Posts by ByeLaw101

Scramjet X-51 finally goes to HYPER SPEED above Pacific

@John Robson,

Bah, Computers! I wouldn't go near one!!

Ten ancestors of the netbook

Psion Series 5

I know you mention the Psion Series 5 in the Series 3 paragraph, but the Series 5 was the one with the ground breaking foldout keyboard and great display, you could almost touch type on that thing! The Series 3 was a toy version of the 5!

Also, were is the Z88?

Great article though :)

John McAfee rushed to hospital over heart attack fears

There is going to be a film about this guy...

Girlfriend 'tried to MURDER ME with her AMPLE BREASTS'

That's how I want to go... :)

Should Microsoft merge Office into Windows - or snap it off?

It's an OS... isn't it?

"I'm beginning to wonder if the answer isn't so much for Microsoft to choose between the two, but rather to deeply entwine the two into one product."

That just sounds awful to me. I think you should keep the demarcation line between OS and Application absolutely clear. Smashing them together will just make a more confusing and bloated OS which could reduce the choice people have.

Paying for Windows Server 2012: Worse than using it?

RE: A modest proposition.

Hey, back off Marvin... Double negatives are great! Well done Register for creating a doozy ;)

"Redmond COULDN'T AFFORD NOT to make some changes" .. makes you think and hurts your brain! :D

Sinclair BASIC comes to Raspberry Pi

@Grikath

Just because you can do a thing doesn't mean you should.

If you want Nostalgia then go and get an emulator, this isn't Nostalgia as it's not Sincalir BASIC at all, it's something else with the Spectrum Basic name on it.

Education? Are you kidding me? BASIC is not a great language to teach programming concepts, especially Sinclair BASIC!

and then FUN. Ah yes, I do remember that, and this may be fun for the person who is writing it but this as you know is subjective. So you could also say it's fun to criticize (correclty) someone writing Sinclair BASIC with a view that its Nostalgic, Education and ... well... because it can be done.

WTF

I played with Spectrum basic for a number of years, but couldn't wait to move away from the clunky/slow environment and as soon as I had saved enough pocket money I moved on to other languages. And that was my feeling in the 80's never mind now!!

With all those features bolted on it's not really Sinclair Basic anymore is it... This is someone who just knocked out a crap interpretation of BASIC and bolted a load of crap at the end of it to try and make it up to date.No one is ever going to use it., little point developing this.

Swedish boffins: An Ice Age is coming, only CO2 can save us

Ice age?

I thought we were already in an ice age? Hence the polar caps?

Boeing recipe turns cooking oil into jet fuel

Re: McDonalds already does this!

@AC, yep, ok.. McD's are not restaurants etc but what the hells that got to do with this discussion? Topic hijacking for your own opinion I suspect.

Facebook won't pull unmarked police plates page

Re: Not all criminals are morons,

Basil, is that you ;)

US said to designate Assange 'enemy' of the state

Re: Optional

@John 104 -

Overreact much?

Eric Schmidt: Ha ha, NO Google maps app for iPhone 5

Re: iTards can all get lost

"Grow up Bob". Yikes, Bob obviously hit a nerve there.... you could be an adult yourself and just ignore the pesky kid ;)

The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?

Wow.. Nokia have a hit on their hands!

"bonk-to-pay" YESS!! What a great idea! Does it come with it's own Prophylactic? (Pun actually not intended!)

Game devs beg UK taxman: Can we pay 30% less?

Re: FFS

If our tax laws make it difficult for business to compete then why single out Game Dev's for special treatment? Shouldn't this be across the board? Maybe the case is we are just getting taxed too much to be competitive in anything without special exceptions like this?

Just seems, very unfair to everyone else.

FFS

There are lots of industries, business and people who could do with a tax break, what the fuck makes game devs any more special?

Report: Nokia to join Qi party with wireless-charging Lumia 920

Wireless charging?

Like on the HP Pre3 and TouchPad? That's one of the reasons I still have my Pre3... very convenient :)

Boffins create super-muscular 'Hulk' mice: Humans next

"You wouldn't like me when I'm squeaky"

Oh dear...

Oracle rushes out patch for critical 0-day Java exploit

Re: @Christian Berger

Wow.. you took the words straight out of my mouth... except I would be lucky to get above one syllable! ;)

Fired Toyota coder trashes systems, steals data

Re: Quitting a job

@:Fatman: "collect your possessions and leave immediately"

You have a contract of employment, if you go against that and don't work your statutory notice then you will be in breach of contract. If you do end up in breach, then you are giving your douche bag employer even more ammo. Not good advice... and brach of contracts can be a serious issue.

1 MILLION accounts leaked in megahack on banks, websites

Hmph!

"Team GhostShell said the online leaks, which are part of its Project Hellfire campaign, were made in protest against banks and in revenge for the rounding up of hacktivists by cops and government agents."

So to get their revenge, they stole a million innocents people private data... cause that will only hurt the banks right?

Vodafone phone and mobe biz service goes titsup

Eh?

"One number to ring = single point of failure, People who are whining clearly didn't have a proper backup plan."

Companies usually do have only one number... it's usually the phone companies themselves that implement redundancy.

Oracle plans to join Java hardware speed party

RE: Someone had to do it.

Nice on Anonymous Coward, you've pointed to an opinion piece which does not mention anything about the performance of any given language, never mind Java. Yeah, any one language can be better than another depending on the job...yawn... never have thought that.

Java runs fine in the enterprise, thats why you'll find it at the heart of Oracle, IBM, Novell etc... and these are enterprise guys that need the thing to scale... so I suspect your talking bollocks (a bit like the article your commenting on!) .

Anonymous for a reason hey?

Am I missing something?

"Oracle is coming relatively late to the GPU party. Microsoft, Mozilla, Google and Apple already all offer hardware acceleration for their browsers using GPU"

GPU acceleration for an enviornment such as Java has nothing whatsoever to do with accelerating a browser?? Has MS done this in .NET then? Eh? I must be missing something here surely?

Saudi royals seek ban on .virgin, .sex, .catholic, .wtf and 159 MORE

Hmmm?

Could this lead to a situation were countries end up blocking a whole TLD? Funny if it did, I think the whole TLD auction is a cynical attempt for ICANN to bring in more money anyway.

DDoS crooks: Do you want us to blitz those phone lines too?

Mind you...

After getting hammered with Sales calls from a certain double glazing company, $20 is cheap to have my revenge!

Anonymous declares war after French firm trademarks its logo

Good marketing

I've never heard of Early Flicker until now, damn good marketing if you ask me :)

Nintendo 3DS XL review

@ LarsG

"Smart phone gaming is making this design redundant unless your parents won't let you have a phone."

Phones are not equipped with the correct user interface for gaming, so until thats sorted then I will have to stick to dedicated portable gaming systems for my kicks.

"And for people who doubt that try using MAME on a touch screen smartphone, it's not the best experience."

Here here.

RE: Chris McFaul

"ignoring that fact that to most people a screen twice the SIZE of a 3.5" one would be a 7" "

Yes, I will ignore that because it's wrong.

"i can only assume you are talking about area - and ironically the advert this article appears on top of says that the XL has 90% more area... meaning its LESS than twice the area"

OK, so ALMOST twice the size... jeeze, splitting hairs here aren't we?

Oracle hurls MySQL at Microsoft database wobblers

I think..

Oracle are just trying to provoke MS, by saying MySQL could easily replace MSSQL.... MySQL is good, but just doesn't cover the functionality that MS provides. I suppose Oracle should be careful, as it would be much more fun for MS to release a tool to migrate Oracle users to MySQL :)

LinkedIn inked out: Twitter cuts off jabberhose to suits

Linked in and twitter

I think this is great news! Waves me selecting the account then hiding it due to tweet spam ;)

America's X-37B top-secret spaceplane returns to Earth

That's a space craft? It .looks a little gay....

UK mobile broadband carriers compared

Three network

I was surprised you recommended Three, I used it for four months on my last contract which took me up and down the country. In London and Manchester I cannot fault it, but it seemed almost everywhere else I went I struggled with a poor signal and dropped calls because of it.

I've moved to Vodafone for my new contract (which again, up and down the country) and so far I haven't seen any problems apart from a call dropped on my way to Inverness, but I think I can forgive that.

I would try and include a review from area's outside of the big cities as well, as not everyone lives in London and Manchester.

Steve Jobs' death clears way for rumoured 4in 'iPhone 5' screen

Re: @AC 17:22

"BTW you show me a (mobile)phone with the dimensions of an A4 piece of paper (8.3 × 11.7 in) and I will retract that last comment But I digress as that won't happen for a looong time if at all."

The Samsung Galaxy Tab is a phone as well... not quite A4 but it's getting close!

RM dumps cash-bleeding ISIS Concepts onto ex-owner

Hmmmm

Have you seen the cost of their hardware and services? Wow... and people actually buy stuff from these guys?

Yahoo! CEO! didn't! even! read! his! own! CV!

If I had a CV with falsehoods like Scott Thompsons and my employer found out... I would get sacked.

Best and the Rest: ARM Mini PCs

Re: RISC OS wasn't first

Author 2.0 was renamed RISC OS, so maybe RISC OS was the first?

Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook

Poor resolution

Resolution: 1366x768

Stopped reading right there!

PlayStation 4 'Orbis' pegged for 2013 release

Second hand markeyt

Although I do buy the occasional new game, most of the time I wait for it to drop in price or get it second hand. I do this because games are so expensive, and if the PS4 (or whatever it's called) aims to block second hand games in any way then I doubt I would be able to afford it.

8,400 email addresses spaffed by Student Loans Company

Phew!

"A spokesperson told The Reg that the money lender quickly realised its mistake and sent out a subsequent email asking all recipients to delete the previous email and attachment"

Oh, phew... OK... so that's all right then ;)

iPhone 5 gets a 5in screen

I've got a Samsung Galaxy Wifi 5.0 (I know, it's not a mobile) and I find it great as a replacement for my SatNav... BUT... as a phone, it would seem rather comical.

I would suggest anyone with a >5" phone puts the Nokia ringtone on it and answers the phone with a load "HELLO?"

Microsoft fires Bing execs after biz probe

Re: Real issue is

Bill gates never said that "640KB should be enough", it's an urban myth.

http://www.wired.com/politics/law/news/1997/01/1484

Found citation using Google of course ;)

UK.gov holds summit to stop satnav-driven smash-ups

"Last month, Confused.com said that satnavs had caused more than £203m worth of damage to drivers on UK roads in the last year"

The SatNavs did THAT! So it wasn't idiot drivers who replaced their common sense with a small LCD screen that may shout out directions in various comical voices?

Capita bags Quartermaine to run IT Services

Quartermaine?

Isn't he the same guy that looks for lost cities and saves the girl? Coool!

Flash stalks Seagate's hybrid drives

"I don't really know why you'd need more than 100GB in a mobile device"

Hi Luke, I wouldn't base your requirements and assumptions to fit everyone else, mind you I like the way you contradict yourself with "I would love one of those 1TB flash drives" in your next paragraph ;)

Hybrids are a great idea at the moment, I've got some Momentus XT drives myself and you can really notice the difference. Considering the reliability rate I've seen hybrids may also be more reliable than their SSD cousins.

Imagination uncloaks 'over 20X faster' smartphone GPU

Ray traceing is not a panacea

Ray tracing does not answer all the problems associated with rendering a scene, have a look here http://www.beyond3d.com/content/articles/94/1 for a more in-depth and knowledgeable on the subject.

Toyota teases next-gen Prius styling

Hydrogen fuel cars

Now your talking, me thinks Hydrogen Fuel cars ARE the future, not these silly battery powered, plug in and recharge nonsense... just need more filling up stations!

NetWare-Linux love child turned up to 11

@John Loy

I remember using XWin in Netware 5 so it was before NW 6.5, but totally agree with the usefulness of it. First job I did on a new server was to remove startx from the autoexec.ncf!

Acer Aspire 5749 budget 15in laptop

Laptop resolution

"I’m not a fan of 16:9 displays on notebooks - call me old-fashioned, but 16:10 makes much better use of the available area - so it’s no surprise that I didn’t take too well to the 1366 x 768 resolution."

I'm with you on that one, unfortunately I really struggle getting a monitor or laptop at 16:10 ratio, do they exist anymore?