Posts by It'sa Mea... Mario

Marijuana from heaven: Bundle of blow bombs bow-wow's boudoir

Re: Dave?

Dave's not here man

All in all, it's just another hit in the stalls: Roger Waters The Wall

@Drudgery Leak

Pat's comment would have been aimed at Jake ;-)

Re: Cameras

An amazing experience indeed. Saw it at the O2 Arena. Already got tickets for the local cinema* :)

I am expect (hope) the DVD / Bluray will show up in time for Christmas after this cinema outing.

*This is/was not intended to 'rub it in' btw

Ship-swallowing GREEN BIO-STORM spotted FROM SPAAACE

Re: Do I see a ship?

"I see no ships, only hardships"

ANIMALS being CUT UP to make Apple Watch straps

Re: wow

It's not Apple making them - Nor are they being made on behalf of Apple.

Limited edition Iron Man S6 sells for $91,000 thanks to ... serial number

8?

How much would it have fetched if it was 88?

8 being considered the luckiest number in China..

Colour me bad: Kraken time or damp squid with Splatoon

Amiibo..

The Splatoon Amiibo characters (available at extra cost of course) are meant to add new game modes, however what that amounts too I will not know until I get home from work and get to try my copy that should have arrived with the squid Amiibo :)

Apple Watch: We ROUNDUP the ROUNDUPS. Yes, Roundup-squared

Re: [Andy Prough]Clickbait article and blurts of thinly veiled frustration in comments

Down voted for 'They are written in a good style, and tend to be interesting and informative'

That used to be the case. Now I'm just here out of habit.

Xiaomi's birthday present to itself: Flogging 2m phones in 12 hours

12 hours or 24?

At least you didn't repeat the spin/mis-reporting of your colleague:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/04/09/xiaomi_bags_world_record/

Who is the fastest-selling phone maker of ALL TIME? Samsung? Apple? No, it's Xiaomi

Register spin..

'The bods behind the Guinness World Records has awarded Xiaomi one of its certificates for selling the most mobile phones within a single day.'

If you look at the certificate it actually reads 'Most mobile phones sold on a single online platform in 24 hours' therefore where you say '..mostly to online buyers' should probably read '..all to online buyers' and the quoted sentence above needs qualifying too.

I used to expect better from El Reg but this appears to be a(nother) not-really-news worthy event spun into an attempt to start a comment war which is probably good for your advertising revenue eh?

Steely wonder? It's blind to 4G and needs armour: Samsung Galaxy S6

Re: Signal issues

Only if Apple make the phone apparently..

Netflix teams with AWS to launch VHS-as-a-service

Re: Good one

'But oddly, it really doesn't sound like that bad an idea....'

Except the name of course..

Boffin: Use my bionic breakthrough for good, and not super cyborgs

Re: Such a waste...

Classic Moss :)

Is it humanly possible to watch Gigli and Battlefield Earth back-to-back?

Re: What?

'No Highlander 2 and 3?'

Thought 3 was okay if you ignore the fact that 2 exists however it has been years since I watched it.

IIRC 2 seemed to be a victim of the 'global warming' media circus that predated the 'climate change' media circus.

Bit more recent, but went to see 'Scott Pilgrim vs the world' to find it sold out - ended up watching first of 'The Expendables' :(

Will not give the sequels the time of day.

El Reg Redesign - leave your comment here.

re: redesign update 2

'We don’t think we are any brighter than, say, Amazon or the BBC'

Except that Amazon is a 'full width' website rather than this column in middle of page that El Reg insists upon keeping. Arguably the BBC is a full width website too, at least they make good use of the white side columns.

Having said that *Please* do not go back to those f*sking whole of page sponsorship ads you run, they suck balls and not in a good way. I've no doubt you will though :(

'Pictures and headlines in stories and the “hero pic’ at the top of the front page are too big, making for unnecessary scrolling.'

<sarcasm> Just a tad </sarcasm>

Sony looks at unpopular Google Glass, shouts 'ME TOO!'

Re: No video camera. really? @Russell

Looks a lot like a camera lens to me too, larger than necessary for light sensor and looks enough like a lens for the uninitiated masses to also think that is what it is too.

Very poor design decision IMO if it is in fact not a camera lens.

Hey, Apple! We can land a probe on a comet, but we can't have a 12.9in iPad 'until mid-2015'?

Re: Waiting to register...

iPad [Air?] Plus, shirley? in line with the larger iPhone...

Apple CEO Tim Cook: TV is TERRIBLE and stuck in the 1970s

Re: Try searching on an ATV

If you have an Apple TV the chances are you have another Apple device.

If you do then the chances are that the other device can run the Apple Remote app.

If it can then you type using the keyboard in the app.

'Simples'.

Apple's Watch is basically electric perfume

Bang. On. :)

Upvoted

Apple promises iCloud security alerts, better 2FA after, er, NAKED Internet of Thingies flap

'Apple bashing, a favoured sport amongst infosec geeks'

And The Register, Fandroids, Commentards, etc..

Second hacking crew joins Syrian Electronic Army on Team Assad

Sounds like a certain comedy sketch..

'Are you the Syrian Electronic Army?'

'Fuck off!'

'What?'

'Syrian Electronic Army. We're the Electronic Army of Syria!....'

...

Nintendo: We didn't just slay Wii Fit 'troll', we've now gobbled its patents

Re: But but but...

Invalid? Not necessarily, just that they were not infringed.

Drawers full of different chargers? The IEC has a one-plug-to-rule-them-all

What's the advantage of Lightning over MicroUSB for charging?

Have you seen one?

Reversible and no where near as flimsy or fiddly are some good ones for starters.

Smarty Ring promises technology at your fingertips

Re: What on earth ...

cannot believe the article author did not pick up on that.. lol, I knew I could not be the only one

'Donkey-tugging' EU data protection law backed by MEPs

'a right to erasure'

I try to discover

A little something to make me sweeter

Oh baby refrain from breaking my heart

I'm so in love with you

I'll be forever blue

That you give me no reason

Why you're making me work so hard

That you give me no.. [x4]

..soul, I hear you calling

Oh baby pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeease give a little respect toooooooo ooo ooo me!

Wait,.. not that kind of erasure?

SUPERSIZE ME: Nokia unveils Surface rival and 2 plumped-up phablets

Re: how much?

it was for pre-Atom netbooks (the original EEE for example). The Atom powered ones the vendors wanted about the same money for as a cheap 'full' laptop. :(

Wanna be Zuckerberg's neighbor? Tough luck, he bought the block for $30m

Re: Dread to think...

For the above post 'is' = 'are' ;-)

Dread to think...

..what the T&C's of living in one of those houses is... or the conditions around leaving..

'Instant translation' glasses to come online for 2020 Olympics

Re: Never mind the quality, feel the speed

is for written words not spoken.. speech recognition not an issue here, though fancy/decorative fonts might be..

Apple drops hints about future low-cost iPhones

Re: 5s @ technohead95

Yes DJ 2 knows that.

And the Journo should have known that the sentence was open to misinteritation or the pun DJ 2 made.

Android sig vuln exploit SEEN IN THE WILD

Re: Downvoted! - Downvoted!

That'll teach you to not say 'that'll learn you'

NSA hacked China's top carriers in hunt for SMS data - report

Re: Pot, meet Kettle @Nicho

Trust me, I have just been to China, they are *very* motivated by money.

Waving an Eye-of-Sauron pulsating mock cock? Stop immediately

Re: As soon as I saw the picture .....

Nah... Pink's not my colour.

And besides I prefer surgical gloves.

Re: As soon as I saw the picture .....

There probably isn't much left you could 'invent' doing with a pink Marigold that has not been tried by somebody already...

Devil... as if that needs explaining :)

Gourmet chemists sniff out ultimate cheese on toast

I am at work currently so will have to read the no doubt interesting recipes above later, however all posters so far have failed because a page search shows no references to Marmite!

Smartwatch face off: Pebble, MetaWatch and new hi-tech timepieces

Re: Micro USB charging

'I had a 200m G-Shock crap out on me in the shower, once, for exactly that reason.'

Waterproof or not, I would take my watch off before getting in the shower.

Gigabyte bats Brix at Intel's tiny NUC PC

Another comparable option...

Fit PC (http://www.fit-pc.com/web/) have been in the tiny PC game for a few years now. I purchased one of the early models years ago but looks like they have come a long way since..

If you are considering the NUC or Brix then you should also look at the Fit PC options.

Gov report: Actually, evil City traders DIDN'T cause the banking crash

Re: Yes, but

can't spell, but don't care

Re: Yes, but

Indeed, my thoughts while reading this are that HBOS (or even the half dozen UK banks mentioned) failing in a traditional way is not responsible for the worldwide ressesion we have been/are experiencing.

Not saying the government are taking the correct actions, but when do they ever?

Spectra: Tape is dead? We installed 550PB of the stuff in 6 months

Re: Tape is one of these things that is always dead

COBOL is dead, an even in places where it does not look like it is dead it should very much be considered a zombie...

Tape I have no opinion on...

Dead Steve Jobs 'made Tim Cook sue Samsung' from beyond the grave

Re: Couldn't Samsung...

And because Apple designed the chip, Samsung just make it..

Star Trek saviour JJ Abrams joins the dark side: Star Wars VII

Re: James Bond @Lee Dowling

I think he's just going for gold..

Look out, fanbois: One in two nicked mobes is an iPhone - cops

"Yeah, they go for the wallet instead knowing this person hasn't spent all their cash on a mediocre phone."

Or not, cause if you cannot afford an iPhone then is the wallet worth having?

Twitter's Tweetdeck must 'file accounts or be struck off'

They are probably still trying to work out how to apply the kind of creative accounting the other multinationals are getting away with...

I tried to buy a satellite and all I got was this lousy $67,000

It took 2 years and £67.000????

'a campaign that has seen him talking to business leaders around the globe and reaching the conclusion that big business really isn't interested in little people.'

Could have told him that for free!

Hm, nice idea that. But somebody's already doing it less well

Kind of reads like the polar opposite of one of Andrew's articles (in terms of sentiment), I guess he must be a different breed of 'Capitalist bastard'...

iPhone tops US market, but trounced by Android in world+dog

Re: How Convenient ....

Because of course there wasn't any Android phones released in that same 12 week period...

E-reader demand slumps, slapped down by slates

Re: Makes sense

"The publishing companies should already be passing on far more than this in the savings they make in not having to produce physical copies (and perhaps take into account that DRM protected ebooks can't be left on a park bench for someone else to read)"

You'd think wouldn't you... but no, corporate greed comes in to play and publishers just see currency symbols in front of their eyes...

Humax HDR-1000S Freesat+ recorder with FreeTime

fw update to foxsat?

Not read all yet, leaving work now so will read at home but have a quick question..

Is there anything new in the software/EPG that could not be delivered via a firmware update to the older FoxSat? Mine still works fine and forking out another (nearly) £300 for this seems bit much..

Have been expecting 4od support forever and if this box does (eventually) get it but the Foxsat doesn't I will not be chuffed!