Posts by jubtastic1
802 posts • joined Thursday 11th May 2006 09:53 GMT
HD Videoconferencing?
Pft, symetrical gigabit connections to the home represent the beginning of the end for company offices, with knock on effects for transport networks, real estate and IT as teleworking becomes the norm for a lot of employees, cities will empty and 'rush hour' will become just another olden days thing you will try to explain to your disinterested kids.
Roll on the future.
Posted in Hands on with the Apple iPad 3
Re: Ports?
Dear Sir,
Allow me to assist you with your easily googled queries.
The back of the new iPad is encased in aluminium, sculpted into two cheeks for a comfortable and slightly arousing grip, unbroken by ports it sports a recessed apple logo where the goatse would lie.
There are no USB sockets on the new iPad, it is therefore unpossible to connect any sort of peripheral, charging is accomplished by shaking the device in a rhythmic fashion to activate the self winding mechanisms within.
Headphones may be attached to the new iPad via the industry standard quarter inch socket.
Finally, please be assured that in these enlightened times using an iPad is no more an indicator of your sexuality than sporting a moustache or joining the priesthood.
Yours Sincerely,
Jubtastic One
Sent from my iPad.
So, it has come to this.
Also iPad2, still on sale, it's the 16GB version you mentioned for $399, This is of course in accordance with prophesy.
No surprises the commentards don't like it, but they're going to sell bazillions of them all the same, at least ten to a fanboy, it's all smoke and marketing.
My dear Watson
They would hardly stick random apps in this section without talking to the devs if it's going to be a new branch of in app sales, ergo it's simply organisational.
Posted in Carmageddon
Awesome game
Company I was working for back then printed the manuals and our prepress room often hosted LAN partys, great memories of cruising the city murdering peds with the music switched to the Bullet soundtrack.
News International vs Google
Not really comparable, NI isnt too big to fall, they're on a downward spiral to oblivion, as the Internet, and let's not be coy, Google makes paper, presses and reporters a little less valuable every day, The news of the world shutting down barely registers economically.
Google OTOH, really is too big to fall, their fingers are in so many pies: search, apps, DNS, maps, voice, advertising etc that should they go offline there would be worldwide disruption, serious money would be lost and that's essentially why none of this is going to get much further than wrist slapping.
It doesn't matter how broken or annoying a thing is, only a fool throws it away before they have a replacement.
Some may think I'm exagerating, but just considering the implications of google and its newly combined services breaking down for a day, and the sort of people that would be ringing my phone gives me a headache.
Obvious solution
Don't aim for the place you're going, just nearby, then use boring old Impulse engines for the last leg. Even better, build a great big array to collect all the waste energy from incoming ships, like an orbital power station, and no, 'that's unpossible" isn't a reasonable response to that given we're talking about warp drive.
Hate to do this
But it's just a preview, still riddled with fairly obvious bugs and halfassedness, I expect a lot of these grievances will get ironed out before release.
Or maybe not, never can tell with MS, but I can't fault them for trying something new and visually interesting, as a Mac fanboy since '91 this is the first time I've seen anything from MS that I'm actually looking forward to playing with, rather than dreading having to use.
Here's hoping they get it right.
Build quality
They'll swallow the domestic market first, and planes falling out of the sky usually make the news so the rest off the world will get a heads up on the safety issues.
Seems to me that I'll live to see China dominate, well pretty much everything, their tech lag seems to drop exponentially, won't be too long untill Chinese stuff isn't just copying but actually superior to western designed (Chinese built) products.
I for one etc
Another nail in the root DNS coffin
They'll be right sorry when it inevitably fragments and they lose control of it.
Muppets.
Re: So...
They're notorious for not announcing anything before its ready for sale, with caveats, like when they're entering a new market and announcing it 6 months early allows devs to get on board, disrupts the market they're entering and obviously isn't going to impact their own sales.
Media rumours on the other hand could potentially create such an effect, if an expected product doesn't live up to the hype, yet the 4S not being a 5 would seem to fit that bill and it doesn't seem to have suffered any for it.
TL;DR, don't bet on it.
Posted in These forums
These forums
Bespoke, or off the shelf? They look custom made, if so can you tell us anything about them, the front and back end choices, how many people are on the dev team etc.
Why HTML for formatting over bbcode or similar? And what code is acceptable? Just curious, have knocked up a few of these myself.
Spare some change guv?
Room for one more?
Re: Hmmm
Woa! Strike through text? When did we get that? Also how?
They should just copy that other company
One version, anything extra (Media Center, bitlocker, saving network passwords), you buy as an upgrade in the AppStore, installs, done, nice and easy.
Re: Hmm- the sign says-
I was thinking grey goo, but I like your optimism.
$35 tablet is a steaming turd?
They could treble the price and it'd still only be fit for recycling, they'd be better off aiming for something akin to a kindle than an iPad.
Re: Apple's transition wasn't as radical.
Nope, it wasn't about the UI, with Apples transitions the new kit could run the old stuff and the new stuff, it was the old kit that got slowly locked out as apps moved to the new platforms, but before you say "aha, planned obselecence" bear in mind that some apps didn't transition for a decade, *cough*Adobe, Microsoft*cough*.
What MS is doing is pretty much a line in the sand for WOA, new kit which only runs new apps.
As an aside, anyone know why it's called Office 2015 and not Office 2012? It is supposed to come out this year right?
Re: Anal fixation
And a tendency to illustrate anything with "hard" in the title with a buxom lass, not that I'm complaining, it's just that to a casual observer the home page of the reg can look like the adult classified ads some days.
Nice tribute
Keeping Jobs parking spot just by the door like that.
Posted in LOHAN's flying truss: One orb or two?
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Stick the rocket on one end of the truss so it's as far away from the centre of the ballon as possible, use the rest of the equipment as a counterweight thats extended further out the other side to account for the disparity between the weight of the rocket and the equipment.
Jubs your uncle
Note to commenters
Unless you regularly send thousands of messages a month from a feature phone on PAYG or a low rent contract, you don't factor into this story at all.
It's about teenagers, who used to run up honking great SMS bills but increasingly tend to message each other using other means for free.
My heart bleads for the poor Telcos.
lolz
Widespread NFC take up
Isnt a year away, it's an iPhone5 away, it will of course be chorused with the usual cries of "Apple didn't invent it”, nevertheless they will be the ones to make it ubiquitous as usual.
Very good, now do it properly
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Also, while you're at it, fix the comment count so it doesn't say "1 comments"
Offset dpi
1200 & 2400 dpi only applies to line art, like solid colour text, everything else is screened to a range between 75 and 200, so images on a retina display are substantially higher res than even fine art quality print.
300dpi text on a laptop doesn't sound very good compared to thousands of dpi but I think it will be welcome all the same and won't require a barnacle of a graphics card grafted onto the laptop, or a two inch battery to feed said barnacle.
The article seems to imply
That the EDT courtroom is selling favourable rulings in exchange for businesses investing in the state, that surely can't be the case can it?
A claim you say? I'm sorry, it seems your policy has been voided.
"a week ago, due to [petty offence] you would have been notified when our system got round to it"
Funny story, my sister brings her fella, an insurance broker, around for dinner and he tells a tale; a distraught woman has phoned him, squirrel has got into her lounge and torn the place up while the family has tried to get it out, curtains and sofa are ruined, so he's making sympathetic noises to her and offhandly asks what colour it was, "grey" says she, "vermin" says he, "you're not covered" LOLs from him, silence from the rest of us. Wanker.
And the read speed?
Does that get a boost as well or are we looking at drives that write 100 times faster than they read?
@ Benjamin 4
Nope, It's processed in realtime, so by the time you've stopped speaking there's a clean and well compressed voice file ready to saunter across t'internet to Apple's servers, which can get right to work on that nice clean audio and send a message back pronto, its better all round doing it this way, reduced bandwidth & server loads, and most importantly, less lag.
IBook format
Good explanation here: http://blog.booki.sh/blog/post/a-favour-from-goliath/
Basically it's ePub with tagged content, leaving the reader software to implement its own slideshows, movie controls etc, which in the long run is probably going to be easier to support than adding JavaScript to the ePub format and expecting it to work flawlessly, and securely, on all platforms, which is what ePub 3 is attempting.
Yes but no
The force of gravity drops off to the square of the distance, so unless the planet is exactly the same size as the Earth, which seems unlikely, you won't weigh 4.5 times as much.
F = (Mm / rr)
* can't type symbol for squared.
Posted in iPads propel Apple to PC market top slot
Are you sure?
I mean netbooks don't do that either and they're still PC's, in fact there's loads of PC's on the shelves that are never going to do high end video editing or run photoshop, perhaps you should have another go at defining a PC.
IIRC
Everything was copacetic until Mac OS 10.2, when the Reg staffers noticed and mocked Steve's Jagwire pronunciation.
Do not mock happy fun ball.
If I understand this correctly*
The universe is missing a whole load of antimatter, and yet contains a whole load of extra 'dark' matter, perhaps these things are related?
* fat chance.
SMART
Still waiting for a drive to tell me its going bad, usually they pass SMART right upto the moment they start clicking.
All right, theyve all been consumer drives, in raid sets so cheap was the order of the day but the article is about WD externals so I'm on topic.
Dual drive
Most likely striped, enough to saturate a channel if you don't mind losing everything when it drops a disk.
Moonbase Alpha?
Strikes me that the far side of the moon would be an ideal place to dump spent nuclear fuel as well.
Giving this more thought
I think Apple have missed a trick here, they've had the tablet market all to themselves for coming on three years and they've left the door open for MS to storm back in on the back of Office. If iWork had been free from the get go, most of those iPad users would already be using it and the demand for Office would be severely reduced, as is it's going to drop straight into the number one spots on various app stores as soon as its available and both fund MS and allow them to lever in Win8 kit with tighter integration.
I believe in these current financials are mo likely a blip rather than a portent of doom.
Its not the end of the world
They already make money from each Android sale, once they release Office for iOS and Android they'll be coining it in regardless of how well win8 tablets sell.
Because its only 9"
Which is way easier to do than 15", and they paid up front for the factory to make them, and because resolution independence isn't widely* supported by operating systems and Applications.
* Windows has better support for RI than Mac, but there is still loads of unaware software that's going to render as a postage stamp on a high res display.
Called this last year
Not that it's not obvious, as should be the iPad3 selling at current pricing, leaving the iPad2 as a 'budget' tablet, $399 seems likely, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was lower.
Basically the same strategy that's working so well with the iPhone, I think they're quite determined to remain the number one player in this market.
Any word on the upstream?
Can I expect 5+ Mbps after the upgrade to 60? Because that would be damn useful.
It's off by default
And most users will never look for or find the switch.
Cant we use science?
Couldn't we clone Rhino horn and flood the black market with it? It's not like cloned horn will be any less effective medicine or distinguishable from real horn, dump enough on the market and the price will drop till its not worth the bother to go out and kill a real animal.
Are you listening boffins? Forget the sheep, the big eared mice and the six arsed monkeys, clone something worthwhile for a change.
I already snagged this gig
Upgraded the chair with remote control and text to speech, this allows me to manoeuvre Stephen and even speak for him when he's tired, he's very pleased with this arrangement and also wanted you to know that he's now available for paid promotional events, please contact me directly for pricing.
Clippings
Emptying into a compost heap seems like it could get complicated, but how about interchangeable hoppers so it could simply drop one off when its full and pick up another, leaving the owner to empty the hoppers. These coud be combined into a drive through charging dock/kennel.
They're greedy
Or they're not covering their costs, either way this isn't going to end well.
To be fair
The cops had no way of knowing it wasn't a real lightsaber.
RIS?
If they're selling the storage based on a 29K average file size how on earth is a backend tape library supposed to get to the last 14K before a disk has served the first 15K?
Posted in Happy birthday, Apple QuickTime
Memory a bit hazy
But one of the things that blew me away about the Be OS demo In the early ninties was full motion video, 4 of them no less, mapped onto an interactive 3D model of a book. It made QuickTime look frankly pathetic.
Also, 5 second boot times, that was pretty awesome as well, part of me wishes Apple had picked JLG over Jobs.
Oh, and happy birthday QT
