Posts by Haku

Forget about fondling that slab... within 2 years, it'll fondle YOU

"ABC company predicts XY in Z years"

I love a nice science fiction news story :D

Falling slinky displays slow-motion causality

Pure unadulterated slinky abuse:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt3iaHXwPPk

Just listen to them scream!

FCC urges rethink of aircraft personal-electronics blackout

"Everything is amazing and nobody is happy"

Louis CK on Conan O'Brien's show - watch and enjoy, or listen to a longer (uncut sweary) version.

First pic of Ashton Kutcher as the great Steve 'jOBS'

Re: Who?

Dude!

You HAVE to go and rent "Dude, Where's My Car?"

Re: Apple haters can start getting their rotten tomatoes ready now

It'll be fun watching the fanbois who love Apple but hate Ashton Kutcher wrestle with their emotions on tech/film forums everywhere :)

Forget fluorescents, plastic lighting strips coming out next year

Re: @James Hughes 1

Quick BTW: If the closeup picture of the 12v LED strip shows 1 resistor per LED that's a surefire indication they're 5050 type LEDs, 1 resistor per 3 LEDs usually means they're 3528 type.

@James Hughes 1

I got them from a Chinese eBay seller for a little over £10 each strip, cheaper than sellers in your own country but takes a while to arrive, try this search term:

5050 5m (cool,warm) -(150,60,"0.5m",3528)

5050 is the type of LEDs used (3 diodes in a single chip), you probably don't want the smaller 3528 LED type, and you'll want to go for the 300 LEDs per 5m strip not 150, the 60 is in there because some sellers will sell you single 1m/60LED strips which work out more than buying a 5m and cutting it up to suit your needs (they can be cut every 3 LEDs). Cool & warm are there to specifically weed out just 'white' because if they don't say what type then it's usually cool white.

I then used a beefy 5A 12v power supply fed into a custom circuity with a microcontroller and MOSFET to dim the LEDs, I intend to upgrade the circuit sometime to be able to individually control the two types of LEDs to change the overall output colour.

LED lighting isn't the cheapest but if you want something different, something custom that traditional bulbs can't do then it can be a nice solution, especially in this case if you point the LEDs to the wall/ceiling and hang on some aluminium strip 1-2 feet away to diffuse the light and not get dazzled by the LEDs.

Re: Colour temperature

"harsh blue-white lights"

If you mean the flood of 'cool white' LED lighting that has been dumped on the market I agree with you. The 'warm white' LEDs out there on the other hand seem to be just a bit too yellow, but if you combine the two types in equal amounts you get a really nice resulting colour.

This room is lit with 5 meter 5050 type LED strips of each white colour, running at 50% brightness through PWM control to keep them cool and prolong their life as running at 100% brightness produces a lot of heat which kills them quicker over time.

Also it's neat being able to easily control the brightness (right up to 100% when needed) with a remote :)

Who's using 'password' as a password? TOO MANY OF YOU

Passwords? We don't need no stiHELLO DEAR FRIEND,

WE HAVE THE PLEASURE TO MAKE THIS SURPRISING BUT MUTUALLY BENENFITING BUSINESS PROPOSAL. I AM A MEMBER OF THE NEWLY INAUGURATED COMMITTEE FOR THE PRIVATIZATION OF THE REFINERIES OF THE NIGERIAN NATIONAL PETROLEUM CORPORATION, IN NIGERIA.

Ten weird Chinese mobile phones

Forget those, where's my $10 disposable paper phone?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/01/19/10_paper_mobile_phone/

Pictures here: http://ixbtlabs.com/articles/digestmobile2k1jan/index.html

Badges for Commentards

Re: 1313 now

Got my bronze :) but it'll probably take a year or two to get silver as my now 1331 upvotes took 5 years to accumulate.

Perception.

Something I'm now curious about is how will other commentards perceive the comments of those who have badges next to their names, and will there be an option to hide the badge if you receive one and don't wish to display it.

Re: What? None for me?

Wouldn't a corrections badge be white? Or if you struck an advertising deal with Tipp-Ex it could be their logo.

Oh BTW

When will we be able to exchange upvotes for Nectar Points?

Re: funny looking back at old posts and going "oh dear..."

I can do that with some of my usenet postings dated back to 1996...!

I might be in line for a bronze

But definitely not a silver, only upvoted 1312 times including the anon posts.

Apple's former retail boss spills magic beans on store strategy

"magical experience that transforms your very existence"

Yep, Apple is definitely a cult.

Closed off products, white steel & glass 'churches' in cities and towns across the globe, millions of followers who say their lives would be meaningless without their products and will empty their wallets for those products at the drop of a hat (or opening of an envelope), and the leader was renound for wearing a black turtle neck sweater and going onto a big stage every so often to show his latest tablescraps for his minions to worship.

And just look at the cult compound / walled garden / office they plan to actually build: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/11/22/apple_cupertino_campus_plans/

Chevrolets to get 'Eyes Free' mode for driving with Apple Siri

Hands free... eyes free... what's next, brain free?

Oh wait, most people already operate their phones that way...

Ten technology FAILS

Hey whevever happened to VRML?

When I joined the 'information superhighway' in the mid 90s I was looking forward to websites with a bit more depth to them.

I'm still waiting ;)

Convert your iPad into a foosball table and relive the dot-com days

Can someone make an iPad Wac-A-Mole game with included iron lump hammer

Please?

Pirate cops bust LITTLE GIRL, take her Winnie-the-Pooh laptop

Flabbergasted

I...hey...whu....th....

Texan schoolgirl expelled for refusing to wear RFID tag

"mark of the beast"

I'm reminded of a comment to some video I read recently:

"When I was in high school a friend's mother told me that one day we would all have bar codes tattooed on our foreheads (mark of the beast) and that is how we would pay for everything. She got mad when i asked her if she thought it would hurt to slide your head over the bar code scanner."

APPLE reveals complete updated blueprints of SPACESHIP JOBS

"protecting the perimeters against trespassers."

That part of the statement along with the enclosed design doesn't say "office" to me, but

"cult compound"...

'There may come a day when Hobbits promote slot machines ...'

Re: Natural support with estate?

This tune might help you remember his name - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGF5ROpjRAU

4chan founder Moot threatens site for using his handle

Re: The don't let anyone give TED talks.

Er, yes they do!

http://www.ted.com/talks/hillel_cooperman_legos_for_grownups.html

El Reg mulls Forums icon portfolio shake-up

Re: Fanboi wars

How about a picture of Harry Hill with "FIIIIIGHT!" on it?

Re: may I be the first to....

A picture of a meadow for "I remember when all this was just fields"

If animated gifs are allowed...

Self head smash

Self head slap

DEATH TO TECHNOLOGY!!

What the hell am I looking at?

Frickin' lasers

No

Sex offenders need internet access, judge rules

Re: I would say that we are a long way away from the internet being essential to your existence.

I would not say that, especially if you look into the upcoming Universal Credit system the government are going to force on anyone who receives any sort of benefits (disability, looking for work, pensions etc.) as they will want people to apply online and manage their claim through an online account.

Unexpected curiosity cripples Molyneux app

Re: Excuse me...

It's a game for people too stupid to do sudoku.

LOHAN slips BRA over BOOBIES in ballocket backronym buffoonery

Awesome

Publicity

Project

Leaving

Earth

Bargain! Desperate Comet SLASHES price of £4,400 iPod Nano

Best (stolen from the internet) Comet joke so far:

Massive sale on at Comet.

Items are now only a bit more expensive than on Amazon.

Japanese car nuts build racecars powered by shouting 'Brrrm! Brrrrrm!'

Don't make an F1 version!

It'll only encourage people to make Crazy Frog sounds.

Classic game 'Elite' returns … on Kickstarter

Re: Big disappointment

I get the feeling that teaming up would be a massive compromise.

From reading the Kickstarter page it appears David Braben has been working on this for many years, even if some of the time it was just thinking about how his new multiverse game would pan out. Teaming up with someone else who has already running software would mean compromises and re-working the game, that would possibly mean altering it in ways you didn't want to do.

Twitter in BRUTAL crackdown on copyright looters. Sort of

Re: WTF can you fit into 140 chars?

You called?

Oh, a Haiku.

Must make that Specsavers appointment...

Kim Dotcom offers free internet with own submarine cable

Re: Forget the cable

That's probably on his list right after the sharks with frickin' lasers.

Sock-wielding movie pirates go to prison

Re: IR Countermeasures

The level of IR light needed to penetrate the IR filter on a camera to saturate the picture could be at a level too dangerous to expose your eyes to for long periods of time - you wouldn't want your audience to develop cataracts!

Volunteers sought to see if anyone actually can hear you scream in space

Moonwalkers touch helmets to talk

No, not that moonwalker, astronauts discovered that they could communicate without radios by touching their helmets to allow the sound vibrations to travel to the other person.

Xbox mod spreads KILLER Borderlands 2 GERM

"Don't you have better things to do than going online killing people?"

-- Cartman in "Make Love, Not Warcraft" (full episode)

Apple's iPad Mini mishap: scratching out the retina screen

Nook HD?

http://www.reghardware.com/2012/09/26/barnes_and_noble_nook_hd_plus_hands_on_review/

The Nook HD 7" has a higher resolution than the Nexus 7, plus a memory card slot. But I guess it's not being mentioned in comparison to Apple's newest "oooh shiny!" product because it's not on shelves yet (but is available for pre-order with early Nov release)?

Apple iPod Touch 5G review

£80 for an extra 32GB storage?

McKinnon case is NOT a precedent – says his own lawyer

@AC 13:34

You're trying to compare an average person's house to the US military's computer system which anyone with even half a working braincell would know that it would be under attack from intruders wishing to steal information/cause a disruption.

Ofcom probe into telcos jacking-up charges halfway through contracts

Most consumer contracts and T&C's in a single sentence:

"We are big. You are little. Don't like it when we change the deal? Tough titties."

Argos flyer confirms incoming 32GB Nexus 7

Re: But can I bring myself to buy a device called the ainol?

Man walks into Argos: "Have you got any Ainol Tablets?"

Cashier: "Try Boots next door."

ASA shakes finger sternly at naughty eBuyer over hard drive promo

Half Price Pots

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGhJMdmj3Y0

Windows 8 ads hit US screens: Death Metal, exploding laptops

Touch input?

As a replacement to mouse & keyboard? No way, touch screen keyboards are horrible to use, and the five flesh pointers stuck on the end of your arm are not as precise on a touchscreen as a mouse pointer in a traditional GUI.

As an addition to mouse & keyboard? Yes I can see that being an advantage.

MYSTERIOUS GREEN GLOW seen on iPhone 5s

Re: Is that it?

Yeah I had to watch it a few times to spot it too (right in the corners for about 1/2 second upon the screen powering up), it's just fanbois being hyper-critical of their shiny new Apple toy as they can't understand why it isn't immaculately perfect.

VR pioneer invents 'illumination-as-a-service'

LightCloud? What? Oh an interactive LED cube

Hey Reg you missed the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOoKDOv8sd4

After watchng that I can only say in my bestest Dragons Den impression... I'm out.

Jaws restored Blu-ray disc set review

Stills and photographs bonus extras

Why do the disc authorers so often have to put original artwork, stills & photographs in fake frames with borders round the edge - do they really think we don't want to see the detail in the pictures by shrinking them smaller to cater for the crappy 'artistic' border?

Sarah Brightman plans International Space Station gig

Re: She does know it's not quite a starship?

I think the guy on the keyboard(?) borrowed your silver space trousers... Skrillex vs Andromeda from Buck Rogers