Cycle route

The Google maps cycle routes here will take you miles out of your way to use an "official" cycle route and doesn't know which bits of the freeway you can/can't cycle on.

Although the local uni has a cycle trip planner site based on Google maps that can trade distance/steepness and does a reasonable job

Re: Has anyone considered the possibility...

Unless that's just what they want you to think

Re: Gay?

I bet you are a Harley Riding fag !

Re: Hmm

>Androids out in the wild than iOS devices, so the revenue will be greater from Google's home grown OS

They don't get any money from makers of Android, they get money from Apple for bundling maps

You don't work for a bank do you ?

Re: Why the delay in filing charges? Come on people. Smarten Up!

If he didn't file a complaint, he simply said he had been shot then it's not his fault the police went in a tire screaming chase across the county.

It's like posting an essay on the internet saying Iraq might have WMD and then finding that somebody took it seriously and started a war.

Re: A scripting language vs. a low level language?

Python and Java/.Net operate in pretty much the same domain on the server. And they are all either pre-parsed p-code compilers or JITs with a VM anyway so they are all scripting languages

No it's just any old LCD fab, competing with lots of other cheap chinese LCD fabs in a market where everyone has already got a big LCD screen

Re: The post contains some characters we can’t support

el Reg draws the line at supporting women with bunny ears?

- just send them over here

Re: This is why it has to be amazon

Since they will be in American consulate type places and have content selected by the American equivalent of the British council - I don't think this is exactly part of a massive covert surveillance operation.

ie Somebody in Afghanistan is reading the Anarchist Cookbook or we have detected a user in London reading Das Kapital - send in the CIA

Re: Sales...

Since electricity is the work of Beelzebub I don't think that will be a problem.

Re: @Tigra 07: My only question.... Point 2)

"...hanging around tall people will make you tall."

And being married to a woman hasn't made me always right

Re: Strange story

That's going to take quite a complex icon to represent though !

Re: I wish they'd spin Trolltech back out

>But do they really want us to write proper apps on Windows? See Metro, WinRT.

I think their idea is to embrace and extend the idea of an App store - to just be Office365

Re: The other alternative...

Yes if you have enough PV to run your house.

But in Texas/Arizona/Ca etc most of the power demand is for AC, if you cut out all the cost and efficiency losses of power converters, safety cut-outs,feed-in tarrifs etc you could make a cheap and efficient enough system for everyone to use.

Re: local limit

The other alternative is to wire most of the rooftop PV direct to the Air Conditioner.

Sun comes out, AC goes on, Sun goes in AC goes off.

Re: not socialist

And conservative - in europe means a centre right party that believes in privatisation of utilities and in the US means someone who thinks electricity is the work of the devil

Re: Yet Another Anonymous coward

Yes anyone with the intelligence of a 5year old and the moral standards of a tapeworm would see that the whole bill is crap - I'm just pointing out the dangers of "we only track the endpoints not the actual content"

Re: I wish they'd spin Trolltech back out

Ironically Qt is your only real choice for developing desktop app in C++ on Windows.

So if MSFT sank Qt they are looking at no reasonable way to do proper apps on Windows

- no C++/CLR and WPF doesn't count as reasonable.

Re: Making lock-picking illegal ..

No, it's making doors illegal because some crooks open them

Re: No Content of communication - Not accurate

Logging the content would actually be safer.

So it logs that you connected to 123.123.123.123. That server hosts KnittingPattern.com, but it also hosts NakedTherasaGorman.com and JihadWeekly.com - they just didn't record what you accessed.

It logs that you made a cellphone call to a certain number and somebody on their terrorist watch list made a call to the same number later. You were ordering a curry and somebody in their kitchen has a relative that's a bit naughty - but now you are logged as part of a terrorist network.

Re: Make hi tech unusable ...

That's damn unsporting of Johnny terrorist.

Surely if you just speak English loudly they would understand? Some of these foreigners just need to make an effort.

Re: So just how

A friend of mine was trying to meet a 40year old FBI agent online and all she got was 13year olds pretending to be FBI agents.

Re: huh?

I think you will find that no teenagers think about sex until they are 18 - even the ones who get marries at 16. Similarly no Americans think about alcohol until they are 21.

Anything else is the internet warping their tiny fragile minds....

Re: Benefits from this investment?

Ever bought anything online from a foreign site without paying VAT/duty?

Ever sold anything through an online ad without paying income tax?

Re: Calm down dear....

In the IT crowd the woman isn't a geek that's the whole point.

Of course its portrayal of male geeks is so flattering I'm sure it has converted 1000s of teenage boys from wanting to be footballers or rockstars into dreaming of a career on a help desk

Re: technology consumers

Better than ####ing "stakeholders" - the next person that uses "stakeholders" is getting one through the heart

Re: Have you heard...

Better than that - you take the test at 16 and you can only drive that model year Ford when you leave college and get a job 5years later.

Re: Who Needs Computers!

You were lucky - we just had "On computable numbers, with an application to the Entscheidungsproblem:" and this long bit of tape.

Re: M$'s programming products?

Visual Studio is the nicest profesional C++ dev environment out there. It beats emacs+make+gdb

But that doesn't mean you should teach kids it. It's like saying we are replacing your crappy metal work tools with a class on how to change the oil in a BMW 5series, just because it's a nice car

Re: not socialist

Jeremy Allison (Samba) - on GPL "I instantly recognized it for what it was: Socialism. Coming from Europe, where socialism isn't a dirty word, I had no problem with it."

Note to Americans - socialism means people getting together to organise those bits of society where everyone benefits from them being there however much they individually pay toward them. Like roads, police, fire engines or the Army

Re: Dont get it

What a loser - he just got lots of other people to do all the work and tricked them into getting together producing a bit of kit that now runs a big chunk of the world.

Re: I used to work for Siemens

Same with Intel. They had a real "holy-than-thou" attitude, even firing one poor sod who accepted a T-shirt from a booth at a trade show. Then some emails got leaked to the SEC....

Re: Irrelevant and rubbish law

There is a slight difference between a bribe and a more expensive contract.

Here Mr Health Minister is $50K in cash for you to pick my company's $2M contract to run your hospital rather than my competitors $1M bid. Don't worry it's only taxpayers money and you can save that by cutting back on doctors.

Re: Blame the US - Yep

Try and do a trade show in the US:

$100 to the teamsters so your kit gets off the loading dock and to your stand

$20 to each of the electricians to allow you to turn on your own lights on your own booth

$20 tucked under the trash can so your booth gets cleaned.

Re: I hope he has learned his lesson

Real men don't backup - real men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it

Re: Shitty thing to have happen

>I hope he does not suffer from losing his meds etc

That's what he's like WITH the meds !!!

< whinney manc voice=on > the drugs don't work .....

Re: I hate to interrupt this valuable talk about THE CHILDREN, but...

Just wait - once MSFT fund a city-foundation-academy-technology-college-institute that will go on the national curriculum.

So rather than memorize all 12x12, just learn 5x and 10x then interpolate.

Want 7*8? Then it's just 5*8 + 2*8 = 40 + 8 + 8

I still have the letter home I got when I tried to explain this to the teacher in infant school!

Re: Why 12x12?

Thankfully we only had 8bit machines when I was at school.

Learning your 2^64 x 2^64 times table is a real pain