Posts by h 6

Jobsian Vendetta - Flash stabbed by Mac the Knife

Don't care/

I really don't give a shit about how apps are made. I only pay for apps that really work well on my iphone. All you techies can go on writhing about this, but most people in the couldn't care less.

Cheshire lass, 8, wins Playmobil vid challenge

Playmobilia?

Playmobilia? Isn't that a bit inappropriate for an 8 year old?

Geezer eBays 'bastardised, chaved up Skippy mobile'

What?

"seen dangling a foot outta this"

What? Some people in the UK drive around with a foot sticking out the door?

Chip maker to take on iPad with $99 tablet

$99?

For only $99? Then it has to be a plastic piece of crap, then.

Aussie smoko-proofing drug prevents ill effects of cigs

Sure

"At the end of the test every single mouse was dead. However, this was simply because the boffins had killed them in order to examine their lungs. "

Sure brilliance.

Nashville cops trade fire with leprechaun

I think Muslims like green as well?

You mean the opposition movement in Iran, yes.

US broadband seeks ISP speed stickers

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Very good move from the Obama FFC. This would have *never* happened under Monkeyboy.

These proposed speed ratings are like the averaged MPG on new car stickers and EnergyStar efficiency ratings. Just helps consumers make better purchasing decisions.

Carry on.

El Reg insults 'millions of Irish Catholics'

St. Pats in USA

St. Pats in America -- wasn't that last Saturday?

IE9 - the big questions and Microsoft's half answers

First glance

at first glance of the headline i saw "IED - ..."

Hold onto your pants it's iPad pre-order day

I bet

I bet a lot of people's minds will change once they actually spend some time with the device.

Police issue lock-up-your-chihuahuas killer owl warning

An eagle owl?

So, is it an eagle or an owl?

These weird Brit names like University College.

Firefox alpha dons Flash flak jacket

Only me?

Down with OOPP? Yeah you know me!

Compliance bods treat Cebit to watersports

Prior Art, those fountains.

Epcot 25 years ago. Amazed me as a kid, especially when the pattern changed and my little brother got an entire jet of water to the face.

Windows Phone 7 blocks out popular HTC model, blames buttons

"Depends on the model... Tried putting the "3GS" OS on a 1st gen iPhone?"

Yes, I have 3.1 on my first-gen iphone.

Apple kicks out quack app, keeps boobs/farts

Seriously, folks

I couldn't give a rat's ass about boob apps on my iphone.

Lenovo intros ThinkPad X201 series

Damn.

Damn that's ugly.

And that stupid red dot thing, too.

Hero corduroy overpowers US school gunman

maths?

He's an American. It's "math teacher."

Samsung Galaxy Portal i5700

Hands?

So what's up with analog clocks on all these smart phones?

iPad nearly had video conferencing?

USB port

You will be able to connect USB devices through its dock connector. I'm sure there will be many add-on devices from the likes of Griffin available when the ipad arrives.

Silicon Valley hypegasm for miracle shoebox powerplants

which end?

It's the font end of the cow, sir.

Oxford snaps high-speed movies with consumer cams

Illegal?

Photographing money may be illegal, but in the US, I art directed a TV spot where a guy was throwing bundles of money into a campfire. The money bundles were mostly old phonebook pages, but the top few were color laser prints of $100 bill JPEGs downloaded from the US Mint!

Might be an exception for people in the film/video/theater business

Spanish city shuns Brit 'Saga louts'

Tourists darn them

Sounds similar to a situation across the pond.

Cheap low-fi summer college kid/Canadian destination town Myrtle Beach hosts a Harley biker week that lasts 10 days (a week is longer on a Harley it seems) each Spring. Smoke-outs, drunken accidents, deaths, puking/pissing/sleeping in front yards, traffic, total disdain for the civilized -- you get the picture.

So the town enacted a helmet law. Most of the Harley riders did not show up after that. I for the death of me would not want to go to Myrtle Beach, but the locals were very happy to not have the Harley rabble ruin their beach-side town for 2 weeks.

Of course, some business owners didn't like the helmet law keeping the Harley riders' money out of town.

Retched place tho IMHO.

Dell acquires SMB systems babysitter Kace

Dell to support Macs?

According to a post at macintouch.com, Kace supports Macs, so now Dell will be supporting Macs.

Interesting.

China Mobile goes big on proximity payments

WuMart?

WuMart? Is that the Chinese name for WalMart?

gernade 'cause i hate Walmart.

Big Blue boffins hatch dirt-cheap solar cells

Simples.

Just replace your old less efficient cells. It's no big deal. -h

Toshiba to tap out touchscreen laptop line

gonk

Good Lord, that looks UGLY!

Street View catches Finn with his pants down

What?

What, was he taking the piss?

Additionally

Additionally, no matter WHY he was sitting in his back yard with his pants down, the fact that a road goes right behind his house and across the field is an apartment complex shows he had no expectation of privacy. If he were inside with eh blinds closed, expectation of privacy. Sitting on a swing pantless in your back ground with no privacy fence AND in clear view of a public street equals no expectation of privacy.

So some chap taking a walk sees him and snaps a pic. That is not a violation of privacy. Putting such pic on-line, while a bit rude, is not illegal either. Does it matter of it's a car with a camera on top rather than a pedestrian and compact digicam?

Apple bets on Mac-only photo land grab with Aperture 3

Art

I'm an art director, and my experience with photographers is the ones using Macs are more artistic than those using Windows. They produce better shots, have a better eye, do much better post-production work.

And have better beer in their studio.

Spooks scour gambling sites in terror finance probe

Wha?

Serious Organised Crime Agency

as opposed to the non-serious organised crime agency?

iPhone App Store bars mention of Google Android

irrelevant platform information

"irrelevant platform information"

Ha! I like it!

H.264 video codec stays royalty-free for HTML5 testers

Safari

No, we just don't go around blabbing about what browser we use or bitch and rail like a mad idiot about other OSs.

tfn

NASA develops spaceship work robot called 'R2'

In other news...

The Iranian space agency has developed prototype robots to do the work of humans in space. Looking like a humanoid, but only from the waist down, these robots were built to...

Does Apple patent claim show iPad with built-in camera?

Oh FFS!

The iPad was not super-hyped.

Apple said very little about it, but it was the CLICK ON ME TO SEE MY ADS tech rags like El Reg that fell over like a little girl at sight of any news on the device and blabbed about it til blue in the screen.

I love El Reg and no offense to little girls, but sometimes Reg bats at a lifeless equine and just gets a wee bit too full of themselves doing it.

And blabbing about "super-hyped" ipad is one of those instances.

Also

>“I'm afraid we don’t comment on rumour or speculation,” said a company spokeswoman.

They are back to talking to you again?

Google pushes new multitouch onto Nexus One

Multi-touch?

Welcome to 2007, Mr. Android.

Sent from my elitist phone

Yes! It's the iPad jacket!

waistcoat?

It has no sleeves -- it's a vest. Any fool know that.

Steve Ballmer defaces fanboi MacBook

Wow

Wow! He has a sense of humor AND a good chair-throwing ability! Nice to see him have a laugh with a fan.

Crusty fireball space mango wrecks US doctor's office

I wish

I wish a meteorite would smash thru El Reg's rotating story of the day banner.

please make it STOP!

Amazon 'makes it easier' for authors to DRM Kindle ebooks

Hmm.

As a writer, I'd feel like I'd want to protect my work so that I can make money off of it as I rightly should. But if I choose to write something for fun to give out free, then of course no DRM.

Rickets rise linked to excessive gaming

Rickets: common in Victorian times

Yeah, but were x-ray machines?! :P

Emergency IE patch goes live as exploits proliferate

I got

"To use this site, you must be running Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 or later. "

oh well. Knew my iPhone was safe :P

Apple trawling networks for tablet subsidies?

Name

Or: i of Newt

Man Utd imposes social networking ban

Er

You mean there's a right way to sit on a toilet?

'Anti-cyberbullying' rapper sorry for SMS smack talk

What?

What -- people talk like that in the UK?

Swedish Weight Watchers bring down the house

duh

It's a Bootnote, Jack.

Fem-rage shocker: Woman zaps ex-boyf with pink taser

Uh

Uh, the IT angle, perhaps?

Next-gen iPhone rumored for April

News

Appleinsider has an article saying apple is buying up oodles of LCD flash components.

That is all.

Phoenix to rise from Martian ashes frost?

Where?

Emerging where? I don't see anything....

Ballmer preempts Jobs with tablet slate trio

What's he holding?

When he shows the cover of the Twilight ebook?

http://venturebeat.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/hp-tablet-2.jpg

Two hands cupping an----apple!