Posts by Cliff

Would have been awesome a decade ago

However, now storage is approaching free, hasn't that horse rather bolted?

How about the 'sexy' human-form tardis as a companion for a bit?

Well, I mean, you know - she was kinda cool - smart, sassy, and frankly pretty awesome.

Bit of a shame, but too little too late

Using colour data increased density, and you could use irregular shapes to make arty codes - this was actually a cool project but about 5 years too late. Shame.

2 Factor Authentication

Seeing as my email uses 2FA, and all my bank cards use chip+pin, why is it OK to store hundreds of card details on the open internet behind guessable and brute forceable passwords?

Why?

Why this obsession with splashing more and more private information on facebook? I just don't get it. Why not just walk around naked with your bank details tattooed on your back, which would suit facebook just fine if they could advertise on your front. I feel so old sometimes.

This is what I so love and admire about the Beeb - not content to accept the status quo, but pushing development on some funky fronts. I am so pleased to hear that the licensing and patent pool actually provides money to the corp, surely that means the department should be expanded ;-)

I remember in 1990 seeing that a bunch of engineers had recorded the Wimbledon final in HD - this is back before digital, mind, this was 4 Beta (SP? SR? Certainly waaaay before digibeta, and massively before HDCam...) decks ganged each recording 1/4 of the signal.

Hideous?

Seems a bit harsh.

Free press!

As in beer. Smuthaus launches public vexacious case to get column inches in the press. Worth every penny.

Thin pyrex?

Levitating james May

Just me, or is he not quite on the ground plane in that pic on p2?

PR magic

By hiring a bunch of out of work actors for a few hours of a morning to create queues and an 'event', you get free press in the usually discerning Register, so acres of free press in rags like the Metro. It is a very cheap way of creating press.

'Cos let's face it, it's a f'kin phone.

Scrumping

Brilliant.

This news made me cry

in a good way :,-)

This is a good thing

Not that any particular syntax/language is going to be of any relevence by the time they come to use it a few years later, but the sheer fact that computers become slaves not masters is what's most important. Knowing a computer can bend to your whim as opposed to forcing you to comply with its ways is so empowering, and provides the crucial link between hardware and applications.

A vacuum reservoir

If you're going to all the trouble to knock this up, you can add a second chamber connected by 1" pipe or similar whose sole purpose is to give you a bit more vacuum to play with. Nothing fancy, but a simple 1m sq box welded from mild steel, or some recycled hot water cylinders (if they're tough enough), or just about anything will give you a bit longer before the vacuum vanishes at ignition time, it may be worth it just to confirm that the ignition catches properly

Have a look at the Casio Exilim range for high-speed cameras - somewhat excellent for the consumer-level money. Pre-ignition you may need to add a heap more light for high-speed filming, but post-ignition it may be too bright - I doubt the electronics will adjust terribly well in the fraction of a second, but you could get a very cool little youtube vid for the project if it goes well

Am I the only one

to remember the dotcomboomandbust of the early 21st century? Did nobody learn anything about web companies overvaluing themselves? Google can keep on subsidising youtube with advertising chump change (although half a billion dollars a year must still hurt), but Groupon will be a major lemon in anyone's portfolio. All the cash to date is going on promotion for a big IPO.

Buzzword

""It enables unified management of a wide array of services and paves the way for orchestration of multiple channels."

He added: "This development is an important milestone on Diebold's roadmap to leveraging cloud computing technology in the retail financial space.""

BINGO!

Surely this is a bollocks idea?

Need I say more?

Genius

The most useful accessory combination for an iPad2 is to turn it into a netbook, only more expensive and less convenient. Genius.

Money back

if in 1000 years you cannot read your disc*

(*guarantee period exactly 1000 years, premature redemption not allowed. Non-transferrable)

;-)

Love it :-)

"If only the smugglers had attached plastic cups to the end of each line, they could have warned one another about a police bust instantly."

2d version

FWIW I have the non-3D version of this machine, otherwise very similar specs, Envy is a good name - very nice machine, and it is rather fun watching Apple users getting green-eyed.

It does run HOT though when it is thinking hard - almost too hot to touch in the top-left hand corner.

Lots of technical questions and discussions

I do love the fact that LOHAN is *our* LOHAN, much as we all had our dabs on PARIS previously :-)

Aaaanyway, there seem to be a lot of technical discussions I am not qualified to celebrate or begrumble, so I have to address the more important questions - colour.

What colour will we make the thing? I vote for brazen orangey-tan colour. And any chance we can have some less aerodynamic than PARIS but probably more comfy rounded curves on LOHAN?

TOGTFO

Oh, you did. Respect!

Currently up?

Just tried in the UK, seems to go to the site, allow download of the software, etc

Tough case...

I find it hard to choose who I more want to lose.

Lulz for health

Yes, they're being dicks about stuff, but hopefully we now have a proper 'bogeyman' figure to threaten MD's with to take hardening more seriously.

Server Farm as as Service

Isn't that what we're really talking about here? The mythical 'cloud' is just a bunch of servers in somebody else's datacentre than your own - the rest is no different than before at the implementation level. A decent Tech Architect will design a secure, parallelised system with failovers borne in mind (or whatever the client is willing to pay for) and whether the tin it runs on lives under your roof or somebody else's isn't really terribly important or interesting.

Yet there seems to be a bit of hysteria about 'the cloud', a certain hardware/firmware company has just spanked a fortune on a domain with the word 'cloud' in, when they had similar services beforehand - it has some sexy mojo yet is vapid to the user. And another software maker with their 'to the cloud' line for somebody editing a photo... no wonder MBA's are chanting it and execs swallowing it.

Discovered!

"...researchers from Symantec discovered Infostealer.Coinbit..."

With a name like that you have to wonder why suspicions weren't raised earlier ;-)

Crap criminals

They only got $15k for that little haul? They should be ashamed for...

1) doing the crime

2) getting caught

3) taking such silly risks for such a pissy reward!

Practicalities

What with all the hoohah about MRSA etc, I suggest uniforms should all be PVC.

Short your Apple stocks!

I would say they are over-valued, they make less profit than either Intel or MS, and their figurehead CEO (who *is* Apple) is seriously ill. There will be a market correction.

Still got one kidney left...

So he can get an iPhone 5 and iPad 3.

ROTM

This is how sentience starts you know...

The most exceptional part of all this

is that she was given full credit on the paper. Sad but true. So pleased to see that credit was volunteered where it was deserved.