Re: Online advertising?

Think about it

Of all the advertising methods, online advertising is the easiest to prove the effectiveness of. The advert is the door into the website and if you can track how the customer entered then you can track which adverts are performing.

If online advertising didn't work then most companies would stop spending on it.

Re: @deshepherd

The difference was the sense of danger

If you know a track and car already then the video game will boost your understanding of the track and reinforce prior learning

Re: @jake

Track time is not just expensive it is also physically exhausting. F1 cars especially have to be driven at speed to remain safe. Of course there is nothing to stop the drivers learning the circuit in a different car but it will still be expensive, exhausting, disruptive and less safe than a simulation.

Racing circuits in video game are very accurate compared to real life and the drivers can use the games for the monotonous lap churning required to imprint a track on their brain.

Also, some of the circuits are only open during race week (Monaco, Singapore, Australia) and so the only way to really learn the track.

"More bad editorializing"

says the man who uses the word 'editorializing' without seeming to know what it means

Re: Printing is Android's achilles heel

One of the reasons I bought a Tablet was to go paperless... printing from a tablet sort of defeats the purpose.

As for printing photos from a tablet... you have to be near a printer to print, so probably at home. It's a simple task to transfer the photos to a PC, this can even be done automatically via something like dropbox or a direct syncing app. Once on your PC the photo can be edited and corrected as appropriate and then printed.

Re: This seems rather half-arsed

The third party start menu applications work by activating hidden/deactivated features of the the Windows GUI.

Given that I think it would be difficult for them to complain about much

Re: "A cold boot takes about 18 seconds to reach the login screen;"

Boot times are a pointless metric, I might reboot my laptop at most once a week. Most of the time I'm just putting it to sleep.

However, I do agree that a proper hybrid drive is better than the small factor SSD and HDD hybrid combo fitted to these. Especially if you do use any RAM heavy applications.

The Intel Rapid Store technology running on my current laptop is rubbish and I will be soon replacing both the 30GB mini sata drive and the 2.5" drive so that when rebuilt they will work independently

Re: Wrong, wrong,and wrong again

Congratulations on having no idea what statistical analysis is.

What you are querying is an absolute question with an absolute answer. Something which by the sounds of things you would need to query a live system for as you are so clear in wanting the most correct answer (Any backup is out of date as soon as it's finished building)

Please please please don't apply for a job with me until you get a clue

Re: Wron, wrong,and wrong again

Proves my point

In large data sets (population samples) 1 data point should not be able to skew your results that much. In most uncleansed data sets, max and min are junk values anyway and their only use is in finding anomalies in the data. What you really want to find is the percentiles.

When performing statistical analysis on large data sets there no need to compare data sets to workout how important that one row was. The only answer is; it wasn't important

If it is one row in a hundred thousand or a million it is statistically not important

If you think that one row in a million is statistically important then you're doing your stats wrong

Re: Obligatory xkcd(ish)

Arghh don't mention Up you'll get me blubbing like a girl again

Re: Obligatory xkcd(ish)

Almost brought a tear to my eye!

Re: That well

He'll have to fill it up first

Re: Woah there

PETA would confiscate the dogs and have the owner prosecuted for animal cruelty.

Then, after 6 months of failing to rehome the dogs, they would be put down. Humanely of course

Re: Buy a book

Obviously my next course will be a beginners guide to HTML tags

Re: Was there a Demo version?

Instead of a demo game, how about some sort of money back guarantee if the game fails to achieve a set playability benchmark on your equipment

Re: Well I can actually do

microsoft have a keyboard which even comes with a stand

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Mobile-Bluetooth-tablet-U6R-00006/dp/B009NY8SIK

Re: Conformity in other things, too

Maybe the Monkey had applied for a patent on his new tool and didn't want other monkeys stealing the idea then claiming prior art when his patent was accepted

Re: Online filth.

There are links in the el reg strory to other news sources which have pics

Re: Outstanding

"At the present time, humans are still much better at context than computers."

And also much more expensive, which is why they tend to be eschewed in favour of electronic slaves

For the record, I'm not exonerating Virgin Media, I'm just accusing them of incompetence rather than being money grabbing unsympathetic bastards

Re: Looking good.

@Argh

I don't even know what MHL is

I might have lost the ability to touch focus with the flashlight on but I don't miss it (never used it to be honest)

Re: Looking good.

Well said

Best thing I ever did to my S3 was flash a custom ROM (cyanogenmod) on to it.

It's now more stable and hasn't got a whole pile of samsung (crap) I never use on it

Re: Top marks

I think that would just be a back up for the ADSL (if it is an ADSL, the colour and size of the text combined with the shit monitor I'm using make it almost unreadable)

Re: Texting whilst driving leads to arrest

If a man acts like a pig then he's a pig, his religion has nothing to do with it