Posts by RichyS

Samsung dismisses too few tablets sold claim

Never seen one in the wild...

... But I know of one person who apparently bought one.

Does that qualify as 'quite smooth'?

Steve Jobs must face the music in court

@Lewis 'bile pump' Mettler

Dear god man, get a grip.

So the Spotify app on my iPhone must a figment of my imagination.

Hate Apple if you want, but at least have the decency to hate them for things they actually do.

Real went down the pan because of their low audio quality advertat supported bloatware, not because Apple blocked them from the iPod. Real Audio was the Adobe Flash of music. Get over it.

Tit.

This is unbelievable...

... RealNetworks are still going?

Samsung intros 'skinnier than iPad 2' tablets

8.9 and 10.1

The screen sizes seem pointlessly similar to me. I was hoping that the 8.9 would be basically the same as the 10.1, but with a sensible 4:3 aspect ration rather than a pointless 16:9 or 16:10 aspect.

I also worry that all these Honeycomb tablets seem to focus on being used in landscape mode. This is really not the way to use a tablet (having said that, using 16:9 in portrait is like reading a website on a scroll).

Anyway, this Sammy looks like the first credible Android hardware. Now, if Google could just sort out the rough edges on Honeycomb before the June/July launch of the devices, Sammy may have a winner.

Motorola must be shitting themselves though...

UK iPad 2 to cost under £400

And

But they're shit.

Blimey

That's the RIM PlayBook proper fecked then.

RIM BlackBerry PlayBook tablet release slips

Hmm, still a little pricey

I reckon that'll translate to about £400, once you add in the usual 'wrong side of the Atlantic' tax and VAT.

Only 30 quid cheaper than the equivalent iPad (Wifi and 16GB). For a tablet that's got half the screen size... Unless you actually need a tablet with half the screen size, I think this is too expensive. They need to knock another 50 quid or so off.

Interwebs stunned by musical atrocity

Bo selecta

Personally, I learnt the days of the week from Craig David...

Microsoft+IE9: Holier than Apple open web convert?

Apple FUD

How exactly has Apple crippled its mobile browser?

AFAIK it's the most standards compliant mobile browser out there. That's a funny sort of crippling.

Re. ClearType

What? Sub-pixel anti-aliasing is about the best thing MS gave us with Win XP. If not the best thing they gave us ever!

Are you still running a CRT or LCD over VGA cable? Otherwise, how can you prefer not having ClearType enabled?

Apple 'gay-cure' app severely slapped

Priests

Fortunately I've not encountered any child molesting priests. But then I'm not Catholic...

WTF.

5. Learn to write comprehensible English.

Dell Inspiron Duo

Re Balmer

He probably needs opposable digits first.

Worst of both worlds

Too heavy for a tablet.

Not expandable enough for a netbook.

Too poor a battery life for both. Well done Dell, another corker to go alongside the Streak of P***

Fukushima on Thursday: Prospects starting to look good

Not sure about the chickens

But there's at least one cock.

Google copyright purge leaves Android developers exposed

No problem with the license...

... it's just Google riding roughshod over it with their (yet again) rather unusual interpretation of it and copyright in general.

MS embraces/shuns Google's open video codec

Yes.

Microsoft indemnify you from patent claims against their products.

If Google is so sure that WebM does not infringe any patents, then they too should indemnify any organisation that ships the component. It's time for Google to put up or shut up.

Apple iMovie 1.2

If Apple were...

...then maybe Ford, GM and Chrysler wouldn't be in the shit their in.

More importantly, you need to put your tin foil hat away, and quit with the Apple-based conspiracy theories. You don't like Apple. We get it. Do you really have to come up with some spurious comment on every single sodding Apple story?

Crawl back under your /. rock.

Fukushima situation as of Wednesday

RTFM^HA

I suggest you re-read the article. Lewis was talking about one specific aspect of the Chernobyl disaster. He did not state that the incident in totality had no adverse effects.

Flash standard now twice as fast

Damn, wrong Flash

I was hoping this was going to be about Adobe Flash. I was hoping I could finally turn Click2Flash off.

Damn it Adobe, your software is still shit.

iPad 2, A5 chip, and Smart Cover strip-searched

Still? Really?

Have I just woken up in 2006?

You've also forgotten to ask if it plays Crysis.

Why Nokia failed: 'Wasted 2,000 man years' on UIs that didn't work

Exactly

You could happily replace the word Nokia with Sony in the quote, and it would still ring true.

Apple MacBook Pro 13in

Battery life test

I can't imagine for a minute that Win 6.1 via Bootcamp can optimise the battery life the same way OS X can (for example, does Windows cut the headphone socket if there's no sound for a while, as per your comment?).

As such, don't you think a better battery life test is required. One that can pit Windows, Linux and OS X laptops against one another in a real world scenario? I'm sure such a thing can't e beyond the El Reg Hardware desk...

MS smartphone share falls despite WinPho 7

Re. Actually

Apple = rock

Android = punk

RIM = Celine Dion

Microsoft = Dad dancing

Icon = Aciiiieeeeeeedddd!!!!!

T-Shirts

Like Martin from the Simpsons, I'd only wear a WANG t-shirt.

Microsoft 'paid Nokia $1bn' for WinPho 7 deal

Where's the crowd?

I think the point is that there isn't really a WinPho crowd. And the deal with Nokia pretty much means there won't be.

All the other WinPho licensees already have Android, and have already invested rather more in Android hardware, so where is their incentive to create WinPho devices and go up against Nokia? Particularly when Nokia have an (apparent) head-start and closer ties with Redmond.

So, a couple of years from now, Nokia /will/ be the WinPho crowd; and HTC, Samsung, LG, SE and a whole host of cheapo Chinese companies will desperately trying to differentiate in a crowded Andoid marketplace.

iPad 2: Apple forced to make carrier concessions

Poor article

I haven't read a good article from Rethink yet. Almost everything in this is wrong or based upon erroneous speculation backed up by zero facts. Not what I'd expect from real consultants.

And where is the evidence of consumers demanding 4G (even if it isn't really 4G) now. Coverage is still patchy in the US, 4G phones sold so far have not been spectaculary popular. I think most users will opt for a decent battery life first -- just ask HTC how they're getting along with the Thunderbolt. Apple recognise this, and only ship new technology when it's sufficiently power efficient.

Steve Jobs unveils iPad 2

Arse

How about because you could actually buy this before any Honeycomb tablets.

Can I buy a Xoom yet? No. Despite the fact that Motorola have been bleating about it for a couple of months now. You wont be able to get one in the UK until at best 3 weeks after the iPad. How about a TouchPad or PlayBook. Hmm, maybe not. I wish Apple's competitors would put up or shut up. Much like the anti-Apple brigade who feel the desperate need to comment on every single Apple story. Pathetic really.

iPad 2? Let's be kind and call it iPad 1.5

@Shaun Mensdick

How exactly is Android innovating faster?

The Tab has been out for several months now, and exactly zero innovation has occured to it or the oversized phone apps that run on it.

Despite all the good talk, you still can't a Honeycomb tablet, and the Xoom hardly brings anything to the game that the iPad doesn't.

If the iPad should have had all see features out of the box (how many dual core mobile processors where there in April 2010), then it would have made the Tab and Xoom look like even more pathetic catch up devices.

The best you can come up with is a notification system. Don't count out this being sorted with iOS 5 which will no doubt be announced with the next iPhone. See, I can do speculation on how things will be in 3 months too...

When the competition eventually arrives (can anyone yet buy a Xoom, 10" Tab, PlayBook or HP TouchPad yet -- will any of them be available before the iPad 2?), then we'll see. Personally, I don't give any of these pretenders much chance.

Vodafone's network knackered by thieves

Re. Software fault.

Yup, it's a software fault. And the fault is that someone has smashed up the hardware that the software needs to run on!

Apple brands Intel 'Light Peak' as Thunderbolt

What?

Yeah, because they're all really easy to confuse with a connection method.

The very fact that you can cite four different users of the term Thunderbolt (five, if you include Apple) suggests that everyone can get along happily without thinking that their new MacBook Pro comes with a free HTC handset.

Muppet.

Memo to iPad mimics: No one wants a $799 knockoff

WTF?

Really? Because that's been so successful in the past?

Re: Errr

I suspect you annoy 'fanbois' because you're a dick.

iXtreamer dock with IPTV

Why

For the media angle, why would anyone buy this over the much cheaper and better (for the media stuff) Apple TV?

You get a much better interface, can use the iThingy as a remote or use AirPlay.

Okay, so you don't get a 'bring your own disc' NAS box, but I reckon you could buy a capable one for the price difference.

iPhone 5 rumors: bigger, smaller, cloudy, keyboard-equipped

@SRS

Yay, I had one of those at school!

Thanks for bringing a smile to my face...

Boffins demand: Cull bogus A-Levels, hire brainier teachers

General Studies

4-5 years ago? Have Universities /ever/ counted General Studies? And I mean proper Universities, not re-badged Polytechnics.

UK.gov's axing of school building plan 'unlawful'

Yes, it's you

I wonder how Wandsworth manage to provide a very decent service for half the Council Tax rate as neighbouring Lambeth. Even more so bearing in mind that Lambeth's services are generally thought of as pretty poor.

But then I don't understand local government finances. But I don't suppose most local governments do either.

Alternatively

Or, you know, a few of these councils could have acted responsibly and maintained these schools as they went along; rather then letting them fall into rack and ruin...

And unlawful due to the sex/race/disability discrimination acts? Sounds a bit tenuous to me.

Grief and disbelief greet Elop's Nokia revolution

R&D

But Nokia /really/ needed to reduce their R&D spend (well, get some value out of it, at least).

It appears that Nokia's total R&D spend is about 3 times that of Apple. And for what? Buying in WinPho7 off the shelf, it would appear...

Here's a handy link: http://www.asymco.com/2011/02/04/nokia-employs-as-many-engineers-for-symbian-and-meego-as-apple-does-for-all-its-product-lines/

Should Apple enter the flat TV market?

But

Munster is an arse who's been banging on about this for years. It's about as wrong as his other predictions. And that's very wrong.

Rethink aren't very different either.

RIM PlayBook fondleslab to 'run Google Android apps'

Is this really a good idea?

I can't help but think this will dissuade developers from actually writing software for the QNX platform. In the long term, I can't see this strategy being a good one for RIM.

It's official: Nokia bets on Microsoft for smartphones

Cheerio Nokia

Oh well, I guess Nokia had a few good years.

It was nice knowing you...

100s to be contacted in re-opened NotW hacking case

Does anyone really care that much

You'd have thought from the reporting in the media and the ongoing bleating from various (former) politicians (especially the buffet worrrying one) that this was the biggest scandal and most devious and technically advanced hacking to date.

It wasn't.

A few politicians and minor 'celebrities' failed to change their default voicemail PIN. Woo fecking hoo.

I'd have more sympathy for the likes of Tubby Prescott if he wasn't part of a government trying to monitor the entire bloody countries telecommunications. Don't like it so much now, do you John? Well, if you;ve got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear...

Google backslaps Schmidt with $100m award

Careless Twitter

Pretty careless of Jeremy Hunt to spell Schmidt's name incorrectly. I mean, how would he like it if someone got his name wrong. Oh wait...

The cost of beating Apple's shrewd screws? £2

Or you could try Googling

Let me Google that for you:

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=iphone+weird+screw

Google accused of copying (more) Oracle Java code

Due diligence?

I hope Google were a bit more rigorous in the open sourcing of VP8 as WebM. Maybe Google are a little nervous, and that's why they won't indemnify users of WebM against patent infringement.

Hmmm. Sloppy.

El Reg takes a spin round Team Lotus's F1 factory

CFD

Actually, Virgin are the only team exclusively using CFD rather than a combination of wind tunnel and CFD.

Apple tops $6bn in quarterly income

Divvie

Apple are still growing massively. As such, the share price is going up. Only companies that are stagnating (no growth or nothing to invest their profits in) need to pay a divvie on the basis that there's no other way to provide shareholder value.

And that's a fine way to invest if you want a bit of security and a predictable return. However, Apple shares are up around 50% in roughly a year. I'll take that over a small dividend any day.

Don't let your blind hatred of Apple get in the way of a decent investment. Imagine you'd invested $100 in MS in 2000 rather than Apple. Still happy with the divvie?

Frankly, you're a divvie.

RIM, Moto tablet ship total to hit 2m in Q1

Where are all the Galaxy Tabs?

So, where are all the Galaxy Tabs? I've yet to see one in the wild on the Tube. Lots of Kindles (a big hit at Christmas, I reckon), and a good number of iPads; but not much else.

BAA accused of banning passengers from filming travel chaos

So

So, is the YouTube awash with videos of the Black Hole of Calcutta like he'll of Heathrow?