Posts by Anton Ivanov

No

This means that you compare to David Attenborough from life of Mammals. There is a wonderful shot there where he has several sitting on top of him.

Not just yet

You have to hear the lamb breaking the seventh seal first. Didn't I just hear some baaa coming from the street... Oh wait...

Maybe

AFAIK, It means the same in Serbian as well. Bulgarian is different. Dunno about other slavic languages and there is no suitable slavic profanisaurus to refer to.

As far as them being everywhere, that is well known. In fact one the greatest Russian 20 century poets has a very nice rant where he says something on the subject. To be more specific it refers to the writing on the wall in Parisien public conveniences...

By the way that slipped past the censors over here in the UK. I have seen such a number plate on the M6 around Manchester and there was an old M5 series beamer for sale at the local garage over here proudly bearing a "HUI 5000" number plate.

Actually average ones do reduce accidents

A14 is a good example - it was the road to hell regardless of how many speedtraps they put on it. It now has average speed cameras in the most dangerous portion and the accident count has immediately gone down in that portion.

Compared to the current cameras in London this will be a big improvement. Presently everyone drives at 70+ slamming the breaks every half a mile for the camera and accelerating back to 70 once past the markings on the road. That is less safe than no cameras at all.

So if they will _really_ replace the old blinkers with avs I am all for it.

Irrelevant

Where your mouse is located is not relevant.

Google does not do "if your mouse is at X,Y we will display Z. They chuck raw data into a big number cruncher and from there on it is only a matter of time until it will identify patterns that predicate you doing something of interest to their "customers" (they use Bayes stats so using the word "correlate" is not correct here).

Then you will be fed an offer you supposedly cannot refuse by one of their customers. Voila. Job done. Breath in, generate revenue, breath out, generate revenue yet again.

I have tried to replicate this on my E71 and could not

I had to wrap both of my hands around the phone to get it to attenuate on 2G. Have not tried that on 3G though.

I think you "hit the nail on the head" here by noting that the phone is in 3.5G mode. 2G and probably basic 3G should work fine on a well designed antenna. That is not the case for the various types of HSPA. My impression is that the signal quality there can be affected by the phase of the moon, price of bananas on the Signapore futures market and the mood of the antenna designer's wife. So if the nokia is displaying HSPA level I would expect it to drop when held. That however will not cause it to drop a call - it will drop down to basic 3G.

You do

Joe average web (l)user does not. This attack will work on 98%+ of the web population.

Depends on the precision required

Even in the USA where the carriers must be able to provide location of any phone down to 10s of meters to law enforcement they cannot do that in real time for all phones. The phone must be paged, reply with info which cell towers it sees and at what strength and the network must compute the location from that.

This mechanism works very well in 911/112 scenario where you are trying to pinpoint one phone. Doing it for all phones in the network and most importantly doing it in-context in relation to the way the customer is using the phone is not something which the carriers are capable of.

Surely... That should be "what a truthful and realistic moto"...

A joke from the other side of the Iron Curtain circa 1980es:

Q: What is a pessimist?

A: A well informed optimist...

Q: What is an optimist?

A: A well instructed pessimist!

Two problems in your list of reqs

Problem No 1: x86 - no way to make a nice thin long life slate yet.

Problem No 2: Win7 - hardware reqs double the price compared to the other lot in the list.

So if you follow these two reqs (x86 and Win7) you have no choice but to produce a product that cannot compete versus the like of the iPad.

Hmm... interesting...

I just took my Nokia E71 off the desk... signal same, hold - signal same, hug - signal same, stuff where sun does not shine... guess not... too big for that, but probably signal will still be the same.

The only way I have managed to reproduce the "Jobs problem" was to hold it in two hands so you wrap one hand around it and put another on its top.

Lazarus Long has a saying

One man's religion is another man's belly laugh.

Me coat...

Good Point

However, you are looking at the personal incentive. That may not be what Vince Cable is looking at.

If the universities funding is tied up to the economic contribution of a graduate the number of bogus degree programs is going to decrease and the number of degree programs that teach the high ROI subjects will increase. This will also increase the competition between them.

So while bad for the individuals, the overall economic effect may actually be positive.

Exactly

This is the most stupid airflow design I have seen for the last 3-4 years. The pic on slide 2 is self-evident.

The fan on the top of the case is obstructed by the CPU nuclear reactor heat exchanger or whatever they bolted on it. It is doing nothing in terms of cooling and a lot in terms of noise. The rare case fan is correctly positioned, but severely underpowered for this monstrosity so the heat dissipated by the VGA and the CPU is nicely mixed inside instead of being taken out promptly. I would expect 200mm or even 250mm on the back, further to the back on top (not right on top of the CPU) or on the front instead. For $DEITY sake, we live in a day and age when even Maplin can get cooling right on a budget case

Is it that difficult?

Tey patented the connector

Apple PS connector is held by a magnetic catch and not friction like in other manufacturers and in that sense is quite original. It is also better than a let's say classic Dell or Sony power brick connector because it will unhook if you trip over the cable at nearly any angle.

The old-style connectors used by other manufacturers will not unhook if the force is applied at a right angle to the connector so if you trip over the cable the laptop goes flying off the table.

Granted, Apple is exaggerating the advantages of its connector in its marketing. It is however innovative, patentable and worthy of patent protection.

You are mostly correct

I would not be so sure about the accent.

Most diplomat kids I know can speak English absolutely flawlessly. In fact you are more likely to pick them out by the fact that they use the correct grammar (which no sane Brit or yank knows) than by accent.

Ditto for graduates from a couple of the better English schools in Moscow and St Petersburgh like for example No 80 in Moscow. Shovelling 8h of English per week down the throat of year 2 in primary school followed by 8h a week every year for 9 more years as well as all subjects (Math, Physics, Bio, etc) in English can go a very long way.

You are lucky to have one of the 3 best phones ever made

The 6310i still costs 60£ for second hand refurbished which is more than a lot of new phones. It does not break, it does not crash and it just works. That however is not what the manufacturers want nowdays. They want you to change it like a fashion accessory every 12-24 months so things are usually build to break one way or another.

Close but no cigar

You are missing the point.

The difference between Apple + Apple fees and their competition is a couple of dinners in a decent restaurant. The difference between IBM costs and Microsoft from 17+ years back was on the order of half an annual salary. If we inflation index IBM prices for compilers and kits you are looking at 20000K+ for some of them in todays money.

The cost of a couple of dinners or a weekend in a 1 star motel in a third rate resort is something that most people can swallow. In fact it is not that different. The average cost of a documentation book from Microsoft Press (and they were excellent by the way) around 1991 was 30-40$. In todays money this is not far off from what Apple is asking for.

Half an annual salary however is... how to put it... a slightly different proposition.

So the comparison between Apple/Android today and Microsoft/IBM from 20 years back is a bit bogus.

You missed the point

It costs that much because you can run it twice a day if you want - automated and once it has cleaned up it can maintain it squeaky clean. It takes it about 2-3 days on average to get there.

You cannot afford the time to do run around your office daily with a 75$ vacuum cleaner unless you also purchase the Consuella attachment to it which costs way more than 500$ a year if you use the system on a daily basis.

How about a multiplatform DIGITAL WORLD

How about actually using some standard nice well behaved MP3 streams for the bloody radio so it can be listened to on any device - phone, media center, squeezebox, etc instead of only being available using Flash and working properly only on a PC.

I do not want radio on a bleeping PC, I want it on a RADIO of some shape or form which I can put in the kitchen or take with me to the garden even if it is being sent over the bleeping Internet.

Even provincial radio stations in cities with 30000 people in the 5th world countries can do it. Why is it so bleeping difficult for "the leader in digital broadcasting" to achieve the same?

Tell that to Nokia then

The back lid on the E series is a part of the antenna (at least for WiFi). There is no way in hell to hold the phone without touching. This however, does not prevent it from working and demonstrating excellent reception regardless of how you hold it - for both my E65 (old phone) and E71 (current).

So quite clearly it is possible to do antenna design which works even if you hold the phone antenna with your hand though probably it does not work with "real" shiny metal, only with fake one.

As noted elsewhere on this thread it is a failure of testing. The disguise case on top of the phone prevented the engineers from noticing this. It is one of those cases where Apple's secrecy and leak-resistance (which I actually admire) has bitten them very badly.

Bollocks

Original Honda Insight (not the Prius-like wannabie) is manual, so is first gen Honda Civic EV, so are a couple of Mercedes prototypes. Based on the initial announcement the CR-Z was a 6-speed stick similar to the original Insight. I have not driven it yet so no idea if it is manual or not.

So as I said - no stick, no buy. You can have a stick with an electric car even today.

Three, not two

It is unclear where Intel own SDK for media devices and its media PU which is to pair with Atom in embedded kit stands related to this. It is in use by a number of STB and embedded device manufacturers. So this makes the number of OS-es 3, not 2.

Seconded. It does not pass the "wife test"

It will deliver when it establishes communications reliably and tears them down reliably. This is simply not the case. For example my Nokia E71 pairs with the car handsfree in under 75% and loses pairing in 75%+ when the handsfree gets a power glitch.

Good for geeks, barely acceptable for the ones of us who are law obiding with regards to mobile usage in vehicles and totally unacceptable for Joe average user.

That is slightly different

First of all. A "nekkid" computer with Winhoze an educational tool does not make. It takes 200-400£+ per annum for it to be a useful educational tool (this also includes the stick portion of the carrot and stick budget).. All the digital divide programs never accounted for that one and thought that by giving computers something magical will happen. First of all the ones that have no money to buy a computer cannot afford this sum and even if they could do not know what to buy.

Second, unless there is a parent equipped with a carrot and a stick a computer will not be used as an educational tool. It will be a time wasting toy. So not surprisingly the results will go down. Once again the stick part (and the carrot to some extent) require money. AV, content filtering, time-limit software, etc all requires either parent effort or money or both.

So the conclusion here is fairly simple. It is often better not to give "aid" than to give half of it.

Seconded

That is besides the fact that if there is a command line interface you can integrate nearly anything to it. You can tie it up to your company's CRM, to issue tracking systems, network management, alerts - you name it.

That is simply not a viable option if something has been dumbed down to be GUI only (one of the reason why I hate Gnome - most apps are done so that they are GUI and GUI only with the GUI deeply embedded in the state machine).