* Posts by Jonnyp

6 publicly visible posts • joined 9 Feb 2011

Magic Leap blows our mind with its incredible technology... that still doesn't f**king exist

Jonnyp

I’ve been thinking this for ages

But the other big thing no-one seems to be noticing is that it looks like it’s only additive light. Like how a projector works, or making a photoshop layer set to screen, it can only add extra light to the scene. It can’t make any pixels darker. That’s why that demo on the telegraph is shot in a badly lit room.

And it’s why you can tell those previous demo videos were lies. Because they did create extra black. How would that possibly work? You can’t make things seem real or make virtual screens if you can’t make dark colours. You can’t use it outside. You can only use it in a dim room. So you may as well just get VR. Or VR with some cameras to make AR.

EE still has fastest, fattest 4G pipe in London's M25 ring

Jonnyp

4G is great but everything else is crap

I've been having probs with 3G signal and making (and receiving) phone calls.

Just saw they're being called out for just that on Watchdog today. Dropped calls, calls going to answering machine.

The article's right- the 4G is amazingly fast, but if you actually need a phone i would use another network until they sort it out.

UK census data is safe

Jonnyp
Mushroom

Lockheed Martin huh. That's reassuring.

http://www.informationweek.com/news/government/security/229700151

iPhone 'Death Grip' effect is real, plastic cases don't help

Jonnyp
FAIL

thats all lovely scienceness BUT

my iphone is unusable without a bumper and works OK with one.

So there.

Maybe these scientists should go do something useful, like make me a lightsabre or a hoverboard.

Anonymous hack showed password re-use becoming endemic

Jonnyp
FAIL

only looks at crap passwords

the thing is, this only looks at passwords that can be broken with brute force. that probably means these people had pretty crap passwords, below average secure at least, and are therefore less savvy in general, and therefore much more likely to be using the same password for everything.

i think overall the percentage would be a lot lower.

Starbucks' iPhone barcode app easily scammed by screengrab

Jonnyp
Troll

Simpler option would be...

... putting a pin on you iPhone (pretty dumb not to), or on the app.

The owner of said iPhone should take a bit of responsibility here.