Posts by Adrian

So, what can you photograph?

Wedding registries - the Why

When I photographed my mate's wedding in the local registrar's office they said take whatever photos you want (including using flash - try that in a church !!). Only rule was no photographing allowed when they signed the register. Why - because the flashgun distracts the people signing and since it is a legal document they need to sign it without distractions. Afterwards it was OK to photograph them (same register, just play acting with a fancy quill instead of the Bic they used to actually sign with).

UK clamps down on bus-spotting terror menace

@EvilGav

What do you mean walking into a police state ? We have been in a police state for the last few years. The USSR under the KGB had a more open, friendlier police state than we currently have.

Death of personal liberty,freedom,human rights - all gone in the UK

Roomba robot maker to build DARPA squidge-droids

T2

The movie that is, is obviously a hot favorite of DARPA.

Paris - she's as ridiculous as this latest concept

Google keeps killing penguins for money

Bad title

I was hoping to see YouTube videos of them going Canadian on hapless defenseless creatures. Yet you just talk about saving a few quid in 'leccy bills.

DARPA working on T-ray spyeye spectacle tech

Best description yet! @ Micheal

"DARPA, the poorly-integrated, troubling, erratically brilliant bulge-headed mutant child of the US military establishment."

There should be awards for this kind of descriptive ability.

Personally I would have included Teflon in the description somewhere.

Paris because she likes a bulging head so I hear.

Nvidia launches GTX 200 series GPUs

But will it

render the Solitaire cards any better ?

I hear Paris likes it hot...

AVG scanner blasts internet with fake traffic

My take on it

AVG - run Linkscanner on the page I click on not ones I won't even look at (Google is rubbish at not giving me what I search on)

and

Everyone who is running AVG 8 - Google AVG every time you have spare time. Their paid for placements will soon bankrupt them - hoisted by their petard methinks.

NASA previews future astronaut threads

@Chris G

DARPA would be there if it included killer robots. They aren't interested in humans.

Uncontacted rainforest tribe caught from the air

Looks more like

a screen capture of the latest Sims - The Sims go native.

You'd think that if you go looking for people lost to civilisation that you'd bring a decent camera.

Paris - because even these people would have heard of her

Paypal glitch hits merchants with 12-day headache

Standards

Doesn't VIsa etc have some sort of standard that their users have to adhere to ? Seems Paypal is not playing ball.

Paris, because their is no eBay icon for when they do public gaffes (although at this rate I suggest to El Reg to get one designed)

Petrol stations deploy anti-theft stingers

How can garages legally do this

but I can't shoot an intruder in my house when he is commiting an illegal act ? Will it be OK from now on if I just ram metal spikes into his feet to stop him running away ?

Paris, because I hear she likes being rammed with something long and hard.

Steel Cloud servers to power US Navy robo-cannon kit

Already been done

By Discovery channels 'Future Weapon' program (with the baldie ex-SEAL) - 1 or 2 years ago he did a program whereby sensors listened in for rifle shots and showed on a computer screen where they came from in a 3D sort of simulator.

Reg April Fools '08

So the Boeing robocopter is true?

Announcing that it'll be available in black was the clincher for me that it was 1st April as if black is a useful colour to be in the sky (even at night).

Black helicopters. Well, because....

Physicists fire up strontium atomic clock

When the laser dies/stops,

what happens to all that strontium in suspension, will the US Navy be tasked with blowing that out of the lab with ballistic missiles ?

Polaroid pops out ink-less photo printer

@Phil

If the device is 4.5 by 3 inches (approx) then it'll be likely that the photos are credit card size - woohoo, that's really useful.

And to Dan - yes but this is the digital age now !!

Asus Eee PC 4G sub-sub-notebook

For Phil

Real network engineers use 'copy con com1:' not hyperterm :-)

Remember why it's small...

It's designed for kids at school (also why it's cheap) - RM is branding it as their own I believe. That's why the keyboard is sized for a 5 year old's fingers :-)

Also, re people saying there is not moving parts - I take it you don't count fans as moving then ? Asus's newer 8Gb model is supposed to be fan free though.

Really want one but my Lenovo X60 has a 12 inch screen, 1.8 processor,3Gb RAM,120 Gb hard disk, lasts 8 hours on battery and has the 'nipple' mouse. Also only weighs 1.3 kg, .5 kg more than the EEE.

And if you see Nikon's latest flagship digital camera, it's 3 inch LCD on the back is very clean and viewable VGA (640x480) size so a 7 inch screen should really be at least 1024x768 nowadays.

Evolutionary database design

So

the DB programmer/designer should be part of the development "team" but if dozens of outside "clients" access the system how is the DB programmer/designer going to work with ALL of the real programmers to keep them all abreast of weekly changes in the DB schema ?

The the real world DB schemas change all the time (I'm not only the developer but also the DBA for one of my employers main DB systems so I can speak from experience), I often change schema on DB's holding Gigabytes of data because in the real world, what management wanted on day one isn't the same as what management want on day 2.

Businesses evolve, business requirements evolve, business databases evolve. And if you don't keep evolving, well a bloke called Darwin had this theory......

'al-Qaeda' puts on big shoes, red nose, takes custard pie

Student Ragweek

Was what I thought when I heard about the London cars.

As for the Scottish incident - isn't that normal for the Scot's - drinking petrol and smoking :-) If it had been done in England it would have just been classed as a protest about smoking in the workplace !!!!!

Bluetooth speaker set slices all wires

Recharging

So, ideally the AC adapter will recharge both speakers at the same time or is there only one lead supplied ?

Google calls for court to tighten Microsoft's anti-trust leash

Changing from one monopoly to another

Well, ,I'm writing a search engine. I demand that Google rewrites their entire code so it works with my attempt.

Er, what's that Mr Google ? I can take my code and put it where ?

Strange how it's one rule for them and er,one rule for them.

Giant bird-lizard unearthed in China

Heard it all before

The Chinese seem to like 'finding' new species - didn't they find a dinosaur bird before which when checked was just a collection of parts from other dinosaurs ?