Re: Not sure about the processor

Ooo. Lightning quick.

I think I could do calculations on a Casio calculator watch at that speed.

Re: Most Favored Nation

John A. Blackley is a pillock. Tee hee.

(see post further down)

Re: umm

I was thinking the same thing about the tungsten, at least.

Re: Chinese pub grub

"mystery meat onna stick" - provided by CMOT Dib Lah?

Re: 20,000 users

99.9% of Apple's users thought it was a feature. 20,000,000 affected in reality.

Re: Just a publicity stunt

Will they empty the bag and build a Dyson Sphere?

Re: They found the Higgs Boson?

"a 125 GeV Higgs is probably inconsistent with the "Standard Model" at high energies, implying that something further is required"

GOOD. Be a shame if everybody just packed up and went home.

@AC Blue Scream of Death

Ha! You win. Everyone else can go home now.

Re: A smuggler's dream?

Or a terrorists. Scale it up a bit, stuff it full of C4, make sure it only just floats (for low observability) and send out a swarm of 300 to sit in the mid-ocean shipping lanes. Or into a submarine base.

They added the tether specifically to make it a one-in-a-million shot.

Re: @heyrick - Not a big deal

+1 for introducing me to "Veblen goods"

My dusty neurons tell me it's Mean Aerodynamic Chord.

Re: Yes...

My company is even worse. As well as 8+ characters, with 3 from upper/lower/number/special they make us change it every month. It wont allow incrementing of the previous password, or re-use of any one of the last 12 passwords. If they make the requirements that rigorous, surely they can let us use them for a quarter at a time...

I never thought I'd ever resort to it, but now I have a post-it stuck under my keyboard with the password on (with the last two characters reversed to foil cleaners/colleagues).

No special characters

True. Why is that, in this day and age?

It can't be a technical limitation, surely? Just lazy developing?

Re: People who've been around the block a few times...

I'm going to print that out in 36 point and laminate it.

Re: Would you trust...

There's a Nyan Cat tattoo on his neck. He thought that would hit his credibility even harder.

Re: Kerching!

Maybe, maybe not.

See also Sucker Punch. I really, really tried to like that film...

Re: How do they rate..

You, sir, will burn.

Re: Lets get to the gig

"how much for the women?"

RTFA

See title

Re: Will it be backward compatible?

Only 'cos he's still playing Saber Wulf on the Spectrum.

Not even God can find the exit in that game.

Re: fairly obvious but

Perhaps when Cumbria get a taste of the millions and millions and millions that fund the national ballet, the opera, the musuems, the tube network, the overland rail network, et-fucking-cetera, then you might have a point.

Otherwise you're just another metropolitan pillock.

Suspicious, me?

So the top 6 comments are all saying this is not a big deal. On the Reg. Which is full of iHaters.

*dons bacofoil chapeau*

Re: TomTom iPhone/iPad app

"Are TomTom suicidal"

No, probably the reverse. Smartphone penetration will continue to eat into the SatNav market, if not reduce it to a small fraction of its former size. TomTom's products are feeling increasingly clunky; the touchscreens are a generation (or two) behind the phones; they just don't have the resources to keep up. The deal with Apple allows them to remain a relevant player for a few more years, and the massive increase in user base will should allow them to keep their maps more current through their crowd-sourced corrections scheme.

I'd guess they'll end up as an Apple subsidiary (with a nice fat payout to their shareholders) somewhere down the track.

Re: A question on the subject of pixels

Huh. That mostly makes sense :)

Cheers.

Re: Porn and the Pad

"The problem lay within the fact that it requires 2 hands to hold the damned thing"

Impressive! But probably untrue :)

Re: scaling

Recyle, reuse, rinse, repeat. I posted this a year ago here, when the e-petition site went down:

Every, and I mean *every* time the government puts up a shiny new website it falls over due to 'unexpected demand'.

If you can't see the problem with that statement I can only assume you are a government IT provider.

Re: "... who he considered to be "dumb shits"."

Maybe it was the same turtleneck all the time. It was fused to his skin by a material so malignant, so caustic, that removing it would have required the sort of kit usually reserved for stripping out asbestos.

We need a biohazard icon.

Re: "the Foxconn-rebrander"

iBaiting at its finest.

Must be a slow day in El Reg Towers...

Re: What about

"WTF is WTF?"

Well, yes. Clearly a = a.

Re: "...which means a dish..."

I seem to have your icon. Swap?

Re: I like the Graphics

Indeed. Delightfully 90's.

Maybe you could animate them too, so they sort of swooped in from the side. That NEVER gets old.

Re: Wil who?

Excellent on TBBT. Utterly, utterly punchable on NG.