Posts by wim
200 posts • joined Saturday 28th April 2007 13:21 GMT
facial recognition
Here is how to make sure it passes.
require a facial recognition of the target and make sure if the target is a politician the gun will not fire.
All politicians will vote for this.
And then see how long it takes to hack it.
Re: This Cluster is so POWERFUL
If the restaurant is in a cellar he might have a chance.
Posted in Review: HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook
Re: "virtually every laptop running Windows "just works"" as a
paperweight, frustration management training device, doorstop, health and safety approved training weight in the office.
See there is a lot of things you can do with a windows laptop.
Re: Still waiting for a torch replacement
have an upvote for mentioning a sliding keyboard.
Re: Uh ... didn't ElReg report on this a few weeks ago?
they where another set of pants. larger if I recollect, mainly to cover up the button on the Iphone.
share a drive app ?
I have this idea for a long time where private people would share their cars. Couch surfing for cars basically.
The driver uses his navigation on his smartphone to calculate the route. Then publishes this route and gives a parameter of detour willing to take (say 500 meters).
If you need a ride you enter your destination and send this with your current coordinates and how far you are willing to walk/travel on your own (say 300 m) to the server where all the routes are published. The app checks if there is someone driving close to your position and matches you up.
The passenger pays a fee for every ride (distance based) and the driver gets 50% or another percentage.
Of course if something like this would happen I guess all taxi companies would be howling.
You will need good authentication and I don't think a lot of people would be comfortable letting strangers into their car. Some good security would be needed.
Maybe if the beer belly has a 10 days worth stubble it is acceptable ?
quotations
you know this thing called 'search engines' ?
I think there is this small company froogle or something similar who has one lazing around.
http://dwb.unl.edu/Teacher/NSF/C01/C01Links/www.ualberta.ca/~bderksen/florin.html
sharp is14sh aquos
This is why I have this sharp phone.
Everything is bad about this phone but it has a slide out keyboard.
Basically the only smartphone that I found with a keyboard. The keyboard itself is also crap (buttons too small).
touch screens are OK (not great) at navigating sites / menu's but for input you really need a keyboard.
I win against all my friends in speed of inputting a mail message / text message with my feature phone against their touch screen phones.
insurance app
run our insurance app.
(that logs everything) and get 30 % discount. If after an accident we can prove with the data that you were in violation of any rule you are not insured.
alcohol checks that refuse to start your car if you fail the test.
a national database that knows where your car is every second of the day (of course to build better road solutions / send you speeding tickets / fight terrorism)
a rentable car app: you login with your credentials and the database of the lease/rental company knows it is you and will bill you accordingly or install a credit card reader in the car itself.
The possibilities are limitless and scary at the same time. I hope the positive wins out and I really hope that they make it impossible to watch a movie / TV while driving (like they do in Japan)
If only a few more politicians / governments / countries had the balls to do this.
I would love to get my hands on a decent laptop with some normal specs
play hdmi content on a television
have a screen with minimum 800 pixels height
around 11 inch
preferably mat display
works with linux
I have now a vaio vpcx11alj on loan from a friend and it would be perfect except that the screen backlight flickers under linux. Running the thing under the installed windows is perfect if you want to do some meditation while you wait for your webpage / program to open.
Re: made themselves unemployable, made poor decisions
"No doubt some people really are nearly hopeless and actively make them unemployable, and deliberately make poor decisions. However, I suspect that such people are vanishingly few; and that really the so-called "unemployable", and those who made what seemed like a perfectly reasonable decision which turned out wrong, were actually just doing the best they could."
don't you call those people politicians ?
Re: There is a very rational solution
funny you post this on a forum anonymously, a crime in the newly proposed law if I am not mistaken.
you got your facts backwards
it only took 2 hours and a small space rock to destroy a Bruce Willis
stress test
it was just a good marketing ploy and a cheap way to stress test their servers.
women
seem to have a problem with accepting refusal.
Re: Limited time offer perhaps?
I thought the whole cloud business goal was so that companies do not have to manage their own hardware.
Re: Meanwhile...
Maybe they should expand as their core business is obviously not being able to stay at the same level ?
Or maybe, just maybe the Belgian taxes on labour are a bit on the high side.
ironic
that the link provided to the reg page gives me a 404 error
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/02/22/azure_problem_that_should_never_happen_ever/%22
trial by tech
let both companies build a robot.
both robots enter ring.
one robot leaves. The most innovative leaves and thus the case is settled.
Samsung may have an edge since they are more involved in death tech.
non smoker
I gave myself a 10 for following the smoking guidelines as I was a non smoker and was told that 10's are not to be used. Why are they even in the process then ?
this was working as a grunt hauling luggage on the airport. Utter waste of time.
Posted in BOFH: Hasta la Vista... luser
Re: Browser bars and Antiviruses
"Even the former 2 you get "You still working in IT? My laptops running a bit slow....", so after the wake / reception (delete as appropriate...) you take a look."
I counter that with.
I am sorry I do everything with linux now. The latest windows I used is windows 2000. But if you have a linux system I ll be happy to help you out.
No takers after that.
Linux laptops
When linux laptops will be easily available they may impact the numbers.
I am looking to buy a new laptop but been postponing it for about 2 years now because I would like to buy a linux laptop without having to pay for the MS software. Preferable a netbook to carry with me and if possible at about the same price (or cheaper) than a MS laptop. Asus have (had ?) one model of the eee pc that was certified for Ubuntu so my guess was that it would also work with debian since I am not liking the Ubuntu upgrade system (current laptop was found unable to upgrade maybe because of some symbolic links or whatever)
My problem is that I left the "I have too much time on my hands so I ll research for a few days to find what I really want" state and that I am now am looking for something that will work. I don't think I have excessive demands.
light enough to carry around, if possible HDMI output, linux, LAMP and that is about it. I live in Japan and buying from system76 will almost double the price in shipping so that is not really an alternative.
Re: Elmer Phud
don't you mean the cone of silence ?
aural ?
how long before they can map your surrounding with sound?
the popcorn shooter mentioned in another reg article can pinpoint where your mouth is with the use of one word.
I am sure that some one could develop software that maps your surrounding by listening to the echo of your own voice if they can make the microphone sensitive enough. Hello batman mobile phone application.
ubuntu
Is there someone else waiting for Ubuntu (debian would be even better) or some other big shop to release a truly open source phone OS ?
I dream of a day that I could have one source for laptop / tablet / phone and hopefully that those three devices (and maybe a smart tv thrown in the mix too) could be synchronized.
patent office
Maybe the patent office should be made (partially) liable to the quality of patents they award ?
If an awarded patent turns out to be without merit through prior art the patent office will have to pay a certain amount of money to the applicant. But if the patent office finds prior art for something that the applicant tries to patent, the applicant has to pay a fine.
Just a thought
Re: Not tablets?
Can't agree more.
I would love to have a linux tablet so that I can have the same OS on my laptop / tablet. If both could sync/cloud-backup without handing all your data to some want-to-know-everything company that would be even better.
Re: A fair price?
and everybody knows the answer is 42
Re: Well
You forgot Marie Antoinette. You know that benign, tender, caring person.
Posted in New MPEG format paves the way for UHDTV
3D
did that last part of the 3D explanation read a bit like holograms ? creating the 3D image by moving your head around .
Re: Good stuff
I don't know anything about QNX but I wonder if most of the people care.
We (the IT industry) have grown a generation of "switch it off and on again if it stops working".
Even my ubunty install sometimes freezes. To convince people to buy your phone you have to have or a much easier to use OS or something "cool". Don't know how QNX fits in there.
Re: Age?
Maybe 3 MB of hot RAM is enough if you system is well coded with a future hyper efficient coding language or quantum computing of whatever. See you can upgrade the surrounding in your imagination.
Heard that kids ? Imagination, it's the thing you use when you are not watching TV.
no love for apple but considering an Iphone
after the disaster that is my current android phone.
every problem and question I have about this phone is countered with "there is an app for that".
yes probably there is but wading through a dozen of applications to finally find a decent calender has left me with a sour taste of android. I use my legacy phone's calender instead. Having google access all my data is also something I do not desire.
Also every app seems to want to access everything. Why does my Japanese keyboard app need to be able to read/write all data and also be able to send everything I enter with that keyboard app to its developer ?
android no thank you very much
I really dislike apple's i phone but I guess I don't have a choice unless some linux wonder phone pops up. But fat chance of that happening.
hahahaha
Japanese direct style of communication. Where has he been living ?
Japan where yes means yes but can also mean no.
Re: Really couldn't care less
Here in Japan google launched a big media offense with TV adverts.
I don't watch a lot of TV so I can not say how many times a day the adverts are shown but I have seen it a few times at friends places. They could not really figure out what the meaning of the adverts was (they are Japanese so they would not have a problem understanding the language). I just noticed that they showed google being used for searching stuff on the net.
Re: New math fail
well no this is New math, just like New Labour. It does not have to be true as long as it sounds nice / spectacular.
Posted in 'Biocoal' fuels steam train comeback
processing process
cellular material processed into a solid fuel
did they say how much energy is needed to process the cellular material into a solid fuel ?
I love all the green talk about how alternative fuels seem to magically appear without any energy cost.
Posted in VW STUNS WORLD+DOG WITH REAL HOVER-CAR!
design fail
who would put the controls in the middle so that the passenger can correct the driver as seen in the video ?
irony ?
"until the court has decided whether or not Motorola made its intellectual property accessible and available on reasonable terms, which Microsoft maintains it has not."
I wonder if the same could be said about the standards Microsoft puts into their software and the documentation it makes available to make sure that other programs can work with their software.
Re: So ripping off MINIX and giving it away for free counts as "innovation" now?
I thought originally linux did not use file extensions
online
Why do scientist not publish/peer review their papers online like suggested by Bob 18 ?
density
any news about how much information they could write per square cm ? (or whatever el reg measurement is in use now)
batteries
well who's job was it to replace the batteries in the cattle prods ?
Let's question that person with the aid of cattle prods
Repeat until you have attained the efficiency of any large governmental organization.
concert lasers ?
Are you referring to lasers used in clubs and on concerts ?
They generally rely on a smoke component (smoke machine or cigarette wielding customers) to display their images. Also I doubt that the lasers can project complicated object as shown in the video here. I also think that most of the lasers shows are simple shapes and not 3D (circles, squares, triangles and so on)
shounen merikensak / brass knickle boys
Japanese movie about a punk band.
It is one of the funniest movies I have seen this year.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1313146/
re entry ?
would the fuel tanks survive re entry in the atmosphere ?
reg backpedal ?
The materials developed by the team would be of limited use in cases like the ongoing nuclear accident in Fukushima, which is now thought to have released up to double the originally reported amount of radioactivity.
What happened with Lewis Page's optimistic no problem in Fukushima reporting ?
useless line
Only simpletons need to live in a world in which falsifiability somehow equals inadequacy. ®
I am pretty sure that the simpletons mentioned above do not understand the sentence.
It is time to make science look exciting again and take it's image out of the hands of politicians and mass media networks.
