Posts by I_am_Chris
86 posts • joined Sunday 22nd November 2009 14:26 GMT
Re: Strewth,
er... at best you're only going to see the same no. of pixels, only larger. At worst you'll see fewer, larger pixels.
TVs are limited to 1920x1080. lots of monitors have a higher resolution.
Re: Shhhh! - you'll ground the suspended disbelief!
It's like having meetings at noon. I can't remember the number of times I've had invites to meetings starting at 12am
Posted in iPad mini to go on sale in one month?
coincidence?
iPad 1 not getting iOS 6 - effectively EOL'd
Now, new mini iPad in the offing.
Coincidence? I don't think so...
Re: As one DNA strand...
<killjoy>Except the other strand is not a copy, but a reverse complement</killjoy>
If one strand is CAGTATCGAC, then the other is GTCGATACTG.
Re: Careful with your evolution mumbo jumbo.
"Actually, we evolved from great apes. Monkeys have tails. That should help you in the future"
You're both wrong.
We didn't evolve from apes or monkeys. We evolved from a more recent common ancestor to the apes than we did the monkeys, thus we're more similar to modern apes than modern monkeys. What those common ancestors were we don't really know as they only existed ~5 million years ago .
Posted in Apple MacBook Air 11in 2012
Re: ethernet
I also happily use a 2011 13" Air as my main office 'desktop' computer. I never bought the ethernet to usb adapter thinking I could get one if I needed it. 10 months down the line and I've still not got one.
Connected to a 30" 2560x1600 monitor makes it the perfect workhorse for enterprise with the additional bonus of great protability (weight and battery life).
It isn't used exclusively for 'office' tasks but for the analysis of scientific 'big data' in academia. Having access to a 500 core HPC cluster an ssh command away does help, though :)
Re: iTunes vouchers of course
Mostly yes. There are some exceptions, but yes all of your purchases should now be available without DRM
How does this fit in with their new-found love of OSS?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/31/government_closed_source_kicked_back/
Surely, desktop software like this is prime for the OSS treatment.
Posted in RedSleeve does RHEL-ish clone for ARM
linky broken
the link to the Dell ARM microserver links to www.com
Posted in Samsung outs Ivy Bridge notebooks
Re: Theory
Nah, it's to do with tellies.
Once LCD TVs took off the TV aspect ratio and resolutions became mass produced and cheap. Hence why many LCD monitors are 768p or 1080p - 1920x1200 or 1440x900 are non-standard and more expensive - thus are limited to 'high-end' machines...
Atom
surely, the atom is more comparable to an Arm. Low cost, low power, no fan and small. ok it doesn't have USB 3 or thunderbolt, but who needs it in this line of product.
"its Momentus has come"
<Groan>
Short working day
I don't know about you but my working day is certainly longer than 5.5 hours, especially if I'm travelling. Added to the really poor screen resolution for a machine at this price, this is *not* a real business laptop.
A 13" Air is far superior in performance, usability and longevity. AND it is cheaper! An extra USB port would be handy and carrying about adaptors is a bit of a drag, but these are minor issues.
What's more important not needing a display adaptor or having laptop that is still working after 6hrs+? The Air is a *proper* business laptop.
It's called open science and is happening more and more. In fact NIH require that all data are released immediately.
The disk space requirements are much more that just for ACGTN as each base has quality information detailing how reliably that base was 'read'.
However the 'fastq' format is very space inefficient and is partly to blame for global sequencing data to grow faster than Moore's law.
Increasing other people's premiums more like
I can see this as a way for insurance companies to penalise drivers who *don't* use the system.
Bytes or bases?
When you say 500GB, do you mean gigabytes or gigabases?
Sequencing data is usually reported in bases in the scientific community.
Let me get this right...
MS are saying they will put the same NT kernel that was in XP. Is that right?
Remember Windows XP? It's the OS that was so full of holes that MS spent the best part of 10 years trying to fix it and then replaced it. TEN YEARS!
And now they are wanting to unleash it onto a market where anti-virus is unheard of, unsecured networks are commonplace and scams are a daily problem.
Seriously?!
MS are imploding under their own stupidity... EPIC FAIL
I don't get it
What on earth is this article comparing Linux to?
The only other OS specifically mentioned is windows. There's no effing way that that is better than Linux at handling big data.
Fail elReg!
"If we could just get an ISP that delivers a decent phone line and broadband connection at a reasonable (doesn't have to be the cheapest, somewhere between TalkTalk and Virgin Media would be fine) price, that doesn't tie you in to a contract but instead pledges to keep your custom/loyalty with a decent service and good customer service, I do believe they would clean up"
One word: plusnet
I've been with them for ~2 years with no major problems; broadband + phone. Good value and good customer service.
Posted in BT fibre rollout reaches Scotland, Wales
couldn't agree more
My exchange has had FTTC since the summer, but I can't get it :(
Some people on the same *street* are enabled.
Not quite.'putain' is much stronger than 'bloody'; it's much nearer to fuck or shit. There's no way you'd see anyone on prime time tv use that word unlike 'bloody' over here.
Awesome!
When do we get to move in? What are the neighbours like?
Wot. No thunderbolt?
Surely they've missed a trick there. What with Airs not having Firewire and the high CPU load of USB, that's a glaring omission. FAIL!
exactly!
It's always the same.
They believe the numbers when it shows them in a good light, but point to flaws when they don't.
"Selective breeding != Genetic Modification"
Sure it does. What on earth do you think controls the trait that you want in your crop? That's right, genetics. So, by selectively breeding for juicier tomatoes you're mutating the genome.
There's no such thing as 'natural' beef, corn, etc!
Posted in MS and Samsung tout interactive table
Why such a pants CPU?
You'd think for that amount of money you'd get something like an iCore. The engadget review shows a less than smooth user experience :/
Posted in NEWSFLASH: Chips cheaper than disks
That's nothing to do with the SSD; it's only windows being crap!
Not in the UK
Strangely, here in the UK, the dept store John Lewis automatically gives you 2 years warranty on all electrical goods. Including Macs.
Plus the sale of goods act, puts no time limit on when you can return faulty goods.
There doesn't seem to be an issue here.
Really?!
I'm surprised. We got one as a present last Xmas and we use it everyday.
My, self-affirmed technophobe, wife reads emails and surfs the Internet, and the kids play games.
I wouldn't have got one beforehand, but now I'm considering getting an iPad3 when it come out.
Who on earth are the ConDems trying to persuade to come here? More city and management wankers? Cos that's what they're going to get.
Knowledge based economy, my arse!
Expensive
This is 300 quid more than an Air and people complain about Macs being expensive!
THere's no way this laptop is worth the money.
Posted in iPad 2 made from T-Rex fossils costs £5m
2Kg of gold!
Christ! You'd only be able to hold it 5min before your arm gets knackered.
I guess that's what 'staff' are for...
Strange II
I'd change banks if IBANs are important to you. I know for a fact that first direct and RBS both print the IBAN number on your statements by default.
Also, last time I made an international payment (a couple of years ago now) it cost £14.
You're definitely with the wrong bank.
Estimate!?
"between a loss of $200 million and a profit of $250 million"
Can they really not pin it down to a smaller window than $450m?
Must do better...
Posted in Deep inside ARM's new Intel killer
Go ARM
Great to see a UK tech company doing so well. <clap>
The gov must take note and grab the knowledge economy by the horns and invest in STEM industries. From school upwards...
Posted in My Council Services
What on earth is a dairy bull anyway?
I get my milk from dairy *cows*. At least I hope I do...
And I think you to get back to bed...
It says it's 1.52 GMT. In the UK we're currently at GMT + 1 which makes it 2.52 or very nearly 3am!
Mobile
The site is totally unuseable on a mobile. Poor. Must try harder.
Posted in iPhone 5 to support 21Mb/s HSPA+ not LTE
Meh
The mobile internet can't even cope with current speeds, so talking about 21Mbps is pointless!
I just tested my phone on a HSPA connection with full signal and got a stupendous 353kbps download...
Posted in Amazon intros $199 movie Kindle
With your use of 'profanity' makes me assume you're a left-pondian. Over on this side of the pond 'fuck-off' usually means excessively large, often in a scary sense.
Posted in .Scot campaign seeks UK Gov backing
What a pointless exercise!
Why are so many people keen to carve off their own part of the web?! It's a global phenomenon - it doesn't matter where a website URL is 'from'. As long as the site is relevant it could be on the moon for all I care!
FFS people need to get a grip and spend their time and effort on worthwhile things like the deficit. Not waste even more public money on vanity projects - yes the SNP, I'm looking at you. The sooner we get this indepence referendum out of the way the better and you can spend your time looking after the scots properly, for a change...
not with an Air you can't
The new Airs will only work with Lion.
I really like my new Air, but Lion is turning out to be quite shoddy :(
Applause
Happy birthday!
Posted in Apple preps MacBook Pro refresh
A 15" air is pointless. The whole point is that it's easily portable, 15" is just too big. The 13" is perfect IYAM, but then I just got one :)
Sadly...
Our work is moving onto 365 shortly. Fingers crossed...
Posted in Got a non-iPad tablet? Weirdo
not very
...if I'm anything to go by.
I have an HTC phone, an iPad, a Linux desktop and a mac laptop. No Windows, though, I'm not *that* weird.
Dundee
Has had this for the 5 years. It works very well with almost no phantoms.
It's great as I can turn up just before the bus with no hanging around. It's even been incorporated in Google maps!
6 months
"He needs at least 6 months before we throw him to the Lions & then you can take a pound of flesh."
He *has* been in charge for 6 months; while Steve's been on sick leave. So far, I think he's done fine overseeing the launch of the iPad 2 and refreshing the MacBooks.
Now we need to see what his 'vision' is like...
