Posts by DAN*tastik

Korean boffins discover secret to quick-charge batteries

@ZanzibarRastapopulous Re: Fast charging

3K in Italy is not really an issue... My mum lives there and there are not many more people more power hungry than that woman. She doesn't quite grasp the concept of saving energy, and if she finds a way I am sure she'll start inhaling the stuff while injecting herself with it! For some reason I can't understand she has a huge fridge and two fridge freezers. And she is not one to switch the telly off at night while she sleeps in front of it, or the aircon when there's nobody at home for a while. Never managed to educate her...

I am not sure how the average family could need more power than she does!

I really doubt that all the economic issues are because of the 3k limit at all.

And maybe there is something else to add to the list of things to tell a therapist once I finally decide to see one :)

Apple pounces on Samsung doc as proof of 'slavish copy' claims

@ squizzar

Where's the Holly Harper icon when you need one?

Apple iPad fondlers are about to enter a THIRD DIMENSION

Fantastic!

If I am not wrong ( I could easily be ) they need a working model to have it patented?

f that is the case, where is it kept? As much as I don't like Apple, I would be thrilled to try it. Does it also work with their keyboard made of extra terrestrial rock fragments?

If I manage to create something similar, but with a procedure which is different from the one they specified, I believe I am not infringing their patent... ( I could easily be wrong again )

It would be handy to have a look at the steps to obtain it that they submitted to the patent office?

Jury selection delays start of Apple/Samsung patent showdown

@ Fred Flinstone - Re: jury selection delay

I have found "talking about a a throwing"

Anything else it would be great if you, or somebody else, pointed that out. If it's not a typo, it would be something for me to learn! Withdrew my previous reply to your post because I re-read and it could have come across as a bit arsy, and it wasn't my intention at all :)

Re: jury selection delay

"Who is gonna win" because if you replace the "hoos" sound with "who is" it makes sense. In this case they are not talking about "who owns a gonna"

"They're obsessed" because it means "they are". If you can replace the "there" sounds with "I am", then it's "they're"

"By them". Use "by" when it's a passive form of a verb, "buy" when there is a purchase involved, "bye" when somebody is leaving

"the judges will be, but the fact" it is common practice to put a comma before "but" so it's easier to understand that you are talking about something else, and the reader can pause a second to take a breath.

"Apple solves things by" because in this case it can be replaced with "through" or "using". For all the uses of "by" you can read this: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/by

"throwing patents" the "ing form" is the correct one here. For example, you could say something along the lines of "ignoring patents". You were not talking about a a throwing action that happened in the past.

"can't" is the contraction of cannot, and the apostrophe replaces the "no" which is dropped.

"the competition and they're" again, if you replace the "there" sound with I am it makes sense. So, it is just the contraction of "they are", "they're"

"losing market share" because when you "lose" something, it means you end up with a smaller amount than in the past. "Loose" is an adjective which means "less tight"

"market share, boo hoo" Again, a comma helps the reader pause to take a deep breath, and it means the sentence is completed.

As Holly Harper would say, "Hope that helps!"

Why one storage admin fears Justin Bieber

I accidentally downvoted you without even reading...

apologies

Bieber shaver

Let them have no other browser than Firefox - no mail clients, webmail only and... IN YOUR LITTLE FACES, YOU LITTLE BITCHES!

http://www.reghardware.com/2010/05/25/bieber_shaver_plug_in/

PlayStation burnout probe: It's not the Vita, it's YOU, says Sony

The customer is always wrong?

- It does work, it's you holding it wrong

- It does work, it's you doing something wrong to it

- Our phones are great, the problem is that people in Italy, Spain and Belgium ( or something similar ) not buying them

- We didn't reach the target because some of our customers are waiting for the new version of our product to hit the shelves

Is the next strategy for big companies to start suing those who buy their products, claiming that the negative feebacks on Twitter or Amazon are only because they can't use something properly?

And then suing those who don't buy their products, because they interfere with their targets?

If anyone knows a good lawyer ( or solicitor, attorney or barrister or whatever, I never get it right ), put their contact details on here in case we all end up in courts.

Nokia woos networks with 'exclusive Windows 8 mobe deals'

I didn't want a WP before reading this article

But i certainly do now!

I am so excited I am taking out all the party stuff they sent me when I held one for the launch of Vista and do it all again!

In a perfect world they would team up with Asda Mobile, so I stick just put my current SIM card in it.

Seriously Microsoft marketing team, how do you do it? Is it magic you use?

Nokia flogged 4m Lumias, still bled €826m this quarter

If they still have so much money, could it be a plan?

Buy back as many of their shares as they can, they are sort of cheap now... Give 1 billion dollar back to Microsoft so they are free from their obligations and can start producing sellable phones again. See their shares shoot up, sell them again at a huge profit on top of the money they make from phones again?

Giant super-laser passes 500 TRILLION watts

Question from the stupid person in the forum

I don't know much about physics apart from not pissing uphill... Does it say in the article - cause if it did, i completely missed it - if the energy produced is more than that they used?

Just out of curiosity, not saying it is a useless experiment if they haven't achieved that yet

Microsoft to announce new Office version on Monday

@ed2020 - Maybe you involuntarily cracked it

"...or I'm not remotely interested."

The box the floppies will come in will also contain a remote, so you don't need to waste time doing whatever you do with the tiles. Transformational indeed.

Smartphone-wielding Obamaniacs trounce Romney in poll

Re: 56% of statistics

It's an improvement from the 87% of a while ago! ( i know for sure there were 100 studies )

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-05-08/

Puny US particle punisher finds strong evidence for God particle

Re: If you use the proper name everybody on here will surely understand

I do not think that everything I see on the Internet is true, but if you search for "physicists hate term god particle" you get plenty of results, if you search for "physicists love term god particle" you get results with the words scrambled in the text...

Using Google, for example, the second search, with "love" returns "Particle physicists searching for the Higgs boson hate the term "God Particle," ... Physicists love the Higgs boson, but they hate the God particle."

I only thought it would be more appropriate to use the name chosen by those working on it, rather than mentioning some random magical entity...

Windows, Linux, BSD and many others are "Operating Systems", rather than the "Souls of the computer".

If you use the proper name everybody on here will surely understand

My opinion, but I believe that calling the Higgs boson 'God particle' is a bit like having "Micro$haft" or "crApple" in the title

Microsoft to open UK retail store early next year

Re: Good News!

An upvote wasn't enough. Here's a kiss!

MWAH!

Nigerian scams are hyper-efficient idiot finders

Nobody mentioned this yet?

"They should replace 'Nigeria' with 'Cupertino' to see their revenues shoot up"

Phwoar, that felt good! :)

Sony slams Nintendo Wii U functionality

@Jai

"Not sure that the Vita is going to be as amazing as they make out "

Unlikely, otherwise they would have said how good it is and why, rather than slagging off other people's products instead.

Having said that, I don't have ( and don't want ) a degree in marketing, so I could be wrong.

Stephen Fry's Pushnote goes titsup

@ LinkOfHyrule

Mine was published a little while after being posted, probably after you posted yours too. So I'd say we're both the original ones.

Pushnote rebranding

Now known as Pushdaisy

New Opera 12 hooks web apps to 3D graphics acceleration

The author forgot to add the hyperlink to the guy's name

So I thought of saving the hassle to everybody else :)

Apparently he kicks things...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashley_Young

Apple's Retina Macs: A little too elite?

@ Ratfox - Re: Professional video editing... on a laptop?

Have you ever tried going to Starbucks carrying one? Seriously, some people...

Three touts 'unlimited' Euro data roaming for a fiver a day

Not supposed to use it as a hotspot

Genuine question, since I may end up using it as such. Is there any way they can find out if I do?

Samsung plunges $500k into Linux Foundation

"WHOSE majority"

If you try to replace the "hoos" sound with "who is" and it doesn't make sense, then it's "who's".

Can't help it...

Facebook goes offline, shares stabilise at merely disastrous level

Apologies not necessary

"We apologise for any inconvenience". Last time I cheched, there were many other ways to get hold of pictures of cats. Unless you mean having to individually text your friends what you are having for breakfast so they don't miss out.

Microsoft forbids class actions in new Windows licence

Re: And just how many laptop computer models can you buy without a forcibly bundled Windows?

I have found this, apparently you just need to insist to succeed... Haven't tried it myself yet, but I definitely will next time I buy one ...

http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1073

@DrDr

Thanks :)

@ FrankAlphaXII - Re: Scalia happened.

It's spelled "it's" by the way :) And a few more apostrophes here and there in the rest of the post...

@DanceMan - Re: Comming from a World renowned company in Social networking

English is my second language, so I believe I have some idea of what I am talking about - but I admit I am not expert in the field...

I think in English 99% of the time, but in other languages "their", "there", "they're" will be different from each other. Because of that, they are three distinct concepts ( not sure it's the right word for that, but I am sure it somehow explains it ) in my head. So it's very unlikely I will ever get it wrong. Same with "wear", "where", "your", "you're", "it's", "its", "waist", "waste".

Somebody who was born in an English speaking country, will most likely start to speak English, then associate it to a spelling later on in life. So the confusion can come from here.

In my experience, it's more likely you get a native speaker misspelling things like "your" and "you're", and non native speakers choosing the wrong word to say something... No matter how many times I look it up, I have no idea when to use "may" and when to use "might" for example. I also got "sex" and "gender" wrong on a post on here, and somebody was kind enough to explain the difference to me. I blinked, and it went :)

Having said that, it is depressing that English teachers do not manage to teach children how to spell, but still keep their jobs!

Free Windows 8 desktop app development is dead

Re: So then...

Don't have Windows boxes handy, so I haven't tested it, but maybe you can run your applications in "sane" mode by running them on Cygwin run Wine?

Apple's trial experts are 'slavish fanbois who believe in magic'

Re: Samsung Fanbois ( AC 22nd May 2012 13:00 )

"when your round" should be "you're". There's no possession involved.

Thank you.

What's copying your music really worth to you?

@ John Sturdy - your 2nd comment

"Google won't find me any pictures of medieval musicians eating, instruments at the ready. I must therefore stand corrected, and assume they all starved to death."

You looked for medieval pictures. You should have looked for medieval videos instead.

Unfortunately the medieval folks here didn't have the technology to put English subtitles in their medieval videos, but if you skip to 3:45 you can see the people who were medievally singing and playing earlier on, sitting at a medieval table with medieval food on it.

You're welcome.

Microsoft to devs: Don't ruin Win 8 launch with crap code

@ Fatman - Re: Ubuntu software centre...it's just a pretty front end to apt-get.

"sudo apt-get remove unity-3d"

Installed Ubuntu on a friend's box a couple of days ago, and added KDE, Xfce and Gnome. I am only really familiar with Xubuntu right now, and Lubuntu. First time I saw current Unity, Gnome and KDE while I was trying to understand how they work before showing him. Hoping he could settle for at least one of those. I didn't hate any of them to be honest.

He liked them all, but he adored and is now using Unity. Guess Canonical got it right?

Anybody else had a similar experience with a non techie? Or completely different?

Pakistan blocks Twitter, then changes its mind

@ AC 21st May 2012 00:05 GMT

Before I found out about the existence of a "Christian Science Monitor" I would have answered "Probably not" to that question...

Pinterest valued at $1.5 BILLION, bags $100m in funding

@ A.C. - Re: Your Welcome

I don't think you need to pay anything at all, from the title of the post I understand it's already yours, given to you as a welcome present for joining, or something like that!

Just saved you a tenner, you're welcome!

Google+ dying on its arse – shock new poll

Wasn't it meant to attract people with things to say?

Interesting people and social networks are a bit of an oxymoron - in my opinion.

I believe it's a bit like trying to market slimming pills to serial marathon runners...

Cheap MacBook Airs for all!

Re: @AC 8th May 2012 10:06

"calling it MacBook" should be "called it MacBook"

@AC 8th May 2012 10:06

"Look at some of them - stick an Apple logo on the back and who would know? It's basically been - Apple have come up with something nice - copy it and we'll coin the term 'ultra notebook' to define that type of device"

It could also be that Apple stuck a sticker on a laptop and calling it MacBook. Looks a lot like mine from hp bought in 2007. It opens and you get a screen and a keyboard...

Human race is funny like that, you tell them that something is great and the majority blindly agree. Some of Picasso's stuff is a valid example I think...

Fanbois froth as Apple claims 'iPhone5.com' rights

http://www.apple.com/iphone5

You're welcome.

REVEALED: Samsung Galaxy S III is a PHONE

Re: Who'd have thought it

And it's also going the same direction.

I was cycling through Piccadilly Circus on Tuesday and in their big LED thing they were advertising their new laptop. Talking about memory? No. Processor? No. Hard drive? No. OS? No. Useful things? NO. Weight? No. Aerodynamic design? Yes.

I thought it was the rust in the chain that was making it harder to pedal, but I was wrong... It's because I keep my old plasticky hp open on my handle bar.

RIM takes BlackBerry 10 out for a spin, forgets to bring phone

Re: @ Nate Amsden - no playbook?

Very good point.

Either the "<" you're suggesting, or, for those into archaeology, something along the lines of

[code]

10 would of thought

RUN

Syntax error at line 10

[/code]

maybe?

@ Nate Amsden - Re: no playbook?

"Would of thought" => "Would have thought".

Thank you.

Freed Facebook hack Brit vents fury at $200k cleanup claim

Re: He's lucky he wasn't extradited

If somebody down voted you because of bad grammar, he or she would need to go out more maybe?

However, since there are people down vote others' ( <- i hope I got that right myself this time! ) comments just because they say they own a phone and it works fine, I wouldn't worry too much about those who did :)

@ Kubla Cant

I missed that! If I could, I would down vote myself.

Maybe this is all happening because their ( or is it they're? or there? ) teachers didn't bother themselves, and somehow we are helping. Someone, somewhere.

Had I done something like that when I was learning English, I'd still be trying to get out of secondary school. Or whatever it's called over here in the UK, I honestly never spent too long trying to understand how education works.

Re: Hes lucky he wasn't extradited

"Would of been better for him" => "Would have been better for him".

Thank you.

Microsoft unveils Windows 8 'release preview' for June

@Ken Hagan

I am about to buy some land and start growing stuff... I am thinking capers and origano cause I like them on my pizzas. And strawberries. And hop.

What is your agricultural plan? :)

@AC 24th April 2012 12:39 GMT

"If you're using hardware from pre-2008, it's probably time to upgrade to a new PC anyway."

Why's that?