Posts by Chandy
28 posts • joined Friday 19th August 2011 10:22 GMT
Posted in Review: HTC One
No replaceable battery
= no sale.
I liked my old HTC Hero at the time, and would be prepared to go back to HTC, but not being able to change battery is a definite no-sale. I play some games that HAMMER it (gone in an hour) and being able to pop the back off and swap is a 'must-have', until batteries get 10x as long-lasting.
SD card slot is a 'nice to have' as well, but I can live without it.
Posted in New nuke could POWER WORLD UNTIL 2083
Nice, but still just a fancy kettle
There has to be a better way to generate power from nuclear fission than by using the resulting energy to boil things. It's basically still a steam engine ffs.
Bricking? Uhh, no.
I've never heard of a bricked phone from this. What happens is that about 50% of the time, the phone reboots a few seconds after copying the text. It usually works ok the first time you try it after that reboot.
I should also add that it is the only issue I have with my SGS3.
Excellent news
This is fundamentally fantastic news, as it can be used to explain an infinite lifecycle of universes, answering what will happen at 'the end', and giving a potential answer to 'what was before?'.
I'm interested to know if this can be made to fit within the current 'big bang' theory. I find it very hard to believe that we just so happen to be in universe v 1.0, so some re-imagining of the bang into 'pop into other existing universe and take over' may be needed. Presumably we should also start looking towards the edges of our own universe for a boundary with the old universe (n-1) that we haven't expanded into yet?
Altogether, an horizon-expanding bit of work. Well done chaps, and chapesses.
Re: No swiping for unlocking please
Yep, very easy to disable the visual tracing. Maybe they should make that the default?
Re: crowded
My mistake. Okay, so it's 93 billion light years wide, so about 5%. Still way too big.
crowded
Wait a minute. There's something out there that's nearly 30% the width of the universe? I had always pictured the universe to be so big that it meant that everything in it, no matter its size, would be relatively small in comparison.. Methinks that there will be an udpating at some point soon of the 13.7 billion light years current estimate to something substantially bigger. I'm going for at least 500 billion light years.
Re: obsolete versions of IE
Hell, I'd call IE8 the 'latest stable' release.
Re: normal service
> Strangely, my neighbour uses the Post Office and his connection stayed up
TCP over Parcelforce. Most reliable protocol ever, bar the odd dropped packet.
Still using dropbox because...
I got 50Gb free for 2 years with my Galaxy S3 (thanks Samsung!).
If I didn't have that, I'd be using google drive.
Over and over and over and over
It's all I could think about every time I read 'Hot Chips'.
Re: If anything
I thought consoles were all about a fixed and well understood piece of hardware that games writers could use to the fullest extent vs. having to write a game that will run on a general bundle of (decent-ish) PC hardware?
Just because the PC is 'higher spec' doesn't mean that the game would look better on it than on a console.
Posted in At LAST: The BRAIN-CONTROLLED helicopter
heliball
That exact helicopter-parts-in-a-ball thing is available in Costco for about £20.
Sadly, this is sans the brain-control gadgetry, but I'm sure you can wire your own in if you like.
Android can do all of this
Yeah, I'm pretty certain that an Android phone could do any of that. The only thing I haven't seen is the 'oooh, special LED flashes' bit, but Android also offers full control over those so if the software doesn't yet exist for that, I'm sure it will soon.
Unless Blackberry goes open source, it's still as dead as a dead thing.
Move on..nothing to see here...
SMS?
Any 'oh no, it's a disaster' SMS would either be treated as spam and ignored, or not treated as urgent. A real emergency system should only ever light up in an actual emergency, so that the user knows it is real.
Posted in Everything Everywhere prices up UK 4G
Re: uhh, no
7 Mb/s (actually tested, not marketing lies).
Posted in Everything Everywhere prices up UK 4G
uhh, no
I'll stick with my unlimited data at 7Mbs on three, thanks.
Three
I'm currently on week two, and the fifth support person, of trying to get one out of three.
good showcase
of why it doesn't work. Look at how close they are having to sit to the screen, and the awkward stretching over keyboards. I can feel my back seizing up already.
other apps
There are other apps out there that already do this, and have more UK information.
the mistake was
They took a decent game (draw something) and destroyed it utterly with a million ads and general 'Zygafication' that was not needed or wanted by the user base. Then they were surprised when everyone stopped playing it.
pandering
How about you stop pandering the merkins and put only the SI units into such articles from now on?
dang
I wish I could attend this one, but I'm going to be on holiday.
No matter. WinRT will be largely ignored by business for 2 or 3 years anyway.
Re: Plans? Ken Hagan
@TechnicalBen there are already self-repairing plastics, so I don't see why not.
See http://www.techspot.com/news/47983-new-self-repairing-plastic-bleeds-and-heals-like-human-skin.html
Keep up man.
pole
Cool. I want to see what it can do without the pole though. I suspect not much.
Scotland
has quite enough clouds already thankyouverymuch.
260Gb on a CD?
Meh. That's barely enough for a development PC.
Wake me up when they invent something with 1Tb+/cm2.
