Posts by Lord Voldemortgage

Couldn't agree more, Greg, I hate the soft-touch buttons.

It will be a major factor in my next phone purchase (if anyone actually makes a phone that only has physical buttons).

Re: But does it vworp when switched on?

I have an old Creative CDROM drive somewhere that has made a very good stab at vworping (and a very, very poor one at reading CDs) ever since I dropped it down the stairs.

@dogged Re: A quick shareprice boost is all

Tend to agree that this doesn't look like a sensible product for them but is there a danger of losing their grip on the app market?

There are already plenty of Android TV boxes and if you are Samsung and have an existing investment in Android on the phone side then it might make sense to expand this into another division - if Android became the default option for smart TVs, with TVs still being the default point of interaction with these services for many households, would this be a problem for Apple?

"And RIGH O is clearly a Microsoft salesman."

I don't think he is. Their sales people aren't great (whose are?) but they are usually saner and less annoying than this.

"Give me it."

"Give me it!" is not grammatically incorrect, and is fairly widely used.

Interesting; thanks.

Whose generation

BB was the platform of choice for kids until very, very recently if it has indeed yet been overtaken.

Re: XTV?

I think XTV was just the author's suggestions rather than Microsoft's announced name, wasn't it?

Not they are beyond stuffing that sort of thing up as we saw with Metro.

At least Apple is successful at the moment* - similarly inflated sums are paid for failure too which is when it really rankles .

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* Of course the current success may be due to the decisions and actions of his predecessor and Cook himself may be laying the foundations for the ruination of the company; who knows?

"Thank god I shop online...at least I can do something to protect my privacy there."

Does this sort of thing really matter in privacy terms?

And if it does are you less private in this scenario than you are shopping on line?

Re: Normal people don't use Linux

"The only thing they'd break would be Windows NOT £300 of computer in any case."

That's quite true, of course, but may seem a moot point to a Windows user in those circumstances.

Re: history shows rationale for outlook

Weld done.

Re: Seems unlikely

"it's not unreasonable to hypothesise that an environment in which literacy and knowledge are more important will put selective pressure on intelligence"

That doesn't fit with any historical human society - literacy goes with wealth, as wealth spreads, literacy rises. The illiterate have always still had babies.

There hasn't been a point at which literacy significantly improved the chance of successful reproduction.

Basic literacy is also not difficult to achieve - it is no reliable indicator of raw brainpower, so even if it was somehow and advantage in becoming an ancestor that wouldn't select for the higher ends of human intelligence.

Re: The great unknown

Hmm, we say this is a terrible ad but it has non-techy colleagues and girlfriends asking about it so it may be doing its job.

Pandas are cuddly, monochrome, and cute

But essentially useless (not sure what they taste like - I may be prepared to revise that statement if they are particularly tasty).

So all we have to do is breed a similarly shaped animal to have that colouration and we'll be just as happy.

"have you seen the same GIF for the last 1000 years?"

What would it show and what would that mean?

(Just trying to keep up).

Re: Stunning

Right - I haven't seen this anywhere else either.

I'm very disappointed that the BBC has acted in this way and been supported in doing so.

"widespread disquiet from supporters of the BBC about the disparity between its declarations of intent on transparency, and the reality" is right.

I do think Montford's guide to this ought to be available free of charge BTW.

ANFO - ODFO

I'm all for not fighting wars and using the money for better things but why not skip the death and destruction altogether ?

Re: This is The Register, right?

If the Register was writing reviews for my mum and sending me elsewhere for the geeky stuff it would be barking, and not up the right tree either.

Should be perfectly possible to do a review of the product as presented (including useful technical details which seem to have been omitted - where was the battery life test? Can we have a little more about the screen than "The display is beautiful"?) and then go on to examine it with a Reg readerly eye.

The reviewer "spent the night discovering what [ he ] couldn't do with it" but why not spend the morning discovering what one can? I don't mind waiting until the afternoon for the review.

Re: "Milligna"

Yes, that should clearly be millignat - the chuff of which is the ultimate measurement of tightness.

Re: Chimpanzees are not monkeys

"Did I detect the hint of an Oirish accent in that Ooook?"

O'Oook?

"Is the human body totally rubbish then?"

Well, there seem to be quality control issues - and it's not just down to holding them the wrong way.

Re: I'll take em off their hands...

I assume Morgan Computers are making more or less the same offer ...

Re: Sheltered Life

" the review is clearly intended to be provocative to help page clicks..."

That's what I assumed - the reviewer is clearly an Apple devotee so we have a "Hooray it is a little iPad!" review which I am sure is useful to some but is bound to get up the noses of a lot of regular commentards.

Re: Chebureki

Excellent suggestion.

Looks a bit fiddly for the sort of inhibited kitchen skills we're likely to be employing but crucially I doubt that would really affect the eventual enjoyment.

Re: Sample Poll of One...

I've got (but no longer really use) a 17" Dell Vostro that runs, well, not sure about Crysis but it's fine with Far Cry which was the graphical tour de force of its day.

No problems with over heating unless you put the laptop on any soft surface like, um, a lap. Or a bed or a cushion or any of the other things you night quite often use around the house.

The cooling intake is on the base and blocks easily at which point the fans start whining and the 6800M will eventually start going haywire. On a table or a rigid laptop support it is fine.

My next gaming laptop will be Alienware. I currently have an Asus G74SX-91131Z which has all the necessary power (including for 3D, gimmick though that may be) but it has broken headphone and USB ports where I've been slightly careless with mouse and headphones left in and stressed. The Dell never suffered in the same way despite the same treatment and if Alienware are as bombproof as the article suggests it seems that is what I need.

I'm astonished

That the sheer number of complaints from users demanding that the browser choice annoyance was reinstated didn't spur both Microsoft and the EU into swift action.

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Still, as you say they were supposed to do something, didn't do it for whatever reason and so will face some sort of penalty as a result, even if no one really cared.

I guess the option to have other apps running might swing thing in Android's favour - why not bung an app store in and present your STB as a games console too?

The Strange Case of the End Of The World As We Know It

Were there any more of these?

Watson: 1 Across. A simple source of citrus fruit, 1, 5, 4.

Holmes: A lemon tree, my dear Watson.

Watson: 2 Down. Conservative pays ex-wife maintenance. 7, 5.

Holmes: Alimony...alimony Tory, my dear Watson.

Watson: 2 Down. Southern California style. 1, 2, 8.

Holmes: A la Monterrey, my dear Watson.

Watson: 4 Down. Burglar's entrance

Holmes: Alarm entry, my dear Watson

Watson: That's rather poor, isn't it, Holmes? Right. One to go. A kind of fish with a sting in its tail.

Holmes: Yellow manta ray, my dear Watson

Re: The A90 Behemoth

Looks pretty good but the bacon is a bit overdone.

The Bi-Bacon is better cooked and just as beautiful.

And salt marshes make for very tasty sheep.

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Good news that this CO2 / sea level model can be trusted unlike all those nasty old model which predict unpleasant things sooner.

Re: ::sighs::

"If you have content that nobody else does[1], I'll purchase a subscription to your "magazine".

[1] Hint: You don't. Nobody does."

Well, they do, of course. I imagine you don't have the opportunity to read that newspaper so you ignorance is understandable.

Some of it is even worse reading.

So I think you are right (by accident) in this case - the money is there and the will to spend is there but there's no desire to fund the existence of the institution as a whole.

I buy a weekend newspaper and enough parts of it are of value to me that I consider the price of the whole worth paying.

However I would much prefer a tailored version that omitted the majority of the newspaper that does not get read.

Online systems allow this, of course, and if there was a suitable micropayment process would fund those parts of the organisation that enough people considered worth reading.

The Reg makes a perfectly valid point that it deserves funding at least as much as any other commercial information / opinion provider and if there was some way of funding this fairly I'd be all for it.