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Mad Hacker
Facepalm

Re: The Aero about-turn is an Apple-bashing exercise, perhaps

Personally I miss buttons that look like glossy liquid gel-caps and brushed aluminum backgrounds but I guess I'm the only one.

Mad Hacker
Headmaster

Re: It's not cheap.

At our company here in the US which is traded on NASDAQ VPs are part of the "executive team."

Mad Hacker
Pint

Re: Seems a little implausible

A 300ml bladder? I can speak from experience in an emergency my bladder holds more than 32 ounces (946ml.) That 32oz Taco Bell cup couldn't hold everything I had.

Mad Hacker
Holmes

It's a Mac mini

It's a Mac mini with an external power supply. I bet it'll cost nearly as much too. I doubt Intel is too scared of the Rasberry Pi but I can't help but think Microsoft is scared of any system that cannot run Windows. I wonder if they will scale down Windows 8 RT to run on the Pi?

Mad Hacker
Thumb Up

Re: Atari 800 series ???

Yeah the Atari 800 and later the XL series were my fans back then. Never could get past the 400's membrane keyboard.

I didn't realize they weren't as popular in the UK as the US. I guess the C64 outsold them but in my programming circle in the US the Atari 800 was very popular.

Mad Hacker

Re: errata

There's actually a "Send corrections" link at the bottom of every article now. It appeared a few weeks ago I think. I have used it a bit.

Mad Hacker
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Re: No place for politics IMO

I suppose Green Day shouldn't sing about politics either? In what venue is politics allowed?

Mad Hacker
Mushroom

Re: @Peter2 - Thick eh?

AC says: Naturally, there are no small number of parents who want their children enrolled in these special programs, as they have a better chance of getting a decent education than the children stuck in the underfunded "ordinary children" school system.

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Really? You really wished you were in a remedial reading class. Or a "how to tie your shoe" and "eat food by yourself" class? While they may take 25% of the budget and get more attention I assure you the education these kids get covered areas you didn't need to be spending time on. You make it sound like they got into AP Physics while you were stuck in Trig. It's more like they spent extra time learning things you learned years before. No advantage given.

Referring to your remark about special needs kids costing more than regular kids, it is true that in society those more in need will consume more of the resources, but what's the alternative? Killing off anyone who doesn't get straight A's?

It's an interesting world you live in.

Conversely here in Arizona we have a voucher program. It means we can have private charter schools get public school funding for every kid they take in. The problem is, they don't have the oversight that public schools are required to have. So they do not provide proper education to disabled children (they must claim they do but they will discourage disabled children from attending or only provide day care instead of instruction) but they take the same amount of money away from public schools that due to strict oversight must provide much more expensive (often one on one) education to those same students. It means the public schools are left with a higher percentage of disabled children yet with a smaller percentage of funding.

Mad Hacker
Mushroom

Re: Great

Wish I had the same experience as you. Tell me how a printer driver can have low enough level memory access to cause BSODs in Windows 7? Someday Windows should adopt protected memory. I also found Outlook still has the ability to halt the entire system even in Windows 7. Someday Windows should adopt symmetrical multitasking. And lets not discuss the slow file copies to network drives...

I know MS claims they have both protected memory and symmetrical multitasking but my experience shows otherwise.

Mad Hacker
Mushroom

Isn't Product Dumping Illegal?

In a prior life I used to design cars in Detroit. Just a little before my time the Japanese got in trouble for "dumping" mini-vans. This basically meant they were selling them below cost to break into the market. This was illegal. (source: http://articles.latimes.com/1991-12-21/business/fi-528_1_officials-rule)

So how can Amazon sell the Kindle or eBooks for less than cost and have it NOT be illegal dumping? In fact, how can Sony and MS charge less for their PS3 and XBOX 360 and also have it NOT be illegal dumping?

Mad Hacker
Unhappy

Re: I don't even want ethernet

Ok thanks for the 23 thumbs down. I learned it doesn't come with WiFi so my bad. Yes I'm willing to admit I made a mistake. I swear I read an earlier article that claimed both models A and B would have WiFi but model B would also include a wired Ethernet jack. I suppose what the article meant was that A or B could have WiFi through a dongle or that old specification changed. I've been following this exciting project from the beginning but since I only cared about wired Ethernet I didn't look too closely at WiFi options.

Verified there is NO WiFi included via their FAQ here: http://www.raspberrypi.org/faqs

Mad Hacker
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video out?

I just shopped for an Arduino at the same price as the Raspberry Pi and it didn't appear to even include video output.

So to answer your question... price!

Mad Hacker
Facepalm

Re: I don't even want ethernet

It comes with WiFi on board so why would you do that?

Mad Hacker
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Re: Battery problem

You're explanation shows you don't understand about generations of chipsets. Waiting for the next generation of 3G chipsets allowed them to use ones that are more power efficient. Similar to 4G today. Android owners get about 5 hours of 4G use today before their battery dies. The next generation 4G chipset will be smaller and more power efficient and will no doubt make it into the next iPhone.

But the real indicator that you are some sort of juvenile with personal issues is how you spelled iPhone. Did you think that was clever? I assume you spell Obama as "Nobama" because that also makes you sound so damn clever.

Mad Hacker

Re: An HP shareholder speaks:

I've switched to Brother printers and couldn't be happier. Try the MFC-9970CDW for an all in one color laser printer. Duplex scanning, printing, and copying. Only thing it didn't do that it should've was support AirPrint.

Mad Hacker

Mac OS X does it...

Mac OS X does it great so there is no reason Ubuntu couldn't do it too. Now they might have to pay for a license to include it as I'm sure Apple didn't have a problem with that if that's how they got Exchange integration built into their UNIX.

Mad Hacker
FAIL

That was helpful

So this article is the equivalent of steering the kid away from the red light district, at a more appropriate time, and placing clothes on them.

Mad Hacker
Facepalm

I think this article already assumes that...

You are stating the obvious. I think with reading the article all you said went without saying. What the author (and us parents that do talk with their children) are trying to avoid is the accidental exposure.

Mad Hacker

Actually an iPad costs less than a semester's worth of books

So the iPad meets all your criteria except price but if I remember right (and this was years ago) my semester of textbooks if I couldn't find any used ones was around $800 USD whereas an iPad starts at $500. Now assumming the books are cheaper electronically (probably not since Apple is going to add 30% to the price) it might not be a huge amount more. Even if it isn't the cost of the iPad doesn't double the cost of your textbooks for one semester. Assuming 4 years, 8 semesters, $800 USD a semester that's $6,400 for textbooks making the iPad only a 13% increase in cost over 4 years, hey that's not too bad. And now the iPad doesn't need to be tethered so it could replace your laptop as your primary computer saving you the cost of a laptop for college (ok do yourself a favor and buy a Bluetooth keyboard for real typing though.)

Mad Hacker
FAIL

You lost all credibility...

You lost all credibility when you claim the Whopper is better than what McDonald's offers. Yes there are many burgers better than McD's but Burger King doesn't have one of them.

Mad Hacker
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Seems like a passcode would stop that...

Of course, if you are with friends you would think that wasn't necessary.

Mad Hacker
FAIL

It's clear it's not free in the title

The title says Kindle. It costs money to buy things from the Kindle store. If not, it would've said PDF and figured if you had a Kindle you could put it on there yourself for free. I think it was clear enough and is fine. I like that Ars Technica and The Register are both experimenting with ways to add to their bottom line this way. Less chance I'll find a 404 message the next time I come over here for a bit of free reading.

The Fail is for you Failing to understand that they were selling this for "actual money" as you say. Maybe they should've taken bitcoins?

Mad Hacker
Gimp

So you haven't heard of this then?

Perform This Way: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ss_BmTGv43M

Mad Hacker

Really?

This is a bare board with exposed electronics components and adding a USB hub is "ugly"? I have a regular computer that encloses all the electronics and two additional 7 ports hubs on my desk behind my keyboard. Pretty standard to need a USB hub or two on any computer these days.

On the other hand I have a Dell keyboard that provides a USB port for the mouse so if you only needed a keyboard and mouse and had a keyboard that provided a USB connection, then you wouldn't need a hub at all.

Mad Hacker
WTF?

Keep it balanced?

I don't come to El Reg for balance! I doubt anyone does.

Mad Hacker
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4 in the morning huh?

Well it's 4am my time but I see if I register I'll get notified when the recording is available. Ok, I'm in. I deal with these issues daily.

Mad Hacker
Facepalm

Outlook Integration?

You glossed over Outlook Integration. At my company we need Exchange Server integration for email and our global address book. You mention Google contacts integration but a lot of corporate users need to know about Outlook/Exchange.

Mad Hacker
Facepalm

Huh?

Why exactly?

Mad Hacker

Yes especially...

Yes, especially the Sennheiser ones they covered. They don't compare with Sennheiser at all.

Mad Hacker
Facepalm

So both of you joined today and have 1 post

Said in the voice of Zoidberg: "So both the Astro headset peeps joined the Reg forums today and each have one post. Probably the same person and probably PR for Astro."

[No one reacts.] "I don't hear any gasping."

Everyone else: "We all figured that out already."

Mad Hacker

No, they are anti-Apple too

What Reg are you reading? They are more anti-Apple then anything else, but yes, in general, they are anti-everything.

Mad Hacker
Headmaster

You use Linux but you use RDP?

If you use Linux as you say it would make more sense for you to use VNC. If you do use RDP as you also say, I would argue you use Windows.

Mad Hacker

Amazon.com?

I was trying to understand why Amazon.com had a river although partnering with Google made sense.

Mad Hacker

Expecting USB 3 or FireWire 800 or Thunderbolt

Ok, so this is a solid product with quiet gain controls but really these types of devices have been out for years. I was hoping it would have more input channels and take advantage of something newer like USB 3.0. And for about the same price you could get a full blown mixer in the: Behringer XENYX X1204USB

Mad Hacker

How few apps do you actually use?

Ok so how many apps can it show on the first page? I have 131 apps install and about 75 of them are my most common apps that I use on a daily/weekly basis. I know this because the Apple menu Recent Applications stops at 50 and it always removes apps that I've used in the last week so 50 isn't enough.

I think this would work for non-power users who only use a few apps a week but hey, they could probably do everything they need to on an iPad too.

Mad Hacker
Headmaster

Rumored specs not actual

Ok update the specs now that they've been released. The server uses the slower processor of the entry level model and Apple lists the i7 option as still dual core which doesn't make a lot of sense IMHO.

Mad Hacker
Headmaster

Must be an Intel i7-2620M

The i7 at 2.7GHz but with only two cores must be an i7-2620M. Really wished they had been able to handle 10 more watts and gone for a quad core. Oh well, it's the only machine I can afford that doesn't include a built in monitor so I guess I'll be ordering one.

Oh and no versions, server or desktop include optical drives. Ok I'll stop now.

Mad Hacker
Facepalm

Not by your standards it isn't

You say: pronography *is* protected by the 1st amendment. Which is why the worlds porn capital is in California.

Actually by your definition of protected it isn't. Anyone under 18 cannot buy a Playboy in the US. Thanks to the SCOTUS they can however purchase any violent video game or movie or book they want. But perish the thought of them seeing a topless female.

I don't see how restricting the sale of something violent to someone under 18 is a violation of the first amendment but restricting them buying a Playboy isn't.

Mad Hacker

Eh? You're wrong.

You say: A2DP (stereo bluetooth streaming) has been supported in the iPod since iOS 4.0 (released over an year ago) unlike the article implies.

Hmmm really? I just purchased a brand new top of the line $250 iPod with 160GB of storage and I can assure you it does not support Bluetooth. I can also see that the Shuffle and the Nano don't support Bluetooth either. Only one model of iPod line (the touch) supports Bluetooth.

Mad Hacker

Yes yes

Touchscreens are so old hat. What an old UI concept. I assume you carry a Kinect with your cell phone so you can have a more advanced UI?

Mad Hacker

I think it's more about what WASN'T mentioned...

Ok there are two areas I really expected IO5 to get beefed up.

1) Navigation. The mapping still doesn't do turn by turn voice navigation. I really expected this.

2) Voice Control. The amount of voice input hasn't been updated in a while. I haven't used it on Android but I understand you can voice text messages. I really expected to get more voice input capabilities.

Regarding the ToDo - Reminders app. Glad they finally added that. Now my iPhone will finally be able to do everything my PalmPilot did in 1998!

Mad Hacker

There is no national sales tax in the US

Sales tax varies here state to state. Some states have no sales tax (brilliant for buying a car!) Here in Arizona between state, county, and city taxes our sales tax is about 9%.

Mad Hacker

Reset the song counter...

I wonder if you cancel and then rejoin the next year if you get another 25,000 songs?

Mad Hacker

Oracle? Really?

It's interesting you feel that way considering on my Dell M6400 with an Intel Core 2 Duo T9900 @ 3.07 GHz and 4GB of RAM I found Oracle to slow the machine down too much for development. However I am running Windows 7 64bit and maybe you are running a Unix derivative that runs more efficiently.

Seriously though what model are you that happy with?

Mad Hacker

They'd need a little more information...

You say: Armed with this information, an attacker would need only to obtain the PIN a user logs in with in order to gain the same rights to access sensitive information, highly valuable blueprints and more.

Well they would need to know the serial number of the keyfob that was given to a specific user wouldn't they? I cannot image that would be easy information to obtain. Then they would need that person's username and password which granted, are much easier to obtain through a remote attack.

Mad Hacker

You never understood web2.0rreah???

Let me guess... you Twitter like mad and think that's helping society.

Mad Hacker

I'd like to see you review an Oppo Blu-Ray Player.

I'd like to see you review an Oppo Blu-Ray Player.

Mad Hacker

Apples to Oranges

The Arcam includes an amplifier and doesn't play Blu-Rays. How can you compare the two?

Mad Hacker

Where were you three days ago?

He already did that and explained very well why the level was raised to 7: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/12/fukushima_ffs/

Mad Hacker

The iPhone is too big!

I hate big screens. My iPhone is too big as it is. I hope they shrink it!

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