Posts by Zot

You're cutting your hair wrong!

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LOL at Windows 10!!!

Are they trying to take the jinx out of the even numbered OSs!

:D

But the iPhone 4 was designed to flex.

The iPhone 4 was stainless steal with Aluminosilicate glass on the front and back:-

It stands great pressure and always goes back to original shape. And yeah it suffers from shattering:

http://www.tested.com/tech/smartphones/429-whats-so-special-about-iphone-4s-aluminosilicate-glass/

iPhone 6+ has an aluminium shell for lightness, which apparently lives up to that other characteristic of aluminum, it bends and stays bent.

Original iPad 2 updated fine.

I haven't noticed any problems although it did turn on Bluetooth all by itself, which may account for some people's battery drainage.

I find this very exciting.

WebGL is a very capable hardware rendering API.

Here's a ray-tracing demo that uses the text on the right to mathematically render shapes.

There are no polygons here, no resources other than a few textures, it's ALL ray-traced:

Animated Morph....

https://www.shadertoy.com/view/XdS3Wm

I am a little nervous of animated banners coming back though. Will we see web pages full of animated bars all vying for attention?

I would like to know a couple of things...

A) Does it collect the dimensions of people's homes and sell it off to the highest bidding data farmer?

B) The advert implies that it's all effortless and quiet, and we all know that Dyson's scream like mini jet engines. So how loud is it and does it scare animals silly?

Apple denying it was their fault.

Everyone else is doing it wrong.

There's a surprise.

Getting them hooked is the best bet.

Enable them to just start typing and immediately see the results as text, lines, circles and blobs.

Use the free Unity package, and launch them into C#, which doesn't have any horrible headers and feels less in your way. And it gives the same result on Mac/Windows/Linux so they can share their code with each other without having to think about linking libraries and all the other boiler-plate code.

Hah! Not seen that before.

So when is Nvidia bringing out their GTX 900 then? :p

And on, and on, and on...

Ballmer gone? Thank feck for that.

I'm wishing the company might start making good decisions, where good criticism is listened to, rather than bad ideas regurgitated over the workers for them to obey.

But on the other hand, I will miss the chuckle I get out of MSs decisions.

Oh, wait. Nothing will change though, will it.

The Windows Store is a Cesspool of Scams — Why Doesn’t Microsoft Care?

http://www.howtogeek.com/194993/the-windows-store-is-a-cesspool-of-scams-why-doesnt-microsoft-care/

I didn't know it was that bad.

They should have joined something called 'Mutter'...

...if they wanted privacy.

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Windows WebGL browsers use Angel project.

ANGLE: Almost Native Graphics Layer Engine

https://code.google.com/p/angleproject/

But you can switch on native WebGL support.

Chrome is the only browser so far to use the latest software from the ANGEL group to convert WebGL shader code into DX11.

Firefox is still using DX9. IE - never use it, haven't used it for years. :)

What's next, free software?

I wonder how many people who object to this are perfectly fine with not paying for software, when they should?

But there's that cracked Photoshop shortcut just sitting there on your desktop, waiting for you to load up some copyrighted photos...

I could play Gauntlet for 3 hours...

...on ONE ten pence piece.

And I don't feel sad about it at all.

Opening statements.

When I hear, "this call may be recorded for training purposes."

I tell the person as soon as I can, "I'm also recording this conversation - for YouTube purposes" in a very clear and well enunciated accent. Even if their first message was automated.

I get a variety of interesting reactions.

Also it may change the way they speak to me, but I have no way of really knowing how effective it is, as they probably just forget and rant on anyway.

I suppose it's better than...

The Windows XP terminals they're currently using. :) But then again, they are walking around amongst the plebs waving your account about.

Does it still collect data when...

...you turn Location Services off? Turning it off is supposed to save battery life so it must be stopping something. I would like to know, because if it continues to leak data, then I'm not buying one.

I don't use a fondle-phone anyway, so I'm not in any Apple/Google debate.

Must *bzzz*, spend *bzzz*, less time *bzzz*

On *bzzzzzz*, aargh fuck, The Register *bzzzzzzzzzzz*, shiiiit!

I've got to take this thing off to carry on wasting my time on the Internet...

People don't listen.

I'm guessing that the general public took MSs message of 'warning, no more updates' as simply, 'we won't be bothering you anymore.'

I use FTP to store stuff on the Internet

I use a complex FTP password and WinRAR encrypt anything associated with my business and upload that as just one backup scenario.

Is that a bad idea? I'm genuinely asking, as you guys are the best crowd to ask, and I don't trust businesses running cloud services. It seems they run school-locker security levels, and just stand around in suits gathering money for the service.

"Uni-directional oxygen free copper speaker cables"...

...were the most ridiculous things a friend of mine bought.

He said he could tell the difference if he plugged them in the wrong way round.

Everybody else just kept quiet, in full respect of his madness.

He refused to listen when I told him most of the crappy music he's playing on this expensive setup was probably recorded in an average studio using old NS10 speakers.

Nothing new here

In fact it feels like an embedded advert.

I like the sketchfab view, so there's a nice polygon making algorithm in there somewhere.

But did they consider using Euclideon's Geoverse to render the point clouds?

Houses of Parliament

If Parliament is using Microsoft's cloud based Word, then I guess it's perfectly OK to hack and read all the letters and contracts passed around down there, after all they're an American company so the spying is all legal, right?