* Posts by JDX

6847 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2010

Self-driving Volvos cover 200km of busy Spanish motorway

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50mph isn't a slow speed.

The fact you don't know the answers doesn't mean they do not exist.

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Guess my point is, I don't think they are ready yet.

No, I guess your point is that you're hugely unimaginative and assuming they didn't consider any of these things, and the software is an order of magnitude dumber than it probably is.

Road Trains seem a wonderful idea to me.

Free Windows 8 desktop app development is dead

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I would love it if that were the case but it's never been the case.

I'd still rather pay £300 for something brilliant than use something free and crappy if I'm using it 30 hours a week.

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Re: The initial reaction

Is that definitely correct - if VS2011 Express is MEtro only won't you be able to write phone apps on it since those are Metro too?

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So use VS2010 if you want to make desktop apps for free.

Sony KDL-55HX853 55in 3D LED TV

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Tilted?

In the side-on view it looks like it - is that normal?

I'd quite like one please.

ITU adopts two ultra-high def TV specs

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Re: oh great

Nobody is stopping you from reading books, you grumpy old git.

Absinthe 2 lifts iOS 5.1.1 gadgets over garden wall

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Great question, I'd love to see some comprehensive article about it too.

Instagram-owner Facebook emits in-house camera app

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Re: Zuck will spend most of that money, however, on a gigantic tax bill.

The whole point of hiring accountants is to reduce the tax you pay comapred to filling in the form as an amateur.

Is overall tax really >50% in the US? I thought the US had low taxes.

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Zuck will spend most of that money, however, on a gigantic tax bill.

Why most of it?

Silicon Roundabout touts startup jobs for 'ninjas' this weekend

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Re: 50k for a Java dev?

Oh I missed that. However the national average is totally distorted by London prices since not only are prices higher, but the density of developers is much higher too.

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Re: 50k for a Java dev?

It's in London. Jobs pay more in London.

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Re: Can someone explain...

They ask people what they do and what they earn, or scour advertised jobs and rates... hence these discrepancies happen all the time and as such the figures should be taken with a pinch of salt.

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Free fruit?

WTF.

'We're public now, so could you please click on an ad or two'

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I like Aero. Not for the transparency - though it can be handy to see things behind the window you're using - but the start-bar widgets and so on.

LG pitches £7k 55in OLED TV, again

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Re: My bad

Apple will patent 4x2k as their retina display.

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Re: Exercise in pointlessness

Clearly they also need to add a black sub-pixel to get a perfect black.

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Re: Exercise in pointlessness

If you think that beautiful design is pointless then yes it's pointless. But I doubt the target clientele hold that view.

Motorola Mobility loses to Microsoft in German patent battle

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Germany

All these cases seem to be happening in Germany. How come?

World+Dog to demand ever larger tablet-phones

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Re: Apple 5"?

If the 5" screen takes up the entire phone - no bezel - and it's super thin, that could be sweet. But I don't even know that's possible.

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Time to lose screens entirely

We clearly need it beaming the display directly onto your retina. Or something.

Google warns against ISPs hard on web filth

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FAIL

it "seemed odd that people are advocating not protecting children".

AAAAAAAAARRRRRGH!

'We've done nothing wrong' - Schmidt on Euro antitrust probe

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Re: Even if they do favour their own results

Gordon do yourself a favour and realise the legal system is based on rules (called laws) not an individual's personal view on what's OK.

>>Its their search engine. They can do what they want to be honest.

This is just a hugely ignorant statement. I can't use my car to run someone over and say "it's my car I can do what I want", I can't use my business' monopoly in one market to gain an advantage in another market with the same excuse.

Facebook IPO plunge sparks tidal wave of lawsuits

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Re: Zuckerberg

He made it up.

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Good move

The publicity about suing FB is definitely not going to hurt the share price further and add to the farce of the whole situation.

Nvidia Kai to enable cut-price Android tablets for all

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Re: Yeah, right...

Did you confuse this for a political forum?

VIA outs $49 Raspberry Pi-alike

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Re: 1080 onboard

Why should an HDMI socket imply 1080p? HDMI is also the standard cable for 720p/1080i.

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Re: Looks more useful in some ways

For normal programming you don't need a GPU. By the time you start doing 3D graphics you're pretty advanced.

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Does the banana come with it?

Apple tops tablet, mobile computer markets in Q1

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3.6m notebooks doesn't exactly seem insignificant to me, Apple are now a major player in the laptop world.

Ballmer says 500 MILLION 'users' to 'have' Windows 8 in 2013

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Re: One of you, folks, is in great danger

Oh jeez, yes let's port every application to be a website. Goodbye consistent UI and multiple monitors.

Official: Apple, IBM are world's most valuable brands

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Microsoft is the McDonalds of the tech world

McD is the #1 non-tech spot. Maybe check the witticisms make sense in future?

Star Trek's Scotty boldly goes where he always wanted to

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Re: Inspiring

Luckily they still have some left... the amount sent up can't have been more than a pinch.

Waterstones stores surrender to Amazonian invaders

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Re: Re This will not end well

What? I can use a Kindle to explore more books than you could fit in an average Tesco, let alone a typical bookstore.

Look at the Amazon top downloaded books and you will see authors like Dickens, Conan Doyle, etc. Having an e-reader has led to me expanding my reading.

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Re: Clearly I'm missing something

They might get a % of all books sold to an ID which was originally created for a Kindle sold in store?

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Re: Beating browsing proper bookshop

And it's about economics as much as costs and margin.

Ouch! Facebook slumps below IPO value on day 2

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Re: While I think FB has a real business model

Of course lots of employees will leave when the shares vest... they'll go from typical coders like us to multi-millionaires overnight. This is entirely normal.

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Re: Crash Ahoy!

There's a reason you're doing a £22k network admin job instead of working as a £220k trader.

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It's not worthless you dullard. It's worth about $34.

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Re: Really.

In the .com bubble prices went high at IPO and then later all collapsed. Collapsing at IPO is different.

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Re: $35

Bloody 'ell I looked away for 30s and suddenly it's $34

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Re: Oh kee-ryst

3% before the market opened. 8.5% 5min later.

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Re: Whilst I would love to smile ...

Pensions and funds are not normally looking for high risk and any new IPO is high-risk.

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$35

Ouch

'Dated and cheesy' Aero ripped from Windows 8

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Re: And the funny thing is....

Larger number of desktop/laptop PCs, not larger number of PCs in total. There's a gazillion Linux servers out there.

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I don't want a new interface every time I get a new computer

By that logic we'd still be using Win3.1

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Re: Vista better than XP?

>>Did you ever try to copy a folder containing 15 Gb of photographs to a thumb-drive on the original Vista?

Ah yes, the standard measure of how good an OS is.

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What instead?

What do we get in desktop mode - back to W95 style or some new thing altogether?

Windows Phone beats iOS sales in China

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Re: Wow

>>What Microsoft probably isn't saying is that the phones are running Windows CE 6.5.

That isn't Windows Phone.

Diablo III

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Re: mat.fletcher@gmail.com

You're clearly not target market. Losing the fraction of players who buy a game to play casually when it is not a casual game is probably not something they worry about. Same with playing on the plane - the % of people who would not buy it for this reason has to be minescule and therefore they see it as an overall win.