Voice..
I'm not so sure that this will get very far. The trade off in learning a new input style compared with the ease of voice. Which since the likes of Siri and Google Now, has come a LONG way. I use google now a lot.
Posts by Ashton Black
332 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Dec 2010
Come and Twiddle Tek Gear's one handed keyboard
Alan Turing's lost notebook goes under the hammer
Sorry, Qualcomm, Apple – your patents don't scare us
Tuesday 20th January 2015 14:28 GMT
Re: Kill them with fire...
That's quite the interpretation.
The problem is, it was never about "sharing the wondrous new discovery" for most inventors/companies it was about "making the most money from the wondrous new discovery."
Additionally, how do we know that you actually HAD the same idea? May I suggest it's significantly quicker and cheaper to reverse engineer an item, than it is to complete, potentially years of R&D?
Pull up the Windows 10 duvet and pretend Win8 and Vista were BAD DREAMS
Earth-bound exoplanet hunter's eyes blink open
Thursday 15th January 2015 11:48 GMT
Re: So they can see planets so far away but no high quality Moon pics ?
Well actually no, they can't "see" planets at those distances at all. They're inferring their existence by looking at the changes in the spectra of the stars they're orbiting. From this they can work out, or at minimum an educated guess of , the mass, temperature, orbital speeds and possibly even what the planet is primarily made of. You won't be seeing any pics anytime soon either. I've heard it described as like trying to see a candle right next to a 40kW searchlight from 1 mile away.
Silicon Valley WAGE-FIX: Tech firms mull new deal to kill staff lawsuit
iPhone addiction will RUIN YOUR LIFE – if only that were true
IBM hastens END OF HUMANITY with teachable AI 'brain'
It's 2015 and ATMs don't know when a daughterboard is breaking them
Alien Earths are out there: Our home is not 'unique'
Seagate makes CES splash with $99 drive, 'personal' cloud offerings
Elite:Dangerous goes TITSUP
Space Commanders lock missiles on Elite's Frontier Devs
Monday 22nd December 2014 09:34 GMT
Re: If I'd wanted a connected game I'd play Eve
Huh? Multiple ship ownership is intrinsic in the game, no need for RL cash.
For RL cash, currently anyway, you can get cosmetic changes only.
There was a poll on the forums, some time ago, about micro transactions, which overwhelmingly went for "cosmetic" only.
If you could link to your source, I'd be pleased to be shown I'm wrong.
FLASH! Aaa-aaah. 3D NAND will save every one of us
UK banks ill-prepared for return of the rabid POODLE
The STEALTH Plug-in Hybrid: Audi A3 e-tron Sportback
Sunday 14th December 2014 10:16 GMT
Re: What happens to the grid ...
Well.... See, on a national scale, it depends on the make up of your power generation system, obviously.
In China/India/US, for example, where electricity is generated primarily with coal, then, these are no better than using petrol cars (equiv to 25-35 MPG) with an average of 200g-300g+ CO2e/km (equivalent carbon dioxide per vehicle kilometer)
Compare this to, say, Paraguay, at 70g CO2e/km or Canada at 115g CO2e/km.
To answer your question, if all of the UK went electrical cars, with our current grid, it would be as if, we all started using petrol/hybrid cars now, an increase of 20-30 MPG equivalent.
These figures, do include the 20-30% increase in manufacturing costs and lower lifetime of the cars.
Anyway, here's the report where I got these figures
http://shrinkthatfootprint.com/electric-car-emissions
Euro consumers have TOO MUCH choice – telco operators
Rolling the ATTACK DICE in King of Tokyo
The Grandmaster: Epic, heart-melting, oh and there's lots of kung fu
UK slaps 25 per cent 'Google Tax' on tech multinationals
Wednesday 3rd December 2014 13:56 GMT
I'm confused...
To avoid corp tax, which is on profit. (revenue - costs), the UK divisions, "pay" their Irish/Other HQ for "costs" such as IP which just happens to cost roughly the same as the profit they would have made, without these HQ costs and therefore the UK division pays very little corp tax.
If this 25% is on profit, then it STILL won't be very much. So either:
1) Gidion knows this and is telling porkie pies.
2) Gidion doesn't know this and is an idiot.
or
3) I've misread/misunderstood something and am also an idiot.
Anyone help?
Randall Munroe: The root nerd talks to The Register
Blade Runner sequel might actually be good. Harrison Ford is in it
Ten excellent FREE PC apps to brighten your Windows
Right to be forgotten should apply to Google.com too: EU
Calls for probe of UK.gov's DOESN'T VERIFY ID service
Wednesday 26th November 2014 09:36 GMT
Net access as a Utility?
Assuming, and yes it's a massive assumption, that all these services somehow become online only, then how, in the absence of free net access, how does a person suffering from extreme poverty, get access to them?
Libraries are closing and net enabled devices are most certainly not free. I suspect this will end in rather embarrassing headlines, further down the line.
Businessman takes Google to High Court to block online abuse from search results
Monday 24th November 2014 11:08 GMT
A bit strange...
"anonymous abusive posts against him."
Posted to what? A website? Then he should go after the web sit. Twitter? Then go after them.... Facebook? Well, you get the picture. Surely going after Google, will just have a severe Streisand effect?
Also, one only has too look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_search_engines to find an alternative search engine.
HP, Symantec PAIR UP to fight off disaster cloud rivals
Our system handles £130bn and it's BUST. Want the job of fixing it? Apply to UK.gov
China BLOCKS Verizon's EdgeCast before internet meeting
Wednesday 19th November 2014 09:31 GMT
Re: Let's roll out DNSSEC already
I would suggest because DNS poisoning isn't the only tool in the toolbox. There is also, IP Blocking, URL Filtering, Packet Reset Spoofing and now they've started blocking VPN.
So then, if they want to block a site they will. Verizon know this and the infrastructure cost in rolling out DNSSEC, to them, out weighs the possibility that the Chinese government won't just include one of the other methods I've suggested.
Tuesday 18th November 2014 10:53 GMT
I disagree...
Do you think, that "Made in China" printed on the bottom of a gadget will put off people buying a cheap device? If this were so, then surely it would have happened already?
Without a concerted media and governmental pressure campaign then most people would not give a flying feck about where a device is made and I doubt that would happen anyway. China is currently in trade surplus of about $45 billion per month and combined with owning a fair chunk of US and EU debt, which one supposes, could be used to ensure trade compliance, despite their human rights record.
Stephen King, William Gibson and The Quantum Moment
State Dept shuts off unclassified email after hack. Classified mail? That's CLASSIFIED
Monday 17th November 2014 15:33 GMT
Re: There are constant attacks
Got to catch them first. I very much doubt any state sponsored hacking groups will be spending any time in the US.
It will get worse, I have no doubt, but don't delude yourself into thinking the US doesn't have cells of it's own. The Russians and Chinese also have plenty of prison/gulag places available.
Broadband sellers in the UK are UP TO no good, says Which?
Space Commanders rebel as Elite:Dangerous kills offline mode
Monday 17th November 2014 09:55 GMT
Indeed. Single Player mode, is still there. Offline mode isn't.
Of course, the question, and it's one that I thought I wouldn't have to ask, is what happens when they run out of money to pay for the server hosting?
Here's an article from Euro Gamer about EA closing down 50 of their games, at the end of June (this was posted in May). Don't get me wrong, some have had "good runs" as it were, but some are only a few years old.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2014-05-12-50-ea-games-will-have-their-servers-shut-down
ESA sends back PRE-LANDING COMET CLOSE-UPS
Tuesday 11th November 2014 16:19 GMT
Scale.
These are great, amazing, in fact. But I wish there was something to give it a sense of scale. I know it's from 10km up, but as with a lot of these things, it's sort of fractal, therefore impossible to guess the scale. How big is that Cheops boulder, for example? 10m? 100m? 1km?
A minor whinge, I admit and I am still in awe of the achievement of putting a probe so close to an actual comet. Looking forward to the landing!
Yes! It's DRONE PORN. And we don't mean shiny pics of UAVs
BAE points electromagnetic projectile at US Army
UNCHAINING DEMONS which might DESTROY HUMANITY: Musk on AI
Monday 27th October 2014 15:42 GMT
Interesting. I agree with most of the posters here. True, self-aware, intelligent, imaginative, that is at least as complex as a fully educated, experienced human is a LONG old way off. We're not even more likely to be able to simulate a human brain in the near future (sub 50 years). 100 trillion synapses is several orders of magnitude better than the 4.3 Billion transistors in a high end Xeon. That's just for one brain and that's without the "software" to run on it.
(Yes, I am aware that it's a bit apples and hand grenades, but the point stands, I think)
DOUBLE BONK: Fanbois catch Apple Pay picking pockets
VMware's new enemy no. 1 isn't Hyper-V, it's Vladimir Putin
Wednesday 22nd October 2014 11:30 GMT
Re: Do I read this right?
Yes. I believe you do. But then again, I can't quite bring to mind many corporate entities of VMWare's size that don't pander to "investors" to bolster share price. Additionally to say high up execs have a vested interest in maintaining stock price is an understatement.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
