Posts by h 6

Apple now world's second-largest company

Sounds like

sounds like a company that has figured out what consumers want, and has provided that.

No need to edit your autoexec.bat file to make things work. Consumers (and design pros such as me) don't want to hassel with config files and bios settings.

And most people with ipads do not know what BIOS means anyway.

Techies 1, consumers FTW.

And that is all.

Google 'recently extended' Apple search deal

Well,

Well, if you can't beat them, join them.

Bugs Bunny was quite right.

Dell, Samsung Android iPad rivals demo'd

RETRY. ABORT. FAIL.

see title.

Sex, lies, and botnets: the saga of Perverted Justice

Morally?

Morally wrong, yes. But did Erk break any laws? That is the question.

No one needs Blu-ray, says Microsoft exec

Say what?

Isn't that was Steve Jobs said years ago right as Blue-ray was about to come out, and why Macs would have none of it?

Lettuce head e-fit draws a blank

Kids in the Hall

The man with a cabbage for a head.

http://www.albinjohnson.com/kith/bruce/cabbagehead.jpg

Classic.

Moses' parting of the Red Sea: New sim explains whole thing

Sea of Reeds

Red Sea was a mistranslation in the King James version, at least I learned that in my college OT* class.

The Sea of Reeds was actually a swamp. So, a bunch of people on foot sloughing thru a swam, and then an army of men with armor and horses and chariots.

Guess which group made it thru the Sea of Reeds?

*Old Testemant

RIM's iPad rival 'arrives next week'

OS

If you can't make a good OS, buy one.

HP did.

Podgy Googlers get shrunken plates

Grits

I'm not a grits fan--as it's all carbs-- but taste-wise, grits actually aren't that bad.

Soft ground corn with a little butter, or cheese, or the Southern staple: shrimp and grits (usually has sausage in it to boot!)

Maybe

Maybe they should just serve healthy food or healthy versions of recipes.

When I worked at Blue Cross, the fatties ate pancakes, bacon, eggs, grits and sausage (and a diet coke) whey morning. Good lord!

And it is a HEALTH insurance company!

Jailbreaker alert: Apple TV runs iOS

App

There already is an app for that.

Ipad or iPhone can control it and stream content to it. If I had an HDMI tv I'd prolly get one.

Road test: putting the iPad to work

Touch interface

So why would you need a mouse and pointer?

Intel seeks security through app stores

Fair warning

I'm a Mac user and have an iPhone. I appreciate that iPhone apps I choose

to instal are verified. However, on my Mac(s) I enjoy installing whatever I want. And the OS

does a good job at warning me abot potentially dodgy apps. Maybe this is what Intel is going for with integrated security on their chips? Not a techie, just wondering.

Linus Torvalds outs himself as US citizen

Sod off.

We'll gladly take the Internet back from you, thank you.

Two-lane BRIDGE FOUND ON FAR SIDE OF THE MOON!

Not so good for playing pooh-sticks.

Thank you.

Cattle-burp eco menace mastered - by oregano

Me

I'm a bloke named Herb. And I like oregano, especially the Italian pronunciation!

.XXX domain deal stripped bare

Actually

It's actually spelled "come."

Read your Dan Savage.

Corrupt repair engineer jailed for bank fraud attempt

Caught him red handed?

Well, what color are his hands now?

iMovie for iPhone 4

Indeed

"Judas/Jesus phone" is so annoying and tired now, and I wish El Reg would give it a rest.

And Dogged, why are you so mean?

HEY ARSEHOLE: STOP SENDING ME ANGRY EMAILS

I will NEVER

I will NEVER Red El Reg AGAIN after being SO INSULTED by that article. Who do you think your readers are?!!! Are you TRYING to drive them off? Do you even WANT any readers?

Apple revenue tops bullish expectations by $1bn

Pints all around!

We'll done, Apple.

Good show. Very good show.

Facebook buys, kills travel rec site

Possibly

Is this possibly a counter to foursquare and gowalla (spell?) ?

Fb wants in on the social "checking in" trend?

iPad, Kindle as readable as print... almost

I'd feel uncomfortable

I'd feel uncomfortable reading on a PC because I use a Mac at work.

Verizon slashes Microsoft Kin phone prices

Slash what?

Verizon needs to slash the MS Kin.

ThinkGeek trembles before Pork Board's pork sword

White meat my ass!

Pork is technically red meat. It's just a lie to make us think pork is more healthy than beef. but it's pretty much the same. Bastards.

Palm still designing new phones, despite HP's doubts,

Jersey Shore?

Surely the Jersey Shore/MTV crowd would go for Kins or Droids -- definitely NOT iPhone material, that crowd.

BCS trustee threatens rebels with libel action

no model trains

Having no clue what BCS is, and seeing the subhead, I was disappointed that there was no mention of model trains whatsoever.

Watch bandit IDed by own mobe snap

That mug shot

I think I recognize him -- Nosferatu?

Nobel Prize winner on dodgy World Cup ball

Scored less

After England's 0 draw with Algeria, the US scored more than the queen's squad.

And didnt I see a different keeper in that match? Or was my mind just reeling from the US-Slovenia

game where we were totally robbed of a win?

No longer history than 1966?

I'm bemused no one picked up on my previous post.

That's when USA beat England!

Ok I do see the door.

Different Cup

I was thinking the 1950 World Cup, myself.

How to follow the World Cup from your desk

no mention of live streaming?

footyfire.com, anyone?

Apple revamps Mac Mini as skinny HDMI box

Simples.

Revolutionary Magic!

Apple reels as Steve Jobs Flashturbates

Pining for ad views

Reg, yeah, see title.

New wave of superphones poised to challenge iPhone 4

Flash?

These roadmaps seem all well and good, but the other night a friend of mine showed off his Incredible running Flash. I asked him to load a Flash website my ad agency devloped, and it failed to load. "Let me know when Flash works correctly on your phone," I told

him. At least he could bring up Homestar Runnner. Cute, but not useful.

Apple lifts iPhone code ban (for chosen few)

Short comment

Try writing a game in Flash and see if you can get it on a PS3 or Xbox or Wii. Let me know how that goes for you.

iPad's brain not so unique

What a lame name

"S5PC110A01" ?

compared to Apple's "A4"

Apple always keeps it simple and elegant. :)

Apple adds 'make the web go away' button to Safari 5

Readability works great on iPhone!

http://hermgreider.posterous.com/use-readability-on-iphone-to-convert-web-page-0

I did "choice 2" to get the functional bookmark set on my iPhone and it works swimmingly!

Tho I'm sure Mobile Safari in iOS 4 will have the read function built in.

Apple releases moving pictures of Steve Jobs keynote

WIFI polution

It's called WiFi polution. There were 570 little wifi networks in the room, mostly from

many people's Mifis running. No wonder there were glitches.

New Facebook developer regs not rogue-proof

Let me fix that

Verify this, bitch.

Rave reviews at robotic robot-roaster raygun rollout

So...

"in some cases to adjust the minimum speed something must be going at before it is fired on."

So does it have a setting for "bird?"

Top-killing, crisp spam and cooling the Tube

Top kill

Top kill failed. Fuck BP.

Beyond Petroleum? More like Bastardize Planet.

I blame

I blame both sides of the Atlantic--BP and Halliburton for fucking my gulf.

Sun man and 'Bond nemesis' celebrate 25 years of dotcom

Ah, May 26

May 26, my birthday. :) Afraid i'm a bit older than dotcom, though.

Queen's speech pledges faster deficit cut, 'freedom bill'

Huh?

Why do y'all Brits have a mostly unwritten constitution?

Windows 3.0 turns 20

Good god that's ugly.

And look at all those windows that pop up out of the control panel. Now wonder Windows gave me a headache and I never cared to use it.

Viacom vs YouTube spat slathered in F-words

Well

Fuck.

Sharp Aquos LC-46LE821E 46in quad-pixel TV

Erm,

Green is not a primary color. Red, blue and yellow are.

Wayward 'zombiesat' poses risk to other satellites

150,000 commands?!!!

Did they at least say "please"?

Jobsian Vendetta - Flash stabbed by Mac the Knife

You don't get it, do you?

Any company wanting to make money focuses on the consumer. And when a company's product is out there for third parties to make money on as well, those third parties will do their best to profit from it. The consumers of the product who buy third party add-ons are only concerned with the quality of said add-on. Thus, the consumer does not give a flying flip except for if it works well.

And craptastic flash apps that do not utilize the full feature set of

the iPhone-- or Android or WebOS etc -- do not live up to the expectations of the consumer.

First rule in coustomer relations management is give the customer what they want. Not half ass the with inferior product.