Posts by AndyS

Re: Wireless

By that calculation, Google reckons it is worth $40 per xbox.

Both figures seem a bit extreme, really. It'll be interesting to see what the judge thinks.

Re: Swanky

.gov.uk is a standard domain, as is .ac.uk, .police.uk, .org.uk, .co.uk etc

Using the TLD like this actually makes perfect sense.

Re: Poor quality pics

Looks pretty blue to me.

Link, purely in the name of science:

http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0044271.g007&representation=PNG_I

Re: Preaching to the wrong crowd...

3rd most read article on the BBC website just now (probably partly due to being on the front page of Reddit)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-19557497

Says much the same thing.

@ mark 63

Second name Thatcher? Maybe you should offer some assistance to those silly poor people who wouldn't understand your friendly threats.

Except that from the network's point of view, it is simply data. So to try and charge more for some data than other data is wrong.

As a commenter above said, this is like charging twice as much for electricity you want to use to watch your TV with - there's simply no justification.

Re: Dunno -- there's a point

TL;DR: Likes Apple, therefore thinks new thing might work, but isn't sure.

Re: Humidity?

Pretty rough summer heat wave that one, at -11 to -71C!

Re: Non-FB user question

Simple answer: Ts&Cs are not enforceable.

Longer answer: in UK law, as with most other jurisdictions, contracts are only enforceable if a number of conditions are met. These include, from memory:

1. The contract is legal

2. Both (or all) parties to it fully understand everything in it

3. No clause is "unfair"

4. A contract cannot be a one-way-street, ie it cannot be used to enforce a gift or similar.

Of these, 4. is satisfied (the user gets use of the website), 1 is probably ok (there's nothing illegal about broad licences), 3 is questionable in the extreme and 2 is demonstrably false.

No company, anywhere, ever, has managed to enforce a shrink-click license, for exactly this reason.

Re: WTF!

Wow. That's a leap of logic.

80%* of daily journeys are under 50 miles, and a 50 mile range will cover 91%* of all daily miles (even those 54 mile journeys are mostly covered, after all).

Also, it's got a small engine, since it's backed up by a hybrid system.

So, it's more like a prius than a hummer, but one where the first 50 miles have no local emissions.

(* figures from thin air for the sake or argument, but not far from wrong)

Re: 6 inches is too small

They're 6 inches because they're designed for reading books, the most popular form-factor of which has a printed area of, about, 6 inches. If you want multi-functional, you've hit the nail on the head - spend more and get multi-functional.

Re: So, what does a developer without deep pockets do?

"Avoid the US like the proverbial plague?"

While I completely agree with you, this story is actually about Taiwan.

Yeah. Maybe his dad's best mate, who was due to meet him at the pub that evening. Maybe, when he got to the pub, Mr Chambers wasn't there. So maybe he could send a message that said

"Get to the pub now, beer's getting cold. Do I need to firebomb you out of your house?!"

There, about the same level of seriousness. I reckon I can figure out how Paul would react. He'd ignore it.

Re: Drones

The Iranians displayed a complete, undamaged drone, explained how they brought it down, and revealed other bits of on-board info including mission data, past service history etc to prove their point. And tellingly, the US has not denied that what the Iranians say is plausible/possible.

The simplest conclusion, therefore, is that they did, indeed, bring it down as they say. Any other explanation is currently not as likely. Remember this is a nation on the brink of independently developing nuclear weapons, with a very high level of technological expertise. It's worth taking what they say very seriously.

Two conclusions:

1. Whether or not it's possible to encrypt GPS usage so that it cannot be spoofed, the current US attack drones don't do so.

2. On-board data stored in the drone's computers is obviously not adequately encrypted.

Neither of these conclusions are surprising, since the whole point of drones is that they can be developed and deployed quickly and cheaply. But I'd be very surprised if there wasn't a fast scramble in the US to sort out their encryption.

Re: You have to wonder

"Global Warming" refers to overall _global_ temperatures, not local weather, which leads to more extremes. The weather we are experiencing in the UK exactly fits with what is expected. The confusion between weather and climate is one reason why it is normally now referred to as "climate change."

Re: Have they tried turning it off and on again?

I suggest they visit http://www.downloadmoreram.com/ and get some decent RAM downloaded.

Should get things up and running again in no time.

I don't think I've ever seen an advert on youtube? Oh wait, adblock plus.

I was actually astonished recently using my mother-in-law's PC, when youtube showed adverts before ramping up the main video I was looking for.

Re: It's called a laptop!

Unless you follow "Lappy" with "486". Then it's perfectly acceptable.

Re: 52MPG ?!?!

Uh... Or you could put an 8.0 litre W16 mid-chassis, throw in some radiators and ramp up the map to 1,000hp, like Bugatti did. That would be fun, too, right?

Unfortunately it's not the car on review, which is a small, city, petrol. As a commenter above has already pointed out, this is an extremely good economy for this type of car.

Reading a review of a car and then saying "why didn't they..." and coming up with a completely different concept is a bit, well, giraffe.

Re: and people wonder...

I love farcebunk. I use it to tell all my friends about my new Halfraud purchases, on my Micro$$haft computer.

I bet that made my argument look mature and well reasoned.

Re: Incompetent idiots.

What you can do, however, is write them a pointed letter if they ever try to charge you £20 for a small slip-up, pointing out their history of slip-ups too. Often works.

Except no, because the links went to pirate sites, not Perfect 10. So if you searched for Perfect 10, Google told you where to find pirated images.

Re: Long-known

It's also a 19 year old bike, so any "fit for purpose" legislation is certainly as worn out as the seat.

Re: Fine, now I can finally publish

What?

Re: Math error

Eddie may be wrong, but Lewis' maths is pretty bad too.

It's bad practice to round numbers during working, and then use those rounded numbers.

7 kWh per 1000 litres, 6p/kWh, 167 litres per person per day, and 8M people equates to £204M, not £176M. It's perfectly acceptable to round to one significant figure during your presentation, but not during your working.

It's a minor point, but repeatedly rounding numbers in your favour does not look good when you're trying to make a serious point.

Sum:

7[kWh] * 0.06[£/kWh] * 1000[liters] / 167[litres/person/day] * 365[days/year] * 8e6[people] = £204,808,800/year.

Re: What this report really tells us

Actually cynicism aside, that's not what the report tells us at all - it says many people use their computer for consuming (not creating) much of the time. Hence when they want to create, they will use a different computer. Hence, towards the bottom, he says desktop computer sales will actually increase.

The point is yes, for content consumption, you don't need a full PC, you don't even really need a laptop. But for creation, you probably need more than a laptop. Seems sensible to me.

"is there much of a difference?"

Yes, very much - in fact the figure is in the article :) This is due to higher security, less social interaction (meaning more staff and more stressed inmates), higher costs of appeal, etc etc. Remember also there will be a very long time (often 15 or more years) between initial conviction and execution.

I read the figure phrased differently somewhere a couple of years ago, but I think it costs about $1.5 million more to execute an inmate than to jail them for life without parole.

on the rear you'll find a 3in LCD...

How many Wales is that?

Re: An awareness of what glass is...

I hope you get $1,000,000 each time? After all, that's a perfectly reasonable amount of money for something that's certainly not _your_ fault.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=daily+mail

There you are, think that's where you were trying to go.

Re: Never mind HongKong. Wot about the bogs in UK pubs?

Name and shame?

Wow.

Is cable theft the new paedophilia? I say we should bring back Sarah to moderate this convoluted string-em-up-fest.