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Posts by Gene Cash
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Happy birthday, transistor
N. Joseph Woodland, inventor of the barcode, dies at 91
Friday 14th December 2012 20:26 GMT 
Actually on the local news
I didn't know that American news could spell barcode correctly, much less write a coherent story about it!
Anyway, one of the local (Florida, US) companies made some serious barcode readers. They had one where you could put the barcode on a frisbee, fling it through this 5ft cube volume, and it would read it 10 out of the 10 times I tried it. My hat was off to those boys. Some smart ones in that bunch.
A toast to Mr. Woodland!
Facebook ditches mobile HTML with native Android app
Microsoft notices Xbox gamers actually slack-jawed TV fans, adds 43 new apps
Tuesday 11th December 2012 20:07 GMT 
Paid online subscription
Would this be the same Xbox Live membership where they keep charging your card, even though the card expired 3 months ago, and you cancelled the membership 6 months ago?
My credit card company got snotty until I mentioned they let MSFT charge a card that was over 3 months expired, and what might the banking regulators think, and they quickly backed down.
Pocket strokers will barely feel Qualcomm's new tiny bonk chip
Take it or break it: the return of the drop test
Friday 7th December 2012 19:55 GMT
Re: Am I the only one..
It depends. I can't stand having a case on my portable devices, but I make a major effort not to drop them. I dropped my original Droid *once* and discovered the power button does not deal with impacts. Lesson learned. Fortunately I was able to set up Cyanogen to power on with the camera/volume buttons.
The only protective rule I adopted for my new smartphone was that it goes in a pocket separate from the keys & change.
We'll see how my Nexus 4 does with the glass front *and* back (if it ever gets here)
Record €1.47 BEELLION EC fine for price-fixing display cartels
2012: an epoch-defining year for home entertainment
Wednesday 5th December 2012 16:47 GMT
Epic year for me
It was the year I tossed my Xbox in the trash and stopped my cable TV subscription. I got tired of over 30% ads in the very few things I actually wanted to watch. I got tired of everything either being a tired sequel retread or a crappy ripoff of another country's original idea (I'm looking at YOU, American "Top Gear"). I got tired of Speed channel cutting my bike races for NASCAR. I also saw no movies at the local theatres.
Now I download my entertainment from various places on the net.
Curiosity finds organics on Mars, but possibly not of Mars
Google buys parcel storage service for Christmas
RETURN of the PLAYMONAUT: El Reg's space hero suits up again
Spaniards Joyn together to hunt and kill the Skype monster
Google tools gaffe let ZOMBIE web admins feast on websites
Annual reviews: It's high time we rid the world of this insanity
Android users: More of them than fanbois, but they don't use the web
Their One Year Mission: To boldly find the effects of null G on humans
Monday 26th November 2012 23:23 GMT
Sarah Brightman
So what's the skinny on this being related to a Soyuz seat being taken by Sarah Brightman? I heard that she outbid NASA with the result that they have to skip a crew rotation. NASA is attempting to put a bright face on this by saying it's FOR SCIENCE!!!111oneoneone
NASA denies the story, of course, but then I wouldn't believe Fox news if it said the Atlantic was wet.
http://nasawatch.com/archives/2012/10/russia-sells-so.html
http://abcnews.go.com/m/story?id=17384120
First FIRE TORNADO documented in Australia
Mozilla's Social add-on MERGES Facebook with Firefox
World's oldest digital computer successfully reboots
Glorious silicon globes could hold key to elusive PERFECT kilogram
Tuesday 20th November 2012 16:40 GMT
Re: Leap Seconds
You're STILL getting up at 3am in the morning, you retard. You've just fooled yourself that it's not by mucking about with the clocks. Mess with your own clock. Leave the rest of us out of it.
'After having Daylight Saving Time explained to him, a wise old Indian Chief said, "Only the government would believe you can cut a foot off one end of a blanket, sew it onto the other end, and end up with a longer blanket."'
ViewSonic VSD220 22in Android mega tablet
Wozniak to star in crazed iOS action game, rescuing missus 'J-Woz'
Warner recalls Xbox Lego Lord of the Rings 'demo' discs
HTC share zoom prior to Apple peace pact under investigation
Industry in 'denial' as demand for pricey PCs plunges
Tuesday 13th November 2012 16:58 GMT
I upgraded
I had a single core Intel-something that had limped along for ages with ancient SATA support, that had only gotten an upgrade from 2GB to 4GB of memory and a better power supply. It was in a case from 1998. I finally got tired of having to juggle VMs.
I sent NewEgg a chunk 'o change and got a decent case, a nice ASUS motherboard, an SSD, an i7, 32GB memory, plus a water cooling kit to keep it nice and quiet. This is so over the top for me that I can't see upgrading ever -- only replacing things as they fail.
The one crap thing on new motherboards: the 90deg SATA connectors where you have to fumble blindly for 5 minutes to plug them in from the side, instead of just plugging them in from the top. WTF is up with that?
Volkswagen Beetle car review
Walmart workers filmed playing iPad frisbee
Judge denies move to ban ad-skipping DVR
Thursday 8th November 2012 16:00 GMT
Re: Note to broadcasters - stop it NOW!
I know the over-the-top ad situation coupled with the shit quality of American TV has pushed quite a few of my friends into exploring TPB, to the extent of buying VPN accounts to hide said exploration.
They've gone from "buh, whut, iddn't that piracy?" to "damn, this is really nice" and it's pretty much the broadcaster's fault for finally pushing them over the edge and making them go "I can't stand this any more. isn't there something better out there?"
In the loop: how Halo defined a new decade of first-person shooters
Tuesday 6th November 2012 15:44 GMT
Pretty much the only FPS I've played
HALO: CE gave me one thing: A STORY. I don't play games to play games. I want a *reason* I'm in there putting holes in aliens. HALO gave me that, and gave me a reason to shoot those little bastards. It also gave me a reason to slog through the library. It kept me engaged.
As a game, my reflexes suck, so I don't do multiplayer, but I still want a decent challenge from the AI. HALO gave me that too. It also gave me a HUGE sandbox, with enough varied stuff I could keep trying different things. All the physics worked and there was no "rails" to ride on. You could try carrying different weapons, and sneaking instead of frontal assaults, and other things.
It even had controllers large enough to fit my paws, until they went to the small ones, but I found a bunch of large ones on eBay.
For some reason, I loved the one where you played as a marine, with the cool heads up display and finding the audio tapes. I can't remember the name, and nobody else liked it, but I did.
And as an added shock, local LAN multiplayer was actually fun with my friends, so we played that for a LONG time. We never did XBOX Live. I did for a short while on Halo: Reach, until I got banned for "cheating" because my ISP was so shitty it kept dropping my connection. When that happened, the XBOX went on a shelf and has stayed there.
Mars rover Curiosity snaps explicit selfies from ALL ANGLES
Pristine WWII German Enigma machine could be yours
ISS 'nauts pop out to fix a radiator... in SPACE
New York tech firms form 'bucket brigade' to fuel flagging servers
Hmm, I think I'll order an iPad Mini on Amazon ... Oh no I won't
iPhone owners sue Apple for locking Jesus mobe to AT&T
4G: Bad coverage, crap battery life - but at least it's really expensive
Friday 26th October 2012 18:58 GMT
Seven antennae? Really?
So I have a Xoom with Verizon's 4G here in the States. Since a) it's datacapped and b) android market throws major temper tantrums if you turn off background data, and c) Ice Cream Sandwich doesn't really do "wifi only", I pulled the sim out just to see how it coped.
Since then, it's gone from "must recharge every day and a half" to happily running for nearly a week on a single charge.
As a data point, before I rooted it, it wouldn't even last a day. After I rooted it and got rid of the "Dungeon Defender" & "Cordy" shovelware, the battery life got a lot better, as Dungeon Defender appeared to be constantly running in the background AFAICT, even though I never played it. Fuckers.
SanDisk jolted out of flatline after Q3 flash storage shock
Curiosity scoops up SHINY BITS from the RED SANDS of MARS!
Craig, Connery or ... Dalton? Vote now for the ultimate James Bond
Mission to Pluto faces DEEP SPACE DEBRIS PERIL
Billion people now own a smartphone
Wednesday 17th October 2012 11:04 GMT
Nokia 9000
Man... me and about 6 friends wanted that phone SO bad, and nobody here in the states would sell it. As a result, we pretty much wrote off Nokia after that.
I remember it as so slim & trim, and now looking at that picture, I can't imagine why I ever thought that.
The interesting thing is I have a Droid, but I've used only 13 voice minutes on it in the past year. I use it mainly as a PDA and have ported apps I wrote originally for Palm to Android. I have banking records going back to 2002 originally entered on my Palm III. As far as I'm concerned, it's a hand sized tablet, not a phone.
How Nokia managed to drive its in-house Linux train off the rails
Thursday 11th October 2012 19:41 GMT
Re: N900 ... so close to exceptional, but not open source enough
Yup, the battery charging bits were also verboten too, so you couldn't compile Maemo from the ground up like you can with Android.
Another killer was that it was derived from Debian, but they didn't take advantage of the packaging system. Upgrades were by reflashing ROM images, so you lost all your data and customization.
Sites can slurp browser history right out of Firefox 16
LASER STRIKES against US planes on the rise
Saturday 6th October 2012 01:19 GMT
Re: Several things about these stories bug me...
Yes, I've tried it, and it's not that difficult, even one-handed from my moving motorcycle. Plus the target is traveling very slowly in a very straight line (or even stationary in the case of police helicopters) - obviously you don't live or work near an airport.
Only airliners usually have automatic landing systems, the chap in the Piper or Beechcraft is going to lose his night vision at a very inopportune time.
The problem is most people think it's a little green dot on the window, so they don't realize what it actually does.
Boffins prescribe SNAKE VENOM as future pain killer
Tacky mobile ad networks could kill publishing, survey shows
Monday 24th September 2012 22:33 GMT
People are NOT ok with them on TV, they just have no option
I used to pay $100/mo to have 30% of my shows be commercials, and have the plot chopped to hell by interruptions. The ads got so annoying I canceled my cable and haven't watched TV in 4 months now except by putting an eyepatch on, making the parrot sit on my shoulder, and going YARRR!
That's the only recourse I have for TV other than DVRing EVERYTHING and using a skip button. Changing the channel just gets you a different commercial.
On my computing devices I have more control, and things like /etc/hosts, AdBlock+ & AdAway, which I use to the hilt.
Toyota kills city 'e-car for everyone'
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