Posts by Greg J Preece
1992 posts • joined Wednesday 10th June 2009 08:25 GMT
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Have to admit
For various reasons I've been asked to scrub up on iOS development. I nearly screamed like a little girl when I opened the coding manual and saw the keyword "malloc". Noooooooooo!
Posted in Halo: Reach
True successor to Combat Evolved?
I won't be playing that, then. I'm one of those supposedly "resentful" PC FPS gamers, and when the original Halo came to PC I gave it a shot. It was one of the most depressingly disappointing games I have ever played. Dull, repetitive, derivative crap, and from what I've played of the others when I've been drunk enough, they're no better.
And pointing out a large number of flaws in a mediocre FPS series right before giving the game 95%? Riiiight...
Posted in Pandora tops 1000 boxes
Well, it's horrifically ugly, but...
...are those analogs? DUAL ANALOGS??
Where the hell's my credit card...
Posted in Koran-burning 'pastor' loses website
Gotta love the name
"The Dove World Outreach Center also sells "Islam is the Devil" T-shirts and runs an eBay business."
The name of his "church" has been amusing me since this story broke. Way to reach out to the world, dickhead.
"Their fundamentalist religion is evil! They want to call people heathens, and burn their symbols, and potentially kill them! All we want to do is..er...um..."
Christ's sake...
So they'll spend ages developing stuff like this, but they still haven't made any good light guns. Even the moulds are usually abysmal. OK, the Overshot and Venom are nice exceptions, but the Overshot is a bit small and the Venom is just a single-handed mould. C'mon, make a good gun already!
Posted in StreetView passed by Kiwi cops
We've been over this
Leaving your door open does not make it legal for someone to walk inside.
Having an unlocked door does not make theft legal.
Having an unencrypted wireless network is not an invitation to steal data.
Posted in Punters still puzzled by broadband ads
Well they would say that!
"Virgin gets some credit for this increased transparency, but the likes of BT will say it is unfair to compare a fibre-optic network with its ageing copper network and wider, rural, spread"
Why? It's their fault they didn't upgrade their crappy network sooner! Virgin are still an option for the consumer, so surely they should be compared against their rivals.
The really stupid part is...
"I look forward to the day when every other advert features a nine inch man handle and you all slowly start to understand that feminism might have a point."
The really stupid part is that most *men* wish they weren't like that. I, for one, am sick of being advertised to as if I were a knuckle-dragging ape, or ten years old. Look at any Gillette advert - they talk to men as if we're all one step above protoplasm.
Ug. Me man. Me want shag woman. Me buy razor. Ug ug oooh, aaagh!
Most guys (or at least most guys I know) wish advertisers would stop with this crap. Oh look, tits, yes very good. I have seen those before, you know...
NIMBYs??
WTF?
Posted in Scottish iSchool goes 100% iPad
Hope they've got a lot of charging points...
Do you really expect 10 year olds to remember to charge the things every night?
Or even keep them intact?
Posted in AMD to dump ATI brand
The only people?
"The only people who care about brand names are the ones that either can't be bothered to read reviews and instead base their purchasing decisions on marketing spiel"
That would be "most of the population", then?
*Cough* iPhone *Cough*
I mean, come on, how many people know who Intel are based solely on the annoying jingle jammed onto the end of every annoying PC World advert? That's branding, that is, and it works rather well. I've met a good number of people who won't buy a PC with an AMD processor in it because they've only ever heard of Intel, so they assume Intel are the shit, and AMD are some unknown Korean manufacturer or something. It's nonsense, of course, but it's the impression they have thanks to branding.
Doh, not WebM
That other one. MicroB, that's it.
N900?
Errr....why would you want to port a mobile version of Firefox to a phone that already has both Firefox and WebM (Mozilla)?
Posted in Twitpic pulls 50 Cent bum burger snap
It must have taken great skill to get shot
It seems to often be used - as here - as a justification for his fame. What you're basically saying is, he's shit, but he got shot, so he's not.
Personally, I call BS.
Posted in Twitpic pulls 50 Cent bum burger snap
Does 50 pence remind anyone
Of a 12 year old boy trying to sound well 'ard, like?
Shit nigga, don't be touchin' my shit, yo. Cut you up.
"Go" rhymes with "go"??
Truly you are the next poet laureate!
That'd be the PC World...
..that now sells an awful lot of Macs to its customers, then?
Posted in Microsoft Windows glider crashes
That has got to be...
...one of the absolute worst attempts at music I have ever heard.
Take a horrifically bad dance number, and mix it with the WINDOWS XP STARTUP SOUND??
Jesus Horatio Christ, my ears!
It's people like you
That make me glad to be human. Wait, no, that's not right.
It's people like you that make me ashamed to be of the same species. That's the one.
@Highlander
Do me a favour and just hush up. I want the Hypervisor back, nothing else. I guess I must be a thief, and that 100% legit games collection of mine is a figment of my imagination.
Tit.
Posted in Head App Store plod punts farts 'n' wiz
For the love of God, man!
The N900 has emulators for every system under the sun and you're playing MooBox? :-p
Grab iNES, slap in a copy of Galaga, be obsessed.
Posted in Extreme porn law on the ropes
Exactafuckingmundo!
"Due to the sexual nature of the case, he has been barred from contact with his daughter since the case began"
That's a bit of a logical leap! Man may enjoy porn involving sharp objects == man will abuse his daughter??
Someone wants a slap for that one.
Posted in Hands on with Nintendo 3DS
Riiight
"Nintendo stressed upon launch of the DS that it was not another Game Boy."
Except that that's *exactly* what it is. You pick it up and play games with it. The rest of the feature list/firmware, at least on my Lite, is garbage, especially compared to my PSP. They should make it do games, and do it well. Their half-arsed attempts at giving it a longer feature list make them look like berks - the PSP is a media machine, the DS just isn't. Yet.
The 3DS really interests me, but I do still play GBA games - hell, I still play Colecovision games - so that's a strike against it. And not sure whether I'd just rather have the larger screens of the XL... Looks like a better update than the DSi though.
Wow
That's....bad! Move a slider in a browser, and root the fecking device? Nice security!
Still a happy FF user
No stability issues, no extension issues. Sure it's a bit slower than the others but its improving, and it works the way I want it to. Plus, unlike a certain other browser, it doesn't spend half its time dialling home (didn't MS get slated six ways from Sunday for that...?).
And unlike some other punters here, I think I will reserve judgement on FF4 until it's actually finished.
Posted in HP pays to end kickback probe
I've always wondered how that works...
Err, we might get convicted here...
*Money*
Wooo, innocent!
I think they mean native
I think the difference is that with an Android phone, you can't actually get down to the Linux bit - everything runs on a layer above it.
Whereas on a native Linux device - something running Maemo, say - you can hold CTRL+SHIFT+X on the keyboard, and a bash terminal pops up. It literally is a Debian distro, and you can screw with it as such.
Hehe, you old misery guts
"Web designers should be using LESS animations, not more."
Perhaps they just want to use the CSS animation features so they can replace existing Flash/Silverlight based transitions/effects with standards-compliant browser-rendered ones, rather than suddenly using them to splooge nonsense all over every page in existence?
It'd certainly be cheaper for the designer, better accessible for the handicapped, and Flash would die on its arse and stop crashing my PS3. I see no downside, personally.
*Sigh*
""half the Internet's infrastructure" is kind of stretching it. After all, the BSDs are more popular than Linux in the high-end networking gear."
I didn't do a survey and come out with precisely 50.0%... It was just a phrase!
Yes, I noticed this...
Not only does he wave an iPad around in front of the camera as much as possible (not that the Beeb would ever break their charter and directly promote a product), but he had the bloody thing two weeks before release! They deliberately imported one just so he could parade around with it.
Never seen him look at it even once. In fact, I've never seen it turned on. I can't imagine wi-fi reception is brilliant at the end of the pit lane, so WTF is it for? Just a thing for him to hold and go "wooo, I've got one!"
Predictable post of the day
Well done. You managed to get an Opera mention in on the first comment. You should feel proud.
Posted in Apple sued over hot iPad shutdowns
In fairness to the iPad
Don't most consumer electronics come with a warning not to leave them in direct sunlight? I remember back in t'day, when I holidayed in Spain, the Discman had to stay under the sun lounger.
Amusing language guffaws
I love some of the factors for belonging to a group criticising the iPad are being interested in computers, electronics and the Internet. :-)
And as a Lintard, this kind of BS always annoys me:
"Linux (a do-it-yourself operating system for super geeks)"
Uh-huh. As well as phones, in-car systems, networking kit, half the Internet's infrastructure, etc, etc, etc... You know, all that shit you non-geeks use every day?
Posted in BBC news apps squeeze onto iPhone, iPad
Wow, what a pile of fail
There is an official release of Flash for Android.
There was an iPlayer app for Android. The Beeb had it removed.
Your last paragraph makes no sense.
Conclusion: you should know more about this stuff before spouting nonsense.
Posted in BBC news apps squeeze onto iPhone, iPad
Missing the point
All those saying that the BBC is not favouring a specific platform are missing an important point. Firstly, they have they thrown all their effort into developing for Apple platforms - remember that Android was around long before the iPad, and the iPad has a much smaller user base - fobbing us off with their excuse of "we'll make it later."
On top of that, there *was* an excellent 3rd-party app for accessing both live and iPlayer streams. No profit was being made from it, and even after its developer offered the code for the app to the Beeb, they still shut it off. So they removed BeebPlayer from Android whilst barrelling ahead with an app for iPad, which is, let's face it, a niche product in this country.
And did anyone see their so-called "report" on Apple on BBC Breakfast last week? That wasn't a report, it was an advert! A ten-minute Apple-is-amazing splooge, regurgitating Jobs' doublethink regarding the Judas Phone, promoting his products as much as possible, and actually trying to pretend that Apple not only invented smartphones, but apps as well.
I've long said that the BBC needs a good whack across the back of the knees for their obvious and continuing promotion of Apple products, and this is just another example of why.
Posted in Firefox update guards hen house
God, listen to you people!
A browser got a patch!
BIG! FUCKING! DEAL!
Obviously evidence of why all of open source software is completely horrible, Firefox is unusable, etc, etc. Definitely not just a team fixing a flaw, oh no.
Alright then, let's not patch Firefox any more. It won't ever get updates, you can quit whining - would you prefer that?
Jesus H!
What is *with* the Opera invasion around here recently? Man, I thought Apple fanbois were bad!
Are Opera paying all these users to invade any Firefox/Chrome thread and make obnoxious/smug posts? Are they becoming as bad as the Church of Steve?
"Oooh, our browser has not-quite-as-good versions of x plugin built straight in!" Oh, piss off.
I have nothing against the Opera browser - it's a fine browser. I have one or two issues with Chrome, but that's just my cynical nature. The only browser I hate with a passion is IE, and with damn good reason. (I'm a developer.)
Firefox is my favourite - it's not perfect, but it does what I want it to do, and it does it well. And besides, if I see security updates for a browser, they actually tend to reassure me that there is a team out there giving a shit. Patching happens, even to the great and glorious Opera. Get over it.
If you like Chrome, you want something light, and you don't care about the spying, fine. If you want something midway, quick, but more advanced than Google's offering, Opera is a great browser. I like Firefox because I have ten bazillion plugins installed - I've made it work the way I want to. I've done that because I appreciate the capability, and because the browser is for me an essential work tool, used every day in vast amounts, so it has to work *my* way. Not yours, not theirs, mine.
(And the awesome bar...is.)
But why all the hate? Hate the Church of Steve for talking out of its ass, treating end users like shit and lying to them. Hate IE for causing more headaches, pain and suffering to web-devs than any other piece of software. Hate SCO...because. But Firefox vs Opera vs Chrome? Three browsers that actually work? Get a fucking life!
I have 15 games consoles, 6 PCs, and the Jethro Tull discography, and I am telling you this - get a fucking life. Seriously! If anything, Opera and Firefox should be going after the MSIE users again, not tearing at each other. It's just a browser, people! And ours work! Chill out...
Safari is still a piece of shit, though. ;-)
Beer, because I may have written this inebriated.
Sod the ads, I do it for the speed
Think how much less of a page such as El Reg you're actually downloading if you turn off Flash and disable ads. Far fewer transactions, far faster browser.
Ahahahahaha
"Apple don't make products to please shareholders either .. they want to make products that people love and if they make money, great."
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
*Wheeze*
AAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Are you serious? Are you actually serious? Looking at your post history, you do appear to be serious. In which case, you are a comedy legend.
Giant multinational corporation and billionaire CEO in "not interested in the money" shocker!
PSP is a good example of how to do it
The Cowon updates, while not as automatic, are no less straightforward. Copy update file to root of device, and start it. Easy. No cable involved.
I wasn't aware the iPhone was being updated directly over the cable! I knew it had to be connected to iTunes to get the update, validate, etc, but doing the update straight over the wire? That's insanely stupid.
You're an idiot
Apple is clearly fobbing people off.
Microsoft fixed the 360 problem so many mobo versions ago I've lost count.
Think about it?
"Think about it..."
I have, and there are so many vast leaps of logic in your four lines of idiocy, that I can only assume you are well worthy of the moniker "fanboi."
Hang fire
"All the major players have had significant smartphone problems"
You can't say "significant smartphone problems" and then list "that Jimmy Hill chin" as one for Android, especially when that particular phone sold exceptionally well (and continues to).
Also, unlike the iPhone, one phone not selling particularly well (the Nexus) makes little overall impact on the platform. There's dozens of Android phones and they're doing a roaring trade.
Logic failure in an otherwise good post.
Hate to say it, but
I'm with Zuckerberg on this one. Some people are unpleasant, some in the extreme, but you can't go around silencing differing opinions, especially where those groups might be seen as critical of policing and government.
One thing you can always count on in a Firefox thread
OPERA! Hey, OPERA! Has anyone heard of OPERA?? Please pay attention to us!
I assume it hasn't occurred to you that anyone who switched to Firefox in the first place is probably already willing to try Opera, already has, and already went back to Firefox? 'Cos I did. Twice.
Posted in US domain registrar does IPv6, DNSSEC
You can use both?
You're right, we should never attempt to transition to newer tech. And you definitely can't use both during the transition...
Also curious
Where exactly within Apple do you work, DZ?
No
"The answer has little to do with this app being alarmist or pointless. Is that not for consumers to decide?"
Of course it isn't. Not every human is endowed with the particular sector of knowledge required to see the app as bullshit, so some will buy it - and worry themselves sick with it - thinking it is real. Not because they're inherently stupid - they might be a car mechanic, a salesman, etc, so WTF do they know about radiation?
It requires someone who is knowledgeable in these fields (or "spotting dangerous bullshit") to pull them up and tell them to piss off. That, and educate the wider public as to why this is nonsense. But we have Penn and Teller for that.
Haha
Man, I love people like this:
El Reg says:
"no reputable study has definitively shown that handhelds cause cancer."
You respond with:
"I guess you consider Motorola's internal research not being credible then?"
And then immediately follow that up with:
"No conclusive evidence to cause cancer is yet determined."
So you've basically agreed with El Reg, genius.
