* Posts by myhandler

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MH370 airliner MYSTERY: The El Reg Pub/Dinner-party Guide

myhandler

Re: Smartphones

poor in South East Asia?

there's plenty of poor people, but there's lots of well off middle class and lots of very wealthy in the cities - who all have the latest gizmos

Fire > ditched > pings are from seabed

BuzzGasm: 9 Incredible Things You Never Knew About PLIERS!

myhandler

I want to know why plumber's wrenches have been left out of the pitctures. Is there something unsavoury about them?

Muslim clerics issue fatwa banning the devout from Mars One 'suicide' mission

myhandler

Anyway apart from the launch , the landing and the few first steps, it's not going get a mass tv audience for months and months is it? Look how interest waned on the Apollo missions and the Moon is big in the sky.

(Unless they maybe do it all in the studio and add some bug eyed monsters .. oh what ? really..? )

The cleric is just another ego fattened twat getting himself publicity.

Ancient video of Steve Jobs launching the first Apple Mac found

myhandler

Umatic : "defunct"?

It's a professional format still widely in use 10-15 years ago, if not now.

To call it defunct is like saying paper is defunct - there must be millions of tapes unconverted to digital.

Apple’s Mac turns 30: How Steve Jobs’ baby took its first steps

myhandler

In 1987 the Mac changed my life - quite literally. Working in design, one arrived at the place I worked , with a freelance operator.

Previously I'd [luckily] turned down the offer of buying for the company a closed system DTP typesetter - made by god knows who...

So I saw the Mac and thought 'yeah glorified typesetter big deal..'

Next week I wanted something graphic done, thinking it might take till the next day to fit it in.

The operator said 'oh, ok hold on' switched to a draw package (this was pre Illustrator 88, so must have been Aldus Freehand).. and went biff baff boff and the thing I wanted came out of the printer.

It really was a revelation.

I became a Mac wiz, then a multimedia wiz and now a web nerd.

Thank you Apple - I may not touch your Macs with a bargepole now, but without that moment I'd have missed the future.

Boffins measure 27 quantum states of light

myhandler

I read a book ages ago where Russian physicist Lazar Mayants said that QM theory was a result of misinterpreting the maths and that it was misleading.. he was described as 'fringe'.. but maybe he was closer. (Just think what this could do for the climate debate..)

Optical Express 'ruined my life' attack site wins Nominet takedown battle

myhandler

Re: Glasses here

Optical Express spam me with numerous texts.. never been near them.

@MJI: wait till you get a bit older and your close vison will deteriorate to a 1 inch depth of field starting 2 inches from your nose.. mine has.

I've worn glasses (and spells of contacts) for short sight for years (-7) , but now I'd rather get the long sight fixed - makes any close up work a nightmare of glasses on / glasses off, then nose flat against the thing I'm peering at.

I really need an expanded set with different strenghts, two isn't enough..

Pity the watch makers of 200 years ago as they got old..

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