Posts by Mister Cheese

Boffins blow hot and cold over li-ion battery that can cut leccy car recharging to '10 mins'

Re: re: Galaxy Note 10

Then service-stations would have a larger supply, bigger substation, etc to cope with the potential demand. 60A per parking-space is not a lot compared with the power-consumption of a data-centre full of IT kit.

Re: Power required

Thanks for the link... but when I downloaded the file, it said 17,500 miles per year for company cars in 2018 - so you're a factor of 10 out...

Japan on track to start testing Alfa-X, fastest train in the world with top speed of 400kph

Well, that depends on your definition of "minimal" - currently 2 hours 8 minutes from London, down to 1 hour 8 minutes with HS2 phase-2 - so near enough half the time.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2#From_London

Microsoft debuts Bosque – a new programming language with no loops, inspired by TypeScript

Re: the worst of all worlds...

https://thedailywtf.com/articles/5_years_C-pound_experience

That's where I first heard of it anyway.

I ship you knot: 2,400-year-old Greek trading vessel found intact at bottom of Black Sea

Re: Wood floats...

Not all wood has the same density. Dried wood is less dense than freshly-cut wood. Not all wood floats, unlike a duck.

Iceland's Pirate Party tops polls ahead of national elections

Re: Pirate Party!

Definitely more 'aar' than 'aha' I think.

http://kindofsketchy.com/1/post/2013/05/grammar-pirate.html

Hackers thrash Bash Shellshock bug: World races to cover hole

Re: Do we have a logo yet?

Sorry... Fedora beat you to it...

http://fedoramagazine.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/shellshock.png

World's only flyable WWII Lancaster bombers meet in Lincs

Re: Aviation geeks

Try here:

http://www.raf.mod.uk/bbmf/displayinfo/

The ones with '2Lancs' flying

Stop the Microsoft, Skype wedding, screams enraged Cisco in court

Re: Microsoft Lock-In.

I'm still waiting for Cisco to release a Linux version of their Webex Connect client...

Yahoo! hack! leaks! 453,000! unencrypted passwords!

Isn't someone supposed to post this

...whenever there's a story about SQL injection?

http://xkcd.com/327/

AOL sells Microsoft 800+ patents for over $1bn

Re: GOOD WORK MICROSOFT

> GOOD WORK MICROSOFT

>

> A COMPANY CAN MAKE A LOT OF MONEY SIMPLY BY OWNING PATENTS I THINK

> STEVE BLAMMER AND I THINK A LOT ALIKE

ME TOO

Hold on a sec - leap seconds granted a last-minute reprieve

Tectonic shift

Not sure how relevant leap-seconds are - Greenwich isn't even on its own meridian any more...

Mac OS X daddy quits Apple

why else?

http://blogs.cisco.com/news/cisco_and_apple_agreement_on_ios_trademark/

...and by 'license' I suspect they mean for a little bit more than 2 shillings and ninepence.

World shrugs as IPv4 addresses finally exhausted

HTTP/1.1

HTTP/1.1 has the 'Host:' header which the browser/client used for the server-name in the original request. A load-balancer/content-inspector/unspecified-network-device can read this and redirect traffic to the relevant real server. In case you were wondering.

Doctor Who to marry Doctor Who's daughter

Our Rob or Ross

Lister: I'm me own Dad!

Rimmer: That certainly explains a lot...

Labour moots using speed cameras to reward law-abiding drivers

Yes...

...you are wrong. TrafficMaster sensors (the blue cameras) monitor speed by dropping some of the registration-number, but the SPECS cameras (the yellow ones) record the whole registration number for speed-limit enforcement purposes.

ARM flexes muscles with fivefold performance boost

Indeed.

Hell, even the 8-bit 6502 CPU in the ARM's ancestor had a 16-bit address bus...

Nokia debuts four cheapo phones

2 SIMs

Just guessing... but here's an example. You go on holiday to Spain, and you have a UK and a Spanish SIM in your mobile. Whilst in Spain, you switch the phone to use the Spanish SIM for outgoing calls, but because both SIMs are active, you can receive calls to either your UK and your Spanish numbers, without the need to carry two mobiles. Possibly.

O2 gets legal on Ofcom

Small point...

... but TMo and Orange are on 1800MHz - 1900 is a US band.

Vulture 1, Eyjafjallajökull nil (half time)

Typical Heathrow

"on the runway five minutes after the scheduled departure time"

So, practically empty airport, clear air-space, and you're still departing late...

NASA tests amazing bailout rocket which will never be used

iwantoneofthose

0-600 in 2 seconds? I understand why that sort of acceleration is required - but is that sort of force survivable?

Labour manifesto changes a byte bit

Basic maths

"A commitment to a 2 megabyte broadband speed would actually imply something like 16.8 megabits"

When I were a lad, there were 8 bits in a byte. Regardless of what a Mega is, where did the 0.8 come from?

Microsoft stealth launches 'historic' programming language

/Title

F-pound ?

Dell bars Win 7 refunds from Linux lovers

Swampland

Does it come with a free Alligator?

NASA preps Mars rover rescue plan

@amanfrommars

Can you just go give it a kick please?

My Bigtrak used to get bogged down in carpets - and a gentle push used to help...

NASA: the world will not end in 2012

@weirdcult

Don't forget your towel.

Spain 'goes 50% wind powered' - in the small hours

Why water?

How about instead of pumping lots of water up a hill we dangle a big weight down a deep hole? Or winch it up a big tower (like the ones holding the windmills up)?

Cambridgeshire makes road charge last resort

@Paul B

"...Oh, the bus is cheeper..."

You haven't visited Cambridge recently have you? it's cheaper to drive than take the park+ride...

A free bus service - that would make me leave the car at home. Would probably cost less than half a billion quid to run, too!

Web firms seek Royal Mail rivals with GSOH for delivery fling

@AC, 12:35

Royal mail != Post office. For some reason.

New NASA rocket fuel 'could be made on Moon, Mars'

Strange...

...isn't this part of the plot from Total Recall?

Fresh effects for Cocoa apps

*slap*

The penalty for using undocumented code features is...?

How to set up your HDTV like a pro

So...

...I'll need to use a test-card, a blue gel, and a colorimiter every time I close the curtains or turn on the light, or a cloud goes past, or in fact anything else that will change the ambient light?

China seals town after plague deaths

@Ed Blackshaw

...except you potentially have only 24 hours from infection to death...

Ofcom to start new number mobility consultation

@Dr Mouse

"However, the call forwarding malarkey is tosh. What ofcom need to do it have the number transfered to the control of the new provider. It's not a difficult one."

...however it does make routing tables much smaller if you route, say, all 07973 numbers to Orange and let them handle the distribution of ported subscribers, than for all operators to know which network all UK subscribers were using.

Mission control reacquires UK space cheddar

Successful mission

So the actual 'spacecraft' worked fine - and I'm guessing the other bits only failed when the batteries froze. We even managed a safe recovery of the payload. Top marks!

Swine flu site struggles to stay up

Never mind Oxfordshire...

Surrey (Redhill) is now in S.West England.

Owners say iPhone 3GS is a scorcher

@Michael C

"I had a nearly 2 hour conversation with a friend last night, the phone in my pocket the whole time. No issues."

...other than a slightly microwaved pair?

Time Warner gives up selling AOL

Re: Just let AOL sink!

> The problem with AOL is that it had an absolutely awful user

> interface. It tried to provide its own browser and download files

> in a foirmat that was incompatible with anything else. They

> tried to provides loads of content when all you wanted was

> access to email and the worldwide web. They seemed to

> assume that all you wanted was what AOL provided.

> The one good thing was that you got three months' free

> service in which to sort yourself out with a decent ISP.

Me too.

Orange rolls with Wikimedia

AOLuser

> On the other hand, once those 55 million users

> discover they can edit pages it could be more

> reminiscent of when AOL users descended on

> Usenet, rendering it useless within days.

Me too.

Privacy campaigner vows legal challenge to Google Street View

Privacy laws in public places

Thankfully Google has a bit more cash and lawyers than the average person - so if Google can successfully argue the case that it's permissable to take photos in public without written consent from everyone in the pictures - that might hopefully stop the overzealous law enforcement officers from assuming the opposite. Maybe.

I'd just like to know their schedule so I can make sure the front lawn's been mowed if they happen to drive by!

Ex-Star Wars boffins build mosquito-blasting raygun

Cool :-)

...but can it zap wasps too?

Science-boosting thickie questionnaire backfires

Seems they read El Reg...

66%-75% - and the right answer is now 71%

Boffins: Send robot lawn tractors to the Moon

@ian

Yes, but it's mine - I have the deeds to prove it. It's where I keep my Wensleydale mine.

US Navy orders new electric hyper-kill railgun

Fizzicks

Power most likely from a newcular reactor. Aircraft-carriers have a few of these already. And as for the flames and explosions - GCSE generic science states that when you stop a fast-moving heavy object quickly, things get hot. Conservation of energy I think it was called...

EU says Microsoft violated law with IE on Windows

Why not Macs and Linux?

...cos at the moment, the vast majority of PCs run Windows.

As for bundling IE with the OS - why not include a choice of 3 or 4 browsers for the end-user to decide on first login, with the listed order and default radio-button selected at 'random'? Maybe the EU should start banning the sale of Windows until MS pull their finger out.

Canon Digital Ixus 980 IS compact camera

ISO3200

If it works the same as my 900Ti - the ISO3200 setting only shoots at half resolution - so it uses multiple sensor pixels to produce a single pixel in the final image. Yes, it's a little grainy - but a lot better than you'd expect for a small camera.

Another miserable quarter for Dixons

Uncompetetive

Speaking of 'miserable', that's how they perform on price-comparison websites too. Maybe I'll want to pay 5% more for the convenience of being able to go into a shop and by whatever immediately instead of waiting for home-delivery - but 60% more on a TV is really taking the urine. Clearly people have noticed and are going elsewhere.

Microvision protoypes iPhone-sized projector

iPhone-sized?

How big is an iPhone using standard Reg measures?

Gov aims to extend dead artists' royalty denial

Continuous payment

I do a bit of work, and I get paid for it. But I have to keep doing other bits of work to keep getting paid.

Oh, to be a musician who (if they're lucky) works for half an hour and then proceeds to take an income from this work for the rest of his life plus 70 years.

The DNA database and you

@coalescence

Let us all know where your friend lives, and we can start treating his house walls like a toilet.

It's disgusting, it's criminal damage, it's smelly... I bet he didn't wash his hands afterwards either. Quite right to take a copy - next time the police find a patch of pee somewhere, they can (if they so desire) take a swab and run it through their system. If it happens to be your friend again, well, he clearly hasn't learned from the first offence.

A parking offence is generally a civil matter - hence no DNA entry required.