Posts by /\/\j17237 posts • joined Thursday 26th April 2007 16:15 GMT
Like many fellow commentards I'm also a fan of slide out QWERTY phones so read the story with interest...leading to dissapointment. Are there really NO new slide out QWERTY phone out there at the moment?
Looks like the Nokia E7 for a while longer - even if it was better running Anna than Belle. Wonder if we will ever see Carla/Donna...?
So let me get this right, it's Brit-bashing.
Suggesting we buy the US F16 or the US F35C or the French Rafales in preference to the US F35B is Brit-bashing and not supporting UK industry...
Well the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights' advice on DPAs is that they should be:
- independent guardians of privacy.
- efficient one-stop shops for all data protection concerns of citizens and other persons.
It DOESN'T say they are there to advise companies at the companies beck and call. That's what a companies own lawyers are for.
I'm a little confused by this one. How can you find evidence in polar ice for the end of the LAST ice age?
As an ice age is defined as a period with permanent ice on the surface of the earth the ice they are looking at in the Antarctic will be from the CURRENT, Quaternary ice age that started 2.58 million years-ago and is still in the process of ending (hence the presence of ice at the poles) and by definition hasn't yet ended.
The LAST ice age that actually had an end would be the Karoo, 360 to 260 million years-ago.
As someone who had the pleasure of Mr Thompson during his brief tenure at Channel4 I can tell you he won't be missed!
Move everyone to a facility 'oop north' where no-one wants to work and nothing works then bugger-off to leave the whole mess to someone else.
Well if the boffins across the pond were true scientists they would be quiting all times in UTC anyway...
Unless you consider using LED-only lighting on their R18 Le Mans prototype race cars commercialising it of course...
El Reg actually got an invite? From Apple? ^_^
"Foreign governments are lining up to wrest control of the internet from freedom-loving hippies..."
So tell me Mr McDowell, how IS the US Gov. SOAP bill coming along...?
A rather simplistic, one-sided view.
If we assume some foreign power has managed to invade and hold Europe, between Russia and the Atlantic coast we must assume they have some neat toys of their own. For example they probably have their own railguns able to fire 100nm.
Now add that in to your view of WW2 and you have the whole US invasion force being killed on the South coast of England as they board the ships to France...
It is?
With the upgrade release yesterday I upgraded my E7 last night and...have been trying to find out how I go back to Anna ever since.
Excellence must mean "making everything bigger so it takes up more space and loosing/obfuscating useful functionality".
Alun, you're on THE WRONG STAND!
Move away from the VAG stand and take a look at the Honda/Acura one - the next (hybrid) NSX is much more interesting than another Beatle.
By whom exactly?
Other than press shots for 3 back in 2003 or videos for Apple in 2011 who's ever seen someone making a video call on a mobile phone...?
When you've managed to get SlingPlayer working on Linux you will let me know won't you - it's the main reason I installed Windows 7 on my Netbook, over Linux.
Most people in the US AREN'T bemused when their plywood and spit house gets burnt down by a firest fire or blown away by a hurricane/tornado.
In large swaths of the US it's not IF you property could be caust in the local natural disaster of choice but WHEN. As such when it happens most Americans are just happy they only had to pay the insurance for/cost fo rebuilding a plywood and spit house, not the cost of insuring and rebuilding a brick one.
In the UK people don't really understand what a hurricane (for example) is. Hell, many people in the South East of England still think Michael Fish was wrong in 1987 when he said there wasn't a hurricane coming but he wasn't. There WASN'T a hurricane, it was just a bit windy with some gusts at hurricane force on the Beaufort scale. That's quite different from a hurricane where it's not the gusts that are hurricane force but the whole thing.
So, just like in the desktop world Apple users just end up buying over-priced hardware and then run Windows on it to do anything useful!
Hush, before someone hears you!
"They have 'merely' [I jest] conducted a scientific analysis and produced a model based on many factors which, **if correct**, show that the likelihood is much less."
That sounds almost like...science! Isn't that blasphemy when it some to a climate change discussion?
None of the above - the 'you' in the sentence refers to The Australian.
If Thought About IT was actually called Read The Article Properly they may have noticied the following:
"THE AUSTRALIAN quotes Schmittner as saying: "Now these very large changes..."
The point here is that the runway IS short but we are forced to operate an aircraft that really requires a longer one at that altitude to take off safely, without endangering the airframe in the case of a late take-off abort.
We USED to have one designed specifically to take off on short runways, so ideal to operate from that strip in at least the close air support role...
Given the financial house of cards that is Autonomy I'm amazed more haven't jumped on the band wagon to sure up the companies financial situation.
[EMI fired me for] "Leaving work early" and "missing the odd day at work" along with "inappropriate dress".
I don't know about inappropriate dress but the other two sound like standard practice for an MP...
So let me get this straight. The built-from-the-ground-up-for-low-powered-low-memory-devices O/S is the bloated one, not one of the pruned-down-from-a-desktop-or-server one's are the slimline ones...?
Really?
I'll keep my 'bloated' Symbian phone and you can keep your 'slimline' Linux/Windows/OSX (with the odd desktop debugger left in).
Oh, and can you tell the other 6 Meego users, ta.
I'm sure it's nothing to do with them being a vested interest in the nuclear power industry and there being a significant accident/string of accidents in Japan that have dented public confidence in the whole creating-radioactive-shit-for-future-generations-to-worry-about industry...
No, Google claims that removing the copyright notice from the top of a load of Java classes means the copyright no longer applies because the rest is 'just code'.
So they didn't steal very much so they should not only be let off but permitted to carry on selling* it...
One assumes you'd have no objections to someone breaking in to your house, so long as they only stole one or two things, not lost of your property?
* Yes I'm aware that Google (currently) give Android away free but then it's easy to give things away free when you keep your costs down by stealing things!
Hydrogen has a greater buoyancy than methane so you need less food/fewer bacteria to generate enough hydrogen to lift the vessel than would be the case with Methane - and of course the more food you need the more the vessel weighs and the more food you need.
It's not why would you want to runs node.js on Windows, it's how can we stop people that want to run node.js switching from Windows to Linux.
If I look around my house I can probably dig out 3 desktops, 4 laptops and a netbook.
By Mr Asay's logic I should only need to buy one Windows 7 license and run it on all of these in parallel but for some reason Microsoft won't let me.
Mr Asay, why do you believe you should pay for a developers time and effort to create an app for your iPhone then get the results of their time and effort porting/re-writing it for android for free...?
"Or in other words the Porsche driver is doomed to having loads of sex with a strong of ladies..."
"These people should be made to take a long walk on a very short pier."
That makes no sense. If you take a long walk off a short pier you will fall off the end. It's only a short pier though, so they can just swim back to shore...
"It disgusts me that my taxes will be used to feed them while they're locked up."
Really? It's the fact that you have to pay taxes that disgusts you, not the harm done to the children?
"(Nokia) says it won't provide public targets anymore as the company tries to adjust to the new reality.".
One assumes that's the new reality that no-one was buying Windows handsets before Nokia, no-one is going to buy windows handsets after Nokia and no-one is buying Symbian handsets as Nokia have nailed it to the cross.
...so much easier to get good seats to watch the film in 2D screen.
Well Nokia shipped 24.3 million smartphones in Q1 2011, more than any other handset manufacturer and if we take of the number of Meamo handsets thats...24.3 million Symbian phones.
Numbers from IDC - http://mobile.allaboutsymbian.com/news/item/12858_IDC_smartphone_shipment_figure.php
Maybe it's the shitty background scene in the image but am I the only one who thinks that's just Thunderbird 2 with a lick of camouflage paint...?
Please explain to me what damages ORACLE suffered for a "product" that THEY literally give away free to consumers?
Oracle own Java and can do what they like with it, including giving it away for free.
Google DON'T own Java so can only do what Oracle let them do with it.
Not that hard really is it?
You're criticizing Nokia for not spending loads re-developing the web browser they bundle with Symbian in the 18 or so months before they ditch it from their high-end phones for Windows and, inevitably IE...?
Yes, but that's why everyone uses Opera on Symbian phones...
Yea, nothing easier when the shit is hitting the fan and you're falling out the sky trying to work out firstly why and secondly how to stop it than to use a computer - one that's probably flipping constantly between portrait and landscape and falling in to the foot well. SOO much easier and safer than a physical book to can rip the essential checklist our of and hold/clip to the yoke in front of your eyes.
Oh for the love of God, why?
Why does every UI designer these days seem to think taking over more and more of the screen with UI lint is a good thing?
"Producing music actually cost time and money." - Check
"The session artists, mixers etc at the studio have to be paid a livin' wage, not to mention all the supporting staff you need for running a modern organization." - Check
"Ditto for the admins of those iTunes servers" - Umm, these are illegal downloads so inherently don't use iTunes or the iTunes servers, so this argument is invalid.
"the artists who design the cover art, etc etc. " - This depends, are the users also downloading copies of the cover art or just the MP3 files? Cover art needs something to cover and a lot of people don't bother downloading the cover art to their portable music players where they have a choice, so again invalid.
Well I've already had TWO census forms through my letterbox - and could fill in a third as they have sent one to Flat 7..and there have only ever been 6 flats in my building.
Hold on a sec...
The TV licence fee is currently £7.85/month.
The current £/$ exchange rate is around £1=$1.628.
So if you live in the US you can get access to all the iPlayer content (which is most of the BBC's output) for $10 == £6.14, or £1.71 LESS that we pay in the UK.
"I wasn't aware that the police randomly visited people and checked out the contents of their bookshelves, so there must be more to this story."
Yes, they probably raided his house for some other reason and, finding no evidence of that crime they started to look for something, ANYTHING to charge him with so they didn't look like the complete twonks they are.
"Let's say I sit down at home and write a little function, play with it, polish it a little and think, "That's neat" - and then a few weeks later I;m coding at work and find the same piece of code/method works well so I reuse it ... who owns that code? Did I just lose my "rights"? Did I have any "rights"? But this conundrum only exists because of the idea that code can be copyrighted."
Umm, no. I'd say there is about a 10% chance of there being any conundrum as it will almost always be covered by the documents that make up your contract of employment.
If you read this you will usually find something along the lines of "any IP you create as part of your work for The Company, or on systems and hardware owned by The Company belongs to The Company". So, do it at work -> theirs. Do it at home on your work laptop -> theirs. Do it at home on your own PC/laptop (and not SSHed in to/using software licensed by The Company) is your IP.
In that latter case you should keep a verifiable copy o the code 'at home' to prove it was created there first and, unless you get a legal agreement with The Company otherwise you are giving them implicit global rights to that code if you re-use it as part of your work.
See, not that hard really if you put your mind to it and actually read your contracts/know anything about IP law.
New, modern OS with better usability (which has been the problem with Symbian).
Usability has never been an issue with Symbian, but then Symbian is just an O/S and doesn't have an interface.
Nokia's series 60 UI, now THAT has some issues - many of which were fixed in Series 80, Series 90 and countless other still-born projects.
Forum Nokia has a letter to developers about the future of Qt...
"Qt will continue to be the development framework for Symbian and Nokia will use Symbian for further devices; continuing to develop strategic applications in Qt for Symbian platform and encouraging application developers to do the same."
"Extending the scope of Qt further will be our first MeeGo-related open source device, which we plan to ship later this year."
So Nokia's single, unified development platform that means developers only need to write once for all Nokia/other adopter phones...means just the low-end Symbian and probably a single MeeGo iPad clone (followed by a swift death for MeeGo).
And this will make people adopt Qt because...?
This is great news for me...no point me waiting to see if the MeeGo N9 actually gets announced as a Communicator replacement (yes, I'm still using my 4 year-old E90) I can just wait for the E7 to come out and compare it with the HTC Desire Z, the only other Communicator-like device on the market!
Nothing wrong with expert sex change - just always access via a Google search, never direct.
If you click via a Google search and scroll to the very bottom of the page you will see all the answers exposed for free! Do the same via a bookmark or direct search on the expert sex change site and you won't - it's just one way they get indexed by Google and stay within the Google rules.
"the junk you see in search results when websites try to cheat their way into higher positions in search results or otherwise violate search engine quality guidelines".
What, you mean by buying their results to the top of the list using competitors trade names as trigger terms...?
And when I see somebody: 'Okay, I know his name is Bill, but what was his last name? Where does he live? What does he do?', and I'm spacing out on that stuff, [but] my assistant is watching, and understands the situation, and ... is filling me in."
...and Bill is stood directly in front of you having said "Hello again Mr Atkinson" wondering why you are having a conversation with yourself and feeling most put out that you firstly don't remember his surname and secondly voice the fact when you could have just said "Oh, Hi Bill".
That and you look like a tool/Captain Cyborg wearing a Bluetooth headset.
