Posts by Steve John
45 posts • joined Wednesday 8th October 2008 22:15 GMT
Real coders getting sniffy...
I think RCJ would get a bit sniffy if I called myself a journalist after writing a blog.
Hardware won't update...
Downloading ICS won't magically add the hardware required for NFC. If you want that functionality, it's time for a new phone.
Neal Asher
Just finishing the last but one of his Polity novels (The Technician) and the last one is in the post from Amazon (Hilldiggers). All have been stonking good reads. Prador Moon, Shadow of the Scorpion and The Skinner stand out for me.
Rotation lock switch
is what I'm most pleased about. Using it as mute was pointless given there is a volume rocker right next to it.
Posted in Our PARIS becomes GLOBAL MEDIA SENSATION
Well done chaps...
Just saw you on the BBC 6 o'clock news. Good work!
Pointless
Given that you have to put the devices *on* the mat & encase your gadget with something that increases its bulk, I really don't see the point in these. I just got one of those iDapt things you guys reviewed recently, and I think it's great. Tidied away all our chargers and just use the iDapt - don't have to put a stupid case around the gadget either.
UMA
Orange offer UMA which routes calls over your home WiFi. They don't seem to shout about it though - I found out from a friend. I'd love to use it, have a dreadful signal at home but my Android handset doesn't support it.
Um...
So, your server side Java doesn't require a JRE then?
Hmm
Why is The Doctor running towards a giant wheetabix?
@AC & cyclestreets
Nice one. I'll check it out. :-)
Sounds great...
... when's the Android version coming though? :-(
Umm
"So, for most people in most situations, it's much better than their old phone"
What if their previous phone wasn't an iPhone - then surely it could be worse!
Captions
Couldn't be arsed to plug in my headphones, so watched the vid with the automatically transcribed captions. I prsume the following captions were supposed to be iPhone 4:
- I found four.
- Night phone.
- Knife on.
- Knife and fork.
Brilliant.
4OD
It's been available on 4OD for the past week.
7 Series
Or BMW.
Flash video re-coding...
... to what - Quicktime absolutely stinks. As buggy and resource hungry as Flash!
Posted in Avatar attracts nine Oscar nods
D9
District 9 and Moon were the best sci-fi films I've seen for a long (long) time.
Posted in Avatar attracts nine Oscar nods
Don't recall...
... Ms Weaver getting her wabs out in Aliens.
Michelle Rodriguez's do look good in 3D though.
Posted in Samsung SH-BO83L
Does it work with MCE?
So, does this allow playback of blu-ray movies through Windows Media Center (Win 7).
Evolution
Bringing the rendering engine up to standards compliance is to be applauded and will make a lot of developers lives *slightly* easier.
The rendering engine isn't the only factor, especially with more complex or security oriented web apps.
The main thing they need to address is their security model. I can see the logic behind some of it, but it can be terribly hard to deal with. I've had cookies that were intended to make the site more secure blocked by the browser, and the countermeasures to deal with that make a mockery of the intended purpose of the cookie blocking anyway.
Conversely, we wouldn't have AJAX, the beloved "Web 2.0" technology without the MS Outlook team getting XmlHttpRequest built in to IE.
So,
Hey ho. Dealing with this stuff keeps us employed!
Oracle
Isn't this essentially what Oracle were trying to do 10 or so years ago?
I personally like having local data and local processing power, but I would - being a software engineer.
I can actually see this possibly taking off with the MySpace generation though. As long as they can access the websites they like on the device - it'll do.
Reckon it'd have to run on cheaper hardware than a "full fat" PC/Netbook though, otherwise you'd (read: I'd) buy the general purpose one that could also access the internet.
Sudo
http://xkcd.com/149/
Heh.
Posted in Kingston SSD Now V 40GB boot drive
These things are great...
I stuck a Corsair x64 SSD in my media centre as the boot drive. It used to take 1 min 50 from cold until I could watch live TV, it is now 40 seconds.
Also, it just feels much snappier. Once the desktop appears, I can click the firefox icon and firefox will appear - it used to fanny about for ages after showing the desktop.
Just waiting for the 256 GB ones to become cheap enough to stuff one in my laptop.
Posted in iPhone apps top 100,000
Windows CE/Mobile
How many apps are available for the Windows mobile (CE or whatever) platform?
Also, don't start a sentence with "And". :-)
Life on Earth is mostly ugly?
Come on, that's not fair.
I'm no hippie, or mental anti-g8 activist that thinks Humans or capitalism are the scum of the Earth, but the diversity of species and the difference in how they look and how they all go about their business is facinating and beautiful.
Posted in New Doctor Who is 'simply the best'
It's pretty shit really...
... think I've seen most of the *new* ones, and must admit that if it wasn't for fond childhood memories I'd have stopped watching a very long time ago.
That said, I was a bit disappointed when Chrstopher Ecclescake was announced to be leaving, but thought David Tenant turned out to be excellent.
So we should give the new boy a chance. And if Russel T Davies is writing less episodes, it can only be a good thing.
Double Standards
Isn't this a case of double standards, what with not allowing OSX to run on non-Apple hardware?
If Apple made cars, they would only allow you to drive them on roads built by Apple.
Posted in Fedora 12 beta code is go
Great...
I like Fedora, did some development on it a couple of years ago, and found it OK.
By OK, it mean a mean of the following:
- Great: More responsive than XP on the other partition. Loved the multiple desktops.
- OK: Can't just poke around the UI for settings - have to look stuff up and open terminals (not a problem as such - I grew up with command line interfaces, just, well, aren't we past that now?).
- Poor: For all of these improvements mentioned in the article, will they make it "just work" with my laptop's inbuild wireless. Tried to install it at home, and everything went smoothly apart from the bloody wireless. After working at a PC all day, I just couldn't be bothered to put in the time to figure it out in the evening.
Posted in Facebook 'fesses to bad hair day
The irony...
Attempting to view downrightnow.com, I a met with a connection timeout message!
Posted in IBM punts free enterprise language tools
Developers?
"The goal is to shield developers from complexities typically associated with Web 2.0 application development,"
HTML & JavaScript is about as simple as development gets. If a developer wants to be shielded from this, I would suggest that they should not call themself a developer and maybe get a McJob.
As usual...
... a well written and well reasoned article from Lewis Page.
If more of society read articles like this rather than the sensationalist/unresearched/skewed toss in the newspapers, I think we'd be in a much better state.
Keep up the good work.
@AC 7th July 2009 10:52 GMT
So you call me lazy for not following the link, then say that the link takes you to a page where there is, in fact, a simple mailto: link. Confirming my guess, nice work feller.
My point wasn't in defence of the situation, I was simply saying that the situation probably wasn't discovered as a result of snooping as the black helicopter brigade would assume.
No interception...
... I suspect the "contact me" button was a simple mailto: link which would have opened a new message with her default email client.
Posted in Fedora 11 beta bares chest to all-comers
Have they sorted out wireless setup yet...
... last tried to get wireless working with Fedora 8 on my laptop and failed.
April 1st
See title.
Role revesal?
Hmm. "Here's hoping that when this consortium reveals itself...".
Methinks that other companies may be the ones to scrutinize since for a long time all eyes have been turned towards Microsoft.
I'm looking in Google's direction.
Also, this "Cloud Computing" thing - yep, has its place, but how many of the readership of this site would be happy with a low powered, "dumb" terminal in front of them?
Posted in Beeb borrows copyrighted Flickr image
...considering the BBC's response..
"Mike says he's considering the BBC's response and its offer, although he notes he's not entirely satisfied with the explanation"...
Reather, wondering whether he can take them for any more cash no doubt. I'm not saying they're blameless, but they won't use it again, he's £75 better off and no-one was hurt. Job done, move on.
@Simon Painter
That word replacer is genius.
The following link contains swears!
http://www.wordreplacer.com/cache/g090206171612101983
Posted in Yes! It's the cardboard PC!
Yeah, that'll help.
Replacing what is probably the most recyclable part of the PC anyway.
Doing something about being able to recycle the myriad different substances within would be properly useful.
Didn't think...
... that 7-Elevens sold Gagh and Blood Wine
An excellent case of
nominative determinism!
@AC 15:44
Very good, would rate the comment if I could.
Good article
As always, a well written and well reasoned article from Lewis Page. Looking at the comments so far, I wish people would read the entire article before venting.
Keep up the good work.
Posted in Boy band sings praises of Windows 7
Yeah, an attempt at viral marketing, but...
...anyone notice the "respond to my touch" line early on and think about an allusion to iPhone type UI things going on?
