Posts by h 6

Imperial calls on SGI super for answers to big questions

The School

Sure is better than University College. And anyway what is it really, a university or a college?

It's like saying I'm going for a ride in my automobile car. Or going to the pub for drinking beer ale.

Microsoft undercuts planned Office 2010 retail price

Wow

Wow. Apple's iWork suite costs $79. For everything. And Keynote is diesel.

Italians threaten suit over Windows pre-install

What?

"non-consensual installation of Windows"

What, even among consenting adults?

Boys in blue caught breaking IT rules

Just one?

"use of the police national computer"

you mean your cops only have one computer, in the whole country?

Hackintosher's new line: Linux and T-shirts

So Sad

That's just sad that a for-profit company has to ask for donations.

My donations go to the United Way, not some poor joe who has a failed business model and thinks of himself as the people's savior from corporate tyranny.

Secret neo-Nazi documents published

Wrong

Freedom of speech and right to privacy are two different amendments. A leaker/publisher has the right to free speech and a citizen has a right to privacy. But the courts protect civil speech over a right to privacy. It's not really a privacy issue-- it would be libel. If the citizen objects, privacy will not help. The first defence for libel is the truth. So if the leaker has proof that said citizen is a member of such group, then it's not libel. Privacy is not an issue here.

You mean

left wing hate groups.

You mean Communists? They've always hated the Nazis, and them back.

Nothing new. Just new techno bits added to the strife.

A decade to forget - how Microsoft lost its mojo

Yep.

Look at a photo from 1990, and indeed it looks like the 80s.

Or...

Apple buys MS?

born/made

And was made by Apple.

The year in tech lunacy - an El Reg guide

Really?

How many people has Steve Jobs sent to gulags or had killed?

That's my dispute with the Stalin comparison.

Or have all the yoof totally forgot or never knew?

Shame.

I'm no Apple fanboy, just a happy Mac user. Comparing Jobs to Stalin is heinous.

I mean, come on, Reg. Stalin? Seriously?

Hackintosher goes titsup

But

But through this all, we never found out what big guns were funding them.

I'm sure a company with only 8 employees could not fund all the legal costs of what transpired.

They were in the wrong from the start, and they knew it.

Design firm sues Microsoft over Bing trademark

Thanks!

Thanks Reg for fixing the 404 to this article so quickly! Quite late over there too.

As for Bing!, if they didn't do any interstate commerce they could only register their trademark in their own state. But I'd like to see what their Bing! mark looks like.

UK Border Agency delights with festive e-card

Yes.

My mom.

DELETE.

Samsung Bada: UI shots spied on web

Simple.

Femtocell.

Well, maybe not that simple...

Google going local for next buy

uh?

Why would I want to see reviews of restaurants in Islington?

Ten grand - the cost of iPhone-induced sobriety

Give it a rest.

Dude, for real. Have some manners. Sorry if my having an iphone gives you a conniption.

The lot of you

(I finally got to use that phrase!)

The whole point is to draw awareness to the amount of drinks one has, not to set a national limit, or to nag you. If one becomes aware of actually how much one drinks, then that person at least has the knowledge to choose to drink less.

And yes, drinking less is healthier than being slosh.

Testimony spills messy details in eBay-Craigslist squabble

Not all bad.

I quite enjoy my inability to use Powerpoint.

Keynote is much easier and intuitive for an even better presentation.

US bests UK in iTunes Xmas giftiness

You!

I blame you, El Reg, YOU! For pissing off the Apple so no goodies for the UK kids.

Shame.

Vodafone drops top-of-the-range HTC

Yes

Yes, we're all girls.

Apple responds to Nokia lawsuit, in kind

ding!

Bring it!

Apple preps adaptable gadget adapter

duh

The wire parts are universal across ipods/phones.

It's the SHAPE of the devices which are different.

Duh.

Watchdog spanks FCC over US wireless

Title?

So what is the " 71-page report (PDF)" entitled to, excalty?

Oh, it's *titled* "FCC Needs to Improve Oversight of Wireless Phone Service."

Thought some PDFs had a new government entitlement program or something.

LHC pulverises previous record: 2.36 TeV surprise collision!

Top notch

A pint for the caption writer! Top notch stuff indeed.

iPhone app transforms speech to text

G Carlin anyone

The seven words you can't translate on iPhone:

http://ihnatko.com/2009/12/08/the-seven-words-you-cant-say-in-a-dragon-iphone-app/

Media monsters float co-op ebook 'storefront'

Same

The new media overlords, same as they old media overlords.

Welcome, etc.

Microsoft and Yahoo! finally finalize search pact

Claro Que si

Joint statement written by Microsoft, of course.

Pint 'cause why not?

Motorola's banana-mutilation ad disses iPhone

Meh

Just watches that droid ad on my iPhone. (caps P courtesy of Apple auto correct)

it's like those bud lite ads that are funny, memerable for a week, but don't do anything to move the product.

The one with the iPhone 4G in the pocket, thanks.

Georgia cops cuff terrorist elf

My Favorite

My favorite Christmas Elf:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1108137

Windows 7 soars while Mac OS X trips online

Interesting

Interesting how MacOS X usage jumped quite a bit around the introduction of Windows 7.

Corel begs for survival by giving takeover thumbs up

This is

This is what happens when you sell crap like Corel Draw.

Apple cult leader emails outside world

Same in the Auto industry

Hi. I'm a small manufacturer of windshild wipers for the Honda Accord. We have been making them

since 2003, and our customers tell us they are the tops. However, we received a letter from a law firm representing your company, Honda, saying we were violating your trademark because our wipers are called Accord Wipers.

Etc., etc.

US data firm blows s**t out of server

Recognize one?

One of those guys used to our President.

Google target slips ads into iPhone apps

Folks

This is in-app advertising. If it is in your app, I simply won't buy it.

Microsoft admits Win 7 tool violated GPL

Prolly not the first

Sudo--not invented here.

Apple snuffs iPhone app for too much Appleness

Rules

Follow the rules. Is it so hard to make your own icons that do not infringe copyright?

Good lord. Hire an icon designer if you can't design your own icons.

ISS piss recycler packs up again on eve of Atlantis visit

Flogging lifeless equine

This was funny in the very first article. Please let it go.

Windows Mobe Marketplace sets its stall out

I thought--

I thought no one was supposed to say "mobe" on here?

OH CRAP! I just said "mobe!"

Oh! I said "mobe" again!

Dear lord!

I said "mobe!" etc. etc.

US judge rules quadriplegic can bear arms

ExACTly!

You tell'em, Sarah.

Cross-platform Safari update shoots down multiple bugs

FOR THE EFFIN NINTH TIME!!!

No, it's not like Windows.

Safari uses the Webkit rendering engine. Webkit sits is in the OS and gets updated when the Safari app gets updated. Therefor, updating Webkit requires a restart.

And many apps use Webkit to parse and present information, not just Safari.

Wistron to release roll-out screen e-book reader in 2010

Fug

Looks ucking fugly.

Butterflies In Spaaaace!

Pigs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDS_Td0KIg

Fungal invader bites Spanish ham

Dirt.

It's the soil, not necessarily the kind of oak. The same oaks grown in the US or UK would have acorns that taste quite differently. That's why South Carolina has the best peaches, Cuba the best cigars -- its the soil.

NASA hands over $900K for Laser propulsion system

Hmm.

Jack, if I recall, didn't need a laser to climb up.

Apple IDs the next-generation iPhone

Obviously

"another opportunity for iPhone owners to whip out their toy and wave it around for all to see"

That's the entire reason for NFC.

Eat my dust - it's time for Comment of the Week

Word.

Well done, Ms Mod. Thumbs-up, but not that far up.

Apple under Jobs: from muck to mountaintop

Question:

But does he throw chairs, and acts as if he were stomping a Palm Pre?

Microsoft axes another 800 jobs

Maybe

Maybe Apple could hire them, to port iLife and iWork to Windows? Or help beleaguered Windows users to switch to Mac?