Posts by Piro

Re: Cooling with oil? Not exaclty new

You can quickly go back further than that, the Cray-2 famously was immersed in 3M Fluorinert.

Now that was a computer that looked like a super computer was supposed to.

I'm certain there wasn't an 800MHz Pentium 4.

Damn!

Why wasn't I informed?

I bought the last two of my android phones off ebay and they cost considerably more.

Re: Well, that's good news really...

It's not just my experience, a friend with a Galaxy S III showed almost exactly the same thing on his screen. These are not old devices with a lot of screen time.

Re: Hoovers???

Completely agreed. But then I only say vacuum cleaner anyway.

Re: application

Invisalign, right?

Re: Nice to see them catch up with the girls

Incorrect. The word "Atheism" just like "Asexual" is simply two words mushed together.

The word literally and ONLY means lack of theism. It has no other meaning or connotation.

It cannot be a religion. That would be literally exactly the same as saying because you don't believe in purple monsters that live under your bed, you are an anti-purple monster fanatic.

Simply not true. You simply don't believe in them because there is no reason to do so.

Re: Prizes for the first to find it out and post (no actual prizes)

Of course, I didn't go into those details exactly, because I'm not actually paid to develop Android's security policy.

So for me to say "running as a background process" "running on startup".. "accessing account information".. "sending emails without confirmation".. and so on and so on very specifically would be a fair waste of time.

Re: You know they care about you

Cinavia already does it for the audio stream, now it's basically time for Cinavia in the video stream.

All bastards. They still don't get it.

Re: Out of the (render) loop

NVIDIA has the very top end sewed up right now, since the 7xx series launched (Titan and 780).

Below that, you trade blows all over depending on budget.

Both have driver issues, with NVIDIA recently having some particularly egregious ones resulting in stability issues on older cards.

Re: Another comparison

Yeah, I'd buy the Vauxhall and spend the money saved on something that would actually give me a tangible benefit.

Re: So...

First comment did not disappoint. I imagined something similar.

Make almost none of them, say they've sold out due to demand!

Re: That's incredibly muscular specs.

Nah, Titan is not worth extra.

You can get factory overclocked 780s that run faster than Titan for a lot less money and heat.

Re: But

You know the phone division of Sony has almost nothing to do with that camera, right? Because of their Ericsson connection, SE phones have long used microSD.

This is no exception. They are by far one of the better phone vendors out there right now in terms of openness.

Re: We'll see the usual pattern ...

I don't really think so. I think tablets are fast becoming a generic commodity.

As long as it has half decent build quality and battery life, and a web browser that doesn't chug on the pages you want to load, I honestly think that's the most important thing to most people, and it'll become a common and relatively unexciting item.

Re: 8GB?

Apple maths, where small amounts of NAND give massive bumps in retail prices.

As we all know, the flash isn't the problem.

Re: WTF 16:9 again?

Yup. They cram in all those pixels, and still get the ratio wrong. Top and bottom bezels are huge.

Re: Such a waste of time and paper.

Well, yes, over population is the real problem, from every possible angle.

Even if we had had some effect on the climate, crippling our economies to make a worthless impact would be foolish in the extreme.

Re: DAB pros and cons

Your first pro is already done by an fm-rds receiver. My Astra H sets the in car clock very quickly after a change or battery disconnect from the fm signal.

Something that just works, and is everywhere. Why do we want to break it for some laggy, low quality, battery sucking rubbish again?

Re: It wouldn't be an iOS update without some new complaint

Android

Settings > Developer Options

Drawing section - Window animation scale off, Transition animation scale off, etc. etc..

This is on a stock /Verizon/ ROM, even.

You can do it if you want to.

Re: 18.8 Million Euros for what ?

Android is one option, but I like to think Nokia could have really made something of Maemo, I remember really wanting an N900.

The N9 was pretty nifty, too.

Jolla seems to be taking that path in some way.

Nokia could have done that, too, and had Android application support.

That way, they get to keep their in-house developed software, everyone's happy, Android apps are available from the get go, and nobody has to listen to what Microsoft says.

But, that's not how it turned out, eh.

Re: What's this got to do with the Note 3

It works for IMAX because of exactly that - the curve is very slight, and basically the entire wall is filled.

It wouldn't work if the edges of the screen are still firmly within your centre of vision.

Oh, these silly companies.

Re: GTA V - PS3 unplayable

This is why I'm not wasting my time on it yet.

Once they sell me a PC version, then I'll be on board.

The current consoles are past their prime.

Re: Temporary Trolling Service

Click the website.

It doesn't work. Please learn to read.

Re: Whatever.

See, that's fine and all, but I use my smartphone for things other than calls, which I find extremely important.

No, not Facebook or Twitter, I don't even have accounts with either of those websites.

I mean things like navigation (standalone units with out of date maps are hopeless), email (which I use to contact people abroad instead of getting charged stupid text fees), camera (which is actually useful for capturing things I wouldn't have my normal, bulky camera for), web browser (extremely useful for discovering information - especially when on holiday - locating places to eat - finding out basic information such as opening times, etc.).

Just because telephony is a major part of the device, does not mean the ancillaries are useless. Far, far from it.

Also, see the march of ever larger phones.

The product wasn't based around an incorrect idea. I just have a feeling the market wasn't quite clamouring for such a thing yet, and looking at the specs, it's pretty underpowered. Then again, even the first eeePCs were underpowered.

They were pretty crap too, but the things going for Netbooks at the time were: incredibly low cost, and the rise of web services.

Re: No PC Version...

Irony/trolling? Very poor effort.

Yes, the future is clearly a 7 year old console. If my eyes could roll harder they would fall out.

Re: Forget 64 bit

Circa 2003, Pocket PC, iPaqs.. probably before...

Re: I suspect...

I always read it "M Dollar" anyway, and it stops making sense. Which is good, because it doesn't make any sense, and should not be encouraged. I like this list.

Re: chavs, rappers and hoes

My phone is so USDM that it has a bloody Verizon logo on it. I've never even been to the states.

Thank you ebay.