Posts by Dan 55

You either need a HUGE heatsink or the f-word (fan). Downclocking does not help unless you downclock it all the way to 600 which defeats the purpose of havinga 1200MHz CPU in the first place.

Buy a FIRC case.

Re: The trend is more worrying than the security risks themselves

Removing them is basically admitting that the browser vendor has no idea how to offer these features in a way that allows safe usage and/or user consent.

Permission-based systems for native apps rely on a lot of filtering beforehand by Apple and Google and it still doesn't really work. If Apple have a galleon of slaves to vet app store uploads and Google can't properly vet everything in the Play Store, why offer these options to every website in the world?

Re: But my Calculator App

That's good, mine also needs the Internet, phone ID, and contacts.

Re: increasing social division and nativist populism

Web the leader of the free world flings shit via Twitter, something's gone wrong somewhere.

He dared to suggest that there could be another way to keep servers up other than advertising (that bit wasn't mentioned in El Reg). There's got to be merit to that.

Re: "Phone makers had banked they could compensate for slowing volume by pushing up prices"

I have yet to see any evidence that cheap-shit phones are subsidised. They're not sold at a loss, phone manufacturers aren't NGOs.

Re: Accessibility

He should write something which sounds legal and threatening with liberal use of the word Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, copying to Twitter. You'll see how fast they row back.

Re: Hoorah !

Unless it mandates a repairable design then it's all for naught.

Getting out the heat gun to peel the screen off and dismantle half the innards to change the battery takes quite a while if you don't want to leave the phone looking like a mess, which makes the repair uneconomical.

Re: happy Brexiteers, surely ?

I voted for Brexit because I want the UK to be free to sign its own trade deals

You're right, after Brexit negotiations with countries like China and the US will finish much quicker. Only the UK won't be signing trade deals, it'll be signing its own death warrant.

Re: Worse to come

Anyone who sings the praises of those Wilko bricks has never seen them in action.

Re: The cost!!

The compatible sets from Wilko are pretty bollocks. They're not that compatible and whatever it is you're building is usually badly designed so it falls apart easily.

Creator sets have pieces to build three different things, Classic sets are the big box of bricks you remember.

Re: More iconic due

I'll go for Politicians and Bullshit.

Re: A simple solution ..

That would require someone in government who knows about software testing. As we've already seen, they can't even get emissions testing right.

Re: The best thing about the ZX81...

The Spectrum's inspiration was Cloud City, but the ZX81's was Tron before Tron was released.

One day, about a month later than you'd have thought, huge lorries loaded with glass panes will arrive. Employees will be told to leave the building and stand around outside. A large tasteful off-white tarpaulin will then be raised to cover the building, then every single glass pane in the building will be replaced with a new glass pane which looks exactly the same as the old glass pane except for the addition of a fancy Apple logo. As this process takes a while, the employees will start to wonder if something has gone wrong, but they will then hear a bong sound and the tasteful off-white tarpaulin will then be lowered and taken away and the employees they will re-enter the building. Apple will never talk about what work was carried out and any questions about the new glass panes will be met with silence.

Suggestions that their software update team were in placed charge of this process is just a vicious rumour.