Posts by JDX

Re: Simple tool to determine the quality of food

No. Precisely because of how evolution works, your taste buds have not caught up with artificial fertilisers, etc. If fact they probably haven't even caught up with farming, full stop, and are still living in hunter-gatherer times.

There's some evidence your body can crave foods based on what's in them, but detecting trace amounts of some chemical which could build up over the years and cause long-term harm - no.

Re: hmmm

Still won't that look rather ugly, when you have a slick looking iP5 plugged into a sleek dock via a big clunky adapter?

Re: What amazes me...

I don't remember NT being too terrible (I'm a dev not a sysadmin); what was so bad? Our software ran for weeks of uptime easily which back then seemed pretty good!

Techie != programmer. And loads of developers never work on web stuff.

Re: Analysts are not what they used to be

What about LinkedIn, with a P/E of 917?!

Re: Oh, ffs...

On the other hand I bet you'd like it if your premiums dropped because they could avoid paying out to people claiming their 60" LED TV got nicked.

Re: Android

Typical Linux response... "what do you mean it's not easy? It's very easy. You just have to write this 4 line bash script"

It could get them a share of the tablet market though.

Milkshake and bread spring to mind too.

Re: WP user

Not sure about vibration but with sounds, every time you change the volume a "ring+vibrate" text appears on the top right. Tap it to toggle the ringer.

@Bod

Don't pretend Android users are ANY different.

Re: Sorry, too late ...

The Fire2 clearly won't be the same spec as the Fire1 though, so could in turn trump on Google.

If they only had a limited number of units, they might as well test them in a single market first. A few nerds saying "not interested any more" doesn't change the fact that in 1-2 years everyone with a tablet now will be buying a newer model.

Re: 30 min = 6 answers?

Some people take time to think before posting on the internet, and check what they wrote.

Re: Samsung kitchen appliances

You need a hobby, or to get out more.

Re: RE: Obviously!

IE10. Which you've never used?

iPad also locks down which browser you can use.

Re: Just 400 light years away

If you travel close to c it wouldn't seem as long.

Re: @Wize - need to manually run it: proof of concept yet again

>>Could you please care to tell us why should we RTFM to the lazy user

And that sums up in a nutshell why Linux will never replace Windows; the users are dicks who shoot themselves collectively in the foot at every step.

Is your life really that empty?

I bet he tries to strike a conversation with cold-callers too, what a life.

Frankly, I'm beginning to think that Firefox and noScript should become mandatory by law.

Why don't you just use Lynx.

How disappointing.

They are also going to broadcast the new Will.I.Am single by radio back to earth as part of some "get the kids into science" effort... not sure how easy it is to pick the signal up or if amateurs have the needed equipment?

Re: Not sure of the purpose of Storage Spaces?

Isn't it more useful for abstracting the size of your 'drive' from the physical drives you've got plugged in... you add another 500Gb and your drive is magically 500Gb bigger?

Re: It looks like Steam

Maybe leave that decision for the serious developers.

Wrapping it in tin-foil would probably help - you seem likely to have plenty around.

What damage would be caused by a child seeing people have sex?

Porn isn't [real] sex.

Re: I rather Like Windows Phone!

Please children, do grow up and stop downvoting people because they like something you don't, rather than because you disagree with their opinions.

Re: Wrong Simile

>>have you considered that they might be thinking they are heroes of the minority,

That still sounds like something you could say of terrorists.

I dislike Anon but regardless of that I think the only long term legacy they might leave is INCREASED security and DECREASED privacy, because they perfectly embody what everyone is worried about in an ungoverned internet.

Re: Probably mankind's greatest adventure

Well "we" as Brits haven't been there in the first place. (Have we, it's possible I am having a brain-fart?)

Re: More native code

Well the gmail and Kindle apps work just great so it's bad coding not bad tools.