Cost?
Presumably this will add a decent amount of cost to the price of the car - will people actually want to foot the bill?
Nice design/implementation though
Posts by Tony Barnes
247 posts • joined Friday 14th September 2007 16:17 GMT
Re: So my question is
Completely agree guys - I highly doubt that Perfect 10 were upset with the amount of traffic Google would push their way. If they haven't set up stuff to not get indexed that they don't want indexing, that really is purely their fault. Plus thumbnails = preview = new customers, as far as I can tell they were trying to sue Google for making their business more profitable?!?!
Funnily we have a product called Perfect 10 at work, you'd be amazed how often the wrong website gets loaded up in error..!!
Anyone else notice the timescales here?
Work started on Sunday, they aim to be complete in 2014. Lets assume they've 'only' aiming for a 2 year turnaround - 1373 miles in 2 years, 1373 / (365 * 2) = 1.88 m/d
That's nearly 2 miles a day that will be completed. Underground, or over ground, that seems like a pretty damn impressive daily goal.
I'm guessing in the UK we still work in yards per day on a project such as this...?
How much carbon now?
Did I miss this in the article? How much carbon / cash is used / spent on the current water treatment system?
Surely the cost of a new system should be it's total cost minus the cost of the old system?
Also would be worth factoring in the business related costs associated with having the decking road dug up all the time....
Sounds like a great plan though
Thanks for the Flickr link Kristian
Those samples are pretty outstanding considering they have come from a phone, very impressive.
I have to say I am completely and utterly baffled by the logic behind cramming such an immense camera into what appears to be a great form factor, to then shackle it with such a comparatively low resolution screen to show off your lovely photos?
Very curious decision, I guess good screen + good camera would = bigger price point then hoped...
Posted in Lytro light field camera
Love it
It's been many, many, many years since man first thought about how to capture an image - make a hole, have a recording media screen, an exposure time, etc - been stuck like that since the start. This is a crazy progression IMO, sure at the moment it might not be 'great', but jesus, this could just be looked at as a proof of concept. How long did it take digital cameras to lift themselves up to decent quality? Were they great from the start - were they hell!
The form factor will be the biggest issue - will increasing the resolution result in a thicker tube? Can this be rectified by making it collapsible? Etc. Beyond that obvious disavantage the potential advantages are huge. Every item in a photo in focus is surely a possibility with some software cleverness.
Great to see such innovation
Re: "in the crispy-fried zone for humanity or similar-bodied aliens"
So 'similar bodied' means what then? I took it to mean has a body, stands up. Nothing about either of those criteria that would by definition make things flammable...
To imply that in addition to having a similar outward appearance, they also have the same 'running gear' as life from earth is kinda daft, and was the point I was making.
Oh well...
"in the crispy-fried zone for humanity or similar-bodied aliens"
Kinda makes massive assumptions regarding the ability of life to exist in what would be outwardly hostile environments to us. Even on earth places like hydrothermal vents would be a bitch for us, but many species thrive there.
It does bother me that humanity can be so unimaginative when it comes to thinking outside of the box with our definitions of 'life', pretty lame really. That close to the sun you could come up with a solar powered life form that could generate enough energy to ambulate, think 'Little Shop of Horrors' ;)
Posted in Virgin Media's latest throttling rules
Wasn't it 75% before...??
I've only got the 20meg line, but am pretty sure that it was a 75% throttle for all bar the top package holders previous to this? I really ought to find out when my fast upgrade is coming, as with just a 50% throttle, regardless of what I'm doing it will be giong quicker then it is right now.
Anyway, for those crying 'boo hoo' - I am a pretty heavy user, typically 2-300gb a month, which means most days I hit a limit for a bit, so I have to structure my downloads. I accept that my level of usage will cause network worries compared to your typical punter who just wants to have super fast access to small volumes of data. The amount of users who will use high levels of data - small, few percent. For those of you above demanding even higher levels, you're into the top percentile no doubt.
I'm not entirely sure how you can expect a pricing structure for a product like this to work over such a large distribution of usage? If you *need* that bandwidth permanently, why not go find a service that suits? It will cost you a shit load more than your Virgin line, that is for sure...
Not great for glasses..
..as the scratches would turn red during the 'repair' time, rendering them vaguely useless
Bit late to go buy one then...
Bugger, would have been nice to grab a potential bit of history, not surprised they sold out quickly, but 10,000 in minutes... props!
Impressive
Erm, how many sets of eyes/hands has Google Wallet been past/through over at the Chocolate Factory? Must be at least several hundred people, evidently none of whom thought to check this,
Seriously impressive wood for trees fuck up there!!
Just use your Gmail space
For those who already have gmail accounts (presumably large %age of folk on here), just use one of the programmes set up to use your Gmail storage as a drive - e.g. Gmail Drive - http://www.filehippo.com/download_gmail_drive/download/4c07cc67ebeb90d2b8cbbb28f7e4fcdf/
Very simple to use, you already have 7GB to play with (less emails), you can monitor spare space, you have the login info, presumably their email systems are encrypted, etc.
Once you've set it up on 1 pc, simply drop the installer into you gmail drive folder, then if you want to install on another, its easy enough to find - simply search your gmail for the file.
Admittedly, the official way of doing things will probably bit a bit more versatile and cross platform friendly!
Ever so slightly weighted in their favour...
As a manufacturer of tech that by and large takes existing ideas, and makes them more useful/accessible to the mainstream, this is a pretty transparent "please stop making us pay out for stuff we didn't invent" begging letter IMO.
Fair play for trying, but c'mon, get real!
Agree, beautiful shot -
[conspiracy theorist]
but where are the stars? Yyou should be able to see stars from the moon. It never happened...
[/conspiracy theorist]
lol!!
Prefer the original
Though these composites are gorgeous, they really aren't a patch on that shot from '72.
The banding from the ocean reflections is the main culprit in ruining things for me, makes it look like the earth isn't spherical. Plus it's perfect daylight everywhere - again, boom, not a sphere illuminated by a single lightsource anymore. So techincally impressive, initially attractive, but ultimately full of fail.
When its decomissioning time, they should strap some boosters to Hubble, bob her off a bit into the solar system, and get a nice close up from there - would be a lovely shot. Hmmm, would be nice to do fly-by's of the whole solar system...
Posted in Boffins make graphene micro-distillery
Water purification
Firstly, baffled as to how it would let water through but not helium through, given the size difference at play (only thought coming to mind is dipole nature of water?), but if this membrane does just let water through, and not anything else commonly found in drinking water, water purificaion options are surely about to get a boost?
That said distillery option is also pretty intriguing - I believe home distilleries were made illegal for their potential to go 'boom' - a flame/heat/pressure chamber free solution should therefore become viable...??
Hard life
So you come up with a media sharing site, which is fairly transparently a copyrighting scam, rake in £100k+ a day in personal income (I believe that was the number quoted?), and get to play COD for about 8hrs a day....
He should really have lived somewhere he couldn't be extradited, as that isn't too shabby a lifestyle!!!
Well I can't wait
My BB experience from Virgin has been pretty damn good over the years - sure, it fails some times, but in most occasions it is up an running again before the day is out. Jumping up to 60meg from 20meg is going to be a god send - when throttling kicks in I will still be pootling along at pretty close to my previous max speed, top stuff.
As for the email, yeah, got both, my thought was it was more PR than error (someone else mentions this above) - but meh, who cares - so long as they actually do the upgrades all's good IMO!
Posted in Honda NSX reborn as a hybrid
Nice - shame about the arse
As per Tom, bar I like the front. Side on = wowsers!
Will never own one... oh well...
Huh - actually affordable?
Impressed - I've staved off buying a BR player for many years, but if they can start getting good box sets like this down to those prices, I might have to think again. Anyone know if they are re-mastered at all?Posted in Mythbusters cannonball ‘myth-fires’
Lucky sods!
Seriously, that could easily have killed folk, would be amazed if they're not hauled up in front of a court
$35k
That was quite a sweet deal for Apple at the time - shame their lawyers didn't look at the small print.
If they only bought non-chinese usage of the name, then they shouldn't use it in China, pretty simple really - and it's right that the company are sticking up for themselves, though I will admit, they are probably only doing it to access a great big settlement worth way more than they could have made from the brand.
Posted in Battlefield 3
It will be a while before I can review the single player...
...because as long as my internet connection is working, it would take an awful lot to drag me away from the multiplayer!!!
I am surprised that your review failed to spot that the matchmaking system is, as it stands, dire - 1 mate, sure, easy enough, 2, gets tricky to find a game, 3+ = complete nightmare - 10 minutes of looking at a crappy screen before you give up.
That said, the MP is without a doubt the most immersive experience yet on the 360 for me - the sheer scale of the maps, the interaction (blowing up) of the buildings/cover, the large selection of vehicles with their own strong/weak points - brilliant.
COD has a big problem on its hands...
Posted in Motorola to launch 8in Xoom 2 for Xmas
Check out the corners - not nice and round, but half rounded... lol, pathetic that they need to resort to making their product a bit uglier to make sure it stays on shelves!
Posted in Airline strikes, unions outraged
Dumbass - lol!
Firstly, thanks for the nice childish intro, good work.
Secondly, you are missing a huge point here - the government is the one who is trying to pull the plug on benefits that the country cannot afford. The unions are trying to prevent this from happening. So you have a situation where the elected government are being controlled by a group of people who were not elected, well, at least not by the general public - all happening in a democracy...
I'm sorry, but that is completely retarded. It is giving public sector workers their cake 5 times over, some puke bags should they need to relieve themselves, and the general thumbs up to do whatever.
You only have to look at the stats for public vs private sector sick leave to see that the public sector take the piss (I have had less sick days in my last 9 years work than the average for 1 year in the NHS). In fact, I'd imagine, though admittedly don't have the stats, that all unionised jobs have the same mis-allignment with the rest of the workforce.
So yes, people are replaceable - and so they should be. Just because you got a job in the first place doesn't mean you deserve to keep it!
Posted in Airline strikes, unions outraged
Good on him, I personally can't stand Unions
Look at what the unions are doing here in the UK - their response to an economy in dire straights is to try and cover the assses of their precious members at the cost of the entire country. I have no sympathy whatsoever for public sector workers who are suddenly looking at losing some of their absurdly OTT benefits (e.g. NHS sick pay - 6 months @ full salary, erm, seriously?!?) in lieu of the fact that the country cannot afford to keep paying such ridiculous expense for what is, at the end of the day, just someone doing their damn job. They aren't special...
In a non-unionised job, you get on with your job, and if you don't like the conditions, leave to find another, or take the employer to tribunal where it is decided if they acted fairly or not. People who hide behind a union who are demanding that they as an individual are treated 'fairly', are in fact demanding to be treated like royalty compared to their non-unionised counterparts.
Whilst I agree with the sentiment of the Unions, they represent a major fail with their current mentalities, and are a nasty reminder of less enlightened times
Seems fair enough to me
I use the API on a few sites, all with tediously low traffic compared to the threshold mentioned here. Given the data shunted, and processing cycles used, it's fair enough that folk should pay for it - weird that it has been free for so long if you ask me!!
As for maps loading on the page and 'robbing' your allowance when people don't use them, just stick in a placeholder image and use jQuery to replace it with the actual map if someone clicks on it - not the most daunting of tasks.
Erm...
...looks to be about the same sort of size to me - certainly not the massive drop down that the PS1 or PS2 enjoyed, even the PS3 slimmed up more than that?
Posted in Videogames caused riots says plod
When I was young it was all Pac-Man and board games
Unless I'm mistaken, board games include things like:
1. Cluedo - so presumably murdering folk with a spanner in the kitchen is ok
2. Operation - removing random bones and organs from your fellow person is just fine
3. Battleships - blowing the crap out of battleships, sure, why not
4. etc..
Also, Pac-Man - erm, look at what happens - you run around munching on stuff, hiding from ghosts, then when you eat something special, you get to chase down and eat the ghosts.
Sounds kinda like rioting to me.
Hooray for the faceless constable, clearly a fine addition to the boys in blue...
Why doesn't he have a job?
Seriously, the guy obviously has at worst some pretty decent skills at finding flaws in systems, why isn't someone employing him for security checking...??
Hahahaha!
Awesome :D
Posted in X-COM UFO: Enemy Unknown
Best. Game. Ever.
Honestly, nothing else has come close to this for me - remember firing the demo up on my dads work laptop as a kid, and getting giddy as hell! The only thing that bugged me was that they dropped the laser effect (it sort of blew out a load of pixels on a hit) from the full game, shoulda stayed.
Agree - android version would be immense, though possibly end up with me getting the sack for never working...
Personally rate G+ very highly
I think G+ is what Buzz should have been - that died a death for me after less than 2 hrs of bothering with it. G+ with its tight android integration is a complete win for me, and I'm looking forward to it taking a large slice of FB pie.
Facebook has been great to me, but I can't be arsed with it these days - bloated, slow, and full of crap I'm not interested in... no thanks!
Funny
That's the first thing I thought also!
Though heavily deserved, can't stand CSI, utter, utter, shite...
Top BOFH!
Posted in Nintendo: no DVD, BD playback for Wii U
Proprietary = cheaper?
I'm a bit confused - how can it possibly be cheaper to develop a proprietary media system of your own, than it is to license one that already exists?
I guess they have done the maths on it, but it feels wrong - unless they are predicting such massive sales that they can drive down the per unit cost?
Posted in IBM demos graphene circuits
How to monetise
Surely this was answered in the post - work out how to turn it off, or simply re-imagine how computers should work...!!
This feels promising, then again, its been so long since the last carbon nano-tube hoo-haa, maybe I'm just getting excited with graphene instead
That's a lot of redundancy!
3.4 undecillion IP addresses, that's 3400000000000000000000000000000000000 IPs
Per person alive today, that works out at roughly 50000000000000000000000000000 IPs a head
Gonna be a while before we fill that methinks !
Posted in Whitehall fraud pilots save £12m
Ridiculous really
Do any corporations put up with these kind of 'mistakes' for any period at all?
Its a tough one, in one sense they should obviously be applauded for making these 'savings' - on the other, they should all be sacked for letting the problems exist in the first place!
Posted in Hannspree Hannspad 10.1in Android tablet
How good is the screen?
Any better than that of the Vega?
Does it have Google Market or not? If not, how come it wasn't shouted at for not having it, like the Vega was?
Looks nice enough, though is £50 more than the Vega is currently priced at.
Don't forget the Vega scored a measly 65% - 80% would suggest that there are BIG improvements in this tab...
You've got to laugh
I'm actually finding this whole situation pretty funny - given how disproportionate big firms can be against 'the little people', its really tickling me to see them fight back and give the big boys a kicking!
Sony sure must regret some of its decisions these past months...
NB - hackings bad, don't do it, mkay?
Does seem a bit obvious..
..doesn't it? Who needs complicated exploits when you can just alter the save path!
Squatters paradise
lol - so all we need now is someone to hack said database, post online, et voila - squatters all over the country quickly re-homed!
Agree with the above sentiments - its public information
This is not a security problem in any way, shape, or form. He collected information that people have happily allowed to be public. If you check out what your Google profile says about you, it will likely, like mine, say basically nothing bar my name. If you've added other information to it, there is probably a reason you have - as above for your work being one of them.
Though it is interesting that he managed to grab 35GB of info this way, I'm not sure that anyone in their right mind would have tried to put up security to prevent someone accessing public information? Sounds like a waste of time to me...
That was the BEST app created?
Without trying to be overtly harsh, were there any other entries?
Why would there be no search function in an application that doesn't allow for multiple searches of the same keywords? Is that single list of keywords the only ones that have been added to the app?
Function over form is fine and dandy, but 'search' is a pretty basic function IMO...
Pretty graphs though
Posted in Eight New Yorkers sue Baidu for $16m
I'm confused
Do people outside of China use Baidu? If not, I'm not sure what grounds breaching an American bit of paper has to do with a Chinese country operating within its own borders..??
Just had a quick look at bidu for the first time, I get the feeling they may have copy / pasted Google to an extreme degree!!
£40/m ??
Isn't that going to be more than most inner city dwellers would spend on fuel anyway?
Interesting idea, honestly, I don't think its a good end result, but an interesting idea.
Vegacomb
Yep - can't wait for them to iron out the remaining bugs. Honeycomb is a far better option for the Vega - the fact that you can now grab them for £200 really does make them a complete bargain. Been holding off sticking any newer roms on after the modaco r8, nearly went with the corvus one, til he strated releasing the HC stuff !!
Posted in Motorola Xoom
Well, sorta
Its all down to the licensing agreements I think, not sure to be honest. But honeycomb has been ported (early stages, slow, unusable, but on its way!), and all the other stuff you've mentioned is over as well.
I love my Vega, great pad for the money. Played with it side by side with a mates Xoom, and bar the fact the Xooms screen was a LOT better, it held up very well given it was about 50% cheaper.
I'll stick HC on when I can, and then likely wait until next year before looking at what is available, maybe the year after, so skip a generation or 2, as its great for now.
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Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
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Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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