Posts by Rukario

Re: Reg Readers Fuming?

Do Reg readers do anything else in the comments section?

Clara?

Get back in the kitchen and make me a soufflé!

11 holes-in-one?

I heard it was 19.

(Seeing as it's now 8:20 pm on the east coast of Canada...)

Re: So, Windows 6.2.1? 6.3?

"The marketing name has nothing to do with the internal version number.

Same as with Linux."

Very true... I was actually going to mention Patrick Volkerding jumping the version of Slackware from 4 to 7, just to match the version numbers used by other Linux distros of the era.

But then, what's going to happen when Windows marketing name goes through another 87 number changes... will it skip from Windows 94 to 96?

<-- facepalm for me not noticing the 6.3 staring me in the face in the screenshot in the article.

American vassal states?

The difference is the empire-vassal role here is reversed at least in the money flow, and it's the US that pays tribute (read: interest on treasury paper) to the Middle Kingdom.

Anyway I just ordered one of those generic Chinese android phones off fleabay...Interested to see the outcome.

Re: apparently look a lot more like Windows Phone 8

I didn't even realise you could maximise the calculator...

pull up Windows 8 VM... open desktop, Win-R, calc... Nope maximise is "greyed" out.

Re: Change be bad

"a new "improved" model which was steered with the feet and accelerated/braked using the knees, to leave the hands free for tweeiing"

As opposed to the reverse (accelerating/braking with the feet and steering with the knees) to leave the hands free for tweeting/texting, as we see now?

Re: Simple solution

"all software being sold from whatever tinpot country offers 0% tax rate"

Don't Microsoft et al already do this? Or at least, from as close to 0% tax rate as their web of offshore companies can manage.

Re: power shortages?

And as for networking...

http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2549

Re: iOS security creaking at the seams.

"reallylongforeignplacenameswhichyoucannotreadatmotorwayspeeds?"

Last time I checked, Wales was still part of the UK.

Re: So no word about the latest malicious

You mean this one?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/03/19/ea_origin_bug_allows_remote_exploits/

<-- EA's servers. Again.

Re: So if I had bought a Windows Phone 8 on day of issue [1] ...

@keith.nicholas

Occam's Razor... simplest explanation is that it's a typo.

If not, then we get our wish and Windows Phone 8 self-destructs...

Re: INFIDELS!

"...eat a pound of beef per day..."

Middle ground: Eat bacon instead!

Re: Emacs + Evil

vi is the root of all evil

vi vi vi is the Mark of the Beast

Re: Kawaii desu!

When I saw this, the whole "kawaii" look was what first came to mind. I was almost expecting to see a Hello Kitty version.

Re: Leave it to the Register to print a story that can at once put me off both sex and violence!!!

Or the Doctor Who episode Bad Wolf.

Trinn-e: But that's a Compact Laser Deluxe.

Zu-zana: Where were you hiding that?

Jack Harkness: You really don't want to know.

Trinn-e: Give me that accessory *BANG*

Re: Google does no evil (tm)

"build code, infrastructure, hardware into their tens of thousands of cars that travel the world"

That can be traced back to the Rattigan Academy. Tracing back further might lead to an aborted alien invasion by dumplings with guns.

<-- Where's my TARDIS icon???

Re: No bathrooms

It is a common issue with SSRIs that they cause suicidal ideations. Not good when they start happening before the intended effect of the medication (2-4 weeks, or longer), and you have this nice big bottle of pills sat there. Paroxetine (Paxil) and fluoxetine (Prozac) have the same effect in this regard, as do citalopram and sertraline, at least in my experience.

Re: "Since adopting the leaf as legal tender..."

"But we have run into a small inflationary problem, owing to the high level of leaf availability. So I gather the going rate is something like 3 major deciduous forests to buy one ship's peanut. So to obviate this problem, and effectively revalue the leaf, I propose we take on a massive campaign of defoliation and, burn down all the forests."

(No doubt someone will correct me on Jon Glover's lines here.)

Proof indeed that Groupon is the brainchild of B Ark survivors.

Little slips of paper sent through pneumatic tubes

That's how it was done in 1984, and down the memory hole.

Re: I like both the price and the dual SIM

I'm also keeping my eyes out on something like the Yuntab P500. If it turns out as good as it looks, I might be able to ditch ("gently retire") my P990. I had an old Cect P168 but it would only have one active SIM at a time, and suffered an accident involving water and quite a lot of quicksand-type mud.

Tabasco?

Needs to be something hard and sandpapery, and no lubricant. Covered in Tabasco? Barely 2000 on Scoville. Something more like Scotch Bonnets, or Moruga Scorpions.

Re: Many

Or, after years of wearing glasses, they (like I) tried contact lenses and (re-)discovered peripheral vision.

Re: I love this organisation

@Ian Michael Gumby

AFLAC Duck ... Gilbert Gottfried...

YOU FOOL!!!

<--- for being a Hollywood square.