
My own personal cloud you say...
I've always wanted to be a monkey with an irrepressible nature!
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Did the article author simply choose to put Tron in the title, yet not even reference it in the article, just so they would come across as sounding futuristic tech-like?
Can you please point me to where someone in the original film, or the Korean knock-off cartoon film Savior of the Earth, or Tron Legacy, or the short-lived Tron Uprising cartoon tv series wore something like this.
A friend whose job it is to deal daily with PCs & networks etc. in all forms has been very insistant I should upgrade my XP machines to 7 or 8, fearing that after M$ stop issuing security updates it'll be open season for the people behind the XP exploits, and that there could be mass XP infection after the life support is switched off, especially with the CryptoLocker ransomware nasties.
Is his paranoia justified?
Re-creating the rubber-key Spectrum keyboard I feel is a purely nostalgic one, as most people's introduction to Sinclair computers is the rubber-key Spectrum it's an obvious choice.
I have a Spectrum+ and have to say the keyboard on that is almost worse than the rubber-key one, because the sides of the keys are vertical you have to press the keys down perfectly straight or they rub up against the surrounding keys which can make them harder to push down.
I also have a Spectrum +2 which has what I would call a 'proper' keyboard, and you can actually type each letter of the commands in BASIC rather than trying to find/remember what key combination produces what command.
They still have a long way to go to compete with the reviews of
Guys over on hackaday.com are in the process of creating a rather interesting open source USB device they're dubbing the 'Mooltipass', which will act as a password wallet that can automatically enter in the password of your choosing.
Handy if you have many passwords to try and remember and want to keep them long with random characters.
I look forward to seeing the final outcome of the project.
Remember the death scene of Dynamo in The Running Man?
With the ever rapid increasing usage / storage / transmitting / selling / leaking of people's personal data held on closed and networked computers, shouldn't the ICO be given a bigger budget to employ more people and more powers to enforce the data protection laws?
Reducing their investiagtions will only lead to more companies flying under the radar, with some actively taking advantage of the situation.
I hope you're wrong, too.
A friend put his laptop online for just a short while through his phone (god knows how he figured out how to tether) just to get some printer drivers.
Cue me taking a good part of half an hour removing the half a dozen pieces of toolbar shite and other bags of shite that got installed during his attempt to simply getting a printer working because he wasn't paying attention during the installation processes (those bastards keep finding new ways to hide the 'FREE TOOLBAR' options from end users).
In a good way it means more work for those who make a living from fixing people's PCs, in a bad way it means computer hobbyists will spend more time being unpaid tech help to friends/family.
and the consequences it brings.
I talked to a friend about this going "So you've heard about the porn filter they're putting on the internet?" to which his reply was "no", and it was difficult trying to explain to him that the filter does more than (allegedly) 'protect the children' because it sets in place a tool for the government to filter so much more.
I still don't think he understands what the filter actually represents :(
I wanted to buy some writing instruments from here:
Apparently they specialize in wood...
Amazon Pulls Access to Purchased Christmas Videos During Christmas
"Disney has decided to pull access to several purchased Christmas videos from Amazon during the holiday season, as the movie studio wants its TV-channel to have the content exclusively. Affected customers have seen their videos disappear from their online libraries, showing once again that not everything you buy is actually yours to keep."
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Ahh DRM, is there no end to the misery it can cause?
I bought a couple of those Traser Glowrings some 13-15 years ago, they're still glowing but as the half-life of the tritium is 12.3 years they've lost over half their brightness.
Bought them as unique novelties and at a pub one day showed a friend them they thought they were cool but his dad was seriously not happy about me having them and wouldn't go near them.
They're now stuck either side of a lightswitch so I can always find it in the dark.
I forsee news stories of websites that should never be in the block but are there because of some little mistake or over-zealous filtering, causing their UK sourced traffic to virtually disappear in a relatively short time, and how the site owners voices are just being ignored by the 'people in charge of the filters', whoever the hell they are.
The future of UK internet access is going to be interesting, unfortunately for all the wrong reasons.
It's going to get so bad that people will be outsourcing their internet activity to other countries (VPN).
And now they have this new fangled filter hardware in place, will they now be collecting data on what websites all users visit no matter what the filter setting is set to?
My first digital camera I bought about 13 years ago was a 2nd hand Olympus Camedia C-1000L (also known as D-500L), 1024x768 resolution max but it's a true DSLR with optical zoom which made composing shots real easy.
The quality of the photos was what sold me on it, I doubt you'll ever see another 1024x768 camera from as far back as 1997 produce a better quality shot than these examples: http://www.imaging-resource.com/PRODS/D500/500PICS.HTM
It's one of those toys I could never afford as a kid in the 80s, school friend had one and I had fun playing with that, but now I have my own original 1979 looking-like-new Big Trak & Transporter (trailer) sitting proudly on my shelves of retro electronic toys, which includes all 7 variants of the TomyTronic 3D handhelds plus the Tandy clone, lots of tabletop VFD games as well as a Simon, Mercury Maze, Rubik's Magic, a lot of Nintendo gameandwatches, over 30 wrist watch games, and more...
Incedentally, did you know they put a Big Trak on Mars? (that's my one) :)
with the followup
Premonition from Back to the Future 2:
"You mean you have to use your hands?"
"That's like a baby's toy."
But the reality of creating such a drone that can withstand people trying to knock it out of the sky as well as avoiding trees/buildings/powerlines/people etc. just seems extremely daunting.
How long would it be until someone gets hurt or killed by such a drone?
You really wouldn't want one accidentally falling out of the sky onto a fast busy road.