Posts by jubtastic1

*whistles through teeth*

£385 million eh? You got done up like a kipper mate, dontcha watch Cowboy Coders on C5?

It'll all have to go but I think we can squeeze this job in and have you shipshape for Xmas, £99m excluding tea and biscuits, Stefan and Jacek will be round in the morning to start tearing the code down.

Straw grasping

Saved by tablets? fucked by a tablet is more accurate.

Lots of stupid shit is in movies

Mostly because it looks cool, and transparent displays certainly look cool, but in the real world they won't be, they'll be anti privacy screens which become hard or impossible to use whenever someone switches the light on or stands behind them wearing a white shirt.

"No one look please, I'm logging into [my Bank / Facebook / Porn]"

Reminds me of Bournemouth

Here's a worthwhile link if you've got ten minutes to spare on this classic supercomputer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCEm96kA5hY

How did we get here?

For all it's faults, Apple hasn't forgotten the number one rule of business, to turn a profit, everything they do earns them money, and when that changes they stop doing it.

Way too many companies now seem to operate on the "get a billion users, ..., profit?" business plan, increasingly selling at a loss for marketshare, how is this supposed to be sustained as ever more industries are forcably switched to the underpants gnome model? by advertising? who is going to have money for advertising when everything is sold at a loss? Content? the stuff that people are downloading for free, that's slowly but surely working its way into a minimal broadband tax?

Major International corporations destroying physical markets on the offchance they will recover their losses penny by penny, or to cock block a successfull competitor is a sure sign that we're headed down shit creek.

That's a nice planet you have there...

It'd be a shame if anything were to happen to it.

To be fair

He never said they would be Windows tablets, and "Windows 8 will be a catalyst for change" has more than one interpretation.

Regardless, this is all moot now that Microsoft has refocused on dominating the Post-Post-PC market with Windows IX for Windows Augmented LifeLenses.

Better than burying it under the patio

Like Palm did with BeOS, at least something could come of it, even if its only the inevitable OpenWebOS community fork.

A volcanic Island?

How Dr No, real super villains build their lairs in space, bet Larry gets the chair over the airlock at the next MUSK INDUSTRIES DomCom Summit.

Moving in the right direction

Not for me, or you, presumably IT literate reg reader, but for the billions of ordinary users who can't tell a computer from a monitor.

Cant speak for you, but I'm always going to be able to build a PC from scratch, and hack it just so, the ones sold in the shops should be as idiot proof and remotely exploitable as a toaster.

Seeing as its a given that this is a one way trip

I'd pocket the money, strap the punter into a simulator for a week before setting it ablaze, well, that's what I'd do if I was the sort of scam artist selling trips to the moon in 40 year old space junk anyway.

Don't blur the people

Content aware fill them away, I want to see ghost towns not apparitions, and while you're at it, here's a fiver to 'shop the kids junk out of my garden, a tenner if you squeeze in a pool and some decking.

Pft

echo "Lots of tiny focused sas apps eh? I suppose we could pipe them together in some manner for custom solutions, oh my this all sounds a bit familiar." | /bin/mail -s "everything old is new again" "comments@elreg.it"

Back in the real world: A new focused app rolls downhill, gathering users and cruft as it goes until it settles into an expensive unmanageable swamp that no one likes to navigate. There's plenty gravy train for software devs for the foreseeable future.

The elephant in the room

Is Google, a poster boy for big data that still hasn't been able to leverage it successfully outside of search and advertising, and I suspect the wheels will come off online advertising if Facebook starts supplying advertisers with the detail that google has upto this point been able to bury as the defacto route to market.

The chances of our sun colliding with another star are vanishingly small

And yet I can't help but notice that the crash shots appear to show a night sky as directed by Michael Bay.

Also, four billion years, that's some perspective, makes you think eh? all this rushing around, squabbling for money... have you considered becoming an organ donor? Can I have your liver?

Young attractive Solution WLTM Problem for LTR

"No preferences, will try anything, age not a concern."

I particularly liked the 'turning a page on the thing in your hand' demo, that was just fantastic.

A search engine that understands natural language you say?

Sounds like a good idea, nice fit for a smartphone I'd have thought.

Reminiscent of the Burglariser FAQ

"Can Burglariser really unlock any dwelling?"

"Yes, by simply utilising a dwellings access key that you have previously obtained, Burglariser will give you free reign to the contents of that dwelling. If you do not have an access key don't fret, they are very easy to locate, there is generally one hanging on a key hook inside the dwelling or you could simply use social engineering to recover the key, threatening the homeowner with a beating for example"

They might as well rename them Lolcoins

Also hang a sign up at the exchange "Days since last pwning"