Posts by Gordon861

Not sure you can call it a fast jet carrier if the aircraft don't yet exist and every other fast jet cannot land and takeoff do to no catapults etc.

Still a bloody stupid idea ...

Re: "He was found not guilty, therefore he is innocent"

"If a patient says that they are have given up hope and are going to hang themselves and the doctor feels it is credible then the police will be informed."

Would they? I'm not sure they have the legal right (or requirement) to interfere unless they feel the patient should be sectioned under the Mental Health Act, and I think you can be suicidal and still technically considered sane.

I would love AMD to pull a great chip out from somewhere that would really give Intel a run for it's money but they just seem to have given up, at least for games/desktop. This new chip with the multiple cores might make a great server chip or some other job.

Perhaps if game makers actually started using multiple cores for their games then we might have some real competition again, and with chips appearing to be reaching their limits of speed they might start doing it.

Personally I think AMD lost their way when they merged with ATI.

Re: Helmets

Just get a dogtag made up and wear it around your neck, any first responder with very little training will look for that. It will also go to the hospital with you when some idiot decides to remove your helmet.

However from discussions with doctors the blood type check is very quick and besides an emergency they will pump you with universal donor blood so it doesn't matter anyways.

Re: I'm not surprised ...

They never did make a replacement for the Nexus 7 which for the cost was a great tablet at the time, only spoilt by the Android 5 update.

Re: I disagree that "The PC is obsolete"

Exactly the same situation here, i5-2500k since they were first released, have upgraded to SSD and faster graphics over the years but the CPU and memory. I looked at the new i5 and i7 chips but thought what's the point.

Give people a reason to spend money and they might even do it.

Re: World of Warships

Not sure how effective this would be against a large arti shell, probably not at all.

The problem would be how would you switch them on? You couldn't use the switch on the wall because you wouldn't be opening/closing a circuit because it's open at the main source. The best you could do is have the lights stay on after power is cut, but then they would also stay on after you switched them off as they would see the switch as a power cut. Otherwise you would need a separate switching mechanism that didn't rely on the wall switch and the mains, wifi perhaps?

A better solution is to just buy a bunch of cheap LED torches from Ebay and leave them in various places around the house in case of a power cut. You can get aluminium AA Cree LED torches very cheap now.

Re: Improve PC Specs

Yes, why do laptops have such crap display resolutions when a basic smartphone comes with a 1080P screen?

Re: Public meeting: Outside Port of Tyne

I would love to take part in these mobs if they were local. I'd even be happy to turn up later if I was at work and film for 20 minutes after everyone had gone home just to make a point.

Re: Anticompetitive

Perhaps including Spyhunter as a special 'one time challenger' in the next AV-test might show how crap it is and end the case?

I thought the FBI had already confirmed that they just wanted the data, the phone could stay with Apple for them to destroy or do whatever they wanted rather than any chance it being reversed engineered to do the same on other phones.

I wonder how big a fine Apple are willing to accept in order to not open the phone up, a million per week/day until the conform?

Re: Windoze XP

I just upgraded my WinXP Toshiba NB100 to Windows 10 Pro and it works fairly well.

Bought the Win10 licence online from Kinguin for about £13.

Re: Not a user error

But the editor doesn't give the facility of redacting text, it lets you highlight. It even calls the tool a highlighting tool, which expressly implies that the text will still be there after you draw over it.

Could Acrobat be better? Yes but this is an error of the user not the software.

It looks like the latest versions of Acrobat do also have a tool for doing the job properly.

Re: I no longer fly, so who cares!

Who cares ... ?

Anyone on the ground that may be under one of these things when it goes wrong and the crew do not have the skill to compensate for problems.

Agree ... you would have thought that this would be an obvious bit of additional information to include with the article.

Sealed Plugs

I think the law only says that a unit must be supplied from the factory with sealed plugs, there are no rules stopping you from cutting them off and rewiring them. Especially useful when you don't want to drill 50mm holes in your furniture to get to a socket.

Re: What is a drone? What part is registered?

You have a lot of faith in the politicians to actually know what they are doing when writing the Bill, which I suppose might be true for a change.

But considering that there is very little detail on the website about what is going to be required when registering,instead there is just a note saying that the information is coming in December, to me implies that they don't yet know the detail. I suspect that they are waiting to hear what comes out of the FAA on 20 Nov.

They do a Hubsan X4 with camera, they even do an FPV one too, is that a drone or a toy.

Re: eff that

That assumes that the drone has a safe mode, on most basic drones if you break communication with them then they just plummet.

So much for no damage.

Re: Sample rate

Except that the positional information used to calculate your average speed between ticks would be wrong.

The GPS loggers don't read the speed from their sensors, unlike old style loggers that would record the speed directly from the wheels etc, instead the GPS system should take your two positional readings and work out the speed based on the time over that distance giving you a fairly accurate reading every second.

I had a motorcycle accident in May 2010 that's missing too.

Re: And at the other end of the scale

Yes TomsHardware went through a crazy phase of trying to see how far they could overclock stuff.

Re: Tom Tom are s*#t

Hey TomTom Community Manager

Can I just point out that your system managed to totally fail to spot that the M4 heading out of London was closed at the junction with the M25 on Thursday night until I was right of top of it. After being up since 5:30am for the election the extra delay on finally getting home was not appreciated.

Another vote for Guards Guards as the best newbie Discworld book to start with. It is a great introduction to the world and humour without really needing to know anything about the disc. I have lent copies to friends in order to get them hooked and it never fails.

As to the man himself, I met him once after queuing for hours in Kingston to get the new book signed, he will be greatly missed.

... the turtle moves ...

Re: This is a trivial 'software requirements' problem

No reason why the software to set up an extra pin number shouldn't allow for as many pins/accounts as the phone has memory. The front end would just ask for a pin and then open the relevant hidden account.

The way around the CPU issue seems to be to turn down the depth of field slider, which seems to lower the detail at a distance rather than cause zombies to pop into existence when you get close.

TotalBiscuit on YouTube did a early review/test that showed it in action.

I'm running an i5-2500K, 16gb RAM, and a 980gtx across 5760x1080 res and I'm not having any problems so far.