Posts by JDX
3807 posts • joined Friday 28th May 2010 13:33 GMT
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Posted in NASA sniffs water ice on Moon – maybe
Re: Mars is boring!
You realise this article is about the moon, not Mars?
Posted in NASA sniffs water ice on Moon – maybe
That doesn't really seem an answer, simply a slightly related fact. You don't say what temperature sublimation occurs at for instance.
On a related note... isn't 40K quite warm for a crater which never sees the sun? Has the sun, over the eons, heated the entire moon up to 40K? Or is there residual heat from the moon's core?
Why would Apple sell a 4K TV when there's no 4K content?
Why would they decide 3K is what a 13" laptop needs?
Posted in NASA sniffs water ice on Moon – maybe
The colourful moon is much nicer, let's have that version.
On a serious note, doesn't ice sublime in vacuum and would therefore disappear without an atmosphere?
upgrading existing handsets is impossible
>>Microsoft has recoded the platform so that it shares kernel features with Windows 8, which is good for integration but bad news for smartphone vendors, since upgrading existing handsets is impossible.
Is this just bad reporting... why does changing the kernel automatically mean handsets can't be upgraded? Surely if people can hack their iPad to run Android or get Win98 running on a phone, getting WP8 onto WP7.5 hardware is possible?
Re: I'm guessing.....
Or End of Days.
What about...
...Nuns on the Run?
Re: So what is the deal with Sweden?
>>This suggest to me that if I was an innocent man looking for either of freedom of expression, and human rights Sweden would be a top notch choice.
I think you answered your question... they're not innocent and they're not heroes of freedom/democracy. Therefore a dodgy South-American country with easily bribed officials is far preferable.
Re: On the other hand
Well done for noticing. So what? The point is they give the software away to drive hardware sales. MS could do the same thing on their own-brand hardware.
$500m
That seems like peanuts for such a big property.
Will the locals' taxes go to him - how does it work if you own an island with people on it?
On the other hand
Maybe MS are keen on making money off hardware - Apple make money from the hardware not the software so MS might wish to copy this on high-end tablets (iPad) rather than budget models (Fire).
Re: The employee was from Iran...
I was just going to ask how the employee knew they were speaking Iranian, guess this answers it.
Re: Not upgradeable is not ok
Why does it NEED to be upgradable?
Re: "Phone 7 users won't be able to upgrade to Windows 8"
My old Nokia has been running for about 5 years on the same OS it had when I bought it. It runs just as well as it ever did. The same will be true for WP7 phones... upgrading to a new OS is just not a huge deal for typical users who will simply get a free upgrade in a year's time.
Re: "Phone 7 users won't be able to upgrade to Windows 8"
You can't make a big leap forward and be 100% backwards compatible, they're mutually exclusive.
Also, there are so few WP7 users that it really doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things.
I think it sounds rather splendid - SD support is a massive thing to techies and support for DirectX sounds awesome.
Posted in Ten... pieces of tat for Apple fanboys
Re: Most excellent!
I'm not a fanboi but I thought some were cool!
The cufflinks really need to fasten magnetically though.
I think it looks fairly sweet - the ARM version is as thin as the iPad and adding the keyboard into the case seems a nice move to avoid buying an expensive add-on. USB+SD are big deals to business users too.
Hoping for something nice but not massively optimistic.
Re: "Bringing the classic first-person shooter to consoles "for the first time"."
I was going to say that but I think what they mean is bringing the original DOOM for the first time, alongside DOOM3 which definitely was on consoles.
Re: WOW
How original.
And the iPhone was behind the competitors on 'basic' features for years... doesn't seem to have hurt it too much.
Re: How contemporary
>>Import and export contacts to and from the Sim card
less and less a big deal as everything goes cloudy.
Maybe to stop anyone else using it?
Re: tablet utopia!
You'd think with cases like the official iPad one, they'd just build a keyboard into it.
Posted in R18+ games still not over the line in Oz
Re: religious opposition
Why exactly is Christian Democratic an oxymoron? I don't know a single Christian who is opposed to democracy.
And really if you're not a Christian, commenting on "Christian behaviour/actions" is unlikely to be accurate because the phrase "acting Christian" doesn't tie in with Christianity. Christianity very strongly says that contrary world views ARE less valid since it is based on the belief there are absolute truths and it knows what they are. That's clearly up for violent disagreement of course but I'd rather you disagreed with it than not know about it!
One obvious win
SD and USB... big things missing on iPad to many. And expandable storage is a big gripe against WP7. I wonder if this means it will also be supported on phones in the future too.
Re: ARMvsIntel Win 8
>>I foresee many people returning their Arm based Windows RT tablets when they finally work out they can't run windows apps
Those would be the same people who return iPads because they won't run Mac software?
Posted in Crytek says future is free-to-play
Re: Secondhand market - boohoo
What an asinine comparison. And I support 2nd hand games.
Posted in Microsoft plots entry into tablet trade
Re: Features
Have you used a Windows PC this century? It sounds unlikely unless it was one you bought last century and keep running only to demonstrate how slow Windows is.
Re: And so Google became the moral compass for the world
Many countries don't have free speech. Which part didn't you understand?
Re: At Microsoft they are on some heavy drugs...
WP7 isn't failing because of bad UI.
How many times
You aren't forced to work in Metro Mode on the desktop. You are forced to use a Metro 'Start Bar' but that's it. If you don't have a touch-screen PC, don't use Metro.
Re: @JDX
Yeah but articles just copy what MS say without delving deeper :)
I like Aero
cool widgets and so on anyway. Have they removed the additional functionality Aero brought, or only the styling aspects of window themes?
Posted in Retina Display detachment
Um, you realise a DVD looks just as good on a 4000x2000 13" screen as a regular 720p one? At those screen sizes, regular DVD quality is just fine.
The world may be moving on, but video is still massive on DVD, it's far behind music in transitioning to download-only as is evidenced by the popularity of DVD box-sets (which still outsell blu-ray versions).
Posted in Retina Display detachment
Re: Wow
Or rather, Apple fans are typically not using PCs in a way that these are serious problems to them.
Posted in Retina Display detachment
Re: I don't get the fuss
Since Macbooks are consumer items first and foremost, lack of ethernet is not going to affect the majority or the target market. Us regular IT types aren't really the demographic, which is pretty obvious when you think how much these cost... an IT grunt on £25k really shouldn't be spending £2k on a laptop.
Posted in Microsoft plots entry into tablet trade
Thanks Ted, it's always nice when someone has the inside track on what we think and can save us the effort.
Re: I don't know what I'm disgusted in more...
Get of the 'freedom of speech/expression' high-horse. It's not valid unless they ban her writing altogether.
Re: Excellent Work by the Council
They haven't censored her. They've told here she can't take photos in a private building, she can still blog.
El Reg readers are generally pretty critical of kids being allowed to take phones/gadgets into school IIRC.
Re: Does anybody really care....
Outside the world you live in (your bedroom), yes.
Posted in Stephen Fry's Pushnote goes titsup
Re: He's not "IT-literate"
IT-literate is equivalent to saying you know how to drive a car and keep it running smoothly, not saying you are a mechanic. You can be IT-literate and not understand how to program or how the internet works.
Re: Calm down dear....
Unless you worked in IT support you wouldn't really know how realistic it is.
Maybe they'll just stop making non-laptop PCs, it must be a fairly minor segment of their sales.
Posted in Kogan 'taxes' IE7 users
What a douche
Either don't support it and put up a "the site might not work properly" - you know like the grownups do - or shut up.
Re: What's in a name?
MS don't really back VB, and C#/.NET ARE very valuable real-world skills (C~ can earn you more than Java in the UK for a start).
Clamouring for 'neutrality' has to mean you can't clamour for schools to use Linux because then that's just as partisan. Ideally both would be covered however for basics of programming you can use nearly any language on both anyway.
@Cucumber
If he'd wanted to kill the guy and hadn't had a gun he could have run him over with the pick up truck.
In fact therefore probably just as well he did have a gun.
No not really. He'd potentially damage his truck which could be expensive to fix and very easy to track down. A gun makes it far easier for a loon to act on the craziness inside.
Re: EGit, TortoiseGit
TortoiseGit seems very good to me, but it doesn't change the fundamental fact you still have to use Git. I'd much rather stay with TortoiseSVN!
Cool
Selling them as toys could also raise further funds for the project.
Complete and utter madness.
For a laptop yes. For a laptop with 3k X 2k display you literally cannot get from anyone else... not sure. As a specialist laptop that price is fine and surely the Pro should be a specialist device.
It does seem daft to have such a lovely laptop with such a huge resolution and then shrink the screen.
TortoiseGit? msysgit?
I am a newbie to git (and don't really like it) on Windows but both these existing tools have been invaluable for simple use against github, meaning I can get on with my work.
So saying there wasn't a GUI client before seems misleading. Unless they mean specifically a GUI app to configure things rather than work against a repo?
