The Torx screws on the base of the Mac Air are 5-point compared with the usual 6-point which I have in my Uber-Mac User's toolkit. Wondered why my T5 didn't fit ...
So .. I doubt they'll be coming to New York which I suspect has larger populations of non-bacon-eating Jewish, Muslim and/or vegetarian Kinect Developers than Seattle.
What about some plans for a Babbage Analytical engine (and some lathes etc. to build the cogs and gears)? Electronics? We don't need no stinkin' electronics!!
I for one am grateful that the PM announced ParentPort today to save me from this and other corrupting filth that infests the Intertubes. Oh wait - the Great Wall of Cameron only deals with the Web - not App Downloads. Damn You Cameron! And your leaky Wall!!
when El Reg was an IT mag. When did you come all over Jeremy Clarkson? Have you heard rumours that he's ill/retiring and are looking for a spot on the Sunday Times or Top Gear?
Does that mean we can stop all this silliness about "Dark Energy" and "Dark matter". If the C in E = MC squared is a smidgen bigger doesn't that account for the missing mass/energy? Or at least some of it? Or is it just hiding in another dimension through which neutrinos move?
Mine's the one with an alternative universe in the pockets.
"Fracking is an unconscionable gamble with potentially catastrophic results. It has already been banned in France. It should be banned in Britain as well."
Earth tremors, Contamination of ground water. Methane seeping up into your house.
Its Amnesty INTERNATIONAL. Its been a founding principle that Amnesty International members campaign for human rights (against torture and capital punishment) in OTHER countries. This is (and was) to stop members being persecuted in their home countries by iffy governments.
"David Willetts said that he hoped that key research would stay in the UK, but that the flow of students was two-way and that the UK benefitted from an influx of talented scientists."
He should have a chat with Theresa May about her visa restrictions on students ....
This is where David Cameron and Co are missing a trick! They should be turning rioters and truants glow-in-the dark rather than taking their benefits away - much easier to spot on CCTV in future!! I blame the current Cabinet's lack of scientific background.
" rain-lashed and chilly" describes most Augusts in the West of Scotland - people take their tops off to get their annual Vitamin D dose in case the sun makes an appearance.
My prediction: a Desktop iPad in 20", 27" and 30" form factors. You can cut a hole in your desk with the provided template for the full surface experience. And iOS will be updated for any angle viewing for multi-user, multi-touch interaction.
You heard it here first but probably wish you didn't.
I give you the "Council Regulation (EEC) No 3922/91 of 16 December 1991 on the harmonization of technical requirements and administrative procedures in the field of civil aviation "
Was just debating this article on FB, and the relative merits of Occam and the folding Origami editor (which I hated) but tellingly we both moved to the Meiko Computing Surface to do our actual work - A proper UNIX environment with message passing in C.
The current situation of having your "conventional" programming language talking to a jumped-up shader language is a backward step.
www.transterpreter.org for those of you who want to have the Transputer experience.
To misquote the head of the CBI "Half of the population are below average intelligence". This is the reason NASA also had to produce a disclaimer for the Mayan prediction of the end of the world in 2012 http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
"Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012."
Saw a couple of these driving round Liverpool City Centre this morning (they're made in nearby Halewood). The squat look may be en vogue but it looks like someone's rolled a Freelander and then tried to stretch back in to shape.
But on the other hand don't the French die of liver disease - 1.5x more than UK? So they're just popping their clogs of other factors before their hearts give out.
Mmm? Liver disease or heart attack? Make mine a Merlot ...
Original Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz Macbook Air with --- backlit keyboard. As I found out when chatting with a friend in the dark. "Can't see keyboard". "Hit the keyboard light button", "I don't have one" (MBA 11") .
Where's the St Steve icon when you need it ? All hail his Noodly Appendages (oops, sorry wrong religion).
The tram has been used as an instrument of death and destruction in Coronation Street for a number of years. So you'd think the general populace (including Corrie-watching Ozzies) would have got the message by now.
Mind you, given the "quality" of the special effects in the recent Corrie Tramageddon, you could forgive people for not taking the Tram-menace seriously ....
WebGL brings my machines to a crawl, for even moderately sized models*, in a way that VRML/X3D never did. So further optimisation *and* security fixes needed.
"For those of you who revel in Mac versus Windows shouting matches, click the Comments link now. You’ve already made up your minds, so feel free to dive into the debate without reading the review. That’s what you normally do, anyway."
Oh you know us so well :) What was the article about again?
Most people* I know are speculating that FaceBook has peaked. So does the move to the former Sun HQ mark the beginning of their decline? Next big thing: Online monkey tennis.
* actual people I've met as opposed to FB "friends"
NASA can reveal that Forbidden Planet was a documentary and Monsters from the Id will emerge from the LHC as soon as the beams reach 4.0 TeV ... too much of a coincidence that all these things happen together ...
Just 99 years since Rutherford proposed his model of the atom. And only 44 years after that that the first fission bomb went off. So I expect anti-matter powered backpacks* and/or an international anti-matter weapons crisis by 2045.
Then they'll be looking back and saying: that Dan Brown, sage of the future! :)
Looking back we shall see this as historic as that famous day when the Wiliams, Caxton and Shakespeare, shook hands over the printing of the first "Collected Works of ..."
While my grasp of history maybe shaky I still think its pretty cool
Mine's the one with the White and Green Apple lapels ....
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Re: Well done SpaceX!
Well there are ion drives http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ion_thruster
Or Inpulse engines, as I like to think of them
Suitable for space use but not ready for lift-off quite yet
Je suis dans la train!
So long as Eurostar introduce quiet coaches at the same time ...
but don't forget the Borg can travel via transwarp conduits so it might take them just, oh, 1 billion years?
And is it just me, but isn't calling a project BoRG just asking for cybernetic trouble?
Mines the one built in ...
More pedantry
The Torx screws on the base of the Mac Air are 5-point compared with the usual 6-point which I have in my Uber-Mac User's toolkit. Wondered why my T5 didn't fit ...
Who to insult first .... ?
So .. I doubt they'll be coming to New York which I suspect has larger populations of non-bacon-eating Jewish, Muslim and/or vegetarian Kinect Developers than Seattle.
Culinary and Cultural Fail.
No computers?
What about some plans for a Babbage Analytical engine (and some lathes etc. to build the cogs and gears)? Electronics? We don't need no stinkin' electronics!!
We should be shining frikkin' pulsed lasers into space encoded with the message "Hello Alien Overlords!"
George Orwell Revolving
Well so long as the Italians pay for it ... after all they can afford it
And while we're at it, why not install Police CCTV in all homes, as most murder victims are killed by their partners?
Not quite the same as locking but according to
https://www.identitytheft.org.uk/victims-of-fraud-service.asp
you can put a password on your credit record.
Liverpool
Lost Virgin t'internet and goggle box on Saturday afternoon. We had to resort to gardening and watching DVDs!!
I for one am grateful that the PM announced ParentPort today to save me from this and other corrupting filth that infests the Intertubes. Oh wait - the Great Wall of Cameron only deals with the Web - not App Downloads. Damn You Cameron! And your leaky Wall!!
A Person has died
A person has died and a family has lost a member. Some of the comments on here are out of order. Regardless of what you thought of the man.
Powerpoint?
PowerPoint slide sales pitch? He could have least used Oracle Open Office (RIP) - Know your audience!
Ah! The good old days
when El Reg was an IT mag. When did you come all over Jeremy Clarkson? Have you heard rumours that he's ill/retiring and are looking for a spot on the Sunday Times or Top Gear?
Fugly car mind.
Einstein was wrong!
Does that mean we can stop all this silliness about "Dark Energy" and "Dark matter". If the C in E = MC squared is a smidgen bigger doesn't that account for the missing mass/energy? Or at least some of it? Or is it just hiding in another dimension through which neutrinos move?
Mine's the one with an alternative universe in the pockets.
Frack off
I highly recommend the American documentary "Gasland." Or this article in the Independent
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/leading-articles/leading-article-fracking--not-a-risk-that-it-is-worth-britain-taking-2358603.html
"Fracking is an unconscionable gamble with potentially catastrophic results. It has already been banned in France. It should be banned in Britain as well."
Earth tremors, Contamination of ground water. Methane seeping up into your house.
No thanks.
There's a clue in the title
Its Amnesty INTERNATIONAL. Its been a founding principle that Amnesty International members campaign for human rights (against torture and capital punishment) in OTHER countries. This is (and was) to stop members being persecuted in their home countries by iffy governments.
Cool. So more scope for fixing washing machines and other domestic appliances :)
http://www.neonsquirt.com/dishwasher.html
"David Willetts said that he hoped that key research would stay in the UK, but that the flow of students was two-way and that the UK benefitted from an influx of talented scientists."
He should have a chat with Theresa May about her visa restrictions on students ....
£500 and no Wifi? How is it suppose to join the RoTM?
This is where David Cameron and Co are missing a trick! They should be turning rioters and truants glow-in-the dark rather than taking their benefits away - much easier to spot on CCTV in future!! I blame the current Cabinet's lack of scientific background.
Correct - why don't they just call it Office 300 - you know, just to allow a little leeway for future outages?
T&C
<insert Amazon's Returns Policy for sub-orbital space craft here>
Reason for return: "Damaged on delivery"
Nah just a local
" rain-lashed and chilly" describes most Augusts in the West of Scotland - people take their tops off to get their annual Vitamin D dose in case the sun makes an appearance.
Taking the unnecessary coat off ...
Agreed
Even the Guardian managed an "iResign"
Surface
My prediction: a Desktop iPad in 20", 27" and 30" form factors. You can cut a hole in your desk with the provided template for the full surface experience. And iOS will be updated for any angle viewing for multi-user, multi-touch interaction.
You heard it here first but probably wish you didn't.
We need a bigger pocket, captain.
/^v.+b$/iError
Stob: Segmentation Fault (Core Dump)
EU Harmonisation
I give you the "Council Regulation (EEC) No 3922/91 of 16 December 1991 on the harmonization of technical requirements and administrative procedures in the field of civil aviation "
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31991R3922:EN:HTML
Unless the Playmonaut is sentient, I''m pretty sure its covered by the UAV regs.
p.s. I use to be a rocket scientist
p.p.s Maybe LOHAN project meetings shouldn't be scheduled for Friday lunchtimes? (icon)
They do ...
Ford sued Ferrari recently over the use of the F150 name
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12417757
Trifling legal issues
Don't you need a licence to operate a UAV?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/oct/01/drone-helicopter-near-miss
The good old days
Was just debating this article on FB, and the relative merits of Occam and the folding Origami editor (which I hated) but tellingly we both moved to the Meiko Computing Surface to do our actual work - A proper UNIX environment with message passing in C.
The current situation of having your "conventional" programming language talking to a jumped-up shader language is a backward step.
www.transterpreter.org for those of you who want to have the Transputer experience.
Averages
To misquote the head of the CBI "Half of the population are below average intelligence". This is the reason NASA also had to produce a disclaimer for the Mayan prediction of the end of the world in 2012 http://www.nasa.gov/topics/earth/features/2012.html
"Nothing bad will happen to the Earth in 2012. Our planet has been getting along just fine for more than 4 billion years, and credible scientists worldwide know of no threat associated with 2012."
Shame about the incredible population.
Bit squat
Saw a couple of these driving round Liverpool City Centre this morning (they're made in nearby Halewood). The squat look may be en vogue but it looks like someone's rolled a Freelander and then tried to stretch back in to shape.
Paris - insert squat double entendre here
Useless maybe because ....
a BBC radio reporter and cameraman were attacked in Salford and their car over-turned and set on fire?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/uk-england-manchester-14467588
Doesn't fit with the "Where were the BBC?" tone of this article.
Never mind the spelling feel the justice
Lets hang all the loiters and rotters!! Who needs Ejukashun!!
Sounds like ...
Jobs/Apple is becoming the Online version of the Murdoch Empire.
Foie Gras
But on the other hand don't the French die of liver disease - 1.5x more than UK? So they're just popping their clogs of other factors before their hearts give out.
Mmm? Liver disease or heart attack? Make mine a Merlot ...
I'm backlit
Original Intel Core 2 Duo 2.13 GHz Macbook Air with --- backlit keyboard. As I found out when chatting with a friend in the dark. "Can't see keyboard". "Hit the keyboard light button", "I don't have one" (MBA 11") .
Where's the St Steve icon when you need it ? All hail his Noodly Appendages (oops, sorry wrong religion).
The Tram as weapon of Mass Destruction
The tram has been used as an instrument of death and destruction in Coronation Street for a number of years. So you'd think the general populace (including Corrie-watching Ozzies) would have got the message by now.
Mind you, given the "quality" of the special effects in the recent Corrie Tramageddon, you could forgive people for not taking the Tram-menace seriously ....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bc7GeD6K_1o
Metro timetable in the back pocket ....
Sloooow
WebGL brings my machines to a crawl, for even moderately sized models*, in a way that VRML/X3D never did. So further optimisation *and* security fixes needed.
(*your polygon count may vary).
With this article you are spoiling us
"For those of you who revel in Mac versus Windows shouting matches, click the Comments link now. You’ve already made up your minds, so feel free to dive into the debate without reading the review. That’s what you normally do, anyway."
Oh you know us so well :) What was the article about again?
Yep
What cynic 2 said (below)
Plenty of fish in them seas
Charlie Sheen
Winona Ryder
Mel Gibson
Russel Crowe
There are any number of fine, upstanding celebutants who could replace our Linds. Backronyms left as an exercise for the reader.
Longer arms for the over 40's
"Bounds of Comfort"?
Saw the thing at a recent Nintendo roadshow and
a) the images didn't exactly pop out out me
b) if you're over 40 you'll need longer arms to find the "sweet spot"
So a device that's been specifically designed for those between 7 and 39 ?
When will the 3D fad end?? Please!!!
Peaked?
Most people* I know are speculating that FaceBook has peaked. So does the move to the former Sun HQ mark the beginning of their decline? Next big thing: Online monkey tennis.
* actual people I've met as opposed to FB "friends"
Oi!
As a Which? subscriber I resemble that remark! Damned regtards and their smart-alec comments!
Now that Leslie Nielsen is dead ...
NASA can reveal that Forbidden Planet was a documentary and Monsters from the Id will emerge from the LHC as soon as the beams reach 4.0 TeV ... too much of a coincidence that all these things happen together ...
We should thank the Coalition Government
... for putting an end to all that 'ealth and safety nonsense. Jigsaws for tots all round!!
A beer for that man!
Anniversary
Just 99 years since Rutherford proposed his model of the atom. And only 44 years after that that the first fission bomb went off. So I expect anti-matter powered backpacks* and/or an international anti-matter weapons crisis by 2045.
Then they'll be looking back and saying: that Dan Brown, sage of the future! :)
*or at least a teasmade
Double Fanboi-ism
Looking back we shall see this as historic as that famous day when the Wiliams, Caxton and Shakespeare, shook hands over the printing of the first "Collected Works of ..."
While my grasp of history maybe shaky I still think its pretty cool
Mine's the one with the White and Green Apple lapels ....
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