Posts by Mr B 116 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Nov 2007
Just for the sake of a non-argument I unearthed me Clamshell G3 366, OS X 10.3.9
Safari 1.3.2 : 2.5 fps
That shows a linear scalability 13 fps / 2.0 GHz * 366 MHz = 2.379 fps (theoretical)
Complete b0ll*cks of course ... but cool 'ey!? IE users are now reasured, they are using the fastest browser.
Just did the HTML testy-thingy on me old iMac Core 1 Duo 2.0 GHz RadeonX1600, OS X 10.4.11
Opera 9.26 : 13 fps
FireFox 2.0.0.12 : 7-8 fps
Safari 3.1.1 : 13 fps
And on me Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz Radeon HD2400 Pro XP sp3 (32bit OS)
IE 6 : 20 fps
Firefox 2.0.0.14 : 20 fps
Safari 3.1 : erratic between 14-24 centered around 17 fps
But on the same PC running UBUNTU 7 (64bit OS)
Firefox 2.0.0.12 : 10 fps
So that's a fact, maintaining UI consistency across different fields displaying the same Object comes at an overhead in COCOA and a F5 key stroke on Windoze ...
But is this test meaningful? Looking at Ubuntu, I'd be tempted to say no.
Anybody with set of figures on a G5 ???
>Also, what you seem to fail to realise, [...] pump would be un-authorised.
To test your theory (and my stupid ideas) I went to a petrol station to fill a jerrycan for my lawnmower, after I had parked me car on the street not seeable from the forecourt, I came on foot to the pump and filled the jerrycan ... of course I paid, but point made: It is possible, eventhough it is illegal, to fill such a container without the presence of a car. Yeah I can hear it from here if the jerrycan is more than 20 liters in capacity (because in reality I'm filling me car's tank) you'll hit the red button ... but no you won't because I could have 2 jerrycans.
I do agree attendants are not stupid but they are employees treated like any other or "badder" so they may not care as much as you think.
Plus I sense you have a serious sense of humor failure, I thought the 'IGMC' icon said it all. It was a silly conjecture on how to get free gas. I bet you're one of those poor buggers that spent thousands to save hundreds ... plus you'll end up sued because your device misfired and punctured someone's soles and burst their toes.
Hmmm did not think of that, hey wot the hell, it's free gas we are talking about, I can make an ass of meself for a few secs.
Thanks for the input.
Alternatly I could lift a nozzle close enough to a car being filled to trick the attendent in thinking there is a car ... should work if the court is busy.
... get a real size photo glued on a of car shaped cardboard ... this may have a couple of drawbacks but I'll get there eventually.
I think I've got it, get the hydros from a lowrider and fit a navy blue vauxhall (unnoticeable) with it ... and you can hop away ... OK the balaclava might be a bit of tale tell.
/Busy Friday afternoon ahead ...
attach an extra long pipe to the gas tank filler neck, park on the street outside the protected area fill it up as you would if you were willing to pay.
or
Two lengths of tubes hanging underneath and across the car in front of the wheels retained by pieces of bungee cord, then drop them few millimetres above the ground so it gets stuck against the spikes when moving and allow you to roll over the spikes ... puncture free. Once done reverse shortly (but far enough) to stop the tube rubbing against the tyre and also get it back in position for the next row of spikes or gas lift.
/ I'm really busy today can't wait to get me coat and out.
Q: How many BG employees does it take to issue a bill ?
Another one:
A: £182m
Q: How much will it cost ya to do all the work yourself (and hit the wall) and have Accenture sitting on their hands (watching you hitting the wall whilst making sure there won't be any jurisdicktional trail back to them).
To Mr. Fast
"We're genetic freaks."
Yeah you are at Java EE team or as the lay person might say "you've been lulled too close to the wall" nothing genetic, just plain mechanical damage to the brain.
"We have above average intelligence,"
Based on my Java experience no you are not, it took you 17 years to get from a silly dancing muppet to a half thought-thru EE crap. You are relying on the open source community to provide you with a decent app server. You are not even able to implement your specs.
Sun acquired Forté Software Inc. Have a read at the code and take note that was an above average clever thing.
"above average ability to abstract"
May be but takes time ... remember the hairy beans "local" & "remote" interfaces ... what an abstraction ... I don't give a flying crap if the object is local or remote ... EJB 3.0 is addressing that wooahhwooaaawww 15 years to abstract that's good. Heard of Obj-C???
"- we like things like 'Monty Python'."
But don't really get those things. Because if you have a listen at the introduction to the movie "How to irritate people" Java is one of those things that abide by the rule "what ever you're doing to irritate someone should seem to be unintentional".
Can you give the Forté 4GL source code to A community so we may continue to do things properly.
given the fact that the main layer is gone e.g. no physical access to the server, and the fact that they let go thru the door a server or disk array that gives a pretty bad picture of the subsequent security layers .
Oh dear!!!!
.. or maybe it was just a M$ VISTA powered laptop and all is fine then. You can't bulk copy.
The bumpy air ride is linked to the 30,000 passengers patchy train ride. A Virgin operated train was in fact parked in this Manchester-Paris air corridor.
Well know fact of life Network Rail signalling equipment at Milton Keynes interferes with air traffic control at Swanwick & West Drayton.
I'm e-selling books or T-shirts why should I care about DDL, Schema, Index ... adding columns to accommodate previously unknown/irrelevant attributes ... etc ... etc ...
I'm OO coding, WTF do I need to normalise me objects to store them and de-normalise when retrieving them.
While the wise monkeys are flattening objects to feed them to the RDBMs I'm selling me T-shirts and don't care about massive reports. RDBMs suck.
The congressional hearing seemed to point out the existence of a "certain form" of life in a laptop, even the possibility of money laundering and terrorism. Now a court rules "one cannot live in a laptop". The latter kinda contravene the former.
So what if my avatar did download some unlawful material? Do you need a reality virtually warrant to search the virtual laptop that has been used to write the cache files on the real HDD but in a virtual form.
/straight jacket with virtual sleeves please.
"Microsoft had released the update to plug a security hole ..."
At M$' we often noticed that the main security issue stands in between the chair and the keyboard. No functional keyboard or mouse should thwart many users to browse websites that Vista cannot defend itself against.
Signed B.G.
PS: Holes to be plugged at M$' come in a USB form factor.
PS2: SP2 will patch the BIOS so the ON/OFF switch will be rendered irresponsive to brick secure Vista.
After trains, it's time to fix finance ... at least with trains it's been obvious for the past 20 years.
But to be fair, if it were not for egomaniac stupid managers I would not have had half of the contracts I got. So fair enough if those projects, code pissers (including meself) and managers are scrapped, does not come as a surprise, I knew it was shyte.
@Solomon Grundy
IT personnel may be "social skilly" challenged but in my defence: a bunch of neurotic geeky nerds like me could never have achieved a massive world-class cock-up as subprime mortgage. It takes management's "savoir faire".You can't wipe £ 500bn with a NIL pointer ... unless you are Darth Vader.
Good move, for Adobe at least. Adobe opens its format, everybody adheres to it because it is great ... with one tiny drawback, Adobe is the ONLY one with some software readily available, so everybody buys Adobe's soft for the time being.
And unfortunately, the format is open, but the way to transform the raw CCD picta to the format'd one is patented ... OOOPS ... sure you can work on your own but don't cross any Adobe patent line.
M$ tried it with OXML or OOXML ... but at least they let us think they haven't implemented anything yet (or they are just plain daft).
@Chris: CinemaD_NG works also with U for crappy movie or format.
old farts in mercury or lincoln don't even bother to check their mirrors, especially in Florida, where you stop every time you spot a brown, tan, burgundy or maroon aforementioned car make coming your way, and overtaking them is an art.
They can't see a car, mind you a blinky amber tiny light in the mirror they don't check.
And now they say they feel more confident ... ooooh
"The institute refused to comment on whether the database was encrypted or password protected."
Meaning: No it was NOT.
"We are taking urgent action to upgrade the protection of our systems against this latest type of threat."
This reads: since we are to stingy to cough up the yearly $300 to get a proper SSL certificate, we'll use RC4-40 and a unique/shared password: Archit3ct, replacing the too obvious passwd.
WOOAAAWWW, after the thread & database deadlock ... M$ will fill in for a patented sys-update rebooty deadlock. A first in its class !!!!!
"Few & rare events" ... do they yahoo! or google at M$? Or do they just want to buy Yahoo! to remove all the entries "M$ VI$TA $P1 $uck$"? G 678,000 & Y! 494,000 hits btw.
/ mine's the one with knotted sleeves.
1.8 - 19 GHz @ 1Watt are US frequencies for cell phones.
.8 - .9 GHZ @2W are frequencies elsewhere
2.45 GHz @800W is microwave frequency.
The US GSM frequency may not be the resonance frequency of the molecules that constitute the main part of human body but there may be some that are very excited at those frequencies.
Same story again, asbestos was OK ... but now it is said you cannot drill through a fibre cement roof sheet without damaging your health. <SARCASM> Apparently people have died in the past </S>, it took 20 years to figure out it was not safe to snort asbestos and an extra 10 to remove it from manufacturing processes. After being so safe for that many years the governments were keen on making mandatory to replace cylinder head gaskets.
I'd really like to see a study on the US cellphones heavy users.
@VampyreWolf: Observed temperatures in Bellevue, OH on March the 14th: 34-45°F (1-7°C) that might explain.
But that may also point out to nosy neighbours, in that weather on a metal table he'd have had a hard time to get hard, the guy might have invited the picnic table in, hence the uttermost arousal of the table & partner having sex in uncanny locations ... hmmm ... I'm getting carried away ... sorry.
Forgot to mention the guy's children's names: Al-Desk, Bench-amin & Chair-y.
I doubt it very much so. M$ may have been trying to help themselves out. Vista was meant to be bloated even before its release.
But M$ wanted to phase out XP ... to do so they made "sure" that the low end PCs would be "Vista compatible", unfortunately it did not go that well, and now M$ is playing the blame card.
M$ we know you f-up. I've got an iBook G3@366 MHz that is running OS X 10.3 in a far more responsive way that a P4@1.8GHz is running 2000 that is better than the dualcore Pentium-D@2.6GHz running Vista Peasant Edition. It is not faster on bashing-CPU tasks but still responsive under heavy load.
Fix the bloody OS.
Fair enough customs officers are entitled to search. But copying the contents of my HDD would be the equivalent of taking away my clothes (DNA filled) or making photocopies of my (paper) address book (friends or foes).
Are they allowed to do so?
I doubt the searches are occurring at random, I'm pretty sure the Arnold's case was a matter of opportunity, he was on "a" list and him getting in from the Philippines made it a perfect timing. As you said your inspection was "cursory".
I know the gov.uk have a got a propensity to leave loaded laptops unattended but personally I don't and believe no one should, PCs get lifted & looked at. But I'm glad the pervs are doing so, that way there is a chance they get caught.
Hmmm
"There has been a series of completely unfounded rumours about UK financial institutions in the London market ..."
As opposed to house prices that have been a true reflection of the inherent value of properties.
Hmmm again ...
"We will not tolerate market participants taking advantage of the current market conditions to commit abuse ..."
Because it was intolerable to sell mortgages at usurer rates to over stretched buyers???? or charge fees in the billions???
Looks like some are getting a taste of their own medicine. Perfectly sane to rip off the poor but please don't mess with our big names. Unless it is self inflicted to cover some other, yet unheard, cock-ups.
that HP is short and reverse for POOH.
Bought a scanner that happens to be rubbish. Paid 700 euros the piece and scans of slides are out of focus, the software is rubbish, the enclosure is not airtight so dust gets in, the support and sales are crap.
Any printer/scanner driver ought to be considered as bugs-meware, resourcegreedyware or connecttoHPware.
I got an Epson for 150 euros that does WAY better.
Who the heck stopped the "GetReallityGrasp" server to the HURD????
Got this email from Apple a bit more forthcoming about their SDK, but who never sent a nasty email to the wrong recipient.
Apple's email contents.
Dear ,
Thank you for registering as an iPhone Developer. To access the iPhone Dev Center and download the free SDK, simply click on the button below, and sign in using your Registered iPhone Developer Apple ID and password.
Your Registered iPhone Developer Apple ID is: xx
If you need further assistance, please contact us.
iPhone Developer Program
looks like Sun is taking after the CLI/CLR paradigm. MS .NET was not a bad idea after all.
Now Sun just have to fix the perf issues ... and all will ja(va)zz & MS has to adhere to its own standards so other vendors may be able to efficiently port a MS approved/compatible .NET to other OS/HW.
It's housekeeping season!!!
I love that kind of digression, managed code OK, but Java is not the only managed code, here is a hint: ObjC 2.0 Apple's baby (not available on the iPhone though), D, MS MC++, C#, Forté 4GL and there are some available GC algorithms/implementation for C++ and ObjC has some sort of memory management.
So Java is a piece of crap that has been developed because of developers' limitations, mainly inability to pee some proper code. And to make sure that the needs were well understood Sun made sure it was developed by utterly computer-impaired developers.
If Java were a car it would be a Hummer, all whistle and flute but fuel inefficient, appalling off-trail capabilities thanks to the automatic transmission, a real slug & noisy on the highway, utterly expensive ... but rating fairly good in crash tests. Crash resistance mandatory because the driver (as the Java dev) has some very limited capabilities.
But it takes a Java Guru to sort out the mess once the fat blob is in production.
So back to the subject Apple does not want Java on their hyped baby ... with a reason and because they have an overly inflated ego.
Thanks for pointing this out.
May be, Steve does not know how to read either and did not understand the eXecution part properly (ARM Jazelle DBX (Direct Bytecode eXecution)).
He may have thought of it as a capital punishment.
No jury, no lawyer ... kill the ByteCode dead ... (hot) spot on, I'm with ya Stevee on that one.
El Reg please add an icon "Keep Java outta me Gear".
How old are you ??? ... I thought I was pathetic coz I'm bolding and working Saturday nites (should have quoted the work part ... getting bored and reading el Reg rather) but I can go reassured seeing that some speak of a wonderful shopping experience, where do you go Harrods (still)? or like most of us HMV & Virgin ... or online, even eBay maybe. And you always go to concerts because listening to music at home is not that a thrilling experience.
I thought the unpacking of a DVD was as the latex wrapping of the bishop e.g. an interesting but lame moment compared with what is supposed to follow.
And yes iTunes Store does not sell because the tune does not come all blistery and stickerish. Oh you bet that iTunes will fail on the movie renting front for the same reason.
Here is an other silly idea: Virgin is launching a new "HDD wrapping" scheme so it can be nervously unwrapped when home, for the really nostalgic ones they may even offer a "burn as you buy",(I've always been amazed by people looking at the recorded face of a CD/DVD as if they'd be able to see/listen to what's on it) and btw I'm proud to announce el Reg is now shipping its daily blistered print copy (for a fee) will you buy it?
But don't worry the HDD wotsit comes with the ability to burn the film 7 times ... so plenty of plastic to waste.
What's the level of scratch a BD can handle ... because DVD are not that great & I guess packing more bits per square unit make is more vulnerable.
You can get a 500Gb WDigital HDD for around $100
a 5 Pack Sony 1-2X BD-R DL Disc Write Once 50GB is around $190
a 1 Pack Sony 1-2X BD-R Disc Single Layer Write Once 25GB
around $17
Do the maths :
BD-R (50) $.76 /Gb
BD-R (25) $1.47 /Gb
HDD (500) $.20 /Gb
It gets cheaper with cheaper gear but am I the only one that thinks the Majors should distribute their movies thru automated tills where you'd bring your HDD to fill, I'm sure they could get HDD manufacturer to embedded a specific kind of firmware to address the DRM crap.
In terms of footprint even with slim casing 10 BD is bigger than a 3.5" HDD
Speedwise ... well ...
I guess one possible move for toshiba would be to patent a dedicated & powered USB/Firewire interface on Lounge Movie Players to access external HDD.
So HDDVD / BD wrong speed wrong capacity wrong price. Sony may have won a battle ... but the war is over. I'm not buying it for movies since I don't own a penthouse nor a 42" telly ... and datawise I'm stacking HDD.
a pretty intrusive manoeuvre well thought in advance. If I were to print fake bank notes I'd start by stealing such a printer (since I don't have any monies). So unless we learn that there is a GPS terminal in every printer and that the firmware can be fried remotely ... well the chances to catch a proper criminal are quite remote.
But if you finally found the dog that was posted missing on a flyer that no longer has any phone number readable ... give the FBI/CIA a call to get the details.
I'd guess because Amazon knows its business and can figure out how to build an IT infrastructure that matches its needs. And Sun should concentrate on building HW & OS and not "Solutions" because they are no good at it and most importantly they should listen to customers because in my experience they pure rubbish at it.
Hmm I would not cut through live cables using a blowtorch, even with a neutral flame, at that kind of temperature the electrons are quite free to flow ... there is no mention made of current intensity but 11 kV is quite a low voltage so I'd guess the current must have been quite high.
No trace of the copper robber but his last words were:
Stick a fork in me ...
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