Posts by g e
2229 posts • joined Monday 16th July 2007 12:21 GMT
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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.
If that's the case ....
Then Samsung are likely well aware of it and maybe even the investigation is a foregone conclusion in Samsung's favour, effectively, with the investigation being a formality that Samsung expected to take place and yielding the expected result of no wrong-doing which then paves the way for Samsung to do WTF they want with Apple, involving bending over, device banning and expensive licensing to be allowed an *existence* in the EU market and maybe beyond. Apple may well be asking very politely if perhaps they could have the dolly back in the pram, now, please. Yeah Apple can buy their screens from LG or whomever but don't Samsung make the CPU chips in the Apple gear and therefore own the IC designs which mean they sorta own the code if no-one can make a chip to do the same thing without a complete codebase rewrite on Apple's part for another processor?
Don't wake me up, I wanna see how this dream ends...
Time for a new patent
Patent the 'Lick' gesture on a touchscreen mobile device
Samsung, are you listening ?
So, can you search for 'Catholic Churches' ?
</nuff_said>
Yeah, ok, except
Those housing price websites will intergrate it and it'll be one click for the Fail Massive to see
Posted in iPads propel Apple to PC market top slot
Cos most people
Just need Facebook, Email, IM & YouTube, not PC's, as they don't actually DO anything
Posted in iPads propel Apple to PC market top slot
WTF?
So tablets are PC's now??? That's crazy.
Yeah it's a Personal Computer in the same sense my damned phone is (though my phone also makes & receives calls, making an iFad less functional), but would you seriously use a tablet to do the stuff you do on a PC?
Yes, compose email. Yes surf the web.
No, non-linear video editing. No, graphics retouching/editing.
Yes I'm sure you CAN edit audio and video on a tablet but you know what I mean. PROPERLY. Even the most awkward and bloody-minded of you lot know what I'm getting at.
If you're including tablets then you must include phones as they have the same functionality in a smaller form factor or does a 'PC' have to have a minimum screen size of, say, an Apple tablet device and no phone ability (until Apple put it in then it MUST have it, presumably) to qualify?
I smell fudge and not in a good way.
Riiiiight
Cos all terrorists post their plans on Twitter, right?
Is that the same
CAMEROON who has a mate called ALI who likes to SHOOT semi-nude fireman calendars with the OFFICERS dressed as CIVILIANS for charity?
Ooops I mis-spelt Cameron's name
How to DDOS the DHS
What a splendid HowTo, cheers El Reg!
Now, imagine if everyone tweets the a link with the article title intact...
>>Clickety<<
That's cos they like to FLY to summits/conferences
</nuff>
Cos most people
Watch Keremy Kyle, X-Factor, think microwaving a plastic tub of goo is 'cooking' and "read" The Sun or (worse) The Daily Fail.
It's called the lowest common denominator and there's a reason virtually all media and politicians pander to it when there's not more advantageous sectors for achieving their specific goal. It's also the demographic that is least able to think for itself, hence why they're happy for media/politics to instruct them on how to live their lives.
Harsh? But likely fair...
Too bloody true.
I don't believe any eco-mentalist stuff because you never know these days who is behind it and with what financial motive. Things seem to be getting warmer but given that we're only 93M miles from a gigantic unshielded fusion reactor the man-made argument is weak enough without all the money-grabbing spin-meister shilling going on increasing our cost of living almost daily, essentially because they can.
The lights are on but the curtains are drawn...
Fly. Ointment
Come, come, Mr Bond. Surely you don't expect me to believe you want us to have a balanced debate?
NO
Because once anyone agrees to this arbitrary code of practice you KNOW the scope creep will begin based upon 'Well, they're already doing THIS, so it's just a small step for them to do THAT with their search engine, too'
Yet again Big Media is in denial and secretly punting the subconscious message of 'buy your media secondhand cos it's the same quality as new'
I thought we already were
Given that the British Military seems to be the deniable elite ops arm of US foreign policy, notwithstanding the way UK.gov bends over every time a ranking Yank politican yells drop 'em city-boy.
Are we really still owned by the USA following the cost of hiring them as cannon fodder at the end of WWII with our gold reserve & British US-based businesses? Perhaps if we did something to keep our top boffins and inventors INSIDE the UK for a change...
Kaboom, cos no doubt someone will offer to nuke my scrawny limey ass back to the stoneage for me. As they do.
By Newt's reckoning, then
Space is owned by the Russians cos Yuri got there first.
Is he called Newt cos of his brain ?
Posted in IBM demos new nanotech
"utilized to product high performance devices"
Did he really use the noun 'product' as a verb??
It's PRODUCE you numbskull. I bet he's a fan of crappo phrases like 'in-branch', and associated Corporate-verbiage ... more like Copra-verbiage if you ask me ;o)
Has anyone wondered
If this fairly odd piece of law has actually been quietly lobbied into place by celebs who're worried about their 'off brand' activites getting published?
Mind you there's many 'celebs' who really should be forgotten forever, most of them participate in 'reality tv'...
I will defend my right for Erasure
and Yazoo
and The Pet Shop Boys
...
Posted in Netflix vs Lovefilm
Netflix won in our house
Have both on the PS3, Lovefilm was clunky unintuitive and had no search (maybe they do now they have competition but a fail is a fail).
Netflix UI is nicer, has lots of TV shows and a better selection of movies than Lovefilm had last time I could be arsed to load it's ugly ass up and fail to find anything I wanted to watch.
Lovefilm's getting canned, don't care about disc rentals.
Posted in Apple and Google ramp up proxy war
"Google's side wants Apple to leave it alone"
Though if a court happened to hand down a judgement that seriously jiggered up Apple I'm sure they'd not mind so much...
Careful with that dosage, Eugene
I, for one, can attest to the recreational possibilities of 250 very fresh shrooms....
Beware the dose size!
Hah!
Those two qualities alone will make the gubbernment keep the stuff banned
Posted in Starship Voyager dumped into skip
The real issue here is...
WTF she has been paying the mortgage on the place for the last 17 years if she doesn't live there...
That guy's pad has been on the TV and everything, can't be like she didn't know he was Trekking it out.
Or...
Erect a digital ringfence around the USA. No matter how important the USA likes to think it is to the Rest of the World, it isn't.
Especially when Rest of the World isn't sharing their money with it's digital economy. Maybe even erect a non-US-controlled (non*anyone* controlled) decentralised DNS system, to boot (no I don't have any architectural suggestions as to how that might work, currently).
The USA, who're they? Ohhh I remember now, are they still going?
Yet again
Darwin intervenes where health systems artificially preserve life which without intervention Nature would otherwise have left stillborn...
Balance shall be restored!
Posted in Apple wants to OWN YOUR VERY SOLE
Haha the craziness of it all
Lookout for idiots dressed in faux brushed-aluminium attire
Absolutely
This is so far past the Streisand Effect it needs it own name.
I'm sure El Reg'ers will have plenty of suggestions!
I thought thought the mental image funny
Coppers.
Interrogating an SAS officer trained to resist interrogation
Oh well, maybe it was funnier in my head...
Jesus Christ, Apple
Just FUCK OFF already, you total arseclowns
FFS, if they put the same energy into actually creating shit as they do lawyering at the people who do... (as opposed to recombining existing shit in slightly different ways and putting a faux brushed aluminium PNG on it)
On the up side, though, it makes me REALLY want to buy Samsung gear if it has Apple in this much of a hissy fit... Samsung may as well give their marketing dept the rest of the year off, it's being done for them!
Poor buggers
They haven't got back to the Drawing Board yet from the last 'oh hang on' discovery some real scientists made...
Hanging onto that 'man made' label in the global warming ecopocalypse (as opposed to it being a natural cycle of the planet) is getting trickier every month... I truly feel for the Quango's and their funding. Not.
Xmas cards
Haha. No.
Does it show?
bowing to lobbying pressure
Which as he knows damn well, is how SOPA got as far as it did in the first place.
Duplicitous, conniving, self-interested, inethical (not a typo), geriatric, oxygen-stealing bastard.
He got out-lobbied and he's crying like a little girl who didn't get the dolly she wanted for Xmas.
Fail. Cos his heart needs to.
Oh dear me
You weren't being in an Apple-approved manner so you're not fit to have our product.
You watch Samsung airlift 1/2 million SG2's in later on today, and fair play to them if they do.
