Posts by Fading

Sharp's new TV has over 7,000 lines of pixels – but there's NOTHING TO WATCH

My TV

Only has 1920x1080 pixels - and there is still nothing to watch.....

Man given positive pregnancy test in an Apple Watch box

Re: Tasteless, and not funny.

Succinct review of the iWatch Jake. Well done.

Arctic summer ice cover is 31st highest ever recorded

No we won't

There is zero chance of ending up like Venus (well until we are both engulfed by the Sun as it Red-giants as the hydrogen is depleted). The Earth is a water planet - the water exists in all three states. That buffers the temperature of the Earth - total energy with the Earth's system can only be determined when you know the ratio of vapour to liquid to solid H2O. This will adapt if there is more energy or less energy (until ice ball earth) keeping the temperature fairly stable.

CO2 can only theoretically have an effect where there isn't any H2O - (especially with the overlap in IR absorption spectra)

Vanished global warming may not return – UK Met Office

Re: record temperatures every year, who said it stopped and why the biased article title?

It has passed 1 degree since the beginning of the industrial revolution (though technically "Mann" can only be blamed since 1950) so we have only 100 years to save the earth from being slightly more pleasant .... again why worry?

Re: record temperatures every year, who said it stopped and why the biased article title?

So 200 years needed before the dreaded 2 degrees (invented figure by an economist) is reached?

Why are we concerned again?

Struggling AMD re-orgs graphics groups as Radeon Technologies

A lot of hate for ATI

Yet for desktop GPUs (since my humble 2400XT) I've never had a problem with drivers for windows. Linux has always suffered a bit though one generation behind the latest cards have always been fine - (I've had in various builds with HD3450, 4550, 5550, 5870, 6570, 7750 and R9 270)

Red screened on win 8 with beta drivers but never had a problem with the latest builds. All the above cards are still being used in various machines amongst friends and family members (not a single hardware failure yet - mixture of brands though the majority are Sapphire).

The laptops I've had recently have been NVidia (525M and 660M) so I'm not a rabid fan-boi.

Boffins build magnetic field cloak 'wormhole', could help MRI scanners

Re: Easy...

I think that definitely can be listed under the "not exactly helpful" column. Horrible things MRI scanners (I've been in two so far) - if you want to experience the feeling put yourself in a old steel rubbish bin and have and angry dwarf randomly whack the outside with a cricket bat. And if you move you have to restart the process........

Not sure why the cricket bat wielder must be vertically challenged but adds to the overall strangeness which you will also feel.

WIN a 6TB Western Digital Black hard drive with El Reg

After manually searching his complete directory tree, Geoff was most perturbed to discover his pron collection had been removed....

Wangling my way into the 4K gaming club with a water-cooled whopper

4K - not for awhile

Given the costs involved (and unless my six numbers come up in the meantime) It will be sometime before I even contemplate 4K gaming (only on 28 inches of 1920x1200 at the moment). Next step up will be 1440p which requires a new monitor and a new GPU (adding another R9 270 in Xfire would probably do it but the 2 GB frame buffer may struggle at 1440).

So minimum spend is in the £500 to even go that one step closer - I'll have to pass for a few months at least. Enjoy your monster rig but try not to rub it in too much.......

Windows 10: Buy cheap, buy twice, right? Buy FREE ... buy FOREVER

So I spent Saturday...

Upgrading the other half's Alienware machine from Win 7 pro..... took hours.....

Long story short:

She now has a lovely clean install of Win 7 pro.

I'll try again sometime but I think I'll wait until the official - your upgrade is ready - message.

4K refresh sees Blu-ray climb to 100GB, again

Re: DRM again........

Suggestions? I haven't found any that don't require a periodic update to play the latest Blu-ray discs. It is getting to the stage that I will rip his disks for him and provide them on a USB stick - but this removes his independence on buying and playing what he wants when he wants.

Re: DRM again........

His HTPC also gives him access to email, the internet, google earth etc. Why he should be forced to purchase software again and again just to use the Blu-ray player which he already owns, a little harsh don't you think?

Yes a separate player is possible but then you need to change the source with the tv remote (with it's little buttons) and use another remote for the separate player. If you suffer with poor eyesight you may understand that an HTPC can have the buttons on screen as large as you need them, the controls of a mouse and backlit keyboard are far superior than a small remote control.

Streaming in HD will by the way forward - as Blu-ray is destroying itself.

DRM again........

My father's primary form of entertainment is TV and film due to reduced mobility and eyesight (50 inch screen up-close helps with that). BD though is a huge problem - he recently purchased Interstellar and it would no-longer play on his HTPC as the Power DVD 10 BD edition required an upgrade..... out of support.... want another £50 of him to upgrade to Power DVD 14 BD. This happened previously with Power DVD 7 BD edition...

So understandably he is no longer going to bother with Blu-ray.

When being legal exposes you to extortion you tend to give up on it. The sooner Blu-ray dies the better for everyone.

Is this what Windows XP's death throes look like?

Re: Oh wow...

My nephew is using my 9 year old workstation as his gaming rig (Dual Xeon Dell Precision) . Doesn't seem to suffer too much :)

Sony tells hacked gamer to pay for crooks' abuse of PlayStation account

I had a similar issue.....

With EA over Christmas - google EA Fifa 15 fraud (other search engines are available) - ended up being locked out of my origin account for a month until it was sorted.

The presumption of guilt was the most annoying thing and I'm of a mind to never purchase anything from EA ever again.

Quantum computers have failed. So now for the science

Re: Those Bell inequalities...

idkfa

Just checking.....

Drinking games: Tapper 1983, this Bud's for you...

Re: I had the C64 version

Definitely a me too. Never got passed the sports stages - and the stress from sending an extra beer (IIRC the more full the beer mug the greater the distance the patrons were thrown back) - great game. Uridium huh? More of a Paradroid fan myself.

hive mind informs climate change believers and sceptics

Small self selecting sample..

Proves conclusion predetermined by researchers. Film at 11.

Doomsday Clock says 3 minutes to midnight. Again

Re: to places where Climate change is real.

I didn't down vote but mightily tempted now - repeat after me weather does not equal climate. Also flooding is a civil engineering problem (well except during Noah's time) there used be a time when humans would find solutions to problems not run around in fear.....

Scientific consensus that 2014 was record hottest year? No

Re: The Register Has Failed to Register the Larger Context of the 2014 Record

It depends on whose measure you use - 2014 was an El Nino year if you use Japan Meteorological Agency's metric http://ds.data.jma.go.jp/tcc/tcc/products/elnino/outlook.html

I'm not sure where you get your land temperature data from but given as the "back with a vengeance" cannot be seen in the lower troposphere data (https://bobtisdale.files.wordpress.com/2015/01/05-rss-tlt.png) then I suspect it is a figment of your imagination.

Re: The Register Has Failed to Register the Larger Context of the 2014 Record

Muller was never a skeptic - more than enough evidence online to disprove this line. Warm does not equal warming - if CO2 drives temperature, warm doesn't cut it only warmer will do.

2014 was "almost" an El Nino year (under certain definitions it was) - it was predicted to be one and hoped for by many on the warmer side of the debate (that it wasn't might be a concern to amount of energy "stored" in the oceans) .

The complete failure of the models to predict temperature would imply our understanding of the climate is not good enough for scientists (google Prof Phil Jones and 15 years) and definitely not good enough for policy - especially ones designed to keep developing nations poor and to kill the old in the UK.

2015 will be the Year of Linux on the, no wait, of the dot-word domain EXPLOSION

Re: Nobody Cares!

Agreed. Now how do I register internet.meh?

UKIP website TAKES A KIP, but for why?

Re: I am a UKIP member.

Building up a deficit during the boom years was not mismanagement of the country's finances? I suspect you are guilty of not understanding economics. France and Germany are economic competitors, their economies are not "on our side". Irrespective of your feelings against UKIP your arguments are not particularly coherent.

Re: "the domain name doesn't expire until 22 March 2016"

They won't need it then as they will be UKIP.gov.uk

Google unveils Windows 8.1 zero-day vuln – complete with exploit code

So looking forward to my next call from...

"Windows technical support as there is a problem with your computer." - cold call.

Instead of my usual nonsense I will now ask if they have addressed this.

Elite:Dangerous goes TITSUP

Re: Elite has so far never worked for me

If that's the error from the launcher have you tried adding a rule to your firewall to allow the launcher .exe through?

Ten excellent FREE PC apps to brighten your Windows

And a mention for my favorite Hex editor......

XVI32 - for when you really need to edit a text file.

Renewable energy 'simply won't work': Top Google engineers

Re: Nuclear Power

Citation required: Uranium (fission) is still simply too dangerous to mine, extract & use as well as the dangers of theft.

Please provide deaths per MWh in comparison with all other forms of energy generation. Also add in protected bird and bat populations as well ;o)

Seriously though fission is good and safe enough for the majority of base load generation (ask France) with gas (either fracked or not) for peak loads. Of course though all fuels are renewable (many take a bit longer than others) it's the rate of use that may not be sustainable.

Dragon Age, Inquisition: Our chief weapons are...

Still trying to....

Finish off all the content of DA1 (and awakening) - never seem to have enough time to sit down and play through it all. Might get my grubby mitts on this over Christmas and put some time in. Is DA2 worth paying budget prices for or should I skip it?

NASA launches new climate model at SC14

Very pretty but contradicts observations...

Like the ones GOSAT has been taking http://data.gosat.nies.go.jp/GosatBrowseImage/browseImage/fts_l2_swir_co2_gallery_en.html

Wind farms make you sick claims blown away again

So they didn't include every community near.....

a wind farm. Cherry picked communities perhaps?

Who funded this study?

Boffins who stare at goats: I do believe they’re shrinking

Seriously?

Where's the causation? Have they really eliminated any other factors or is it purely the "must be climate change" meme? Have they assessed the feed, local flora, grazing range, local populations (greater population would lead to more competition for resources reducing overall size over generations)?

Nope climate change- even though no one has been measuring climate for years (near surface temps are not climate).

Cloud skills certification can add zeros to your pay cheque

I've been a Cloud Observational Expert for years....

Then they told me to stop looking out the window and get on with some work......

Greedy datagrabs, crap security will KILL the Internet of Thingies

Demon Seed anyone?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075931/

Antarctic ice at all time high: We have more to learn, says boffin

Surface temperature response is only....

One way more energy in the system can be arranged. Given the atmosphere can contain H2O in all its states simultaneously - an increase at surface level in average kinetic energy is very unlikely and would only occur in the simplest of systems. So no "whilst the level of CO2 in the atmosphere is still increasing" it doesn't follow that "therefore so will the [surface]temperature."

Re: [e-mail]

No Statistically significant warming - ergo you cannot differentiate it from zero (allowing for errors etc.)

Wow truly wow

1870 - 2004 - period of 134 years (little consistent methodology)

1950 - 2009 - period of 59 years (mixed methodology)

1993 - 2009 - period of 16 years (current methodology)

And you are comparing rates of change? Seriously? Where did they learn statistics?

2 - IPCC AR5 - try reading the CAGW bible for a change and you'll see no link with "extreme weather"

3 - nope no warming in over half the satellite record. Try doing 2013-2003, 2003-1993 etc and see if your decadal pattern holds..... "upper ocean warming" - hmm pretty flat since 2010.....

Winter is coming.

Re: Winters coming.

No unfortunately it isn't (global ice is up). And no unfortunately it won't - albedo of water at north pole due to the angle of incidence is not vastly dissimilar to ice at the north pole - ergo the growing at the south pole especially as the area increase reflects more radiation (angle of incidence is less) is of great concern....

Winter is coming.

Re: sea ice- land ice

Dear lord - Skeptical science and "more reasoned" in the same sentence? Please that site is rabid CAGW to the point of hoping for it!

Try climate etc, watts up with that or jonova but please not a website from a (poor) cartoonist.

Winters coming.

How much greater ice extent is required before the Earth's albedo is increased sufficiently to bring about another ice age?

How long have we got at current rates of increasing extent (btw it doesn't matter how thin this ice is)?

Windows 10's 'built-in keylogger'? Ha ha, says Microsoft – no, it just monitors your typing

Time for a lot of typing then.....

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So long Lotus 1-2-3: IBM ceases support after over 30 years of code

My father

Is still using 1-2-3 for windows. Getting it installed and running on his Vista machine was rather convoluted IIRC. Suspect it will be more even more difficult on Win 8.....

Apple Watch will CONQUER smartwatch world – analysts

Calling Dick Tracy.....

Unless it has a big speaker and an analogue clock I'm not interested....

Ninja Pirate Zombie Vampires versus Chuck Norris and the Space Marines

Re: Have we missed clowns?

In space nobody can eat ice cream..........

[tag line from one of my favourite films - but they will need to be included in the Aliens category]

Ofcom will not probe lesbian lizard snog in new Dr Who series

So not a real lizard then........

Full of disappoint.

Why has the web gone to hell? Market chaos and HUMAN NATURE

Pop down A&E sometime...

And you'll probably find some mishaps when the "hoover" has been used to gratify the bottom layer of Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.

Microsoft exits climate denier lobby group

Re: ...that word. I do not think it means what you think it means

I guess all that additional sea ice must come from somewhere:

http://nsidc.org/data/seaice_index/images/daily_images/S_stddev_timeseries.png

Oh and what global warming (even the IPCC acknowledge the "pause")?

Take the shame: Microsofties ADMIT to playing Internet Explorer name-change game

You're safe there

IE 11 has some awful artefact bug and a font renderer that makes all the text blurry (still active bugs as of this morning). So I'd probably steer clear even if there was a Linux version (work machine was recently "upgraded" from IE 10).

Unfortunately given cognos 10 doesn't play well with modern browsers I do still need to use IE.......

Nuts to your poncey hipster coffees, I want a TESLA ELECTRO-CAFE

You think you have problems......

Try getting a decently strong cup of black coffee anywhere.

"did you want another shot of espresso in there?" No I did not want another shot of espresso, I wanted only espresso, up to the brim. And no, please no "Americano" watering down, I'd rather put ice in my whisky. Just fill the damn thing with espresso and begone from my sight.

Some days it is only the caffeine induced shakes that keeps the blood flowing round.

BT FON fail: Telco CHARGES customers for FREE Wi-Fi usage

Free wifi you say.......

TBH the only reason my wifi isn't permanently open is I don't want the neighbours randomly sending stuff to my wireless printer.