Posts by Gordon 10

HTC Titan WinPho 7.5 smartphone

Max out

The iPhone hasn't maxed out at 16gb for 2 1/2 years

Get with the times commentard.

Bill Gates strangled Microsoft's 'tablet for creatives'

He was right - somewhat

But surely a courier with a set of apps capable of interoperating with standard windows apps would have had far more chance of competing in the tablet market than a 2 1/2 year late windows 8 tablet will.

Airbus brews Scandium smackdown for carbon Dreamliner

Me likey

A REG article on science/engineering just because.

As a physicist by education and an ex-airline employee it floats my boat that way too.

Ps whose the bike manufacturer? Not that it's likely to persuade me for Al over nicely butted and flexible Steel.

Suspension is for wimps when you have a mid-high end steel frame (and you are not a porker).

Solar power boom 'unsustainable', says Gov

A PV installation was a no-brainer

If :

1. You had the cash to pay for it up front.

2. You trusted that the FIT was guaranteed for the next 20 years.

Since most people who have installed it were not in position 1 and didn't even consider 2. I predict a lot of angry people and a lot of bust PV installers.

Expect this to hit a lot of banks and finance houses that were backing the installers who are now not going to see their loans back.

Since most of the PV installations remain the property of the installer I wonder if the second hand value is enough to make it worth uninstalling the equipment and resell it?

In which case that might actually make it still worth option 1, as long as you include a healthy incremental mark down on the value of the FIT over the next 20 years.

Tesla pre-sells all 2012 Model S output

I love the foot operated handbrake

Its a little weird at first but once you get used to it it's fine.

Makes a lot of sense in an auto - which is most mercs.

Ok so handbrake turns and rally cornering are out ;).

Miley Cyrus cracker: 'I'm too short for the slammer!'

Unlucky

You're only too large for the small house.

Facebook

Given that he has already ignored the court order keeping him off the Internet I predict he'll be complaining his cell mate is too long for him within the month.

Surc universal remote case

Call me

When the iPod touch and iPhone 3 versions are out.

As I have one of each lying around that never leave the house. . Would never clutter up my current main phone with such a fugly case.

Stallman: Did I say Jobs was evil? I meant really evil

Mr Stallman

Is a modern day Puritan.

Some of us are having great fun with our pretty handcuffs.

Now which CE vendor gives the best spanking?

/gimpmask.

AMD CEO vows 'maniacal' chip-baking fix

Errr yes they have

A few years ago when they had chipzilla running scared.

Surely this is a key impact from spinning out glofo and therefore blame is to be laid directly at AMD's door for loosing control of their own production processes.

Orbitsound T12v3 spatial soundbar

Not convinced

For the same amount of money you are into budget surround all in one territory.

Only one for those who don't want lots of 5.x or 7.x wires around.

BT gets 14 days to block Newzbin2

Bollocks

Not a great analogy - they have had to police phone lines for decades.

I'm sure the electricity co's report massively high domestic usage to catch cannabis factories.

Most utilities are required to help their elderly customers - positive policing but policing all the same.

Moron

You do know it's customary in cases like this for the judge to request both sides to come up with the settlement texts and then mix and match the sections to his satisfaction.

It's actually a very efficient use of courts (tax payers) time.

RIM links with Microsoft for cloud services

Of course

The less blinkered among us realise that office integration could be quite useful to blackberry users especially in SME's.

There's quite a difference between partnering with ms office division than with their mobile division.

But hey never let reason get in the way of a good rant eh?

Apple flat-screen TV rumor rises yet again

Craig - "according to Wikipedia"

I stopped reading at that point.

Leaked Nokia WinMobes ready for midrange scrum

Make a valid case for multicore - go on I dare ya.

WikiLeaks on verge of financial collapse, founder says

A down vote for saying Julian Assclown? I should have gone with my first choice of Asshat.

Alternatively there's a tea partier who thinks that the US Govt leaning on the credit card co's rather than using due process and the law is acceptable. Given that I hope no one is that stupid I hoping it's for the Asshat.

Not a great fan of Julian Assclown but surely the credit card cos should be done for abuse of a monopoly. They are effectively acting as an illegal cartel at the behest of the the us government with absolutely no proven wrong doing by Wikimedia.

HTC Radar WinPho 7.5 smartphone

I would argue

If it looks like a fish, breathes water and swims like a fish then to the end user it's multitasking regardless of the technical definition.

Massive study concludes: 'Global warming is real'

Just how many tin foil hats do you own?

Dowler family bags £2m payout over phone-hacking saga

Sorry but

What the notw did was terrible but we need to put this into perspective. At most all they did was raise false hope for a few days and frankly since no amount of money can compensate you for losing a child I don't believe any payment to the family should have been any more than a token.

Groupon IPO seeks $11.4bn valuation

Anyone

Stupid enough to think groupon is worth more than 2 bags of marbles and a packet of crisps deserves to have their money taken.

Security keeps LA cops away from Google Apps

Groupwise

Those poor poor bastards. Still at least it's not Notes.

0.5mm² ARM chip offers 5X energy efficiency, jacks up performance

Correct me if I'm wrong.

I believe Apple is doing the opposite of this - the battery in the 4/4s is actually physically bigger than the 3G/3GS

MIT boffin: Salted disks hold SIX TIMES more data

If it can be applied to power

You could get laptops with a saltened battery.

/getscoat

Even more amusing

If Intel can apply this process to cpu's.

RIM hopes to distract punters with free pretties

Personally

I would have preferred to see Rimjobs management publish a communications plan that they promise to follow in the event of another outage.

Updates every hour and a full root cause analysis post the incident.

It's not fucking rocket science just basic service management.

Doesn't Good all this on iPhone?

The bank I used to work for was specifically planning to make Good available on all personal iPhones.

And Good does this on iPhone I believe.

Voda in 3G blackhole probe by ASA

I suspect

That most of this is capacity issues from where the network operators and voda in particular investment in cell sites and backhaul have failed to keep pace with the explosion in demand for 3G data services.

Like others in the city and the wharf I get excellent data performance between 7 and 9 am and by 10 I might as well be using a v34 modem.

What we need is to extend the bbc's crowd sourced coverage app so everyone can have a source of network performance data that explicitly refers to their area so they can make an informed choice on network.

Vote with your feet it's the only thing they understand.

Ten... earphones for mobiles

What no scosche?

I'm using a pair now. Good neutral reproduction and very clear mic in handsfree. Similar in sound to sennheiser but less bright.

Got fed ip with sennheiser after 2 pairs got caught and the cable self destructed.

In the interests of fairness I should say that some amazon reviews say the same about scosche. Touch wood no issues so far.

Indeed.

As a regular cyclist I find a lack of noise isolation to be preferable.

Really.

Well why don't you go out and see how many iPhone earbuds you can get for under £20 that have both a decent mic and the 3 button apple controller.

Don't come back until you do commentard.

Belkin Conserve

I was about to make the same comment.

My home cinema is connected to the master. TV sat and console to the slave.

Htpc and 4 port switch to the normal 2.

Harmony remote to control it all.

In the other rooms All4one do a rf remote plug + universal remote for about £12 that does the snug and the bedroom.

Toyota Yaris 2011

Really?

If you compare the manual/auto mpg of any modern car you'll find the diff is 1-2 mpg. I know it is on my car.

Since city driving is stop-start and jammy an auto makes perfect sense.

Get a life ffs

So we are talking about a car that is probable the subject of hundreds of patent license fees most of them in excess of the ms fat patent fee which has no visible impact on the cars list price.

But you want to whine about something non functional about the cars stereo - is your life really that empty?

Opera brings fondleslab-style reading to bog-standard web

Point a

By in practice you mean offline storage like the kindle html5 app?

Sutter: C++11 kicks old-school coding into 21st century

Missing the point

90% of programmers don't know what they are doing to that level of detail.

A lot of programmers have learnt on the job and never covered these areas. Hell most of us don't even have time to.

If OS programmers employed by the likes of MS - who would be by no means stupid - still leave gaping holes what hope is there for the average code monkey?

Safer all round but much less efficient and elegant to have the language plug most of the holes for you.

Downside of course is that ultimately it's less safe than a programmer whole truly knows what they are doing at a low level.

BlackBerry BBM, email downed in epic FAIL

If my telco only bothered to update twitter to inform me of an outage I would consider it grounds to drop them like a stone.

What is it with these toe rags that dont make the slightest effort to keep their paying customers informed?

They are willing to send me semi-regular texts for customer service surveys but the cnuts can't even make the effort to develop the ability to send semi-selective customer service messages when there's an outage.

Wankers.

/end rant.

Panasonic DMR-HW100 HDD DVR

Adverts?

On a piece of CE equipment that cost 300 notes! Do Panasonic actually want to sell the thing?

Visa muscles into Olympic pay-by-wave with microSD kit

Screw the operators

This is a great stick to beat them with.

Presumably they are delaying due to haggling over a cut of the proceeds.

If they are not careful they will get bypassed completely.

Afterall it's not like BT gets a cut of everything I order over their BB.

Ellison's cloud conversion is good for business

Yet again

Matt talks cobblers.

Any engineer who goes to a public cloud in a lot of corporates would be fired on the spot. Most would regard it as a clear breach of infosec rules and in some cases legal and regulatory rules.

Add the fact that most of those CIO's are running huge farms of VM's already it means there is little finical incentive to move either.

The only plus point of clouds is agility - being able to spin up instances faster than some VM farms - and this is illusionary and caused mainly by internal issues rather that technology limitations.

This Dianamania is a slur on Jobs

Bravo

Best Andrew article ever?

Can a user really do BI from the desktop?

BI on the desktop is not the problem.

User centric and user serviceable BI has been around and working as long as I've been in BI. To say this is the year of it is laughable.

The core problems in BI remain the same as they have for years :

Quality & Accuracy - golden sources. One version of the truth.

Timeliness

Relevance - common metadata definitions across the Org, handling unstructured data, handling commentary.

The major problem right now is vendor consolidation in the industry has produced these ridiculous behemoth systems that are over complex and overly expensive.

Arguably

Neither Ruby or SQL qualify as BI particularly not BI on the desktop

Apple outs iPhone micro USB adaptor

Question

Does this offer full sync as well or just charging?

AMD Llano vs Intel Sandy Bridge

More even match would have been nice.

Do HP not do an i3 version of that laptop that would be more comparable to the AMD?

Also second the battery life comments especially since the AMD's tdp is double that of the Intels. Unless the AMD chipset is far more efficient that's a big gap to make up

Looks like you are in the Market for a secondhand netbook then you cheaptard.

Why are you bothering to read any new laptop review?

Meter Readings

Puzzled

My provider EON gives me 90% of this functionality on it's site - don't all the other power co's do the same?

If so I don't get the advantage of using this app except maybe keeping history after you change suppliers.

Veggies tricked into dating meat-gobbling escorts

Rtfm

It was explained in the article. It wasn't a tech limitation but the fact that the profiles were pooled with other sites. Presumably they all used a standard template profile format with no allowance for custom fields.

Or the site was too lazy to pursue an agreed change to the profile for all sites.