"Also, white as a 4th sub pixel, wouldn't yellow have been a better option?"
Certainly not. RBGW is the complement of CYMK used in printing, because you're dealing with transmitted (or generated) light rather than reflected light. The point of the white subpixel is that you can get a purer white than by mixing all the colours, just as Key gives you a purer black in printing. You get yellow by mixing red and green.
"The near bezel-less telly is a mere 4mm thick - all the bits that do the actual work and all the ports are in a separate unit at the base of the stand "
Is the base completely detachable? This is obviously the way to go - you don't need to have all the gubbins stuffed in behind the screen when it's up on the wall, especially if you have a separate sound system anyway. Then you can offer a range of base units including HDD, Blu-Ray, Freeview/Satellite/Internet etc., plus a range of screen sizes, but you don't have to make all the combinations.
people wou'd know by now that dot com bubbles have a habit of bursting. If facebook doesn't know how it's going to monetise its services how can investors think they're going to make any money out of it?
Had to learn it? We've been teaching metric units for the last sixty years. We just can't use them because the conservative governments of both main parties don't think there are any votes in it.
I look forward to seeing some meterage of the flight!
OMG! I buy a new tv every 20 years or so. I don't want something that will go out of fashion in 3 years. Anyway 3D is just the latest "Must Not Have" (along with low height screens sold as "widescreen"). And as I've said before so-called "3D" tv isn't 3D at all - it's just binocular.
I'll wait to see what the Ghost of Jobs comes up with before making a decision, but what I want is a screen that I can stick on the wall and everything else in a separate box that I can connect to my sound system. Now as I have a 25" full height screen, that means that to get the same height in 16:9 it needs to be a 32" screen, but then because it'll be further away on the wall instead of at the front of a deep CRT it needs to be bigger still, so about 40" would do.
Anyway, why shouldn't security be built into the operating system? If you allow in external AV then you open up the system to fake AV, scareware etc. But Apple needs to patch vulnerabilities a bit more smartly than they did the recent Java one.
for not just monitoring search requests but indirecting all the results as well. I's quicker to copy the address than click on the link. Google is its own worst enemy. If you've got something that works LEAVE IT ALONE!
"My car shows its fuel consumption in miles per gallon. It's about 20 years since I bought a gallon of fuel, "
I can remember very well when I last bought a gallon of petrol. It was in 1979 when I was running low and had to stop at Heston services. I put in one gallon which was enough to get me to a metric filling station.
"I'd like the imperial system to become obsolete, and I don't think an effort in this direction is a complete waste of time - but, seriously, the cost/benefit isn't hot enough to do it at this point."
The sooner we do it the sooner we start reaping the benefits. There is nothing to be gained by continued foot-dragging.
The current situation gives us the worst of all worlds - obsolete quantities and awkward figures. If i get milk from the pound shop or the newsagent I can get a 2 litre bottle, but if I go into the supermarket I have to have 1.136 litres or 2.272 litres. WYF?
Beer should be 500ml for a large and 300ml for a small one like on the continent (though it does vary a bit). Glasses don't last forever so there could be a phased changeover. Pubs could decide to go metric and then sell their remaining stock to those continuing with pints BUT there should be no new pint or half pint glasses for serving drinks in pubs and restaurants (no problem for souvenir shops). Wine and spirits are already metric, and we hardly noticed.
I don't buy petrol by value - the price is going up and down so much that I would never know how much I was getting. I know how many km per litre I get but £ per pound is always changing. I normally put in 20 litres and pay whatever it costs.
Metricating oyr traffic signs would save lives and avoid many bridge strikes because continental drivers would be familiar with the units, and UK drivers would be safer on the continent. Many height, width and weight restrictions are already metric or dual units.
I suspect that many web site owners don't know what cookies are, or at least how they are handled. I very often read text implying that cookies apply to a computer rather than being local to a particular browser. Cookies stored by Firefox won't be read by Safari or vice versa, though there are exceptions - Netscape and Mozilla shared resources but then they were virtually the same browser.
"The internet users also said they generally prefer to see fewer adverts that are relevant to them than a higher number of ads of lesser relevance, with 59% supportive of that view."
I suspect that most internet users would prefer to see fewer adverts regardless of content. I accept that they are necessary - I probably wouldn't be on this site now if I had to pay for it directly - but ignoring a targeted ad is no harder than ignoring a random ad.
"This man has caused damage to this and other nations for generations."
No, polititians of both main parties have caused damage to this nation by cosying up to Murdoch in the mistaken belief that his rags might help their election campaigns. In reality Murdoch just wants to be on the winning side because that's the best way to sell newspapers.
I goit the email message on Saturday but because it containd a link to a domain that was not eukhost.com I reported it as abuse. Then of course when i wanted to use my control panel I had to change my password.
On the contrary! By going ahead the GP has drawn the worlds attention to the political situation in Bahrain. Had it been cancelled there would have been a brief report and everyone would have got on with their lives. The media would have quickly lost interest. As it is the event is hitting the headlines every day.
Well I'm pretty sure most Orpheus Internet customers do. Zen customers seem satisfied too.
JLP is really taking the piss with its prices! And it's not going to be very popular if it makes all its Waitrose.com customers have to change their email addresses.
"No doubt Nokia's management, and Microsoft's for that matter, are hoping that Windows Phone will be a massive hit "
Yesterday's handset maker teaming up with yesterday's software house. There's nothing like telling your customers that you have no faith in your own operating system.
Surely "as seen on tv" only menas that the product, possibly with a different brand name or none, was caught on camera and broadcast on a tv channel with at least one viewer? Anyway why would I want to buy something just because it had been seen on tv? As Richard 81 pointed out it could have been on Crimewatch or Rogue Traders, or Cowboy Builders for that matter.
Why not put "as heard on radio" if it was mentioned by an actor on The Archers?
I used to have a high opinion of Sony equipment but since buying a PVR with an absolutely dire user interface (you can edit a tv recording but not an radio one, which seeme to take up just as much space on the hard disc) I've rather gone off them. The machine takes so long to boot up that it might as well be running Windows, then I have to press the TV/DVD button twice before the picture and sound come through even though I've been hearing the sound on crosstalk for the previous two minutes.
"The Flashback malware was capable of installing itself on unprotected Mac machines without user interaction, ... Users become infected simply by visiting a site loaded with exploit code, ..."
So visiting a web site isn't user interaction. It just happens.
"Not just.in the US, here in the UK they had their hands on a couple of under 16's at a School apparently on suspicion of selling drugs, without parents present."
I suspect they'd have been a lot more embarrassed if their parents had been present.
I still have a Philips ONdigital box which I bought with ITV stickers on it after ITV digital went titsup. It's still working well and is a lot better than some of the cheap jobs I've bought since. In particular I can change the format using the remote control, without having to go through setup menus, so I don't have to put up with Channel 4 forcing me to watch in low height slittyvision.
'"no one wants to watch VHS quality TV, they'll pay the premium for our superior services", same as sony thought joe public wanted to pay for betamax over poor quality vhs'
Not at all similar. Most people rented VCRs in those days, and JVC had got the rental market stitched up (mainly through a tie-up with Radio Rentals). This in tuirn resulted in a lot of content being available in VHS only. But you're right in that Joe Public doesn't give a shit about quality.
"Murdoch's telly rivals would have gone down even if nobody had ever watched a single one of their programmes for free."
No, the people who wouldn't have watched the programmes even if they were free don't come into the equasion. It's the people who would have been prepared to pay but didn't that counted.
Well it's three better than zilch, but not a lot to show for all the effort that's been put in.
Btw, wtf is a "digital path"? Why can't this woman say what she means in plain English, or doesn't she know what she's talking about? I would take "accessed directly" to include any url whether or not the target page is linked in.
.en is available for England, .ul for Northern Ireland (.ni is Nicaragua) and .wa for Wales. Buit it's difficult to find a suitable two letter code for Scotland and Cymru. Actually you could have .nb for Scotland but that would really annoy them!
The distinction is important. With a diesel-electric power train you use a diesel engine to generate electricity which is fed to electric traction motors. With electro-diesel you use electricity (from a battery, fuel cell, etc) to drive the traction motors, with a diesel generator as backup. Either way the traction motors should drive the wheels. We don't need a heavy mechanical transmission as well.
I'm waiting for a production version of the QED Mini.
"Another key finding from the survey shows that 37 per cent of councils with an answerphone message for out-of-hours-calls are still failing to refer callers to the website – a missed opportunity for self-service."
Actually the brand name was "Ansafone" but it's bound to be voicemail these days. Anyway the one thing that pisses me off above all the others is when I've phoned up because the web site isn't working only to be told to go to the web site. And then when you do go to the web site the last thing they want you to do is actually contact them. You get kicked off to some FAQ at every turn. If I do find the contact form I can't submit it because it quite unnecessarily uses javascript and I normally use a non-js browser. There is of course no adequate <noscript> section.
"Professor Sir John Beddington, a government CSA, told the committee that public funding of homeopathy was "crazy" since there was no scientific basis for the alternative treatment, and said he had expressed that opinion plenty of times."
Actually there is a scientific basis for it. It's called the placebo effect. If you think it's doing you good it may make you feel better, a bit like religion really.
No, there are too many possible formats: ddmm, mmdd, dmyy, yyyy, yymd, mmyy, ... and you can't exclude all digits in the full DoB because there would be too few left. Then you have to think about telephone numbers, house numbers, children's/spouse's birthdays and so on. The more rules you impose the more numbers you exclude so the better chance of guessing correctly.
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Re: Exercise in pointlessness
"Also, white as a 4th sub pixel, wouldn't yellow have been a better option?"
Certainly not. RBGW is the complement of CYMK used in printing, because you're dealing with transmitted (or generated) light rather than reflected light. The point of the white subpixel is that you can get a purer white than by mixing all the colours, just as Key gives you a purer black in printing. You get yellow by mixing red and green.
Re: Wall mount?
"The near bezel-less telly is a mere 4mm thick - all the bits that do the actual work and all the ports are in a separate unit at the base of the stand "
Is the base completely detachable? This is obviously the way to go - you don't need to have all the gubbins stuffed in behind the screen when it's up on the wall, especially if you have a separate sound system anyway. Then you can offer a range of base units including HDD, Blu-Ray, Freeview/Satellite/Internet etc., plus a range of screen sizes, but you don't have to make all the combinations.
Volvo drivers
Say no more.
You'd think ...
people wou'd know by now that dot com bubbles have a habit of bursting. If facebook doesn't know how it's going to monetise its services how can investors think they're going to make any money out of it?
Re: Not likely.
Had to learn it? We've been teaching metric units for the last sixty years. We just can't use them because the conservative governments of both main parties don't think there are any votes in it.
I look forward to seeing some meterage of the flight!
beerWi-FiGreene King IPA
Internet Protocol Ale?
"I buy a new TV every 3 years or so "
OMG! I buy a new tv every 20 years or so. I don't want something that will go out of fashion in 3 years. Anyway 3D is just the latest "Must Not Have" (along with low height screens sold as "widescreen"). And as I've said before so-called "3D" tv isn't 3D at all - it's just binocular.
I'll wait to see what the Ghost of Jobs comes up with before making a decision, but what I want is a screen that I can stick on the wall and everything else in a separate box that I can connect to my sound system. Now as I have a 25" full height screen, that means that to get the same height in 16:9 it needs to be a 32" screen, but then because it'll be further away on the wall instead of at the front of a deep CRT it needs to be bigger still, so about 40" would do.
Security by Obscurity?
I wouldn't exactly describe iOS as "obscure".
Anyway, why shouldn't security be built into the operating system? If you allow in external AV then you open up the system to fake AV, scareware etc. But Apple needs to patch vulnerabilities a bit more smartly than they did the recent Java one.
Google is pissing me off
for not just monitoring search requests but indirecting all the results as well. I's quicker to copy the address than click on the link. Google is its own worst enemy. If you've got something that works LEAVE IT ALONE!
Re: Consistency
"My car shows its fuel consumption in miles per gallon. It's about 20 years since I bought a gallon of fuel, "
I can remember very well when I last bought a gallon of petrol. It was in 1979 when I was running low and had to stop at Heston services. I put in one gallon which was enough to get me to a metric filling station.
Re: meh
"I'd like the imperial system to become obsolete, and I don't think an effort in this direction is a complete waste of time - but, seriously, the cost/benefit isn't hot enough to do it at this point."
The sooner we do it the sooner we start reaping the benefits. There is nothing to be gained by continued foot-dragging.
Howe should have done it when he had the chance.
The current situation gives us the worst of all worlds - obsolete quantities and awkward figures. If i get milk from the pound shop or the newsagent I can get a 2 litre bottle, but if I go into the supermarket I have to have 1.136 litres or 2.272 litres. WYF?
Beer should be 500ml for a large and 300ml for a small one like on the continent (though it does vary a bit). Glasses don't last forever so there could be a phased changeover. Pubs could decide to go metric and then sell their remaining stock to those continuing with pints BUT there should be no new pint or half pint glasses for serving drinks in pubs and restaurants (no problem for souvenir shops). Wine and spirits are already metric, and we hardly noticed.
I don't buy petrol by value - the price is going up and down so much that I would never know how much I was getting. I know how many km per litre I get but £ per pound is always changing. I normally put in 20 litres and pay whatever it costs.
Metricating oyr traffic signs would save lives and avoid many bridge strikes because continental drivers would be familiar with the units, and UK drivers would be safer on the continent. Many height, width and weight restrictions are already metric or dual units.
by the book
"Public Security Bureau officials have even been called in to make sure everything is done by the book."
... or the eBook?
Cookies
I suspect that many web site owners don't know what cookies are, or at least how they are handled. I very often read text implying that cookies apply to a computer rather than being local to a particular browser. Cookies stored by Firefox won't be read by Safari or vice versa, though there are exceptions - Netscape and Mozilla shared resources but then they were virtually the same browser.
Fewer adverts
"The internet users also said they generally prefer to see fewer adverts that are relevant to them than a higher number of ads of lesser relevance, with 59% supportive of that view."
I suspect that most internet users would prefer to see fewer adverts regardless of content. I accept that they are necessary - I probably wouldn't be on this site now if I had to pay for it directly - but ignoring a targeted ad is no harder than ignoring a random ad.
Over-exaggerated?
"However, there are also signs that some of the operators’ dire warnings ... may have been deliberately over-exaggerated."
At what point does normal exaggeration become over-exaggeration? Is it alright to exaggerate something as long as you don't over-exaggerate it?
Your phone, your tablet ...
... My PC.
Re: Be careful for what you wish for
Anyone who wants to run a media empire is by definition unfit to do so.
Just one rogue corporation
"This man has caused damage to this and other nations for generations."
No, polititians of both main parties have caused damage to this nation by cosying up to Murdoch in the mistaken belief that his rags might help their election campaigns. In reality Murdoch just wants to be on the winning side because that's the best way to sell newspapers.
Re: I accept you get what you pay for.
I goit the email message on Saturday but because it containd a link to a domain that was not eukhost.com I reported it as abuse. Then of course when i wanted to use my control panel I had to change my password.
Re: Classy article
GOTO? When I was programming GOTO was definitely frowned upon (as was the ALTER statement in COBOL), PROCs and FNs please!
Re: Real-time?
So if it's not real-time then it must be batch processing.
CCDP
Just one letter away from CCCP.
@Busby
On the contrary! By going ahead the GP has drawn the worlds attention to the political situation in Bahrain. Had it been cancelled there would have been a brief report and everyone would have got on with their lives. The media would have quickly lost interest. As it is the event is hitting the headlines every day.
But who loves their ISP?
Well I'm pretty sure most Orpheus Internet customers do. Zen customers seem satisfied too.
JLP is really taking the piss with its prices! And it's not going to be very popular if it makes all its Waitrose.com customers have to change their email addresses.
Re: alternatively
Unfortunately my MP is the Home Secretary :-(
Re: Why do I want Win 8?
"Whether a user should pick Windows 8 or Windows RT is less straightforward."
It's very straightforward - Neither!
Dream on!
"No doubt Nokia's management, and Microsoft's for that matter, are hoping that Windows Phone will be a massive hit "
Yesterday's handset maker teaming up with yesterday's software house. There's nothing like telling your customers that you have no faith in your own operating system.
Re: Frank Spencer
"For some of us, the enduring image of home automation is either Michael Crawford chaos, "
For some reason I think of Jaques Tati's "Mon Oncle".
Surely "as seen on tv" only menas that the product, possibly with a different brand name or none, was caught on camera and broadcast on a tv channel with at least one viewer? Anyway why would I want to buy something just because it had been seen on tv? As Richard 81 pointed out it could have been on Crimewatch or Rogue Traders, or Cowboy Builders for that matter.
Why not put "as heard on radio" if it was mentioned by an actor on The Archers?
Losing its way
I used to have a high opinion of Sony equipment but since buying a PVR with an absolutely dire user interface (you can edit a tv recording but not an radio one, which seeme to take up just as much space on the hard disc) I've rather gone off them. The machine takes so long to boot up that it might as well be running Windows, then I have to press the TV/DVD button twice before the picture and sound come through even though I've been hearing the sound on crosstalk for the previous two minutes.
"The Flashback malware was capable of installing itself on unprotected Mac machines without user interaction, ... Users become infected simply by visiting a site loaded with exploit code, ..."
So visiting a web site isn't user interaction. It just happens.
Re: A Little Story, or Two. Or Three.
AC: "Personally I quite like it, but I certainly wouldn't like a child of mine to see the images that I see, it's just not good for a young mind."
I would have thought that a little soft core pr0n was a lot less harmfull than all violent video games they indulge in.
Re: Dear Land Of Liberty...
"Not just.in the US, here in the UK they had their hands on a couple of under 16's at a School apparently on suspicion of selling drugs, without parents present."
I suspect they'd have been a lot more embarrassed if their parents had been present.
Re: Don't forget...
"The ONDigital boxes weren't that good. "
I still have a Philips ONdigital box which I bought with ITV stickers on it after ITV digital went titsup. It's still working well and is a lot better than some of the cheap jobs I've bought since. In particular I can change the format using the remote control, without having to go through setup menus, so I don't have to put up with Channel 4 forcing me to watch in low height slittyvision.
Re: Similar to BSB
'"no one wants to watch VHS quality TV, they'll pay the premium for our superior services", same as sony thought joe public wanted to pay for betamax over poor quality vhs'
Not at all similar. Most people rented VCRs in those days, and JVC had got the rental market stitched up (mainly through a tie-up with Radio Rentals). This in tuirn resulted in a lot of content being available in VHS only. But you're right in that Joe Public doesn't give a shit about quality.
Faulty logic
"Murdoch's telly rivals would have gone down even if nobody had ever watched a single one of their programmes for free."
No, the people who wouldn't have watched the programmes even if they were free don't come into the equasion. It's the people who would have been prepared to pay but didn't that counted.
Re: .nb
I think you'll find that the Balmoral used to be the North British Hotel.
Three children rescued
Well it's three better than zilch, but not a lot to show for all the effort that's been put in.
Btw, wtf is a "digital path"? Why can't this woman say what she means in plain English, or doesn't she know what she's talking about? I would take "accessed directly" to include any url whether or not the target page is linked in.
.en is available for England, .ul for Northern Ireland (.ni is Nicaragua) and .wa for Wales. Buit it's difficult to find a suitable two letter code for Scotland and Cymru. Actually you could have .nb for Scotland but that would really annoy them!
Yes but...
with four- or five letter domains they're not proper countries. Couldn't they find unused two-letter combinations?
re. USP?
Snap!
USP?
Sounds like it needs a UPS!
Re. "daylight saving" time
Surely we should put the clocks forward in Winter, because that's when we have the dark evenings?
re. DICE
"Why would you name a car-based system after something associated with risk-taking and random chance?"
Let alone something that is likely to tumble arse over tit and could stop with any side uppermost.
There was a company called NICE, for "No Internal Combustion Engine" but I think it went tits up.
Electro-Diesel, not Diesel-Electric
The distinction is important. With a diesel-electric power train you use a diesel engine to generate electricity which is fed to electric traction motors. With electro-diesel you use electricity (from a battery, fuel cell, etc) to drive the traction motors, with a diesel generator as backup. Either way the traction motors should drive the wheels. We don't need a heavy mechanical transmission as well.
I'm waiting for a production version of the QED Mini.
Referring callers to the web site
"Another key finding from the survey shows that 37 per cent of councils with an answerphone message for out-of-hours-calls are still failing to refer callers to the website – a missed opportunity for self-service."
Actually the brand name was "Ansafone" but it's bound to be voicemail these days. Anyway the one thing that pisses me off above all the others is when I've phoned up because the web site isn't working only to be told to go to the web site. And then when you do go to the web site the last thing they want you to do is actually contact them. You get kicked off to some FAQ at every turn. If I do find the contact form I can't submit it because it quite unnecessarily uses javascript and I normally use a non-js browser. There is of course no adequate <noscript> section.
Homeopathy
"Professor Sir John Beddington, a government CSA, told the committee that public funding of homeopathy was "crazy" since there was no scientific basis for the alternative treatment, and said he had expressed that opinion plenty of times."
Actually there is a scientific basis for it. It's called the placebo effect. If you think it's doing you good it may make you feel better, a bit like religion really.
Military grade security?
You mean like Gary McKinnon was able to walk through without really trying?
Re. Block customer's own DoB
No, there are too many possible formats: ddmm, mmdd, dmyy, yyyy, yymd, mmyy, ... and you can't exclude all digits in the full DoB because there would be too few left. Then you have to think about telephone numbers, house numbers, children's/spouse's birthdays and so on. The more rules you impose the more numbers you exclude so the better chance of guessing correctly.
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