Posts by Trustme

A pint for all the happy memories :)

Reality check

"Politicians are also getting concerned"

Are these the same politicians that are busy installing cctv everywhere that definitely does have facial recognition attached where it can? This boat has already sailed. Unless you live in the country you're being filmed constantly by people you can't see but you're going to get stressed about being caught on some guy that you can see's camera? Don't get all stressed about being filmed by casual passers by when you passively accept the ubiquitous nature of cctv.

I can imagine how the conversation went:

Here's a tablet that you can sync with practically any android phone (or tablet) from any manufacturer.

Here's a tablet that can only sync with an overpriced piece of crap iPhone.

Which one is which?

The real IPOcalypse....

.. is that people with money to spend valued the company at $100 billion and were prepared to buy shares of it at that price. If you just listen to the people trying to flog you the company about it's worth and don't do your own research then you probably shouldn't be investing anyway. Everyone with a brain must have known the stock was going to nosedive the moment the bell trolled (literally) and the system was going to come under massive pressure. That's what provisioning is supposed to be for! I really can't believe that with the worldwide buzz that had been generated about the sale of Facebook and the straightforward market analysis that it was heavily overpriced that they didn't expect a practically exponential period of trading compared to normal, and provisioned for it, although reading AC's post above, that plainly wouldn't be a simple task. But the people running the systems are paid to do that task.

800GBPS?

That's only 3,360,000 times faster than my poxy home broadband connection. Not even a terabit. You have to wonder if they're really trying all that hard.

I have missed the BOFH. We need them to come out faster!

Pint for always making me laugh!

Apple won't have the book thrown at them

Judging bythe gushing "We LOVE Apple", "I have all their products" "Even my granddaughter can use them" comments levelled at Apple during their supposed grilling over their tax payments (as shown on the Daily show) I can't see them walking away with anything more forceful than "We're all sure you had a good reason for doing it" from the investigating body!

New reg reference..

I vote for a new Reg term to define Samsung fans:

"Samdroid"

Of which, it seems, I am one.

The problem is putting the word "Facebook" on everything

We know Zuck has to diversify his empire and get into businesses that actually make a decent ROI, but he doesn't seem to have worked out that he's reached saturation point with Facebook, and further branding things as "Facebook this" or "Facebook that" will receive automatic antipathy because of it. He should just start seperate businesses that don't reference FB in any way so they can still be received as fresh and new, not old and stale like everything Facebook related.

Let's get this right...

We have 3D printed psuedo-food on the way that will at some point become an "order from the wall" food source (http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/23/ctrl_p_for_pizza/)

We have Soylent (insert colour of choice here) already with us http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/21/soylent_food_replacement/

And now we are feeding the elderly with reconstituted "unfit for human consumption" leftovers in ice cream.

Dystopian future not so much with the "future" any more it seems...

Roll on Windows 9

MS's OSs go in rounds, one abysmal, one that's actually quite usable. Taking recent history - Win 2000 - pretty dire, Win XP (What 2000 should have been) pretty good, Vista - no words can express how truly awful it was, Win 7 - pretty good (everything Vista should have been). Win 8 - a good stab but falling well short of the mark. So bring on Windows 9!

If anyone....

...in the world is capable of collecting and collating enough information on a subject it is he. Maybe it will encourage a mood swing within Google to open its doors to allowing universities full access to it's anonymised data for research.

Yay Mr linkbait with his usual drivel.

Because of course Lewis, no one will possibly improve on this design and no one will improve on 3D printers! Just in the same way that the first commercial computers couldn't run HALO but could run a really crappy little game with numbers that didn't have the full, immersive experience of HALO proves that computers are useless and will never be able to run a decent game.

How are you still allowed to publish articles for the Reg? Or is it just because so many people queue up to give you negative feedback in the comments section that they consider it good for the advertising numbers?

At last, the option to pay for You Tube instead of getting it all for free!!

Seriously though, good content can be paid for, bad content won't sell (much), and it's a lot better to pay 99c and get the content legally from source than it is to bugger about trying to find it on a torrent, so thumbs up from me, at least for giving it a try.

Because I'll never get the chance

to buy him a drink in person. At one stage in the late '90s I was housebound for 2 years and the WWW was a lifeline of communication for me. I couldn't leave the house, yet daily I talked with people all over the world. Thank you Tim Berners-Lee!

Stupidity reigns again

Using the "logic" of this supposed "anti-trust" complaint, I presume they will show consistency and ban Ford advertising the fact it sells vans as well by using advertising on it's company cars, will stop Sky advertising it's broadband services on its websites without listing all the competitors above it's own services, and essentially stop any company that has become successful from advertising its other products on the grounds it's "anti-competitive".

Yes I KNOW Google get paid to show adverts, and they need to show adverts fairly, and they do, right underneath telling a customer that has actively searched for a product using THEIR search engine that they also offer that product. They have built a successful vehicle that billions of people use, and they promote their own products using that vehicle, That's not anti-competitive, thats COMMON SENSE and GOOD BUSINESS PRACTICE. Anti-competitive would mean hiding or omitting a competitor's advert after it has been paid for, which they don't do, but putting their own products at the top of searches entered for that product is exactly what they should do. This is just Eurocrats looking for an opportunity to wring some more millions out of Google on a trumped up charge so they can enjoy a few more all-expenses paid, 3 week "fact finding missions" to the Bahamas.

The other option for Google to defeat this latest round of "making shit up to create arbitrary fines" is to simply stop accepting adverts from people who are competitors in those areas on the grounds it would be unreasonable to expect them to promote a competitor's product on their own website. Sky aren't obliged to promote Virgin Media on their website, Ford aren't obliged to promote Vauxhall on thiers, so why should Google be obliged to promote rival servcices on thiers?

"Jobsian diktat 'innovation nothing to do with R&D' "

You can't really call the process of cloning a product that was already innovated by others and give it rounded corners "R&D". Apple's version of "innovation" would more accurately be describe as "creative faxing".

I heard Tim Cook had an original idea the other day and had to sit down for a few hours to recover from such a novel experience.