Posts by Tom 7

Google does fractals in HTML5

Gosh thats novel

I wrote almost exactly that in JavaScript and SVG oooh what 12 years ago?

and yes it was a bit slower

Catalans to hunt wild boar with bows and arrows

Bacon sarnies?

I've eaten a lot of boar meet but never bacon from a boar. I have a hunch it wouldn't be like (english) bacon at all.

As an archer myself I think the only reason hunting with the bow is illegal in the UK is because bow manufacturers didn't have enough money to 'pay the expenses' of MP's when whatever bill that made it illegal went through.

Stephen Fry cans Japan trip over nuke survivor quip

Slanty nosed tosser

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BBC apologises for Top Gear outrage

Start the program with a warning

"If you're easily offended - Fuck Off!"

Microsoft reinfects Chrome with closed video codec

"able to play mainstream HTML5"

Correction :"able to play nonstandard HTML5"

there I fixed it for you like you want to 'fix' it for us, by completely inverting the meaning.

Official: PhD in 'Essential Oils' or 'Natural Toiletries' = 'a Scientist'

prayer is effective at healing people

only in that it keeps the numpties away from the patient while they get better on their own.

and if you wait a year and cough up its an MA

is that still true?

Sales show WinPho 7 off to a flying start

storm in a teaspoon

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Mexico demands apology for Top Gear outrage

I'm looking forward to

top gear catapulting caravans over the great wall of mexico.

Gates: Killing the internet is easy

Update tuesday pretty much kills it round here.

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Boffins squeeze a mesh onto Android handsets

Just bloody marvelous

how long before we get the big companies putting up masts everywhere so they can fill every last bit of bandwidth. Cant have these freetards using things for free can we now!

Google wants Android developers

No thanks

I'll write my apps to run on the machine that works underneath android - in less than 5 years Android will be yesterdays OS and apps will be running directly on the OS and hardware that never really needed to be corralled unless the idea all along was to add yet another tollbooth on the internet highway.

Memo to Microsoft, RIM, Nokia: Quit copying Apple!

Why all the bitching about MS and Apple

Both provide perfectly acceptable computer solutions.

Unless you've got someone in your organisation who was around before them and wants to do what was easy 20 years ago and now is an absolute nightmare. Why do you think Cobol is still around? Because it works and the new MS/Apple approach of making it look easy just doesn't work in the long run.You cant make something complicated less complicated by making it pretty - that just adds another layer of obfuscation.

Hansard to pulp paper processes

Now will it be computer shaped or paper shaped?

By which I mean will it be in a format suitable for a computer screen or mindlessly formatted into a page size that means it has to be printed to read it comfortably?

ie NOT PDF/DOC/ODF please!

UK.gov 'HyperHighway' aims to 'speed up the internet by 100x'

higher transmission rate lower data rate

look forward to more contentless HD flash videos of telling you of the thing you were looking for but not actually getting you any closer.

Parkinsons law for bandwidth: Shit will grow to fill the bandwidth hiding real data.

Oracle spurns Ruby devs for Java love

Doesnt Ruby have its own IDE

I thought the whole point of writing in a fantastic new language that makes everything so much better and easier and faster and better mean they can knock up a NetJewels in ruby in an afternoon.

I've got a javascript editor written in javascript if someone wants to start an HTML5 IDE...

Blackadder style chemists transform gold into purest ... purple

Not the only way to turn gold purple

The Purple Plague was a description of the appearance of a silicon chip after gold got near it (in bonding etc) when I did chip work 25 years ago or so.

An while I'm on the nostalgia trip can anyone explain this:

25 years ago you could get 10,000 transistors on a chip for $100 and a silicon photovoltaic setup took 25 years to pay for itself.

Now you can get 20,000,000,000 transistors on a chip for less than $100, electricity is about 5 times the price in real terms and a PV setup takes 25 years to pay for itself.

Sat-spotters find secret payload launched by giant US rocket

foots per second

they also talk about rates of speed which must be something to do with acceleration as speed is already a rate.

But then they're not the only ones to have been buggerisedly with da lingo...

ish

Cameroonians cleared in 'surreal' dyed banknote scam

Non secured property mate

especially if you've done the same to the investigating police officer and discovered info that's got him on-message already.

UK proximity payments by phone this summer

Whoopie I'l be rich

just steal 10p from 1 in 10,000 of the opportunities to do so and I'll soon be too rich for them to take me to court and expect to win!

Forget Flash – content is king

Flash is needed?

for a full internet experience at this moment in time.?????

No it isnt - its just another layer of shit that gets in the way of commerce. 99.99% of the time I buy something I dont want a flash experience I just want to buy the sodding product. Thats why I've got to that part of your website.

Unless you regard the Web as merely being there to waste my time and provide employment for people who can make prevarication pretty.

Flash seems to be like these baggage handlers at 3rd world airports who spend more time loading your bags onto a trolley than it would take you to wheel your bag the three yards to the taxi rank...

Coder Android love (nearly) matches iPhone lust

And you can run android apps on your PC

not sure ifs the same for Apple....

Google's cloud printing goes physical

Ah printing

the computing worlds abject failure to use computing technology.

A bit like using the Ferrari to drive to the stables because your arse isnt formatted for a car.

Smartphone makers to embrace multi-core chips

power a 1920 x 1200 display

Thats not a phone - thats a phone box!

Boeing customers spy distant Dreamliner

vapourware trails in the sky?

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W3C tackles HTML5 confusion with, um, more confusion

A rose by any other name

Shit logo - but its a lot better than the London 2012 logo and a lot cheaper.

Glad to see people are more concerned about style than functional content.

Facebook equity offer closed to US investors

Souns like a good one for high frequency trading

put in a bid - and sell as soon as you get any shares and you might make a few bob.

Or you could trade in your myspace shares...

Mozilla slings out 9th beta for Firefox 4

So if you've got Linux and decent drivers

then you've got hardware acceleration?

It says it depends on the hardware/drivers - so there is hardware acceleration on Linux.

Picky perhaps - but shit drivers is a cross platform problem. Large corporations trying to proprietise the HTML5 standard is a much greater problem, Having hardware acceleration is a bit pointless if they wont let you watch the content because you've got the wrong sort of DRM.

One advantage of FF4/HTML5 is that is should provide a good test set for open source driver development.

Google plugins force-feed open codec to IE and Safari

Judging from the opposition

there's a lot of people going to loose a lot of money with this.

Presumably they were going to ask me to pay for their 'free' option and will try and make Google pay in the courts.

Good luck with that - Google will just fight back and not crumble under extorton demands and software patents will go to the wall. G

And you can get a job providing a service and not a tollbooth. You'll fell better in the long run.

No court order against PlayStation hackers for now

How long before we license hardware

is this what Sky does with sky+ boxes they 'give away free' with their basic bank account rupture service?

Do you own the box? I have a feeling not I don't intend to give Murdoch any more money to tie me up.

As soon as we can get rid of these internet roadblocks that get between the producers of content and the consumers the better. They no longer provide either side a service. At least Dick Turpin only robbed the occasional traveller - not everyone.

Bletchley Park to rebuild pioneering EDSAC computer

Can they open source the software

cant seem to find any proprietary software that's as good as Leo was ...

Air Con?

Thermionic devices don't need aircon. Its the wimps around them that like to pretend they need it.

At Bletchly they stripped down in the heat. Half naked ladies didnt worry Turing!

Google axes Jobsian codec in name of 'open'

hardware support

I've got 8 pcs's running here - not a single one has hardware support for h.264 Do I have to upgrade all my machines when some organisation tries to buy an open standard?

HTML5: An antidote for Apple App Store-itis

Its about access

1)With the web you have access to everything, except things you haven't paid for.

2)With store-itis you only have access to the things you've paid for in case your a very naughty boy.

I like option 1 myself.

Researcher breaks security sandbox in Adobe Flash

Security Sandbox

Adobe

not in the same memory space thanks.

Ballmer says Windows on ARM isn't about ARM

At last

manufacturers may at last feel able to make those handheld devices that have been technically possible for a few years now, but for fear of MS license arrangements have not been on offer.

Within a couple of years we should have handhelds with the power of desktops, 10 hour lifetime and a sub $200 price tag.

Until you add the MS tax....

Microsoft confirms code execution bug in Windows

The best coders are employed by MS

but MS doesn't know what to do with them - just stop them working for the competition.

They've got the best team in the world sitting on the bench - I doubt any of them would even consider going near Windows code though...

Facebook sells equity: Reportedly valued same as Tesco

Worth at least twice as much

as MySpace in 5 years...

Speed-cam stats to be published, indicates gov

I wonder if a maths A level

will be required before allowing those idiots that don't know how to accept responsibility for their own actions use this a weapon in court to get them removed.

Skype adds video calls to iPhone app

Get off the information highway Skype

your in everyone's way - even those who are think you're great.

Or let other VOIP apps talk to you like a VOIP app should do - but then you couldn't take money from the ignorant could you?

Amazon: 'iPad LCD tablets no threat to Kindle'

I look forward to e-ink on my netbookpadpodphone

Pixel Qi perhaps - but I don't want a different device for every function a computer can carry out.

World+Dog says 'no thanks' to 3D TV

I'd love 3d tv

but I'm lying here in my comfy chair with my laptop and the TV on. I'm not sitting bolt upright so all of the 3D tv's on offer would be shit.

My luxury devices are for MY pleasure (which aint pissing money up the wall to look good) so I'm not expecting any improvement in my 3D tissue wasting experiences for a long time yet,

Microsoft ARMs Windows for iPad assault (allegedly)

At last... sort of

MS have not ported Windows to the ARM before because the couldn't - they don't know enough about their own code to get it to work on ARMs - hence the new incarnation. It wont be Windows as we know it but hopefully it will no longer actively discourage the manufacture of high quality netbook/netpad machines which will become available without the windows tax (so £150 rather than £200+) for handheld computing that has been a real possibility for 5 years now, and a 'where is it?' for the last 3.

We can now have machines that can run Windows - but it will become quickly apparent they'll be better off without it.

Where the foot-gun icon?

Catfish: A fanfare for Facebook fakery

Decision trees

For every link that fails the Turing test there's one that passes. In ten clicks a stalker paedophile rapist politician has more in common with you that your best friend.

Well three probably...

Intel claims 35 Atom tablets about to hit the market

Would you like a Lotus Elise or an Austin 7

Austin 7 please, my picnic basket matches the leather, and its the only one I can find in the shops around here.

Asus Eee PC 1015PEM

Well report a faulty netbook then

there seems to be an army of us out here that want the same and no manufacturer seems to have the courage to go near it or if they do they put a crippled Windows on it make sure its a dog.

If there's anyone at the reg with a usb stick they can boot the thing up into, say, ubuntu netbook edition and see how it flies. This things more powerful than any of my desktop machines at home and I have no performance problems with any of them.

You published it in the Hardware section - be nice to hear about the hardware not the crap it comes with,

Windows 7 really was some girl's idea, rules ASA

And I can watch all of those on my 7 year old pc

no windows needed.

'Blitzer' railgun already 'tactically relevant', boasts maker

Can a rail gun be used to

bring down rail gun weapons fired at it?

I'm tempted to build one cos it looks like fun to a loony geek like me so are there any laws against it yet in the uk?

Google Chrome OS mauled by Richard Stallman

And you let your mum drive your car without driving lessons?

Just because any idiot can get on a PC and loose there personal information and you think that's progress doesn't make it so.

Stallman might be a miserable 'luddite' but in ten years time you'll be wishing you'd listened more closely to what he says - if your allowed to wish that is.

Ten... sub-£150 PMPs

All these toys

doing more or less the same thing - pmp, phone, ipad

What I want is to pay for my portable PC once, only once and not have to pay two or three times for the same drm'ed music to be copied amongst them and listed by the same ears.

One Life, One Pocket!