Posts by Neal Stephenson

Apple Watch HATES tattoos: Inky pink sinks rinky-dink sensor

Perhaps there is already a solution

There are several Sports watches on the market with optical detectors integrated into the body of the watch.

A company called Scosche has produced an arm worn band with an optical detector which uses an extra LED to transmit light of a different frequency which penetrates further into dark skin.

I would have thought that Apple had taken this into consideration during the design / testing stage, but perhaps not.

Easy come, easy go: Euro astroboffins blast brace of Galileo sats INTO SPAAACE

Excuse my ignorance, when the system is eventually up and running will my current GPS device ( Garmin running watch ) be able to take advantage of the extra satellites or will I need to buy a new device ?

Battle for control of Earth's unconnected souls moves to SPAAAACE

Foundation

It is articles like this and the general acceleration of technology that make me feel that we are currently a full stop on the first line of an Arthur C Clarke novel.

Oi. APPLE fanboi! You with the $10k and pocket on fire! Fancy a WATCH?

Re: Hmm...$10,000...

ACL 200

Seen me through shed loads of races, ahead of its time with, among numerous other things an asymmetric countdown timer for 50 pairs of independently adjustable laps, plus a backlight that comes on if you turn your wrist upwards.

OTHER EARTHS may be orbiting our Sun beyond Neptune

Float on

Great news for Astrologers, the extra planets should make their predictions even more accurate

Eight pocket-pleasing USB 3.0 hard drives

Re: Hmmm

Spot on. now available at the revised price of 79 pence ! :-)

Hmmm

Followed the link and went to the Mac app store. Well worth the 69pence asking price but a message pops up "Purchase of this App is not available " with the text " this item is being modified, please try again later"

Looks like the NSA haven't quite finished the back door.

BAN email footers – they WASTE my INK, wails Ctrl+P MP

Re: can we ban printers instead?

9 or 24 pin ?

BILL GATES DRINKS 'boiled and treated' POO. Ah, 'delicious'

Re: nothing new here

Ah yes, the same in our neck of the woods although the workers on site had to remove the " night fighter rings " from the various settlement / treatment tanks before that School trips.

You have a 'simple question'? Well, the answer is NO

Nice one Dabsy

Just firing up "Harvest"

Have a beer >>>>>>

Little big phone: Sony Xperia Z3 Compact, a toothsome hand-fulla Android

Re: Don't forget the sports features

Are you reading my mind?

I purchased one of these for my wife who is planning a multi day bike trip next May.

I would recommend Viewranger with open cycle map maps, these show excellent detail and all the National Cycle Routes are highlighted in red.

Did a test ride a week or so ago, set the screen to "always on" daylight visibility excellent. Battery was at 87% at the start of the ride and at 47% at the end of the 6+ hour ride.

I was looking at the Quadlock but will play around with a spare Garmin mount and some epoxy resin as I am a bit of a cheapskate.

Bendy, but hangs loose too: Lenovo Yoga Tablet 2 10-inch Android tab

Thanks Tony,

I just checked the JL site and see that there is a " Claim your VAT Back" promotion running until 5th December. Absolute bargain at about £200

Adobe spies on reading habits over unencrypted web because your 'privacy is important'

Re: DRM-Free Library

But assuming you use your fingers to turn the pages, does that not make them digital ?