Posts by Frank Bough

"feeds and speeds"

....give it a rest with this one, it never made any sense to begin with.

Oh God

not another craptastic TV technology 'revolution'. Have you noticed that HD hasn't actually gone mainstream yet? Have you noticed that virtually all movies are now shot in 2.35:1 ratio so they STILL don't fit on our TV screens despite the decade long migration to 16:9?

Surely the REAL Question...

will The Register be publishing to the iPad / Tabloid / whatever? Get in early and you might find a whole slew of new readers.

Bloody Fantastic

no, really. Ironman here we come.

Another vote for the PS3

Quite apart from the WiFi, web, iPlayer, excellent DLNA facilities, superior upscaling and audio options, massive built in storage, announced upgrade path to 3D, and range of controller options, my PS3 Slim only cost £199.99 from Sainsburys.

Frankly, the standalone players don't even begin to compete with it.

Oh, and it can play games, rent movies and do a ton of other crap too.

WTF? Is there some kind of anti-PS3 agenda we should know about?

Faster than eSATA?

127MB/sec?? I have an eSATA RAID attached to my machine here which exceeds 300MB/sec on a single eSATA PM link. I don't think Buffalo know what they're talking about.

USB3 sound like a load of garbage to me - all the overhead of Firewire without the advantages, and barely faster than FW800 at the moment either.

However...

...no-one FORCES you to upgrade, not even Apple. Really, the time to whinge about this stuff is long past, the DMCA is law, we no longer control our own computers - governments view the content of personal computers as the answer to their long held question "how can we know exactly what people are thinking and control it?"

All of this...

...has already been perfectly foretold in the opening sequence of "Another World".

Oh how I miss my Amiga.

I Really Hope

there was no-one sneaking around in the woods beyond that rack. WTF is wrong with these twats? Consider another potential client alienated.

Christ on a bike

This is the most absurd comment stream I've yet seen at the Reg, but this comment really is the crowning turd in the waterpipe:

"PCs are Paint and Macs are Crayons"

I simply cannot imagine the processes of a mind willing to type such a thing.

David 138, I salute your insanity!

One big mistake

... is the designer's assumption that, somehow, children need less space in a car than adults. It used to be true, until massive car seats became mandatory. Anyway, this thing is no more space efficient than the Mitsubishi iCar /iMiev upon whose engine it's based...

Do what I did

Run your cat 6 externally, and slip it in where your existing sat/aerial feed comes through the wall. OK, the insulation isn't rated for external use but you've got at least a good few years before it's likely to perish - and probably a lot longer than that.

"Anyone using iSpoons deserves whatever they get"

Why? Is an iTunes user banging the girl you adore?

@ Tony Smith

OSX does indeed support more than 2 mouse buttons. I use Microsoft four-buttons-plus-crappy-scrollwheel mice with our machines because they're the best for properly mapping Exposé functions. SO depressing that you can't use Exposé properly with an Apple mouse...

I also hate wireless mice because they're too heavy (ie they have too much inertia) - a mouse should be as accurate, small and light as possible.

Wow

Family Guy's so shit even Microsoft don't want to be associated with it. I knew it was bad but, whoa!

Concept

schmoncept

Big Deal

there are already quite a few electric scooters available. Who cares about concepts?

@Christian Berger

...can you detail exactly how keeping your home directory on a RAID5 volume would prevent the OS bug from deleting its contents?

I love all these smartarse comments - this is an OS bug, not a hardware flaw. All OSs have bugs, this one is particularly painful if it hits you, but is also somewhat avoidable if you methodically duplicate your data. On my home Mac the important home dir folders (pics, music) are merely aliases that point to remote volumes, but I've no idea if this measure would protect them from a poorly understood OS bug.

How much IS a soldier's life worth?

Despite all the talk of 'heros', you only have to look at their pay and conditions to see that we treat them as worthless and disposable - never mind that the primary purpose of equipping them at all seems to be to line the pockets of BAE et al.

@IHateWearingATie

Have you ever tried using the O2 online store? I hear internet commerce is the coming thing...

Hang on a minute...

...it sounds like Keep PLUCKING that chicken to my ears. What's all the fuss about exactly, the face pulled by his co-arsehole?