Posts by dotdavid

Re: Quick thinking that man!

He didn't make a pig's ear of the landing either.

Re: About that O2 App.

The Three one has similar flaws.

For some reason it even tried stopping me from using it as my phone is rooted; having root of course I just used RootCloak to get around this. I've used it once since but keep it around in case I happen to be abroad and somewhere where a wifi network has enough bandwidth to support an actual voice call.

Re: BP, gone?? Noes!!!!1!.. hang on...

Speaking as a layman I think the oil that is there will continue to be extracted until becomes too expensive to extract and sell for a profit. This may be because there's not much left, or that other energy sources are cheaper than oil at a certain price point. This arguably is as good as an infinite supply of oil I guess; oil is likely to become too expensive before it runs out.

Re: Deadline detector.

"Did NASA get HP to write their drivers?"

I doubt the 250GB HDD on the probe would have been sufficient.

The clothes will come in time with efficiency savings, apparently.

Re: Headline not literal

I bet you're the kind of person that calls PETA whenever it's raining cats and dogs...

Maybe Banksy posted it on El Reg in the same way he does his more usual pieces?

Re: As if by magic

I similarly got a cheap eBay special Google Cardboard Kit, and tried it out with an S3. Apparently that's not the best handset to use it with due to the position of the magnetometer (I had to hack the slidey-magnet-button-thing to be on the other side of the unit) and is therefore "not officially supported".

I found it quite fascinating but it quickly made me nauseous - I think from the backlight and jerky motion/head tracking. Perhaps a more powerful phone would give a better experience but I couldn't recommend it for those with a midrange Android. Still perhaps the nausea is a per-person thing and the eBay kits are certainly cheap enough to try out.

Re: My head exploded.

"It's only a small donut, look the hole is tiny"

Re: Can we have...

"If they could do that without a problem they would've just increased the costs already"

Good thing they have that "we can increase our contract costs in line with inflation" clause now safely written into their contracts! Even if their costs go down they can just keep jacking up prices every couple of months to cover this sort of fine :-)

Re: Oh dear! But this is countryside life for you.

"Problem comes when townies release foxes from a town into the country. They're used to people, so no longer keep out of the way."

Also they constantly complain about the lack of entertainment, hence this fox's attendance of the local social club.

Re: You have to wonder how much they spent

"a report full of shit"

You mean a report packed full of naturally-organic idea fertiliser, infused with a gently-wafting aroma of determination, to fertilise the ideas that can grow your business concepts into the towering fruit trees of success they deserve to be.

Or sucks.sucks?

Re: News website deserves a slap for its hate-filled commentards

I thought it was The Register, but then I realised they'd said "News" site :-P

Re: Almost 40 percent of users run the outdated Android KitKat platform

Technically outdated as it has been replaced by Lollipop.

A lack of any mechanism to update Android phones' software without the meddling of the carrier or manufacturer is a problem I'm surprised Google haven't spent more time trying to address. The manufacturers don't care about updates with a few exceptions; they want to sell new hardware. The operators don't care about updates as they see it as the manufacturer's/Google's responsibility, and quite like people signing up to new contracts for new hardware.

Google has made some changes by farming features off to (the updateable) Google Play Services and using that as a mechanism for applying some of the security patches to older phones, but I think more should be done.

Re: Wasn't that LAST YEAR ?

Windows XP refugees aren't exactly known for their promptness; after all they were still running XP until recently.

Re: OFCOM?

COM(M)OF(F)?

Re: Sourceforge should die already

We should Sourceforget about it.

Re: Almost but not quite as good as virginmedia

Even their online fault checker is a bit crazy. When my Virgin internet is down I go on their fault checker website using my phone and it usually says internet is fine but there's a problem with the TV service in my area. Unfortunately there's little I can do but wait until they fix the TV problem before the internet starts working again.

Re: Yeah......

Checkout your head

Re: wha[t] way do you really pronounce it?

I always thought it was "who are we" but it's "wah way".

Re: 4.1? Should be at least 5.0.

He should call the next version Linux XP then no-one will feel the need to upgrade past it :-P

Re: 1990s

.phd was contested?

.phD? Crap, we thought we were bidding on .phP :-(

Re: Patent Problem.

@Little Mouse - you seem to be under the misconception that you need to be first to invent something before you can patent it! :-P

Re: They could succeed and form BE...

More like TE (Terrible Everywhere)

Re: PR own goal

The spokesperson is full of really odd statements.

""To do otherwise would create an opportunity for consumers to claim that they were not responsible for a purchase on their account, receive a refund and yet retain the content," continued the spokesman"

Woah there - you're saying Sony can't prevent the fraudsters from accessing their fraudulently-purchased digital content, but can prevent legitimate customers from accessing their legitimately-purchased digital content until an outstanding erroneous charge is paid?

What an odd system design.

Re: Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory...

"All M$ had to do was the option to change between metro and a start button and it would have been a great release"

I completely agree, but from what I've read there's a great resistance within Microsoft to making everything configurable because it is claimed that too many configuration options may just confuse users.

Still an optional "Advanced" setting would have been nice, better still only enabling metro if a touchscreen was detected.

Yeah, what's the deal with that? Especially on the forums!

tos.spot shurely?

Re: how fucking stupid is this

Actually there are quite a few horror stories about the warranty process.

Re: "Piracy often arises when consumer demand goes unmet by legitimate supply"

You can always move country - you pirates are always making ridiculous excuses for your thefts!

I suspect Google might think about having a system like the Android model, where car manufacturers could sign up to use Google's software.

That said they've built their own buggy-cars so they might not be against building their own.