* Posts by JDX

6847 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2010

Olympus MEG4.0 smart glasses will photoshop the REAL WORLD

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Re: prescrption glasses

Why can't the display automatically de-focus the image exactly the right amount through a virtual lens?

Now THAT would be a good patent to own.

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Re: view the real world with a brighter, friendlier glow.

Not really. £3 a pint, that will add up to £1000s quite quickly.

Though I bet the glasses might lead to as many headaches.

Google plants rainbow flag in anti-gay countries

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Re: Religious bigotry

Come on, you're biting the bait from an obvious troll and you can't do better than throwing in the lame "imaginary friend" ad absurdium argument?

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What exactly is "promotion of homosexuality"? I have a weird image of people handing out "turn gay, it's great!" pamphlets...

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Re: All very well...

I find it a bit weird a corporation is lobbying on local (in the international sense) politics. Do they really care, or are they doing it as a PR stunt?

YouView: The long march to... er, where exactly?

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I'd LIKE a standard interface to iPlayer, 4OD, etc... right now iPlayer is great and everything else sucks.

Facebook: Our phone app DID seize your email

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use Google+ instead

The perfect social network for people with no friends, I can see why it's popular amongst IT geeks.

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Re: Massive fail.....

When I met some FB people at a recruitment event, they boasted about how "changes you make today could be being used by millions of people tomorrow".

CERN catches a glimpse of Higgs-like boson

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Re: Another particle =

You don't understand the very nature of the science Vs religion discussion if you think that way.

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Re: Higgs is a cannonball and it just hit

Given that many physicists assumed Higgs existed, or at least built theories around its theoretical existence, and none of them have explained why the universe happened, finding Higgs does exist doesn't mean squat in the [non existent but perpetual] argument between science and religion.

I wonder if it can be scientifically proven that science can't explain WHY things are how they are. It would be a lovely circular field of study :)

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without quantum theory your computer would not work

Quantum theory we understood when building them, or quantum theory we discovered afterwards? Considering you can build a mechanic computer, or one using very simple school-level electronics, I think you're the one who is wrong. Electrical components might behave in a certain way due to quantum effects but that doesn't mean they were created/invented based on an understanding of those effects... often we invent something by discovering a certain behaviour without knowing why.

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Re: Oh FFS

I guess Physics Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman doesn't count as a scientist then.

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Re: Good news for the masses

Badum-tish.

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Re: Oh FFS

...dont call it the "God Particle", please.

Its offensive to science.

The term is used by scientists, you moron. Maybe restrict your proclamations about what "is offensive" to fields you actually know something about?

Review: Samsung Chromebox

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Pi IDE

I am a bit surprised that Pi can't do an IDE. It may be far below modern standards (I assumed it would be on par with a PIII 700 rather than a PII 300 but either way), but it was not so very long ago we were using 300MHz PII with 256Mb RAM as desktop PCs - I worked with Visual C++ 6, Borland JBuilder and MS Office on such PCs as did everyone else, probably only a decade ago. And those PCs had nothing in the way of GPU acceleration at all.

And with Linux being so much faster than Windows (semi serious Linux barb) that should make it usable as a low-power PC. If not why not?

Did your iPhone 'just stop working' - or did you drop it in your BEER?

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Re: Have the patient office been dunked in beer?

Just because it already exists doesn't mean they won't try to patent it. Also, their implementation of the basic idea might be different enough to Nokia's to make this patentable.

Big media little iPad stories suggest Apple is cranking up the spin cycle

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Apple just need to get Twitter going. Easy.

YouView launches with pricey premium DVR

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>>How on earth can you be late to the Freeview + online pay service line up and then charge so much?

It costs so much because it's a top-notch FreeviewHD PVR... that's how much those cost anyway.

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Well Humax DVR are pretty decent so this could simply be what sets them apart from their rivals maybe.

I wonder if it lets you record YouView content onto the DVR like normal TV?

Now Apple faces Siri court room showdown

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Re: Chinese patents?

But of course if a Chinese company rips YOU off, tough. I think it was Top Gear did a piece on Chinese cloned car models.

Boffins pull off room-temp quantum computing with home-grown gems

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it looks feasible to increase the life span into the range of hours. At that point, a host of real-world applications become possible

Surely even 1s is enough for real-world usage since we're talking about computation rather than storage?

HTC bags UK win in patent war with Apple

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Just how the game is played.

Google Maps takes shelter from the British summer

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Search "Google Body"

Orange San Diego Intel-based Android phone

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Re: Epic fails on 3 fronts gets 85%?!

#3, SD... in the real world the vast majority of users do not give one tiny little jot. Hence this cannot be an EPIC fail, only an annoyance.

Also, I don't get the fuss over ICS... 2.x is only one generation behind.

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Re: Orange-only?

Darn. I get £5 off my broadband bill for having my mobile with O2 so I don't really want to change provider :(

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Orange-only?

Is this a special Orange-only phone? If so, will we be seeing equivalent handsets on other networks because I'm very impressed based on the price-point and battery life.

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doesn’t support a lot of popular gaming titles

I must have missed this in the article... why is this the case, is it because of the Android version or something else? I thought most Android phone apps were 2.x since ICS is not mainstream yet.

Full Tilt Poker boss arrested over $430m 'Ponzi scheme'

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Re: "You'll be claiming that they don't ban big winners next"

Casinos negotiate with big players (not poker players) based on knowing how well that player plays. If the person starts winning too much, they can ban them or retract the special dispensations they offered to get them to play.

Microsoft sets the price for a Windows 8 upgrade at $40

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Re: So the real cost for non Win 7 users is..

Except there is no upgrade path from XP / Vista to Win 8.

Well not if you don't want to completely nuke your machine.

Sorry MS, my time is valuable, more than 40$ valuable.As opposed to upgrading to Linux, you mean?

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Re: Shameless

It IS a decent price, on a par with what Apple charge. Maybe that's deliberate, maybe not...

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Re: Yes...I'm that guy

I love how everyone is being downvoted simply for saying "I like it". Not saying "you should like it", just "I like it". It just emphasises the childish, immature nature of your typical Linux evangelist who claims to support freedom and choice but is personally affronted if you exercise that freedom to disagree with them.

Maybe Linux users are just so angry all the time because they have to use Linux.

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Re: So the real cost for non Win 7 users is..

Why does a non W7 user have to buy W7 when W8 is released?

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Re: Games?

I love a Linux fanboy suggesting someone else goes outside into the real world.

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Re: I upgraded from Win 7 to openSUSE...

You saved $40 but you didn't upgrade. For $0 you could have remained on W7.

'That new Google button was our idea', claims lawsuit

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That new Google button was our idea

And the clue is in the word IDEA. Tough.

Do you work in IT at RBS? Or at the next place to get hit ...?

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Re: Fuck that for a game of marbles!

I'd rather end up in a council flat eating dog food at 70 that sucking up to some prick higher up the so called "food chain"

Then you probably will get your wish. There is the real world, and there is the nice little world in your head where people are promoted purely on merit, everyone confesses their own mistakes and never take credit for someone else.

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Re: Fundamental misconception.

The author of this article does not seem to understand that people who are good engineers are usually so because they enjoy doing things right and take a viewpoint that is based around what is optimum for the system, not just their little nugget of it. We have become engineers because we find greater satisfaction in actually being good people who move things forward, than we do playing internal politics and bickering over our share of an increasingly small pie.

It's your choice - you can listen to the guy with 25 years' experience. Or you can practice reciting that speech for the job interviews you're going to be hoping for soon.

What is the Nokia Secret Plan if Windows 8 isn't Windows gr8?

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What good is that for Lumia owners if the converse isn't true?

Newer iOS apps don't run on older phones either. Even newer Mac apps don't run on older Macs. This isn't anything new.

CANNIBAL! Apple's 7.85in iPad will EAT 9.7in iPad sales

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It's not going to happen and it will never happen

You mean like an iPhone with a bigger screen won't happen?

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Re: It would be Tim Cook big second mistake at Apple...

The quick straw-poll that is El Reg commentard voters, shows even radical anti-Apple people think aan iPad mini is a good idea.

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1024x768 as a "iPad2 mini" has to be the obvious route, allowing smaller price while remaining profitable and still a great display.

Google+ takes on a location element as it pushes deeper into iPhone

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That logo looked crap to me. Maybe I'm just too out of touch, was it obvious to the rest of you the red thing was a map pin without thinking about it?

Mozilla's 'Boot to Gecko' morphs into Firefox OS

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Re: This old chestnut

Surely it's bound to just be some Linux thingie, everything else (including Android) is.

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Oh yes, HTML5 the ideal development technologies. This just seems a terrible idea and hopefully it never gets anywhere... like ChromeOS in fact.

Puny US particle punisher finds strong evidence for God particle

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Re: If you use the proper name everybody on here will surely understand

No this isn't the case, because the name is used by physicists not adolescents trying to sound cool.

Google Chrome serves up only emptiness, for many users

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310 million users

Is that all? How many people use the internet - a couple of billion?

LG 55LM960V 55in Smart TV

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Question

To an average consumer who watches normal TV (HD+SD) and streaming services like Netflix rather than lots of blu-ray movies, would there be an obvious difference between watching a £500, a £1000 and a £2000 TV? Are we talking very subtle videophile-level differences, or something you'd walk into the room and go "wow that's amazing"?

Facebook phone app attempts to seize ALL YOUR MAIL

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wow

as title

Google.eggfaced: Chocolate Factory spaffs cash in dot-word bungle

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Re: URLs such as dogs.are/cute or fast.est/swimmer

join.me is a valid URL too. Not sure why.