Posts by Sharrow

$1m Popslate e-ink screen venture tanks, Indiegogo backers flame out

They ran out of money bigly

Surprised the story doesn't mention that they're claiming that they ran out of cash after their funding raised over 10 times what they originally asked for.

Google testing delivery-by-drone down under

There's a video review of a very similarly configured wing-quad called Quadshot here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IK_-yTrwNtU

Supervalu supermarket stores stung by sneaky sales system scammers

"we have had no evidence of any misuse of any customer data"

No evidence of harm is not evidence of no harm.

Internet of Things fridges? Pfft. So how does my milk carton know when it's empty?

Is this post really a recruitment filter?

I love all the posts that clearly identify the poster as someone who knows very little about some of the technology involved (or indeed any technology) but hasn't let that stop them coming up with a whizzer 'solution'.

I had no idea so many business analysts and project managers read the Reg.

Supermodel Lily Cole: 'I got a little bit upset by that Register article'

So who's funding the bazaar thing they say is coming soon?

https://bazaar.impossible.com/

I hope it's not me.

Everyone can and should learn to code? RUBBISH, says Torvalds

Learn what you can't do

I want everyone to learn to code so some people can learn that it is in fact a specialised thing that not everyone can actually do. So many people in business, and sadly now also in IT management, seem to think that 'can hack a spreadsheet' = 'can write quality, enterprise-class code' it's depressing.

17 years ago I honestly thought this would get better as tech got more mainstream, but if anything the 'tech makes everything easy' mentality seems to be making it worse.

How to strip pesky copyright watermarks from photos ... says a FACEBOOK photo bod

Their post says that Berkley students get Photoshop for free, but everyone doing this will be a grad. So they all bought a licence when they graduated?

MacBook Air 13-inch: If you squint hard enough, you'll see a lesser-spotted Apple Price Cut

Re: Just got one, very happy

So all your first posts should just be blatantly disregarded and now you're a swell guy to be trusted?

If you want balance, fine. I did a lot of soul searching about whether some aspects of the Air were worth the asking price. They could at least give us an IPS panel. The SSD is very small in today's market, 4gb of RAM is not a lot of headroom, there is a (shrinking, but still there) set of software that won't run on it unless I give up precious room to Windows. I could also find very little information about whether hardware virtualisation was up to snuff, and I have concerns about Apple trying to build an iOS style walled garden around Mac OS.

There's a lot about the Air that could be significantly improved, I just don't agree that the screen is one of them. Not the resolution anyway, I'd still like IPS.

Just got one, very happy

I just picked up the base spec 13 inch model and it's very good. I gave up on trying to find a Windows Ultrabook at a decent price given I'd have to rip 8 off it and put something decent on right from the get go.

Too much is being made of the retina nonsense in my opinion. The 13 inch air has higher pixel density than my desktop monitor. The colours and contrast are excellent, far better than my Dell IPS desktop panel, and it's also plenty bright enough to cope with the sun streaming in the window on the train commute.

Battery life is insane, the GPU is remarkably capable, OS X is great (first time user here) and the trackpad is the best I've used on any portable ever. It doesn't hurt that it's still a stunning looking piece of engineering either.

I gave up on iOS and iPhone a while back, but you'd have to pry my Air from my cold, dead fingers.