Posts by James Hughes 1 2645 publicly visible posts • joined 12 Jun 2009
"History: more broken marriages and philanderers among these people than not. Count them up, back through the ages. They cost us an arm and a leg."
Well, better a few broken marriages, than to be part of a way of life responsible for more deaths than anything else over the centuries.
i.e. Religion.
To be honest, all this wedding bollocks is a bit nauseating, and I'm a royalist!
Camera? Lightness (with excuses to C. Chapman)? Resolution? Flash (ha ha)? SD card slot? Price? All things that other makers already have.
Same applies to phones nowadays - what can you add to the current crop of smart phones to distinguish yourself?
Of course, if Apple do think of something new to add, good for them, bu t in the meantime, answers on a postcard please....
In many companies, leaking an internal memo would be a sackable offense. Especially one that may have influence on the share price.
Quick work by Google though - figuring out who leaked it. Must have some decent email search engines in there somewhere, oh, hold on.....
Note to self - don't use work email to leak internal documents.
Apart from the medium (electromagnetic vs sound waves), is there much of a difference between transmitting data via wireless and transmitting via a megaphone? Both are using a public medium to transmit information. Both can be encrypted if required (I'd suggest an obscure N. American Indian dialect for the megaphone). The only difference is in the intention I suppose.
Discuss.
(p.s re; a comment above about being illegal to open someone elses letter. The fact that a letter is sealed IS the encyption. Not the content, so it could be argued that a letter in a sealed envelope is encrypted data.)
Most of the time.
Thing that threw me was that it creates big tar files - and I was backing up to a FAT USB drive - files were > 4GB so were truncated and were invalid. Discovered before anything nasty happened. Also takes a long time to view/extract a large tar file
Now I simply rsync video and image files (which don't compress anyway) , and use SBackup for the rest of the home folder data. Keeps tar file size down.
Works for me.
You can download the source for the current release. That seem pretty opensource to me.
You cannot download the course to code under development. Which I (and others) don't want anyway. OK, so it stops people developing it outside fo the Google umbrella. But since Google is doing the development anyway, why is that a problem?
At last Toshiba have realised, unlike Samsung, that to sell against the incumbent iPad you need to sell cheaper.
(and the lack of Google App store is Googles fault not Toshiba's, although Archos devices can access the google store so I see no reason why this cannot))
Google broke the law, and the reason they have given is that it was an error on their part. However, no-one was harmed, no data illegally captured was used (and as others have said, I can see no use of using the data anyway, it's worthless to Google or to anyone else).
Google get a fairly stiff slap on the wrist, and some really bad press and they will have to tighten up their software release practices (and I can easily see how this rogue code got in to the street cars by accident - and anyone who cannot see how its could have happened obviously hasn't worked in the software industry for long enough or with big code/library sets - remember this is a google car taking pictures, not an airliner or power station control system)
Seems a fair result to me.
Given the number of huge barriers and bridges build around the world, its not like this is new tech, so why is it so damn expensive? It is after all just a long pile of rocks with some turbines in the middle (and some locks, but you get the drift). We see more expensive roads crossing lengthy waterways on CSI@Miami every week.
Like, what percentage of the European population is over the age of 70? Most people of that age are not interested. There are some who are, but most not. Pretty sure my 90 year old next door neighbour wouldn't know how to turn a computer on, never mind how to log in to Faceshite.
but eInk displays take between 50 and 100 times less power than passive monochrome LCD, depending on the refresh rate. Most of the time whilst reading they take no power at all, unlike LCD which draw all the time.
That a lot of extra battery life, as shown by the two week figure quoted, vs 1day for a iPad?
These turbines are not on floating platforms - they are set in the sea floor which is why the water needs to be relatively shallow.
10miles offshore you will need binoculars to really see anything like this. They really will be just a smudge on the horizon. 15 miles away - over the horizon. And to be honest, there is NOTHING to see looking out to sea anyway, so difficult to know what view is being ruined. (I know, I sail, and the sea is pretty boring to look at)
Google are building the backbone, not the turbines.
Nice idea.
That app could be written withing a few days and run on a desktop. That's the sort of thing governements should be doing, not contracting EDFuckingS to spent 6 years and 1/2bill£ on a mainframe system that doenst work.
OK, so there's backup and remote access to consider, but really, not a big job.
>>>It's stretching reality to call this a "commercial spaceship"
No, not really. Just because it doesn't reach orbit doesn't mean its not a spaceship. It exceeds 100km altitude, so therefor makes it in to space, and it does it (will do it) with paying passengers.
Seems that commercial spaceship is entirely appropriate.
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