Posts by frank ly
2124 posts • joined Wednesday 10th June 2009 09:17 GMT
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Re: "Bobby-trapped" web page?
It might be an obscure reference to Bobby Tables. Then again .........
Posted in HTC hawks fresh Desire for market boost
Wildfire still going...
I've still got my old Wildfire (with AMOLED screen and camera pushbutton) and I run it on PAYG as a 'standby' phone in case anything goes wrong with its replacement, the Incredible-S. It does feel a bit sluggish and look grainy compared to the Incredible, but it still does everything I would need it to do (but it's not very good for reading e-books and watching videos).
I can't think why I'd want to upgrade from the Incredible, since the 4" screen is the maximum size that I feel comfortable with using as a phone and carrying in my jacket pocket. Unless they can make smartphones do something amazing and 'must have', I see no reason why anyone with a recent smartphone would really need to upgrade.
"The box only holds 3TB - USB sticks will hold more and you can carry them in your pocket. "
Please tell me where I can get these high capacity USB sticks. (Or very big pockets)
perception, respect and reputation
I've upvoted you for amusing use of self-destructive irony. Well done!
Re: "Boob tube"?
Captain's Console
DaFt Display
(you inspired me)
Look and 'Feel' alike?
Does it have a GUI skin that gives it an iPhone 'look and feel' too? If not, some enterprising Android App developer could find a market for such a skin.
"...stream music over-the-air directly to audio equipment - without the need for Wi-Fi."
For a moment there, I thought Apple had patented the modulating of a radio carrier signal with audio information, so that it could cover a wide area of reception from a single transmitting source. (Maybe they will try that.)
Shoe ... other foot
"US industry representatives have raised concerns that Chinese development of TCM is motivated by the desire to reduce royalties for patents embedded in TCG technology standards ..."
Of course it is. Why should China pay for western tech licenses when they can develop their own standard for a massive internal market? (Just like the china-specific mobile phone standard widely used there.)
"... and that it will negatively affect interoperability and globally integrated supply chains."
No problem; everybody else can use the chinese standard and buy a license from them. Oh, ... wait a minute.
"... thousandths of milliseconds."
Or 'microseconds', as they are called.
Why do they need microsecond timing on graphics generation when the viewable result changes only about every 20 milliseconds (roughly)?
Re: Peddling != Pedalling
Except for the case of the stereotypical French onion seller.
Again, the SQL injection attacks!
How long has this been known of and standard measures to protect been available? - Years!
WTF are these organisations doing with their IT budgets?
Great Headline in the linked article....
"Miss HK turns ugly" - In case anyone can't be bothered to click.
Re: frank ly
I don't pay a monthly fee because of card I have and the way I use it (why would I want a Monthly Card for long term online and Google/Paypal use?!) and I don't use it for cash.
I use it as I said I did. This was a response to the person who didn't want a link to their bank account (for obvious reasons). Linking to an existing credit card would have other bad outcomes in case of fraud or CC details being compromised. Linking to a prepaid credit card, such as this one, could be another option so this would be a good solution.
"There’s also an audio recording option so you can record what’s being said at a meeting, .."
There's a good reason why a meeting has a nominated secretary. It's to prevent the 'umm's and 'ahh's and muttered swearwords and rash promises, (withdrawn after a minutes thought) from being recorded anywhere.
I'd be keeping quiet and offering to 'get back to you later with an e-mail' if audio recording was used in a meeting I attended.
Re: Luddite
Virgin Money prepaid card, available in Visa or Mastercard flavours. Load it up with a certain amount and even you can't spend more than that on a blind drunk spree. Use it in retail readers and for online use.
I use mine for online purchases and have it linked for Google market payments and Paypal. Check your transactions and balance on their website then top-up via a phone call to your bank when it runs low.
Posted in Google gets hands on 'glove-cam' patent
Re: In other news
"Officials of YouTube didn't say twat ...", but many other people did after a few seconds of viewing.
Re: To be fair...
They developed their own standard so that they wouldn't need to pay license fees to western tech companies and so that domestic manufacturers wouldn't have competition from western tech companies and so could grow a massive domestic market share quickly and easily. That sounds very sensible to me, if not in the best long term interests of their captive customers. Then again, when did a big comms company care about its customers?
Posted in Ten... all-in-one inkjet photo printers
Re: Really miss my Kodak dye sublimation printer
Have you tried eBay or an internet search for the various after-market suppliers and cartridge refurbishers? Everything to do with colour print consumables seems to have a supplier for refurbished or alternative items.
Posted in Ten... all-in-one inkjet photo printers
@Fuzz & The Serpent Re: differences
Can you tell me which offline photo printing service you use please? I tried using Boots (who subbed out to another service) two years ago and I was not impressed by the incorrect hue rendering on most of my close-up pics of flowers.
(Such as pale green becoming pale yellow, strong yellows having a definite orange tint, etc). I did tick the box that said 'no auto-correction'.
I have a fantastic close-up of a bumble bee feeding on the edge of a sunflower and the only way I've got reasonable colour rendition is to print it on my cheapo Dell laser colour printer (which has other photo-quality deficiencies).
Re: Finished with my woman 'cause she couldn't help me with my mind ...
"...booming homeopathy market as evidence that homeopathic water is magic."
Actually, this is good evidence of a particular form of magic called 'headology'. (ref. Granny Weatherwax)
Trust No One!
"... so innocent mistakes along these lines are more or less inevitable in the absence of better communication among security firms. "
Perhaps if the security firms set up a shared community bulletin board where could post details of their activities....oh, wait a minute.
"... but this was a system set up by the Russian lab, which had asked DNS providers to redirect data sent from the two software nasties so as to examine their network traffic."
By what authority can Kaspersky ask DNS providers to redirect internet data to their own location in order to analyse it? If I'm working on developing a geographically distributed industrial control and monitoring system, of a novel and hopefully profitable nature, can I trust the DNS providers to not divert my data to Kaspersky, or anyone else so that they can analyse it and copy my techniques?
Posted in Boffins confirm sunspot-weather link
Correlation and Causation?
Are there any theories about why low sunspot activity should cause cold weather in Europe (or affect it anywhere else)?
Posted in Angry Sunfish in piscene boss battles
I'm wondering ......
"This experiment makes some very specific predictions about what's a good configuration and what's not a good configuration, ..."
It would be interesting if the optimal configuration/behaviour, that they found in their experiments, was not the one that was already exhibited by prey groups in the wild. (Since prey groups have had millions of years to refine their technique.)
How would you go about teaching a shoal of sardines to change their behaviour? Would it be morally right to do so?
Re: Oh That Guy
At least yours is off the cocaine and tobacco and onto the more socially acceptable alcohol. Oh,......wait a minute.
Just wondering .....
"... who was found to be carrying another four peppers, "crack cocaine and a small amount of heroin", plus a clarinet he'd pinched from another shop.
Is is wrong of me to have burst out laughing when I read that?
Common sense says ....
"After all, the land they plow up to put cables down is going to be worthless as a result, as you can't farm it ...."
I'm sure they have the sense to bury cables, etc. deep enough to be safe from agricultural ploughing, so the landowner can plough and plant crops on the land.
Also, ......yes, I'd take the money and spend it on something I can change my mind about at a later date.
"...filed in 2009 and was only made public this week"
I thought that if a patent was filed then it was automatically public knowledge (if anybody could be bothered to look for it).
"The Chocolate Factory uses WiFi for its indoor maps."
Do the owners/operators of these WiFi units (routers or repeaters, I assume) know that they are being used to provide this Google service and have they given assurances that they will not be moved or their operation modified?
For large public buildings, the owners would probably be very happy to install cheap Wi-Fi units to help in this function and ensure they are not modified without informing service operators.
Re: nuff said
Do they salt the stored hashes of user passwords? Anonymous will probably test that....oh, it's you.
" ...at a cost of over 700 million yuan (£69.3m)."
That sounds quite cheap - or have I become desensitised to big-science project costs?
" ...16Mp CMOS sensor with backside illumination ..."
Did we use up all the good jokes the last time this technology was mentioned in an article?
"... hydrogen on Mars is an indicator of water."
Not hydrocarbons, carbohydrates, etc?
It's a numbers game
"... a "forth player", for which we can read "Three", is guaranteed to come out of the auction .."
Are we sure that Three will come forth?
Re: I do wonder
"How would you feel if it happened to you?" is a useful test, but it requires intelligent imagination and empathy; which doesn't really apply to the people who make those sort of public comments about others.
In the real world, these people would be punched in the mouth or kicked in the nuts on a regular basis, but in the virtual world they are free to post as they wish.
@Tim Re: Some thoughts for Mr Williams
The herd do not get to decide where they are grazed or when they are milked.
@Sean Re: Tell him to go fuck himself.
You started off fine, then ....
"...the current account you have with your bank ...... It's a piece of digital property you own precisely because those IP laws exist .......Without them, there's no basis for electronic banking systems...."
The principles and laws regarding ownership of money and the record keeping of that ownership have been practiced for thousands of years. It's called 'accountancy', as practiced by banks, which have been around, in various forms, for thousands of years. This has nothing to do with copyright or IP laws.
"Except, of course, that without copyright, there's no legal impediment to just counterfeiting as much cash as you need, is there?"
Yes there is, due to very old laws against ....... counterfeiting.
"If you don't have a better alternative to Intellectual Property laws, you're part of the problem, not the solution."
If you don't have a better understanding of Intellectual Property laws and their relationship to reality and existing laws and economic/social processes ...............
" ...allowing users to display videos and images in chronological order."
That is the most original and inspired idea I've ever heard of. (I don't get out much).
@localzuk Re: @Andy S Non-FB user question
Yes, as I indicated in parentheses at the end of the second para.
However, I think that both parties have to 'be aware and cognisant' of the form and value of the 'consideration'. You can't expect the 'average user' to be fully aware of the cost of running FB, so they can't be bound by legally binding contractual terms if they act against the T&Cs. Also, if it was a contract in law, either party could sue the other for breach of contract, and I don't think this can happen.
It needs a lawyer or a court to determine all this.
@Andy S Re: Non-FB user question
You used the word 'contract', which may not be correct for FB terms and conditions.
In UK law, a contract requires some recognised form of payment to take place (or 'consideration' as it is called in law.) Since FB users have not paid or been paid by FB, there is no contract between them. (Having said that, it may be arguable that FB's actions in running the site cost them time and money and so this is the 'consideration'.)
I think the T&Cs can be regarded as license conditions. Whether these license conditions are enforceable is a matter for lawyers.
Is nothing new?
" ...alongside the ibex and izards ...."
They had alternative stand-up comedians in those days too?
Re: Dodgy pics
Many of them are artistic and tastefully posed. You just need to spend time looking for them.
And they're free! :)
A pedant gets grumpy
" ...Chair of the committee defining the standard refutes that, ..."
Am I the only one who is annoyed by seeing the word 'refute' used to actually mean 'deny' or 'disagrees with'?
"...and in many homes the wiring is sufficiently shielded that no interference is generated ..."
Really? I must be living in an old-standard house, as is everybody I know. Where can I find samples of shielded domestic mains power cable?
Re: Real name policies
Somewhere out there, is a man called Frank Ly, who doesn't know that I'm using his name to conceal my true identity.
Re: What? NASA is into self-harm now?
They are scale replica 'Alien' eggs, as practice for when it finds the nest (which is its secret mission).
Public announcement from eBay:
They got better!
Re: Use of waste heat?
Getting away from secondary school physics/thermodynamics for the moment; I'd really like to know, from someone who has experience in this area.
If I was consuming 55MW of electricity and producing 55MW of waste heat, situated in a built-up area with neighbouring commercial/industrial buildings, I'd be looking for ways to sell it to my neighbours as a baseload heating supply.
With large power consuming data centres being built around the world, I'd have thought that this consideration would be uppermost in the minds of the owners/operators/designers; if not for 'save the planet' reasons then for simple running cost reasons.
Is it a good/workable idea or am I being idealistic?
Use of waste heat?
55MW (or whatever) of electrical power going into the centre will mean that 55MW of heat will have to be extracted from it. Will this be dumped into the air (or nearby river) or have they considered selling waste heat for use in neighbouring buildings and homes?
What are the economics and technical challenges of doing this? Is it cheaper to just dump it?
Re: Applications?
For weapons use, I think that microwaves have a problem with beam spreading over quite short distances due to the relatively large wavelength.
Someone who knows about this will probably pass further comment soon.
Re: I'm far from being a native speaker
Wikipedia has many excellent articles on the details of the English language. Such as this one:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostrophe
If English is not your first language, these articles can be difficult to follow since they are very detailed and technical.
