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Re: The dangerously small iPhone 5 nano-SIM: Trimming, unlocking, and adapters

Sebastian Anthony — Tue, 20 Oct 2015 16:20:33 -0000

Are you stalking me, Riley? :P

Re: Artificial intelligence: coming to a sexbot near you

Sebastian Anthony — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:51:11 -0000

Good to know that you had my back :) (Or not as the case may be, as you deleted your coments! Pfft! Hold onto your convictions!)

Re: Artificial intelligence: coming to a sexbot near you

Sebastian Anthony — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:50:31 -0000

Aw, shucks. Well, I am quite hard to imitate I think - but whether that's a good thing or not, I don't know!

You can always follow me at Ars Technica, if ya like!

Re: Artificial intelligence: coming to a sexbot near you

Sebastian Anthony — Thu, 25 Jun 2015 16:48:09 -0000

I'm at Ars Technica now, running the new UK site :)

Re: Artificial intelligence: coming to a sexbot near you

Sebastian Anthony — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 11:05:02 -0000

Don't forget my original, seminal piece on sexbots! http://www.extremetech.com/...

(I actually got the timeline spot on, too. Neat.)

Re: Wanted: ExtremeTech is hiring writers

Sebastian Anthony — Fri, 01 May 2015 15:36:13 -0000

Me too!

Oh wait.

Re: What is the real range of an electric car? Tesla helps us find the answer.

Sebastian Anthony — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 10:32:16 -0000

Years of writing American English :) happy new year!

Re: A new (computer) chess champion is crowned, and the continued demise of human Grandmasters

Sebastian Anthony — Wed, 31 Dec 2014 06:46:26 -0000

Thanks! I've fixed it.

Re: Retinal jiggles: Why your eyes and brain strongly prefer games at 60 fps

Sebastian Anthony — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 10:44:01 -0000

What about lower than 60Hz?

I seem to have some issues with lower refresh rates -- like, 24 and 25 fps can be really hard for me to watch. I always assumed it was because I watch very little TV, but spend an awful lot of time in front of a PC -- so my eyes are very much used to 60Hz.

Re: Apple pushes its first ever silent, automatic security update to Mac OS X to fix NTP bug

Sebastian Anthony — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 13:44:51 -0000

None taken :)

Re: North Korea kicked off the internet by giant DDoS: Was it the USA, or someone else?

Sebastian Anthony — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 11:48:32 -0000

Man, I loved my trackball. Those were the days...

Re: NASA releases spectacular video of Orion re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere

Sebastian Anthony — Tue, 23 Dec 2014 07:33:17 -0000

Ah, is it compression? I did wonder if friction would be enough to cause that much heating.

Good question about the colours of the plasma/flames. I had no idea that higher temperatures caused different colours. Maybe it's something to do with the chemical composition of the heat shielding? (There's some potassium in there, which burns purple, but only once it gets hot enough?)

Re: How bright is bright? The difficulty of comparing LCD and AMOLED displays

Sebastian Anthony — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 14:26:14 -0000

I'd say it's more a matter of... as with most visual things, you need to actually go and look at the device, to see how it looks in real life. LCD and AMOLED are _so_ different that it's quite hard to compare them accurately.

Likewise, it's nice to know that IPS has better viewing angles (and maybe color reproduction) than VA, but it's something that you kind of need to see in real life to appreciate the difference.

Or, in other words, maybe don't pay too much heed to nits, and focus more on whether a reviewer things the screen is "bright" or "not very bright".

It's a complex issue, clearly :)

Re: Nintendo’s next console will likely use x86 AMD chip, just like the Xbox One and PS4

Sebastian Anthony — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 11:38:44 -0000

Ha. That's a fair point :P A bearded Mario would feel quite different, eh?!

Re: Nintendo’s next console will likely use x86 AMD chip, just like the Xbox One and PS4

Sebastian Anthony — Mon, 22 Dec 2014 10:06:48 -0000

IBM is still investing in some chip-related stuff -- but it's mostly bleeding-edge stuff now, from what I can gather. Neuromorphic stuff, beyond-CMOS (nanotubes, graphene), etc.

But yes, they are actually getting out of making chips -- and previously, they made the chips for Nintendo. So it's fairly safe to assume that the next Nintendo console won't have an IBM-made chip. It could have an OpenPower chip I guess, but that seems unlikely.

ARM isn't more efficient than x86.

x86 (+ GCN GPU) would make sense, if Nintendo wanted to make it easier for developers to bring high-end games to a next-gen Nintendo console. Or x86 just makes sense because there simply aren't any other architectures right now that really make sense. ARM is a possibility, I agree (and that's why I mention it in the post).

Thanks for taking the time to comment!

Re: The Open Bay: Now you can download and host your own copy of The Pirate Bay

Sebastian Anthony — Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:02:10 -0000

*mind explodes*

Re: Who really hacked Sony Pictures? It probably wasn’t North Korea (updated)

Sebastian Anthony — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:18:06 -0000

Ooh! Cool :) I am constantly amazed by the kind of people who read ExtremeTech. I remember when I wrote a story about an original IBM hard drive... and then an IBM engineer who worked on that drive came out of the woodwork to say Hi :)

The Gigafactory is a big deal! Nice work.

Re: Who really hacked Sony Pictures? It probably wasn’t North Korea (updated)

Sebastian Anthony — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 10:09:21 -0000

Yep, I agree there are some possible timelines that make North Korean involvement possible.

I wouldn't be surprised if NK was involved in _some_ way, though I'd be very surprised if they were behind this 100%.

Re: Valve enables region locking in Steam, to stop you buying cheap games from Russia

Sebastian Anthony — Thu, 18 Dec 2014 05:58:45 -0000

Extreme... commenting... on ExtremeTech.

Have you tried commenting with voice-to-text software yet? :P

Re: There may actually be life on Mars, according to Curiosity’s new methane data

Sebastian Anthony — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 13:16:40 -0000

Ha, thanks. I thought serpentization sounded a bit TOO cool. I've fixed it now.

Re: SpaceX will attempt to land a Falcon 9 rocket on an ocean platform (Updated)

Sebastian Anthony — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 12:06:47 -0000

Cool :) any idea what that technology is...?

Re: SpaceX will attempt to land a Falcon 9 rocket on an ocean platform (Updated)

Sebastian Anthony — Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:11:42 -0000

Skylon doesn't even have a working prototype yet, does it?

Re: LG readies 55-inch 8K TV, and new quantum dot 4K display technology

Sebastian Anthony — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 11:20:32 -0000

Netflix, and I think a few other sources, are starting to release stuff at 4K.

Yes, quite a lot of things are filmed at 4K -- but they're not usually released at 4K. They have to be remastered/rereleased at 4K.

Re: The Pirate Bay ‘revived’ by rival IsoHunt, while figures show no decline in piracy after shutdown

Sebastian Anthony — Mon, 15 Dec 2014 12:44:46 -0000

It's pretty simple: The publishers/broadcasters/etc need to provide an easy, reasonably priced way of buying content. Like iTunes, or Spotify, or Netflix, etc.

Piracy mainly exists because of a) People don't want to pay a lot of money for something, or b) The content isn't available in their country (due to various licensing deals, rights holder agreements, etc.)

The industry knows this, of course. But it's just not an easy thing to fix. In the mean time, while they try to find a solution, shutting down file sharing sites is the next best thing I guess.

Re: BPG: A new, superior image format that really ought to kill off JPEG

Sebastian Anthony — Fri, 12 Dec 2014 13:47:40 -0000

I do, but the other kind -- real football!

(I'm British, not American.)