Posts by Alex Rose

Sony sets dates for US and Euro PS4 unleashment amid Xbox heckles

Re: $399....

"Don't forget shipping costs."

They also have to be shipped to the US, so the US price also includes shipping...

MS gets you hooked on Server 2012 Datacenter, jacks up the price for R2

Re: Lots of sites actually...

"And if those VMs are all running Windows, they will need a Windows licence each won't they?"

No, that's the point of DC edition, you can run as many VMs as you like and they are covered by your DC licence.

Philips' smart lights left in the dark by dumb security

I think you're a bit confused...

If you want to look like your home then you'd need a costume to make you look like a house/flat etc.

Sammy had Sweet Fanny Adams to do with Swiss Fanny madam's blast

Re: Ledswinger

"But regardless of what your girlfriend might think, I know my wife and female colleagues would be offended."

Well then perhaps your wife and your female colleagues should get their minds out of the gutter?

"Sweet fanny adams" to imply that there is no connection between one thing and the other, the pun here being that the lady's name is "Fanny"

"swiss fanny madam's" repeating her name and choosing madam (because, you know, she's a WOMAN and madam can be a form of address for a WOMAN) to create a rhyme, prefixed with "swiss" to help the cadence of the sentence.

If you have to twist that round into some sort of sexual overtones can I respectfully suggest that you take yourself of for some therapy you 21st Century Mary Whitehouse twit.

Mastercard and Visa block payments to Swedish VPN firms

Re: This is not unreasonable

What makes you think these people are anonymous? If it's because they are using their credit card to pay for VPN and "anonymizer" services may I respectfully suggest that you are reading the wrong website.

Boffin's claim: I have found how to get girls into tech

Re: Enormous tits

Furthermore a lot of the guys I work with in IT *have* enormous tits. It also doesn't help.

PC makers REALLY need Windows 8.1 to walk on water - but guess what?

Re: Eadon Has A Point

"Microsoft are handing the Linux/BSD, whatever, distro producers the golden apple. They have to bite into it."

Much as I like Linux the sad fact is that they'll spend all their time discussing how deep to bite, what shape to bite and how many times to chew before each going off and doing their own thing and continuing to leave the end-user confused and running back into MS (and to a much lesser degree Apple's) arms.

Boffins hide cute kitty behind invisibility shield

Re: Not sure

Because the fish/cat are inside the "cloak" whereas the flowers are not. I suspect that you are thinking that it's like this from above:

Flowers

Fish

--------- <- "cloak"

Observer

When in fact it's like this:

Flowers

-----------

| Fish |

-----------

Observer

i.e. the fish/cat is surrounded by the cloaking material.

Microsoft: Our clouds don't bleed you to death

Re: it would be interesting to see

"and get the salesman to dance naked at the Royal Vauxhall Tavern"

You owe me a clean monitor!

Rolls-Royce climbs aboard Bloodhound SUPERSONIC car

Re: I'm not sure what the point it.

"They've already signed up over 5,000 schools reaching 2.5m children. "

I'll only support them once they stop this blatant discrimination and sign up schools that allow children of a more average height to join!

Symantec CEO: I'll AXE up to 4 in 10 execs by July

Backup Exec 2012

I wonder how much of the problem is people deciding they can't stand the new interface in BE 2012 and looking for a new backup product? I know my firm is hunting around and we currently use it on about 150 servers....

BT unleashes SIP licensing troll army

Re: This is the same scumbag behaviour

As far as I'm aware you can't FORCE someone to provide their patents on a FRAND basis for a standard. They have to agree to it during the drafting of the standard, if they don't the standards body should not include the patented method.

PS. I'm not saying that BT didn't agree to the use of their patented method in the standard (if they did then of course it should be FRAND) - I can't be bothered to look to be honest - but I see lots of comments to the tune of "they should be forced to license it as FRAND" when in fact they should be FORCED to do no such thing with their property if they don't want to.

Microsoft CFO quits as quarterly results fail to sparkle

Re: They have just under a year

Not that I particularly want to defend MS here but the lack of an upgrade path for a desktop OS should be pretty much irrelevant in a lot of business environments. If your IT bods don't know how to create baseline images and push out software automatically then I suggest you go and speak to someone about getting new IT bods!

Brit firm PinPlus flogs another password 'n' PIN killer

Re: The problem is multiple PIN numbers

I've got it even worse, as I have to know my wife's cards as well I have 5 PINs to deal with.

I've found this amazing new way to deal with the issue though, I "re"-"mem"-"ber" them.

People should give it a try, it's fucking awesome!

It also works for the log in details to various online banking services; 8 or 10 different sets of numbers and all I have to do is put in a tiny bit of effort!

Apple to stop European shipments of Mac Pro on March 1?

Re: This is something I consistently fail to understand.

My Defender 90 says that you're a goddamn liar.

Apple loses iPhone patent lawsuit

Re: ' he believes that amount should be "substantial." '

Of course it's only about the money - what the hell else do you expect it to be about?

Whether they get the money by stopping Apple using the patented technology which enables them to sell more devices, or whether they get damages or whether they agree a back-dated license arrangement it's still always only about the money!

Sinofsky OFFSKI: Is Windows 9 now codenamed 'Defenestrate'?

Re: Are you by any chance a moron?

@Ken Hagan

"Oh boo hoo, I didn't like something you said so I'm going to accuse you of being young!"

I'm 41.

Prick.

Re: Wait! You are trying to use logic here.

"How do you change file permissions on a Windows XP Professional system?"

Right click object, choose "Properties", choose "Security" tab.

Are you by any chance a moron?

P.S. If you prefer the command line you can use the "cacls" command to do the same thing.

Amazon to buy its Seattle HQ from Paul Allen for over $1bn

Why shouldn't Amazon be making a lot of money? As opposed to some other companies in the "tech" sector I could mention they actually have products for sale that they make profit on and services they provide that people are willing to pay for.

Boffins suggest orbital dust-up to combat climate change

Re: And the cost to the environment ...

Yes, because a PhD student at the "Advanced Space Concepts Laboratory" would never have heard of such a basic concept as Hohmann transfer!

Oh, wait.......

Apple hoards LTE patents to deflect Samsung attack

Re: Mueller is NOT an expert...

@ Charlie Clark

Hey, don't shoot the messenger. I was just giving a truthful answer to the question :)

P.S. Apologies to the readers of the Reg, my family and my English teacher for my mispelling of the word "write" in my initial post.

Re: Mueller is NOT an expert...

"Why do you keep quoting him?"

Because it keeps people like you coming onto the site to right comments like that and provide page impressions to generate advertising revenue for the site owners so they can pay themselves and pay their staff and keep the business running.

Samsung to offer Apple Dock style Start Button in Windows? Really?

Re: Okay Andrew - challenge for you.

"Unlike in Windows 7 where if I want Excel for example, I may well have to navigate from All Programs -> Office -> Excel in the hierachical menu"

Or of course if you bury it even deeper you may well have to navigate from All Programs -> Office -> Some Made Up Folder -> Another One for Good Measure -> I'm Just Being Silly Now -> Excel

So even more advantage to Windows 8!!!!!!!!!!!!!

(Or you just pin to Start Menu, or Pin to Taskbar and stop using retarded examples to make your point).

Ho ho ho! Apple's Samsung ban bid pushed back to Christmas

Re: It Seemed A Little Too Quick

"There were smart phones from Nokia, and phones did have screens with icons, but they weren't touch screens"

I'm curious as to which universe you live in?

Google shifts more of Postini into Apps platform

Where's the Windows love

Having been forced to move our customers to Postini by the closure of our current mail filtering service I'm astounded by the hatred Google obviously has for all things Windows. Want to sync your directory with Postini rather than mess around with batch jobs and manual processes. Good luck! You either have to use their hosted Directory Sync which uses DSML for some reason (enjoy trying to find out information about DSML on Windows Server 2008) or you can run their Directory Sync service on your server, however it doesn't play nicely with 2008 either. I know 2008 is only 4 years old but surely they could have got it working properly by now?

Or instead of all this messing about what the hell is wrong with LDAP(S)?!?!?

Hundreds of websites go titsup in Prime Hosting disk meltdown

Re: Tut tut...

I've read the article again and I still can't see the bit where anybody claims that RAID is a backup solution.

RBS must realise it's just an IT biz with a banking licence

Re: "A (retail) bank's business is Risk Management."

"3) A retail bank has no reason to put any of its customers money at risk."

Rubbish. A retail bank takes in customer deposits at one rate and lends them out at a higher rate, the difference being their profit. Even if we ignore the fact that they "create" money by lending out more than they have on deposit there is always going to be a risk involved in lending out.

Google Nexus 7 blighted by brightness blunder

Re: To everyone saying "mine is fine"...

"serious photo editing" on a tablet?

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

Sigma SD1 Merill 46Mp DSLR

The EF mount was used on both film and digital cameras. It replaced the FD mount which was film only. EF-S is digital only - but only because they only do digital now - the EF-S is actually for APS-C sensors, it's about sensor size rather than film/digital.

Texas Higgs hunters mourn the particle that got away

Re: "we do still exercise at least some smal influence in the world - the internet, facebook"

@Purlieu

Stop reading the Reg, go away and don't come back until you've learnt the difference between the Internet and the Web.

Puny US particle punisher finds strong evidence for God particle

Re: Re Alex Rose

@Stratman

That was the one.

Actually to try to answer the question my limited understanding is that mass is determined by how much a particle interacts with the Higgs field. Therefore if the Higgs bosun interacts more strongly with the Higgs field than the proton then it will have greater mass. This interaction is independant of size.*

*Note I'm no expert, just paraphrasing a Metro article from a couple of days ago.

Re: Ugh - God particle

To put it in relatively simple terms it is heavier than a proton because it has more mass.

Google ditches the bits in the bottom of the box

"reach out"

Does anyone else find it strange when US firms say they are going to "reach out" to you. The number of times I've been told someone's colleague as them to "reach out" to me is silly.

Why not just say "contact", "call", "email" or "phone"?

As far as I'm concerned only zombies, vampires and horror film killers "reach out", and they "reach out" FOR you, not TO you.

Apple seeks resurrection of HTC importation ban

Re: Argh!

"And he's got a lousy track record when it comes to be being write(sic)"

The irony!

Review: Raspberry Pi

Re: Waiting to pre-order...

@Esskay

If you want to try out some programming there are free tools for your existing computer. If you are Windows based try DEV-C++ if you fancy trying C or C++. Perl and Python interpreters are just a Google search away and if you use a Mac then the world is your oyster as you have access to a hefty %age of the FOSS tools.

(Note to Linux users - I didn't mention Linux as I assume that if they were using Linux they'd know most of the above).

UK man to spend year in the clink for Facebook account hack

Re: There must be more to this................

You do all realise that BDG and BDG's wife are some sociology student's experiment into just how gullible people are when faced with a hyperbolic example of their own prejudices?

Don't you?

DON'T YOU?

Re: @Citizen Kaned: 12 months porridge for a FB 'hack'?

@ Turtle

Marxism? Exactly how far away are you? Mars?

Re: Note to Home Secretary

would HAVE

Microsoft books stall at Appule - the Mac expo stiffed by Apple

Re: Perhaps...

"Krabappel?! I've been calling her KRANDEL!"

Wind farms create local warming

Re: Oil

Exactly Purlieu, maybe the Reg should think about adding the word "local" to the article's title.

Oh, wait.....

Fabulous execution prompts Apple to rein back Q3 outlook

Or perhaps they give different weightings when making their considered decision, perhaps having a non-proprietary system has a very low weight in their decision making process?

No, no, you're probably right - you're the only person with a brain on the planet!

(In the interests of full disclosure I own no Apple products.)

Techie stages 'strip down' protest at TSA 'harassment'

Re: "... including children"

@h4rm0ny

And hence they will also "have as much tits as women".

HTC struggling as profits drop 70 per cent

HTC One X or One XL?

Why do Android manufaturers insist on thinking we all want massive screens? If I want a nice fast quad core processor (something to match the iPhone 4S) I have to have a huge screen.

Problem is, I don't want a huge phone!

Give me something with the power and size of an iPhone 4S running Android or quite frankly I am going to have to go ahead and buy a bloody iPhone. Then I have to put up with all the "I told you so"s from friends and family!

Apple flooded with iPad 3 wireless connection complaints

Re: not an issue for me

@ducatis'r us

Really, your wi-fi version doesn't display a problem switching between 3G/4G and wi-fi?

Say it ain't so!

Climate-change scepticism must be 'treated', says enviro-sociologist

Unaware?

"*Admittedly Psychohistory only worked on huge galactic civilisations, and then only if the people being manipulated for their own good were unaware that the science of Psychohistory existed - neither of which are the case here."

I was unaware that physchohistory actually exists outside of the Foundation series until you implied in that sentence that it was more than just a tool of Hari Seldon. Tell us more - the public has a right to know what is being done in our name in Vulture Central!

Fragmentation bomb wounds Android in developer war

Re: hah hah hah

"I cannot wait until android dies."

I didn't spot this at first because of your massive fail over the UI/iOS comparison, but seriously, if you actually "cannot wait" until a mobile phone/tablet operating system dies do you not think that you should get out of the house, go take a walk in the sun, listen to the sound of children playing in a park, smell the early spring flowers and get a little perspective?

Or get some therapy.

Re: hah hah hah

If it is basically a copy of iOS and it has a "terrible UI" I take it that means you think iOS has a terrible UI?

Adobe Photoshop Touch

"It’s a pretty modest resolution, especially for professionals, and might well mean that the app just gets used for doing quick visualisations and mock-ups before doing the real work on one of those old-fashioned computer thingies."

Really! You mean professionals won't all dump their huge monitors and blindingly fast machines with graphics tablet input devices to work on a 10" screen with their fingers?

You mean that Adobe haven't chosen to cannibalise the sales of their hundreds of pounds flagship product by offering all the same functionality in a £7 tablet app.

TELL ME IT AIN'T SO!!!