Posts by Carol Orlowski

ViewSonic tempts with buy-to-try tablet deal

Nothing to lose really.

But i'm going for a 10.1 Advent Vega for £200 with Capacitive touchscreen and Tegra2 dualcore CPU.

HTC Incredible S Android smartphone

So a very good Android smartphone with everything right

only gets 80%?

I'm guessing it got 15% deduced for no Apple logo...

Nintendo 3DS

Does it have

a parental lock on the 3D effect, so it can be turned off to prevent it damaging youngsters eyes?

Everyone I know that has tried a 3DS has been less than impressed, and it no way lives up to the hype.

Asda slashes Samsung tablet price

Meh

Just picked up an Advent Vega (Tegra2, 10.1in Capacitive) for £200. The Tab and the iPad1/2 look crap value in comparison.

Nintendo 3DS smashes advance order record

People truely are morons

As everyone I know says it's crap, the 3D is not very 3D.

Of course it's nintendo, and people just buy nintendo, as they know no different.

Anyone else also notice El-Reg's fickle reporting here, when it's referring to PS3, they quote the highest price they can find (RRP usually), yet Nintendo gets the luxury of El-Reg shopping around for you to find the cheapest and less sensational price...

EA dubs Nintendo Wii a 'legacy platform'

buying the wrong games.

May I suggest you are buying the wrong games from your PS3.

PS3 does everything the Wii does and a whole lot more besides.

It does the casual games, dancing, singing quiz etc etc.

It does the hardcore games too.

I bet you have never explored the gems on PSN? Did you play Stacking? I bet not....

The PS3 has the casual market too.

If you have a Move, download the demo of Start The Party and show it to a Wii owner, their Wii will be up for sale down the newsagent noticeboard before you can say "gamecube with a new controller".

Still Nintendo had a good run, they managed to sell the same old crap again and again, and have more money than they know how to spend it.

Microsoft seem to have learnt the most from Nintendo recently, they discovered you can channel stuff Kinect, make the headlines and then drive sales as a result. You don't even need good games, you can distract morons easily by talking about PC connectivity and other gimmicks.

They have only just realised this?

Both the Wii and the Xbox 360 are now end of life.

Games stopped getting any better years ago and the console shave been treading water since. Microsoft tried to sex up the Xbox with Kinect, but that's pretty much failed, most people talk about Kinect and how you can hook it upto your PC and do nerdy things. Nobody talks about Xbox and Kinect anymore...

Microsoft calls time on Zune media player hardware

1 down 3 to go.

just Xbox, Kinect and Windows Mobile hardware left for rubbish Microsoft hardware.

PS3, Xbox 360 pass water on Wii

Plenty of PS3 Move titles build for it.

Killzone 3 is incredible with Move and Sharpshoter.

Deadspace Extraction, very good onrails

Then you have the move-only PSN titles like Tumble, and disk games like Start the Party, which literally blows any Wii casual title out the water.

I showed by brother Start The Party at Xmas, they bought a PS3 the next day. It's unfortunate that so many people wasted their money on Wii and think that's all casual gaming is about....

Apple sells 500,000 iPads, runs out of stock

Can't have one marketing

pioneered by Nintendo.

Sell even more by telling people they can't have one...

But then it's Apple Customers, who are traditionally morons, so I guess this works to great effect.

PlayStation update couples console to cloud and disconnects hackers

GeoHot hacked OtherOS

that's why it was removed.

PS3Hax are creating rumours to try and get him off the hook.

Errrm

How many things can you get wrong in a single article?

1/ previous errors were epic fails..

Not really, a console that took over 4 years to crack. I think Nintendo 3DS which was cracked the moment it was releases is rather more "epic" than that.

2/ PS+ is WAY more than cloud storage. Your £40 a year (or 15 months currently) gets you several hundreds of quid worth of free games, PSN, PS1 and Minis, along with Themes and Avatars etc, you also get a overnight update downloader/installer, so never have to wait for game updates again, you also get the play the latest betas, and some nice discount on full titles.

3/ The last update was NOT hacked in less than 24 hours. Anyone that applied the 3.56 update can no longer jailbreak it and any previous signing keys are now also blacklisted. If you ever installed a jailbreak or custom firmware, you will have also been contacted by Sony. and there are now titles coming in that require 3.56 firmware. So unless you want to play old games off-line you HAVE to get the latest firmware.

Microsoft Kinect faster seller than iPad, says Guinness

Wait a minute...

This is no Guiness World Records saying this, this is Microsoft saying this, and Guiness foolishly taking what Microsoft say as the truth.

Last week iSuppli pointed out that Microsoft had only SOLD 6m and that there were 4m sat unloved in the over-stuffed retail chain.

EPIC MEDIA FAIL....

BT vs Sky vs Virgin

About as close as you can get..

would most likely be the PS3.

Blu-Ray

Freeview Inc PVR (PlayTV)

Upscaled DVD

iPlayer

4OD

ITV Player

Lovefilm

MUBI

PSN Video Store

SkyPlayer(soon)

YoutubeXL

Not bad for 1 box that's £180.

Nintendo 3DS bothers Brits about blinkers

so hands up which

parents will willingly buy a 3DS and have their childrens eyesight damaged....

I would love to see them....

Sony readies official PS Move support for PCs

Actually better than Kinect

Because it uses the PS3 as the server, doing all the number-crunching, and then sends the results via networking.

What this means is it's not just PC, it can be hooked up with anything with neworking, e.g. Smarphones etc...

It also means this pikey hackers can't decompile the motion algorythms, as they are still locked in the PS3...

I'm also curious why people think this is a result of what Microsoft did with Kinect.. That's a rather naive thought, as clearly Sony have been offering home development on consoles since the 1990's with PS1 (Net Yaroze), PS2 Linux and PS3 Linux (until the hackers spoilt it for us and used it to try and hack the PS3).

Microsoft have done prettymuch jackshit, except not lock down Kinect, have opensaucers write some drivers, and then jump in and pretend that was their plan all along.

Kinect connect rate outstrips Sony PS3 Move

Come on

Don't believe that idiotic headline crap.

Before the end of the week, i'm guessing LG will be paying Sony a VERY large settlement as a result of losing their claims.

Doesn't seem to translate into sales.

Every time I turn on the TV, Microsoft are shoving adverts down my throat, there is relatively low amounts of PS3 advertising (I'd say 1/50th as much), yet the PS3 outsells it.

Further demonstrates that Microsoft simply have the ability to pour endless amounts of advertising money at problems until the problems disappear.

Gmail users howl in anguish at 'disappeared' accounts

Gmail users stats

What I found interesting in this report is that 150 000 users represent 0.08%, in other words, there are 1 875 000 users of gmail out there. Somehow I find this number a bit on the low side.

Sheep as smart as humans: Official

Speaking as an actual shepherd

Yes, some of us have laptops. And I think that it depends on the breed of sheep in question. Some sheep are as thick as two short planks. Others show surprising cunning. The closer they are to wild type, frequently the more clever they are. Shetlands, Soay and so on are positively bright, whereas in my experience some of the more overbred varieties like some merino are very dull.

Of course, one factor in their apparent intelligence might be the strength of their flocking instinct, which varies markedly between breeds too. You can't easily use dogs trained on tight flock sheep, on a breed which will scatter when pressed.

It's official: Nokia bets on Microsoft for smartphones

Nokia R.I.P

You just did a Motorola, and killed your smartphone business. You went from a burning platform to another burning platform.

No doubt your ex-Microsoft CEO had something to do with this decision, I wonder where his priorities were...

Microsoft only look after Microsoft, they don't give a rats ass what happens to Nokia, who by the end of this will be an empty shell of their former selves. Microsoft will have gotten what they wanted out of it (WP7 not sinking without a trace) and Nokia will be scrabbling around as a bottom-feeder picking up the pieces.

I'm betting 3 years from now, they will be desperate to join OHA (if they shareholders haven't revolted by then)

This decision will be seen as the key demise of Nokia several years from now.

Congratulations Stephen Elop , your true masters back in Redmond will be most pleased.

Sony expands legal offensive to more PS3 hackers

Rotten Eggs Begone...

Hopefully the courts will throw the book at them. 10yrs for DMCA offenses like this... Not so cocky now huh?

EPIC FAIL indeed. Seems they earned the Dropped the Soap in the Shower trophy.

Sunshine Bus

Has the sunshine bus just rolled into town or something? It seems to be full of dribbling freetards.

Gawker makes a hash of non-ASCII characters in passwords

CTO is a lucky fellow

Quite interesting that this plunker is still employed there considering how thin skinned Denton is.

Ofcom: T-Mobile probe? Er, not really

Cock Up

This seems a cock up really. T-Mobile offer(ed) the best fair-use policy, and as far as I know, never charged over 3gb. Their T&C allow tethering but don't allow streaming (I don't think any of the operators do).

The new policy is technically more generous as 3gb -> unlimited and streaming goes from nothing to 500 mb. But it comes across the other way, as a loss of allowance.

Also, there are conversations with online support saying that the change doesn't apply to Android accounts only to those people paying for the 3gb add-on. But most of the complaints are from Android owners (who haven't had the text about this yet).

Definitely the first PR cock-up of the year.

Sony PlayStation Network vs MS Xbox Live

Emm, yes I have, unfortunatly.

It was being demo'd in our local Currys, and it was a utter joke. People were trying it and walking away, it was laggy and had a couple of really bad jumping games that you would be embarrassed to see even on a Wii.

I think the only fanboy here is you sir. You only have to look at the tripe you write.... When you can guess the content by the author, it's time to give up.

OK, i'll explain it....

if you are talking to friends in the SAME GAME, you obviously use the voice chat system provided by the game you cretin.

Why would I want to voice chat to someone playing a different game, who are voice chatting with other gamers on that different game?

I much prefer the PSN system. You voice chat to people playing the same game, x-game chat is mostly meaningless, as I don't care what games other people on my friends list are playing, and if I do I can background text--chat them. They also don't want me interrupting their game with useless voice-chat from me in a different game.

Microsoft has the messed up implementation here. Xbox is nothing more than a lame social network, PSN is for proper gamers.

I was timeboxed in a holistic scrum

Ms

OK, I give up. is "Brad Plan-Driven" based on a real person, and if so who?

Microsoft Xbox 360 Kinect

There is a half a billion

budget to keep the media sweet.

I'm guessing El-Reg want some of that money pot...

John Lewis pitches 80-quid colour e-book reader

Someone want to tell el-reg

It's not a ebook reader unless it's got e-ink...

Anyone that's tried to use an IFad for long-term reading will now painfully know the difference.

iPhone alarm bug: now it's the UK's turn

My Android worked

But that's the usual story here. The HTC phones are so much better than the iOS crap,

Sony soars, sinks, soars on Apple buyout rumor

LOL, you actually believe that...

Anyone still in touch with reality will know that Sony are top of their game, they make the best products that has a small additional price premium.

The PS3 is a fine example of this, the same basic design since 2006 and still a tech leader in everything it does.

The Walkmans sound 10x better than anything Apple have ever made, as there is no DRM to be seen, it's a drag and drop affair, you can use whatever software you like including Windows Explorer to put music on it, the PS3 is the most open and DRM-free console there is, and it uses industry standard interfaces like USB, SATA and such.

If you want to see DRM infested crap, look no further than Apple. You might want to stop getting your information from American Sony haters on the Internet spewing FUD.

Samsung Omnia 7

Lots of Coming Soons in there.

as it's Microsoft, they will of course be providing those features on next years phones...

I went into Oxford St and had a look at the Win7Mobile phones, as they were a total joke. Came away with a HTC Desire. Fantastic phone, and no limitations.

Firefox engine speeds past Chrome after Jager shot

When will El-Reg report this then?

As clearly vendor benchmarking is the flavor of the month.

http://files.myopera.com/EspenAO/files/benchmark_opera11.jpg

Medal of Honour

Loving the PS3 version

with the extra content and better graphics. 9/10 here.

EC probes Apple for anti-competitive antics

^^^^ Apple Fanboy fud alert!!!

I can buy computer hardware (even from some established manufacturers) without a windows OS installed - show me where I can buy an Apple laptop/pc with that same benefit....

If I choose to buy an Apple phone why shouldn't I be allowed to run the software I choose?

I would like flash on my device - around 80% of the video on the web is flash driven - adobe went out of their way to support the iPad and iPhone, yet due to nothing but Apple's choice I can't run flash.

As to monoplies - what would you call Apple's marketshare of the Pad devices? (and no - the tablet is not an alternative)

Vodafone upsets customers with upgrade downgrade

The 'update' doesn't upgrade to 2.2

Most European operators are pushing out the 2.2 Froyo upgrade for the Desire this week but this latest one from Vodafone is still 2.1. Rather than keeping up with their rivals, Vodafone have been developing this 2.1 update 1 'patch'. This is another reason why so many of us have been expectantly awaiting this software update.

As an enterprise business customer, I'm pretty annoyed at the poor communication and lack of removal for this. Match.com and flirtomatic bookmarks? If my wife found out I had these stored on my browser, I'd be in the dog house for a long time. I couldn't even prove the update produced this as Vodafone have released no documentation that correlates to the results.

Apple bars radiation nanny from App Store

@Gil Friedlander: If you're not trying to make a buck on fear

Then drop the price of your app to $0.99. After all, you're apparently doing this in the public interest so you'd naturally want as many people as possible to be able to afford your app.

Mozilla submits browserless Firefox to Jobsian app police

Does this version...

run flash?

Google's Wi-Fi snoop nabbed passwords and emails

Non-story

This story has consistently been given more due by the media than it merits. Move along, Reg. There is no more to wring out of it.

For a more level-headed opinion from an industry insider, see Glen Fleischman's remarks:

http://wifinetnews.com/archives/2010/06/sick_of_google_wi-fi_scanning_story_me_too.html

Sarah Palin 'boob job' debate dominates US right - and left

Flat chested Sarah in this pic

Sarah is a celebrity now so this just comes along with the territory. Palin fans adore her for her outward beauty. Even Glenn Beck called her "one HOT grandma"...

Sarah had averaged sized ones all during the campaign. Then in Dec. 2009 while in Hawaii they disappeared. Flatter than Piper take a look here and you be the judge:

http://tinyurl.com/2fx76w6

Then just a few days ago WA LA! they reappear at Belmont. Must be Victoria's secret super padded wonder bra. It reminds me of that 8 month “pregnancy” photo where she padded her stomach with a square shaped pillow.

Apple's HTML5 'standards' hype debunked

Correction: CSS vs. Javascript

"CSS is a member of a family of related HMTL5 technologies that includes Web Workers to run tasks in the background of a browser, Web Storage to store string data in a key-value pair database, and Web Sockets for server communications."

Web workers, web storage, and web sockets are not CSS technologies. They are JavaScript technolgoies. These three technologies aren't even closely related to CSS other than the fact that they're all handled by a browser.

Apple in shock talks with Reg reader

Why on Earth was iTunes a Top 10 Reg Recommend application???

As for Apple, it beggars belief that they need such elementary design pointers for a product that is currently on version NINE! I love my iPod touch, but I loathe iTunes with a passion.