Re: Sad to see them go

How about a BT EFM circuit then? We have many customers taking this route, they're proving to be very good circuits if you have no fibre.

Re: I'm going

Did you just pull those Sky Vs BT speeds out of thin air or do you have a source? Seeing as Sky uses BT copper then average sync speeds are going to be the same between the two. Strangely, BT offers "upto" 16Mbps the same as Sky, plus you have the option of fibre/Infinity, so your performance "statistics" are bizarre.

Re: Yeah but, parasitism is never comfortable

"Samsung skims the suckers and attracts people with little to spend and little interest in high tech"

Most of the people I know with iphones/ipads are either women, kids, parents, grandparents (for ease of use to Apples credit) and my art/design pals, none of which buy them for a specific interest in high tech.

A lot of the latest Samsung phones certainly aren't cheap and do have quite a lot of new tech from what I have read (whether eye gestures etc. will work well has yet to be seen).

I'm fairly unbiased here as my company decided to give me a naff Nokia, so I use neither, you however are so overly biased that your comment is painful to read.

Re: Apps

Would it not have the latest version of angry birds?

Name us a life altering App that it wouldn't have, infact, name us a life altering app.

Re: ah

"The point is people are more brand loyal to Apple - Samsung is just another Android phone."

It's the "brand loyal" that makes people judge you.

"When it's due for an upgrade the user may as well buy a HTC, Asus, Motorola, Sony or one of many, many more."

Yep, it's called choice, a healthy market, it's what keeps prices to a minimum.

"So what are the chances of someone buying a Samsung Android phone today definitely buying another Samsung Android phone in 2 years time", Who cares? You're saying this is worse than sticking with Apple for the rest of your life?

Re: Shooting themselves in the foot? - yes, by releasing Win 8.

Was with you until "similarly to how they praised Windows 7 (a poor OS)"

Regardless of how poor Vista and Windows 8 may be, 7 is actually a decent, stable OS. Please enlighten me specifically on why it is poor.

Re: I was starting to think I might have been too quick to buy the S3..

Did you even read the whole review properly?

Re: What's with this "it must have a Gigabit Ethernet port" fetish?

It's not a show stopper, just incredibly irritating when a lot of folk (which surprises you even though people keep commenting on the fact) use ethernet constantly. I use my Ethernet port more often than a USB port, hence why it bugs me when I see numerous new laptops with no ethernet port and yet numerous USB ports.

So it's not a show stopper, but can you not see why it irritates people when a) They need to buy extra gear to use a popular connectivity method, and b) remember to carry this adapter/dongle (no matter how small) around with them.

Re: You will have to wait...

You don't mean "Apple invents", you mean "Apple packages". Unless you can prove me wrong by stating a single proper invention other than arguably the aluminium unibody process.

Re: I lost interest here:

"Yes because iTunes / App Store is so utterly unsuccessful, not a single person uses it and no other provider tries to emulate it." - It's hard to argue software such as iTunes is "successful" when most Apple users are forced into using it regardless of its quality.

I personally found it to be one of the worst bits of software I have ever used. Agree with the App Store though.

Re: £10m ???

When BT/Colt charge £2k for a simple B-End fibre shift within the same Datacentre, then £10m starts to sound cheap!

Re: This has to stop.

"Videogame" is a generic term for a game played on a "video device" (typically on a monitor). Arcade games were called Videogames even before the widespread adoption of VHS.

Whilst "Computer Games" sounds more appropriate in certain circumstances, it doesn't fit particularly well with Arcade/Console/handheld games. Nintendo went to great lengths to market the NES as an entertainment system, and not as a computer for example.

"We're not Americans" - In this instance it seems as if we are, if we insist on creating a new name for something just for the sake of it.

Re: When you look at the state of most high streets...

God forbid we have towns that have character and a high street that shows them apart.

The strange thing is, pretty much every green grocers, veg/fruit market and butchers I have seen have actually been cheaper than Tescos, often by a long shot. People don't seem to realise this as it has always been drummed into them that the supermarkets are always cheapest.

Also, the range of clothes, DVDs, music etc. is pretty abysmal.

Re: brain dead

"Of course all the Windows users would start rattling on about a "virus" because they are already dumb enough to use windows"

And by "ALL" you mean like 2 people on this forum thread, and you have presumed they use windows. You Sir, do no good for the current stereotyping of Apple users.

Even IF the Surface was a superb device, I think most of the general public are too lazy to even research it. If they want a tablet, they just copy their friends or go with the hype.

Re: Use a Mac? For actual work?

So, you complain about the Apple hate comments AFTER you have demonstrated a bit of MS hate: "but there were huge savings in the time spent banging my head on Windows trying to figure out why something doesn't work, or in time spent patching, or in time spent scraping viruses and rootkits out of my system.".

A sarcastic trolling title, or an outdated rant at MS, not sure which is worse...

Lee Dowling: "And I can't justify my own purchase of a RPi" - Can I ask what you specifically had in store for your Pi when you purchased it?

My work Sony Vaio has had windows 7 on it for 3 years and has had no problems. In fact because it is a normal laptop, I have it dual boot to Ubuntu which makes many more tools available to me.

It's carried around in my loaded rucksack and has taken quite a few knocks, it isn't indestructible and finally after many years I have a small crack on the plastic screen bezel. I sent it back to my company (expecting a replacement) and they simply fitted a new plastic bezel.

Your comment is a sweeping generalisation about Windows, and although I'm not a MS fan, it shows you have very little experience if you still assume you need to reinstall every 12 months.

To suggest you need aluminium unibody to make it durable is just plain wrong.

Re: cost-effective buy

AC, you seem to be mistaken, I have corrected it for you.

Mac User: Go all the way to an inner city store, pay a large sum of money for a Mac (although parting with that amount of cash seems easy whilst enjoying the luxurious, flamboyant settings of the store). Complete the setup wizard in less than 5 minutes and boot to the same looking 10-year-old desktop. Go to the App Store and download all your programs that Apple allows you to use. Discover that you need to buy certain connectors that of course weren't provided. Discover that you probably need to buy an Apple TV if you want to stream music/tv, as Apple refused to follow open standards such as DLNA that hundreds of other companies joined up to. Feel smug that your new Mac will never get Trojans, Malware, Viruses even though this has proven to not be the case.

PC User: Go to store, buy PC, take it home, switch it on. Complete the setup wizard, it may take a bit longer than Apple's, but who really cares? Spend about 10mins uninstalling vendor bloat. Install a new browser. Feel free to choose from millions of applications from various sources. Upgrade a hardware component if required and not get fleeced in doing so. Feel pleased that your PC will likely last many years as you will not feel the need to upgrade on a yearly basis due to a newly released version that contains hardware that the previous version should have had. Accept you have a higher chance of installing malware apps than Apple users, due to Windows being the most widely used and hence targeted system. science!

Re: Maybe, but ...

It's not so much this missing ethernet port that bugs me, it's the audacity of being charged £25 for a connector for it.

If I pay £1500, I expect to have this cable thrown in for free, otherwise I can't help but feel robbed.

Re: I really really really...

I have 3 thumbs down from angry bird "gamers", not sure if I should laugh or cry!

Pirate dave: agreed, but shouldn't we be coding perl scripts to take over the world, or watching old episodes of the IT Crowd, rather than playing a game that's made for 8 year olds? :)

Re: I really really really...

I think it's fair to say, if you play angry birds, you have no social life.

Re: HDMI port

So you need to use a Apple TV because Apple chose not to use DLNA, when thousands of other companies did, purely so they could lock you in and squeeze more money out of you. Superb!

Re: limiting choice

Would that include pimping it out with an aluminium chassis or special glass?

Re: What does Apple charge?

"You're confusing FRAND/non FRAND patents and normal vs design patents."

I think what people are trying to say is; if essential technology patents become FRAND, then shouldn't VITAL design patents also be included?

If a company is so amazingly innovative to invent rounded corners, and this is used on pretty much all phones available today then surely it's an essential patent, whether being a technology patent or design patent.

Re: @a_been

"Well guess the register has become a lets hate Apple zone"

You make that sound like a bad thing. I love reading these comments, mainly to remind myself that not quite all of the world has been brainwashed yet.

Generally, if someone I know has a Samsung TV, phone, microwave or anything else, I am oblivious to it. If someone I know has an Apple device, I am made aware of it on a regular basis.

I've never witnessed Samsung users parading their devices (I'm sure there are some though), it's just a *thing*. I don't think they care as much about being different, it's a different ethos.

"These days social is key and Google sucks at social."

Really, you think? Social has been done to death and is dull as hell. Social websites are hardly raking it in considering their marketcap.

A company that provides advertising, cloud apps/storage, a mobile/pc OS, browser amongst many other things can hardly be called a one trick pony.

Besides, I doubt they ever went with Android expecting it to bring in stunningly vast sums of profits.

Re: KNOWING

I didn't know the elderly like to play angrybirds and frequently check their facebook :/

Re: Process Size

You compare ICs based solely on power consumption vs fabrication process?

Maybe the extra power is consumed by the extra on-chip features, or the higher clock-rate? Not sure how any comparison can be made until we see benchmarks.

You may well be correct there, perhaps television manufacturers do have to license the basic innovations I have listed.

However, we do not hear about constant legal battles between them. Having recently bought a "smart" tv, I noticed in the shop they were all now "smart", with apps and games. It's very difficult to spot any differences between them physically, it's all about the picture.

Who has copied who in this instance, and it's obvious from the large amount of choice and healthy competition in that market that they are able to co-exist reasonably peacefully, with no 1 company claiming itself to be the inventor of the smart tv and therefore all other products are imitations and should be banned. The patenting system either works a lot better in that market, or the companies don't concentrate most of their efforts in hoarding patents, or they just don't have as many stupid software patents.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/02/virgin_epg_victory/

As an example, a stupid TV software patent dismissed in court.

Re: Redistribution

Kirbini,

Cisco website:

"Implementing dynamic NAT automatically creates a firewall between your internal network and outside networks or the Internet. Dynamic NAT allows only connections that originate inside the stub domain. Essentially, this means that a computer on an external network cannot connect to your computer unless your computer has initiated the contact. So you can browse the Internet and connect to a site, even download a file. But somebody else can't simply latch onto your IP address and use it to connect to a port on your computer."

Whether you like it or not, NAT inherently provides some security on a network, that wasn't what it was designed for but it's how it functions.

You boast (unnecessarily) about your great achievements, knowledge and advanced skills in ACLs . But why create and constantly maintain a list of ACLs when 3 lines of code (in Cisco devices anyway) will get NAT functioning for any home user/small business. I don't think anyone was suggesting you actually use NAT when you have enough public IPs for your organisation?

"Pray tell, how is "preventing external hosts directly connecting to inside hosts" a function of NAT at all? NAT simply creates a temporary ACL..."

Read that back, of course it is a (non primary) function of NAT. NAT doesn't "prevent" external hosts as such, it just doesn't know what to do with the packets as there's no mention of it in the state table, and drops them. NAT doesn't create temporary ACLs, it uses a lookup table, these are not the same! However, you can use ACLs in conjunction with NAT pools.

Re: Employed by the public services?

"For the rest of us that live up North" - Why do people keep saying this? What about the people down south such as Londoners who also have no tickets, paid more than their share for this event to happen through council tax and have to endure the total travel chaos surrounding the Olympics?

I think Northerners have very little to complain about!

Re: So they priced the IPO about spot on then

That would be correct, if it wasn't for the fact the price was manipulated.

As soon as the share price started dropping, the investment banks underwriting the IPO stepped in and bought a ton of shares to keep the price up.