Posts by Christopher Rogers

Why can't she

just fuck off? I wonder if Gordon has realised that no matter what he does, Labour are out of government come next election, so he's letting his mindless idiots fill their boots before they are booted out...

@AC

People buy Apple products because they are worth buying. OK they are priced on the steep side, but let me show you Example A: http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/12/17/koy_music_phones/ whats No.1?

Example B: http://fwd.five.tv/gadget-show/bestbuys/phones/mobile-phones

I could go on, but you are not smart enough to understand. I am not a Mac fanboi (i don't use anything apple simply because i don't feel the need to) but i recognise great tech when i see it, an Apple's current range is generally made up of great tech.

wow

Some people write some shit on here. maybe everyone should be forced to completely re-read and think about what they have written as a comment....

This teacher did drop the ball and the blogger did get a bit OTT about it all. Oh-Hum so sad. Now stop crying about it.

Bollox

Death to those who promote the use of such shite.

The hell ar they moaning about?

They should be thankful they have jobs at all! Fuckin Americans whine about EVERYTHING.

@ Mini Mac

Then sod off and buy one..... We are talking about windows based PCs that are nice and small and look cool. Not Macs. If were were talking about macs, the machines in the pictures would not be Dell's.

@AC

Or have worked hard/had a bit of luck and has the money to spend on such a telly. Kinda rules out the financial and IT bods then.

@AC

Lighten up. I know plenty who would have this tomorrow, but take the report with a pinch of salt.

I blame the media....

...for all of this loss of sense of humour. Yes its a bit dark and yes its a bit close to home for some people in our population of 65 million, but really. Sod off. I laughed, my mates laughed and i'm sure plenty of others beyond that laughed (probably including staffers in el Reg). Can that MP not focus on something important like the people he represents having less money in their pockets per chance? Any anyways, he's in politics. He's bound to be up to some nasty Xratedness himself...

25k for 10 mins?

i'd hit it.

Blue String Pudding

Great story. I'm going to get pissed with Tom Fun and Derek. "That'll be alot of fun."

Ahhh Europe....

Who urges us to sell all our national jewels to the french and germans. I'm sure every nation has its own DUP, who also get elected by "europeans".

Apple

After MS sort out the sheer bloat of the OS, their next priority has to be without doubt matching and maybe surpassing Apple's interface. I'm not an apple fan, but their machines are a dream to use. MS should target stuffing them into the ground. THATS how they are going to get their reputation back.

ebay

does that mean in 5 years time i'll be on ebay looking for a cheap replacement?

@Jesters in Downing Street

thdailymash.co.uk summed it up brilliantly when referring to the LoydsTSBHalifaxBankofScotland deal with

"Meanwhile Downing Street sources let it be known the prime minister played a key part in securing the deal which will put 40,000 people out of work."

@ Viz readers...

Yes! Excellent suggestion for where this ad should be placed!

Funny!

"I guess the author thought they were being funny with the SS comment. Exactly the reason i don't live in this small minded country anymore! Grow up!"

You don't live in *this* small minded country? Are you here on holidays then? If so, why? Why come back if you can't take some gentle nationalist banter? Are you in fact so devoid of a sense of humour that you upped sticks and moved your entire life? Do you have any friends? Are you even a nice person?

Because frankly I think your ignorance shows you to be the idiot you are.

P.s. I'd be more concerned about the trajectory angle of a ricochet from a substantial set of firm guns... that would have everybody ducking!

@poor loyal supporters

Poor? You can still afford to be a fanboi so tough luck.

Or

Jobs for the boys = same thing structured differently.

Maybe we have our own area 51 which the MOD are covering costs for. That would be the reason why amanfrommars is the first to pounce on this - his random dribblings on to the screen are to confuse everyone and ultimately stop the truth getting out - the MOD is paying for his house.

hopefully

Ms would strip out the bits it wants and banish the AOL name forever.

Rogers Telecom

What a bunch of greedy fucks! Really, they are fleecing the Canadians! its probably cheaper to buy a phone from O2 here and bring it over!

Someone should walk into a Rogers board meeting and call them all Americans.

@ Greg

I'm not sure about sky, but with VirginMedia you don't actually own the STB therefore it it not your property to tamper with. Fundameentally, when you sign up, you have effectively agreed to accept responsibility for a STB that you borrow (or rent or whatever) from them to make use of their service.

This would be different to say hacking an Xbox - you buy it, you should be allowed to do whatever you like with it.

These guys got caught. Thats the risk you take.

P.S. If you get the time machine idea working, give me a shout. 2 days ago I saw a real fit chick sunbathing and wouldn't mind another look.

Whats all the moaning?

Its the final SP for MS's old operating system. Ok the new one is a bit shit and has ME written all over it, but still, MS have a business plan to stick to and that's what they are gonna do. If ya wanna think your being a bit out there and cool, buy a Mac, I play with Linux myself, though to be honest it is not even close to matching the experience provided by MS to the standard web surfin-email checkin-facebook using-letter writing user. I know it can do all of the above, but still not in a way thats idiot proof. So i'd suggest you update to SP3 and sit tight until Windows 7 (which sounds like its gonna be here soon enough).

I suppose we could wait for the Haiku project (http://www.haiku-os.org) to bare fruit.

Class

10 years?! Bloody hell, i've been reading since the start then?

Keep it up!

No winners here, except the prize for engineering.

We have a winner

Darwin award!

No we don't. Darwin award winners don't have the intent to remove themselves from the gene pool, God permits their actions to make it so.

I'm all for it...

If it gets those bloody polish reg un taxed and uninsured bangers off the road.

VM's Customer Service?

It exists? Well phuck me.

I don't get it

Whats with all the rants? Someone has decided to run a competition to give people the chance to win a computer if they can develop a hack. Where's the harm?

Missing the Point

These people have signed up to give your kids an education. Not take shit from the wee brats. If this sort of crap starts to affect their lives, then the kids involved should be punished severely. I mean its not like the old days when whoopie cushions were put on "sir's" chair. Happy slapping and knives are in schools these days.

A good few teachers live in the same community as these wee shits. Teachers lost the right to maintain order in the classroom due to the fear of [the school] being sued by ambulance chasing parents, now the kids have open season. I accept that some teachers are c**ts. But so are some IT employees and cops and doctors etc etc etc. And anyway. Lets see how many of us can get thirty 15 years olds to learn Shakespeare at one time....

Microbabble

HD DVD's demise won't affect MS too badly as not many people bought the add on anyway. It was a separate module and therefore easily replaced. As for the rest of the big talk - its MS coming from behind again, this time facing factors such as:

1) Playstation3 is going to outsell the Xbox360

2) Zune is a failure and needs a boost fast

3) Sony are streaking ahead in terms of community interaction while Microsofts general indifference has come up and bit them.

After all the big talk about PS3 being the lesser of the 2 consoles before its launch, it looks like Microsoft are going to be the firm that will have to fight tooth and nail for market share. Even Nintendo got it more right.

Just shows...

that the only people to create a war between big businesses are the media and us little people. Firms of the scale of Toshiba and Sony obviously don't give any credit to these small squabbles as they have bigger fish to fry...

Finally...

Hi-DEF and disk formats can now continue to evolve, now that people know which path take.

hddvd lost cos

The cost advantage of production etc wasn't enough, and MS didn't have them IN the XBOX360 from the start (could have been a head start advantage on the ps3.) The consoles were always going to be the leading edge of this battle and Toshiba/MS simply didn't get it right. Watch out for future generations of the XBOX360 with BD players on board, cos MS will have to do everything possible to limit the size of the gap between them and PS3 when their sales fall behind. That means having the ability to play hi def movies out of the box.

@Robert

You sure your not a Chinese contractor???!

They should be left in space and used for target practice for some star wars system, oh wait, we have crashing spy satalities for that....

I'm not gettin me coat, I'm here all night, thank you very much...

fuckin brilliant!

Thats made my day. Someone give that woman a voucher for a big mac and fries. And since its FRIday i think i'll have bacon sausages, black and white pudding etc etc etc

wha?

fuck me they must have been bored...

Thrashing about for nothing

I'm waiting for the BeOS style auction to appear soon as SCO takes its rightful place - in history.

make it so

Let MS buy yahoo and take Google on. Ok it leaves only 2 big players in the game, but it will open more doors for a host young startups. With social engineering sites becoming yesterday's news, gaps will start to appear in the online world which need to be filled and who knows, maybe someone else will appear out of nowhere and side swipe the whole industry a la YouTube, Google, Facebook etc etc etc.

And to be 46bn lighter, MS will have to make this gamble work cos that doesn't leave much money for other high profile acquisitions.

As far as i'm concerned, let MS have Yahoo.

Its game on for the next generation.

@Anonymous Coward

It capitalism, its sales, is competition its fighting rivals for business and market share. Therefore, your comment is fucking pointless.

Surprised...

they lasted this long to be honest. I have never had a good experience of Moto fones and its no real surprise they are on the back foot. I don't think their withdrawal from the market can be too far away with Nokia strengthening their position and Samsung and Sony Ericsson producing much better MOR fones. Motorola really don't cut it like they used to and to be honest, they should seriously think about selling off to maybe dell, who can use the existing tech to push their new Google's Android based handsets.

Did i just suggest a new idea?

based on facts....

Woolies have made the right decision. Based on actual sales figures, Woolies have proved what many have believed - HD DVD is dead in the water. Hopefully this will get the ball rolling and begin the final deathly thrashings of the HD-DVD format.

For the record, I am not a Sony fanboy, i just think that a format should really win out sooner rather than later so that it can be developed further and continue along the march of technological advancement. Blue-ray seems to be the healthier of the formats for many reasons.

well, if its true...

...and it does result in cheap blue-ray, then that surely is the final nail in the HD-DVD coffin.

If its not, then i propose that the entire blue-ray camp dons balaclavas, hobnail boots and grabs the nearest blunt instrument and makes its way to toshiba's hd-dvd labs and trashes the place.