Posts by monkeyfish

Re: Marketing Change?

That's the same reason an MRI is called a Magnetic Resonance Imaging, because 'magnetic' sounds considerably less scary than 'nuclear' (as in Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging, to give it it's full title).

Organic Energy sounds a little too far, people might look up what it means, I suggest something obviously scientific but not obviously scary. How about 'Particle Energy'?

N.B. I think the 'no nuclear' message largely carried over from the 'no nuclear weapons' message, which is a different subject altogether.

Re: Tablets in schools? Not for long.

My wife's school did that. Absolute PITA. Teachers work from home A LOT. You give them a thin client that refuses to do anything unless connected and working from home becomes nigh on impossible. The server is forever going down at the weekends (or school holidays), so no work can be done, no files can be accessed etc. Great idea in theory, and maybe something to give the kids, but staff should have proper laptops (with an appropriate user/admin setup to prevent cocking it up of course). Could automate a backup system, so files are synced to the server to prevent loss, but still work when there's no connection. Basically think through your damn users use of the system before you give it to them!

Re: Installers

you can work with multi-layered surface mount components but can't build a website that's easy to navigate.

Multi-layered surface mount components aren't easy to navigate, I think that's the problem, it screws with your brain.

Re: Emacs

Or win8 RT, hardly anyone uses it!

Re: but HOW did he create the Universe eh?

All are Christian but each little group was started by obnoxious, shouty people who want to twist a very simple and good thing into something that better suits their own small minds.

Not to mention the modern ones that don't have a denomination written on the door for that very reason, but have accidentally created yet-another-denomination of churches without a denomination. Facepalm.

I was surprised to only get 3 down-votes for the last comment, I came back with trepidation to see how many I got. It's almost as if we're having a sensible region/science debate. But I've probably jinxed it now.

Re: @ Brewster's Angle Grinder grammar nazi in action @Chemist

"Hi, I've come for the fish. Some mates said you do killer sardines."

Just so long as you don't confuse the killer sardines with the killer whales..

Re: OK...

Isn't that the idea with the Jolla phone (which I do hope works out) changeable back covers? Less overall customisation, but you would be able to have a choice of keyboard/better camera/console buttons.

Re: Great expectations...

That's what I was thinking, although more on the lines of using an el-cheapo android tablet. Have one or two of those for the class, and use normal PCs to write apps for them. Apps are small, and tap into lots of libraries. Apps can be written as web-pages, or as something better that uses the phone hardware, so the learning curve can be a bit shallower.

Re: Superconductor

You think that's bad, I read both superconductor and supercapacitor as 'supercomputer'. I couldn't work out what was so special about having computers on silicon... (other than the fact it is generally pretty bloody amazing that anything is made on silicon). I think I need another cup of tea.

Re: you say third party cookies are blocked

If it is that security concious then it might delete the first party cookies on exit. I had firefox setup like that for a while, but with all the 'we use cookies' pop-up messages (I'm looking you too reg), it was an absolute PITA.

Re: And now the world waits... @ Michael Habel

Yes but, would anyone bother to install Windows 8, even if it were free?

I for one, would install win8 on my ageing win XP laptop, if I were given it for free. After all, there's always classic shell. TBH I'm kind of hoping MS give us a whacking great discount for XP -> 8. It would mostly solve both problems of poor win 8 uptake and lingering XP installs.

15 hours is certainly a lot better than the ~3 hours you'd get with a similarly priced laptop. That's a killer (and often overlooked) feature. Nokia were always the kings of battery life, mind. But we'll have to wait to find out if it holds up in real world tests...

Re: "You've just bought a satnav."

The same goes for Christmas... What I buy in December does not reflect what I want to buy at any other time. Try serving me with reminders of last December next December, I might even buy the latest series of whatever I got someone last time.

Try looking in the 'saved for later' part of my basket for what I actually want to buy now.

Re: I still think a single 4" screen on the arm would be better.

I was thinking that. It would have to be thin*, and maybe translucent when it's not on, and god knows where you'd put the battery. But it's future tech we're talking about, who cares where the battery goes!

* I have in my head an image from sci-fi or a comic I saw at some point, but can't remember where it came from.. Inspector gadget maybe? Didn't penny have something like that on her wrist? Google doesn't show it, so who knows.

Re: Well

I would have thought that any angle would be "from above", unless something has seriously gone wrong with the probe..

Re: Let's think of the kids

Generally the accepted norm should be: Sensible, normal first name. Mildly amusing second name. Try not to spell anything awful with the initials.

Re: And then there's Yahoo!Groups

@Steward

You forgot

5a?) Annoy flickr users into leaving Yahoo!

Re: Credibility: Zero

What's that got to do with 'Pedantic grammar nazi alert'? Try the sherlock or black helicopters maybe?

You still have to actually +1 or like to get these things advertised to your friends.. Who the hell +1's a 'SM for beginners' book? Or anything for that matter. Why would I (or any other sane person) ever +1/like some product I bought, even if I did like it?

Re: But... but...

Nah, they just listed them in the order they found them while writing the manual.

Re: Re : Ignore the doom-sayers! Windows 8 is great!

I'm hoping MS give us a cheap upgrade to from XP to win8 at the last minute. Only found out the other day they charged £25 for the download upgrade when it came out. Now it's £100 (despite the disk being £50 on Amazon). Charge me £25 or less and I'll finally bite. If they publicised it enough they might actually improve their win8 uptake numbers..

Re: Would make a nice Linux machine but...

Phones generally have higher res because you hold them closer to your face, so you are more able to see the pixels. TVs have crap ppi compared to phones and laptops but you don't care because it's on the other side of the room. That said, yes I would prefer it to have a little more than sub 800 high, in fact I'd generally prefer to have a 4:3 1280*1024, but that's because I'm special.

Re: Setting Ourselves Up For Disaster?

How much of your life would grind to a halt if the 'Net was unavailable for a day? None?

Seriously, we use the net for stuff because it's slightly easier than going to the library or whatever. If it stopped working, a)someone would fix it pretty quickly, and b)in the mean time find something else to do, go for a walk, read a book, play a board game with your family.

I think you forgot your tin-foil-hat icon.

Re: A console with none of the console advantages then.

Actually you all just made asses of yourselves, by ranting and raving as Anonymous Cowards.

Re: Outrageous

@Yet Another Anonymous coward

That's either the perfect troll, maximum sarcasm, or bat-shit-insane. I have no idea which, but upvoted anyway.