Posts by PleebSmash

Re: ehhh

It's not just "is it down". It's "what happened". Site owners will take to Twitter to explain downtime.

Re: Secret advertising?

It looks defunct. Another example of El Reg raiding Google Image Search for a random image to slap on the article.

Adrian Frills for one

Re: Run Away!

@Psmo Please do not summon the Worstall

It should be trivial to block <video>, <audio>, and <canvas> but none of my browsers seem to have that out of the box. So the solution yet again is another extension. I think there is a developer tools type extension that comes with all of those options.

Re: "...but for those it is much, much faster."

They're in secretive venture capital and trade secrets mode.

The fact that Google, NASA, Lockheed, etc. have given D-Wave millions made them look a lot better, but their refusal to be academic about how it works tarnishes that. I don't count Google's quantum computing side effort against D-Wave since D-Wave admits they aren't making a general-purpose quantum computer.

Doesn't Facebook offer a Tor hidden service for access?

I'd say they are at least partially committed to free speech despite complying with local laws.

This browser is also Chromium, so you will have to give up that third engine.

RIP Presto.

Re: "He's got a simple phone"

CyanogenMod is open source, right? Firefox OS?

In Snowden's case using a dumbphone or just not communicating much at all seems likely.

mystery TNOs

They have to be pretty small and pretty far away from Neptune.

The many TNOs found since the 90s and 2000s are very small, Pluto-like, with very eccentric orbits and satellites in some cases. More recent finds are more like Ceres.

X marks the... They SAID there was a mystery planet there – NASA

However, despite finding thousands of new stars in its survey of the sky, WISE was unable to spot any object the size of Saturn or larger to a distance of 10,000 astronomical units (1.49597871 × 10¹⁵m, or 9.29558073 × 10¹¹ miles) and nothing bigger than Jupiter out to 26,000 AU.

Re: Pfft...

It's the "glocal" scale of it that impresses me. A dispute, scandal, or ban in so many countries and major cities, and still they manage to operate and achieve a $40 billion valuation. I'm already anticipating autonomous Uber with the drivers kicked to the curb like human trash. Taxi companies would have done that same thing in 10 years in a non-Uber world, but Uber could put itself into a monopoly position.

I've never seen autocomplete enabled by default in my copy of Notepad++ and I've never used the feature. Does that happen in a new update?

I see it as just a feature to put it on par with say, Dreamweaver, Eclipse, etc.

Re: Tizen's dead...

So Tizen runs HTML5 apps, but no compatibility with the Android apps found on the vast majority of Samsung smartphones.

Given today's news, for the first time ever I believe Project Ara has a better chance of success than Tizen.

Re: Paging Dr. Evil, paging Dr. Evil...

"The descending layers included terrorists, organized criminal actors, sophisticated worldwide hackers and botnets, “hack-tivists,” weirdos, bullies, pedophiles, and creeps, he said."

Hey, leave El Reg alone!

Re: eat this

(2011) Wireline Costs And Caps: A Few Facts

"2 cents to 5 cents per gigabyte. The actual bandwidth cost to a large carrier like Time Warner or AT&T, depending on how you do the accounting. $1/month/customer. Going Down: Bandwidth usage growth per customer. The rate has been about 30% per year, with the rate slightly falling the last few years. The growth in average usage is actually going down slightly, per Cisco VNI and the MINTS data of Professor Andrew Odlyzko. Going Down: Capital investment required. Going Up: Profit Margins. Prices for broadband have generally been going up in the U.S. since 2007 while costs drop."

CISCO: The Zettabyte Era - Trends and Analysis

"Global IP traffic has increased fivefold over the past 5 years, and will increase threefold over thenext 5years. Overall, IP traffic will grow at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 21 percent from 2013 to 2018."

Wikipedia: "On September 12, 2014, Google announced that development on VP10 had begun and that after the release of VP10 they plan to have an 18 month gap between releases of video standards." and "HEVC is said to double the data compression ratio compared to H.264/MPEG-4 AVC at the same level of video quality."

Re: how-fi

The words that caught my attention were "multiplayer games". That implies a pretty stable connection.

Re: 1 teraflops, 10 watts

This is one half of a teraflop as we know it. NVIDIA's slick marketing got them a slick headline. It's also called "Erista" not "Arista".

NVIDIA CES 2015 Press Conference Liveblog

"11:12PM EST - Confirmed that it's Erista

11:12PM EST - NVIDIA is proclaiming it a 1 TFLOPS GPU, though this is at FP16 as opposed to the more normal FP32 metric for TFLOPS"