* Posts by LarsG

2091 publicly visible posts • joined 4 Oct 2011

Amazon to bash down Google, Apple with SIX new tablets - report

LarsG

And still Apple products will be better designed and built, but so long as Amazon provides functional Tablets at a low cost who will care!

Ten... PC games you may have missed

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Meh

Having looked at theses games and having never played them I really can't see that I have missed anything.

Brit holidaymakers forced to surf in the sea, not online

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So

I go on holiday to get away from email, phones, work and all technology.

Leaving it all behind is like being born again. The only decisions I have to make is where to eat and what to drink, and I don't need tech for that.

Watching Olympics at work? How to avoid a £1k telly-tax fine

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Trollface

Anyone notice how most of the comments on El Reg

Are put on here during working hours?

Microsoft hires former Hillary Clinton adviser as top strategist

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Holmes

I smell desperation in the air! Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Home Office doc 'not qualified' to assess McKinnon suicide risk

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Headmaster

If this is true then either he will

Agree that no extradition takes place after a nudge and wink from the Home Secretary just to get rid of the problem.

Or

They want him gone on the first flight....

So what is it to be?

Might as well ask my window cleaner for a verdict, he'd probably give a better depiction.

Apple iOS 6 beta limits number of apps per device

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WTF?

500-1000 aps, who the hell has that many on their iPad? Is it even possible or are we going to see a big memory increase in these devices?

YouTube blurs faces to protect the innocent

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Trollface

Blurred videos? That about accounts for over 80% of the content.

Kiwi judge steps aside from Dotcom extradition hearings

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Meh

Sadly

The next judge may be more pliable!

Sage site outage knackers Blighty's payroll depts

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Facepalm

And so

And so Grasshopper, the Internet begins its decline.

Sony: Walkman, meet Android

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Meh

Re: How much ?

32GB one will set you back....... £275 as reported in a UK computer mag review.

We'll punish crims faster... with lots of shiny new tech - minister

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Headmaster

Another Polititian who lives in a little pink bubble and has no idea to the reality of the real world.

Dell Inspiron 17R SE 17in Ivy Bridge notebook review

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Trollface

A proper laptop only missing a proper graphics card, it even has a disk drive!

Sod the ultra books.

Apple fails to block stolen iOS in-app content

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Trollface

They won't

They won't bother trying to sue him or go for the patent attack as he has no money.

He is in the perfect situation.

More Steve Jobs iPad mini attacks from beyond the grave

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Holmes

The bottom line is this, the Apple 7" tablet will arrive, it's on it's way.

However, it won't be 7" it will be 7.9" that way the company stay true to the Jobs doctrine that 7" tablets are no good.

Alternatively, there is the possibility that the 7" tablet will not be bought out and in fact the new iPhone will bridge the gap with a larger screen.

However, the speculation and sneaky leaks, the what ifs and the deliberate secrecy policy do Apple appear to get up everyone's nose.

US county named 'area of outstanding natural stupidity'

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Headmaster

It seems that in the US

It seems that in the US there are a lot of unintentional self-inflicted gunshot wounds, apparently more than intentionally inflicted.

This is of course not down to the fact there is the 'right to bear arms' or that the weapons themselves are dangerous. A firearm left on a table does not get up and shoot itself, something the gun lobby keeps stressing to the public.

No the real reason are all the idiots that buy the damn things and sadly in the US there are a lot of idiots.

Microsoft to announce new Office version on Monday

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Headmaster

It took me

It took me three years to work out the ribbon, it'll take me five to find the icon!

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Facepalm

Great

They will mess with this and cause untold irritation, where's this gone where's that gone....

Fake sandwich shop's big fake Likes leave Facebook looking flaky

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Thumb Down

Advertisers are

Getting wise to this and unless Facebook address this problem they will leave in droves.

No one likes being ripped off.

Can Facebook afford to ignore it, especially as it's income comes from advertising.

Seize your moment, Microsoft: iPad is RUBBISH for enterprise

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Holmes

The Surface is still in fantasy land, maybe when it appears it will challenge the iPad......

Naaah won't ever happen because it is trying to be toooo many things at once.

Apple, Google and Amazon sneakier than BANKERS and OIL FIRMS

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What do you expect with transparency?

It's like walking into a fog bank.

Hams: We're good in a disaster – UK Radio Society boss

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Meh

These

Are the people with 'very large aerials!'

Phishers use less strident subject lines to deliver new cunning attacks

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Holmes

Accept my cookies

The floating around 'will you click to accept the cookie' banner that most sites including El Reg use could be used for nefarious purposes could it not.

'Extreme' solar storm speeding straight towards Earth

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Headmaster

Re: "We're all doomed!" but...........

Re: "We're all doomed!" but...........

not too many IT and telecoms systems to go down through earlier history though.

Yes but not being able to access you email for an hour or accessing your Facebook page is neither here or there. We survived without computers and IT for thousands of years.

Now we have it, it has made us soft.

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Trollface

Re: UT?

I'll be shopping at Tesco, hope the tills don't go down because the queues will be impossible.

London's Lambeth council vows: We'll share ALL the data we have

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Meh

Share all Data

But only after we have checked all the data we want to share with you.

Gambling site's 'no strings attached' offer had strings attached

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Holmes

Re: I'm confused!

No confusion, just illusions that you can win big money on Internet Gambling.

The House will always stuff you.

RIM boss accuses China of IP theft risk

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Facepalm

Excuses, excuses, excuses, excusing poor performance.

Christians get God-optimized 'Edifi' Android fondleslab

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Meh

I will say nothing

For fear of retribution!

WikiWin: Icelandic court orders Visa to process WikiLeaks $$$

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Headmaster

Re: hardcore pornography, Klu Klux Klan, and online gambling sites

Yes and it took 9/11 to show what terrorism is really all about when it happens at home.

For thirty years the US allowed Noraid to collect donations to buy weapons that killed people in Northern Ireland

The supply of weapons during the Iran Iraq wars

The supply of weapons during the Russian invasion of Afganistan

The Supply of weapons to South American Countries

They certainly don't come with clean hands.

LarsG
Headmaster

DO YOU

Memo to Iceland Judge:

Want to incur the wrath of a nation over this, do you boy do you!

Signed

Barak Obama.

Early verdict on Intel Ultrabook™ push: FAIL

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Re: what could change my mind

Nothing

LarsG
Headmaster

It goes to show that consumers have become more canny and see through the advertising spiel.

Maybe it will be a question of wether to return to the drawing board and stop thinking 'if we build they will buy'.

The consumer is a thinking entity not a lemming.

FBI investigates ZTE cover-up allegations

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Headmaster

Big Brother says

You will do as I say, not do as I do!

Another example of the school yard bully trying to get his way.

Sadly there is a 'I'm scared of you culture' so many Countries do more than is necessary to keep the US happy.

It is only when you confront the school yard bully that things will change.

Apple pulls China Japan war game amid diplomatic tensions

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Withdrawn not for content, but cos it was a crap game.

Mountains of unsold tech? Ha ha, we're not falling for THAT again!

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Facepalm

What do

Even two year old and three year old computers keep up with most of the software available today.

Unless this changes in a radical way why buy top tech just for the sake of top tech?

Hubble finds fifth moon orbiting Pluto

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Re: the New Horizons probe, which carries some of the ashes of Pluto's discoverer Clyde Tombaugh

So now it's been found, what do we do with it?

Kindle Fire adds APIs for cloudy gaming features

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Facepalm

Re: Kindle Fire will arrive in the UK and Europe by "late fall,"-ZUNE

Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune ZuneZune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune Zune.

Remember the Zune not available in the uk.... Ever.

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Gaming?

Will I be able to play pong on it?

Google pushing Jelly Bean updates to Android devices

LarsG
Holmes

A way to ensure people buy new phones, promise updates that never arrive, then say the updates are not compatible, so if you want the new OS splash out on a new phone.

Or

Make them wait so long for the update they give up and buy new.

That's marketing for you. Though I have a question, can you sue for loss of expectation or get your money back?

'Proud' RIM supremo survives shareholder showdown

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Facepalm

Re: What he really meant was

That's it then

RIP Rim

Ebuyer on the naughty step for fondleslab promo cock-up

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Holmes

Re: Do this all the time

Yep and WHEN THEY GET CAUGHT they say

It was a bug

It was the new guy

It was the guy we sacked

It was a keyboard error

Accidentally over looked

And they never apologise or admit that they did it deliberately, because we all know THAT THEY DID.

Top spook: ISP black boxes NOT key to UK's web-snoop plan

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Headmaster

As with

As with all information, the more information you store, the more you want and then the more you want becomes an obsession for control. Look at the local councils as an example.

The downside for them will be that there will be so much, so so so much information that it will be impossible to sift through. Eventually the amount of information is so great, there is overload and it becomes useless.

Watch out, Apple: HTC ruling could hurt your patent income

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Facepalm

Sadly

There will be an appeal, and an appeal and an appeal, until they get what they want, then there will be an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal and an appeal.............

Microsoft drags 9 resellers to court in fresh piracy blitz

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It's not piracy in China, unless you fail to pay your bribe on time.

Can neighbours grab your sensitive package, asks Post Office

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Thumb Down

Last year

A parcel for me was left with neighbours,said neighbour then went on holiday for two weeks.

Yeah great, leave it with the neighbours? I'd rather stand in the queue with the 150 other people at the delivery office.

Google fattens up Android devs with Jelly Bean sauce

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Mushroom

Sadly

The upgrade for your phone will appear sometime in 2021.

Nutter bans Apple purchases over environmental fudging

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Facepalm

Well

It is California, nuff said.

Apple's new iPad set for July 20 China launch

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Headmaster

Re: New iPad

No the 'new" new China iPad comes....

With built in censorship.

Facebook shuts down face recognition APIs after all

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Thumb Down

What a magnanimous

What a magnanimous business Facebook is.

Get moving or lose it, and oh there is a reasonable alternative.

I want my money and time back thank you.