Posts by Kenny Millar 261 publicly visible posts • joined 2 May 2007
What idiots have hard coded the rate of VAT into their systems?
Changing the rate of vat to 15% should be a 1 minute job for some minor admin staff in the accounts dept on Monday morning.
Whats actually going to happen here is that retailers will sell at the same price, effectively putting their prices UP to keep the new 115% price the same as the old 117.5% price.
No, sorry I disagree.
You don't understand who Apple are or where they are going.
I bet you were one of those who said it was a bad idea to let go of the floppy drive at the time too.
You cannot move forward by holding onto the past.
If you want to be part of the revolution, then you have to arm yourself appropriately - and that means with the correct type of external displays for your Mac Books (etc).
It was not a design error, nor was it a shortfall, it was a design decision - a pragmatic decision to move forward and leave the past to the Wintel brigade.
Apple's courage to take what at the time are unpopular decisions give it the power to move forward, and to move ahead.
Ok, so it's a negative story - something is closing down, didn't live up to expectations etc etc, but do you have to take such a negative tone in your journalism, or rather, 'reporting'?
Describing the current economic downturn as a 'clusterfxxk' is just base, playground level articulation and reveals the level of your intellect.
>>Don't you mean "It doesn't have a shiny apple on the back"?
No I don't.
I don't have an iPhone, but I do have an HTC running WinMo 6.
I hate, this actually HATE windows mobile 6.
It is NOT a suitable OS for a phone.
180 Seconds from OFF to being able to make a call? Get real! It's supposed to be a smart phone. I hate it and it ought to go, but I can't afford an iPhone.
Daniel,
It's not MY translation that failed, but your re-translation back to English. My original english, which has been totally lost by being passed through 2 translation tools, was fine.
The point it, it has NOTHING to do with Apple Macs, in much the same way that the original article had nothing to do with IT.
If you are a regular Register reader you will have noticed that I have a peculiar habit of recommending people purchase an Apple Mac in the comments of any story which is not IT related. It's a kind of postmodern irony.
It's time for MS to draw a line under the client version of windows and start again.
They need to do something revolutionary, not just evolutionary.
What they are telling us we'll get in 2010, is something that's been available on other platforms for 3 to 5 years already. Come on. Stop the progression from one version of windows to another, bring a halt to windows development and start afresh on something brand new.
Don't shout at me about all the legacy stuff that won't work if you do that - it doesn't matter - the developers will bring out new versions of everything for the new platform. The newest PS3s don't play PS2 or PSX games - that doesn't mean the PS3 won;t be a success.
Apple did it with Mac OS X, ford did it when they killed of the Escort and replaced with the Focus.
There comes a time when you just have to stop playing the generation games, and start playing the creation game. That time is now.
There must be a real good reason why Apple put two graphics processors in this range of machines. One hours extra battery life can't be the only reason.
Apple are known for testing the water by sneaking some feature onto a product as a minor tweak, only for it to become a major feature in the future on the same or another product.
So, any guesses where Apple are going with this?
So basically, we talking about spending about £16K to £19K on a device to move 1 or possibly 2 people (but no more) a maximum of 150 miles, after which time you need to charge it for 2.5 Hours at least. And that assumes you remeber to drive home before you're charge runs out, since there is no charging standard your house is likely to be the only place you can find a charging station.
And, I'd guess that the quoted 150 Mile range is a 'best practice' figure, meaning one 9 stone adult driving with a very light right foot, and using regenerative braking to maximum effect. Actual range in normal commuter traffic is likely to be significantly less.
In addition, the device you're using to do this allocates 1/3 of the available space to the passengers, 1/3rd to the batteries and 1/3 to the drive train - and that's being generous, the actual passenger area is probably less than 1/3rd.
Surely there MUST be a more practical way to do move people from home to work and back?
If only there was a way of storing engergy in a highly efficient manner, which takes up less space, and can then be converted to rotational energy on deman, say by storing that energy in chemical form, then burning it to create heat and possibly exploding it to create movement - no wait, we already do that...
The point is that whatever people need most, whether it's petrol, oil or even electricity and water (for hydrolysis into hydrogen and oxygen) then those things will become commodities and will be priced appropriately by the suppliers. The end effect is that it will always cost the same %age of income to enjoy personal travel.
The worship of Job, and all things Apple is quite humorous.
Having said THAT, I will not go back to using windows, until they have something superior to what I have now, or some 'must have' feature which I just can't get.
Please don't mouth off about Apple and OS-X until you've actually tried them.
Spokesperson 1: Yes please take these part numbers and prices at face value. You don't need to understand, just answer the freaking question.
Spokesperson 2: Haha, well spotted for noticing our deliberate mistake. Your answer was totally correct and has scored, 0% out of a possible 100%.
Spokesperson 3: Spokesperson 2 was correct, we do sell oranges.
OpenOffice.org power presentation (word processing) connection server status, downloading for fun is always, and often not, to used as a measure of open source conclusion.
The very fact there is some downloading activity, and that is is open source, suggest that the uptake of the waterfall model of development, using a close set of contributors is in some minds, better for accurate results, and superior for inaccurate results.
When compared to more proprietory (non gpld) public closed code bases, these development factories could benefit from use of some more open-source concepts such as code-re-use, licensing, development mentoring and artist procurement.
The days of the bedroom coder and dead, but far from over.
In the EU all consumer goods have a TWO YEAR warranty anyway. That is an irrevocable legal right, enshrined in law, which most manufacturers would rather you didn't know about.
It covers everything you buy from any retailer.
That's why manufacturers like to say '90 day warranty' in big letters - making you think you're onto a good thing, when in fact your statutory rights are way better!
Aye it's nice. It's shiny and black and all that, but the manufacturers have made one bug mistake.
It runs fecking windows!
When will people learn that windows is moribund?
People. Take a few minutes to try out Mac OS X, then you can forget about Windows and move on with your life. It's over. It's not you, its me. I love windows, but I'm not in-love with windows. There's someone else.
How many different ways do you want me to say it?
How about this:
"Windows Vista - it the OS for the 90s." (You can quote me on that.)
Get the picture? It's over. Windows is dying. Time to move to a proper OS.
And before you flame me. If you've never tried OS X then shut up because you cannot argue about things you don't know.
Hi Tom.
It won't.
However, since your average Mac OS X User has already shown signs of superior intelligence, by not buying over-priced, faulty kit from Microsoft, he is less likely to be drawn into the resulting phising site etc.
For example, user A :a Windows user, got to his bank web site, and it looks kindly odd, some mis-spelt words, the occaision missing graphic, and today it's asking him for all his security digits, not just 3 random ones. Wht the heck he thinks, this looks like the sort of thing I'm used to.
User B: On a Mac, goes to his bank site and thinks, hmmmm, something wrong here. Lets shut the browser and try again. Ahh that's better.
User A is an idiot - we know that already because he bought Windows.
I'm a total Mac head, but I'm not stupid.
I love my Mac, and my OS X, but I hardly ever use Safari on Mac OS or Windows.
Firefox is faster and safer as far as I can see.
Having said all that, Safari is STILL better than anything from Microsoft.
Plus, if you get sucked into a phising site, you deserve to have all your money stolen from you anyway.
This is a total non story. You should be ashamed of yourself.
Do you have any evidence at all that there are a significant number of Mac clients being compromised by this? I'd like to bet that you can't find one single example of a Mac in the real world that has been compromised by this attack, and led to a malicious page.
It's not the vulnerability that's the problem with ANY security issue, is the abuse of the vulnerability.
This is a total scare mongering story.
To be perfectly frank, this is not such a big deal.
Apple have launched a totally new service, a complete re-factor of online mail, contacts, so they've had some teething problems. At least its a good, (and for the most part useable) system.
Can you imagine what would have happened if MS had attempted this?
It would have been 2 years too late, ugly as sin, understandable and usable only to genius developers and overbloated with useless details.
Oh, and it wouldn't just be a month of teething troubles - it'd be YEARS of constant change.
Does Ballmer no know what he's saying?
I love to slap him on the head - maybe that'd wkae him up.
Has he ever even seen some of the other software that's out there, stuff that people like Google, and Apple are doing? He really thinks they are better then that? He is so blind it's scary.
Ok, first of all, Best of luck to Steve, I truly hope all his health problems are behind him now, and that he grows strong and lives long.
But secondly, some commentors here are missing the point. A company doesn't need great people behind it OR great products to be succesfull. Just look at MS, led by (until recently) Bill Gates and Steve Balmer - and with windows et al as a product range, but yet still the most successful brand on earth, and the richest company in the world. Nuff said.
No. it's is NOT the SSD manufacturers that have it wrong.
What tony is saying that hardware manufacturers should bend their systems over backwards to fit into MS's dodgy practices? I think not.
MS Should pay attention to the SSD Specifications and write appropriate controller software with SSD specific timiongs etc, and use these then they detect a SSD drive.
How the hell can they get away with such a shambolic product launch?
The press (including el Reg) should be tearing strips off them.
Not only does iTunes barf when trying to access the v2.0 OS for iPod touch, half the time it also tells you that v1.1.4 is the latest version anyway!
On top of that, www.mac.com and www.me.com have been up and down like a whore's pants all day.
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