Posts by onefang 1954 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Dec 2017
Still on the first page. lol
"This is a phone that knows it's being held – and what's on so it won't rotate or dim during a video, if you're holding it (you can turn this off)."
But what if you are holding it wrong?
I know, I know, that's Apple, but it's such a wonderful meme, someone had to say it.
Paris, coz I wouldn't hold her wrong.
"Fewer moving parts should make for a more reliable phone."
I'm only at the beginning of reading the article, but I had to comment on this. Replacing physical buttons with haptic feedback isn't fewer moving parts. How do you think the make the phone vibrate? Hint, it involves something that moves quickly enough to be felt as vibrations. It would move much more to fake a button push, than a button push would.
"If they want an extended version with new features give it new name."
Hmm, C+=2, ++C, D (Oops, taken already), CPLusPLus (from BCPL, the grand daddy of C++), CRAP++, I could go on...
Though given my above declaration for hating all languages beginning with P, continuing the BCPL -> B -> C tradition and calling it P will just get right up my nose.
"Me too. I still consider templates, and the STL, to be a bit of an abomination and ignore that whole mess to the greatest degree that I can."
That I think is one of the major problems with C++, it's such a huge language that everyone uses only a sub set of it, coz that's the bit they can understand. Except everyone uses a different subset, making it hard to understand other peoples code.
"Note I hate Python (though I have to write it) and am secretly rather fond of Perl (which at least has variable scoping rules which don't make me want to sandpaper my fingers off): I'm not trying to support either language."
I personally have an unreasonable hatred of any language beginning with the letter P, and I include Ruby as a dishonourable member of that club.
"the twelfth day of September in the fourth year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord James ye second by the grace of God England Scotland France & Ireland King defender of the faith &c Annoq Dom one thousand six hundred eighty eight "
Obviously they didn't have space issues when trying to squeeze that onto computers.
"In 20 years time will there be anything outside of museums still using 32-bit Unix time?"
In 20 years time I would not be surprised that a certain embedded 32 bit device I'm responsible for is still in use. In 19 years time, remind me to bring that up with the client.
"Our back door key opened her back door."
Had the same thing when our family visited relatives in a different state back in the '60s. When we arrived, they where not home, so someone tried our key in their door, and it opened. Cue large grins on all of us kids, coz the relos lived above the lolly shop they ran.
"(also curious if you could open this lock by performing a gentle interrogation of it's IC using a blowtorch. Tried and tested method for getting something to give up it's secrets, and in this case, battery expansion may cause the back to pop off.)"
That there is a 'Elf&Safety issue for your average thief, what if the battery catches fire and explodes? Should be made illegal, wont someone think of the thieves!
"No frikkin' lasers?"
I think you have attack dogs confused with attack goldfish, frikkin' lasers are an aquatic animal weapon. Laser guided weapons might be an option, but that might get the attack cats involved, things could get messy.
"it's just as likely to get more downvotes than any single post in the entire history of El Reg as everyone downvotes it just for a laugh"
I've upvoted you, but if I notice lots and lots and lots of downvotes, then I reserve the right to jump on that bandwagon and change mine to a downvote. Careful what you wish for.
"What has kvm got to do with pointing devices? I thought it stood for kernel virtual machine."
In this context KVM stands for Keyboard, Video, Mouse, it's a box that switches one keyboard, monitor, and mouse between multiple computers. So the M has a lot to do with pointing devices.
Some people will get one of them removed, and the other installed. I guess it's also possible to simply have the missing one installed, for those that want the complete set. On the other hand, being a hermaphrodite isn't usually something you require medical attention for.
I used to work on the guts of ATMs here in Australia over two decades ago. Dunno about other brands of ATM equipment, but the ones I worked on did have fancy stuff for detecting the types of notes going in and out. All manner of checks. I know that sort of thing still exists in the ATMs I use today. When you hear the machine making the usual sounds it makes while it counts your money, then makes a kinda grinding sound, and does the counting sound once more, then you know it has detected something wrong, dumped the cash it was trying to give you, and tried again.
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