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  1. Re:OMG, no. on Apple Rips Off Rejected App, Says Wireless Sync Developer · · Score: 1

    Then you don't get any money at all. There are only two ways to get software on an iPhone - the market, and jailbreaking. The jailbreakers are a tiny portion of the market.

    Three. You can distribute apps yourself.

    "In-house Distribution

    iPhone apps provisioned using the enterprise distribution method are not submitted to the App Store. In-house apps can be hosted on a website, file sharing system or simply emailed directly to users. Installation for the user is as simple as syncing with iTunes."

    http://www.apple.com/uk/iphone/business/apps/in-house/resources.html

  2. Re:Who needs privacy when you've got PHP? on How To Write Like Mark Zuckerberg · · Score: 1

    You forgot the government.

    You must not know about this then?

  3. Re:Live near an Apple Store? on Apple WWDC: iOS 5, Lion, iCloud · · Score: 1

    Don't you mean "Apple Store Genii".

    Plural of genius being "genii" and all.

  4. Re:Give us the betas! on Apple WWDC: iOS 5, Lion, iCloud · · Score: 1

    I think the part when Job's said along the lines "you get all your music upgraded to 256kbs AAC DRM free". So, your 96kbs torrented MP3 get replaced on another device by DRM free AAC files. Makes it easy to keep the files for life.

  5. Re:links on Google Incrementally Dropping Support For Older Browsers · · Score: 1

    Netscape is still being updated. You can download it from here.

  6. Re:Not bad on Doom Ported To the Web · · Score: 1

    45fps on an almost 4 year old MacBook Pro with Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz.

    I'm not quite sure that Doom used 170MB of memory, which JS alone is using in the tab.

  7. Re:Missing Fix on Skype Issues Software Fix For Windows and Mac Users · · Score: 2

    Any Mac user with common sense has downgraded to version 2. Version 5 isn't worth it, so I wouldn't worry too much.

  8. Re:Finally... on Steve Ballmer's Head On the Block? · · Score: 2

    Time to do an Apple and bring back Gates?

  9. Re:This is dumb on Twitter Prepared To Name Users · · Score: 1

    Yes, that's all it takes, and MP John Hemming did exactly that.

    You can't take money from people as an MP, even for campaigns. That would be bribery and corruption. I might sound a little blatant, but this is something that seems to happen in the USA.

  10. Re:Hotmail all over again on Skype Crashes and Burns In Worldwide Outage · · Score: 2

    Anyone remember when Microsoft back in 2007 released an update to Windows that took out Skype's servers? Flooded Skype's servers for several days.

  11. Re:This is dumb on Twitter Prepared To Name Users · · Score: 1

    What is happening here is the courts are asking Twitter if they know who the person was, and for any information like IP address etc. They are not saying Twitter is liable.

    By your analogy, it's like the courts asking the those at the city hall if they knew who it was that yelled in the park, also when and where it was yelled. Or, someone could have been stabbed in the park, and the park have CCTV footage and the police or courts asking them to hand them over.

  12. Re:This is dumb on Twitter Prepared To Name Users · · Score: 4, Informative

    A super-injunction is aimed at everybody. Only peers and MPs can brake the injunction by use of Parliamentary Privileges. A hyper-injuction tries to over-rule these privileges though. Hyper-injunction has only been used a couple of times as far as we know. Example 'Hyper-injunction' stops you talking to MP, other example would be Trafigura.

    From TFS,

    Twitter will attempt to notify the users first in order to give them an opportunity to exercise their rights.

    You have no rights under a super-injuction. Even the defending party, example a news paper, isn't even allowed in the courtroom when the injunction is made. That's how repressive these injunctions are.

  13. Re:wrong name on Twitter Prepared To Name Users · · Score: 2

    Not really, you can claim you're quoting a Parliamentarian.

  14. Re:As world's largest collection of ego? on The Petition to Classify Wikipedia a "World Wonder" · · Score: 3, Interesting

    As anyone thought of considering the Internet first?

    Or has that already been classed as a "world wonder" by UNESCO and I missed it?

  15. Re:As another thread on a recent Sony article indi on Poor Picture At Your Local Cinema? · · Score: 1

    That's a retofit method, used on 2k projectors. Projectors such as he SRX-R220, which is a 4k projector, and one that I have used, has a twin lens system that splits the 4k image in to two 2k images. Each lens have their own circular polariser so you loose brightness, as the image has been split in half each lens has to blow up the image to fill the whole screen, so you loose brightness again. When you sum up left and right lens on the screen, the brightness is increased. When it comes to 2D projection, they are not changing the lenses, and only one of the lenses is used, so you get a dull image. If they switched to a 2D lens, the brightness would increase.

    When switching to 2D, you get 60% more brightness because you have no polarisers straight away, plus more brightness as the focal length is shorter, and the screen is silvered rather than grey or white like old cine projector screens. You actually go the opposite as it is too bright. The projectors colour space will also need recalibrating because the polarisers have a slight tint. This is nothing hard as they can be stored as presets.

    I never recall any passwords being required to change a lens. Only time I have know there to be encryption is with the DCP files that store the film, the keys have to be sent remotely from the distributor to the local server at the cinema.

  16. Re:I guess now's as good a time as any on Linus Torvalds Considering End To Linux 2.6 Series · · Score: 2, Funny

    Will it run Crysis any faster though?

    Joke aside, what will be new?

  17. Re:Glossy screens and sunlight on Users Want Matte LCDs While Glossy Screens Dominate · · Score: 1

    How about those who work in offices, and they have floor to ceiling glass windows behind them. Not an unusual situation at all.

  18. Re:Really? on Why Thunderbolt Is Dead In the Water · · Score: 1

    Thunderbolt carries even more power than USB3, enough to power a 3.5 inch hard drive.

  19. Re:Really? on Why Thunderbolt Is Dead In the Water · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or to send the video data back to an AJA or Avid outboard at the same time.

    I have seen some Avid Thunderbolt prototypes, they do away with internal PCI Express boards.

  20. Re:I read that story before- and I work at a hotel on Computer Records Hold Key In IMF Head's Sexual Assault Case · · Score: 1

    I think I need to clarify I mean shut is not the same as locked.

    Yes, doors should unlock if they are locked, but if they are wide open, they should shut to stop smoke moving through the building. Smoke after all is the biggest killer in a fire.

  21. Re:Really? on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 1

    Or later in the 1990's when Acorn had the RISC PC that had a 386 CPU that ran x86 code natively.

  22. Re:Why buy a Window's device... on Windows 8 ARM Will Not Support Legacy Software · · Score: 1

    ...if it won't run Window's software?. Most everything else is a simple compile away from user's being able to be run on any device they own. Microsoft is really going to screw the pooch here if they don't ensure compatibility with existing software.

    Perhaps we should dig out our old Acorn RISC PCs?

    They had an ARM processor to run RISCOS, and x86 processor so you could run Windows.

    I'm sure you could still make a hybrid machine like the RISC PC in this day and age.

  23. Re:I read that story before- and I work at a hotel on Computer Records Hold Key In IMF Head's Sexual Assault Case · · Score: 2

    It's kind of funny, but kind of not. There's a bus stop literally right outside one of the entrances to the building. Normally what happens is a crowd of people get off the bus and one will use their card to open the door. Once the door's open the rest just rush in. Big security issue.

    Why not just use turnstyles?

  24. Re:I read that story before- and I work at a hotel on Computer Records Hold Key In IMF Head's Sexual Assault Case · · Score: 1

    A lot of systems record data such as is a door is open or shut, and how long for. Doors have to automatically shut if there is a fire also. Annoyingly one place where I worked which was a very large convention centre, if a door was left open, security would appear after a minute or so because the fire alarm would start beeping.

  25. Re:That's some fine police work, boys on PSN Up, And Then Down Again · · Score: 1

    I'm hardcore, with /. set to -1.