Posts by iamapizza

90 degrees

*points to circle*

This is a circle. It covers the logical discussions regarding Adobe and Apple.

*points to line*

This is a tangent. This is where your logic is.

2 IPads!!

I'm going to buy TWO ipads so that I can multitask. In your face, everyone!

2012!

Would this be the same company that designed the 2012 Olympics logo?

This means...

This of course means war with the Wi-Fi Horde.

Sorry, I won't even bother getting my coat. I'm sorry.

Dear Reg

Dear Regtards,

Please don't insult geeks by calling them geeks. Really, you're only propagating it. Please, just stop.

Thank you.

Here's an idea

Use ElReg's goddamn RSS feed and stop complaining.

That'll be $5. Thank you.

Fanboi much?

So 14.5 bn > 13.5 bn, but let's talk more Apple with percentages? Oh, by the way, my software startup has made a 8600% revenue jump in the past 3 months. My investors are going to love this - if you're tiny, anything you do can be made to look good!

DLR is not a feature

Quick correction - Dynamic Language Runtime is not a feature, it's what's commonly referred to as 'a big mistake'. It's been introduced to allow for the porting over of IronPython and IronRuby but will only end up promoting worst practices. Anyone remember variants? :)

Author sums things up pretty well with this sentence: "There is no shortage of new features, so much so that Microsoft itself has done a poor job of communicating the extent of the changes. " (hence the want for babies...)

Historic quote

Clayton Anderson's quote after performing the Ammonia Tank Assembly fix, "Urine it now!"

Why go outside?

Surely these devices can be purchased online without the need for going 'outside' and interacting with other 'people' to create flimsy pretexts for Apple-related stories?

Speaking of keyboards

I bought a Nexus One, but I really wanted a physical keyboard purely because it's faster to type on them. But then I found Swype. This keyboard lets you swipe along the letters of the word and it uses its dictionary to get the word for you. THAT proved to be faster than a physical keyboard, so I would definitely recommend it. However, it's in beta right now, which probably means that it's going to be a paid-for product pretty soon. Since *I* am dependent on it now, I will buy it, but I definitely think you Android owners should give it a try.

Talk about coincidence

I have another tab open in my browser, it's Argos, and I was about to buy an item off them. And I just happened to see this article here on El Reg. Adrenaline rush.

Thank you, El Reg, for saving me.

Also, their public statement looks like typical corporate BS. I seriously do hope that the auditors fine them heavily for this. Something strong enough to teach them a lesson. And fire the noob who did this. I hope he's reading this. Right now. Yes, I mean you!

Back to the 1990s

"Sadly, for those vendors at least, their devices do not play nice with ActiveX"

OMG! Where's the OMG icon? OMG!! Dude, OMG!!

New PHP

Facebook has just released its own version of PHP.

You and 12 other PHP developers like this.

" but it appears that Mountain View still has a thing or two to learn from Apple."

"Such as how to provide a smartphone with decent 3G connectivity."

Yeah, Google's never going to be as good as Apple. They still need to mimic the iphone's SMS exploits, the lack of cut,copy,paste, overheating battery, worse battery life, closed draconian marketplace, and generally mactarded userbase.

You showed them!

Good idea

This is a good idea, you can ensure that the end results will be as you had envisioned rather than going under the knife and realizing afterwards that everything has gone tits up.

Script Problems

"put it on indefinite hold due to "script problems"

You mean someone actually read it?

"what the IT legacy of the 2012 games will be?"

Why, that wonderful 2012 Olympics Logo of course!

Change is good

When you say that Google is shafting or hurting X, you're assuming that this X is pure, divine and full of virtues. Not true. Without this sudden shake up of the mobile industry, it would stagnate and it's us, the USERS who get shafted; not that we're full of virtues, but to us, we're more important than the money that large corporations make.

Has this arrived yet for anyone? El Reg?

Still waiting for mine. The status page hasn't changed in over a day. I can't imagine why, I keep pressing F5 on it.

Hardware hardware hardware

News articles are really picking on this point a lot. They said they won't do hardware. They are now selling a phone. HTC made the hardware of the phone. End of, move on already. It's not the end of the world and in the end and at the core of it all, they are a business. They have no obligations to you or the way you choose to interpret what they say.

Those 5 words

"NUCLEAR-POWERED ROBOT LASER TANK" - Did anyone else need to change their pants when they read this?

Relax, I'm not a fanboy

But all companies miss deadlines. Not a big deal, as JesusJobs would say.

By the line way

The byline had me giggling for a full minute: "Tens of supporters sign 'anti-Oracle' petition so far".

I am in love with this writer/commentator and want to have his/her babies

i4i must be proud

Stifling productivity, making a quick buck, that's what this day and age is about, right?

Good news for non Kindlers

This might be a good thing for us non-Kindlers (Sony Reader, iRiver, etc). You pointed out that the price of buying a book from Amazon was cheaper than Waterstones in many cases. I'm hoping that the retailers take notice of this and stop selling their books at the same cost as a paperback. It does sting a bit to have to bay 12GBP for a 600K file - in the end the books are nothing but files, and so they don't really need to be so expensive. If the other retailers start lowering their prices to compete, *I* win!

It won't work

I don't think their quantum searches will work - they'll change the results by observing it!

Star Trek

There was a Nexus in one of the Star Trek movies too. How dare they?

Also, Lexus sounds like Nexus, how could they piss all over her dad's creations like this?

I'm sure she'll rant a bit more on her MySpace page.

Which is worse?

That they blatantly copied another website's design, or that they copied it considering how crap that layout is?

Holy Onions

The hacker is using IE! With BING!

I know they're copying....

I know they want to copy everything Google does, but copying Google's constant live-server-screwups is just ridiculous!