Me .... I agree with the LibDems and the NO2ID people.
This was originally a temporary posting in the event that I was unable to find time to create an article at the last minute. It turns out to be a timely posting when taken with this article which also featured on the BBC TV news yesterday.
Playstation blog posted a list of things they've been reading lately.
I was interested in several but especially the "Resistance Fall of Man - part 2" links which have some good in-game videos.
This is a temporary post in case I don't get time during the week.
There is a small problem though .... it has some security problems and can be 'hacked' into and used to compromise the PC to which it is connected. (The Register had a short post too.)
The original Slashdot story which led to this article.
The South China Mall in Dongguan - opened in 2005 - is currently the largest in the world ..... and also the emptiest.
Read a short article about it on Wikipedia or this article at Forbes about the 10 largest malls in the world.
If you fancy seeing lots of pictures of the place this link is to a Google image search.
But don't get caught up in all the hype. Other companies have similar - in some cases, better - products.
The Samsung phone shown here (SGH-i900) is just one.
PhoneArena have an article with quite a few pics - they refer to it as "shiny, awesome".
Where a lot of the competitors will probably win over the discerning customer is their availability across a range of networks. Apple are still tying their system to specific telephone operators in most countries.
The original Gizmodo article that started me on this posting is here.
Although 'Retro Thing' posted this article last Friday (6th June) I could hardly ignore it as it deals with the famous Royal Enfield motorcycle company ..... though unlike the company our school is really in Enfield ..... impossible to ignore with that name.
MAKE magazine has just posted a short article mentioning the massive archive created for the OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) Project. The link in their article takes you to a 'wiki' post with a huge number of links to archived sounds in numerous zip files. (Many hosted at the Internet Archive.)
For example, this link should load a file I grabbed from there - beach sounds.
If you want to play with sounds there are a lot of programs available - many quite expensive - but one good one that is free is called 'Audacity'.
Justin Frankel, the creator of 'Winamp' (you can see the classic Winamp interface in the picture at the top) is involved in creating a new program, 'Reaper', which is almost a complete studio in a computer, although it won't be free as far as I know. The interesting thing as far as I'm concerned is the ability to share processing between computers connected on a local network.
You can view screenshots of the two programs here (Audacity) and here (Reaper).
Many companies are trying to get us to take up their "high speed" broadband offers ..... but how many actually deliver what they promise? The BBC's Rory Cellan-Jones is taking a tour of 'broadband Britain' to examine the reality of such claims.
There is also a page where you can try downloading a file to see what sort of speed you are getting ..... and these results can be submitted to their site for plotting via Google maps in the format shown in the picture at the top.
View the results on the BBC website here.
