Posts by Named coward

Re: FAT-free

Given your assumption I would agree. But most cameras nowadays use MTP and require no installation. USB drives also require no installation.

Re: unlike floating Arctic ice which lowers sea levels when it melts. ? ? ? ? ?

Melting of sea ice increases the volume (but not the mass) since the ocean becomes less salty and saltier water is denser. This means that the sea levels should rise by melting sea ice (but only marginally). On the other hand, melting sea ice causes the ocean to cool and this makes it denser (again, marginally). This means the water levels decrease. These are both very minor effects which more or less cancel each other but which fanatics on either side of the global warming debate will use to their fullest advantage (in either direction).

Re: The old ones are the good ones!

Those version numbers are more related to the core OS (NT = 4, 2000 = 5, Vista = 6). The big difference becomes obvious once you delve into the kernel and driver architectures of the corresponding systems. Presumably 10 is still 6 (6.4) unless they changed it for marketing purposes.

Re: A mere sideshow

A bad debt is a receivable sum which is no longer expected to be received. How would a payment for patent infringement be considered a bad debt? If anyone, then it would be apple that could eventually consider this amount a bad debt (with some creative accounting and if Samsung manages to wriggle out of it).

Re: URL?

If it's anything like ze German version it will have an option for original audio or dubbed, and english or german subtitles for most shows (unlike Amazon Prime which only has dubbed without subtitles for most of the catalogue)

Re: Pah!

500 Stars is few but a star cluster is something else (difference based on dispersion and evidence of dark matter). I do not know which galaxy is being referred to but Segue 2 has just 1000 Solar Masses (plus or minus 300 solar masses) worth of stars - it's not like we can count the exact number of stars in another galaxy.

Re: I would be worried...

My favourite, now-missing feature: per website and per tab options. Unfortunately as time goes by, more and more websites simply stop working or start doing weird stuff, but if I have to use a skinned chrome , might as well use chrome.

Re: Bright side

If you could sue someone for publishing insecure APIs you could sue pretty much any software vendor which publishes APIs (that includes all OSes and all Open Source) since security vulnerabilities always exist.

Re: No thanks. Pi is lower spec. its already well supported Linux wise for building stuff.

Actually; if it had the typical windows GUI it would be a good, cheap "media device", usable even by non-enthusiasts. As it is, I'm not sure what use case it's supposed to cover.

Re: How long before all new cars have gps/satnav as standard?

Google already have a traffic view and it's surprisingly accurate. I suppose that means that there are enough people with android phones and an internet connection on the road - it doesn't have to be every car, just some percentage (probably not a high one either: if 2 drivers on a stretch of 120kph road are driving at 30kph, there's probably traffic.)

iPhones never had them so there's no disadvantage in upgrading from iPhone to iPhone, but previous Samsung phones do so owners of previous Samsung phones see this as a disadvantage.

Re: Finally...

suppose that a branch falls down on your car while you're driving/stuck in traffic (no need for blinding)...how are you going to avoid it? And why do you expect the automated car to avoid something no human can.

If the company is a taxi dispatcher, doesn't that make the drivers taxi drivers? And in that case they would need whatever license is required for taxi drivers (in jurisdictions where anything other than a normal driver's license is required by taxi drivers).

Re: The Chinese and Russians are going to build it??

8000 miles at 80mph is just a little over 4 days which is about 1/3 or 1/4 the time it takes a ship to make the crossing. Could make sense as a half-way between air and sea (speed/price), but for the costs of building and maintaining such a thing.