Re: I Wish You Luck
I have 2 Lenovo laptop tablet things with Atom processors. Low power, decent SSD performance, but slow as hell for normal operations. As a consequence, they rarely get used for anything but Netflix.
Posts by KegRaider
19 posts • joined 25 Nov 2010
Hello 'WOS': Windows on Arm now has a price
Spotify wants to go public but can't find Ed Sheeran (to pay him)
Ex-Google recruiter: I was fired for opposing hiring caps on white, Asian male nerds
Sunday 4th March 2018 23:12 GMT
Diversity needs to stop
Now don't get me wrong, diversity is good. However, in the workforce, you shouldn't hire someone because of the 'features' they posess. You hire them on their ability. If that happens to be a white female, then great. If it's an Asian male, then great. Do NOT hire because it ticks a stupid box for the mental HR department.
Supermassive black holes scoff just one star per year, say space weight watchers
Shopper f-bombed PC shop staff, so they mocked her with too-polite tech tutorial
Friday 2nd February 2018 23:50 GMT
Re: PC world
1) FOUR replacements of a computer: the idiot operator BIOS level was too low to understand that it is a tray for a disc, not an ejectable cup holder.
Cup holder?! Rubbish! It works fine as a cup holder. It's only when you use it as a step ladder than the bloody cheap plastic drawers let go!
AMD, Intel hate Nvidia so much they're building a laptop chip to spite it
Monday 6th November 2017 22:54 GMT
Re: "Nvidia's dominance"?
Exactly!
My neighbour asked if his computer could run the HTC Vive after I was demoing my toy to him. They get rather insulted by hysterical laughter, and pointing out that their $2000 AIO machine is just a glorified tablet. They don't understand that a $1000 graphics card (alone) is what is required to play games with any sort of resolution and framerates.
Fire brigade called to free man's bits from titanium ring's grip
Friday 17th March 2017 05:57 GMT
Re: I keep seeing these
"Dremel cutting discs that will cut titanium and other hard metals, on anything a couple of millimeters thick or more it's going to use up a few cuttings discs and take quite a bit of time, which this chap didn't have."
Not to mention the heat build up of said cutting disc on the band!!! Probably needed the fire department nearby to extinguish the phallic flames!
Sure, we could replace FTNN, says nbn™, if you let the unwired wait even longer for broadband
Tuesday 7th March 2017 21:05 GMT 
And here we go again.
The brainiacs already dropped FTTP/FTTH in favor of the cheaper FTTN. My suburb was enabled last week, and they have already managed to botch my request up....here's to waiting another 2 or so weeks to have it botched again.
The morons driving this project should be shot. I read on whirlpool and even the Telstra crowdsource wiki pages, about the complaints about FTTN's speed, or lack thereof. Many FTTN connections are in fact, slower than their previous ADSL connections.
Gamers warned to swerve phish-hooks after forum breach
Want a Windows 10 update? Don't go to Microsoft ... please
We tried using Windows 10 for real work and ... oh, the horror
El Reg in email address blunder
Massive study concludes: 'Global warming is real'
Monday 24th October 2011 03:41 GMT 
Better Technology?
Would the huge 1 degree deviation be due to the better quality sensors we are now using? I mean, surely the digital probes are a lot more accurate than the old mercury bulbs. And who's to say the the bulb didn't slip down the scale for a few years skewing the data :)
I'm not denying that we should be more aware of our interaction with the environment, but comparing temperatures from the 1800's is about as useful as comparing TV screen resolutions from the same eras.
Microsoft vs Google patent ding dong gets stuck on repeat
Tuesday 9th August 2011 21:56 GMT
I think you overlooked the statement.
Hi mate,
I believe what Magnetic was referring to was the "Software Patents" which always seem to drag such heated arguements. Patents that are not for a physical medium. I would definately like to see the software patents thrown into a different category, and would support a 3-5 year holding policy. As for medical research, I'll keep my folding PC's running looking for that cure for cancer :)
Just ask all the Linux supporters what they think about software patents.....
Sony implicates Anonymous in PlayStation Network hack
Thursday 5th May 2011 03:51 GMT 
Now if my PC had stolen a SONY song....
I'm more than certain that me blaming someone hacking in for stealing the song would NOT go down in a court of law. SONY are a$$holes and I can honestly say that I haven't bought a single product from them since the original 7801 Playstation. Nor will I in the future, they aren't worthy of my money.
Xbox modder can't claim fair use, says judge
Thursday 25th November 2010 01:02 GMT 
Slanted view of the report.
I agree with above. If he was a sole 'hacker' who pulled his 360 apart to tinker with it, then I'd say it was an unfair case. HOWEVER, he was selling modified consoles, so therefore advocating piracy. What did he expect MicroSoft to do, send him a thankyou card? Seriously, he's gonna do some time and deserves to.
I'm all for tinkering, and I do on all my consoles and PC's etc (except the 360, i love LIVE too much). I don't believe anyone should be selling a service to modify consoles. If the end user isn't clever enough to tinker, what right do they have in expecting mod's be done for them.
