Posts by fandom

iPhone 5 wait drives record Samsung smartphone sales

Re: Nonsense fake numbers...

"The simple fact that Apple has 70-80% of whole market profits should tell everything."

One of the reasons I have been long Apple a couple times is the way Apple fans like to boast about how much they are overcharged.

Torvalds bellows: 'The GNOME PEOPLE are in TOTAL DENIAL'

Re: Linux problem...

"the community response was usually "you are doing it wrong"."

Don't worry, they will stop doing it the moment Apple sues them from infringing their 'you're holding it wrong' copyright and design patent.

Patent flame storm: Reg hack biteback in reader-pack sack attack

You know who else hated patents? Kim Jong-il

On the other hand Vinalon is the 'official' cloth on North Korea. It may stiff, uncomfortable, hard to die and whatever, but North Korea owns the patent.

‘Pre-bionic’ eye implanted in blind patient

Re: Does anyone here remember "Omni" ?

Now that you mention it I remember watching a documentary many years ago in which they made a blind man see Braille dots thanks to some kind of implant. I don't remember the details so it may have been something completely different.

Firefox 15 offers fewer leaks, more frags

Re: Is the browser really the best "app engine?"

"Just for fun" is as good a reason as anything else and better than most

Open source author pulls code after GPL abuse

Re: "all free software is open source"

Ok, I am so used to free software meaning free as in speech that for a moment I forgot the limitations of the English language, I am Spanish after all.

So: All "software libre" is "de fuente disponible" but the reverse is not true.

Satisfied now?

Re: Erm

"so long as they too comply with the GPL."

So, lets pretend he didn't mention that they are not complying with the GPL (what do you think the bit about 'commercial license' means?)

" just they can't charge more than the original product cost to buy."

Actually they can't charge more than a reasonable fee for the copying.

Re: *Not* Open Source.

Except that all free software is open source while the reverse is not true

Re: He needs to read the GPL

Except he is not complaining about "commercial distribution" but "commercial licensing" which is not the same thing at all.

Creepy skull find proves Man penetrated Asia 60,000 years ago

Re: "Creepy skull find?"

Please remember that Helo and Athena's daughter is the "mitocondrial eve" and she died about 200,000 years ago.

I mean, why do people bother to go to school if they don't even teach the basic stuff?

PayPal co-founder sells out of foundering Facebook at VAST profit

Re: Puzzled

"Just who is buying these shares now the price has plunged?"

Everyone knows that the way of making money in the stock market is to buy low and sell high but everyone insists on doing it the other way around,

Assange's fate to be revealed at high noon

Re: @AC

I am not sure what to make of your post, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi was not killed during the coup that ousted him.

Besides he was ousted by Khomeini, if I don't undestand you wrong, you are saying that Khomeini revealed that he had been aided by the US and UK, which prompted his supporters to storm the US embassy.

I must getting your post wrong but I don't see where.

Amazon: e-book purchases push past paper

don't worry, after they equal VAT in electronic and dead tree books you will find another excuse no to pay.

Facebook: 83 million IMPOSTERS stalk our network

No

Does it matter?

From the point of view of Facebook customers, the advertisers, what matters is whether their ads are shown to people who might care for them.

So for example, a cat food company wants their ads in cat's pages, why should they care if the account doesn't really belong to a real cat?

Samsung lets slip info on WinPho 8 Odyssey

Re: @fandom

I've got to admit that yes, I am pretty stupid. I am not ashamed to admit it.

One of the ways you can tell how stupid I am is the way I go berserk in online forums and start insulting people who disagree with me.

I am peculiar that way (among others).

Re: Windows Phone.

"Mr AC, you've lived your life shielded under your cloak of anonymity."

Says someone who post as "anonumous coward"

Re: A snowballs chance in hell

"And all those things are not seen as deficiencies to mainstream users"

Indeed, not, for those who doubt it, please check the millions of WP7 phones sold.

Samsung snubs slump, slurps stunning smartmobe sales

That may be a problem for Samsung but it is great for us.

Samsung: 'Apple's proto-iPhone Jony is a Sony phone phoney'

There is no 'somehow'. In discovery you get thousands, or tens of thousands, of documents, and then you hire dozens of paralegals to comb them very finely.

That's one of the reasons these cases cost tens of millions to litigate.

Google Nexus 7 blighted by brightness blunder

Re: Mine is ok

"Correct me if I'm wrong, but there appears to have been a fairly concerted hate-campaign on the go..."

Now that you mention it, it does appear so, just like when Apple releases something, only thing missing is the inevitable class action suit that happens every time Apple releases a new product.

A couple more days I guess.

Re: Typical lazy Google...

According to the latest rumours it is going to be 8.x" so sure, he will be able to keep saying it

Re: Mine is ok

"Where do you find these fanboys?"

Ever heard of a site called "The Register"?

Nearly 2 MILLION US Facebook users quit social network

Re: Bye bye

Great things like posting here?

PayPal is bleeding market share and it's all eBay's fault

Re: eBay/PayPal Fees = Rip Off

Not that I disagree with anything said against eBay or PayPal, but if I was that bidder I wouldn't trust that private sale.

McDonalds staff 'rough up' prof with home-made techno-spectacles

You've never been to France, have you?

Usually you are better of finding an italian or a german, or at least an alsacian, restaurant

'Extreme' solar storm speeding straight towards Earth

Re: Why does it take so long to get here?

"You can't be a villain and set up certain-doom-at-exactly-this-time without also delivering a monologue."

I guess you missed the articles a couple of days ago about the Northen lights making noise:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/10/noisy_northern_lights/

That's just Sol's equivalent of the mad BHHAWWW

Google makes money on Nexus 7... just

But

It wouldn't surprise me if Google was given all the profit to Asus, the way they give their share of the Apps selling to carriers.

Their nexus line seems to be more about showing off what Android can do than making money and, like they do with the phones, Asus may well release a very similar tablet

Hubble finds fifth moon orbiting Pluto

Re: Moon vs really big asteroid

Pluto is a dwarf planet ergo it is a planet

Google Nexus 7 Android tablet

Actually the one reason I can see to have a tablet bigger than 7" is reading graphic novels in style.

Ex-Nokia staffers team up to revive MeeGo

Nokia's plan B?

They may be hoping that, if Windows Phone ends up crashing and burning, Nokia will come and buy them out for a couple billion

Numbers don't lie: Apple's ascent eviscerates Microsoft

Re: Piracy?

"Back in 2004, [...] there wasn't such easy access to pirated copies of Windows"

Either you were born in 2005 or you have to be kidding.

Re: If only a quality, user friendly Linux distro was available...

Is LaTeX any good working with spreadsheets?

Reg hack attempts gutsiest expenses claim EVER

Re: Errrr....

"True but that napkin specifically says a total of 9800"

No, it doesn't, it says 98'00, which is the traditional way of writing 98.00 in Spanish.

It is traditional as calculators have made us change it to 98,00

Nigerian scams are hyper-efficient idiot finders

Why Nigeria?

They first started using Nigeria, back when the scam was faxed, because it is an oil rich country so the idea of some corrupt public servant amassing millions is not a far fetched as if they used Mauritania.

Foxconn daddy: 'Don't buy Galaxy S III, wait for iPhone 5'

Competition bashing

I must say I was somewhat surprised during the last Apple keynote because of the way they kept bashing Samsung and Android and now this guy continues the meme.

To me they looked like wannabes pretending to be bigger than they are.

Do Apple fans need that kind of validation? Don't they get it from Apple store employees applauding while the fans parade with their just-bought kit?

Oracle case crippled after judge rules APIs can’t be copyrighted

You can find it at groklaw:

http://www.groklaw.net/articlebasic.php?story=20120502083035371

Vauxhall Ampera hybrid e-car

Re: No.

Of course not, it comes from the huge shale gas reserves the UK has.

But even if you'd rather leave fracking to the merkins, natural gas is dirty cheap nowadays.

Re: No.

On the other hand, if everyone drives things like these, a lot of money won't be sent overseas to pay for oil, said money will be spent here increasing income from other taxes.

Re: Not impressed

"Until we are able to see electric powered cars that can transverse a minimum of 100 miles before charging/ swapping to a conventional engine"

That would be next month when Tesla will start delivering their model S.

Although you can still complain about it being too expensive.

Self-driving Volvos cover 200km of busy Spanish motorway

Re: Great tech...but...

Most likely the pedestrian. And the great thing is that you will have the video evidence to prove it.

Think of it as evolution in action

Not that many traffic light in motorways.

This is not like the Google self driving cars, this is just for motorways/highways.

Ten... Star Wars videogame classics

Nope, not a mistake.

Definitely not.

Google+ dying on its arse – shock new poll

"Google has bet the company on Google+"

Are you seriously saying that, if Google+ fails, Google goes tits up?

Seriously?

I mean, you really mean that?

It was a joke, right?

Spy under your car bonnet 'worth billions by 2016'

"they would stop manufacturers making cars that go over the speed limits in the first place"

Actually they do that, they don't allow manufactures to make cars that go over the speed limit of German highways.

No that they have any problem enforcing it, after all, going past the speed of light is kind of hard.

Re: If they really knew...

"Since when a price of a service is tied to the cost of the service provider?"

Did you mean to say that?

Swarm of investors crave 'more shares than Facebook is selling'

Re: I is for Initial

Don't worry, we will have all the access we could possibly want one earnings release after the IPO at less than half the IPO price.

Sony blames record $5.7bn loss on everything but Sony

Re: Making Nokia's implosion looks like a bad hair day...

On the other hand Sony has a Spiderman movie coming up