Posts by TechnicianJack
48 posts • joined Monday 16th January 2012 10:35 GMT
Re: Nice start…
I believe this system has already been implemented for cats. There are several systems which you can strap to your cat which have a camera and a GPS module, allowing you to have a cat eye view and track where your cat has been/currently is.
I suppose it's only a matter of time before Apple introduce the iCat tracker (Only works with Black or White cats. Please purchase a £400 compatibility pack if you have any other colour cat).
Re: April fools day way weeks ago.
Task 1,
Purchase the iBeetle without the sales team secretly laughing at you.
Objective failed.
Re: Duh
Something else I just thought of is re-saleability. If you don't have an iPhone, how many of the car's features will you not be able to use?
If this car was to be sold on to another owner, would they have to sell an iPhone with it? Or in several years time would a new owner have to have two phones? An old iPhone to get the car stuff to work, and a new phone to take with them?
Assuming the life span of the average car is about 20 - 30 years before it is no longer roadworthy/scrapped, will people want to have a car that needs a 20 - 30 year old phone to work?
Re: Duh
Maybe the iPhone dock will be a removable/replaceable component? Probably not, seeing as it's an Apple iCar. They'll just expect you to buy the new one when the next iPhone comes out. People will still queue to get it though.
Maps
We can expect lots of iBeetle drivers to get lost while using Apple maps then.
Posted in Apple buys indoor mapper WiFiSLAM
Apple maps, with WiFiSLAM. Now you can get lost in your own home!
Well, it can't be all that bad. The banker getting robbed is still smiling.
BANG! And the work is gone.
While it seems a good idea on paper, having an SD card NFC system is a problem. Some phones do not have an SD slot, and phones that do often have a small internal memory as they expect you to put your media and apps on removable storage. People would then have to choose between NFC with their bank details or their media. Seeing as lots of phones have SD cards mounted behind batteries etc, swapping between them would be inconvenient and seeing as some credit/debit cards have NFC built into them, a SD card is almost redundant. (Most people will carry their phone and wallet with their cards in).
Ideally, the phone should have two SD card slots, so users don't have to choose.
Re: How can this be viable
It's big and slow moving. You could paint it to look like a cloud, and no-one would see it coming!
Re: The other problem
Get a lockbox which you both know the code to, so you don't have this problem.
Re: Plug in cars ain't green.
Nuclear powered cars? Don't be silly! Haven't you played Fallout?
The usual then.
'It won't happen again'
Until it happens again.
Posted in Valve reiterates games hardware gambit
Steam powered console? Have they not heard of electricity?
Posted in Ghostbusters
This ending sequence is an easter egg in the new Ghostbusters game. (Well, it's a couple of years old now). The message is displayed on a computer screen in the fire house.
You did set 'interplanetary space wifi' as the first boot option in the bios, didn't you?
Didn't this happen ages ago to a WoW player? Anyway, both people mentioned in the articles should be candidates for Darwin Awards.
Command and Conquer 5: IRL
That's not a Mac fault, that's a Reality Distortion Field fault.
Guilty until proven innocent?
Sounds like it's time to get the old packet radio network going again.
Re: Hopefully New MacBooks and Othe Apple Products will be Easier to Work On
I hear PC's are easy to work on.
Can't say I'm a big FAN of this idea!
I hope it allows more than 8 tabs like safari does. It's irritating when I have 8 tabs open and a pop up window opens and I lose what I was looking at on another tab. Can't wait to get rid of my iPod.
'Google also announced a voice-powered BluRay player for launch later in the year.'
So, if you've got a wife, it'll never turn off.
Re: politics
How can you tell a politician is lying?
Their lips move.
Wouldn't surprise me. Or their servers are connected to a dial up modem.
Just visited their website. It seems really slow.
No, It's not relevant to your learning, but you better get used to it. These are the sort of menial tasks they will be doing for the rest of their lives with these useless qualifications.
Quotas
More rubbish. It's always about filling quotas/being politically correct etc. There's always people saying there should be more women/ethnic minorities/whatever in companies. This is stupid. People should be employed for their skills and experience, not to meet quotas set by some stupid law or regulation.
Posted in Britain prepares for government by iPad
I can see this going wrong.
Apple people - iProducts don't get viruses!
Hacker - Oh, all of the UK government are using iPads. Better make a virus.
Make a virus to crash the systems/steal sensitive data. Government collapses.
I suppose it's no different to the current situation. It will just be that the iPad has been hacked and sensitive data has gone missing, rather than the politicians leaving a USB drive on a train, and them losing the data that way.
One site censored. Not long before:
Google search - Fair labour - no results.
Google search - Democracy - no results.
Google search - Why do I have to wear this orange jump suit? - no results.
In Soviet Russia, product taxes company!
Wasn't there an article on The Register about this a while ago?
Siri doesn't work outside America, 4G doesn't work outside America, anything else Apple?
Posted in Future car tech
I wish manufacturers would stop trying to put idiot sensors in their cars. This just encourages people to drive carelessly, 'Because the computer will save me'. You should be following the car in front at a safe distance. Remember the two second rule? If you do that, you won't need the auto stop system because you shouldn't be tailgating. You should also be paying attention to the road.
iPad 2S Lite?
Re: Cost
Probably cheaper than an iPad.
Title should be '1 in 10 people are idiots.'
Lever action keyboard? I wonder how long it will be until Apple try to sue Winchester?
33% off! Now it's gone from the price of an overpriced game when new, to a normal game price when new. Might have a go for free, but I won't be paying for MW 2.5.
So will they keep producing these until they run out of cake? Or until VALVE makes a copyright claim?
So, will this keyboard dock be supplied witht the iPad? Or will it be a £400 optional extra? How long until Apple starts saying that Asus have infringed on their patents!?
So does that mean that Devvo and Dazza can start receiving benefits without even having to go to the job centre? They may aswell have a web page with a big button that says CLICK HERE FOR FREE MONEY! As per usual, making it easier to milk the benefits cow, while nobody wants to feed it.
Tax
Awesome. Now the government can remove all the green taxes from fuel as the atmosphere is now being cleaned. They'll do that, right?
