Posts by Silverburn
1561 posts • joined Tuesday 24th May 2011 18:59 GMT
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Re: The key question here is...
No...but it does have a "mobility system" apparently.
ie wheels.
They should have just gone the whole hog and called it a "mobility solution".
Posted in Apple patents shopping lists
What is the guy in the picture doing?
At first glance, that picture says to me:
"Wiggle your phone around and shopping things happen".
Naturally this is far too technical and restrictive a defiinition (read: we can't sue everyone for using it) for Apple to use in their patent.
Awww... Diddums.. Did your DRM break? Lemme get my violin out...
Personally I pay for ALL my stuff.. But it's a royal arse pain ripping out all that DRM afterwards. It's not hard, but I could find better thing to do with my time, frankly.
Lol - FFS, can this get any more childish?
What's next - a game of chinese burns until someone cries?
@ CadenceOrange
Average UK male: 80kg
Average UK female: 65kg
Male:female ratio: 1:1
Ergo approximate 14 patients per ton. Ish. Chop of a couple of limbs, and you'll be back to the exact ton.
Unfortunately, if you want your Soylent Green to be less fatty, we'd need to mix in some low BF Europeans to add some extra texture and improve the protein balance.
@ Mark 65
Depends on which side of the tendering process you're sitting on.
Client incompetence = extra margin.
Sir Humphrey Appleby would be so proud.
Raising the bar
This does raise the question what they'll do next time. Using a sky crane was obviously too easy.
Maybe we can do a few backflips and loop-the-loops on the descent, then maybe do a commando-style, "tank-drop" from the back of a low flying aero? While doing mach 1? (which isn't that much slower than on Earth) Or maybe some sort of HALO?
Re: Why on Mars didn't they...
ahah! So it was you who programmed the beagle trajectory, eh, Major Tom...?
Re: NUKES IN SPACE!!?!
The nuke reactor is ok...it's that hydrazine spewing from the now-crashed sky crane you've gotta watch out for.
Re: @Christoph
They probably asked the same question over Voyagers CPU and RAM capabilities. And they're still running just fine.
But when it comes to Space, reliability is better than capacity.
It's a cautionary tale against relying too heavily on one cloud platform.
It's a cautionary tale against relying too heavily on any cloud platform as your sole datastore .
Fixed it for ya.
Wolves? There's bears too...
Thing that puzzles me, is that the Swiss are big fans of the temporary electrified fences, moving the flock to different fields on a near daily basis - there are no real fences per-se.
Surely they keep the sheep in, as well as the wolves out?
Re: Bahhhh
The martian overlords are actually cats...which is why this baby is equipped with a nuclear powered laser death ray and suitably named.
Re: This time we come in peace
..unless you're a martian cat, with a fear of robotic, nuclear powered lazer death rays.
I wonder if martian cats have got the equivilent of a John Connor..?
Re: Apple and Koh follow the same motto
You might need to. Apple has "exiled" a lot of the older mac mini's by banning them from Lion onwards.
Re: F700
No wonder they shelved it...check out the location of the return and delete key. Right next to each other.
Does anyone else see this as a perfect way to get yourself into accidentally, but embarrasingly situations online? Especially on sites with no "delete/modify post" options.
It's the thin end of the wedge...
Soon they'll also be riding around in uncrashable robot horses, using light sabres instead of swords (without the decapitation ability), virtual pools where you swim in VR, or use a games console and running, where they all use joint-injury-friendly treadmills.
Humbug!
Outraged!
Surely the skill of the shooter was being able to anticipate and compensate for gravity, wind, temperature etc, and well as physical control of heart rate, breathing etc to obtain the perfect shot?
Lasers just seem like...cheating.
Re: Damn
If you work for a 3D printing company, then yes, you are. They'll all be banned shortly, just you wait.
Fort Knox
There has to be. It's where Goldfinger keeps his pile of uncontaminated gold.
Posted in Apple mulls over investment in Twitter
Re: Non Story
I can't believe it's not butter either. It's so creamy and delicious!
Posted in Apple mulls over investment in Twitter
I really can't understand why, in an online world with massive storage and big pipes, Apple are considering forking out on such a stupid fuc
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Why trends don't predict the future
If they did we'd only use 1 watt of power per year...
...and we'd be charged £20,000 for it.
Re: Rich coming from you g e @DJ
..and that's better than having ASLR actually running on the product earlier...how, exactly?
How long it takes is irrelevant - what counts is *when* it's actually running on consumer devices.
And even then, Jun 2012 is only on Nexus devices...other consumers will need to wait even longer until their vendor releases it. So actually it's 1 year...*and still counting*.
HL3!
As long as HL3 is not going to be delayed, gabe can do what he likes.
HL3 *will* be here soon, eh Gabe...?
Apple are trying to stick Samsung for 2.5bn for some patent "violations", so a whole suite of patents as defence and offensive weapons is probably worth it, and could easily repay itself over the patent lifetimes.
I'd rather it hadn't all come to this mind you. Bloody patent bollocks.
Unfortunately yes.
And the more we make security and PC's idiot proof, the better the idiots become at compromising their machines through stupidity.
As trolls go this one is pretty poor. "Must do better".
For one, they're called "Fandroids" or "Haters", IIRC. And like the "Fanbois", they are in the minority.
Most techs here are pretty agnostic, but won't tolerate Corporate Crap like this, regardless who instigates it (see also: MS, Oracle, Sage, most of the UK ISP's etc etc).
Re: @ Neil Greatorex - @ andreas koch
Renault 4's were - and are - bloody great. At least pre-1974. Drive (a concours) one today, and you will be invited to parties. You will become much more interesting, especially compared to Mr Porsche. And they'll get you fit too...how many other cars come with ergonomically designed pulling handles on the front as standard for when (not if) you break down?
And a concours version will cost real ££££ and holding their value.
See also: Original Fiat 500's, 2CV's, Alpha spiders, MG's,
Hmm.
Sanctions on AV imposed by "enemies of Iran".
But downloading a free version off the interwebs would be ok, right? So Iran's IT infrastructure is not completely fair game like the Wild West?
Re: Silly cone
Given the lack of popularity of plastic surgery in Switzerland and the lack of mating opportunities being buried in an underground tunnel 12hrs a day with other boffins entails...I doubt it.
In the lab one day..
Boffin 1: Ok, I divided this with this...and I've got a 3 left over.
Boffin 2: Hmmm. Long division wasn't my forte either.
B1: If I publish this, I'll look like a muppet who can't divide.
B2: I know - just pretend it's the sign of an "extra dimension". I've got a few sums that don't work either which I can bury in there too.
B1: But won't someone check our workings?
B2: Pfft. They're as good at long division as we are. Plus they don't have their own LHC to compare results to either.
B1: ..and it'll give us an excuse for the grant extension!
Re: Am I over-interpreting this...
It'll be a cold, cold day in hell before any of those twats are proven right.
The pun and irony of that statement was intended.
Posted in Nike+ Fuelband activity monitor review
3 days on the trot
Training 3 days in a row - wise/unwise?
Personally, my plan (and chosen sport specialisation) means 3 days on the trot is unachievable, from a results perspective.
If I reduced intensity (and variety), I could do 3 days - or even daily - but from a training perspective I'd just be doing "Diary Roughage".ie all bulk, no quality. And it would bore me.
Re: Awesome
Don't worry the..
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..brigade will attempt to squash this idea before it goes an further. And if they don't win, the bible bashers will be along right behind them. The kill joys.
Re: Not bad...
Not quite the same as the herd that are already saying they'll buy the unspec'ed unseen iphone5 when it comes out, just because it's got a picture of a fruit on the back.
Damn. And I thought it might be because some of them were reaching the end of their iPhone 4 contracts, and being happy with IOS in general, would simply buy the latest version. This is not a behaviour limited to phone brands - many car buyers/leasers apply the same logic.
Written on Galaxy Note btw.
Re: bio-engineered rat jellyfish?
I have visions of the legendary "The Thing" being remade...as a documentary.
<-- This says it all.
Posted in USB charges up to 100 watts
ouch! ouch! ouch!
My 1 Amp phone charger gets too hot to hold here (it is charging a less-than-economical Galaxy note, mind you).
What would 5 Amps per port feel like in an even smaller and more enclosed form factor?
And if it can drive 5 Amps as a charging service, won't we overheat the batteries too? (back to the galaxy - my 3030 mAh battery can hit 50'c easily while charging at room temperature).
While such technology sounds good, I think the "human factor" has been overlooked slightly.
Re: “will showcase the great diversity and quality of British food
You forgot eel pie. And all the dessert pies.
Re: Wow! - Swiss bulbs @ AC
One thing I've alway pondered...in a tunnel, even ones 4-5km long, the roof centre is lined in continuous line of strip lights.
Yet none are ever popped. Or even flickering.
Who replaces them? And when? (the tunnels are rarely shut) And how?
Posted in Darth Vader is a pansy
Re: "excuse me The Black Hole is an Awesome movie"
Nah - it was pretty cool - especially if you were 10 years old.
It also meant you didn't read anything homo-erotic into the whole maximilian/Reinhardt thing at the end. You just wondered what the f* was going on.
Posted in Darth Vader is a pansy
Re: labels on the keys
...or dictate to their secretaries.
Runs away. Very fast.
Posted in Darth Vader is a pansy
third-ed...but right about one thing - Maximillan was a serious bad ass. Even the terminators don't enjoy disembowelment as much as him.
You sir...have a problem.
Re: Pardon the block quote, but: @ Rich
Maybe...but can you imagine the UI nightmare 500 apps presents on a tiny touch device like an iphone? From a usability point of view, it's a nightmare.
Re: "Outside of the Geekville city limits Linux on the desktop is a joke".
Being a boring spreadsheet company is no bad thing...
...if you can make a spreadsheet people actually want, isn't a bloated PoS, and has an even remotely usable interface.
Re: Room 101
Actually, you can't zap the OSX partition. OSX needs to stay.
But you can set OSX partition to something tiny, and the default boot partition to the bootcamped one.
Wow!
It's clean enough to satisfy the Swiss!
Almost.
