Posts by Joe K

Devs cook up 'leakproof' all-Tor untrackable platform

????

Tails and Liberte do exactly the same as this, and do it a lot better from the sounds of it. Just stick them on a memory key and boot from that, everything is kept only in RAM.

A lot better than this thing.

Will Santa be working overtime to shift Win 8 kit? No. Yes! Maybe

Dooooooooooooooooom

The days of the average couch potato needing a full laptop are over, these people only ever use email, facebook and twitter anyway, and your £159-£300 tablet does all that just fine, without the headaches of Microsoft OS's.

This upgrade cycle will not be like the last.

Asus pledges Android 4.2 update for Google Nexus 7

Re: Wow....

Cos they want you to buy more than one.

Also phones don't need multi-user accounts, and these tabs share phone OS's mostly.

Its a big update, profiles are a major plus for tablets that generally get picked up and used by the family at random.

Especially as you can have a, *cough*, private profile. Say no more.

UK iPad Mini FRENZY: Queues stretch SEVERAL FEET from till

What about the flagship store

Absolutely no-one at Covent Garden earlier, apparently: https://twitter.com/mmalex/status/264296937665212417/photo/1

Captain Kirk does a Crapp on the iPhone: 'Shatoetry' for 'Shatisms'

What?! Bought!

Cos its Friday, obviously.

"How can you do a spoken-word version of a rap song?"

"He found a way"

Asus: we ship a million Google's Nexus 7s monthly

Re: Bought one yesterday after the price-drop

Yeah, thanks for that. Didn't feel like spending more than double the price for less power and functionality, but if i ever do, i'll ask you first.

Bought one yesterday after the price-drop

Within 5 minutes of opening it i had it rooted, and happily streaming MKV's off my NAS.

Can even play XCOM from my main computer using Splashtop 2.

Utterly amazing thing for £159.

Google goes ahead, unveils Nexus 4 and 10

Re: I'd murder for...

Use a thumb drive, regular->miniUSB adaptor & Stickmount then.

4G: Bad coverage, crap battery life - but at least it's really expensive

HPSA+?

Is that 3.5G?

Because my nokia's have been popping up with that icon in most areas for the past 5 years.

WTF is... Microsoft Xbox SmartGlass?

Utterly irrelevant

By suddenly limiting it, against all promises up until a few days ago, to Windows 8 devices only they have ensured its utter failure.

Developers will only assign resources to something that has a decent install base. If they had let the iOS version go they would have instantly had 100's of millions of users.

But no, some idiot manager somewhere wanted another bullet-point for Win 8 phones, and doomed it.

Apple iPod Touch 5G review

"Super, sexy media star about to be killed by cheap tablets?"

What tablet, cheap or otherwise, can you carry in your jeans pocket?

Come to mention it, what handheld/pocket computer even compares to an iTouch, both technologically, and appstore wise?

Seems churlish to even compare it to tablets and phones, its something completely different, with no equal.

Just how good is Nokia's PureView 41Mp camera tech?

Re: "The best camera is the one you have with you"

Also if you've had a great phone camera for a few years you end up with thousands of great shots that you wouldn't have otherwise had, either because you can't be arsed carrying a good camera, or your phone renders all those memorable moments as blurry embarrassments.

Always worth the investment i feel, and being scared off by a perfectly respectable operating system is quite foolish.

Samsung Galaxy Note 2 review

Can we have pictures of the thing

...and not some CG renders?

It makes it look like you've never even seen the thing and are just making this shit up.

Analysts slash Ultrabook sales estimate by over 50%

Blame the stupid name

They should have called them "MegaComp's", or "SuperTops", like i thought last year.

No more article ratings?

No more article ratings?

All those "utterly terrible"'s starting to sting, Andrew? ;-)

More 'iPad Mini' tat pics leak ahead of Apple's big unzip

Lol, one week later

Not a peep of the MIA mini iPad from the shamed worlds gadget press.

Nintendo Wii U launch and pricing disclosed

Re: What I want to know is...

No, it does not.

In fairness, neither has any other backwardly compatible console.

Its not a simple thing to do, hooking into an existing graphics system and changing the rendering resolution is a million miles away from hardware upscaling. Involves shitloads of testing and coding, for something that stops people buying the new games on your new console.

Re: Wii U

Nintendo announced yesterday that there are no plans, at all, to offer the pad to be bought seperately at the moment.

Partly because of manufacturing capacity, and partly because there are no games on the horizon that even support such play.

http://www.theverge.com/gaming/2012/9/13/3328510/second-wii-u-gamepad-wont-be-supported-or-priced-at-launch-in-u-s

Who's afraid of Windows 8? Trio leads Microsoft migration pack

Hmm

""They are forward-thinking IT departments and are early adopters – always have been."

Then everyone in that IT dept needs firing. Only the most ignorant buffoon, and money-wasting morn, overhauls their entire IT infrastructure every time a new bit of shiny is released.

Apple hoards LTE patents to deflect Samsung attack

Apple and Samsung

If Samsung really wanted to hurt Apple wouldn't they just stop making their central iOS processors and stop supplying flash chips?

That'd fuck up Apple's entire business overnight. Cutting off your nose to spite your face, sure, but i think they're beyond common sense now.

Archos pushes out 7-inch GamePad, slaps on dual thumbsticks

Real pic please

A shot of a poor render is hardly newsworthy.

Also as i'm sure you will never mention as its another site, Eurogamer looked at the specs and found it to be "nowhere near" the Vita.

Its an android phone with buttons, without the phone bits.

Samsung whips out Galaxy Note II, cam-phone with proper zoom lens

Re: Good article, except for the fact it's not a phone.

Oh dear.

Yeah it says right at the top of the specs " Device with no support for GSM voice communication."

http://www.gsmarena.com/samsung_galaxy_camera-4961.php

Of course, a google of "samsung galaxy cameraphone" shows only the Daily Mail parroting the same lines as this poor excuse of an article.

Customers dumping Samsung phones in wake of Apple suit

Re: What Happened ....

They realised that Fanboi wars=clicks.

Something video game websites discovered long ago.

And in todays news....

"A Little known company issues a made-up statement of bullshit to get some free publicity from amateur websites. That trick is older than i am, Joanne *chuckles*.

More news....after this."

US appeal dismissed in Dotcom case

Re: Good

Same here, i initially couldn't give a shit what happened to that arrogant semi-criminal, but as details have come out i've come to realise that the actions of the US copyright-kidnap squad are not just worse, but are actually terrifying.

Sony evolves PlayStation Suite, makes Vita a PS3 controller

EA just announced today that FIFA 13 will not support cross-saves. Which is both infuriating, and baffling.

Re: What nonsense

PS3 uses an ancient Bluetooth level and G-standard wifi, there will never be a decent second-screen solution like the WiiU has at the hardware level. Anyone who has tried remoteplay knows this.

What you propose is software based, which has to be supported in-game, on BOTH games for each console, and right now there is only LBP2 to get excited about.

My point about this articles comparison to the WiiU stands.

What nonsense

Cross-play was shown for one title, ONE, LittleBigPlanet 2.

And that is in the form of a mini-game that is downloaded and ran on the Vita itself, there is no WiiU second screen type of use possible, technically, ever, without shitloads of lag.

This is hardly a WiiU killer.

Microsoft opens app store for Office 2013

Re: Do other than sales and marketing types use Office?

Yet more from you?

Obvious Microsoft shill. Do fuck off and let us enjoy our moaning that something else is about to be monetized.

RIM, Samsung thrash Apple in UK fondleslab sales growth

Re: Retarded Maths by the reg as usual

Double nothing is still nothing.

Nike+ Fuelband activity monitor review

Is this a joke?

£139 for what is little more than a pedometer?

Or can it do GPS, which means it could track cycling & running like a Garmin can?

A review should really spell this stuff out.

Sony preps PS3 with old-school design

Wrong.

Those pics are mock-ups done by NeoGAF member MYE: http://neogaf.com/forum/showpost.php?p=39844890&postcount=601

They have no basis in reality, there is no confirmation at all that there is even a sliding door.

CERN catches a glimpse of Higgs-like boson

Oh FFS

...dont call it the "God Particle", please.

Its offensive to science.

What is the Nokia Secret Plan if Windows 8 isn't Windows gr8?

OS wars

Maybe some people just want a phone that works well, that has a good contract, and couldn't give a monkeys about what OS it runs.

What about those people?

Sony outs Google TV set-top box

Re: Can an Rpi

An old Xbox1 can do this, for about a tenner, if youn install XMBC and a few plugins.

HBO wants royal price for Iron Throne

Fuckin ell

For that price you could buy a load of cheap prop swords, and a blacksmith to meld em all together, and have a realistic one that a danger to sit on.

Fedora aims cloudwards with Beefy Miracle release

Fedora is all very nice and all...

..but i can't believe you haven't ran a story on the release of Mint 13 yet.

The complete ditching of Unity, which even though it was only half implemented in Mint 12(to reduce UI switch-shock) in favour of a more classic interface is a very welcome shift away from Canonicals pursuit down the crazy-path of fondleslab UI's.

Its going down a storm already, excellent release.

Free Windows 8 desktop app development is dead

Talk about betting the farm on it

They've absolutely lost their goddamn minds.

Just look at Ubuntu to see what happens when you force a fondleslab interface on desktop users, they leave in their droves.

Mole sheds light on incoming illuminated Amazon Kindle

Unlikely

Why would they do this when their lighted cases go for 50 quid?

7.85in 'iPad Mini' said to sport retina screen

Yawn

Lets just rename this joke of a website "www.applerumouroftheday.com"

Wheres the El Reg tombstone icon when you need it.

Nokia's 41Mp cameraphone shoots towards retail

If you read the interviews by the engineers they downplay the megapixel number, almost grumbling that Marketing attached the number without them knowing, and focus on the sensor size and optics, which are pretty damn hot.

The best camera is the one you have on you at all times. SLR's can be such a fucking chore to use and carry round.

Re: Thanks for the Flickr link Kristian

DLNA though, so it talks nicely to your average TV, media box, or PS3/X360.

My 5 yr old N82 has DLNA, and its a great way to display and copy over photos without any fiddling at all.

Really kicks the arse off Apples horrific attempts at picture "sharing".

Cellco execs lay into Nokia's Lumia

Ace in the hole

They need to get the 808 PureView (that 41 megapixel cameraphone) out ASAP, at least it has a unique selling point for those of us who want that sort of thing.

And no WinPho included, bonus!

It's all in the wrist: E-ink smartwatch Pebble bags $2m

Nice

And its already on course to be the most highly funded Kickstarter campaign ever, a month before it closes.

Behold! Or rather, don't: Bendy see-through DRAM

Yawn

You can get 64gigs now in a microSD card the size of your little fingernail.

Memory is hardly the problem with wearable computers. Its power.

Game files for administration

Re: Same bunch in charge??

There is no sticking plaster, the MCV article was rich, creamy bullshit, as they were forced to state at the bottom soon after it hit. Baffled that this piece references it. Ignore it all.

The bank, RBS, will hire their own administrators. They never agreed to a buyer as the GAME board wanted to stay in their jobs, RBS told them to fuck off.

Their appointed administrator will come in on Monday, fire the lot of them, close all GAME stores, and sell off the GameStation stores to an undisclosed buyer.

Thats the main rumour, anyway.

Correction required

"The retailer is apparently in the process of splitting assets and gearing up to launch a new firm next Monday, funded by the current bank lenders. This would essentially mean the end for Gamestation, but could see roughly 300+ Game stores saved, MCV reports."

Wrong, so wrong. That was just a speculation piece presented as fact, for which the moron at MCV got absolutely blasted for, both by GAME management themselves and LOTS of people on Twitter.

Will Apple's iPad 3 HD touch you in a special way?

What a pointless article

You guys getting paid by the word now?

Steve Jobs' death clears way for '7.85-inch iPad prototype'

Horseshit

Rich, creamy horseshit.

That is all.