Posts by chris 17 439 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Nov 2010
@ Kristian Walsh
my point was that the release of IOS 8 does not suddenly unleash 3 billion devices to run WebGL. There are many more non iDevices capable of running WebGl than there are total iDevices in existence (which is more than the 600k you quoted). In fact i'd suggest by now, there are actually more than 600k idevices running IOS 8.
"Starting today, three billion devices can render WebGL content"
umm, there are a staggering number of iphones, not all of which can upgrade to ios 8, & their number does not total 3 billion. The release of ios 8 will add a lake to the ocean of webgl capable devices, i don't think it'll suddenly kick start the adoption of 3D content on the web.
I would suggest the lack of demand is because no one really wants 3D. How many 3D channels are ther on tv despite loads of people having 3D capable tv's?
@AC in 2014 traditionally i would call 8GB ok, 4GB as a little tight, as the OS would typically have to rely on virtual memory cached to slow disk to keep current apps in RAM. My point is that with very very fast disks, 4GB is now ok as the user will likely not notice the penalty for using virtual memory.
Have you got only 4GB in your main rig? i have 8GB in my 2008 macbook with ssd & 16GB in my work m4800 with ssd. she only has 2Gb in her 20067 Macbook but the new ssd significantly improves its performance.
Yup,
fast local storage is the next big thing, The current thinking of loads of RAM and disk will change to 'Just enough RAM and very very fast Disk' aka Non Volatile Memory. This is the direction apple is taking with the comparatively low RAM, fast PCIE Disk and clever OS that compresses and intelligently pages unused content to cache on that fast disk.
RAM is just a fast disk cache, make the disk fast enough & you can get away with less RAM.
the carriers will not be losing a single cent on sales of iphones.
you need to breakdown the components of the monthly cost to see what you are paying for.
You could argue they make less airtime profit on an iphone than they do a dumb phone and dumb phones are contributing more to the carriers underlying profits, but that is not subsidising a loss leader.
The option is there but you need a password to manage the base station.
No password, no administer Airport.
Neither apple, nor your iDevices know you don't know the password, hence they offer you the convenience of administrating the base station but you have to enter the base station password to do so.
If the complexity is the problem, then they should rip up the established procedures and start again. Keep It Simple and cut out the hidden costs. I don't in principle have an issue buying a service contract to cover the meter & distribution, & pay separately for my billing & then separately again for social contributions and green levies, if overall it is cheaper. I'd look to piece together a portfolio of cheap components to build and satisfy my energy supply needs.
All accounts should be registered with OfGem and the accounts and billing data sent from OfGem to your chosen provider at the mutual pre arranged schedule. There should be less changes required for changing provider and OfGem have all the data to check if the market is working properly and if people are paying over the odds.
This is a very public opening salvo in the race to censor the internet.
I fully support Google in complying with & letting us know it has done so.
Google is an index to content others have produced. If Google is forced to censor a search result it does not mean the information does not exist. Will we find info on Darwinism, the crusades or WWII censored next?
This ruling should apply to those hosting the offending material and ensure its completely removed from the net.
It does however highlight the power search engines, and Google in particular, have on our use of the internet.
Remember how we used to use the net before the big search engines, all those online communities etc.
I remember discussions on how search engines framing our view on the net was so terrible (do no evil etc), well it seems western governments are now using them to censor us on a par with how we are told fundamentalists are censoring views and opinions in the lands they seek to rule.
Its great we all have a choice of hardware vendors. Just because you prefer to clump your chosen hardware together to build your ultimate custom rig, others prefer to buy something that is already complete and just works.
Who else builds a sleek system like that with 1 cord that just works out of the box, no plugging multiple cables in, no downloading drivers, no creating backup os disks, no licensing.
Whenever a family member buys a new windows machine i get a call asking to set it up, i never get a call asking to setup iDevices or macs as they are able to do it themselves, including getting on the network, printing and scanning. I do however install the free sophos AV when i visit.
There is a world of people out there that are not techies and are willing to pay extra for something to just work rather than abusing my spare time for free to get their cheaper windows machines to do the same as the Mac does. As i don't get paid to be their desktop support (that's not my day job either) I encourage them to pay more upfront for less of my time in the future.
So this add wasn't clear enough (was to me but i don't have a business that i want to show BT sport in) but offering unlimited stuff that has an ever decreasing limit mentioned in some small print is perfectly fine? And delivering broadband over coax can be marketed as fibre broadband?
I'm glad the regulators are finally sharpening their pencils, hopefully they'll start tackling the proper ludicrous claims we punters have to put up with like insurances that don't cover you despite intimating it will.
There are numerous issues with IPv6. Privacy issues being the obvious glaring one, despite the supposed randomized use of the devices MAC as part of the address.
If IPv6 wasn't flawed we would all be on it now, with IPv4 left for the ghost net, outlaws/crims and lagards.
We need IPvNG with large scale proxying to legacy IPv4 by the regional number authorities for ~ 10 years.
why do i need a vpn back to my home router to access an ssl protected site?
tracking mac addresses gives you the following info
vendor and likely model of handset
age of handset
this info can start to influence the how you market to those people like on how much disposable cash they may have, or how much people with certain handsets like to browse, how certain users like to use comparison sites instore whilst shopping. Also, live tracking linked to cctv could aid in the hunt for shoplifters trying to hide from security, or if they frequently revisit stores on reconnaissance, or if they simply return to stores once banned.
The more you think about what the tracking can reveal about you the more worrying it is.
as has already been said, if you encrypt (use a sufficiently strong algorithm) end to end, then they can't read it in the middle.
Want to use the 'free' services google offer but concerned about your privacy, then encrypt your stuff before putting it on or through.
Yes we are all doomed as the collectives harvest our data in the clouds, but the masses are too busy face booking, sms'ing and generally living their lives blissfully unaware and grateful for the way these 'free' services have enriched their lives.
yin yang
Mine shows the direction of travel & position whilst in underground car parks. The older satnav's had gyros's etc that where used to determine location when gps signal was lost, hence part of their expense. Not sure on how the newer ones are working, i suspect a newer cheaper gyro.
YouView is the remnants of Project Kangaroo from circa 2008 after the competition commission decided it would be too powerful and we all needed saving from a single platform that would have served as the VOD/catch up tv system for terrestrial TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kangaroo_(video_on_demand)
Project Kangaroo/SeeSaw would have been awesome. Imagine every Smart TV being SeeSaw compatible, it would have allowed the terrestrial channels to have competed head to head with Sky, & we'd all be benefiting right now through greater choice and competition. Instead, the competition commission decided Tony's mate needed extra protection at the expense of us mere taxpayers.
i thought Android manufacturers and carriers currently had their own overlays or builds on Android, which was one of the so called benefits to them. This just seems to be Google saying don't bother with your customisations, make your Androids plain vanilla like nexus and pay us some money for the privilege? I thought they could do that if they wanted anyway.
CONFUSED as to how Silver will be any different to stock Android, or can manufacturers not currently roll out stock Android?
From the Patent application filled in March 2012:
http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html&r=1&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=PTXT&s1=8,712,233&OS=8,712,233&RS=8,712,233
This relates generally to electronic devices, and more particularly, to structures for mounting components within electronic devices.
Electronic devices such as portable computers and cellular telephones contain electrical components such as displays, wireless circuitry, sensors, and communications buses. It can be challenging to mount desired electrical components within an electronic device housing. Space is generally at a premium, particularly in compact devices. If care is not taken, device performance may suffer or device housing structures may be bulkier than desired.
It would therefore be desirable to be able to provide improved techniques for mounting components within electronic devices.
Around 2004 the AirWave project was started to provide a modern communication system for the Emergency Services.
It provides 3G communications using dedicated masts as well as on O2.
Its still running.
AirWave was the upgrade to TETRA.
Why don't they just upgrade AirWave to 4G?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airwave_(communications_network)
Funny how you have to go quite far out of your way to compromise the security and integrity of IOS, yet on desktops (especially windows) it's a breeze. Seems any supposedly legit install on windows these days comes with spyware as standard.
update adobe and get a free unwanted copy of McAfee virus scan.
update java get a free unwanted browser toolbar
download any thing from download.com, tucows.com, cnet softpedia or any of the download sites and get a load of crap you don't want (these sites claim apps are virus and spyware free but then confuse you into downloading them anyway)..
the funniest thing is that the app you want might only be a few KB but the downloader is ~1MB.
think your clever and can just download the app you want and you find that that is just an app wrapper too.
just try and download 'wireless wizard' for an example.
if only M$ had a download site with apps guaranteed to be free of bloat, virus etc.
The Universal Serial Bus was the newfangled replacement for attaching peripherals to your computer. Previously you had a huge parallel or slightly smaller serial termination.
Bent and broken pins where common and there where typically no more than 2 ports on a system. USB was luxury!
Sounds like the USB steering group has just invented ThunderBolt.
They may as well just call it thunderbolt, be done with it and start work on the next gen USB standard.
IPv6 should sort a lot of this out.
Privacy concerns about IPv6 aside, the spec mandates all connections should be capable of using encryption. No more unencrypted connections to email or other systems that smartphones automagically do these days.
Could be fun to review logs later and track people as they journey around!
The BBC article has an update at the bottom
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-26448158
Since publication, Apple has acknowledged it misunderstood the request to unlock the device. The company has now restored the factory settings. It maintains a court order would be needed to access the iCloud.
and that's why everyone hates corporate email & love google mail. In a previous job we had netware and groupwise. i used groupwise as a file store to share folders and files with colleagues working on projects. Much easier to control and everyone always had the uptodate docs. I was very disappointed when i changed job and had to put up with outlook and a 500MB mailbox. I was even sadder to learn i had to file stuff and email docs to co workers (eating into that 500MB) instead of setting up arbitrary sharing. Outlook was a huge step backwards. Manually filing stuff is last century.
For those of us fortunate to have a car & un/fortunate enough to not live within half a kilometre of the town centre, driving into town to drop the dry cleaning off, visit the butchers and bakery, pick up some flowers for the lady and buy a paper could all be achieved within 30 minutes on a Saturday morning when you could park outside the shops. Now they want you to park and drudge past all the shops you don't want to go to for the few items you wanted. All those shops mentioned above have now gone from my town centre since the parking restrictions, replaced with bargin booze, kebabs and gambling shops.
I personally hate the crowds in the supermarkets and would readily go back to the high streets if i could park free/cheaply and get what i wanted. I've got more interesting outdoor pursuits to do rather than hiking in and out of town.
The problem is if you don't change the password and use that account as part of registration details for other accounts like utilities (Gas,Elec,water,broadband), banking etc. A third party having full access to that email account could then have the secure passwords for those other accounts, banking utilities etc, reset and changed to passwords of their choosing. This gives an attacker greater exposure to the victims online activities, increasing the potential harm, & the attackers chances of elevating the attack to assets of further value.
KC should ensure the passwords used for online activities are changed on first use.
If using a one use password, i don't think an unencrypted password file on an encrypted file system/store accessed by a password protected machine that prevents copying of said file & is for use only by authorised personal (enforced by centralised password and account control) would be a problem.
The issue is passwords need to be relayed to the customer and have to be decoded at some point. limiting use of the password would be customer/engineer friendly too.
he probably uses a long password in a particular format that would make it easy to guess (social engineer) his other passwords. ever heard of the process of combining several memorable words to make a long password? 12 letters is better than 6
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Spotted-Farnborough-and-Aldershot/594550087237217?hc_location=timeline
RAM is available at crucial ~$ 439.99 USD for 2x 16 GB 1866MHz DDR3 ECC memory, $500 USD for the Apple equivalent
http://www.crucial.com/store/listparts.aspx?model=Mac%20Pro%20(Late%202013)&Cat=RAM#
its been some time since you've bought a new Mac, I think a few things have changed!
There where also 2 declared world wars, the Korean & Vietnam wars, cold war Soviet and west invasions of Afghanistan , the Gulf wars (not forgetting Suez, Bosnia, Falklands and other skirmishes) that released untold numbers of green house accelerants and other pollutants. Just not going to war will have a dramatic reduction in green house emissions.
Peace in our time may be the answer, should save some cash to pay for research into making better use of the resources we currently have. If we can send a man to the moon and split an atom to prove a point, surely we can find better ways to collect and use energy for our needs
As unskilled consumers scramble to install some crap that their 'Mate' suggested or some google search suggested would circumvent the filter, they just open themselves up to all sorts of malware, virus, intentional man in the middle exploits, & other online nasties, all in the name of saving the children.
As the kids search for these circumventing strategies they risk coming into contact with the very people this measure is designed to safeguard them from, no doubt they'll be sharing all kinds of PII badies will use to exploit or hack them.
I hope I'm wrong.
Marconi loosing out in BT's 21CN procurement killed the company. Their shares where near junk, i was certain Marconi was going to get the contract as they where already so entrenched in BT's infrastructure so i bought some shares confident of making a killing. I lost thousands, but am sadder that we lost Marconi, with BT's (our) money going to shore up the Chinese up start. I feel it was a political gesture by the then Labour government to try and win favour with their Chinese communist cousins.
This was an age where the PSTN was trusted enough to carry unencrypted point to point traffic up to restricted, wireless cards needed to be removed (not just software disabled) from laptops & GCHQ's warnings on Huawei ignored.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2009/03/30/huawei_threat/
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