Posts by asdf
2523 posts • joined Saturday 7th April 2007 06:10 GMT
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Re: The explanation for Bill Gates
"The luckiest patent attorney's son in all of recorded history."
There fixed it for ya. Having a dad that knows how to write contracts does have its advantages.
a trend
My guess is if you average the sentences the UK people will get 1 month for every 1 year the US people get. Truly a country built on extreme retribution especially if mess with the corporate money and aren't in the C Suite country club.
Re: Must be Dumb and Dumber
>These people are begging to be in prison.
Well its not like Assad is going to do the west any favors but considering the current state of his country with many areas without electricity some of these hackers are probably based in the West in which case they better watch their back.
wow
Wow well said Spartacus. Pretty sad how the West and especially the US is getting blamed by both sides for not doing enough or doing too much. Assad is a butcher just like his dad before him but the US leadership has finally learned its lesson on you break you bought it and wants nothing to do with the hundred billion plus dollars its going to take to reconstruct and keep Syria from becoming a failed state even after all this crap ends. Our own nation needs some building and we are broke.
Re: hmm
Supposedly Quantum computing will be as much a speed up in computing as the move from mechanical to digital was (the only generation that completely blew away Moore's law) but am sure the experts on here can point out what a simpleton I am.
hmm
The problem with doing private general quantum computer research (Google obviously teaming up and avoiding that type of quantum computer entirely) is once the technology becomes available the military and government are going to want a monopoly on it for some time because it could basically make alot of current encryption trivial to solve. That will be a very disruptive technology at first.
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>A coffee date with Tim Cook
Why? So you can say I sipped coffee once with a man who lasted almost 3 years as the Apple's CEO? You can say he was supposed to be the next Jobs but it turns out the only thing he shared with Jobs was the douchebaggery and not the talent.
Re: One way ticket
Its hard to think of better subset of the population to make the one way trip to mars than reality tv stars. Please please let Tila Tequila make the final cut.
Re: Desire for a brand new combine harvester
Growing up in rural Iowa in the early 1980s sadly I do remember the farm kids and wannabes (like %80 of the class) speaking about this year's model of farm implements like city/normal people speak of cars. I seem to remember there being more farm implement dealerships than car dealerships in the area as well. I would say good times but then I actually moved to a real city and was like wow its called flyover country for a reason.
duh
Few people test against browsers whose market share rounds down to zero.
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>Thomason reportedly cried as she told the judge: "I was foolish, I was stupid."
Funny how they only seem to realize that when the bad consequences are happening to them and never when they are screwing over other people. The b_tch will be thinking of this every day for the rest of her life and all I can say is what comes around.
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Yeah these are Microsoft Kin like numbers. Perhaps both will be a collector's item for nerds someday like original Atari 2600 games or something. Scarcity obviously shouldn't be a problem for either.
Posted in Review: Samsung Galaxy S4
Re: I've had mine since Friday
> it means, being a lite-ish user
If you are a lite user why the hell buy a top of the line phone unless you enjoy pissing money?
Posted in Review: Samsung Galaxy S4
Re: Agreed
> Raspberry Pi can be sold at cost for £31
I think you will find the number of total logic gates in the phone to be at least one and maybe a couple of order of magnitudes greater than a Pi. Radio chipsets are actually a significant portion of the cost as well. Lots of wizardry and patents you have to pay for.
Re: It is amazing to me...
>where a Data Processing company does all your data processing
Lol didn't Ross Perot get rich processing government stuff like Medicare payments in the off hours with other companies business computers (when computing time was dirty cheap) in the 1960s? But still they say you old timers wouldn't understand this new fangled technology.
Re: "Very well-payed humans"
>I hope they go for the relevant directors personal fortunes. That's the only way this s**t will ever end
Won't happen because then the CEO couldn't stack the board with their buddies and corporations might actually have responsible governance. Let me change that to say that won't happen until after The Worst Generation (Baby Boomers) die off more.
Re: Yay!
Old thread now but that elephant had killed several people including the trainer that abused it in the first place (people were such aholes to animals then) so it wasn't put down just for entertainment (although primitive screwheads did that back then, read white fang).
wow
89 downvotes as a I write this. I salute you Mr. Troll and just so you hit your triple digit target have another but know I don't do it out of malice but out of respect.
Re: Yay!
>Edison was a theiving douchebag.
2nd worst in modern history behind only Walt Disney. When we get eternal copyright (directly because of the Disney company) know Walt loved stealing fairy tales from the public domain and got rich doing so but his company will never let any of their stuff go public domain.
Re: (American) second hand sales of things are somewhat rare.
>than sell it on for 50-75% of what I paid for it
Fat chance try more like %10 in the states. Bring in a big box of games and take the cool $27.50 they give you for them. Hardly worth the drive. Not to mention guess what no replaying those games if you get the itch in a few years.
@AC Posted Monday 6th May 2013 20:45 GMT
Still sore about the Merkins putting Sony behind me too Microsoft for last place in the last generation eh? Most didn't buy Microsoft because its American but because Sony is run by some of the most arrogant douchebags outside of Apple. Granted Microsoft isn't much better but goodwill is more than just an accounting term as both companies are learning in various product lines.
Re: Just like the Xbox360
More importantly, ArsTechnica mentions that the Vita has sold about 1 million units in the US since its launch a bit more than 1 year ago. And to give you a sense of perspective, its older sister the original PSP sold 1.12 million units in the US in the month of December 2005 alone. Yup, back then, the PSP sold more in one good month than the Vita did in one year. Ouch?
Re: Just like the Xbox360
>Ahh well, idiots will always still queue up outside Walmart for one...
Like the idiots queued up for a Vita at Tesco? Oh wait 4.7 million units sold worldwide in over a year means no queues anywhere that were not full of Sony employees anyway.
Re: (American) second hand sales of things are somewhat rare.
>I have the right of first sale. I never use it, but I have it morally reprehensible that the major publishers are trying to strip me
Yes it is a good right to hang on. Often though it is used as a justification why an electronics item should be wildly overpriced in the first place <cough Apple>. The whole yes but you can resale it for half is not a real enticing argument for most middle class Yanks without infinite disposable income who rarely resale electronics.
Re: Should I ever
Finally to show I am an equal opportunity troll there is also the WinRT Surface fail to consider. Its more pricey than the other options and not built for gaming (or anything else but losing money) but you have a chance in a few years to recoup your costs as its so rare outside of Microsoft employees (who don't dare sell in case big brother tracks them) to be a collectors item.
Re: Should I ever
You could also buy a Sony Vita and be a member of an exclusive (and very small) club. Best of all you will have the official console 3rd party makers use to dump mediocre cutdown version of their franchises that weren't even good enough for the tablet market.
Re: Should I ever
Well you could always go with the 2010ish hardware Nintendo just put out to play Super Party Paper Wario and Zelda 27. Yet another platform to play emulated N64 games on and talk about the old times (lol hint if you don't remember wood veneer on your console or the TV collapsing into a white dot when you turned it off you can stfu about old) and play the same rehashed games over and over.
Re: Just like the Xbox360
> That MS caved in with using BDs as the new Xbox media says a lot on who's right....
No it says who was willing to the lose the most money to win. Sony's "victory" might be some of the reason why they are 1/5 the size they were 15 years ago. Why the CEO who made that decision is no longer CEO (five years in a row in the red to the tune of double digit billions lost will do that) and why they will sell 80 million less PS3 than PS2 (extra $300 per console at launch minimum for BR went over real well). The term is pyrrhic victory. The downloaded/streaming media revolution thing really peed on their parade of long term ROI on the decision.
Re: (American) second hand sales of things are somewhat rare.
>I think you should propose this thesis to Gamestop
Go into a Gamestop and you will find the customers who have fully been through puberty are a small minority in most stores (thus the exception for kids in original comment).
>I have bought games second hand, I dont think I have ever sold one back though.
Yeah that is probably the more common scenario among the not so young.
hmm
Don't confuse a lack of journalist quality out of all the corporate news (notice how things went downhill quick after W Bush and his cronies changed the FCC rules on media ownership, of course Obama and his cronies love the status quo and changed nothing) with validating Fox News in particular. El Reg is better than most but all one has to do is look at a LP climate change article to see bias is here as well. All in all just another race to the bottom (TMZ here we come).
wow
Not worth more than glancing at the comments but this one may go over 300. On one side you have the mad dog 2nd amendment right nutters willing to yell until you close their cold dead lips and on the other Brits just looking to smuggly laugh at all the merkins. Most merkins are somewhere in the middle but you won't hear from those.
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> second hand game purchases too
I have noticed a bit of cultural difference on this. At least among myself and my circle (American) second hand sales of things are somewhat rare. Its is looked down upon as a garage sale need the money pawn shop kind of thing or a hassle best avoided at least (except among kids who honestly need the money). I know many Americans do it on Craig's List and Ebay but I do get the impression tech resale is more common in the UK and EU than here in the USA. Probably not because we are snobs so much as the culture has trained us in consumerism (buy new use up or throw away and repeat).
Re: yep
>but he probably did more to kill DRM
Forgot about Steve Jobs who did a lot to kill other companies DRM but did a good job of keeping his closed garden intact.
yep
Even tone deaf Microsoft couldn't ignore the Simcity fiasco. EA's former CEO was a first class douchebag but he probably did more to kill DRM (or at least stunt its growth) than one else so far. And yes I guarantee he personally rubber stamped it should be online only (huge decision for major launch title) or if he didn't was neglect in his duties.
what?
All of Iraq's oil reserves altogether probably wouldn't add up to 13 trillion. The whole middle east minus Israel GDP is less than Spain's (pre recession). I won't deny the human costs and probably some Iraq money was stolen to help with the no bid contracts but no way it more more than a tiny fraction than the US taxpayer got bilked out of.
Re: Recognising...
When an occupier starts settling land of the occupied bad things are going to happen and neither side is going to look like saints especially in that part of the world. There are no good guys in this conflict just a bunch of zealots. Israel comes off as nasty bullies and the Palestinians come off as the scum of the middle east (really only allies of Sadam in first Gulf War eh, and living in refugee camps in most neighboring countries?) like the other Arabs consider them.
Re: Yay, Israel thread!
Just for the record a whole lot of Americans are disgusted by our government being Israels bottom bitch and putting Israel's interests before our own just because AIPAC know how to use money and influence to manipulate our broken political system (come on American Jews (who outnumber Israel Jews) be Americans first). What Americans you will mostly hear from here will be the right wing born agains who never let facts or a misplace crusade get in the way of them going to heaven. Keep this in mind when thinking all yanks are represented by Reg posters lol.
Re: @unwarranted triumphalism
>Yes, dead civilians are just a point of view I suppose.
Yep and the IDF prevents dead "civilians" by labelling the two year olds they kill as terrorists waiting to happen.
Re: About time
Yeah now they just need to release an app or map view than can show you in real time the land being stolen, sorry being settled by its rightful (as in might makes right) owners.
Re: Well he was right
>its only source code after all!
Lol and in fact it would still take a government even with nearly endless resources longer to figure out the spaghetti garbage my company calls source than to write it themselves. The ultimate way to secure source code. Make sure nobody can understand it.
Re: Steno-pornography?
>How can they know that there is no encrypted source code in those image files?
Probably because based on the absolutely pathetic state of network security in government the Chinese long ago pilfered the code.
Re: Last line
Doctor: [laughs] Right, kick ass. Well, don't want to sound like a dick or nothin', but, ah... it says on your chart that you're fucked up. Ah, you talk like a fag, and your shit's all retarded. What I'd do, is just like... like... you know, like, you know what I mean, like...
Doctor: Don't worry, scrote. There are plenty of 'tards out there living really kick-ass lives. My first wife was 'tarded. She's a pilot now.
hmm
That step up from mach 3.5 ramjets to mach 5 scramjets must be a doozy considering its now taken 50 years and the scramjet is just now at the prototype stage. Just all the more amazing how quickly the SR71 (A12 could do mach 4 supposedly but probably safer to say mach 3.5 tops for either) was designed and ready for action and how state of the art it was at the time.
>it would need to have a terminal guidance solution to allow to be at least as accurate as current precision munitions.
Guarantee this could be done quite easily. <1 meter precision without breaking a sweat.
>An ICBM launching a conventional HE warhead would be even more riculously expensive and wasteful than a scramjet hypersonic missile would be.
1 trillion USD in Iraq, 1 trillion USD in Afghanistan (direct costs only that can't be argued, indirect costs for whole war on terror fiasco may end up being more like 6 trillion) , the US government wrote the book on ridiculously expensive and wasteful.
Re: On course for UK - Oz in 30 minutes
>John Paul Stapp took a sustained 25g with a peak of 46g** after ride on a rocket sled.
Yep and there have been cases of F1 drivers in wrecks momentarily being exposed to nearly 200g and surviving (ie 300 kph to virtually 0 in a meter).
>** It's worth noting that he did this, voluntarily, in a time when 8g was thought to be fatal. Like I said, legendary.
Yes the man not only saved a whole lot of pilots but he figured out the thing killing his pilots (tasked as doctor with safety of pilots in military) the most was actually car accidents and he was the one that pushed for seat belts in cars that save countless people every day.
>You could accelerate from zero to 7200 km/h (roughly Mach 6) in 3 minutes at 1 G
Yep and when we have the technology you could go from 0 to just under light speed (damn relativity) accelerating at 1G in a shade less than a year .
Re: 2 HTC Phones, 2 Buggy Phones
Yeah I feel your pain. I have a Thunderbolt here in the states and it is garbage as well. HTC is the Edsel of smartphones.
Re: The sooner they are put out of their misery
But then who would compete with Microsoft for that rounding error of market share most outfits would safely classify as other?
Re: @asdf Exacty The Kind Of Situation...
Hey at least we are willing to show our post history. What does that say about you also visiting this trashy tabloid IT website AC? El Reg has its flaws (cough LP human climate change denial propaganda, AO raging on freetards) but compared to the corporate PR release rehash site that is ZDNet etc its at least amusing.
yeah
Her mistake was not to be carrying a gun instead and then Florida would be giving her a medal.
Re: Exacty The Kind Of Situation...
Who Ive or Tim Cook? In my opinion its more obvious Cook is in over his head. The only thing he seems to share in common with Jobs is being an arrogant douche bag. The talent is not there.
