Posts by GeorgeTuk

Apple 'seeking part makers' for 8in 'iPad Mini'

Yawn

Honestly don't care about products until they are released these days, so much speculation that its just a waste of time trying to get any true facts.

Huawei-Symantec sneaks out of US back door

No it seems you are going to be supported by some overseas workers so errr...good luck with that one.

Are you their CEO or something?

They left because they weren't allowed to purchase other businesses, all your other stuff is sales speak for everything is fine but we're leaving.

Also never heard of the venture before and never been offered products from them by any of our channel resellers.

Russia and NASA plan to COLONISE the Moon

Sounds like a BBC article...

...as in we will all be dead by the time they get round to it but we're going to report it anyway for clicks.

RIM's co-CEOs quit in top exec shake-up

Its a step in the right direction...

...but I see that he is still Chairman and a few other things, so will just be tugging at different strings.

Thats what happened at our business, CEO became Chairman but still very much in charge behind the scenes.

Xmas actually accelerates Dixons sales drop

"Market is fragile" OR

...your shops are rubbish, your staff are poorly trained in customer service and the product and your stuff is over priced?

Nah blame the market!

Even HMV realised (eventually...) that they were flogging a dead horse!

Formula 1 revs engines through Virgin Media

Thats right

If you have standard SkySports or Sky HD you get F1 channel free.

See here https://twitter.com/#!/search/skysportsf1 they have answered lots of viewer qs.

Top techs preview CES 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017...

Should say enjoy the rest of your day! But funny stuff...it will come eventually, the Daily Mail will have an article on it somewhere.

Or the BBC, they love a good "one day" science story.

Lenovo to ship first Intel smartphone – in China only

Exactly right, otherwise you would say "battery life is briliant and much better than our rivals".

Stephen Hawking seeks geek to maintain his unique wheelchair

As per my above post. Not all jobs are just about the money.

Not all jobs and posts are about the money.

2012 Games Preview

Wow.

Just wow.

Lumia sales fail to set world alight

Man, what a cynical view of the world you have.

Maybe some people do actually like them, have you thought about that?

Optional?!

I haven't noticed them. Maybe we have seen them but not clocked it which is a bit of a shame but then MS never been the best at adverts other than Win 95.

Ministry of Justice dreams of £1bn mega IT framework

I see no issue with this...

...it will be all fine, the correct tech, on budget and on time too.

Such as the history of government IT projects I have full faith.

The above may contain sarcasm.

Optional!

I agree, its like rather than fairly incremental upgrades and changes the commercial world does we end up with doing massive projects all in one go.

Its a recipe for disaster.

Google's Siri-a-like to be named 'Majel' after Trek actress

Google...

When are you going to do something original?

Its been years now.

Google beams disaster tourists into tsunami aftermath

Agree with the article

The local people affected are hardly going to want to see this and everyone else is going to go on just to feel bad.

Seems utterly pointless and as said just so people can look and feel sad.

BUSTED TWO: Carrier IQ monitor-ware on iPhones too?

I wish all the entities I deal with would co-operate.

Sorry!

Hacker cuffed in job interview sting with hotel he blackmailed

What an idiot!

I mean really did it not just seem a bit too easy...

Scareware slingers stumped by Google secure search

Not sure it was entirely unintentional...

...but still thumbs up for good works against scammers!

Rumoured iPhone 5 'will have 4in screen' against Jobs' wish

Heard a few already...

...something about his own phone network and another which I can't remember.

They'll be loads and don't forget they will have all been massive successes, oh yes, massive.

To be fair the man did impress me and he was an individual BUT there are limits to everything. To be fair to Apple they haven't said much recently its just fanbois and people with stuff to flog and write that have been doing all this talking.

Really, rumours front page on El Reg?

Come on guys unless it is solid I don't care.

I really don't understand why people get so excited chatting about what might be/might not be on the next phone.

Its really not that exciting, well for me but maybe because I deal in fact that makes me boring.

Same for analysts who are just making up rumours to drive people to the blog.

Punctured Google+ leaks bored users

There is just no point...

It doesn't offer anything that Twitter, which I use to follow sports, comedians and some film stuff and Facebook for friends and LinkedIn (rarely) for business.

Google + just doesn't offer anything new and I cannot be bothered to go through all my contacts again and catergorise them again just for Google.

Think your CV is crap? Your interview skills are worse

I love the very last sentence...

...great ending!

And so much of the rest of it was true too.

Dating sites can be haven for sex pests, say cops

Ban them...ban them all!

Just thinking I can save The Daily Mail the need to write an article on this.

Just ban it!

BlackBerry stumbles to feet, full of apologies

I told you so...

I hate to say it but their concentration into just a few datacentres serving such massive populations and geographical areas means when a problem occurs it takes out a massive area.

They said the issue originally occured in Slough and wiped out the whole of EMEA, what about a redundant one somewhere else?

Still would rather give out Blackberrys for work phones, so much easier manage. Though Exchange 2010 does do link ups and control of data better.

Which actor should play Steve in upcoming biopic?

Too soon.

Like the 9/11 film with Nicholas Cage.

Not EVERYTHING has to be a film either.

Google+ chases MySpace for second place

Glad it wasn't only me thinking this.

45% of Android users to upgrade to rival phone OSes

Uniformity

Because all the different makers and then sometimes even the telcos put their branding and spin on the Android OS it makes it very difficult to work out whats good and what is not.

Sure geeks chatter on the internet about which is better and how the next one will be bestest ever but the consumer and business buyer cba to look at it all.

You know where you stand with Apples, two handsets that operate essentially the same but with some extra snazz on the 4. RIM is there with about 6 models that are variations of what came before but with good targets, low end, middle and flash.

Android will never get that and even me as an IT Manager with Android device might look to Apple next time as cba to look up what is best from Androids.

Oh and I think somebody said there was something called Windows Phone 7, but I think they might have been drunk!

UK, US ink boffinry pact on laser fusion 'star power'

"its just around the corner"

Another Friday BBC article.

*yawn*

Nokia ditches letters for all-number names

Agree with HP Cynic

Just too many phones doing too many different things. As manager of the phone contract it was hard to work out what was good and what was meant to be good but really the cheap one of the two. As it wasn't my sole job just gave up and started ordering Blackberries instead.

Look out HTC going the same way with 3 phones for every lifestyle group!

Go Daddy spokes-totty: I'm on the elephants' side

+1

I am veggie but respect everyone else's right to eat within reason what they want but cruelty is never acceptable.

Seems strange to eat elephant though are they not protected anymore?

AMD says Xbox 720 graphics to be good as Avatar

BS!

Clearly, as they always say this before any console launch well not the Avatar bs but really overstate the capabilities because no one ever questions them about it.

Now if you came out and said your soon to be released car was like Tron lightbike then brought out a Sinclair C5 you would never recover your reputation but in video games seems acceptable to come out with outlandish claims.

Yell and Microsoft ink SMB deal

Correct!

SMB - Small to Medium Business

SME - Small to Medium Enterprise

Don't understand

How is Yell going to sell me Office365? When/If I go on there their website to lookup phone number or some other way.

3D-printed bikini goes on sale

Don't get it.....

....looks like any other bikini?

is it something that needs to be seen on the flesh?

Robot air fleet can launch mid-air from cargo plane's ramp

Or just wait for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary to drop it off?

As they will have started heading out once they knew they would be using some. May already have been on station.

MR4A had to be canned after the Nimrod refuel accident, to be fair the amount that was spunked on the whole thing would have been better used on either buying a new existing airframe or designing a new one. But then BAE has been screwing us over for years with the jobs argument, and they do provide jobs...I had one.

Don't disagree with the Page bit though.

Counter-Strike gamers explore bin Laden bag site

I thought the same.

Must be 5 years since my last CS:Source.

To be fair more modern games don't have much in the way of a modding community so I guess that is why.

Impatient punters trade PS3s for Xbox 360s

Or maybe some people just want to play online...

...after a few weeks.

Or maybe some other people think it might happen again.

Or maybe people are just fed up with an expensive kit not doing all it says.

Are you from the Daily Mail Elsie?

Nutter preflames El Reg 'cockheads'

Ha ha ha, love this.

Just shows what retards are out there on the internets!

No face seems to mean you can say anything without any comeback even if it is only people laughing in your face.

DARPA, NASA look to spawn STARSHIP enterprise

Sounds like pyramid selling!

Giving money to an idea that will never happen.

Facebook fails webmail tests

Really? Who did the research?

I like GMail but understand this is personal preference it does the grouping they mention as thats how I use it, I have got 7.5GBs of storage.

I also don't get the SPAM I do with my work testing email account (which has never been advertised and only used to bounce test our mail server). Its better than it used to be but far too many scammers get through!

Royal guests free to tweet and hang out with Facebook friends

Court Order is different...

...of course they would obey that.

But original comment seems to suggest that they would all collude secretly ignoring the law.

Wow, conspiracy theorist eh?

And if you think the police would be able to tell O2/Vodafone/Orange to turn off the signal you would be mistaken, coverage is all important and if they thought they would lose customers due turning off transmitters you would be suprised by the robust response!

And anyway its always better to see what your real or imagined enemy is up to than waste time trying to block them.

Cops hunt man who befouled drugstore's cough drop stash

WTF is that cop saying?

That makes very little sense, if it's a direct quote that is very worrying. His reports must take ages to read!

Apple's 'Do Not Track' feature goes on Safari

I bared with you...

....and got arrested.

US Marines splurge on Brit troops' armoured pants

Did you mean...

Alpacalypse Now? That is one amazing film!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpaca

Hurrah!

Nice to see we are ahead (a little bit....in one area...) for once.

Especially for an area so vital. Protection that is you filthy people!

Steve Wozniak ready for return to Apple

And just like that Fusion-io

is getting mentioned in the press.

He is pretty smart about that one!