
I think the same things were said about RFID in passports etc., then people started seeing how far away they could actually read them, some guy managed to read them at over 200 feet with $2,500 of hardware.
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2010/072910-black-hat-rfid-passports.html
Even if it's just a wrist watch.
Surely Apple will have security footage of the mishap to show what really went down, though I don't think anyone outside of the investigation will see it.
It's light on one side, dark on the other, and it binds the universe together.
Basically Facebook want to protect the data on their network, the fact that it happens to be data you put into their network doesn't have much to do with it.
I get asked for the password all the time on several XP machines running FF, doesn't really bother me as I've set FF to remember that password.
Also it doesn't help that you need to separately login to each sub-site of El Reg, the channel & hardware sites spring to mind.
No to avatars.
No to karma stuff.
No to sorting comments by popularity (people will start trying to game the system at the detriment to the quality of the posts).
IMHO this kind of stuff will just detract from people engaging in putting forward serious comments and engaging in interesting discussions. I really like the fact that certain forums I visit do not have avatars and very few people have bothered to make sigs (of which the ones that do usually put useful info/links in).
Nesting - you shouldn't have brought in the silly curved arrow to indicate someone's post is a reply to someone elses, with the vertical grey bar it was instantly obvious it was a reply, and if you bring it back you can make it so two vertical grey bars mean a reply to a reply, and perhaps stretch it to 3 for a reply to a reply to a reply.
Hmm lets try that.
*Bold* /Italic/
Yup that works ;)
but can you get shot of the stupid curved arrow that indicates a post is a reply to someone elses post in favour of the original grey bar?
Widening the have/have not divide even further.
If the prices of new games weren't so extortionatly high the 2nd hand games market wouldn't be so strong.
If they want a cut of the 2nd hand market, they should run their own games stores.
Just because person A saw an opportunity person B didn't see it doesn't mean person B should automatically get a cut of that revenue stream.
I highly recommend the switch mode DC-DC converters from http://www.dimensionengineering.com, yes they're a little expensive but very easy to use as you don't need any external components like smoothing capacitors etc.
