* Posts by Haku

1902 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Apr 2007

German ebook firm aims low with cheap 'n' simple €10 ereader

Haku

Re: AAArgh!

I once bought an old toy RC tank and it had batteries inlcuded...

Haku

Re: Pico-projectors ..... haven't caught on in any measurable way.

Microvision's next gen laser pico projector will be 720p with (apparently) passive 3D capability & touch interactivity like Minority Report, the 720p laser 'engine' was demonstrated at the beginning of this year at the CES but has not turned up in a commercial unit yet :(

Japanese cellco drops veil on futuristic hands-free video phone

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Pint

"No boss, I'm not skiving in the local, it's a realistic pub screensaver you can see in the background..."

Haku

Rover spots 'possibly artificial' MYSTERY SHINY OBJECT on Mars

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Boffin

Re: Is it just me

Probably Kapton with its distinctive yellow/gold colour, rather neat stuff for working with electronics as it doesn't melt when touched with a soldering iron and the stickytape version doesn't leave residue when peeled off.

LASER STRIKES against US planes on the rise

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@Version 1.0

If you had bothered to search for more information you would have found that the 'simulated picture' is actually a still from a video demonstrating & talking about the dangers of lasers pointed at aircraft:

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

Apple files 'Shake to Print' iOS patent application

Haku
Coat

I thought all actions invloving shaking of a screen were patented by the Ohio Art Company.

You know, the makers of the Etch A Sketch...

Tibetan STATUE found by 1930s NAZI expedition is of ALIEN ORIGIN

Haku

Re: What happened to X-files references

X-Files is so last century, now it's Fringe...

Which reminds me, the new series starts tomorrow in America :)

Carbon fiber MacBooks to appear soon?

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Trollface

Re: Patent... really!

I'm going to patent something incredibly small which when arranged into certain formations can be used for other purposes.

I shall call it The Atom, and sue everyone who uses them without my permission.

See how Apple likes those er, apples.

Google celebrates as Android hits 25 billion downloads

Haku

...but how many of those downloads got erased seconds after trying the app?

I only recently joined 'the app revolution' getting an Android tablet a few weeks back (wanted a new toy) but I have noticed there's an extraordinary amount of crap apps out there - most you can avoid simply by looking at the pics/detail text/reviews but ultimately you can't help avoiding crap apps 100% of the time and deleting apps seconds after they're downloaded & tested is not uncommon I have discovered.

Barnes & Noble Nook HD and HD+ hands-on review

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@I'm Brian

In my case it enables you to take control of the device instead of being an extension to the store, cutting ties & automatic updates etc, allowing you to have USB host capabilities to connect a USB keyboard or memory stick etc.

The B&N app store isn't that big and doesn't hold all the apps the Google Play store does, so a rooted device allows you to get all those apps B&N don't want you to have. And if for some reason an app is pulled from a store and you can find the .apk to download you can still install it (but like computing in general: beware of rogue programs)

The Nook Tablet allows you to boot from the micro SD card enabling you to boot CyanogenMod7 without needing to root the device so you can try another OS and see if you want to root the NT and install that OS on its internal storage. I wonder if the new Nook HD will allow you to do this or if they've locked the devices down even more than the Tablet.

Haku

If you can't root it you don't own it.

Having such capable tablets being locked into the parent companies own app store means you can't use the vast Google Play store without rooting the device, which is like buying a Ferrari that has been speed limited to 40mph with a satnav which doesn't have the motorways in its database - a sad trend indeed.

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sent from my rooted Nook Tablet

Analogue TV snuffs it tonight on UK mainland

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Coat

I felt a great disturbance in the airwaves, as if millions of analogue tvs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I fear something digital has happened.

Motorola, Samsung smash Apple's touchscreen patent claim

Haku

Re: "TWO LAWYERS ENTER, NO LAWYER LEAVES!!"

Unfortunately under that rule they would both walk out free.

It's the same rule that stopped Homer joining the No Homers Club.

Haku

Re: Apple to learn about MAD

"patent arena"

It could be a hit tv show.

"TWO CEOS ENTER, ONE CEO LEAVES!!"

Smartphones may soon listen in on you while they sleep

Haku
Black Helicopters

So this is just further affirmation (as Hollywood films love to keep on telling us)

If you can't remove the battery from your phone you have no privacy.

Christian footie match ends in almighty brawl

Haku

Re: If God had a problem with it,

I wonder why he threw some at these players http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNJRPOltifI

Haku

Re: An influx?

“You ever noticed how people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved? You ever noticed that? Eyes real close together, eyebrow ridges, big furry hands and feet. "I believe God created me in one day" Yeah, looks like he rushed it.”

-- Bill Hicks

Ten external battery packs

Haku

I see your 20,000mAh battery pack and raise you 63,243mAh

But it weighs almost 2kg...

I put a USB charging socket on the light control box on my ebike, so my phone & mp3 player will never run out of juice when I'm on the move :)

Raspberry Pi patch adds warranty-safe overclocking

Haku

Re: Us older geeks want to know..

I expect someone will come up with a suitable add-on kit you can buy in 3..2..

Haku

Re: Why?

"But if your CPU has not been manufacturer-tested at the speed you are clocking it., all bets are off. Which matters most - getting the right results, or getting wrong results faster?"

I say this in greatest respect: You're talking bollocks.

I am running a Core 2 Duo 2.66ghz system at 3.2ghz. I had to upgrade the cooling to cope but no wrong results at all. The popular system stress test program Prime95 is very handy for checking to see wether any faults happen after overclocking.

There's nothing wrong with overclocking, heck even my graphics card has a couple of overclocking settings built into the standard software.

Reg hack uncovers perfect antidote to internet

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Mushroom

"chillax"

That word makes me want to hit anyone who uses it.

Congress report warns: drones will track faces from the sky

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Big Brother

Can you say "feature creep"?

There was a tv show 5 years ago called "Masters of Science Fiction" with 6 stories introduced by Stephen Hawking, story 6 "Watchbird" was perhaps the best of the bunch and somewhat forboding as it told the story of autonomous flying drones that were developed to support the troops during battles as they were programmed to sense & shoot people about to commit crimes before they acted them out. Based on their performance in the field the government decided to use them (much to the protest of their creator) to monitor their own population as a police aid, then they activated the watchbirds weaponry...

The iPHONE 5 UNDERMINES western DEMOCRACY: 5 reasons why

Haku

Serious question: How long will the iPhone last for?

Before the days of smartphones, with most mobile phones you may see only a few different revisions/versions created (if that, there are so many 1-off's) before the manufacturer decides to bring out a new phone with a completely new design, yet the iPhone is on it's 6th incarnation of a small oblong block with a touchscreen.

How long will the iPhone as we know it last for?

Until someone creates a smartphone that makes it look like a toy? or when mobile phones as we know them evolve into something beyond an oblong block with a touchscreen, like Project Glass from Google or built into your clothing for example?

Curiosity clears things up

Haku
Coat

The next Mars rover should be called URAS

Untethered

Robotic

Analytic

System

But really because people could legitimately say "Get URAS to Mars"...

New broadband minister snubs 'ugly' fibre cabinet gripes

Haku

"We used to be capable of designing things of beauty, or at least relatively attractive objects, such as post boxes."

Those days are sadly long gone, for example several years ago there was a comission for a very important piece of artwork that would be plastered all over the country on merchandise and shown all over the world on television yet the final choice looked terrible and everyone ridiculed it.

What am I talking about? The 2012 Olympics logo...

Amazon pitches cheap new Kindles for Blighty

Haku

Re: Just install Android then...

"If you can't hack it, you don't own it."

I wouldn't have bought my Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet if I couldn't root it, heck you can boot CyanogenMod7 from a micro SD card on it without even needing to root it.

Photos of 'iPad mini' body stir rumor pot

Haku

Looks like a baking tray...

Apple pie, anyone?

Apple confirms 'surprise' September 12 event

Haku

If it is a new fone

Will it come with a built in feature to stop people from recording footage in "tallscreen"?

Haku

Note to self:

Avoid all tech news websites on Sept 12th.

And probably the 13th and 14th for good measure.

Ten movies inspired by video games

Haku

Re: Biodome?

There's only one reason to watch that film: Kylie Minogue is in it.

Asus CEO sounds netbook death knell

Haku

Ultrabook... new name for UMPCs?

I remember seeing the 5" screen Fujitsu LifeBook FMV-U8240 and wanting one http://www.reghardware.com/2007/05/17/preview_fujitsu_fmv8240/, but the price tag put me right off. When the Eee 701 came along I pre-ordered one almost instantly, I still have it and still works great, only superseeded by my Eee 900's because I wanted a screen a bit bigger/higher res.

Haku

Re: Shame

I'm with you on the 9" device idea, the tech certainly exists - eg you can buy a LVDS 8.9inch 1280x768 TFT screen with a HDMI / DVI / VGA input control board for $150 shipped so imagine what it costs in bulk without the standalone control board, it shouldn't be difficult for a manufacturer to create a "next gen" Eee equivilant with mostly off-the-shelf tech, keeping the costs down.

Ultrabooks are just too expensive to justify getting one, especially in ths time of austerity.

Haku

That is a shame.

I still use my Eee 900's an a daily basis for video playback and web browsing because they're still great little machines to use, small, lightweight, low power consumption, proper keyboard (I actually like the small size of them).

I got a 7" Barnes & Noble Nook Tablet last week, which was the first time I've used a tablet device. Native Nook's are locked to B&N's own store so I rooted it to install apps from the Android Marketplace. After coming from a Windows environment I have to say the whole tablet experience feels somewhat restricted, like trying to compute whilst wearing boxing gloves, even with a rooted device.

Quick examples; web browsing, I'm used to having multiple tabs open on many websites I read/interact with and the tablet version of FireFox makes this a chore trying to quickly dart from one site to another. And another example is Android WinAmp, it's a joke compared to the original PC version.

It is a nice toy I'll give it that, things feel quite fluid, the screen is especially nice, the number of easily installable games are a nice distraction, but I certainly won't be ditching my Eee's in favour of it anytime soon.

Readers: Choose the proper new name for Everything Everywhere

Haku

I propose "!!!" as the new name,

An idea taken from a (sadly short lived) tv show called The Middlemen, there was an energy dink simply called !!! (just three exclamation marks) and to pronounce it you stamp one foot on the floor and at the same time put your hands palm outwards as if you were saying "ta-da!"

A load of Tosh: External hard drives the new 'personal clouds'

Haku

Home cloud??

Have the marketing team been smoking rainbows?

Radio arse tags solve modern-day TV musical chairs dilemma

Haku

I'd like to see Full Contact Hide & Seek.

Haku

Re: Kids competing for money?

Er, no. They're full-grown adults, but they do behave like children when they're playing the game, especially as pushing is allowed in certain cirumstances to beat the opponents to the chairs.

It's a bit like Wipeout - you've seen one show you've seen them all, really there are only minor differences between one show and the others; different contestants (though that's not saying much, they all behave the same in the end) and slightly different obstacles for the contestants to climb over/under/round.

Ten netbooks

Haku

Re: Screen size Fail

I got given a Samsung NC10 which has a 10" matt screen and uses 1.6 GHz Intel Atom N270 and a 2.5" SATA inside, nice little machine but the trackpad is quite annoying to use, it's smaller than an Asus 900's and they made it so flush into the plastic I keep 'missing it' by sliding my finger too far because I can't tell where the edge is, it should've been recessed like most laptops.

I still really like my Asus EEE 900's though due to their smaller size, despite their slow 900mhz CPUs. I have a Barnes & Noble Nook arriving soon, size & price was nice and I thought it's time I looked into the tablet/Android world everyone keeps raving about, and you can't complaing about battery runtimes of up to 11 hours :)

Mars rover harangues empty landscape with loudhailer

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Coat

HELLO!!

NO I'M ON MARS!! NO IT'S RUBBISH, THERE AREN'T EVEN ANY BARS!!

Watch out, PC disk drive floggers: Cloud will rust up those spinners

Haku

The Cloud - an idea marred by reality

I think cloud storage is a really nice idea but like most have posted the reality is still too far from the idea to make it a worthwhile alternative to home/office based storage.

I have 30gb of online storage which was thrown in free with another online service I pay for, but I've barely used it and the only files I've stored there have no importance because there are too many things that all have to work to enable access to it. And on top of that my broadband is only 5mb down 1mb up so storing large files on there takes an age.

British boffin builds cool maser after argument with wife

Haku

Re: Meanwhile in America...

Real Genius - Operation Crossbow

Spy Hunter

Haku

Robot Chicken

I can't believe nobody has posted about this yet, watch this:

http://video.adultswim.com/robot-chicken/trouble-in-omaha.html

:)

New lightest-ever material: Ideal power for electric car

Haku

Re: Kiki's Delivery Service

And the soot balls in Spirited Away (which is where I took my username from)

Haku

Re: Light just falls into it.....

It's like those aliens in "Attack The Block".

Lego ponders Portal pack

Haku

I can't wait for the LEGO SAW set.

So many ways to dismember minifigs...

Did your iPhone 'just stop working' - or did you drop it in your BEER?

Haku

Why don't they make a range of phones that don't die in water instead?

You know they could milk it for all its worth money wise, and people would still buy them.

Dimming the lights on smart(arse) TV

Haku
Coat

Talkie Teevee?

Howdy doodly do. How's it going? I'm Talkie, Talkie Teevee, your chirpy entertainment companion. Talkie's the name, teevee's the game. Anyone wanna watch any Dave?

Look, I don't want any Dave, and he doesn't want any Dave. In fact, no one around here wants any Dave. Not now, not ever. No Dave.

How 'bout a BBC?

Or BBCs. We don't like BBCs around here. We want no BBCs, no ITVs, no Channel 4s, no Channel 5s, 5Stars, E4s or Film 4s, no CBBCs, no CBeeBees, no SyFys, no News and no MTVs and definitely no smegging Sky Ones.

Aah, so you're a Babestation man.

No need to comply with data laws if it's too difficult - EU ministers

Haku
FAIL

So what's the point of having the law if companies can simply side-step it by saying it's too difficult to comply with?