Posts by Thom Brown

UK doesn't have the services

US has Netflix... UK does't have a decent equivalent. In fact once you factor in how many services are available to folk in each country, it may end up being surprising the UK's numbers are as high as they are.

George Osborne tax-dodger

The chancellor of the exchequer, George Osborne, the guy who's responsible for government spending and budgets and the UK economy, himself has avoided £1.6m tax. I notice they're not doing much to close those holes. The wealthier you are, the more likely you can avoid paying tax. It's the majority of us who don't have a choice, and we can afford it the least. But then he's a Tory, so I'd be shocked if he were any other way.

Tax?

So is this because they need to raise enough money to pay the billions in taxes they've avoided thus far? Probably not.

Lenny Henry's favourite motel?

I think you'll find Lenny Henry promoted Premier Inn, not Travelodge.

Probably going to disappoint

As much as I loved Red Dwarf, or at least the earlier series', I don't think this will end well. It could if they do it intelligently and not make it silly, but my hopes aren't high.

Window tax?

But they'll still come with the same requirement to have Windows bundled with it though I bet. I wonder if I'd get away with insisting on a rebate for not accepting the EULA.

ARM vs Cell

So a 32-bit Quad-core ARM Cortex-A9 (up to 2GHz) is as powerful as a 64-bit 8-core 3.2GHz Cell processor? If they're comparing performance of a relatively low resolution portable device to a high definition console, that's not a real comparison.

Eh?

That's not defeating the block at all! Facebook still can't access people's Google accounts to get their contact lists.

Guess what? I can download all my Facebook wall postings by looking at my wall and copy and pasting them into a text file, and pasting into an email. Look, Google's now got an interface to Facebook's wall feature!

PostgreSQL-phobia?

Is TheReg intentionally tip-toeing around PostgreSQL? Despite the fact that PostgreSQL had the biggest release in years less than a month ago, or that Sun Microsystem's founder, Scott McNealy, will be keynote speaker at the flagship PostgreSQL conference, PGWest, TheReg hasn't mentioned PostgreSQL a single time in an article since mid-July, and even then it was a passing comment.

Just seems very odd that most other database systems get a mention.

Hmm...

So massive cuts everywhere, but for some reason this suddenly needs a LOT of money thrown at it? I suspect Cameron's got a few IT security friends he owes a favour to rubbing their hands with glee.

No PostgreSQL?

There's been a lot of news about Oracle lately, yet the biggest PostgreSQL release in years just seemed to pass by The Reg unnoticed.

Essential?

These are all "essential"? Essential to what? I'm sure I don't need any of them.

They've sunk even lower

So Microsoft has become a parasite now?

Oh great

So when I finally come to getting myself an Android phone, I'll have to avoid HTC.

Inaccurate conclusion

"In a recent study from Zend Technologies, forty two per cent of PHP programmers named Windows as their primary development operating system."

That isn't the same as saying "PHPers prefer Windows desktop to Linux"

We all use Windows here to develop PHP apps, but not through choice. That's just the operating system the company provides. If we had a choice, most of use would be using Linux, so that study merely indicates usage trends, not preferences.

And all the apps we developer are only written on Windows, so it's really just a glorified text editor for us. They're tested using Linux servers and deployed to Linux servers.

Firefox sausages?

"It may look like a bloody mess at the start, but once it starts to take shape it’s obvious that you’re making something delicious"

Firefox is made out of dead animals? Oh no!

Race ahead

They'll be on Silverlight 35 before we know it. They really don't want moonlight catching up do they? Adobe, just open up Flash already!

What about the money?

Will the money go to the artists they claim they have been defending? How do we find that out? I suspect the artists get squat, which would mean they weren't defending anything but their own bank accounts.

Bacon butty?

So basically you wish to show support for animal suffering because you don't like PETA? That's childish and mindless. FFS, grow up.

Re: Generic banal comment

"Now that it's been said, everyone else can spend their precious energies attacking something else."

Like when a fireman stops trying to put out a fire when he thinks he's used enough water, even if the flames are still spreading.

Helping theives?

Doesn't this also open up issues with car/bike/van thieves noting down the registration numbers of valuable vehicles they see on the road and then, with a £2.50 donation to the DVLA, locate the residence of the owner and organise its theft or sell the details on?

Eh?

So why does he criticize Linux but does not mention Microsoft Windows Mobile or Apple OSX on the iPhone, both of which are already present in the marketplace? As Drak said, this is just industry FUD to make their own product more appealing. That's the only reason any company criticizes a rival product, because it's a threat.

No series 3?

I noticed that they're only supporting this on lowest and highest end cards. Why not the 3 series mid-range? They don't even mention it nor explain what it is about the 2 and 5 series that makes them capable of supporting it over the 3 series.