Sony have been doing these Z-series with 13 inch Full HD for a while, I guess these are just Ivy Bridge with a little bit of a cosmetic update?
I really want one of these, they are what I hoped an Ultrabook would actually be - sub 1.3Kg, skinny, full HD. Unfortunately I can't justify the price at the moment...
Maybe the old Zs will start appearing on the tat bazaar and I can get one a bit cheaper...
That's a rats' nest of bureaucracy if ever there was one.
Council: We can't even consider your planning application for a grotesque supermarket/retail box/bowling alley unless you promise to spend an additional small fortune putting in other infrastructure in a completely unrelated area that we overlooked in last year's budget.
Developer: But we have evidence to show that this store is needed by at least six people, and we'll be creating jobs (most of which are temporary in the construction of the site). And that cycle path you want us to put in as part of the 106 doesn't actually go anywhere.
You can already buy a Sony Z series 13 incher with a full HD screen. Only problem is it's over £1500. There are probably other manufacturers, but I expect they're in the same price bracket.
I have been looking for an ultraportable with a better than 1440x900 screen, and I can't find one at a sensible price. In the meantime I settled on an ex corp Thinkpad X200s (12inch 1280x800 with a 1.6GHz Core Duo), and upped it to 6GB RAM. Total cost so far less than £250. I might stick a 60G SSD in if I think it needs it. If I see a 1440x900 for a sensible price I'll swap.
Can anyone explain why ARM's share price dropped by about 5% this morning? I can only assume someone somewhere thinks ARM won't get this working. They've had nearly 25 years experience, I think they'll make it!
*Off to buy some cheap ARM shares, long term investment and all that...*
Here in sunny Leamington we do get good speeds, partly because of plenty of ADSL2+ LLU availability, and good Virginmedia penetration. I get 16Meg on my Be line, although it seems to be having an off day today (20-odd resyncs already this morning...)
There is some FTTC but where I am doesn't get connected until the end of September :(
I was with VM until evening contention made things horrific. A client of mine in a more rural location gets ~0.4M with Sky in the evenings, but it's 7Meg during the day (when he's at work...)
When someone buys a PC, laptop etc, they expect it to have Windows, because that's what they're used to. All it generally gets used for is browsing, email, letters and maybe spreadsheets. And sometimes a game.
And yet, we will happily change our telly, car, mobile phone etc, because the new one has better features. And there's a new or changed UI to get the hang of. But because it's not a 'computer' people are happy to put up with it.
Public perception has to improve. Until the major manufacturers start shifting boxes, laptops etc to HIGH STREET RETAILERS (so that Joe Public can plat with it instore before purchase) preloaded with Ubuntu/Mint/whatever-distro-you-worship, people will still look for Windows (or Mac if that's the way you roll). Dell even tried shifting boxes and Minis with Linux. They seem to have stopped selling them in the UK unless you specifically ask your Account Manager.
Disclosure: I have run Ubuntu as my main OS since January, with Win7 and XP in VMs for those rare occasions I can't do something in Ubuntu/OpenOffice etc. Like play certain games...
I had a thought this would surface eventually. I had this idea a couple of years ago, but without sufficient fabrication facilities (and oodles of cash) I didn't manage to produce it...
There's a lot of comments above about cross-compiling etc.
The bedroom coders of the 80s didn't have the luxury of bigger faster (note I didn't say better!) platforms to code on, they HAD to code on the target platform...
Reminds me of typing in the program listings from C&VG, then spending four hours trying to find the typing errors.
but I seem to remember a certain fruit-based tech company has a fairly decent cash pile sitting there doing nothing... Maybe they could stick the patents on ebay.
Or maybe Tesco could help shift some of them on a BOGOF deal...
According to my research (scroogle is your friend...) the Caymans already have .ky as their TLD, so why to they need another one. I guess it's to differentiate between the genuine Cayman registrations and the 'tax haven' ones...
Pirates, cos, well, it's in the Caribbean, isn't it...
Did they really only spot it three days ago? I'm assuming a larger (and more devastating) asteroid would have been spotted sooner, giving us a little more warning of our impending extinction...
Mine's the one with 'Asteroid Spotting for Dummies' in the pocket...
"Congratulations youve found and completed the REAL challenge. Your win code is <obscured>.
Please email this code to our team at <obscured>. If youre the first person to do so, and can prove you meet the eligibility criteria (British citizen currently resident in the UK) we will be in touch to advise how to claim your prize. Well done and good luck in the Cyber Security Challenge competitions taking place throughout the rest of the year."
Linx is peaking at nearly 600Gbps! That's a lot of traffic. Twice as much as two years ago. Note the ramping up of data in late 2007... Anything to do with iPlayer and iPhones?
Less than 32k, I think you'll find, because the Beeb used main RAM for graphics (Mode 4, from memory, which used 10k), and there was about 4k of RAM used by the OS. So that left about 18k for the program. Oh, plus the 16k ROM that you had to plug in...
So that's, er, 34k then.
Mine's the one with the BBC Advanced Programming Manual...
Why have 3G phones had front facing cameras for so long if they haven't bothered to promote the feature? Or is it because the operators like to gouge us for video calling? Or that both parties need a decent 3G signal?
Onr thing I have noticed - my two yead old HTC Touch Diamond has a front facing camera, and video calling works fairly well. My new Desire does not have a front facing camera. I haven't worked out whether this is because Android doesn't support video calling (yet?), or HTC decided to leave it out because of lack of demand...
Minee's the one with the HTC fanboi logo, thanks...
It's bigger than my nearly two year old Touch Diamond (which is far from perfect, I know, but it does everything I want) with a lower res screen? OK it's got twice the ROM and RAM, and a uSD slot instead of 4GB fixed internal memory, but there's only so many apps and mp3s I want to put on it. And I can put WM6.5 and Sense on it if I felt the need...
A friend of mine who works for Ericsson at Ansty Park in Coventry was fairly instrumental in securing this deal - and he (and possibly Ericsson) thought Huawei were a certainty. He spent an inordinate amount of time in China. And he won't be in a job in a few weeks.
To be (slightly) fair to Ericsson, they have offered him a two year contract (based in the States) on a pretty impressive package. But it will still mean a lot of travelling abroad. His wife isn't impressed.
If that should be the case, why have Linn (who I believe to be a purveyor of high-end audio equipment) decided to bring out a range of audio streamers?
Surely if the impulse from the chamber is too strong the pellet will just explode inside the gun?
Although if the pellet will go through a pig, it could be a bit tougher than the ones I used to play with 10-15 years ago. In which case it will HURT! A LOT!
(Boffin goggles to protect my eyes from the paint... and porcine gizzards...)
Without full technical knowledge of how CCDs or CMOS sensors actually worked, I came up with that method a long time ago. I assumed someone cleverer than me had already patented it.
For some reason I thought the LG Viewty camphone used that (or similar) tech to get 120fps video.
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Re: Screen resolution
Sony have been doing these Z-series with 13 inch Full HD for a while, I guess these are just Ivy Bridge with a little bit of a cosmetic update?
I really want one of these, they are what I hoped an Ultrabook would actually be - sub 1.3Kg, skinny, full HD. Unfortunately I can't justify the price at the moment...
Maybe the old Zs will start appearing on the tat bazaar and I can get one a bit cheaper...
Excuse me?
Nokia? 3rd? For smartphones? Eh?
"Google does currently censor autocomplete results to exclude [...]searches that could lead to copyright violations."
Hmm, so what results do you get when you search for something like "inception 5.1"...
Re: BBC Basic on the Pi
I haven't looked, but I'm sure Brandy will be available...
Re: Awesome
There I was, thinking a 'barn' was a new El Reg Unit of measurement...
And a femtobarn was teeny tiny.
And an inverse femtobarn was er, well, HUGE... A bit like an exabarn, maybe... Or a yottabarn...?
Can I come round
for dinner?
I want to see you cooking - most people use a cooker and set of saucepans...
Hmm, Section 106
That's a rats' nest of bureaucracy if ever there was one.
Council: We can't even consider your planning application for a grotesque supermarket/retail box/bowling alley unless you promise to spend an additional small fortune putting in other infrastructure in a completely unrelated area that we overlooked in last year's budget.
Developer: But we have evidence to show that this store is needed by at least six people, and we'll be creating jobs (most of which are temporary in the construction of the site). And that cycle path you want us to put in as part of the 106 doesn't actually go anywhere.
That's all very well, but...
What if I need to know the distance in micro-linguine?
Beer => Friday...
Always thought it odd
that Sony BluRay players have the Lovefilm app on them, but you couldn't stream Sony films...
Excellent news...
As an alumnus of Soton, I for one welcome our PhD wielding rocket scientist overlords.
Beer, well, I was a student once...
That's all very well, but...
You can already buy a Sony Z series 13 incher with a full HD screen. Only problem is it's over £1500. There are probably other manufacturers, but I expect they're in the same price bracket.
I have been looking for an ultraportable with a better than 1440x900 screen, and I can't find one at a sensible price. In the meantime I settled on an ex corp Thinkpad X200s (12inch 1280x800 with a 1.6GHz Core Duo), and upped it to 6GB RAM. Total cost so far less than £250. I might stick a 60G SSD in if I think it needs it. If I see a 1440x900 for a sensible price I'll swap.
Have you tried
dogpile.com?
It takes results from Google, Yahoo and Bing.
V.
That's all very well, but...
Can anyone explain why ARM's share price dropped by about 5% this morning? I can only assume someone somewhere thinks ARM won't get this working. They've had nearly 25 years experience, I think they'll make it!
*Off to buy some cheap ARM shares, long term investment and all that...*
V.
That sounds about right
Here in sunny Leamington we do get good speeds, partly because of plenty of ADSL2+ LLU availability, and good Virginmedia penetration. I get 16Meg on my Be line, although it seems to be having an off day today (20-odd resyncs already this morning...)
There is some FTTC but where I am doesn't get connected until the end of September :(
I was with VM until evening contention made things horrific. A client of mine in a more rural location gets ~0.4M with Sky in the evenings, but it's 7Meg during the day (when he's at work...)
V.
RTFA
"In a follow-up e-mail, Google+ suggests “If you edit your name to comply with our policies in the future … we can re-review your profile”."
That is all.
V.
I see the problem
Joe buys a Mac but can't afford 30 quid for Kaspersky for Mac (or similar)? Some people really do have more money than sense!
It was only a matter of time before 'effective' scareware/fraudware surfaced. I don't get the 'Macs don't get viruses' thing.
V.
Mine's the one with the flameproof lining...
It never ceases to amaze me, but
When someone buys a PC, laptop etc, they expect it to have Windows, because that's what they're used to. All it generally gets used for is browsing, email, letters and maybe spreadsheets. And sometimes a game.
And yet, we will happily change our telly, car, mobile phone etc, because the new one has better features. And there's a new or changed UI to get the hang of. But because it's not a 'computer' people are happy to put up with it.
Public perception has to improve. Until the major manufacturers start shifting boxes, laptops etc to HIGH STREET RETAILERS (so that Joe Public can plat with it instore before purchase) preloaded with Ubuntu/Mint/whatever-distro-you-worship, people will still look for Windows (or Mac if that's the way you roll). Dell even tried shifting boxes and Minis with Linux. They seem to have stopped selling them in the UK unless you specifically ask your Account Manager.
Disclosure: I have run Ubuntu as my main OS since January, with Win7 and XP in VMs for those rare occasions I can't do something in Ubuntu/OpenOffice etc. Like play certain games...
V.
I've been expecting you...
I had a thought this would surface eventually. I had this idea a couple of years ago, but without sufficient fabrication facilities (and oodles of cash) I didn't manage to produce it...
Ho hum, back to the drawing board...
V.
The clue is in the article
The "Sanofi-Aventis BioTalent Challenge".
I'm guessing Sanofi-Aventis retain all rights and IP for anything they award a prize for....?
Cynical? Me?
V.
One thing no=one seems to have noticed
There's a lot of comments above about cross-compiling etc.
The bedroom coders of the 80s didn't have the luxury of bigger faster (note I didn't say better!) platforms to code on, they HAD to code on the target platform...
Reminds me of typing in the program listings from C&VG, then spending four hours trying to find the typing errors.
V.
That's all very well, but...
Are they coding on /actual/ 80s machines, or VM/emulators?
And you only get four hours ('no experience needed') to write a killer game?
V.
(Teech coz it reminds me of my 80s Computer Science teacher...)
That might prove interesting...
"will get you from standstill to 62mph in 7.9 seconds and then to 138mph."
Until you install SP3, after which it will take five minutes to start the engine, do 0-60 in 79 seconds and go on to a top speed of 13.9mph...
V.
Hmm, that's a good opening bid
but I seem to remember a certain fruit-based tech company has a fairly decent cash pile sitting there doing nothing... Maybe they could stick the patents on ebay.
Or maybe Tesco could help shift some of them on a BOGOF deal...
I'm with you on this one.
It never ceases to amaze me how companies think they can patent the bleedin' obvious, and the USPTO will let them...
V.
That's all very well, but
There's one in Devon as well:
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=hillhead,+brixham&sll=50.381378,-3.558497&sspn=0.019567,0.055747&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Hillhead,+Brixham,+United+Kingdom&ll=50.381734,-3.558712&spn=0.019457,0.055747&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=50.381374,-3.558517&panoid=M-z4NhoKEwj_kOkYCFBKMA&cbp=12,287.32,,1,0.84
My wife saw it and said 'That's a funny looking tree!' I had to agree with her...
V.
(It's not beer, it's cider, cos that's what I drink when I'm in Devon)
That's all very well, but
According to my research (scroogle is your friend...) the Caymans already have .ky as their TLD, so why to they need another one. I guess it's to differentiate between the genuine Cayman registrations and the 'tax haven' ones...
Pirates, cos, well, it's in the Caribbean, isn't it...
That's all very well, but
Did they really only spot it three days ago? I'm assuming a larger (and more devastating) asteroid would have been spotted sooner, giving us a little more warning of our impending extinction...
Mine's the one with 'Asteroid Spotting for Dummies' in the pocket...
V.
That's all very well, but
Did the server survive?
There's no indication of any damage (other than the 'cap')...
V.
And...
I forgot to say - the answer was
"Congratulations youve found and completed the REAL challenge. Your win code is <obscured>.
Please email this code to our team at <obscured>. If youre the first person to do so, and can prove you meet the eligibility criteria (British citizen currently resident in the UK) we will be in touch to advise how to claim your prize. Well done and good luck in the Cyber Security Challenge competitions taking place throughout the rest of the year."
V.
Look at those stats
Linx is peaking at nearly 600Gbps! That's a lot of traffic. Twice as much as two years ago. Note the ramping up of data in late 2007... Anything to do with iPlayer and iPhones?
V.
Re: AMX Art, anyone?
Less than 32k, I think you'll find, because the Beeb used main RAM for graphics (Mode 4, from memory, which used 10k), and there was about 4k of RAM used by the OS. So that left about 18k for the program. Oh, plus the 16k ROM that you had to plug in...
So that's, er, 34k then.
Mine's the one with the BBC Advanced Programming Manual...
V.
Not the mathematics FAIL you think
It's only the middle line that's wrong.
12 000 000 / 1 000 000 000 = 0.012 = 1.2%
Ner ner ner-ner-ner.
V.
Mine's the one with the solar powered Casio calculator in the pocket. Works a treat in all this sunshine...
That's all very well, but
Why have 3G phones had front facing cameras for so long if they haven't bothered to promote the feature? Or is it because the operators like to gouge us for video calling? Or that both parties need a decent 3G signal?
Onr thing I have noticed - my two yead old HTC Touch Diamond has a front facing camera, and video calling works fairly well. My new Desire does not have a front facing camera. I haven't worked out whether this is because Android doesn't support video calling (yet?), or HTC decided to leave it out because of lack of demand...
Minee's the one with the HTC fanboi logo, thanks...
V.
RE: ZYXEZ
Has anyone managed to decipher this yet? I tried reading it backwards but it has a spleeing erorr.
Mine's the one with 'Cryptography for Dummies' in...
That's all very well, but
It got me thinking - what's the collective noun for fanbois?
A herd? (They /are/ a bunch of sheep following the herd...)
A gullible of fanbois...?
A joke of fanbois...?
A fruitcake...?
Thanks, it's the one with the pockets too small for an iPad...
On a musical note
hit.me/withyourrhythmstick
hold.me thrill.me kiss.me kill.me
And then there's monoga.me (and biga.me...)
V.
That's all very well, but
Why is it being marketed as the Mini?
It's bigger than my nearly two year old Touch Diamond (which is far from perfect, I know, but it does everything I want) with a lower res screen? OK it's got twice the ROM and RAM, and a uSD slot instead of 4GB fixed internal memory, but there's only so many apps and mp3s I want to put on it. And I can put WM6.5 and Sense on it if I felt the need...
Have I missed something?
V.
conversant with command prompt
Have you tried
taskkill /F /IM /T iexplore.exe
One line. One command.
'Nuff said.
V.
That's all very well, but
How is this different from the SiliconDust Homerun HD? Which isn't HD as in hi-def. But is cheaper...
V.
That's all very well, but
A friend of mine who works for Ericsson at Ansty Park in Coventry was fairly instrumental in securing this deal - and he (and possibly Ericsson) thought Huawei were a certainty. He spent an inordinate amount of time in China. And he won't be in a job in a few weeks.
To be (slightly) fair to Ericsson, they have offered him a two year contract (based in the States) on a pretty impressive package. But it will still mean a lot of travelling abroad. His wife isn't impressed.
I'm tempted to agree but...
If that should be the case, why have Linn (who I believe to be a purveyor of high-end audio equipment) decided to bring out a range of audio streamers?
V.
That's all very well, but
Surely if the impulse from the chamber is too strong the pellet will just explode inside the gun?
Although if the pellet will go through a pig, it could be a bit tougher than the ones I used to play with 10-15 years ago. In which case it will HURT! A LOT!
(Boffin goggles to protect my eyes from the paint... and porcine gizzards...)
I thought of that a long time ago.
Without full technical knowledge of how CCDs or CMOS sensors actually worked, I came up with that method a long time ago. I assumed someone cleverer than me had already patented it.
For some reason I thought the LG Viewty camphone used that (or similar) tech to get 120fps video.
I guess not.
H.