Posts by AceRimmer

Audiophiles: These Wi-Fi speakers have a stereo drift of less than 25μs – good enough for you?

For hifi wifi transmission the best air is no air

The second best is air that is completely unreactive to those wifi signals

My living room atmosphere is now 99.999% helium-4

Gran Turismo 6: Another glossy, gorgeous Mario Kart on steroids

GT3

Personally I thought that the Gran Turismo series peaked at GT3.

For them to have STILL not fixed the AI of the other drivers is IMO unforgivable.

Tube be or not tube be: Apple’s CYLINDRICAL Mac Pro is out tomorrow

Re: On a roll

"I wonder how long it took their marketing department to decide what colour it should be?"

Probably about 2 seconds after the first "Andrex" joke was told about the white prototype

Beauty firm Avon sticks spike heel into $125m SAP-based sales project

Re: I hope Avon have got good lawyers

"Can anybody guess why?"

Because nobody likes to admit that they have made a $100 million mistake. Usually there is more than one person involved in the decision and unless you have a complete regime change there will be no admission of fault.

In this case, Avon should be publicly applauded for being so open about the mistake and the fact they have decided to stop throwing good money after bad.

SAP

Verb

"gradually weaken or destroy"

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/sap?q=sap

Synonyms:

IBM, Accenture, Thoughtworks, Capita

Zuck you! Facebook introduces 'Dislike' button... in Messenger

Seriously?

"This has led to many bizarre situations, such as people "Liking" the fact their chum's parents have passed away, because there's no other way to express an emotion."

How about thinking outside the Thumbs Up box

Santa brings Dixons £31m profits as ghost of Comet is laid to rest

It will only be news when...

"customer satisfaction and profitability up considerably year on year"

...Customer satisfaction reaches positive numbers

I popped into PC World last week in need of a set of precision screw drivers so I could swap a laptop hard drive.

"Sorry sir, we don't sell screw drivers of any description" was the response.

Goes without saying that had I bought the hard drive from them then I would have been going straight to the tills for a refund

Speeding cops, fearsome drops and Death Star shops

Re: Personally

I think not

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Personally

I fucking hate the freemium model of mobile games.

NO XMAS PRESENTS FOR Google Now and Siri: Chirpy scamps get a C+

Google won't use that information against you in a court of law

Another party trick is to use the Nickname function on contacts.

Set a friends contact nickname to "Dinosaur Breath" (Or other insult of your choice)

Then show them how clever Google is by asking it to "call Dinosaur Breath"

Poker ace's vanishing hotel laptop WAS infected by card-shark – F-Secure

Re: @William Boyle - Protection

"does anyone market a laptop shell into which a smartphone can be plugged?"

Asus Padphone?

Alternatively, do not install any OS on the laptop and instead use a thumb drive with Linux... You can configure these to contain a persistent data store

Universal Credit: £40 MILLION and counting's been spaffed up the wall on useless IT gear

Change your surname to "Accenture" and start sending the Gov. large invoices

The fact that you will have produced exactly Zero will actually be noted somewhere as an improvement in service.

When this happens you can double the amount charged

Teary-eyed snappers recall the golden age of film

Digital vs Film

What this article brings home is not the benefit of Digital over Film (or vice versa) but the importance of knowing how to take good photos and how to properly use the tool (i.e. camera) you're currently using.

Our Vulture strokes Dell's ROBUST 15 INCHER: Inspiron 15 Core i7

Re: LOL sad MacBookPro copy

keep their crappy design trends out of my products.

My products? Seriously?

Are apple coming round to your house at the dead of night and surreptitiously fitting components you don't want to your tech?

Re: LOL sad MacBookPro copy

Having been a heavy laptop user for the past 10 years I now find full size keyboards awkward and horrible to type on.

I currently run a Dell XPS 15 which has a similar keyboard to this one. It is very nice to type on and an improvement on my older Dell. The separation between the keys and their shape makes for quite a pleasant typing experience. There isn't much if any flex either which is nice.

Thanks! Will have a look

"WTF not even the better specced dual core offerings?"

Have you had a look on the Dell website? There are dual core options

BlackBerry rejected Justin Bieber as brand ambassador

Re: Who?

I hadn't heard of Vincent Washington either

Boffins devise world's HARDEST tongue-twister

Re: Peggy Babcock

Try saying

Jeremy Hunt culture secretary

Very quickly, 5 times in a row

PS-PHWOARRR: We review Sony’s next-gen PlayStation 4

Re: Ho hum

"they will revolutionise the gaming market with bling."

You mean INVENT gaming and the gaming market

Inside IBM's vomit-inducing, noise-free future chip lab

At what point

Is it simpler/cheaper to build the chip fab in SPAAAACE thus avoiding pesky Earth based vibrations

4G networks are BIG TIME SUCK for us videogame-obsessed Brits

Re: Subhead

"the mall" in the subhead is not capitalised, so is not the definite article, i.e. The Mall (AKA Pall Mall) and so it would refer to the other usage of the word as a synonym for what us normal people call a shopping centre.

There are some malls in the UK, Bluewater (in Kent) refers to itself as a mall as does BIrchwood Mall near Warrington. I'm sure there are others!

Google to CyanogenMod: YOU! GIT yore warranty-BUSTING ASS outa Play

Re: Warranty vs Firmware?

Overclocking is definitely enabled on many custom ROMs - although they always come with a big warning message.

Sysadmin job ad: 'If you don’t mind really bad work-life balance, this is for you'

Re: General IT

"But don't just expect me to jump because you have "and other reasonable duties" in my contract."

Unfortunately, there is a reason why it's in your employment contract. You belong to them and if they ask you to jump then you either jump or face the possibility of it being used against you in a court of HR

Thats one the benefits of contracting... my "very specific" business insurance does not cover me when undertaking any tasks not specified in the contract

VIOLENT video games make KIDS SMARTER – more violent the BETTER

Could be worse, you might have become an unscrupulous landlord happy to bankrupt tennants with extortionate rents

Re: Question:

Ironically the only GTA missions I can think of that involve prostitutes are:

GTA III which had a couple of pick up and drop off some hookers in a set time missions

and

GTA San Andreas which had a the optional "pimping" missions which meant driving the girls around and protecting them from any abusive punters.

In all the missions a dead hooker equals failure

IIRC The killing prostitutes line comes from a daily mail article when GTA III came out. One of their journalists obviously had a very warped mind when they sat down to play it.

What's wrong with Britain's computer scientists?

Re: Your choice of degree is an example of lateral thinking

"And of course physics guys are too lazy to learn quicksort. "

Do people still need to write their own sort routines?

Re: The findings are bollocks

Give me a "B" graduate with an interesting bunch of projects on github over an "A+" graduate who only focused on their coursework.

Pros and cons with this approach

The problem with any job is that there will be large amounts of time spent doing stuff you rather wouldn't have to do. An "A+" grad has already demonstrated the necessary discipline needed to maintain focus.

The "B" graduate would probably start posting bollocks on el reg as soon as he/she got bored with whatever it is they are supposed to be doing for you

What’s new in SQL 2014?

Re: SQL 2014

As someone who works as a contractor almost exclusively with SQL Server in companies who predominantly use SQL Server, I have never had the impression that "SQL" was synonymous with "SQL Server".

The one caveat is the occassional non technical user who tries (badly) to use the lingo.

Too soon for a new SQL Server?

It feels as if 2012 has barely got its foot in the door in terms of market penetration vs 2008/

Justin BIEBER ploughs cash into NaaS: NARCISSISM-as-a-Service

Re: Mtech25 This is a good idea

"Yeah, but it would be tempting to jump on Ark Ship B just because you'd be instantly elevated to most intelligent person on the ship."

Most intelligent person on the ship up untill the meteor hits the planet.

There is a reason why all the thickos are put on Ark Ship B.

Huawei set to pump MILLIONS into 5G mobe networking research

Re: Coverage is more important

@boltar : Glass half empty today?

One possible solution could be to make small, low powered base stations which can chain or repeat the connection to a proper base station. Speeds might not be amazing but it would allow them to fill some of the obvious gaps in coverage

Re: "the majority of the work remains ahead of us."

Not if they're in 4K resolution!

The Reg undergoes a Twitter makeover: Come join the squawk

I think it's time to turn your Beard and Sandles in to your nearest usenet representative.

Double-click? Oh how conventional of you, darling!

Re: 1 out of 10

"Never buy a fucking French car"

The French operate the CRaP car network... Critoen, Renault and Peugeot.

Steve Jobs' boyhood home may become protected historical shrine

Re: It deserves to meet a fate like that of Jacking House

Good find!

Official crackdown on Apple fanboi 'shanty town' ahead of London iPhone launch

Re: Rewarding Loyalty

"the latest iPhone for free..."

£600 for sitting outside all day and night for 5 days whilst taking online abuse...

NO THANKS

"What an intolerant society we sadly live in..."

They aren't queuing up for a blessing from the pope.

They're queuing up and giving free advertising to one of the biggest companies in the world. A company hoarding a significant proportion of the worlds money and a company which will bend any rule it can to avoid paying tax.

At best they deserve to be forcibly removed from the pavement they are blocking

What they should do

Is use their right to protest and stage an anti tax dodge protest sit-in in front of the store.

They can then call an end to the protest the minute the new iPhone is for sale

Re: Queuing already?

Really?

The big diference is that we don't have to wait outside in the rain for 5 days to mock the sad cases

MPs: This paperless health service plan isn't worth the paper it isn't written on

Instead of paying through the nose or consultancys

That money could have paid for a lot of hookers

The end result would have been slightly better if not too dissimilar

One day we'll look back and say this was the end of the software platform

Re: Rotten UX?

Or at least it would if this wasn't being Moderated to death!

Rotten UX?

This should make for an interesting and entertaining Friday topic

Moving from permie to mercenary? Avoid a fine - listen to Ben Franklin

Re: Looks up, checks calendar. @JDX

The Tories didn't say they would scrap it

They said they would review it

Re: Looks up, checks calendar.

It's a none issue because HMRC have pretty much given up on it:

http://webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/+/http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/freedom/ir35-status-enqs.htm

Most contractors still operate as if IR35 doesn't exist.

'Who knew in 1984 that Steve Jobs would be Big Brother?'

Re: Linux, and why I don't love it

A reach around would probably suffice

Cavemen innocent in MAMMOTH MURDER case: DNA evidence

Re: @AceRimmer - mamoth hunter

Try watching a bull fight (before they're banned), the matadors have a pretty high survival rate compared to the much bigger bulls

And watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qaj-UQ7HMw

The harassment and hunt would take place over several hours until the herd is exhausted and make easy pickings. There is a reason why of all the Mammals we are one of the best adapted to long distance endurance running.

Re: @AceRimmer You are clearly unfamiliar with..............

Harass herd

Separate calf from adults

Kill calf

Leg it

Return once the angry mammoth mother has fucked off