Posts by amanfromearth

PEAK APPLE: iOS 8 is least popular Cupertino mobile OS in all of HUMAN HISTORY

Re: "Apple seems to be gradually become shittier" - Agree

Yosemite does not rhyme with shite.

It's pronounced yo-sem-me-tee

Sam would be turning in his cartoon grave..

Back to the ... drawing board: 'Hoverboard' will disappoint Marty McFly wannabes

Pointless

It's just a floaty thing with very little in common with a skateboard. There's no way to control the direction what with no friction and all.

I'd guess most would be fed up of it a long time before the 7 minute battery is flat, assuming they haven't been carted off to casualty already.

spɹɐʍʞɔɐB writing is spammers' new mail filter avoidance trick

That's not backwards..

It's umop apisdn

Apple's SNEAKY plan: COPY ANDROID. Hello iPhone 6, Watch

Ignorance seemingly not bliss..

The thing which ordinary people call a "winder", is actually called a Crown.

So, digital crown is not a stretch at all.

Virgin Media blocks 'wankers' from permissible passwords

And ebay too

The tat-vendor wouldn't allow me to create an account called "pussycat"

Stupid, stupid.

Speed of light slower than we thought? Probably not

Re: If gravity bends light...

Move the light switch to be under the covers.

Not that big of a deal.

Google Glass gets 2GB of RAM. Think about this. Two gigs of RAM

So, you are saying

That they have improved specs..

OK, I'll get me coat..

Longer flights burning more fuel can cut planes' climate impact

You need to research Great Circle routes. There is no "straitish run" on a spheroid.

Boffins lay out 'practical requirements' of 'realistic' quantum computer

Abracadabra

Sooo... magic is true.

JK Rowling will be pleased.

Quantum teleportation gets reliable at Delft

Oooh, > 10000c

How fast?

I admit to being not up to date on quantum research, but have they yet measured how fast the entangled electron changes state?

And if they have, is it < c ?

Apple CEO Cook breaks YEARS OF SILENCE, finally speaks to El Reg hack

Re: Amusing.

Those who can, do.

Those who can't do, teach

Those who can't teach, teach teachers

Those who can't teach teachers, become journalists

Those who can't do, teach, teach teachers, or become journalists, become politicians

Wozniak: Please, whatever you do, DON'T buy me an iPad Air

Re: meh

Because he can't fit every series on an iPad. Didn't you read the article?

OTOH, maybe you meant each series

Apple slams brakes on orders of (not so cheap) plasticky iPhone 5C

.. "very little people"

Like leprechauns?

Apple's Steve Jobs was a SEX-crazed World War II fighter pilot, says ex

He did

If you are a MS type of guy.

Assange: 'Ecuadorian embassy staff are like my family'

Delusional

He don't think it be like it is, but it do.

MacBook Airs in Black Screen of DEATH terror: Apple responds

Re: What!?

A Napple perhaps?

Travel much? DON'T buy a Samsung Galaxy Note 3

Re: Or is it a rumour originating with a fruity fone firm ??

Maybe you can explain how Apple put these stickers on Samsung boxes.

Or just STFU.

Yes, thats the best idea. Do that.

Re: Korean's

Koreans

S.O.L.

S.O.O.L. surely?

Great Fall of China: iPhone 5C sales lag as blinged-up 5S sells out

I predict

5c price cut in time for Christmas.

Apple CEO Cook: 'We're not in the junk business'

Re: You're right Timmy...you don't make junk. Just ask your cat.

@croc

I can't work out if you are trolling or just thick.

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it ... Win Phone 8? No, it's APPLE'S iOS 7

Re: Apple maps still lol...

If you'd used the report error feature in maps when you first noticed this, it would have been corrected by now.

Re: ipad review?

Have it on ipad2and it's fine.

Strangely, changing the wallpaper takes at least 30 seconds while it does something, but this is hardly a serious problem.

Otherwise, up and running with no issues.

Not the end of skeuomorphism on ipad

IBooks and "find my friends" still have it

Microsoft puts something hard and sensitive in your pocket

Re: "Corrected, I stand"

"Corrected, I am"

New iPhones: C certainly DOESN'T stand for 'Cheap'

Re: C looks more durable

Of course, that's why they make hammers out of plastic instead of metal.

No, wait..

Re: Affordability my arse

That aside, it looks like Apple have lost their mojo. Jobs would not have sanctioned this product lineup. Where is the insanely greatness in in anything released since his passing.

Sorry apple, you are just too slow to innovate and lack imagination.

RIP Steve.

Private UK torrent site closes, citing 'hostile climate'

Re: Who?

So, what do you think of your first day on the interweb?

Holiday HELL: Pourquoi, monsieur, why is there no merdique Wi-Fi here?

Re: How very sad...

Yes it's real and your stupid attempt at comedy is of a style last seen in 1975.

Would we have had a similar screed if the people upstairs were black?

Possessed baby monitor shouts obscenities at Texas tot

Re: I know what happened...

Or as we say here, DDNS

Facebook's request to the flash industry: 'Make the worst flash possible'

Re: It was probably the full stop

Or a period. That usually causes those kinds of activity to stop for a few days.

Google's Street View cars venture inside TARDIS

Google maps is junk

Its become crawlingly slow of late, and totally unusable from here (france)

Mother of Chelyabinsk spotted

Re: Wait a minute

Presumably by projecting their orbits backwards in an anti-extrapolary way to fix the moment when they were all in the same place.

Exclusive: SNOWDEN and ME. TRUE MOSCOW story of OPEN DATA HERO

Ok I suppose

But he's no Verity Stob.

Sony unveils latest attempt at an Android SmartWatch

Re: Aren't Apple about to innovate one of these any year now?

It's not an apple product, doesn't work with ios, but still you need to bash apple. Androitard much?

Singing astronaut Chris Hadfield resigns from Canadian Space Agency

He's got it

Just in time to compete in the X Factor

Apple at WWDC: Sleek new iOS, death of the big cats, pint-sized Mac Pro

Re: Dammit

Don't go putting it on the floor by your desk. Colleagues will soon fill it with half eaten sarnies and old coffee cups.

Waving an Eye-of-Sauron pulsating mock cock? Stop immediately

Mordor

Eye of Sauron, surely?

Spies in the sky: The leaps and bounds from balloons to spook sats

SR-71

You connected the development of the SR-71 to the shooting down of Gary Powers in 1960, but the SR-71 project was started in 1958.

At least that's what it says on the info board at Duxford. Well worth a tripto see it in the flesh actually . There's also a B-52.

Woman nails 'cheating boyf' on Russian 'Street View'

boyf ??

Boyf? !

Where's the rest of the goddamn letters?

USA sinks Atlantic cable plan over Huawei worries

Re: When the cable is laid..

..and go sinking.

FTFY

Last para, "Huwawei Marine"

Is the Reg employing geordie sub-eds now?

Ask Google this impossible question, get web filth as a reward

It's a feature

Google figured that anyone who searches for those terms needs to get a life.

Illicit phone rings in Sri Lankan inmate's back crack

Re: Give us the hole story!

He was doing a little web browsing with it, and got to the part where he need to enter colon in the URL...

Curiosity photographs mysterious metal object on Martian rock

The Sword in the Stone

"Who so Pulleth Out This Sword of this Stone and Anvil, is Rightwise King Born of all Mars" - Dejah Thoris 2617

Hydrogen on demand from silicon nanospheres - just add water

Re: Doesn't this defeat the purpose ...?

Patent nonsense. The fiery disk cannot pass under the elephants. Everyone knows it's turtles all the way down.

Satnav blunder sends Belgian granny 1,450km to Croatia

Re: license

You missed a letter in surrounded.

Boffins cook raw numbers, hope to bake PERFECT kilogram

Re: Not sure there is much point in a Quantum Kilogram

You could store in a box with a cat

Information teleportation goes large-scale

Re: what is the signifcance of the breakthrough here

> Which in theory means that you can build a brick wall between the two assemblies and still see these results.

As long as there is a hole in the wall for the fibre optic.