* Posts by Mike Brown

594 publicly visible posts • joined 24 May 2007

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Axe falls on Directgov as GOV.UK launches

Mike Brown

Utterly pointless rebranding.

Microsoft Surface: Designed to win, priced to fail

Mike Brown

Re: Fail?

depednds how many tablets they had before they "sold out"; if its 123 there may be a problem.....

Mike Brown

Re: And all Apple has to do ?

Its easy for Apple. Launch iPad Mini, discontinue iPad 2, lower the price of the New iPad to the now defunct iPad 2 level. And bosh, even the strangely named new iPad makes sense; iPad and iPad mini.

Retailer leaks iPad Mini price list starting at £200

Mike Brown

This is obvious.....

They will drop the iPad 2, and possibly cut the price of the new iPad to the old iPad 2 price. Then the name of the new iPad makes sence; you have the iPad and the mini iPad. That also makes sure that the price points arent too far away from each other, that they canabilise each others sales.

Microsoft Surface ad targets preppy, Glee-watching youngsters

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2 different O/S's is going to kill this.

What does RT stand for anyway? Really Terrible?

Jaws restored Blu-ray disc set review

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scareist bit

is the bit on the sunken boat. no shark to be seen!

awesome film. the charecter development is almost 2nd to none.

Is lightspeed really a limit?

Mike Brown

so your plan is to slow down the universe, and then simply walk to alpha centarui? Basicaly a cheats version of FTL? Its inventive, but i suspect horribly flawed.

Mike Brown

Re: Relativity, causality, FTL: Choose two

It depends if time and speed really are linked as we currantly think. To our currant knowledge causality breaks if we acheve FTL, what happens if our currant knowledge is wrong?

So yes your right, but hopefully your also wrong. But you might be right and wrong at the same time...or yesterday.

Apple to spice up Blighty iPads with 4G

Mike Brown

Re: and it will be called?

ipad s3?

new ipad plus?

iipad?

The "oh my god i just sold a kidney for the new ipad, and i dont have any left for the next one" pad

Mike Brown

new ipad 1.5?

What? The ipad 3 was released 6m ago, and they are releasing a new ipad 3 with a new port? Surley thats taking the piss, they must have known about the lightning port months before the new ipad was released.

Don't panic, but UK faces BLACKOUTS BY 2015

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Re: maybe for england....

1. whats your issue here? so we need to apply. great. fill in a few forms, get a doctor to sign our photo, jobs done!

2. What debt? That money was paid to the UK government, who then paid it to UK companies. Certainly not from the BofE to Scottish companies. Scotland dosent actually owe anything, the UK does. Im sure we can throw a few scraps to the UK tho. Times are tough after all.

3. Its not up to the BofE. If a small village in Africa decided to start using sterling as there main currancy, there is nothing the BofE could do.

Scotland has more than enough clout to stand on our own. You can keep your broken Britain.

Mike Brown

Re: The Guardians Solution

I would do, but that seems to be unreadable. CLick on each face? Then click agin agin to bring up another window? WTF? Are they paid per click or somthing?

Mike Brown

Re: maybe for england....

I face nothing. Scotland can be independent. We have the resources, the skill and courage to do so. Once we have independence if the people choose to have someone else rather than Salmond then fair enough. But to dismiss the whole notion of self governence based your dislike for Salmond is niave and short sighted.

Mike Brown

maybe for england....

for the newly independent Scotland, 2015 will bring vast amounts of prosperity, as we sell our abundant hydro electricity to england.

Man charged over alleged April Jones Facebook trolling

Mike Brown

im in 2 minds about this.

On one hand its facebook. Its not real. Its just a social network. I could write that i enjoy dressing up in my wifes underpants, and eating cacti. But that dosent mean its true. Or relevent. Or anything

On the other hand, people seem to think facebook is real. And that posts actually mean something, and have substance. Which i find quite strange.

Momentum builds for iPad Mini launch

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Re: I don't get this size

yes you do, you mentioned it in your comment. its for games and movies.

Cash in the asset: Nokia may flog global headquarters in Espoo

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who will buy it?

Nokia clearly are in a bit of a pickle. So any potential buyer has to run the risk of there new tenants not being there long term. If Nokia cease, or do get Microsoft'ed, where are they going to find a new tennent that requires a global HQ in finland? I reckon this drops potential buyers to almost nil.

FREE mobile data – if you dance for our advertisers, monkeyboy

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seems pointless

In an age where you can get a sim only tarrif for a £5 with 500mb+ on it, this seems like a pointless product. You could miss out all those hoops, just by spending what can be found down the back of a sofa.

TalkTalk's YouView box gets Ab Fab reception

Mike Brown

Re: 'linear television'

If you dont know what it means, then its simply; television.

Steve Jobs backs Amazon from beyond grave in Apple trademark row

Mike Brown

Ive had quite enough of this.....

Im going to open my own app store, and sell apples. Red ones, green ones, pippens, cox's, grannie smiths the lot. If its an apple, I will sell it. That should tie Apples lawyers in so many knots they wont be able to sue anyone else.

New I-hate-my-neighbour stickers to protect Brits' packages

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Re: What to do?

ensure your sticker says "please deliver to (which ever neigbour isnt a nutter) not (which ever neighbour is a nutter), not that i think he is a psychopath or anything, definiitly not. Its just that i think he is quite busy, what with smearing his walls with feaces, and boiling what i assume is the other neigbours cats bones.

Mike Brown

this sounds ripe for abuse

Order numerous small value, unsigned for items, have delivered to neighbour. Contact seller and say they havnt arrived, get sent another batch of items. Get the original items from neighbour. Bingo! You have 2 orders! And the posty pays!

Rumour: Asus rejects $99 Nexus 7... rumour

Mike Brown

really?

el reg is now resorting to reporting what one person has said on the internet? I suppose it gives you a lot of scope to report almost anyhting. I look foward to more stories based on what one perosn has said:

Smoking causes green horns to sprout from heads

The queen is in fact a man

Donkeys used to have an advanced civilistation that was destroyed in an interglatic war

Whales enjoy wii games

Apple plan to start a fruit and veg store

Cant wait to be honest.

RIM shares bounce on BlackBerry 10 optimism

Mike Brown

balance?

sounds good. really good actually.

the only way RIM will survive is if corperates take the new Blackberries. RIM have to hope that they arnt all now suckling from the apple teet

Xbox Live gamers blown offline by 'Virgin Media routing balls-up'

Mike Brown
Mushroom

xbox's pppft. get with the times, get a PS3. its not 2007 anymore.

China plots 2017 mission to plan MOON COLONY

Mike Brown

Bah humbug. Dont bring science into this. This is about little boys making wooshing noises with plastic spaceships!

Anyway, one really good use of a moonbase is to use it as a low gravity staging post to get to mars.

Even slimmer PS3 out next week

Mike Brown

Re: Say what??

Whoops, i ment rear. Not real. Thats just daft. of course they are real, and not mystical, or imaginary. They are certainly not cloud USB ports.

hmmmm I might patent cloud USB.....

Mike Brown

still no real USB ports. Sony must be really against them

HTC hawks fresh WinPho smartphones

Mike Brown

nice phones, shame about the O/S. But slap some android on there, make sure it has an SD slot, and id buy one in heartbeat

NASA working on faster-than-light drive capable of WARP TEN

Mike Brown

Re: no need for ftl

Why would I go back? I can explore the universe at my leisure, one blink at a time. Breakfast at Centarui, lunch at Betelgeuse, then nip over to the Andromeda galaxy for tea!

Mike Brown

no need for ftl

all we need is reliable stasis.

set course for alpha centari, go to sleep. Arrive, wake up. To the traveller this journey has taken less than second.

you can travel the stars, inthe time it takes to blink!

id sign up for this.

Windows 8: Never mind Office, it's for GAMING

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throw money at it!

no it really isnt. MS spent billions buying market share. Fair enough the xbox is now not so failure prone, but it should never have been in the 1st place. Some of the best marketing and spin MS has ever done was convince people to stick with xbox throught the rrod phase, im still amazed people kept buying them!

Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review

Mike Brown

Re: USB plugs

Its a well known stat that for usb plugs that have a 50% chance of going in the wrong way, you will get it wrong 80% of the time.

Ten digital radios to suit all budgets

Mike Brown

love dab in the car,

but like a lot of people have said i use streaming in the house.

DAB for car tho, is great. lots of good stations (some utter garbage tho) and better sound quality than FM. lovely

Dredd movie review

Mike Brown

i guessed as much from the trailer

as soon as i seen the trialer i was disapointed. it looks too real. dredd is ment to be OTT.

The stallone version may have been rubbish, but it got the look right. this clearly is an action movie, with dredd thrown in.

bit of a shame really. dredd could be a good film

Photos of 'iPad mini' body stir rumor pot

Mike Brown
Stop

agreed

the "ipad" lettering is squint.

Windows Phone 8: Microsoft quite literally can't lose

Mike Brown

If this future comes to pass, it wont be like that. Google dont make hardware. They simply give out software to hardware manufactuers. Its not a monopoly in the truest sence. Android manufactuers make radically different phones from each other. Compare the HTC Chacha to the Samsung Galaxy Note. Both android, both google, but massivly different phones. As long as android phones are made by differing companies, the consumer cant loose.

Mike Brown

Re: Ballmer

agreed. if win 8 in all its forms isnt a success, balmer has to walk. if he is pushed or jumps is another question tho.

microsoft will be in for the long haul. win 8 can tank, and it wont effect MS too much. They are hoping that eventually the seeds laid by 8 will flourish, look at the xbox, when the whole company is behind somthing it usually works, eventually. On the flip side look at zune, it wasnt really pushed to a massive degree, and has now all but died. But if it is a long slog, balmer wont be there to see it.

Nokia's WinPho 8 double date announced

Mike Brown

to all those that are asking about my reasons

i think you have misread my post. im happy beacuse its almost over. Nokia are dead, they just dont know it yet. The sooner the pain stops, and the body is buried, the better.

and if anyone does read this, yes, ive replied to posts over a week old on a topical news website. i realise the chances of anyone of the above accusers reading it are nil.

Mike Brown

Hurrah, the end of Nokia nears. Im getting fed up hearing how that Elop baffoon is ruining the company. "Just get on with it" I scream at the news reports. And it would seem he is. Hurrah!

Sony slims down 3D headset, cooks up eye candy

Mike Brown

headset + Move controllers =

lawnmower man!!!

what ever happened to AR? the tech we have now would be able to do real justice to what at the time looked awesome, but in reality was a bit crap. So where is it now?

Groupon loses second top sales bod in a week

Mike Brown

Agree with the above, it all seems to be tat these days. They seem to have turned into QVC by email

Sony pushes patent for interactive TV ads

Mike Brown

Re: stop all this crying about adds...

agreed, here in blighty its fine, but have you seen the yanks tv? dear god. it seems as if there are more adverts than tv programmes. 30 min shows spread out over 1h periods. its truly horrendous.

China could penetrate US with new huge missile

Mike Brown

do these WMD's have an operational time of 45 mins?

Everything Everywhere to be Nothing Nowhere in rebrand

Mike Brown

Torange. simple

Apple, Samsung brass hats' patent spat chitchat falls flat

Mike Brown

From evething ive read on this, it sounds as if the judge is trying to give apple a chance before they lose. either way i dont care, its just been fun to watch!

Optical Express 'ruined my life' gripe site lives on

Mike Brown
Terminator

Re: Had it in May

that qualifys as a success? as in not in the 3% failure section? thanks for your comment, you have just made sure i never have this treatment done.

cheers fella! and good luck

Apple's lone wolf approach to security will bite it in the rear

Mike Brown

Re: never understood why there isnt a lot more viruses for macs

oh noes, i have shown my lack of understanding and inteliigence becuase i cant type a correct order of symbols.

poor grammer and spelling show nothing more than a poor grasp of grammer and spelling.

YouTube video has NOT killed radio's star

Mike Brown

radio sucks

most analog radio stations are aweful. just churning out the same tinny pop crap.

DAB is a little better: planet rock, and somtimes kerrang! are worth listening too.

what amazes me about radio is that we have 60-80 years worth of music to play, and they all seem to play the same tracks. tracks released in the last 1-2 years. there are billions of tracks out there to play.

Text-and-drive teens ratted on by AT&T mobe tech

Mike Brown

so when the teen can no longer sends texts and then goes into settings and tried to establish why they cant text, that wont cause crashes? stupid idea

plus how does the system know the teen is driving? they may be a passenger.

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