Posts by W Donelson

My young neighbour was hit...

... five years ago while stopped at a red traffic light, by a guy talking on his cellphone. He took full responsibility though, and had good liability insurance.

She was badly injured, needs constant attention, and at only 24 now her life is ruined. My wife and I see ambulances outside her house 3-4 times a year, she is in constant pain, and recently her right side is going numb.

The guy knows the continuing, probably life-long suffering he has caused, not a bad person at all, and suffers himself now.

DON'T TALK AND DRIVE.

After decades of Windows crap, I am just getting used to Windows 7. At least it works semi-predictably.

As the lid sped into space, it was heard to say ....

... HOLY FECK !

Wonderful article, thanks!

At least someone is paying attention to security.

I smell Lawyers screwing the TO2015 people.

This is true of most of America. Look at the media business.... From over 50 companies controlling the media in 1983, down to just 5 companies today.

Truly Awesome!

I remember going into MIT every day many years ago, with the approaching image of Jupiter from the Pioneer 10. Seeing the bands and turbulence and red spot as a swirling storm. Incredible.

And these pics of Pluto affect me the same way.

Wonderful. Awesome!

Not to mention the people that Ballmer scared off by being a feckwad.

I love Apple, but I hate wristwatches...

... and the watch is clever but not compelling.

Maybe version 5.0 of the watch (super thin, wearable other than wrist) might tempt me...

Sorry, but using the word "science" with "Doctor Who" is like using the word "economy" with "Greece"

Of course, by 2100 there will be only 500m humans left...

The Triumph of Advertising and Crap over actual thinking....

The USA found this out. Look at it now.

The Triumph of Advertising and Crap over actual thinking....

When John Birt fired most of the talent at the BBC in the late 1980s, and told the BBC do (in effect) do more game shows, it's fate was sealed.

Once upon a time, the BBC was the crown jewel of British Culture.

:(

Microsoft is crap now. Here's why ---

How Ballmer completely wrecked Microsoft's ability to innovate: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

Imagine being 10^10 years old....

The only thing worse than dying is living forever.

(But give me a thousand, please)

Samsung is doing so poorly in profit, it may abandon the mobile phone business altogether.

Any halfway competent journalist would note that Xiaomi, not Apple, will push Samsung out of the market completely.

Politicians want adult voters' literacy to be only enough to read but not dissect their lies.

Internet of Anything - Hackety Hack

Internet of Anything - Hackety Hack

"Look, the electric company owes ME money!"

Great bandwidth until you hit the wall

Not through walls = not for me.

Truly awesome! Clever, thoughtful, and exciting.

Signal penetration?

Always the hangup

MS is in deep trouble. Ballmer managed to drive out a good bit of the real talent there.

How Ballmer completely wrecked Microsoft: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

Will be gamed within months....

Will be gamed within months....

"Machine intelligence" - ha!

After Ballmer's insanity....

Not really Elop's fault.

How Ballmer completely wrecked Microsoft:

http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

Primary intent: Google killer.

I love Apple products, a lot (except Yosemite, ugh), but I am honest about Apple. They often are brutal and cutthroat.

If it donated £100 to charity for each pothole report, THEN WE WOULD BE SEEING PROGRESS.

This has been going on for decades. Nothing new here.

Complaining about 27 cents per day? Really?

Awesome! TOTALLY Awesome!

I remember many days, walking into Bldg 10 at M.I.T. many years ago, and seeing the images of Jupiter become clearer and clearer over the days, seeing the Red Spot become a cyclone, the banding become raging storms; MAGIC. What a journey!

Did I say Awesome?

Jeez

Sure, the US may have security problems, the whole world has problems...

But you can bet the Chinese are JUST as bad as everyone else in this.

Don't blame the victim, bozos.

I am VERY impressed. This is truly Awesome stuff !

Simple hatred of science and liberals drives the denial.

Republican leaders in the pockets of Big Oil are paid campaign contributions to slow down any change, just like Big Tobacco did for 50 years to stop cigarette legislation.

Still a dork after 40 years

Richard, get a life. After 40 years it's about time. You were a dork at MIT then, and you haven't changed.

Silicon Valley

I was at a Silicon Valley company in the late 1980s. The marketing people (on commission) always pushed for products to be shipped before they were ready. This is not new.

"The Cupertino idiot tax operation ..."

Wow. Steve insult you personally?

"...the price tag could fall to as low as $250...."

Actual parts cost: $6

Like the $500 hammer.

Too bad MS has ruined the app. What a mess. You would think after 30 years that MS would have learned something about user-friendly design, but no.

How Ballmer completely wrecked Microsoft: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

"...the Cupertino idiot tax operation..."

Really?

Grow up.

Robotic exploration for the planets; Humans for the Moon

Radiation prohibits human journeys of any length outside the Van Allen belts. Shielding is just too heavy for our technology today.

Robots for the planets; Humans for the Moon.

Idiot Register

The cost of your pages is 0 as they do not exist in reality.

So pay your "journalists" 0 as well.

Right?

Advice to criminal? You see it all the time now.

Advice to criminal? You see it all the time now.

Is this supposed to blackmail people and companies into being safer?

We should all try to be safer, but even the best are not foolproof.

Honestly, blackmail is a crime too.

Does nothing...

Does nothing... to stop BAD patents being awarded by the vastly underfunded USPTO

Ballmer killed MS ...

How Ballmer completely wrecked Microsoft: http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/07/microsoft-downfall-emails-steve-ballmer

Buy "almost new", sell older

The one thing you can say about Apple products is that they (almost) always retain their resale price remarkably well.

I recently sold an iPad 3 (first retina model) for £160 on eBay, and bought an iPad Air (first Air model) for £260 - an actual cost of only £100.

If you examine the iPad ecosystem, I think you will find higher iPad "sales" than you might first think.

Anyone?

Someone explain to me why they don't set it so you must wait 10 seconds before trying another password?