But 3840 x 2160is not 4k is called Quad Full HD...ie 4 x 1920x1080 pictures.

Cinema 4k is 4096x2160 and a Full 4k screen costs a loot more than your average home set

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4K_resolution

i think you find 77.9% of GM business is with other nations other than the USA http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2009/06/04/business/04overseas.graf01.ready.html

Got to say i travel "a lot" (280 days last year) for business and use the E-gates all the time at Heathrow, never had a problem with its a quick and easy way to get through the airport. I suspect if you first encounter them it might be a bit of a hassle but with anything to do with airports it about managing the flow of people.

list of closed stores

http://gamerspy.co.uk/game-and-gamestation-list-of-confirmed-closed-stores

Microsoft Office for the iPad

"Microsoft Office for the iPad: Microsoft told The Reg late last month that reports of Office coming to the iPad were based on "inaccurate rumors and speculation." They were telling the truth – so far, at least."

I use CloudOn for my Ipad and can edit Office documents just fine http://site.cloudon.com/

Haven't BMI just been sold off to British Airways? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-16298167 So might be pointless suing if it just get merged with the BA booking system.

you said it yourself

You wrote "we're anti-just-about-everybody." well you said it yourself! How about being nice for a change and not being that cold, sniping, whining "rag" that you can be. Maybe then the other children might speak to you and let you play in their games!

Do a starbucks!!!

When a store starts to reach capacity...open another very close by, if demand fails off you can close one of the stores but not have to lose presence in the locality.

Well seems the Belgium justice department have messed up in the ruling and mention all domains with www.piratebay.* but not tracker.piratebay.org etc....so looks like they have completely messed the ruling up

Source: http://www.hln.be/hln/nl/4125/Internet/article/detail/1329177/2011/10/05/Gerecht-blundert-bij-blokkering-The-Pirate-Bay.dhtml

hmmm

the Daily Torygraph seem to have nabbed this story from the MEN exclusive...nothing like a bit of recycling over the christmas period.

http://menmedia.co.uk/manchestereveningnews/news/s/1404024_revealed_the_full_shambles_of_the_id_card_trial_in_greater_manchester

Prey

Sounds like someone needs to know about the Prey Project http://preyproject.com/

Prey lets you keep track of your phone or laptop at all times, and will help you find it if it ever gets lost or stolen. It's lightweight, open source software, and free for anyone to use. And it just works.

@AC

can't patent beer????

They beg to differ

HEINEKEN TECHNICAL SERVICES B.V. (2e Weteringplantsoen 21, ZD Amsterdam, NL-1017, NL)

http://www.freepatentsonline.com/EP0307051.pdf

Abstract of EP0307051

The invention relates to a beer having an alcohol content of maximally 3.5% by volume. For obtaining a beer of this type having good flavour properties, the invention is characterized in that the beer is a mixture of beer obtained by conventional fermentation and unfermented wort product reconstituted with water.

Honey I shrunk the Tech!

makes a change from the monster thing they had going around San Fransisco when I was there in February http://www.flickr.com/photos/akira_kev/4343467394/

Icarus?

so 60 minutes of 1080p is around 1.2GB (figures from bbc Iplayer) so even if you have BT unlimited *cough* which has a package with a cap of 100GB per month you can only use the device for 2hr 40 minutes per day before you use up all you bandwidth and thats without email, general surfing etc as well. So God forbid that your on a 20GB or even 10GB cap a month . So till the UK ISP get their act together and remove these small caps this kind of cloud based entertaint technology isn't going to fly.

UK vs Europe

Dear UK ISP's this is what avg internet speeds look like in the rest of Europe. For 30 euros a month with TV package. Pull your fingers out http://bit.ly/bAkHmm

Theora is nothing but small web video

Theora does have a major architectural problems with regards any encoding with HD video in that the max motion vector length is only 16 pixels. In non-technical terms, that means that the codec can only track MOBS (motion of objects) between two sequential frames of less than 16 pixels. At low resolutions, this isn't a problem, but at highresolutions, it just doesn't work....one of the reasons it never be good in HD

google maps

Lets hope Google don't delete there images before fixing some of the school boy error is there street view maps, the classic being in soho where they have the street going through some buildings not where it should be going.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&q=Wardour+Mews,+Westminster,+London+W1F,+United+Kingdom&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=23.06853,67.675781&ie=UTF8&cd=1&geocode=Fa4NEgMdte79_w&split=0&ll=51.514725,-0.135634&spn=0.011804,0.033045&z=16&iwloc=A&layer=c&cbll=51.514579,-0.135321&panoid=MCemzIC6ypYpPhThpSw5eQ&cbp=12,59.84,,0,5

Ps. yes it was reported on the first day Street View was released, Google are as speedy as Apple at fixing their errors.

Galileo

this is why europe has its alternative http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_positioning_system#GPS_and_Galileo

on a budget

Easyjet and Ryanair what a suprise, I blogged a while back about how they extort money out of people http://www.kking.co.uk/blog/2009/04/flying-on-budget-airline.html and how booking a traditional flight with BMI can save you hundreds. Nice to see the commission thinks the same :-)

oh welll move along nothing to see

"which shows white and black versions of the iPhone – was probably created by an enthusiast." = Apple Fan Boy with too much time on there hands!!!

testing the figures

I have to say that looking at the figures they might seem big but they are true for us as a SMB...we've monkey'd around with Virtualization and now going to take the plunge and remove a number of legacy plus web systems to VM. About 33% of our servers will be VM by the end of the month, not just to save cost but space and get over the dying hardware on older boxes therefore keeping maintenance down and freeing up our valuable rack space needed to expand.

Sing with me Tom

what was missed from the original article "ITV is not the only media company that is having to write down the value of websites acquired in 2005 and 2006. Daily Mail and General Trust has cut the value of dating and shopping websites, while the American firm EW Scripps wrote off almost the entire £210m it paid for the price-comparison website Uswitch."

as Tom Jones would say "Its Not Unusal....." lots of companies which were over valued and bought in the bubble are now getting crunched.

fraud yes!

"Fraud implies deception, No?"

No precise legal definition of fraud exists; many of the offences referred to as fraud are covered by the Theft Acts of 1968 and 1978. Generally, the term is used to describe such acts as deception, bribery, forgery, extortion, corruption, theft, conspiracy, embezzlement, misappropriation, false representation, concealment of material facts and collusion. For practical purposes fraud may be defined as the use of deception with the intention of obtaining an advantage, avoiding an obligation or causing loss to another party.

i think they got it...

2012, and rushed through in the summer as we're all too rapped up in the Olympics to notice....

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Passive field, January two thousand and twelve.

A nation that stands alone.

Cold voices, faces pale, gathered unto their judgment day. -

track: Honour - VNV Nation

RE: BBC to clever for me!

P.Alan Smith said "I may be sitting in the middle of East Anglia, but the portal for the company's net is in Germany and the BBC don't like that. I have to watch at home where I've already got a TV ..."

Why are you wasting company resources watching TV online haven't you got enough work to do???

hmmm

"supercomputers and mainframes???"

Come on guys get with the programme a lot of facilities that use data transfer as their bread and butter use fibre or copper. Frankly i would go as far as every television editing company (my industry) uses fibre to the edit work stations which nowhere near mainframes or super computers more like desktops with ego problems.

"10Gb Ethernet offers similar speeds, though is still a developing technology," I think the technology is more than mature and frankly is being rolled out in facilities across the country to the desktop.

http://tvbeurope.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1057&Itemid=46

Get yourself to storm watch

i think the Reg staff need to get themselves to Storm Watches as they have had watches of much the same design for about a year,

See http://blog.kking.co.uk/blog/_archives/2007/9/21/3243827.html for my love Storm Circuit with LED display

http://www.stormwatches.com/

@lglethal

"Steve any fingerprinting in the modern digital age is going to be based purely on the binary codes that make up your video, they'll have sweet f*%k all to do with your content!"

Lglethal, may I suggest you read http://www.digimarc.com/tech/docs/dmrc_mpeg4_dwm.pdf and maybe you'll understand why the content has everything to do whi what the watermark can be can how it is held in the file.

The Abstract in case you don't want to click on the link —A novel MPEG-4 compressed domain video watermarking method is proposed and its performance is studied at video bit rates ranging from 128 to 768 kb/s. The spatial spread-spectrum watermark is embedded directly to compressed

MPEG-4 bitstreams by modifying DCT coefficients. A synchronization template combats geometric attacks, such as cropping, scaling, and rotation. The method also features a gain control algorithm that adjusts the embedding strength of the watermark depending on local image characteristics, increasing watermark

robustness or, equivalently, reducing the watermark’s impact on visual quality. A drift compensator prevents the accumulation of watermark distortion and reduces watermark self-interference due to temporal prediction in inter-coded frames and AC/DC prediction in intra-coded frames. A bit-rate controller maintains the bit rate of the watermarked video within an acceptable limit. The watermark was evaluated and found to be robust against a variety of attacks, including transcoding, scaling, rotation, and noise reduction.

This is a general comment and not just directed at you Lglethal

I wish some people who leave comments on articles would at least be read up on the subject they are commenting on and not just shouting from the choir.