Posts by Jad
123 posts • joined Tuesday 1st September 2009 12:27 GMT
RE: Latvian style
Looks more like a "break in" to me!
RE: Russia looks very good
The roads could be better though, pot holes, random overtaking (watch the little blue car that follows the camera) ...
I still call possible fake though, because going away from them they walk off, but towards them and they "appear" from nowhere.
Re: No comment
Oracle's "SQLDeveloper" requires Java 6 to be installed to work ... (most recent version Nov 2012)
I still find it funny that I have to manipulate their scripts to get it to work with :)
Ta
Good article ... Stuff I didn't know about, with a little of the stuff I did.
Any investment into Nexenta is only going to be good in the long run for the Illumos Community, one would hope, and the bigger the firm the greater the possibility for investment into the other "distributions" of Illumos.
Jon
Posted in Review: Lego Lord of the Rings game
LOTR FTW!
My son got it for the Wii this Christmas, and I have to say I've not seen the bugs of the PC port, although it lags a little when there is loads of action (as is the want of the Wii) it seems to do it less than Lego Harry Potter (5-7), or Lego Starwars 3, or even for the matter Lego Pirates of the Caribbean ... not that I play too many of these games (or indeed have a higher % done than my son on all of them) :)
I like the fact that to complete the "quests" you can't just buy your way there with cash, you have to use up the mithril bricks you gain from completing levels, getting "true adventurer" or find lying around the plain ...
I don't like having to sit through huge, unskippable, cut-scenes, especially since I've seen them already, and know how the story goes ...
Re: Optional.
My thoughts exactly.
Most people want to be legit about downloading music and books, but the higher you price them the more people will look elsewhere and the more "potential" profits you would lose (not discounting the people who wouldn't pay under any circumstances)
If you keep the price low then people have a legitimate way of getting access to the books they want.
I buy books (as in paper) from Amazon because with free delivery they cost less than the e-books from the same shop ... yes I have to wait a few days, and they take up space, but I get them cheaper and can pass them on to other people to read.
If they can finally discount them then I might actually start buying e-books from them.
To our (deceased) intrepid playmonaut!
May this ship fly in your honour!
Re: Now I get it!!
not necessarily, but it does explain why they don't want to visit this planet since by their standards it probably wouldn't be hospitable/habitable.
Phones 4 U ?
We're getting a new phone contract for the company, with a credit for phones and calls ...
You can tell that the IT department means so much to the company when they decide not to buy shiny phones and opt to buy us all Nokia C2's ...
Apparently we're "all in the same boat", except of course for the fact that we have to set up everyone else's smart phones because they don't seem to be able to do it themselves, and we are obviously blind to the fact.
I keep seeing "optional extras" (e.g. "Nokia WH-930 Purity HD Wired On-Ear Stereo Headset By Monster") for my C2 that I believe I might just have to purchase. Anyone got any better/more expensive options?
Re: Seems to be limited
my only regret is that I have but 1 upvote to give you!
RE: Absolute BS
Absolutely, and as soon as they try and use the patent it will be thrown out ...
However, until it is tested it will stand, and that is basically what is wrong with the whole patent process, this should have never got a patent in the first place, and "Prior art" only works for companies in existence at the moment that have used this technology ... if a new player comes to the market then a patent exists to stop them implementing this.
Re: portable DAB receiver
hmm ... doesn't come with a battery pack ... so not exactly portable for the price.
RE: Microsoft's side
A button that is updated with data pertaining to the contents of the application ...
On windows, wouldn't the "Clock" do that?
Re: They lie!
I upvoted you and I'm a Christian ...
PS. the bible doesn't say that evolution is a lie ... and until some merkans (and admittedly some "devout" englishmen) got involved pretty much everyone understood that most of Genesis was much more of a moralistic story than a specific way in which the world was created.
RE: Can't they join forces ... ?
Actually they are in communication, but I'm pretty sure that there will never be a joining of the projects, since their goals are different.
Apache always looks to making the most stable, reliable project that is usable in all circumstances (pretty much bug fixes only)
Document Foundation want a product that can change and adapt to the way in which Offices run, including new import filters and plugins (can import Microsoft Publisher files for instance), tweaked to provide performance boosts and to this end remove old no longer used code (sun 2.4 compilers will no longer work ... but does anyone still have those?) ... this can cause API and functionality to change, and during transitions between working, alpha, beta and stable code will possibly be less stable.
My money on the future of the "open" office system is LibreOffice just because they _can_ adapt.
Re: A few days early
Must have been a Unicorn (or possibly a carebear) Surely!
everyone knows that they puke rainbows.
Re: mainstream support
it'd really help if I saw "POS" as "Point of Sale" ... not "Piece of sh**" ...
'just like playing bingo' ...
I would have thought more like playing Russian Roulette!
Inquiring Minds ...
would like to know if it runs fine sitting in a drum of kitchen oil?
overclocked super computers here we come!
Posted in Pano does browser-thin virty desktops
Re: Wow, another company inventing the thin client. (again).
you can even get the sunray client software for Linux ... :)
Good luck with that ...
Since I'm not running Java, or for that matter any of the mentioned Operating systems ...
Re: Why isn't our national museum of computing in Bletchley Park?
I used to live in Swindon and all I can say is:
"The M4 goes straight past Swindon, and I would suggest you do the same."
Re: Welll...
We had a student with us on placement and we gave him a nice project to play with.
after spending weeks researching and learning and designing and coding and testing and re-coding he looked at me with a beaming smile on his face and said "Done it ... what shall I do now?"
I replied "Roughly the same thing for the rest of your life!"
The smile left his face ... I might have been being cynical, but I guess he realised something at that point because he left us and went off to become a teacher :)
Re: Do these idiots actually believe ...
the best phrase there was "... which link through to articles defaming him ..."
so if they link to pages with him on them then as far as I'm concerned they are legitimate searches and legitimate suggestions :)
Re: Balloon Pop Detection
I agree, I think either the parachute will not open enough/swiftly enough, or you will have to have the line taut to begin with, so that the distance traveled isn't too large.
If you had to have a manual (not electric) system, you might be able to rely on the weight of the cage to provide friction that stops a weighted pin from falling, with the bursting of the balloon, and entry into freefall, the friction would be released allowing the pin to drop and the mechanism to fire ... but that is open to the pin sticking problem and in this case you cannot grease the pin.
Alternative to the M$ Product ...
http://live.leapmotion.com/about.html
"~100x more accurate than any other motion sensing/natural user interface on Earth." :)
"... David was working on a PhD in mathematics from UNC Chapel Hill and left to pursue Leap Motion. Before that, he was conducting research for NASA on fluid mechanics."
"Windows RT" makes me feel nostalgic!
http://www.albinoblacksheep.com/flash/winrg
Posted in Jolly rogered
Or the time that Bill Clinton and his missus images were blocked on the White House page because it had the caption "The Happy Couple" ... :)
Re: so if APIs are copyrightable...
Hopefully Samba will be covered since Microsoft employees actually provided code to the project:
https://www.samba.org/samba/news/developers/ms-patch.html
Re: Desktops
really depends on where you want to use it ...
I work at home, and it's a damn sight easier to transport my laptop home and back again than it would be to transport my desktop (with or without a monitor) keeping my user environment the same.
I sit still at both sites, but i travel quite a distance between them.
I guess I could go thin client, from my desk and from home, to a server inside the Intranet, but if my Internet connection at home breaks for a couple of hours, then I'm down for a couple of hours.
As it happens I have a laptop as my home computer because I don't have too much space at home, and sometimes it's used upstairs and sometimes downstairs ... I don't believe that my wife will want to use a tablet.
so BT want to buy movies cheap?
Film Maker: That'll be $200,000 for "Film X" (or whatever price they want)
BT: Ok, we'll offer you $90,000
Film Maker (after shocked pause): come on it's a good film and Sky are willing to Pay $200,000 to get it before it's released on DVD.
BT: if you don't sell it at $90,000 we'll go to Ofcom and say that Sky are uncompetitive.
...
or maybe I'm reading it wrong.
"Possible" is not the same as "Possible in my lifetime"
" ... The politicos noted that Google had confirmed it was possible to develop an algorithm that could "proactively" monitor websites for such material in order to prevent it from appearing in search results ..."
As any Software engineer will tell you, things that are "possible" are not necessarily either easy or practical. If you ask if something is possible, in general you will be told yes, even if it would take a million man-hours to produce, run on systems that will cost billions of pounds to buy and maintain and actually not do the job that you really want it to do in the first place.
unfortunately the "Politicos" are unused to getting truthful responses, so don't know how to deal with the answers in a sane way.
Re: ARM based 360???
whats the betting it'll be a "Raspberry Pi" in an XBox 360 case?
4 out of 5 developers "Very Interested" to develop for Android
what a terrible failure that is!
so Google go out of their way to develop products that might fail, and I see you're quietly ignoring the fact that Apple were written off for doing similarly less than 10 years ago ...
Google is still the "default" search engine for so many people, people don't "Bing it", "Yahoo! it!" or <any of the other English search engines> it, they "Google it" ...
Google aren't going to stop trying just like that, not while they are getting money in from other sources.
Posted in Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’
Re: To be fair
to site the ever reliable wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_street :)
Full Screen
Oh god no!
I've spent years training people not to maximize every application (Looks particularly stupid on 30" wide screens with small fonts ...) and now they're taking it away?
I'd remove all Windows boxes from our building if I could get away with it, just for this error, but I guess I'm gonna be stuck supporting this new POS for years to come ...
Anyone know how Mass Spectrometer software will work of in (click start and 3 apps come up ...)
Re: Re: "The Electronic Frontier Doundation"
Na, I'll click on the button that removes my post, making every reply look odd :)
"The Electronic Frontier Doundation"
what some people will call their groups in order to get an acronym that they like ...
strangely its not in: http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/EFD
Posted in Scroogle unplugged for good this time
Re: DDoS attacks?
If anyone had the processing capacity to take down a cluster of computers, without a botnet; that'd be google!
Office 15
They've really downgraded their estimations in regard to Office 365!
Posted in Space: 1999 returning to TV?
RE: Season 1
The makers of the show were worried about poor reviews, and getting an extra series (they'd been told it was being cancelled) ... they felt they had to "sex up" the second series if they were going to carry on, and got it wrong :)
Having just had my car written off ...
I can tell you that driving at the speed limit is not always safe, especially at mini roundabouts ... I think he braked before he hit me, but then again, by the time he seemed to notice me he only had about 3 meters in which to do it.
Posted in Canonical kicks Kubuntu to the kerb
They have stopped paying to have a developer working on KDE ...
But they are going to continue providing the servers, storage, and other services that will support Kubuntu, they're just hoping that the "community" will do the work of the 1 person who was paid.
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/canonical
It seems strange to me though because KDE has gained lots of support since they introduced the Unity interface (not from me, I hate KDE too, and was happy to move away from SuSE because of that)
"Turing was arrested and eventually convicted for homosexuality in 1952." ...
One would guess from this that he _was_ found guilty ...
RE: To be fair ...
we bought some dell laptops recently and one of them "came of the shelf" with everything on it (silly reseller)
so it had a touch pad, _and_ "nipple" + keys, plus we always use external USB mice, and then I gesticulated at the screen and it clicked where I touched *shudder*.
It was a great spec laptop, but there were just _too_ many input devices (and you couldn't turn them off)
Posted in iPad SURVIVES FALL FROM SPACE
RE: Terminal velocity
but as they say, where's the fun in that?
I noticed that they designed it so that it came down on the back of the case, not on the glass front, which I'm guessing requires a reasonable height to get right (not so useful from your lap to a granite floor)
Posted in Xbox 720 to double-up as a DVR
I guess they never heard of XBMC ...
you know the "X Box Media Centre", written for the XBox, then ported to other systems?
