Posts by Ged T

Straightforward enough

Can't we get "Just call me Dave" and "Terribly Teccy Theresa" on the case? They seem to know tons about internet blocking...

Mine's the one with the copy of Dummies for Politicians in the pocket...

Whilst paddling up De Nile...

.... 'Senior marketing communications manager Brandon LeBlanc blogged the news on the official Blogging Windows blog: “It’s very exciting to be delivering Windows 8.1 to consumers just before Windows 8 celebrates its 1-year anniversary,” LeBlanc said....'

Mine's the one with directions to the Apple store...

Keep breathing normally...

They probably want to keep the chat about the price down as they don't want the shareholder to skyperventilate...

The question is:

Is this cat both dead and alive in this box?

"Hyper-competitive businesses file ever more complaints over public sector tenders"

Doubtless a reflection of just how much gravy is pouring off the public sector procuremenmt train.

Who really cares about which chip foundry Apple or any other vendor uses?

This "article" isn't really anything but a relay of rumour. Not only that, but it's Apple's choice to select the supplier's they determine will best deliver to their expectations. They will declare that decision, for stockholders and SEC reporting purposes, making their decision public in the process. Those truely interested in Apple's choice of "chip shop" will find out then.

We've learned...

that the U.S. National Security Agency appears to be legally allowed to operate off-shore!

WOPR: Today, ze home - Tomorrow...

...ze Velt!

Build in China?

I thought Apple had 'shipped back' its iShinny production back to the U.S.? I get what the article was saying about manufacturing for the Chinese and other 'needs to be cheaper'/'evolving' markets (Pegatron build or have built for HP, in the past BTW)

Once again Technology over Content...

"But don't underestimate the appeal of O-O transmission to two groups of people. One is BBC middle management, who will form "a metadata working group" at the drop of hat, and spend years having meetings which typically achieve nothing - but consume a lot of license fee money.

The other group is TV manufacturers, who are facing a grim future as undifferentiated, commoditised floggers of flat panels. O-O might allow them to sell more expensive sets.

And with 3D flopping, they need some magic marketing woo from somewhere

"

I suggest that, for once, the brains at the BBC would think about the content they broadcast rather than the technical methods that accomplish the that aspect of delivery.

Technically, HD video and sound is all well and good but it does NOTHING to the diet of food-orientated, the shambling housing-orientated and the hard-hammered auction-orientated rubbish, much of which is badly upscaled SD, repeated Ad Nauseam.

This time, please, consider new and exciting, challenging and educational content before, once more, going down some technological cul-de-sac.

Consolidated capability in silicon

It's great to see these all the mobile computing capabilities being consolidated in SoC-like solutions; heartening, too, that these devices will benefit mid-range platforms, other than Windows RT.

For me, it was the 'platform schism'

Whilst looking for an upgrade for my HTC Desire, I my options down to two smartphones, the HTC One and the Samsung Galaxy S3 - Both Android and quad-core and...

My decision to go with the Samsung came down to, what I saw at the time, a confusing 'future market' position from HTC - Here they were with a potential 'flagship' Android product, but their public statements, at the time, were all about their deal and commitment to WinPhone, not a future I wanted to contemplate having had a less than steller experience of an earlier incarnation of that platform...

Use the material to exploit the Casimir Effect...

If this material has superior dieletric performance, could this be a possible new source of energy?

Sheets of the material, placed in VERY close proximity used to 'convert' Casimir Effect to electrical energy, stored on supercapacitors made of the same material, maybe?

Love the line...

"Dr Hauser has a list of achievements and accolades so lengthy, they almost deserve to be classified as big data"

Nice!

UK Government concern about an EU member state wide Data and Privacy Protection?

They are obviously convinced that UK's current Data Protection and Privacy arrangements are SO fantastic, it doesn't need such EU input.

Personally, I would welcome that fact that my data and privacy would be protected in the same way and with the same recourse to abuse, if required, across the EU. I would have thought, too, that for a country that needs to engage with the EU commercially, to survive economically, governemnt and business would welcome only having the one set of rules and regulations to observe across the EU trading estate...

Mine's the one with the completely open pockets...

Three letters and one word spoilers - D R M and Copyright

In a world of patents and litigous protection, could you really expect that holodeck capability to be commercially realised? The technical costs of development are likely to be dwarfed by the size of the insurance premium or 'set-aside' money you'd need to pay off of the licence holders....

I thought Apple owned the Patent on Patenting....

No?

No Windows 8 licences? We don't believe you...

Oh....

>KZERT<

I love the sound of mis-used leccy in the morning....

If I got a pound for every "Could you just..." I could, just, have retired by now...

Given its the "brain", High Ignition Launch and Time Out Neurocranium?

HILTON still works and it often follows PARIS....

BBC's 'Health and Safety' is just a smokescreen

In defence (able?) of the BBC, their real concerns are any/all of:

- The cost of billing those aliens for the licence fee (should Prof Cox send a reply, especially...)

- The world's entire population might litigate against thet BBC for any of "...being a party to the Cultural Shock incurred...", "...diminishing my personal place in the Universe...", "...for mandating yet another set-top box that UK citizens will require to recieve BBC re-broadcasts of said ET messages..."

- Concern about the copyright position the aliens may take, should the BBC record and/or re-broadcast such a signal

- The intergalactic etiquette of the BBC doing their annoying 'voice-over' / copy spoilers - Just when did the ET broadcaster finish broadcasting? Was that part 1 of a 13 part set? But only one of six in the galactic autumn season?

- Will they have to re-brand / "re-imagine" BBC Wordwide to, perhaps, BBC Universe? If so, what does that do to the copyrights owned by the old brand? What media formats will be acceptable to the ET marketplace?

Infrared Ray, Ultraviolet Ray? Copyrighted encoding formats - MPEG NTSC, MPEG PAL, MPEG ET, MPEG 4 ET - Just thinking about this could be a major H & S health hazard to the person(s) that have to propose and negotiate rights with the ETs...

- There could be cause for Major Concern about BBC output the ETs have received and that they have found objectional - "Welcome to this special edition of Univerersal PoV..."

Mine's the one with the weird radio "Universal Transceiver" gizmo in the secret pocket...

Two variants and the new "app store" vector of Win 8 to support

What sets this release of Windows apart from the others is that there are two distinct variants: one for X86/X64 win-tel/amd hardware platforms and the other for ARM-based hardware. In addition, there the new "App Store".

Purely on the end-user platform side, the spin-hype out from Microsoft, with respect to pre-to-post RTM patches/hotfixes etc, seems not to acknowledge this significant change to its delivery model. It will be interesting to see Microsoft's response and priorities to these disparate platform markets/consumers, should something nasty emerge out of the wilds of the internet that affects both platforms - Are tablet users of more value and of a higher marketing profile than the "traditional" desktop market? Will tablets be "corrected" first, I wonder?

Also, the "App Store" is a new departure/venture for Microsoft and one which has panoramic scope over the tablet and desktop - Again it will be interesting to see Microsoft's response to issues arising "in store"...

...Pension Chop/Slap?

Looking at the $28m-ish pension figure, in comparison with the other financial figures and drivers disclosed in this article, I don't get the use of the headline - The pension administration charges seem to be the least of its worries of what appears to be a well run but currently unfortunate and circumstantially disadvantaged business.

Usage Guidelines

Just how far back from the target do your own forces need to be, in order for your own forces equipment NOT to suffer the same fate as the intended target...?

....Or have Boeing also come up with a convenient range of Microwave EMP hardened electronic equipments, (for 'own forces use only, of course) too?

A case of Deep Pocket Inspection?

Mine's the one with the big pockets that used to hold my money, until I went for everything, everywhere...

No will.i.am with this mission I hope...

Mine's the one with the earplugs in the pocket...

Would this infringe Copyright legislation?

If you check out the packaging of a CD, DVD or Blu-ray disc, and indeed often at the start or end of a video rendering from such media or even in the rolling credits of many a TV program, there are quite stark warnings containing "where, how/methods and who" restrictions, infringement categories and penalties that apply if the content is (re-)broadcast, reproduced or copied.

Wouldn't an "...over the air directly..." device enabling "Hi Fi Streamage" and the person(s) using the same fall under the remit of those typical infringement categories and be liable to be penalised?

I uninstalled this app from my S3

It was pre-installed.

When the last update got notified, I noticed that the app had changed such that it could access both cameras, in 'still' or video mode, microphone / record, full filesystem access, full phone (log) access, ability to make and answer calls ... I don't need to go on ...

I uninstalled it.

I continue to use an app to access Facebook (tm).

Its called, er... errmmm... Oh Yeh....

The web browser...

Archimedes or Ahh Comedies?

Stop screwin' around.

That is all.