Posts by Phil Atkin

100W? Isn't the copper a bit thin for that??

I feel a hot cable coming on.

It makes a pretty nice synthesizer

Despite it being a HUGE struggle to get it to go fast enough - not sure I can link in here but this was captured straight out of a running Pi - https://soundcloud.com/pisynth/popcorn-on-a-pi

PORRIDGE!

I have spent the last 4 years eating porridge for breakfast AND lunch. Some 700 calorise, total cost abot 20p. Come on, this should be easy.

I like that the photo illustrating the article ...

... looks like a Tardis zapping a Dalek ship. Sort of. If you haven't put your glasses on yet.

I second that motion

The QNX engineering team is awesome.

Thank you for writing this

When people claim to me that Google are somehow kinder, nicer, less oppressive than Apple I shall think of this and smile.

a) very interesting

b) keep up the Silicon Roundabout attacks.

That Bong dude hasn't written much lately, did his funding run out? Time for a C round.

Spelling?!?!

'Peal back' eh - what's the world coming to?

Cue vast celebrity twitter exit

Hmm. I think they've cocked up here.

We'll see the usual pattern ...

... burst of Android sales, never refreshed as people realize they've made a terrible mistake, surge of 'back to Apple' some 12-18 months after the Android push.

Laser sintering ROCKS!

That's the important bit folks, not the 1991 VR stuff. Lasers. Frikkin' lasers.

This is actually funny you know

Therefore, since the world is such a bloody miserable place lately, why is anybody complaining about this?

Tits are still up

Big tits, very much up.

30th anniversary of MIDI, 50th anniversary of the Mellotron!

A good year for unguitars and undrums I'd say.

Try as they might, they will not keep those tunnels free of low-pressure hardened rats

So what happens when one of these 'fearless of a gentle vacuum' rodents enters the compressor at 760 mph? Probably a big old train wreck.

Are you sure the platform is WIndows?

Because I don't see many - sorry, any - Tegra Android design wins out there right now. There seems to be the sound of tumbleweed blowing through empty streets compared to 12 or 18 months ago. Let's see how much better they fare when there is a good GPU in there with CUDA / OpenCL capability.

Bitterly disappointed. I read the title as 'What did The Ramones ever do for us?' so the absence of Blitzkrieg, Baseball Bats, Gabba and Glue left me bewildered until I re-read the titles.

I for one welcome our new gay pink gradienty overlords

Because they give you a fluffy gay pink phone with one hand, and a man-sweat stinky big-ole-pair-of-bollocks Mac Pro on the other. It's a WW1 shell case in shiny black ceramic stuffed full of GPU and extruded aluminium. It's totally, 100% dude, and is built for hitting 7 stone weaklings over the head. The chicks can keep their MacBook Airy Fairies and their phoney wonies, we men will have out iPads and our Mac Pros.

The new Apple - masculine and feminine sides in perfect balance.

It's missing all the 5 major food groups

As far as I can tell, it has

No pizza

No beer

No bacon cheeseburger

No fruit'n'veg

No ice cream

although it sort of looks like ice cream after a night in the sun.

So zero out of 5 and one bad impersonation. I'll give it a miss.

This article needs a good proof read

I know 'C' and 'G' look similar and all, but really - get thorough guys.

Eat charcoal

Kills farts stone dead. Has transformed my life. Plus if you have a woodstove, it's free.

In China all software is free

It's cultural - piracy is 100% the norm, and it's way easier to get pirate software onto Android than iOS. Hence the desire to get onto the best Android phone, Makes perfect sense.

"ignore all patents ... "

I'd say in my experience that this is absolutely standard practice - engineers are instructed to never attempt to perform any patent prior art research, if an infringement comes up it's the job of legal to sort it out. So Apple are no better or worse than anyone else.

It's those damn photino birds

The sun Lieserl, the sun!

ADSL speed?!

5-6MBits - "That's easily comparable to the ADSL speeds most of us enjoy" - try living in the rural Cotswolds, 1MBit is Ferrari pace round here.

That picture is rubbish

Have they never heard of antialiasing?

"Stiffens penetration"?

How about a New Year's resolution - fewer cock jokes? Go on, you know you want to.

Cube

Oh I loved my cube so much ...

Sheena 5

Errr - this could get bad - they'll either come back and demand the oceans. Or maybe they'll whizz off at almost light speed to escape the end of the universe. Depends if they read the short story or the big book.

Ubiquitous mobile coverage?

No way - not out here in rural England. Femtocells make perfect sense to turn no coverage an sub-1Mbit broadband into a usable alternative to Skype.

Still unusable today

Great...

Of course it's a smartphone

iPhone most certainly is a smartphone - featurephones have a single CPU tasked with executing the radio stack and the 'OS' (for want of a better expression) - smartphones have a distinct baseband CPU to deal with the cellphone network, and another CPU - the application processor - running the OS and applications.