Posts by g e
2213 posts • joined Monday 16th July 2007 12:21 GMT
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Posted in Black Ops has best videogame ending ever
Portal / Portal 2 not top?!?!?!?!
I guess the cake WAS a lie after all... :o(
Black Ops peed me off with the difficulty settings implementation, don't think I ever finished it.
Best call Pegatron, then
Seeing as other part makers have seen what's happening with them, I bet they'll be queueing up for some of the same.
Table missing...
'Which company are you sickest of hearing about?'
Yeah, they'd top that one, too.
Posted in EU, US sign off on Googorola merger
Cards, chest
Google always plays its cards close to its chest then just releases stuff.
I'm sure someone in Google somewhere knows exactly what the Moto acquisition was for and there's a long-view gameplan whether it's some method they've found of grinding Apple into the dirt, cornering some niche tech they want to move forward with and have ownership of or simply to have a huge cannon to fire back at rectangular lawsuits with. They know, we don't. If we accept that then all we need to do is sit back with popcorn.
Make mine a large tub.
Yup it got spun out
So it could do business as it pleased.
Look where it got them - bent over the Apple Barrel, apparently. ASUS will go elsewhere and you can bet other manufacturers will look at this and think 'Nah, cos they'll just be told not to make our gear and we don't need the cost of a manufacturer move in 18 months, we'll go with the other guys'.
Good luck winning NEW customers with everyone thinking that.
Another walking dead company. If that's fandroid bitterness foaming away then it's fewer syllables to say 'reality' instead.
Cuddly
Like a bag of infected medical sharp waste
Not sure that
Apple need anyone to - I think they might be doing it all by themselves quite well.
They've already ceased to 'innovate' such as it ever was (accusing Samsung of a 'Following' strategy when they've permanently been playing phone-tech-catchup). They're going out of their way to piss off some of the biggest companies in the world. They're pissing off their suppliers. They're actually starting to piss off their customers, too.
I can envisage a point where certain Asia-region companies decide it's too much trouble to deal with Apple and suddenly they have no displays for their devices, for example, and the only people that will do business with them are demanding several x the price cos they know there's nowhere else for them to go.
You can bake the trendiest bread in the world, but when you attempt to assrape the flour guy....
True
Whilst beating the company in public to improve pay & working conditions to make themselves look good.
Commercial suicide
You can only make our gear.
Until we don't want you.
Seems like they just want to piss everyone off that they possible can. What a twisted freakish company Apple are.
Good point
A bit like the MAFIAA expecting entertainment sales to skyrocket if they kill all downloading somehow.Pure fantasy.
They are, however preventing people seeing how superior competitor's devices are, to some extent, therefore stifling competition.
Actually the Nokia 3310 will do
Available in 2000
Predictive text, voice tagging (hence it must search things on voice input) and you could select numbers in texts to do stuff with.
Dear Sirs
To: 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, United States of Americaland
Yet again I am glad to be able to offer my assistance in your legal dealings.
Please find enclosed a Nokia 6230 from around 2001. I think you'll find it sufficient prior art.
Hugs,
Me.
P.S. shit, sorry, meant to send that to Samsung... my bad
Seriously, though, Apple should get all those patents invalidated from cursory examination of almost any Nokia from around 1999 onwards.
Cannot be calculated
Damages are too small, insufficient decimal places.
Give them 1 cent.
Lunacy
qwertyuiop
Presumably if nicked by the rozzers
BT could claim criminal damages get a massive fine against them (to be unpaid, of course, but leave them perhaps sans accommodation and just with underpants and shoes) and have them detained as a flight risk (or sent back to Romania, as appropriate).
Or maybe tie all the cable round their neck and drop them off in the middle of Dartmoor nekkid. If they walk back to civilisation, consider it time served - they'll surely have a different outlook on copper thieving. Oh, you can't do that cos they 'Have Rights'. damn.
Operation Sunset
Would have been a better name
If only that rag would implode under the weight of its own banality... but what would The Lowest Common Demoninator (tm) do for tits, football and politically-biased tittle tattle then ?
Including Fire
some text
Well they paid up for...
iPhone (Fujitsu?) and iOS (Cisco), if I remembered those right.
So they'd better get their wallet out for iPad and pony up to ProView, too. As they've infringed already I'd hope it ends up being $5 per device sold instead of a flat rate. Make an example of the Western Capitalist, etc, etc. Not like they're gonna move manufacture from Foxconn overnight.
Perhaps they should have gone with a less stupid naming convention from the outset than i+some word from a dictionary.
Oh God
Doubtless Bono will be quick to stick his kindergarten politician's snout in that trough.
Don't laugh!
There's good ebay money in that tablet thing :o)
What's being forgotten here is
... that it's not so much the content of *this* particular treaty (though I don't like it personally) it's more...
The underhand secretive method it been done in, to paraphrase the UK gov 'Nothing to hide nothing to fear'
It's a foot in the door for Big Media which you *know* will begin to scope creep as soon as it's ratified and THAT is a very very bad thing so slam the door shut and crush the foot, preferably as painfully as possible to make it think twice about coming back any time soon. Big Media wants control of the internet and it's not too fussed about how it gets it.
'We the people' do not support putting the interests of wealthy corporations before our own. We don't want this and you do not do this in OUR name or for OUR benefit.
And so forth.
Seems to me the system worked fine
Till Crapple started dicking around.
This just in from Joaquin's bank statement:
09-Feb-2012 Credit from Apple Inc: $2,000,000.00
Presumably
The companies give you a written statement of what's covered and what's not.
A license as part of the package is normally a selling point so they'd say, don't you think?
Infringing
If you're infringing then you're not licensed, FRAND or otherwise.
So pay up. If you thought you'd just have to pay backdated FRAND rates instead of a more severe penalty for your infringement then get another lawyer you Klutz. A less smug one, preferably.
You weren't covered and you are liable and it will cost you and that is the law.
Lots of emails?
Including ones where Apple acknowledge they know all about conditions at FC and cynically discuss how best to look like they're doing something while keeping costs down and production up?
Someone somewhere must be feeling a bit nervous, I'm sure.
When life gives you cheap plastic...
Need I say more?
Ohh but there WAS cake!
Right at the end where the robohand snuffs out the candle on one....
Cake was not lies!
Yeah
On the back of an Insurance Organisation lobby
They will
You just know it. Or, charge a massive amount for not doing it.
Nothing to hide? Nothing to fear.
It would be nice if one day insurance companies could afford computers that could count into double digits for no claims years, too. Given the premiums they charge you'd think they could support no claims back to the birth of the Universe by now.
Errr but
How does it know if I've taken the car onto a track? Presumably if buffers stuff & sends it to the SatNav next connection, perhaps if the satnav is on then it knows where you are and disregards data.
Mind you I don't pay anywhere near £1k insurance either, thankfully...
HAHAHAHAHAHA!
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
*breathe*
So, maybe their idiot lawyer just worked out they fecked up massively and that Samsung actually have them over a barrel with the whole FRAND whinge unless they can change the barrel itself!
Go Saaaamsung! Go Saaaamsung! Go Saaaamsung!
Instructional videos
For people who like to dig up old shit and zap stuff with radiation...
The Thing
The Mummy
The Incredible Hulk
Posted in Apple eyes ISPs to sell 'iTV'
Uber Meh
Granted it's not a UK-focussed article but my ISP won't be trying to sell me an iTV (or whatever it gets called in the UK cos we already have an ITV thank you very much). Mostly cos my ISP is SKY, to be fair but if it weren't the answer would be 'OK, so... explain to me why I need to replace my perfectly fine 42" TV and buy some streaming thing in addition to Netflix on my PS3? Oh, cos it's Apple? well why didn't you SAY so at the start! I could have had the last five minutes of my life back. **click**'
(I'm assuming itv will be hardware TV + streaming/cloud subscription, of course)
At last
Jordan may have a business model.
(No not the Middle East Jordan you fools, the one with the comedy fake tits and too much makeup)
Posted in Czechs, Slovaks stall on ACTA
Dear Stupid American Corporations.
You really think a countries like Czecho & Slovakia are going to bend over for this crap when they're only a generation or two out of Soviet oppression?
Losses of Expression & Liberty are too close in memory for these people to give it up for your corporate profit and personal gain.
We owe these guys for standing up where our own nations are too spineless, feeble and US-owned.
Posted in Czechs, Slovaks stall on ACTA
@Old Handle
Get to Prague. Quick-sharp.
You'll never want to leave.
Posted in Scientists weave battery into clothing
A boon to women everywhere!
Prolonged vibrating knicker-lifetime!
Posted in Apple TV surfaces on Best Buy
$1499 for a 42" TV?
2005 called, they want their flatscreen TV prices back.
Boot, meet other foot
It's OK for them to tap calls willy nilly but shock horror and OUTRAGE!
When they get a bit of their own medecine, eh?
The difference between a legal and illegal wiretap is mostly your job title while you're doing it.
Cupertino has been a good deal more chatty lately
Any friend is more than no friends.
Even if it's El Reg ;o)
I'd get a Fire, yeah
Dirt cheap, root it, fit Android, etc. Not at all 'ashamed' of not overspending on shiny gadget. Eminently sensible if you ask me but...
I've not seen a tablet from anyone yet that makes me think 'must have', though. The Transformer Prime is kinda nice, the SONY tablet seems good too as does the Galaxy (bar the stupid connections) but must have? No. Not one of them.
I'd still need a laptop to Get Things Done and my Desire HD does a fine job for reading email and other 'tabletty' bits and pieces (like tunes, satnav, reminders, farcebook, G+, ebay, etc) on the move. No way do I need to cart around another gadget that doesn't do some things the phone does and doesn't do a load of things the laptop does and pay hundreds for the privilege. That's just daft.
Meh
Like an Apple device owner would ever CONSIDER scoring it less than 11 out of 10 even if they secretly hated it.
It would be an admission to themselves that they bought techno-tat if nothing else and there one thing an Appleist hates above 'being wrong'...
** Seen to be 'being wrong'. **
Troll cos, well it's not a pro Apple missive (as if mine ever are) so I must be, right?
Posted in Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' pic posted
Apple will drag it in
Just to bog down Samsung
At least they now have one less patent to wave in the air thanks to Germany.
Posted in Samsung 'Galaxy 4S' pic posted
Haha - 4S
Are Samsung trying to create a meme/whatever of 'Thing 4S' being a replacement for a Thing that turned out to be rumourware, vapourware or just a plain no-show and a lacklustre-by-comparison/expectation 4S version appeared instead?
Like the Jag CX-75 (sp?) that was supposed to run on gas turbines and have a miniscule CO2 footprint and actually turned up with a different engine, that could be a 'Jaguar CX-75 4S', etc
Cunning, if it takes off as an idea... may I suggest : David Cameron's New Britain 4S ?
Or perhaps : Facebook Valuation 4S ?
Posted in Facebook IPO: Boom or bubble?
And how do they measure 'time on site' per user?
I have an FB window open all the time. In a different tab to the one I'm actually USING.
If they measure visiting time on site by their timer fetching background updates then those figures are heavily fraudulent because the lights are indeed on but the curtains are resolutely drawn.
Of course there's no apparent increase
They are hiding in their undersea bunkers awaiting word from High Command
My car is black. Like my helicopter.
At their own event
They can invite who they want and NOT who they don't want.
They can't deinvite Apple to MWC
That said, the SG3 is the only thing holding me off trying out a Galaxy Note for my impending upgrade
Oh look who won the Crunchies best Social Application!
Hint: It's not Facebook
I'm still offering fifty quid for Facebook, Marko, it's not too late.
I think they'll find
that if they open just the datasets then the Open Source developer community will likely do many of the queries/mashups for them.
Or are they saying they haven't got any boxes capable of the actual workload? I bet Google would loan them a containerful of optimised data-munching servers at a fair price and even promise not to suck at the info out of it.
It does seem to be the Will rather than the Way that's lacking...
An interesting parallel?
Apple are also (technically) in breach of their W3C membership for claiming some HTML5 patent and refusing to share/play-by-the-rules if I remember correctly, too. Something I think the W3C is trying to remind them of, diplomatically, so far.
