Posts by dotdavid

Re: NASA bulls and lies as usual..talking molecules while alien spaceships all around Curiosity...

Don't worry, I did a little Googling and found the image the OP was on about. It really is quite amazing why this hasn't been widely reported by anyone other than zany conspiracy theorists.

Re: Movie, pretty please with sugar on top

Certainly the trailer for any McAfee movie would be on YouTube. It would probably also be bundled with the sale of other new BluRay movies and be very difficult to remove.

"It just shows how far behind Apple are now"

Sorry, now? Apple have rarely been first to market with a technology; what they do best is innovate around the user interaction side of things to make a technology that's already been invented far more usable for the average punter. They do this by designing very usable UIs, and/or locking it down so it works seamlessly with other Apple products.

Wireless charging will only really work if it either becomes so cheap you can get one for each of your devices, or they finally come up with a standard so your charger will work with all your stuff. Granting Apple a patent in this area won't really help with either of those.

Re: Apparently there's a 'safe place' somewhere in France...

"Girlfriend has suggested that if that place exists, we go there on the 21st to watch the doomsdayers gather"

Leading to the amusing situation of having 12 doomsdayers and 30,000 amused spectators, unfortunately misidentified by the media as doomsdayers.

John McAfee, is that you?

Re: I'd have more to say on the subject

Don't worry, I could read your mind and see what you were going to post. Very insightful, by the way.

Re: YouView probably would have worked really well

YouView should have been an IPTV specification for UK broadcasters, allowing for catch-up and Live TV, perhaps with some UI requirements attached (but not enough to scare off the manufacturers). Then all manufacturers could have implemented it their own way, and take-up could have been as good as Freeview.

Personally I have no interest in it as my terrestrial reception is awful, and I suspect I'm not the only one.

Re: Avoidance

Wow! I read Mr Worstall's article with interest and was swayed by his argument. But then, upon checking to see what El Reg's world-famous group of commentards had to say about the issue, I came upon your concise and thoroughly well-researched rebuttal which has completely changed my mind. Thank-you sir for preventing me from becoming misinformed about this complex issue which you have rendered so simple in my mind.

Re: Trains

"But, bizarrely, every route from outer London to inner London tested utilised bus and tube, but not mainline rail routes"

For that you can thank ATOC and their crazy license terms for timetable data. I think you might now be able to get some info on London-area trains from TFL, but that might just be London Overground ones.

Personally I think timetable data should be public. Fair enough, don't provide an API, but provide a data dump whenever it changes (sorry, *well before* so apps have time to update!) so people can update their own systems.

Re: blah blah charity blah blah

"and of course the blokes that say they have no change and then pat their pockets to the obvious sound of jingling coins"

Just curious (because I am one of those very blokes) would you rather I walked past and said "sorry mate I'd rather keep my change for something more worthy"? I'm not sure why you'd get offended by random strangers telling little white lies.

Re: This is all about Chinese OEMs cutting Google out of the revenue pie

Pretty sure that app disabling is only in Android 4.1.x, it isn't in 4.0.x...

Nope it's in 4.0.x. Search for "disable" in http://developer.android.com/about/versions/android-4.0-highlights.html

<- And there I was thinking this was a Shoreditch Triangle...

Re: Don't worry

I think there will be a surge of demand for McAfee antivirus, as it will have a kind of "gangsta" street appeal now.

Re: Mega Conz?

As much as though I empathise with the guy's struggles against shady extradition mechanisms, judging by his past actions a Cook Islands domain name might be most appropriate.

There's an old saying - "never ascribe to pedantry what can be more easily ascribed to stupidity". Or something like that.

If the opinions of some commentards, the encroaching zombie hordes *are* the iPhone users...

Well the small, well-built phones that fit in your pocket and have a battery life measured in weeks can now be had even in your local supermarket for about £20 nowadays. They've certainly gotten less popular than the newer pocket computers you can fit in your pocket (just) but they're still available, so I'm not entirely sure I understand your gripe.

Re: Oooooh

I am not a lawyer, but if there's one thing I've noticed about Samsung's case, it's that they have their good points but they seem to bury them under a heap of only-vaguely-likely conspiracy theories. It's very much quanity over quality of evidence. And it seemed to annoy Judge Koh before, so perhaps isn't the best strategy for the appeal.

Re: 2032 OS?

You mean Linux On The Desktop.

And mainly because there'll be just four desktops left, perhaps.

Re: Operating system

Yes Android has it's downsides, and they are well documented.

But I find it funny that you claim lack of GPS is an issue when the iPad Mini also has that failing.

Re: Too much TiVo

One thing I've never worked out about the HD channels is why they don't just replace the SD channels. Why would I want to watch BBC1 when BBC1 HD is available?

Also - I wish Virgin would stop displaying channels you haven't subscribed to in the EPG. It doesn't make me want to rush out and upgrade, it just frustrates me.

Re: Contempt yet?

I fear this is a little too technical for the MSM, and thus won't be reported anywhere the court is likely to read, and thus won't be noticed.

That said, Samsung certainly reads The Reg so maybe they'll bring it up in court.

Re: rantomatic

If you want to be really annoying, pull out an English-Italian phrasebook and labouriously flick through it as you peer up at the menu, and reply to their questions in broken Italian.

Re: I wonder how he feels

I like the fact that he doesn't seem to have realised that his *space* suit, the one that he used for his jump, was made because people on this planet wanted to go to space.