'embiggen' what a horrible word!
'embiggen' is a horrible word, what is wrong with 'Enlarge' it means the same?
Posts by Chris Evans
83 posts • joined Friday 27th June 2008 12:14 GMT
Posted in Barclays Online Offline again
Old Site
The old site wasn't much more reliable but it was much more useable!
Some things you used to be able to do are either impossible or much more awkward. Don't they test these sites with real usewrs before going live?
Multiple slip ups then they try to pass the buck!
As has been pointed out Check Point just weren't on the ball, and now they try and pass the blame... Best avoided!
Re: And so the nostalgia trip is complete.
Sinclair delays were 6-9 months, so the R-Pi will have to be delayed a lot longer to be in the same league!
Errr not often
I've posted critical and complementary postings and seen many postings I would delete if I was a moderator language, wild accusations etc, they appear to be very lenient.
Not paying attention!
They did think of it but as the plan was to sell a small quantity to a bunch of developers, it wasn't needed ahead of the Educational' launch, but then the massive reaction moved the goalposts, and RS/Farnell havn't helped by agreeing to distribute it without CE certification then backtracking when the penpushers got involved.
Because it does!
Because it does takes a lot more than about 10 minutes for someone at RS or farnell suitably armed with a scope!
In fact I don't think a scope is one of the pieces of testing equipment used.
Simple solution?
When the call is routed into the UK if it has a fake caller ID (i.e. a UK number) why not just block it?
Re: The hand of Sinclair..... Not the same as 1980's
A week or two's delay isn't in the same league as the 1980's home micro fiasco.
The foundation would have to delay things for four months to come close.
Acorn started accepting orders in September 1981 there were unconfirmed reports of a handfull of BBC Model A's being received the week before Christmas but it was well into January for confirmed deliveries.. I'd ordered a BB Model B in September and recieved it on Saturday April 10th 1982 SEVEN MONTHS later
The Sinclair computers took even longer to ship and nearly a year to clear the backlog.
Re: BBC Micro heritage
[BBC] "Model A, Model B, initial production run of only 10,000, massive interest at launch and people unable to get through on the ordering line" I'm pretty certain there was no order line. I remember picking up the order form from the stand at the PCW? Show (Novotel Hammersmith) and that as they said they were not accepting orders before 22nd September I posted mine on the 21st. I recieved mine Easter Saturday. Others had to wait even longer. I don't think the wait will be that long this time.
Mail order how quaint!
Posted in Raspberry Pi signs big-name sellers
Re: Element14 , E14 Inc, Broadcom & Acorn
In addition to the Element 14 (Farnell) name connection the Element 14 (E14 inc) that was split off from Acorn was bought up by Broadcom who designed the BCM2835 chip (AcornRiscMachine[1] CPU) in the RPi!
How many if any of the original e14 Inc employees are at Broadcom and if any of them are involved in the BCM2835 it would be interesting to know?
I don't think any of the Foundation were involved in Acorn or E14 Inc.
As a director of RISCOS Ltd I was involved in the negotiations for the RISC OS license from Element14 as the breakup to E14 Inc and Pace was taking place.
[1] Yes the name change from Acorn Risc Machine to Advanced Risc Machine had allready occured at the establishment of ARM PLC, but I included it for nostalga!
It's going to be a game changer!
On the RPI forums: I predicted that the servers would fall over (I gave it a 10-1 chance)
I also predicted they will sell 500,000 this year, I'm now revising that up! (As I thought production would be the limiting factor)
I now predict it will be a game changer in more ways than I can think of!
Re: Re: They could still ramp up production
Re Cash Flow: If the RPI Foundation had carried on with the original plan of funding the builds itself then yes cash flow (Working capital) would have been a big problem (need £1M+). Given the massive demand handing over production responsibility to Farnell & RS is the only solution.
RE Ramping production. Sourcing the components couid be the bottleneck. The SoC may be single source and the crystal used whilst readily available in Europe isn't in Asia apparently. With most/all mass production now done alsewhere European distributors hold little stock.
n.b. I have just had in quotes from UK distributors for sockets and pins for the RaspberryPi GPIO port and two distributors are quoting 6 weeks delivery on 1000+ items (We're using them in a RTC module we have developed for the RPi)
Same GPU as used in the Raspberry Pi!
Apparently the GPU is a Broadcom VideoCore IV as used in the Raspberry Pi!
Sample pics at: http://yfrog.com/es530nsnj & http://yfrog.com/odz76tgj
Posted in Roku 2 XS IPTV player
Re: Re: A boxed RaspberryPi!
If that is what you want buy a Roku. I'll be using the Raspberry Pi's ability to use a keyboard and mouse, add other software, connect up a printer etc and.... run RISC OS:-)
I'm hoping to be able to buy my RaspberryPi next week!
Posted in Roku 2 XS IPTV player
A boxed RaspberryPi!
The Roku 2 XS uses the same Broadcom BCM2835 SOC + a LAN chip So the only differences seem to be just in the software and which CODEC's have been licensed.
n.b. Roku has a remote control the RPi has two USB ports
Confusing reporting
They quoted customer numbers are sometimes talking about Landline phones, mobile phones and Cable TV but it is very unclear.
An EU wide manufacturing problem not a UK problem
The import problem is across the whole EU and it has been there for decades! Clive Sinclair used to moan about it!
Corel's involvement omited!
For about 10 years they were effectively a subsidiary of Corel I wonder why there was no mention of it!
Civil not criminal
The reporting doesn't pick up on the only interesting point which is that it is claimed to be a criminal offence! The article also fails to make it clear who is claiming it is criminal, apple or the newspaper?
Can't post back a counterfeit! Why not..
If they can't post back counterfeit item! Why not remove the label and then post back. Such pointless destruction of items does not reflect well on ebay/payal.
Anyway how many experts said it was counterfeit?
"I believe Nokia had it a lot worse" HP also rivalling for worst
Yes if anyone has had an "annus horribilis" Nokia & HP have. They are in a different league to Microsoft or RIM!
Why no lap top panels in desktop screen?
e.g. 17" 1920 x 1080 desktop screens?
I also don't understand the obsession with widescreen. Most? people rarely if ever watch DVDs on their computer!
I prefer more vertical resolution myself to width, less scrolling! 1920x1200 monitors were readily available two years ago, but now are rare and more expensive.
n.b. I find it strange that laptop screens are normally sold by resolution, but desktop monitors by physical size often not even mentioning resolution.
Posted in Strictly Come Dancing in 3D: the facts
Stereoscopic
I've given up pointing out that they are not 3D but Stereoscopic. It's a lost cause I'm afraid.
Posted in Strictly Come Dancing in 3D: the facts
Yes, but how do I...
... avoid celebrity hoofers in two or three dimensions?
A suggestion
O.k. so how do I set up a reminder for 10 years time to renew my domains?
The best I've come up with is to put a text file called something like "Renew this domain 2021-11-15" in the root directory of the domains webspace. With the text file giving the details of who it was registered via etc. I do realise that not all domains have web space!
Maybe a summary of domains and renewal dates could be stored in the root directory of the main domain/s a company uses called "Domains to renew this year"
e.g.
2012.1.1 mydomain1.co.uk
2012.8.19 mydomain2.co.uk
...
The above idea should cope with people leaving, company takeovers, offices burning down, hard disc failures, my electronic diary not reminding me for numerous reasons etc.
Proportion? More info needed.
"raising monthly build rates from 15 million to 25 million units" which begs the questions:
1. What is the total world usage per month"
2. How many a month were the now non operating factories making?
Without that information the numbers quoted have no meaning.
We rely on good reporting to give us the full picture.
Posted in Dyson spouts hot air
Yes it can't be directly more power efficient, but it could be more effective, most fan heaters seem to just move cold air around and only very slowly warm the room, I suspect the Dyson won't be any better than most/all cheap fan heaters.
A nice aesthetic design that I'll never be able afford.
Posted in Google does a mean spring clean
Google Bookmarks
"Google Bookmarks is another product that has always seemed strange to me." I use it every day it alows me to access my bookmarks on my Work PC, Home PC and laptop!
I hope it doesn't get the chop.
Posted in DNS hijack hits The Register: All well
Fail by El Reg!
Like many I couldn't access El Reg all day Monday (Except via Googles cache) But www.reghardware.com had nothing informing us of the situation on their front page, Doh!
Access via 72.3.246.59 or 212.100.234.54 also failed
Missed the point!
I read "If you don’t want to be searched, don't come through customs" as a rather subtle way of saying, don't come back to our country!
#How about Firefox 201204
No decimals! You need to specify to a day minumum then and the hour in case you had to rush out another update 20120815... 1514?.
Most 'users' don't understand Multiple decimal points and they should not be used by anything Non SysAdmin/Programer only!
Another UK fabless semiconductor companie!
The UK division of Broadcom is I think fabless and its Firepath processor is doing rather well in its market.
It also happens to effectively be another spin off from Acorn Computers!
A compromise?
How about looking up the dns record for each link, that can sometimes be slow! It wouldn't have any security implications and not significant re bandwidth.
Posted in How to choose the right screen size
Jim: ..1920*1080 picture, on a 1920*1080 screen problem?
Err.. I'm lost how can a "1920*1080 picture, on a 1920*1080 screen not show all the resolution available in the 1920*1080 picture"?
Also I've been told that often SD pictures upscaled for an HD screen can look a lot worse than when displayed on an SD screen. Unless the upscaling introduces effects like antialiassing that is surely impossible, and those effects don't suit some sort of images/motion. e.g. antialiasing a picture of a saw blade may antialias away the teath!
Posted in How to choose the right screen size
All HD does is reduce visble MPEG compression artefacts
All that info confirms to me that effectively all HD does is reduce visble MPEG compression artefacts.
I've yet to see a TV shop display an HD display next to a non HD of the same size showing the same program with the appropriate source so you can compare HD and non HD properly.
i.e. If they used less compression on non HD then the 'higher res' of HD would be unnoticeable when viewed at anything approaching a normal distance for the screen size.
Sounds a bit strange that everyone seems to view their screen at the same 2.7M I thought the whole point of large screens was for bigger rooms where you sit further away.
Posted in Otellini: 'Intel won't build ARM chips'
Short termism
I'm sure he is correct in the short and probably mid term but I suspect not in the longer term!
Also will Intel let their foundries be used to make ARMs (I think they do use there process for other peoples designs already) or will someone else start offering a Tri-Gate process?
Tape Backup!
Do they realy use tape backup? How quaint (About 4:05 in)
Posted in Apple component lock-ups jump 40%
Articticle missing the obvious!
The obvious question to me is, how many months worth of component purchases is that?
Quoting the companies turnover would be a good way of estimating that.
Yes I could find that out myself, but that would not be very efficient.
Posted in BBC-led RadioPlayer arrives at last
Missing link again:-(
I didn't take me long to find http://www.radioplayer.co.uk/ but why oh why does 'The Register' have this obsession with not including THE important link in many stories?
Most people seem to have missed the point as to what is the census for?
It is so that the governrment has accurate figuers to plan for Schools, Hospitals, pensions etc Most people post much more personal details on public forums/social network sites/ or discuss down the pub with a mate of a mate. Having said that some of the permissable disclosure rules need tightening/made more transparent..
If you don't fill it in accurately then don't complain about government planning in future!
Access to genealogists in 100 years is a very useful by-product I've used it to trace my family back to 1785!
The article begs the question..
What is the House of Commons policy on electronic devices in their chamber?
Any memory improvements?
Use FF 3 (latest versions) for any time and it gobbles all my memory. Is FF4 better or worse?
Or could it be the flash or java plug ins?
Comparison with South Korea.
Does South Korea with their 1000Mbps network have these problem?
and why is BT going with 100 rather than 1000Mbps?
"aspergers" Isn't the point
Anyone in the UK accused of a crime such as this, should be tried in the UK!
Deport suspect terrorist probably.
Not BT's Fault?
Reading between the lines, it sounds like he in the end was blaming Belkin not BT! I didn't see an apology to BT, but he does come over as arrogant, so I'm not surprised.
"Do you know who I am?"
Q. "Do you know who I am?"
A. "No, but I'll see if I can find out for you, and let you know"
"Crimble" please don't!
"Crimble/Crimbo" what horrible words.
If Christmas was a festival of any other religion other than Christianity, you wouldn't be mangling the name would you?
Just because Christianity is tolerant and you won't see me burning your effigy outside El. Reg. Towers doesn't make it right!
under 80 watts of power.... I'm skeptical . Why?
"the whole machine burns under 80 watts of power. (That's what the spec sheet says. I myself am skeptical of this claim.)"
Sounds reasonable to me. I've been using ARM7 based machines for 15+ years and many have 40 or 70W PSU's and that was mainly to power the drives. If it drew much more than 80W it would probably need a fan, but that would be to keep the PSU cool, not the CPU!
Bored
Can we move on, this story line has been done death!
Opinion
David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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