Posts by A. Lewis

Not only filming it.

I'd bet as soon as he finished recording he twittered or tweeted or whatever the term is.

No comparison

It always mildly annoys me when I see reports comparing CD buying to music downloads. They're not the same thing at all to my mind.

If I buy a song off itunes, that's all I get, that song. I can put it on my ipod, or play it on my computer perhaps.

If I go to a shop and buy a CD I get a complete package: That song, plus a bunch of others that go with it. I also get a physical object I can keep, show or lend to people. I can take it in the car, play it on any (reasonably modern) hi-fi, etc. etc. I also get a booklet of album art and often all the song lyrics printed out.

I know digital music technology is becoming ubiquitous, so the 'I can take a CD places' comment doesn't really stand up, but an album is still a whole object that is greater than just a given song.

RE: What is the point.

Hollerith1: No gay jokes, casual or otherwise?

Surely that's discrimination. In out IT department we joke about *everything*. Why should we exclude gay folk?

More pointless, rambling bile from Mr Dziuba

Why do you chaps at vulture central continue to give this stuff screen space?

What?!

No really... What?

I think I'm imagining things, because a council awarding an education certificate for getting on a bus is just ludicrous.

Come on folks...

I was about to post a similar 'can we have a full version with EXIF / more camera details' comment, then I realised: hang on, I'm a geek, this is the internet.

Presto manifesto: Bill has the file on flickr, along with the full metadata:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/billius/3813200097/meta/

Badgers paws? Don't mind if I do!

That would be interesting.

If Dell started selling systems with MacOS, the boys in Redmond really would have to worry. That is, unless of course Dell added Apple's 'premium' to the price too. I can't see it happening either way though. It's always been the case that you can't buy MacOS except on a mac, or buy a mac without MacOS (I know, boot camp etc. but you get the idea). That's part of what sets Apple apart from the down and dirty, any-OS-or-none-at-all world of modern PC sales. And I can't see why Apple would want to change that.

I think these photos though are either a hoax, a bored best buy employee messing about with the stock, or possible even a returned product that someone hacked and that found its way back onto the shelves.

Wow.

And so portable!

I'm ordering five...

Oh dear...

So they've actually stopped trying to compete with IE now? Are they just going for a second-rate copy of it instead?

That looks incredibly ugly, and the menus look like they suffer from the same terrible design as IE. If that's the way FF is going I might actually go back to IE!

Hehe...

Good stuff. Nice to see the word twatdangle bandied around again!

Really though, I don't mean to marginalise the problems of starving folks, but it seems a little odd to have an apparently high-profile charity for feeding the most obese nation on earth!

Paris because of the mention of shameless self-promotion.

Good grief...

The sorts of things they come up with (and presumably somehow acquire funding) for studies never ceases to amaze me.

Personally I would interpret the results that the people who were told "swear your head off" were so amused by it that they were in a better state of mind to endure.

Worms.

Apparently...

According to Dr Timothy Wood, freshwater bryozoa expert:

"They are clumps of annelid worms, almost certainly tubificids (Naididae, probably genus Tubifex). Normally these occur in soil and sediment, especially at the bottom and edges of polluted streams. In the photo they have apparently entered a pipeline somehow, and in the absence of soil they are coiling around each other. The contractions you see are the result of a single worm contracting and then stimulating all the others to do the same almost simultaneously, so it looks like a single big muscle contracting. Interesting video."

This has been mentioned on all the other blogs that've posted this. Why no mention on El Reg?

What rubbish.

Two pages of bile including incredibly low-budget annotated screenshots which just serve to highlight the author's inexplicable grudge against google.

I personally think it's good that google try these things, whether they work or not. I'm sure more helpful members of the public than this 'writer' can actually contribute and help them improve the project.

Hmmmm

I find it interesting that if such an attack had been directed against, say: Oxfam, or maybe the Red Cross, it'd be shocking and contemptible. I would decry it as an example of the reason botnets need to be cleaned up and so forth.

However when it happens to the BNP, I struggle to feel any sympathy, and start to wonder if perhaps the murky side of the internet doesn't have its better points.

Paris - she can identify with suddenly being deprived of technology after all of those phones.

I hope it works better than Sony Ericsson's attempts.

I have an accelerometer in my SE phone, which is just supposed to change the screen orientation for web browsing, and let you skip tracks with a shake of the phone when playing music.

Neither feature works very well. The inbuilt web browser often just flips the screen at random, and requires a vigorous frustrated shake to try and make it get back to the right way up. The music player track skip too works more often by accident than design.

Paris, because she is happy for you to flip her any way up.

Thanks...

One more thing to keep me from sleeping!

I say we take pre-emptive action and exterminate them when they reach, say, a metre long.

@Lee Dowling

Hear hear!

That's the gist of what I was going to comment after reading this article! :)

I await with interest finding out what MS are going to do support-wise and update-wise for XP given that this latest move essentially prolongs its life for at least as long as they support Windows7.

Arf!

Nice one...

Good stuff

I've been using the JJ beta for a little while, and even on my underpowered home PC it's impressively nippy. OS startup is under 35 seconds, and shutdown a bit quicker than that!

Or....

How about you keep whoever does the best work and lay off the others?

Too crazy?

Wow

A whole 88 kids. Gosh. I am truly underwhelmed.

This passes for a scientific study?

Why why why?!

Even XP's Home vs Pro was a bit much in my opinion. Why bother? Why not just one version, and slap a wizard on the front of 'add/remove windows features' that allows you to select the feature set most appropriate to your needs.

I was warming to Windows 7, but this puts me off!

Advert on this story

I just saw an ad at the side of this story for computertan.com - selling a new technology that can give you a tan through your monitor. Surely this is a joke... Right?

As opposed to...

All those phones with only exist in two dimensions? I hate those, the keys are always really fiddly.

Wow

So wikipedia are starting to realise that "anyone can edit" does not an authoratative 'encyclopaedia' make.

That's only a few years after everyone else realised that.

Same old same old.

It's just art vs pornography again.

The proud mothers who insist everyone should know what a free spirit they are say it's a beautiful display of the mother-child bond.

The prudes and the hand-wringing-worriers-about-the-children say it's pornography because it shows the naked breast.

The debate is philosophical, and just goes to show that whatever the issue: people are just basically argumentative sods.

But if you're posting to a website you need to abide by the rules of that site, and the rules say it's not allowed. Come on people, it's not hard..

Again!

You have violated the rules of club reg:

All! Stories! About! Yahoo! Must! Exlaim! Every! Word! Of! The! Headline!

Heh

I like the Reg trend of adding 'tard' as a suffix to any noun to make is more descriptive. It's very non-PC, which is probably why I like it!

Yes!

I like this idea. But to be honest, I don't think it'll be that useful for me.

Now if they could make an app for my phone to stop me sending those texts that I always regret, I'd buy it!

It surely wouldn't be hard to make the phone recognise when it takes me more than four attempts to spell each word, and just quietly ignore my requests to 'send' and instead consign the message to a holding area for my mortified review the next morning.

Oh dear...

You broke one of the rules of Club Reg!

Any story about Yahoo! Must! Exclaim! Every! Word! In! The! Headline!

*shakes head sadly*

This article made me die a little inside.

I shall get my coat, mine's the one with the dictionary in the pocket.

Woo for laptots!

I noticed this one in maplin the other day. I don't think it looks as good as others, aesthetics-wise. Can't argue with that price though!

Still, I'll stick with my EEE.

Oh dear.

I'm used to this sort of thing on the beeb, but I really did expect better from El Reg. Taking a half-arsed survey that basically confirmed common sense and pretending its a story? Such a pity to see decline even at Reg Towers.

Oh deary me.

Just when you thought web company names couldn't get any worse. Cuil? Seriously? It sounds like a disease.

Wot no powermonkey?

I can't believe it didn't make the list. Any travelling gadget fan surely would like to replace the bundle of different chargers and international adapters with a pocket-sized power module that fits pretty much everything and can solar-charge itself.

www.powermonkey.co.uk

I don't mean to knit-pick

But wear is the IT angle? It must've had you in stitches at Reg central I'm sure, but I think these cast-off Sun yarns are purly rubbish.

I feel I should join in...

With the sentiments expressed by other posters. I don't see why you would install XP on your EEE unless you had specific apps to run. If that is the case, why did you buy a linux laptop? I've yet to see any common task the EEE (with its stock OS) can't do, and do well.

Admittedly I replaced the stock OS on mine with ubuntu, but that's because I'm a fiddler and like changing things for the sake of it. I do intend to go back to the slightly more performant Xandros though.

@David

I was thinking venerous, meaning 'lustful'. But I think your term is probably more appropriate!

Paris because... I really don't have to explain do I?