Posts by LaeMing
1345 posts • joined Wednesday 23rd December 2009 20:06 GMT
Sadly, no.
Just maybe we, the customers, will start to get the hint that Hollywood doesn't give a rancid fart what we think of their favorite sons so long as enough of us keep coughing up the cash.
We have one of those at work.
It's great!
Posted in WTF is... 4K x 2K?
Not much interested in 4k for TV
But a few of these stacked around me would make a VERY nice CAVE VR environment!
Posted in WTF is... 4K x 2K?
RE: porn
I recall some issues when HD first came out that most Porn actors were not visually "up to it" at the higher resolutions.
Unless you find skin-pores hawt!
Re: Phones are harder than PCs
I'd tend to disagree: Phone users just haven't been hen-pecked for decades into accepting shoddy crashy data-lossy software as inevitable and acceptable, so are less forgiving of such.
Going native.
Yes, I tend to read the whole thing as nothing more than marketspeak for "IE9 uses more of the newest Windows APIs from the HTML5 renderer." Which is a bit expected, to say the least. But if they have no other way to differentiate their product, they have to go on and on about what they have in the most conveluted pseudo-tech babble possible.
They all think they are every(wo)man.
They spend so much time pretending they are 'one of the electorate' that they start to assume that every perversion and corruption they are capable of must be common to the whole population.
I think it is just
that there is so much slagworthy tech about these days. I get quite fed up with /that/.
Blanket over the camera.
couble of bricks under the axels.
Nick the wheels.
....
Proffit.
Since I know very little about guns.
Without the visual cues, I might wonder if he put the gun on back window of his truck. Twice.
While I recognise Emergency Services Personel are far too ethical to do so,
wouldn't it be nice if their services could be denied to anyone known to be involved in intefering with their service to the whole community for nothing more than personal gain.
"What, your big mansion in the forest is burning down with you in it? Where? Sorry, I missed that, the comms is breaking up. Fssthhhhsssshhhhssshhhhh."
Posted in Vatican hails hacking culture, Wikis
Why would Richard not simply call himself a "Author of Public Domain Software" ?
Possibly because he isn't? Public Domain is NOT the same as GPL. Very very not.
All very well,
but the place of worship in question was happy to take the money for hosting the polling stations, they can't then turn around and say "But..."
Also, I believe the signs were on the fence outside with all the others - it is illegal to post election signage within a certain distance of a polling station down here. That would place the signs abutting and facing on to public thoroughfare, though the fence itself is likely church property.
I assume
you would run your application from floppy A and store your data on B
Re: Penalty points... so what can you buy with them?
I believe they are good for Papal Indulgences.
Re: Erm, I always prefer spaghetti.
Oh noes! I see a split in the FSM church comming!
Makes me think of...
...the special fizzy drink in Roal Dahl's /BFG/. With the bubbles that go down instead of up.
LaeMing likes this.
:D
Posted in Floating Image
You made me LOL
Ah, for the days when I could acompany an EEEpc on the beach.
So.. ahem,
What's the new Google CE's Page rank?
Posted in Oz network hits serious speed bump
I imagine...
...the assumption by the bidders that the govt would take the best offer regardless of how high it was in absolute terms was at least part of the reason for all the quotes being so high?
dik-boy
Because the greatest inuslt any male can receive is being called out on his posession of a penis?
Yes! (We wish!)
I have no problem with adds - easy to ignore the irrelivant and once in about 10,000 one that is of actual interest to me comes up.
What I object to is unnecessary cookies. I use the ask-then-white/black-list feature on Konqueror and nearly 100% of sites that have no reason at all to place a cookie for /my/ convenience or benefit request to place one (or usually several). That annoys me. Tracking whether I want closed captions or comments on or off is good. Anything else is not in my interests so get lost!
Posted in Australia, give up your fixed broadband!
When I moved back from urban China,
I felt much the same. Still do.
Which pompous twit above are you referring to?
So many to choose from!
Posted in W**k-O-Meter
Wouldn't pass the iCops anyway
App-store rules are that such programs must only use sound-bites from Steve's product launch speaches.
Posted in W**k-O-Meter
And the coresponding NS article...
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn20323-masturbation-calms-restless-leg-syndrome.html
Posted in W**k-O-Meter
Yes.
Though maybe they were talking about his great uncle, Onan the Barbarian.
Posted in Seagate triples up heads/platter ratio
Incredible!
The give-away is the idea that a modern IT manufacturer would have such a good idea.
Posted in Middle England chokes on Nice Baps
Massive Tool
There was a large LED billboard on the highway on my way home from work for several weeks recenely declairing:
MASSIVE
TOOL
sale (that last word in a markedly smaller font)
Maybe
the recent behaviour of the record labels pissed them off enough that they decided to give them a taste.
Yes, except it is actually 3 shutters per frame.
For 72 fps (but three identical frames at a time).
Been reparing 16mm projectors the past 2 months.
You are quite correct.
This is a major reason for resistence to higher FPS in the film industry.
Not as much as you might expect.
A higher frame rate will generally have lower inter-frame difference, so will compress better for the same perceptual quality.
Not really.
Only if you don't understand the mechanics of film (and presumably digital) projectors, particularly how the shutters actually work.
Posted in Jesus Phone brings the DEAD back to LIFE
Don't know about doctors
but the portable rescuscitator we have in the medical kit here talks you through how to use it. Obviously it isn't instructing on drug dosages, just where and how to attach the electrodes, and timing the CPR appropriately for how many people are assisting. It is just to keep the patient ticking over until the medicos arrive. Not something you habitually carry about in your purse, though.
Posted in Is Samsung imitating Sony?
But was it put there by Samsung?
To truely pull a Sony, it has to be there due to a management decision, not someone on the factory floor operating without permission for a paper backhander from a third party.
The OP was thinking of:
RE: "Perhaps you were thinking of Microsoft"
The OP was thinking of Microgoopleonykia-every-other-multinat-tech-company. They are all in it up to their rectums (which are just behind their teeth, FYI) as much as each other.
The radiological sources can be traced fairly accurately,
so yes, this is being accounted for. In fact three of the "high" radiation sites near the reactor quickly turned out to be radiation from decades-past atmospheric nuclear testing. The other two are quite clearly from the reactor itself. Keep in mind "high" here is still not very, though I wouldn't build a house on it, it isn't at this stage considered anywhere near a risk to those passing-by.
That is why you will find my posts...
...habitually (ie, unless I forget) referr to Microsoft's OS as "MS-Windows". Or even "Microsoft Windows" if I'm feeling unusually energetic. As opposed to "X-windows", which are one of the things you will find on my own PC at home.
(Notice I grew out of using the dollar sign for the 's' several years ago - it was fun for a while, but in the end saying a public company is primarily interested in money is a bit like saying a shark is primarily interested in eating seals.)
Posted in Handy radiation checker comes to iPhone
Don't forget
restricting the types of smoke detectors available and banning several forms of medical imaging.
Posted in Handy radiation checker comes to iPhone
I wouldn't worry about the CRTs
They have all that inch-thick lead glass on the front. That's more than radiologists get.
Bit like the Queensland Floods
A disaster to be sure, but some of the TV reporters were getting visibly flustered by the effected locals just getting on with the clean-up rather than running around howling woe.
RE: just cause they wrap your chips in it doesn't mean it's credible.
Over this side of the world you haven't been able to wrap chips in newspaper for decades - the ink was causing food-toxicity issues.
Posted in Oz parliamentary network breached
I imagine the Australian parliament's network was being read long before.
Even the Ruskies had a multi-gigahertz 'air vent' on their embassy roof decades ago.
And as for that huge 4-support spy-antenna slap-bang over the middle of the parliament-house roof!
