Posts by Dan 10

Secret spaceplane...

...my arse! Look at the pic again, quite obvious the entire thing is housed in a Lego shell...

Are you lot wilfully missing the point?

Clearly, the patent isn't in the 'hey look, we tilted a screen!' bit. *Look* at the diagram, it's a concept of having a monitor at arms length, or a tablet at your fingertips - ie it's doesn't just tilt back, it drops forward and down as it does so. It's a 'so-simple-it's-obvious' development as the Reg says, but it's the key to making a desktop touch-friendly. I haven't seen any other screens that do this.

Genius

A story involving a "Sergeant Randy Pieper", a drunk Bananaman and a shotgun. It doesn't get any better!

Only one icon for it, obviously.

Internet rumour-mongering at it's finest...

It's complete bollox, people!

"The author...apparently fabricated all these specs"

That's a hot date!

"Hampson took the second beast - a female - to Bugworld in Liverpool."

Does that count as a day out, or a visit to a restaurant?

Overload

I'm an iPhone user. I'm out of contract but in light of dodgy antennas and iAds, thought I would check out Android. Surf on over to htc.com, to be confronted by a gazillion similar-looking phones with enticing but completely uninformative names - Wildfire, Desire, Incredible. Some have 'Sense'. No idea what that means. Most are big on social networking (I'm not), but I can't for the life of me tell which one is for me. I hear people going on about the 'Evo', but I can't see that on the UK site. I make a mental note of one that simply looks nice enough (very scientific), and Google it. Apparently it's aimed at the lower end of the market, and teenagers. Stuff that. I want ease of use, powerful, diverse apps, a good display, a good media player, web browser etc etc. Guess what? If I go back over to Apple, I can tell at a glance which phone is going to do that best for me. With a bumper, granted, but hey, I use a cover anyway.

So I'm back where I started.

Crap novelty

Just give me a good quality 2d presentation any day.

I certainly won't be buying a 3d tv.

Is it just me or do the two sides of a particular point on a given image not quite line up anyway?

Hurrah

Oh, hang on, I can't even watch down-res'ed SD on ITV Player without it stopping every few seconds. And Virgin won't run cable down my street, so none of that fibre stuff either.

Well, he's unhappy...

...but it hardly qualifies as a flame of the week, does it?

Translation

So he called it "dick-horn-face-and-proud-of-it"?!!!

Summertime

Once screen that can be used in strong ambient light are perfected, watch the strong correlation in outside temperatures and working from home - I know I would rather be sat on the decking in the garden working on that project remotely...

c'mon

Someone needs to grow a pair in dealing with these idiots. Submarine? Great, assuming you're prepared to torpedo the f***ers! Just listening? WTF?

Clearly, some shipping companies are getting the idea, judging by the report of pirates being repelled by an armed security team.

Icon, obviously.

oh the irony

I'm liking the fact that next to this article is an ad for Microsoft... oh how I have wondered...

Good Article

I watched the budget updates and my laymans view was that it appeared pretty fair and reasonable. Glad to see that a more in-depth analysis has come to the same conclusions. Ok, so the author probably has his own biases rooted in the ASI, but all the arguments against the budget so far have come from foaming-at-the-mouth idiots like Harriet Harman and a load of morons that were out protesting yesterday before anything had even been announced.

As an aside, the price rises due to VAT should be the same levels as the price reductions that we saw when Brown made that pointless temporary change. Would anyone like to bet how much *more* retailers will manage to add onto prices?!

IT'S ALIIIVE !!

Jeez, I wouldn't have had him down as a crim, he looks like a fine upstanding citizen!

Egor, pass me those electrodes...

Smells a bit

Congratulations to the lobbyists indeed.

As for targeted pricing that determines if I would be willing to pay a higher price - go for it, because as soon as I get a sniff of you using such a thing, you'll never see my money again, regardless of the price.

Or, to put it another way, that sounds like a lovely scheme for driving away the more affluent customers from your business. Way to go.

This is up there with...

PC vs Mac

Windows vs Mac

Android vs iPhone

My god, you're all simple.

I've an idea!!

"The sounds will be required to present not only location information to those who hear them, but also provide feedback on the vehicle's speed and rate of acceleration"

I know, why not make it go brmmm, brmmm?! You know, with revs and everything?!

There, provided your consultancy for you - can I haz 1 million pounds now plz?

As for customisable sounds not being allowed - I'll give it 72 hours for a software hack to be devised once a few mischievous types have a crack at it.

Tony is going soft in his old age

He mentioned the words 'fans' without the silly-sounding 'boi'

Woohoo

Didn't know anything about Steam, but have been thinking of finding a couple of games for my Intel Mac. Reading these comments, this sounds like good stuff...

Who's this analyst?

"...providing the developer with a better revenue share model could go a long way toward promotion of that particular distribution channel and thus growth of market share for a technology.”

Um, yeah, because the current model has really stifled growth and market share for Apple, hasn't it?

Maybe this would help the non-Apple app stores, but then your use of 'Apple' in the headline would be pointless, wouldn't it?!

Crikey, Penfold

Sounds like they were enjoying themselves from the sound of this.

I recently had a visit from 2 well-mannered GMP officers, accompanied by an arrest warrant served by the met. Who are 200 miles away. For a suspect with a different middle name to mine. And a different birthday. And a different physical description. etc etc. They were polite and showed some common sense when confronted with the fact that I clearly wasn't the wanted man, but I'm not sure that the same could be said for their Met counterparts.

It's a funny system...

...when the party that gained the least votes (out of the mainstream contenders) is suddenly in the driving seat to decide whether we end up with a conservative or labour government.

Only politicians could come up with this one.

Alex Deane is right

He looks like he's dropped a turd in his pants.

Brilliant!

Jedi knights had their light sabers out indeed!

:-D

There is more to this

"Nozoe asked why he had not been warned"

Well, he certainly had some warning that something was up, or else why was he (presumably covertly) recording a board meeting?

Interesting stuff...

There was a short write-up in Wired a few months back, about an artist who embedded little IR lights into a hat, so that on IR CCTV, his head is just a white glow. I liked the idea, but it's not like he didn't stand out on the footage...