Re: "now I have to walk an hour to work"
all DLR stations have a ticket machine or three, just sayin'
Posts by Samo
32 posts • joined 19 Jun 2009
London's Oyster card website still down after 12-hour outage
Philips Fidelio AS851 speaker
BT cable ballsup hooks up punters to wrong numbers
El Reg in email address blunder
Elixir 2
Treasury considers Coins replacement
Is it all over for Mars Rover?
LimeWire knackered by US courts
Tuesday 18th May 2010 09:19 GMT 
My first thought?
"OH F!ck Off!!!"
Next up, hold car companies responsable for the idiots who speed and cause vehicular manslaughter... After all, without the car, they can't possibly speed can they?!
Oh, while you're at it, gun manufacturers, alcohol companies, rewrite-able media manufacturers etc etc ad nausem.
Grenade, because those manufacturers need to be sued too!
BOFH: Forgive and forget
Yahoo! hires! ex-Microsoft! Windows! Live! man!
Ash cans flights for another day
Death row inmate claims allergy to lethal injection
Transport for London gobbles up Oyster
Wednesday 14th April 2010 11:09 GMT
HK Octopus Card
It's strange, because Red Ken went over there and bought back a few things from HK, including the RFID card, which I admittedly love.
a small correction / expansion of a point, though: The Octopus card can be used as payment - and be topped up - in a couple of chains, such as 7-eleven and McDonalds. It''s not limited to any one type of item, just places.
Personally, I like the Oyster card, as those blimmin' paper ones used to disappear in the pocket quicktime, but not as happy with Big Brother being able to track my every movement...
Seagate preloads FreeAgent Go with 20 Paramount movies
BT fibre upgrades hit full speed
Brits take iTablet moniker for 12in iPad rival
Apple's iPad - fat iPhone without the phone
Thursday 28th January 2010 11:12 GMT
@Jai Multitaking
So, no need for multitasking for Joe Bloggs web surfing?
So, I take it you don't have any friends online then, as you won't use an IM client whilst web surfing, as that won't run in the background giving you notifications that some one has IM'd you?
Similarly, if you were in an email chain, collaborating on a document, say, you won't be notified of a new email that came in whilst you were editing the document (apparently, you *might* first party apps working in the bacground, so this point may be moot).
there are many things you might want to run in the background, which need to be running to give you notifications.
I'm not saying it's a life or death feature to have (although I certainly want it personally), but saying multi-tasking is not required because it's not on Apple's new Jesus Pad is just gulping down Jobs' Kool Aid.
U2 frontman bitchslapped by TalkTalk
Tuesday 5th January 2010 16:27 GMT
Re: As it was then...
Hell yeah! Off the top of my head at consumer level: -
-Online gaming,
- Streaming of HD movies / TV Shows (see Korea for example)
- HD quality video messenging.
- Cloud computing in the future?
Then, at a business level: -
- Video Conferencing,
- File sharing (as in CAD drawings, projects, etc) between remote sites,
- Remote HD presentations (uhm, if they are still used)
I'm sure if I thought about it more, I would find more consumer level reasons, but those are the ones I use in some kind of way (online gaming, SD iplayer, and SD skype, for example... Lowly 2Mb speed here :( )
Google flirts with new-look home page
Thursday 26th November 2009 12:20 GMT 
Old fashioned
Meh, call me old fashioned, but I like the old (current) one more. The whole point of the Google look was that it's spartan, not much... Just my search results, and a choice to choose between web / images / videos etc will be fine, no need to ass a sidebar that does exactly the same thing.
Doctor investigated for posting inkblots to Wikipedia
Model-slag blogger sues Google for blowing her cover
Monday 24th August 2009 15:43 GMT 
Hang On a minute
What did she expect Google to do, do time in the slammer for contempt of court?????
How can she poossibly sue Google for complying with the courts?? Sure, if they gave it up because the model asked for it, sue 'em, but it's a whole 'nother matter when it's a big bad court demanding it.
Can any lawyers among us shed some light on the technical deets?
Microsoft, Amazon, Yahoo! to join anti-Googlebook war
Monday 24th August 2009 10:40 GMT
@Harry Percival
I have to disagree with a point you made there; if I ran a service, why should I have run this service for my competitors for free? Like you said, it costs hardly peanuts to scan in the books, so why should big companies like MS or Y! have someone else do all the leg work and reap the benefits?
I have to agree with the big G on this point, "if" (big if) the agreement is non-exclusive, then it just paves the way for anyone to scan in books, and make a business model out of what basically a libary does, but online. G wants to get money via ads, but Ms could charge say, 1op a read of a book...
Don't see the problem here, on this particular part of the debate.
HTC Hero Android smartphone
Monday 10th August 2009 13:18 GMT 
Got one now (T-Moby G2 Touch)
I've had the Hero (rebranded on T-Moby) for a week or so now, and it's a nice phone, and felt the review was spot on. Main gripes are a slow processor, and stupid portrait keyboard, and no way to calibrate the screen?
Other than that, loving it, wanting to splash a little cash on the market, but nothing caught my eye yet! No idea how they charge, does anyone know?
Google not liable for defamatory search snippets
Friday 17th July 2009 23:06 GMT
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It gives me food for thought, though. It makes me shudder if Google had done what MIS had wanted in taking down the snippet, as wouldn't that construe as censoring the Internet? If I type Google review", for example, i damn well want to see both sides of the arguement, not just the "Google is golden" reviews...
Still, nice to know that some judges have common sense AND a glimmer of tech know-how.
Apple's panties in bunch over Microsoft ads
Builder blacklist boss hit with £5,000 fine
Google polishes Chrome into netbook OS
Wednesday 8th July 2009 11:48 GMT
@AC re: @Samo
@samo #
By Anonymous Coward Posted Wednesday 8th July 2009 10:09 GMT
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Sigh..........
does that make x86 86bit processors?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X86
I doubt you need Itaniums (IA64) to surf the web...."
I do know that x86 are the old chips, and the new ones are x64. Seems like you don't. Not once did I say x86 are 86bit, but x64 currently ARE 64bit (unless I'm sorely mistaken).
If you want to play the wiki game:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X64
Taken from above wiki:
"Intel 64 is Intel's implementation of x86-64. It is used in newer versions of Pentium 4, Pentium D, Pentium Extreme Edition, Celeron D, Xeon and Pentium Dual-Core processors, and in all versions of the Core 2, and Intel Core i7 processors."
You sir, are acting a foo'.
Wednesday 8th July 2009 09:23 GMT
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"Google Chrome OS, as it is currently known, promises to be quick to boot up and secure. It will run on x86 and ARM chips."
What, no love for x64 chips, a la 64bit processing?
Also, does anyone else think that an OS and a browser coming from the same developer with the same name will cause confusion to average plebs?
In all honesty, I really hope this goes well for them, as another competitor (at least, another big competitor) is always a good thing.
