Ah the Facebile phone, anyone going to buy one ? Anyone ?
Posts by Miek
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Operators look on in horror as Facebook takes mobe users Home
Furious Stephen Fry blasts 'evil' Reg and 'TW*T' Orlowski
"However, he didn't seem entirely unruffled, calling your correspondent a "Twat" and The Register "cruel and vicious" during a series of Tweets, which also referred to a Mr "Orlowsky"." -- Well, I may dislike Stephen Fry, but, I can't fault his assessment and to be fair, it's the Cruel and Vicious reporting I come here for.
Movie, TV ads annoying? You ain't seen nothin' yet
Re: There's a place in Hell....
I suspect that the idea of Hell (for an advertising shill) would be being forced to watch TV without any adverts at all, just thinking of all that airtime not being monetised will drive them crazy.
On another note, do you think that Hell would accept these bastards ?
""The whole industry has rallied to find ways in which to make advertising more compelling and deliver more value to the audience,"" -- Sadly, for all their efforts, they came up with nothing and so we are back to just yelling the brand at the audience, hoping it will lodge somewhere in their brain.
Nokia deflates Google's video codec thought bubble
Amazon boss salvages Apollo engines from watery grave
Crack Bombe squad dismantles Reg encryption in an hour
AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play
Carrie Fisher dusts off THAT bikini for Star Wars VII
Next Windows 8 version can ditch bits of Metro
"What then to make of the fact that the next release of Windows 8 will make it possible to remove some aspects of TIFKAM from the user interface?" - Wait for Windows 9 and see if Microsoft back down in order to get their OS onto business computers which they currently are not able to do with Windows 8.
BRITAIN MUST DECLARE WAR on Cervinaean menace
Canonical announces Mir display server to replace X Windows
Gnome cofounder: Desktop Linux is a CHERNOBYL of FAIL
Apple: OK, we tracked your every move... but let's call it a caching bug, m'kay?
US lawmaker blames bicycle breath for global warming gas
Apple takes aim at accessory makers, files iPad stand patent
McAfee dumps signatures and proclaims an (almost) end to botnets
Microsoft: Office 2013 license is for just one PC, FOREVER
This 320-gigapixel snap of London is size of Buckingham Palace
Own a drone: Fine. But fly a drone with a cam: Year in the clink
Re: RC hobbyists
RC vehicles are /*very*/ popular and with the decrease in cost, improvements in power economy and an overall decrease in weight; attaching cameras to these vehicles is becoming a very common practise.
An example, are the Quadrotor thingies you can buy that can be controlled from your phone, they have a camera installed by default and for good reason; they are easier to fly when you can get an in-flight POV rather than an external observer's POV.
Have a poke around youtube for people attaching cameras to flying stuff and you will find plenty of people doing it.
Also search on Google for "rc controlled helicopter with camera" and you will find many examples of RC choppers with HD cameras included. They don't make these sorts of things unless there is a market for it. Furthermore, the fact that you can buy an RC helicopter with an onboard video camera for less than £50 indicates, to me at least, that there is a substantial market for such 'toys'.
Top Firefox OS bloke flames Opera for WebKit surrender
The upside to the "Webkit Monoculture" is that you have many Companies and individuals contributing to a common codebase. Whilst monocultures can be a "bad thing" in terms of one company controls the code for 'X' software, in this case it is a collaboration success, having Opera's engineers onboard with the project can only be a good thing.
LIVE NOW: Never mind Windows 8, speak your brains on Server 2012
Kiwi Coroner says Coca-Cola helped kill woman
Microsoft 'touches 16k shop workers' to flog Windows 8 hard
Re: "Confusing software and expensive hardware doesn't sell" shocker
"The last thing we need is more hand-waving, or "UI"ercise." -- Are you sure? I'm quite looking forward to watching our end-users trying to write an email by flapping their arms in the air and shouting "Send! Send!".
it would also be nice to actually point to a printer and say "There, look it is connected and turned on you stupid bloody computer"
"But the software giant insisted it is working with retailers and manufacturers to supply hardware that people actually want in time for the peak sales season this spring." -- It's the lack of a decent operating system that's the problem not a lack of decent hardware. I was dissuaded from by a very nice, very shiny Samsung Ultra Book simply because it came with W8 and there were no W7 drivers available on the Sammy website.
Iran develops working ICBM: Intercontinental Ballistic Monkey
Fedora project may expel MySQL
Re: Which ones?
"This is hardly the mass exodus seen from OpenOffice.org to LibreOffice." -- It will be, I already intend to replace my MySQL instances with Maria when the next good opportunity arises and I'm sure many other Linux Admins out there are looking at the Asshole company Oracle and thinking さようなら
Forget bonking, now mobes can buy stuff using pay-by-SQUEAK
"Pay-by-squeak requires two devices with the Alipay Wallet installed, which means Android for the moment though an iPhone version is promised. Using the microphone and speaker, the two devices beep to each other until the transfer has been authenticated." -- Does this also include the three working days it takes the bank to authorise and transfer the funds ?
LIVE TODAY: Windows 8 licensing - Speak your brains, believe your eyes
McDonalds burger app gives it to you straight from the horse's mouth
Top Brit Penguins spurn London Stock Exchange for NYSE
Microsoft to give free TV ad to top-voted Windows Phone 8 app
Media barons threaten to spike UK.gov's audacious copyright grab
Re: No
"However the practice is commonplace among publishers, who then fail to seek permission or pay the unknown rights holder, or syndicate the material as their own. Prosecution is virtually impossible since intent would have to be proved." -- Again, Prove It! No apology forthcoming or required methinks.
-- Quote taken from http://copyrightaction.com/faq/is-iptc-metadata-protected-by-law