Posts by Gordon 10

Report: Nokia, Apple battle over ultra-tiny nano-SIMs

Wtf

It was had enough getting the damn micro sim into my iPad. Am I going to have to use tweezers for the next one.

Just stop ok. a micro sim is plenty small enough.

TalkTalk is yet again the most griped about telco in Blighty

Re: not only customers...

Seriously? That actually happened?

Sounds immoral if not borderline illegal. Wonder if they were actual TT or some dodgy reseller?

Commodore outs Linux-running Amiga Mini desktop

Oh ffs

Wtf are they playing at? That looks like a trashy far eastern oem mac-mini clone with some Amiga and commodore labels slapped on it.

If you are going to rip off a mac mini at least make it something better than I could pick up online myself.

If Nominet has spoken, you can't come here – High Court

Re: I'm surpised

That's not what the article said. Essentially it said you aren't entitled to appeal to the court on about an abusive registration ruling if you have already chosen to use Nominets arbitration.

Why should the court be asked to opine on something that has no legal dimension? No contractual terms were broken, no crimes were committed.

Essentially they were saying we are not going to become the court of appeal for Nominets resolution service just because you don't like the result.

You have to wonder what the guy had at stake that he thought was worth taking this to the high court about.

Wannabe Murdochs crash Ofcom's local telly party

Re: No local pornographic services

I for one was looking forward to "live lapdancing from <insert local dive here>"

Imagine the munters **shudder**

'Now we understand what's required to explode a supernova' - NASA

Re: Warning: agenda at work

Thats because those Nasa astrophysics boffins have no short term payoffs to gain - whilst Climate scientists have massive short term payoffs to gain. Not all of them are that veneal - but when your grant money rests on short term results then you are bound to be influenced.

It doesnt matter a jot whether the super-nova theory is wrong or right in the general scheme of things until we get out among the stars, which is unlikely with the luddites in charge.

I would also suggest that Physics is real science and the "science of climate change" falls somewhere between history, mathematical modelling, and spin doctoring.

Testicle-boiling new iPad ignites fanboi fury

Re: LTE not usable outside North America?

What's the LTE beef? The 4g iPad costs no more than the 3G iPad and it still works on 3g and 2g everywhere else.

So in summary I've paid nothing extra than I would have paid any way.

Hong Kong scientists claim 'self-charging' graphene battery

Besides

If the battery was taking non-chemical energy from the solution shouldn't there be a measurable drop in temperature - and a spike in voltage if heated?

Big Media drags 142,000 through UK's courts in a year

@Seb Re: So what is your problem?

Al the TV's and monitors in my house are less than 5 years old. I have never been asked if I had a license for them.

The retailer might be supplying my details - I certainly am not.

N7Player

Re: Metadata driven players have a weakness...

Are those tags also sync'd back to your pc/master music store? Otherwise it's worthless.

Not content with Google

Knowing as much about you as they already do you want to give even more?

Hahahahahaha

Horny VIKING MICE raped and pillaged Euro pipsqueaks

I bet

All those slutty mice are squealers.

Foxconn is world's 10th biggest employer: 1.2 MILLION on payroll

Interesting piece on the beeb

The beeb mentions the Foxconn suicides and notes that the reported suicide rate among their workers is significantly lower than the Chinese average. Now that average is for the whole population rather than the industry and I'm guessing that many more have happened offshift but it does make you think.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/magazine-17429786

ICANN prez calls out own board over conflicts of interest

Simples

Any BoD members have to renounce any paid roles in related companies and register any non-paying non-exec roles.

It's not rocket science. Just don't obviously put your snouts in the trough.

Microsoft accused of leaking RDP attack code

Covering up?

How do we know the researcher don't leak it himself by mistake and is covering it up?

iPhone stroking keeps us satisfied the most, say fanbois

Re: 4G Smartphone?

LTE is considered 4g and there is at least one LTE network in the states with a range of true 4g handsets..

'Seas will rise, flood millions of homes' warns Eric Schmidt ecologist

Missing the point

Googie is only funding this so you can use the forthcoming Noah plugin for google maps which helpfully directs you by salary band either to a sponsoring realtor or a rubber dingy shop.

It's a well known fact that all the air cooled goo-data centers are primed to switch to leaky freon cooling the second the tipping point between climate change and maximising climate driven advertising is reached.

Apple iPad 3 packs LAPTOP battery

4g power drain

Given that the difference in life between the 4g and wifi versions is the same as the ipad2 3G & wifi versions that actually suggests that 90% of that increases battery is going to the screen.

Smartphone owners demand bigger screens

@dave

Dont forget your tinfoil kecks.

Gamers pledge almost a million dollars for Wasteland sequel

Loving Kickstarter

There are some great requests on there.

Company called Adonit have used it for all their iPad accessories - which are all a cut above the usual OEM'd chinese muck and the mainstream accessory makers such as logitech.

More power to Wasteland (although its not a game I ever played)

Ex-Google man laments Larry Page's 'single corporate-mandated focus'

Re: Just because _you're_ all jaded...

Bollocks.

All companies that are big corporates are soulless automata whose sole purpose is wealth generation for their shareholders.

Anyone who thinks or feels differently is a naive idiot.

Google only pretended that they were a geeks paradise whilst it suited them. Anyone who actually believed that google were anything else fell for the bullshit and brainwashing perpetuated in their ludicrous recruitment process. The JW's and Scientologists are similar.

If anything was a sign that Google thought its shit didn't stink that was one.

(and no I've never applied or been rejected by them)

Lightsquared cries dyslexic Havoc, unleashes 'gods of law'

Re: When your opponent has nuclear weapons.....

Do the research. It's poorly specced and designed civilian GPS's that are listening too widely to bands they shouldn't at fault here - not the military receivers.

More power to lightspeed - sue the incompetent manufacturers and the incompetent regulator who allowed disfunctional equipment an FCC licence mark.

HTC slaps Ice Cream Sandwich on 16 handsets

Flyer

Anyone who bought a flyer at or near it original rrp has yet another reason to be choking on their own rage right now.

Apple iPad sales slip as cheap Android tablet tsunami looms

Err correction to headline

Sales increased. Market share slipped.

Thus the folly of relying on percentages without understanding the underlying data is shown.

Just like a real computer: Android gets Android IDE

Re: This could be the tipping point...

You don't get out much do you? I cant speak for any other transits but the tube at or near rush hour is probably one of the safest places to whip out your slab - if only because you have the safety of the herd. On my usual train the split is 15% iPads, 20% kindles

, 10% lairy Bose headphones and 55% metro readers.

Everything Everywhere grabs UK 4G wheel, rivals thrown off bus

Re: Scandal of 2011...

Agree it should have been contingent on agreeing to the 4g spectrum auction.

Re: Frequencies

Erm maybe the fact that if you don't have a LTE network you will still have both 3G and 2g to fallback on kinda means 1800 not being a world wide band is a big deal in the short-medium term. Besides which no-one in their right mind who pays their own bills is going to be interested in paying the extortionate rates that 4g roaming will be at.

Sly poke

..in the eye for Vod and o2 who are fighting tooth and nail to keep the 2g spectrum they were awarded for free?

However not sure that the Regulator using an accident of logistics and business to define the initial 4G landscape is very professional.

Surely most of the progress towards a 4g auction could be solved by getting the respective network heads all in a room together and hammering out a deal?

Oh I forgot - its not about effecient use of spectrum its about a Quango justifying its existence.

I would say its also about maximising revenue from that spectrum for the Govt and Taxpayers, but they are making such a hash of it the concept is laughable.

Dell splashes cash on SonicWall's powerful firewall erections

hmmmm

Its obviously a grow by pieces strategy rather than a big bang approach. The key points will be converging the product lines into something coherent. Not sure if dell have a great record of that.

It smacks of a toe in the water exercise with no real confidence to make a decent sized purchase.

Apple, Motorola Mobility held patent war peace summit

Re: Yawn

when the sandpit became worth a gazillion dollars.

West Yorkshire Gay Police Association in email list leak FAIL

Re: more gay police please

But whining about a stereotype is just soooo stereotypical.

Cue spiralling responses culminating in a negative reality inversion.

Jester hacker brags of mobe attack on Anonymous, baby-kisser

About time

The Jester was thrown into the same cell as Lulzsec.

iPad 3 benchmarked

Re: Bit mapped thinking

You are missing the point. These "low power" GPU's are benefiting from 10+ years of GPU and HPC arms races and because of their highly parallel nature they are almost pre-optimised for low power simply by cutting down the number of units from their mainstream cousins.

They were *made* for this application baby!

The ipad 2 gpu capabilities were widely acknowledged as some of if not the best in class, with plenty of headroom for the future - even if there has been a drop in headroom I expect it to be marginal.

Bit mapped thinking

The 2x/4x graphics debate is very limited thinking. We've long passed the point where bitmap processing is the be all and end all of graphics processing.

Vector processing is king and the number of pixels is just a sideshow. name a credible graphics technology in the past 5 years that hasnt laughed at HD+ resolutions.

I'm betting that the iPad 3 is not only easily capable of pushing the extra pixels but also more capabable f juggling all the overheads associated with gaming jiggery pokery.

Speedy 3D printer creates 285µm Formula-1 speedster

Re: I just followed my own advice in my last comment.

Steady on!

All those applications need more enabling technologies than the ability to print small things quickly.

Samsung spanks Apple in world's biggest mobile market

Well Duh

Dont you think Apple would have already done the Cost Benefit analysis on this and included exactly whether and when this was worth doing.

So in effect this story is Apple refuses to discuss long term detailed business plans with press.

Just like every other major manufacturer.

Mozilla to drop Windows 8 Firefox bomb on IE 10

Hooray

Yet another reason my addins will be disabled next time firefox updates me to the quarterly released "major" version updates.

/moanybastid

Titanic director James Cameron prepares for deep sea dive

Re: Use of icons

Depends on how you use deep.

Re: Risking the wrath...

Or Blue Hades

0€

Re: Movie

Think the rumours confused 2 things. The avatar sequel and the 3-d cave diving film that he supported and lent all his equiment to.

SUPERCOMPUTER vs your computer in bang-for-buck battle

Folding & Seti

Just for comparisons sake it would be interesting to know the avg and peak score for the Folding or Seti@home networks. Suspect they come very high in the price/performance mix.

Shame they all have better things to do than run Linpack :)

Hands on with the Apple iPad 3

Re: @Monty : Love the comment-bombing

The resolution was the only topic in the post I replied to feel free to widen the topic on another post.

Re: Love the comment-bombing

Fact is there are NO competitors shipping hi res tabs and probably won't be for 2-3 months at best.

Some lucky pre-orders on the apple store last night will have theirs in their sweaty palms in a weeks time.

Major difference.

Microsoft talking turkey with OnLive over Office to iPad

Baffled

The iPad already has dozens of office suites with ms compatability and with UI's built for touch and cloud storage support.

If I'm desparate to use office itself I can pay a one off fee for LogMeIn or similar to use the office installed on my desktop or laptop again which have UI's that help manage the touch to WIMP conversion.

Why on earth would I use Onlive at £5 a month?

Microsoft tech turns any object into a touchscreen

The future?

Am I the only one who sees this as a fondle slab killer?

Put the tech in a phone with a vertical stand and an angled Projector onto the desk and instant fondleslab.

FCC ponders: When is it OK to switch off networks?

Not sure the UK summary is correct

To the best of my knowledge the Govt can ask the networks to switch alKulk(?) mode which prioritises specific sims across any network and ask the networks to close to normal punters for the duration of an emergency. Basically only people in possession of these sims can then make calls.

Typical people in possession of them are emergency series and armed forces and more prosaically members of the telcos DR/BC teams.

Intel runs three Ivy Bridge fabs ragged for April blast off

Errrr

And where is all this Ultrabook deman going to come from pray tell?

No sign of it yet.

I for one welcome our Jan 2013 heavily discounted ultrabook minions.

SeaMicro acquisition: A game-changer for AMD

AMD will fusck it up

As above. Time and again AMD have failed to leverage the industry trends to get a jump on Chipzilla and others or even come out with a credible alternative until the mass market has already arrived.

To whit :

Centrino

Core

Atom

Cuda/Fermi

Arm (Tegra etc)

Missing many of these is no shame. Missing all of them - especially when they have in house knowledge is uttter, utter incompetence (in house knowledge = GPU's, SoC's etc)

Im a big AMD fan but it looks to me like they will continue to struggle for relevance in the Tween years of the decade.

China aims its most powerful rocket ever AT THE MOON

Re: Thank goodness the bankrupt UK

Liar. You utter muppet.

Show me the site that says we give any international aid to china. Its certainly not listed on the Department For International Developments Projects Site

http://projects.dfid.gov.uk/

Europe is a happy hunting ground for TiVo

Now if only

There was a TiVo box for freesat and freeview.