* Posts by Miek

1574 publicly visible posts • joined 19 Jun 2009

Samsung specs up 7in Android tablet

Miek

Sub 10" just 'aint enough

Looks lovely but too small. I am personally waiting for 10"+ tablets.

Apple livestreaming heralds Jobs-to-fanboi brain-linking

Miek
Linux

Re:blah blah blah

"let's just get back to doing something worthwhile while the 'coloured crayon brigade' oooh and ahhh about the jobsian packaged version of something we've been doing for ages."

'Coloured Crayon Brigade': You've made my day :)

Fennec squeezes into Android users' pockets

Miek
FAIL

It's here

http://blog.mozilla.com/blog/2010/08/27/fennec-alpha-released-for-android-and-nokia-n900/

Mozilla have provided a nice handy "fennec.install" file that doesn't seem to work with android.

Mozilla shrugs off 'forever free' H.264 codec license

Miek

title?

What no one seems to be concerned about is that for anyone who wants to pump out some home videos on their website or on youtube they will be safe from the MPEG-LA vampires when they encode with H264, but if they set up their own website to deliver their home movies and charge for them; they will need a license, an expensive license. You may think that this will not affect you in the slightest -- until your snazzy website and it's H264 videos bag you some advertising cash and then you will have provided H264 video and received remuneration for that delivery. MPEG-LA says Money Please.

If the open-source aspect of WebM is unshakeable in terms of attack from patent pools then it will survive and flourish. Stubborn device and software makers will ensure the future of H264.

Miek
FAIL

title?

"Everyone seems to conveniently forget a little thing called Blu-ray"

Um, nope, Blu-Ray is a Disc Technology. Likewise DVD is a disc Technology and not an encoding format nor a video container format in itself.

Microsoft Windows glider crashes

Miek
FAIL

Fantastic

Really fantastic, that thing went down like a sack of shit. Rather funny after all the lycra clad dancing and the bizarre soundtrack.

So much for the phoenix.

Nokia gets into analytics

Miek
Joke

lmao

only 3 Nokia users then.

Google plots pre-Christmas Chrome OS iPad killer

Miek
Unhappy

Title A is required

"Google will have a spec-tastic, low-cost, possibly even free Chrome OS tablet in punters' hands a month before Christmas, it has been claimed."

Yipee ...

"And now the bad news: it's likely to be only available in the US, and if you want to get the tablet for a lot less than the iPad, you'll need to take out a Verizon data airtime deal."

bugger :(

Booze makes you clever, having none makes you stupid

Miek

Who's Mick

Who's Mick ?

Miek
Coat

Re: Alcohol Is extremely dangerous

Glad to see that all your "Moderate Wine Drinking" has helped you to identify my facetious comment.

My remark was mainly due the very un-scientific assumptions and conclusions presented by the researches, which several posters have pointed out.

The reference to me being a politician is about as close as anyone came to "getting" my joke ;)

Miek

Title

Nope, guess again

Miek

My Cognitive Skills are fine thanks ;)

The post is required, and must contain letters.

Miek
FAIL

SO

So, Alcohol is still extremely harmful, what good is a few extra brain cells if you have no liver?

Virgin Media to warn malware-infected customers

Miek
Joke

Fantastic

"Dear Mr Spa Stick,

It has come to our attention that you have been pwned (lol) by internet terrorists. Possibly acting on behalf of the cyber paedophile and drug smuggling group Anonymous, which we believe to be paid operatives of the Chinese government. As you may know, Anonymous has over 9000 hackers on steroids and are working round the clock to steal your internets.

As a concerned third party, we at Virgin Media have put together a comprehensive security regime that has been independently verified by Gordon Brown himself (the man who invented the internet). Simply follow these three rules and you will be 100% secure:

1. When you see a black cat, throw salt over your modem.

2. Consider buying Windows 7 (again if you already have it).

3. Reinstall your internets from the latest version of the AOL CD.

If you follow these simple rules and still feel the urge to pay us an extra £6 a month, we offer a fantastic new service with trained call center operators in Bangladesh who can tell you how to use your start menu and many other exciting computer science topics.

Yours Sincerely,

Virgin Media"

absolutely fantastic, although it did seem to be missing the usual "Greetings in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;" tag-line at the start.

ASA: You can't say 'f**k'

Miek

Cry babies

Wah Wah, I was offended. They are Funking Idiots.

New 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' demand £50 a day

Miek
Joke

£26.65*

Is that before or after tax ?

iPhone users get more sex than Android fans

Miek
Linux

Tosh...

Apple users are immune to viral threats -- or so they keep asserting, much to my amusement.

Microsoft digs Macs in back-to-school ads

Miek
Linux

Wow

I look forward to the Mactaliation, should be almost as hilarious as this.

Miek

All over again

It's the GM Vs MS joke again, run for cover.

I always preferred BMW's slight on microsoft : "Our Hardware runs better without windows"

Vodafone upsets customers with upgrade downgrade

Miek
FAIL

fyi

this is actually not the 2.2 update. it's still 2.1-update1 only with vodafone bundled crapware.

I'm on the phone to voda-tech support who are apparently going to give me the number to contact google for the software update -- yeah right.

Miek

Um nope

Android is still no where near as encumbered as an iPhone, The Voda 360 apps are not that intrusive and you can stop the 360 service so that it does not pester you. It's annoying that I have apps installed that I do not want or will never use but it's not really that much of an issue.

Poisoned Angelina flick hits torrents

Miek

I agree with AC

Who uses Quicktime ?

Is it all over for Mars Rover?

Miek
Joke

Why the title is required, and why it must contain letters and/or digits?

We are now collecting old clothes and blankets to send as aid to the poor rover for it's sterling service.

http://xkcd.com/695/

Opening UK cyber-security challenge cracked

Miek

Totally Easy

"Those who sent cipher answers: Thx for amazing response. Lots right, lots wrong"

Yep, totally easy. Looked like base64, used online decoder and bam it had a JFIF header. I expect they will have received many small jokes in the form of an image.

Has anyone gone a little further to see if there's any other hidden information, steganography techniques anyone ?

Miek
Joke

Hidden message

Perhaps the hidden message is that our government supports torture using a $5 wrench?

Android's UK phone sales quadruple

Miek
Joke

Try reading the Reviews on Register

head on over to http://www.theregister.co.uk

NASA, Microsoft offer new 3D Mars maps

Miek
FAIL

Point ?

Wow, microsoft have re-invented Google Earth using Silverlight ; how innovative.

Famous 'Invisible Gorilla' trick vid gets sequel

Miek
Thumb Up

Damn

Saw the gorilla and the team member leave - didn't see the curtain change colour nor how many passes the white team made.

Council of Europe condemns teen-bothering Mosquito

Miek
Thumb Down

Works on me

I can hear sounds (although faint) in the 18-20kKHz range and I am 29. If I were to find one in my town centre; it would certainly get smashed to pieces.

Jobs tells iPhone users to get a grip

Miek
Coat

Fact of life !?

Doesn't appear to be a problem for my HTC Desire.

Suicide Girls whip out iPhone 4

Miek
Joke

Flip-Strip Pulled from the App Store

Why was it pulled, the tits on flip-strip are far less offensive than the tits at Cupertino ;)

Apple accuses HTC of iPhone tech theft (again)

Miek
FAIL

Do we really need a title for our ranting?

Steve Jobs "Style" is directly derived from Captain Picard. A little bit sad really.

Google's Android market needs Jobsian strongman

Miek

lol

"The market bread indifference" -- good one

Apple revamps Mac Mini as skinny HDMI box

Miek
FAIL

Still the same...

.... All the useful interface ports located at the rear -- FAIL

Ubuntu tablet threat to iPad? Nah

Miek
Unhappy

What a shame

That's a damn shame, I will have to wait for the windowsy tablets to arrive then defile it with Ubuntu designed for desktops instead of for tablets

Apple lifts iPhone code ban (for chosen few)

Miek
FAIL

Fail-o-rama

This stinks of a monoply, but that's why I bought an android device. Works just as well, if not better (for me). It definitely has more features including Flash, which works really well despite Job's "Claims".

I can create whatever I want for my device and other's without having to purchase a developer license and without having to be shafted in the arse by the Picard-emulating Jobs. I don't have to worry that my legitimate business may be eradicated by the Apple police overnight over some childish inter-industry spat and not be able to challenge the reasoning at all.

Owner of Russia's biggest breasts sues over airline buffeting

Miek
WTF?

wtf!??

She got the damn implants, she should sue herself.

BT quotes pensioner £150,000 to get broadband

Miek
FAIL

Quite Cheap

For BT

Terence Conran slams 'appalling' Olympic mascots

Miek
FAIL

Wow, inspired

Did they actually employ pixar or just rip-em-off ?

Google programming Frankenstein is a Go

Miek
FAIL

Oh Dear

Take a "Dangerously typed" language and mash-it-up with a language that gets anal about whitespace and what do you get?

Coalition agreement website exposes database password

Miek
Linux

MySQL

They are using MySQL rather than MSSQL so that's a nod in the OS direction surely.

Google open sources $124.6m video codec

Miek
Linux

A Title is probably required

"Despite Google's move, the future of web video is still unclear. Apple and Microsoft have backed the patented H.264 standard and have no intention of moving to an open codec"

the future of web video is looking a lot clearer to me. It's not unusual for companies to back away from prior backings, such as the Toshiba HD DVD format war.

Grow-lamps roast Yorkshire dope farmer in his sleep

Miek
Flame

um

38 Degrees is for wussies. I have been to hotter places.

Apple patent filing portends Google ad war

Miek
FAIL

Stupid

This should not be patentable. Ridiculous American Patent System.

HTC slaps back at Apple patent slap

Miek
Linux

That deal ...

That deal between $MS and HTC was likely due to (but not limited to) the Microsoft Exchange support that HTC included in it's phones along with FAT32 ;)

Apple building its own Flash, says rogue Tweeter

Miek
Thumb Down

Gianduia

Sounds like a sexual disease.

Vodafone to introduce out-of-bundle data charges

Miek

hmmm

Does that mean they won't be able to call the mobile broadband element of their package "Unlimited" at all whatsoever ?

Vote Lib Dem, doom humanity to extinction

Miek
FAIL

Um...

Sorry to burst your little bubble but, America (Lockheed & Martin) provide us with the Trident. It is unlikely we will be sending them back to the USA "With Love"

Miek

Thanks

For the scare tactics I'll be sure to ignore you Lewis.

Miek

Nuclear Non-proliferation

We should be looking to reduce our Nuclear "Arsenal" rather than extending it into the future. What good are the Six party talks if the countries lobbying for non proliferation are gearing up to renew extremely expensive and relatively ineffective nuclear weapons.

I agree with Nick.