Posts by Cliff

Re: Shame, but inevitable

Oh look 2 downvotes. Puzzling. Commentards are an unpredictable lot, anyone would think I was screaming to kill QR codes or that monochrome barcode users mothers worked the streets. Of course I did neither.

I said it had some interesting features, colour was a possibility. The colour palette used is CMYK, so printing is native. Mono is also an option, and it had a pretty decent data density for that as well.

QR Art often seems to defy the tech specs for QR codes (colours, shapes, contrast, etc so it's up to the scanners tolerances). I've seen companies sometimes inserting dummy data to make a bigger code then overwriting those unused bits with logos. It's cheeky but seems to work :-)

Not 'urine'

The official Pantone name is 'Fapple Yellow TM'

Re: In the meantime

It's got a great shopping paradigm. You put your book in your basket, go to checkout, they take cards, vouchers, even 'cash'. Instant delivery - it's literally in your hands before you even finish the checking out.

Grabbed a coffee whilst I was there too.

Or you could have got some £20 sennheiser cans. Think the model number was something like hd202, actually very good price for the performance. Used a lot in TV edit suites as they're decent and replaceable.

Re: You can give the man a seat

Good luck getting him out of Ecuador through London where he is wanted for bail jumping now. Not that we all wouldn't be happy to see the back of him, as long as he promises to go permanently.

We remember it for you - wholesale

If they track not just where the glasses go, hear and see, but also what you personally focus on, it suggests they'll have a better memory of my life than I do. Thankfully my brain filters out much of the mundanity but this won't, it could feel very creepy indeed.

What also if it becomes self aware and starts checking out the talent whilst I'm just trying to read on the beach? The future is a whole new world of problems.

Re: Got to hand it to Microsoft Research

Years ago when MS had a very open intranet I used to sometimes look at the ideas and work coming from Microsoft's research guys mostly in Cambridge. I was blown away by some of the creativity and innovation and ways of looking at problems I hadn't even imagined. Genuine innovation, very well run department.

Re: Need an innovative solution

Unusual karma, 3D printers have a habit making a really ugly mess of spaghetti. At least at the moment it will still frustrate the arse off of the crooks.

>Go on, I'll bite. Why the thumbs down?

Maybe someone holding bitcoins they bought at $150 on their way down from $240 hoping for a bounce? BTC threads are generally down vote magnets (see below for instance, apparently it is easier than rational discussion or counterargument)

Re: Lots of whooshing noises in this thread

I miss NTK, but Danny is doing a weekly mailout of 15 year old editions with a bit of a commentary. Anyone ingested can probably work out how to subscribe. It's a great reminder of what was going on in IT and the emerging tech culture in the summer of '98 at the moment.

Re: I am not a cryptographer but...

It can be counterintuitive. A double pass of ROT-13 for instance gives you cleartext again. Multiple passes of Caesar cyphers don't add any more complexity than a single pass.

Re: 'could sport a gaudy "champagne gold" coloured case'

New colour name...'Fapple Yellow'

Re: Radiation Levels Still a Problem

I suspect there are so many other likely causes of death, a slow killer is less of a risk than pretty much the whole of the rest of the mission

Re: virtual risks

^^^ Yes indeed, to other number collectors. Worth fuckall to most people.

Re: Meh

Yet somehow I feel compulsed to see them all. Boobs have a similar distracting effect.

I must be the only one.

Experiment

+1 this post if you couldn't give a crap about upvote whores.

Re: Background

Vulture Compatible Mark

Something like that. Have to make a hoohah for the trophy handover, too. Red carpet job.

Glad someone is finally taking this all so seriously - is it the highest paid Apple guy we read had been sent to 'special projects'??

> They have also been fined $8.5 for their discovery violations.

>> They have also been fined $8.5 for their discovery violations.

Blimey, that's nearly nine bucks!

;)

Re: Eventually, they became the Microsoft they hated

... the Microsoft they envied...

As for being forced to do PE in their underpants, it's in the sense that (were their crime to forget their PE kit) the immediate problem is worked around, but in the most embarrassing way. Apple would prefer a fine 10x higher but being forced to let other children play with its toys in public will be causing meltdowns. They have institutionally always been about the walled garden so this must really hurt.

Re: Does this use the same plastic that everything seems to be made of these days?

Does this make PLA a candidate for not bothering with the printer and just modeling the hot plastic by hand?

Re: Technology Which Should Die

How about the android screen pattern lock - it is practically good enough, quick, easy , muscle memory, keeps the kids out of the phone, damned hard to shoulder surf if you pick a decent pattern.