Posts by jonathanb

Re: It's Linux, all over again

In the red corner there is the iPad.

In the blue corner there are slabs that are either

o Cheaper than the iPad and not as good as it

o The same price as the iPad and not as good

o More expensive than the iPad and not as good

o The Asus E-transformer

When you consider that, the iPad is not expensive. That's why it is doing so well in the fondleslab market. For some people, the cheaper and not as good slabs will be good enough, or they may prefer the Asus offering's ability to transform into a mini-laptop; for everyone else, there is the iPad.

Re: Foreign lorries

Yes I do, and I know my weight in kg. However, I seem to be pretty much along among the natives here in that respect.

Re: Should we read:

They would make their money from the data roaming fees charged to any Frogs or other foreigners who feel the need to announce on Twitter and Facebook that they are now in the Tunnel.

Re: Secure?

It is actually more difficult to completely remove all traces of a pencil mark than it is to remove all traces of ink. That's why pencils are used.

Re: How does this work over there?

Every new O2 contract has unlimited SMS messages, and the cheapest is about £10 per month. I haven't look, but I guess other operators offer similar deals.

Re: Re: Re: Seriously, Proview?

They wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they had sold the trademark to them with the agreement that they don't use it to compete with Apple. Apple didn't sell them the trademark, so it is a completely different situation. Having said that, Apple don't own the trademark to Apple in the records business. The Beetles own it.

Re: Re: Re: Re: typical big business

No, because O2 don't use them. But if O2 did use them, the money they get to pay them comes from me.

Re: Re: Just another attempt

The BBC doesn't get a free internet connection. They have to pay for bandwidth too for all the videos they upload.

Re: So will the next innovation in spam be...

He'd probably get round to it when people can't use the internet connection because it is on every blacklist there is, or the ISP disconnects them for violations of the AUP.

Much the same as an Equality and Diversity Co-ordinator. A civil service non-job.

Re: @ the-it-slayer

And also, as he doesn't do porn, not even 18 rated movies in Virgin Megastores any more, he isn't allowed to register a .xxx domain.

Re: Goldman Sachs and Open Source

If it was a mix of GPL software and Goldman Sachs' proprietary software, they wouldn't be able to sell it without releasing the whole thing as GPL. But Goldman Sachs didn't sell the software, they only used it internally, so licensing issues would not be a problem. It will be the same for any other licence that complies with the Free Software Foundation's "Freedom 0" - the right to use the software for any purpose.

Re: Not hard to beat Apotheker...

I thought HP's core business was the sale of printer ink and manufacturing printers that use it.

Re: I didn't read the article

You put in your symptoms and in return you get one of three results

OMG!!! U'RE ABT 2 DI!!! CALL 999 NOW!!!

It appears you may have a problem, please leave your number and an NHS Direct Nurse will call you to advise on the situation.

There's nothing wrong with you, you hypochondriac, get a minor ailments consultation at your pharmacy tomorrow morning.

Re: Not quite

Presumably they are showing the left eye on the BBC HD channel and the right eye on BBC 1 HD or something similar, and the TV combines the two? A bit like in 1925 when the BBC broadcast their first stereo transmission by broadcasting the left ear on long wave and the right ear on medium wave.

Re: How does their salary compare ...

$8 gets 3.28 big macs, compared with 2.09 big macs in the UK.

Source http://www.economist.com/blogs/graphicdetail/2012/01/daily-chart-3

From el Reg's standards converter, the sizes in the order you listed them are

1.45, 1.27 and 1.76 Linguine.

Virgin Media has problems with cable theft, and their network is fibre optic. Criminals just see cable and rip it up not really caring or knowing what it is.

Also, you can't just put a fibre optic cable in place of a copper cable. You need different stuff at either end of the line, and a much bigger green cabinet in the street to house it. If you want to get the phone lines up and running as quickly as possible, replacing all that at the same time isn't really practical.

There is an emergency number that is the same everywhere, or at least pretty much everywhere; it is 112. Perhaps it could be more widely advertised so that people know to automatically dial it in case of emergency when abroad.

Apple's retina display is at least as good as Samsung's OLED screens.

The linux kernel that android and a few other mobile phone platforms are based on is about 21 years old, you can trace the history of the kernel in iOS back to about 35 years ago and the NT kernel is at least 19 years old.

like this case? http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/lifestyle/article-23939717-operation-rize.do

For .uk domains, if you register it as a non-trading individual, you can opt out of having the details made publicly available, apart from your name, so I don't see why you need a proxy registration service.

It's user base. The whole point of things like Skype is that it enables you to communicate with other people, and if everyone you know is using Skype but not other VOIP platforms, you are more likely to use Skype.

Having said that, Skype's share of the entire telecoms market, in particular international calls where there is the biggest saving to be made, is pretty close to saturation point, so their current revenue and growth potential does not justify the money paid for it.

Genesis 1:1-5

In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light: and there was light. And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.

"Let there be light" was god creating the sun, or some argue, the big bang. Dividing the light from the darkness would be god spinning up the planet, or I suppose, all the fragments taking their requisite places after the big bang.

You slightly misquoted the last bit. The first day was from the first sunset to the second sunset, so there was no "day" before the earth existed, rotated and orbited round the newly recently created sun.

Not this time. They get that if they do publish the same ad a second time.

If for example, the business is a small music band that isn't mainstream: If you "like" them, they post details of their gigs on their wall, and their fans get details of them and are more likely to attend.

Mostly they compress images so they are almost unrecognisable. Also makes it faster and use less bandwidth.

The background graphic for that section is an Irish Tricolore, so I expected to see channels like RTE 1&2, TV3 etc, not channels from the British part of the Island.

I guess movie studios tend to hire people for a particular film, then when that film is finished, they go off and work on a different film. You do see actors working on lots of different films for different studios over the course of their career.

On the marketing and distribution side, and the people who decide which movies to produce, I suppose it could be a different matter.

Wee Timmy knows a lot more about firewalls than his parents do.

"Dear Ascio Technologies Inc [registrars of theregister.co.uk domain name]

I declare under penalty of perjury that I own the trademark for headings with white text on a red background. El-Reg is infringing on my trademark, and I demand that you take down their website domain name immediately.

That is the sort of thing we will see a lot more of if this law goes through, and yes, people claiming damages etc for infringement of works where they don't own the copyright is a big problem. It happens in this country as well, as reported a few days ago on this very website http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/16/crossley_banned_for_two_years/

JCB not only major credit card?

I would go further than that and say that JCB is not a major credit card. Here in the UK, I see the JCB logo in shop windows next to the Visa, Mastercard and Amex logos, but I've never actually seen one of them.

Unlike Comet, who had, on the product description card next to the computer

Dual Core Processor - enables you to run two programs at the same time