* Posts by Alex Rose

276 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Oct 2007

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Microsoft slashes Office 365 prices

Alex Rose

Re: Cloud suckage

Funnily enough I'd love to evaluate Google Apps but the gmail web interface is just so atrocious I can't bring myself to try it. The fact that I use it pretty much on a daily basis and still get confused as to where commonly used features hide themselves astounds me.

How a company with the resources of Google can unleash such a terrible UI on the general public amazes me. I wonder how seemingly intelligent people such as Larry Sergey can have been shown it and said "Yes, that's great, let's roll with it." It's up there in incomprehensibility with how Steve Ballmer, having been shown Vista, said "Yep, great stuff, get those DVDs duplicated and get it out to the channel!"

Anyway, rant over, is Google Apps any better? Is it worth me having a look or will I just end up slitting my wrists in despair?

iPad queue hog doesn’t want it, won’t be first

Alex Rose
FAIL

Why me?

Why does it have to fall to me, someone who dislikes Apple intensely to have to point out what a load of bullshit your post is?

Even though I dislike Apple I have actually used their devices and to describe them as "poor" and "utterly useless" just because you prefer something else is just facile.

Grow the fuck up.

Microsoft warns of RDP attack within next 30 days

Alex Rose
FAIL

Re: Lets be a little realistic here...

Let's be realistic here, we're on a technology website for IT professionals. So who gives a crap whether it concerns end-users or not? It concerns us.

Hands on with the Apple iPad 3

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Re: non standard Apple 2048 x 1536 V a real Samsung WQXGA panel at 2560 x 1600, no contest

The point isn't the specs, it's what you can do with it. Until I bought my wife an iPad2 I'd forgotten that rather salient fact.

The history of IT is littered with examples of architectures/systems that were technically superior but came in in second place. If you look at Windows 3.1 there were a number of superior windowing systems around, similarly x86 architecture was not the best around at the time of the IBM PCs rise to dominance. Hell, think VHS/Betamax if you want another example.

The point isn't what the numbers say, it's what you can do with your new piece of equipment quickly and easily - much as it pains me, as a die-hard Linux and Android fan, to say it the Apple ecosystem allows the average Joe to achieve results quickly and easily.

So I suppose the answer to why you would want an Apple machine of power "x" when you could have an Android tablet of power "2x" for the same amount of money is that you are not a geek.

Peugeot 3008 HYbrid4

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Re: Struggling to see the point?

http://www.fiskerautomotive.com/en-us/karma/overview

'Nobody can resist the charming of iPAD'

Alex Rose
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Re: Re: Re: Resistance

I can't blame him for not reading the article.

I can blame him for making himself look like a fool for commenting on an article he clearly didn't read!

Alex Rose
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Re: Resistance

I don't think anybody will bother downvoting you as you couldn't be bothered to read the article and understand that it doesn't refer to a tablet computer.

Idiot.

Court rejects Tesla’s latest libel spat with Top Gear

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Re: Re: Re: All electric has a long way to go

A hybrid has both electric and petrol power delivered directly to the wheels. A diesel-electric train uses a diesel engine to generate electricity, the wheels are driven by this electricity, there is no mechanical link between the diesel engine and the wheels.

This is the main difference between hybrids like the Prius and diesel-electric vehicles.

Look up the Fisker Karma for a car that uses an internal combustion engine to produce electricity for the drivetrain rather than using a mechanical link.

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Joke

Re: Re: Re: Re: Oh yes, that's the car for me!

I went to Halfords and couldn't find these "Haines" manuals of which you speak.

Wang charged in inappropriate electricity socket use

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Re: They may be dicks... @perlcat

"but Taiwan *is* the country that outlawed public gum chewing"

Sorry perlcat, that was Singapore :(

Johns Hopkins and VMware forge medical records mega-cloud

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Ultrasound

I wonder how it deals with loops and colour, 2 things that generally let PACS systems down when viewing ultrasound exams. This is why Acuson and later Siemens Medical had to create their own PACS-for-ultrasound solution KinetDx.

Drink diet pop all the time? Look forward to VASCULAR DEATH

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@ac 18:52

"If I'm treating myself to a soft drink then i want the real thing goddamnit. whats the point of a treat that you have every day, where the main element that makes it a treat has been removed?"

Maybe because the caffeine and taste haven't been removed from my daily coke zero?

What's that? You didn't realise that some people have different tastes and are looking for different things from the same product?

Well there you go, you've learned something new today.

You're welcome!

Try a 'shroom before ruling on chill pills, boffin tells gov

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@Voland's right hand

How do you explain kaolin and morphine mixture being available over the counter in the UK? Is it only allowed because it's not French?

Windows Phone to overtake iOS in 2015

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@Obviously!

"your a bit thick"

The fucking irony!

Philips Cinema 21:9 Gold 50in ultra widescreen TV

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They've stopped English comprehension as well?!?!?!?!?

Are you trying to say that a film made for 21:9 would display properly on a 16:9 screen? I see from your post that you aren't so where in my post am I wrong?

If you are going to celebrate the irony of somebody pointing out somebody else's mistake being wrong you really should make sure it doesn't backfire on you!

Let me explain. The original poster was lambasting the WHOLE widescreen silliness as if to.....

Frankly I can't be bothered.

Alex Rose
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The country went to the dogs...

....when they stopped teaching mathematics in schools. I have to admit I didn't notice anything in the news about it; but they must have done so for you to be unable to understand something as simple as an aspect ratio.

Let me try to explain it for you. Film made 21:9 not show good on TV made 16:9 - no silly complain complain make laws of number county changey changey!

Does that clear it up for you?

Boffins demo time-warp cloaking device

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Oh, Oh, Oh, pick me, pick me!!!

I was in complete agreement with you here but then I went back and looked at the diagram and I *think* I have the answer. In your method people can observe that something has happened (i.e. the lights went out) when your unobserved event takes place.

In the Cornell method an observer would not notice anything changing, so it's as if someone did something in a lit room which you could not see without them having to turn the lights off to stop you seeing it.

Hope that makes sense - I also hope I'm right because I'm actually a little bit embarrassed by how excited I am that I may have worked this out :)

Official: File-sharing is a religion... in Sweden

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@chris lively

"Which is much closer to the scientific view. Namely that it can't be proven true or false so they have no opinion on the subject."

You clearly have no understanding of scientific method.

Atheism fits the observable evidence, disprove my theory by providing measurable, repeatable evidence of the existence of a god and I'll accept your theory, until then I'm going to continue to be an atheist.

Furthermore atheism is not "concerned with the denial that god (s) exist" in the same way that my (deeply) religious relations' Christianity is not concerned with shouting to the world that God exists.

HTC Sensation XL

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@Jean Le PHARMACIEN

iPhone 4 is slightly smaller than the Desire. I don't have a problem staying with something the size of the Desire but everything "top of the range" in the Android world seems to have decided that you have to go bigger.

I understand the idea that bigger sometimes requires more oomph but looking at the iPhone 4S I think it can be demostrated that more oomph does not necessarily have to mean bigger. Sure your tolerances have to be better, you have to buy higher price components and employ better designers but money is not really a problem, Apple have shown that people are willing to pay more money for the right product - it appears Android manufacturers just aren't willing to eat into their margins to produce phones to the size/power/quality that Apple are putting out.

And 1cm width over a 12cm phone is an extra 12 square cm - and also the difference between comfortably reaching the whole screen with my thumb and having to jiggle the phone around or go to 2 handed use.

I can't believe that I now sound like a bloody Apple shill!

Alex Rose
Unhappy

Why so large

I'm looking to replace my HTC Desire in a couple of months and have been looking around - however all the phones I see with a decent bit of oomph (the official measure of a phone's power!) are huge.

When I got the Desire I thought it was a bit big and I prefer the size of my mother-in-law's Wildfire. Most of the phones I see now are 0.5 - 1 cm wider and/or taller.

Looks like I'll have to put up with the wife's "I told you so's" and get a bloody iPhone!

Thanks for nothing HTC/Samsung/Motorola.

Germans increase office efficiency with 'cloud ceiling'

Alex Rose

Yep, my bad

In fact looking at the images again I suspect it's metering from the ceiling rather than the window. And ND filter might be better than fill in flash.

Alex Rose
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It's not just you...

...but it's probably just that whoever took the photo didn't have a clue.

The human eye is an amazing organ and can deal with ranges of light far far wider than the best camera. I suspect that what's happened here is that the camera's metering system is picking up on the bright light from the window and exposing for that, which leaves the interior of the room looking dark and underexposed.

This is a situation where some fill-in flash would have helped.

Ferguson Hill FH009 home theatre system

Alex Rose

Home theatre?!?

I agree - this cannot be described as a "Home theatre" system. It's a satellite/subwoofer set-up, nothing more.

Swiss-based Balesio takes the knife to PDF files

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@AC 14:01

Exactly! We're all quite capable of going to our favourite IT news website to find out about new and interesting technologies - we hardly need The Register to tell us about them.

Oh, wait...

Prat.

2011's Best... DSLRs

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@EddieD

Got to agree with you about old glass. I use a 550D and probably my favourite lens at the moment is an old Olympus Zuiko 50mm f1.4 which I picked up for £38, cleaned up and married to my Canon with an adaptor. It may need manual focus but the results blow the 10x more expensive Canon EF 50mm f1.4 out of the water.

I'm getting good results with some old Pentax K series mount lenses as well, for macro work I'm loving a Canon FD 50mm f1.4.

It's getting to the point where I hardly ever mount an EF or EF-S lens these days!

Nikon 1 V1 interchangeable lens compact camera

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Catherine Monfils

At least this review is by a professional photographer, so I don't feel quite so bad that the sample shots she's just tossed off for a review put anything I do to shame.

Apple's founding contracts sold for $1.59 MILLION

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What am I missing

"His ten per cent stake in the company would today be worth around $2 billion."

Surely that values Apple at $20 billion. Can someone with a better grasp of business clue me up as to why his stake wouldn't be worth more like $20 billion?

Android malware victims offered free WinPhones by MS

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@Daf L

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.

"...use your common sense..."

You clearly don't work in IT or you wouldn't make that kind of comment.

People using their common sense, you've just made my day!

SSDs choked by crummy disk interfaces

Alex Rose

If you've used an LTO tape drive recently then you've very klikely to have used SCSI recently. Or a server class RAID array for that matter.

Does your smartphone run Carrier IQ? Find out here

Alex Rose

SSL isn't a magic bullet!!?!?!?!?!????!

"an independent researcher has documented secretly monitors users' key presses even when they're entered into webpages protected by the SSL protocol."

Gosh, and there was me thinking that even if I should out my username, password and PIN when logging into my online banking it doesn't matter because the connection between my browser and the server is encrypted.

This is meant to be a technical website, if you think that a keylogger on your machine is going to be prevented from logging just because you are using an HTTPS connection then quite frankly I think you're in the wrong place. And shame on the Reg for such Daily Mail-esque reporting.

Samsung Galaxy Note

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@piran

Gosh, if only that had been covered in the article, then you wouldn't have needed to waste your time asking here.

IDC: Google needs DEEP tablet price slash to crack Apple

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@Peter 48

I reckon the main reason that the iPod is selling vast quantities versus android tablets it that the former is a music player and the latter is a tablet.

Kit-Kat bars sell in vastly greater quantities than aircraft carriers but that's hardly a slamming indictment of aircraft carriers.

Olympus PEN Mini E-PM1

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@ql

I'm going to second that.

I'm so often put to shame by the photos reviewers on this site use for their sample shots that I keep thinking I should just give up and put the DSLR away!

Women love phone cams, for snapping pics of cute babies

Alex Rose

I think you've wasted your time Anna

"4) Women like phones with cameras so they can take pictures of babies because all women have babies and that's what they like to use technology for."

I don't think you needed to bother to point out the problems with an article that claims that "all women have babies"

Clearly written by idiots, I wouldn't bother worrying about them!

P.S. My wife loves taking pictures of our daughter with her iPhone. Me, I prefer to use a camera, so I think it's fair to say that women don't own cameras.

Truly unlimited mobile for $19: How can it be true?

Alex Rose

@JeffyPooh

Read the article again.

Too rude for the road: DVLA hot list of banned numberplates

Alex Rose

They are still there...

...at least the plates are, last time I went past they were on a Bentley and an Aston.

Facebook boss-lady is up the pole on the glass ceiling

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@HairyArsenal

I would have agreed with everything you wrote if Matt hadn't used the phrase "For me, personally" - *personally* is the key here.

Alex Rose

?????

I can only assume that we are reading different articles. Can you explain where Matt made any sort of "woe-is-me" noises?

Minnow Android slab maker BEATS Apple in court

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@Ioan

I'm not going to have a go at you unlike others here.

However I'd like you to take a trip on a train, walk down a city street, sit in a bar and drink a beer, laze in a coffee shop and surf the free wi-fi and whilst doing all those things see how many people are using their iPhones, iPads and Macs.

And then reflect on your statement "Yes, I am willing to spend money to be more individual of course "

The sad thing for you is that you are spending more to be just like everybody else. :(

One of the reasons I'm glad I prefer the non-Apple varieties of my chosen tech is that I don't want to be a sheep.

The Register Guide on how to stay anonymous (part 1)

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@P. Lee

I chuckled sir. I chuckled hard!

Public transport 'is bad for commuters' health'

Alex Rose

Why is Mr Page still getting paid to write this tabloid rubbish on here?

Probably because people like you continue to read it resulting in ad revenue for the business. I *think* it's called capitalism, or something like that.

Nokia takes NFC phones to New York subway

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"If it ain't American, it ain't happening"

Well I've read the article and I'm still none the wiser as to what the hell the strapline means.

Can anybody enlighten me? Am I being thick?

Father-of-three attacked teen after Call of Duty jibes

Alex Rose

"Its all fun and games until someone turns up at your front door."

Or as my old Nan used to say "It's all shits and giggles until someone giggles and shits!"

Gulf of California terrorized by ONE-EYED MUTANT SHARK!

Alex Rose

Holoprosencephaly

This is most likely a case of holoprosencephaly. Only do a google image search of holoprosencephaly if you feel like losing your lunch.

More info about this picture is available at Cracked, it's number 4 in this list-based article http://www.cracked.com/article_19466_the-6-most-mind-blowing-things-ever-caught-by-fishermen.html

And seriously, DO NOT do a Google Image Search for holoprosencephaly!

Forza 4

Alex Rose

Hush child. Let the adults get on with their grown-up talk.

If you want to play the "my game/computer/phone's better than your game/computer/phone" game then perhaps you should save it for the playground.

The iPhone 4S in depth: More than just a vestigial 'S'

Alex Rose

Siri innovative? I guess you don't remember the Wildfire service offered by Orange about 10 years ago.

You are right, it is like video calling - something that's been around for ages that Apple claim is a new innovation of theirs.

Android outsells Apple 2:1

Alex Rose

By "barely win" do you mean outsell 2 to 1?

In the interests of full disclosure I personally use Android but have no problem paying for Apple kit for my wife as that's what she likes. What I do have a problem with is people dissembling (aka "lying").

By all means point out that Apple's figures are very impressive given that they are made up of only 1 phone versus x number of Android models - I'll listen to an argument like that.

Resort to misrepresentation and I'll call you out for the idiot you are!

Banks face e-payments antitrust probe

Alex Rose

I'm guessing neither of the first 2 commenters read the article, as if they had they would be trying to identify the complainant by trying to identify who GAINS from a more open e-payments system!

Windows 8 secure boot would 'exclude' Linux

Alex Rose

"ALL computing already IS a dozen times more secure and trusted than anything MS has to foist on the world."

In "ALL computing" do you include Windows computing?

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