Posts by JDX

UK.gov works on YET ANOTHER open-source push

office

Banning Office would remove the best tool there is... the alternatives are NOWHERE NEAR as full-featured when you come to do complicated stuff. Granted much of the usage is for simple things but most of the cost is elsewhere.

Three in ten Americans urge feds to read their email

"the results make depressing reading"

Showing your own political bias there.

Seagate pulls out the biggest hard one in the industry

re: nowhere near enough storage space for any kind of quality audio and video

4Tb. 2000 files. 2Gb per file. Doable although a bit of a push... you can download HD movies on PS3 for something like 3-4Gb IIRC. Is American HD different to ours?

Maybe they just mean really short movies, not BraveHeart.

Judge may order Page and Ellison into mediation

Been reading this title ALL DAY as

meditation.

AndyPad Pro low-cost Android tablet now on sale

512Mb

Really? I remember the days when a desktop could run Windows and Office on 128Mb. These Android thingies must be inefficient bloatware compared to Windows XP!!

Facebook deletes hacked Pages, destroying years of work

re: Serves 'em right, FB is a toy

It doesn't matter what you think, it matters that your customers expect to find you on FaceBook. You should have a proper website too, but opting not to have a FB page if it could gain you business is something a moron who doesn't understand running a business would advise.

re: Why don't they just restore from a backup?

Restore what exactly? The issue isn't loss of data but loss of the page itself. It's like if someone steals your company domain... you can buy another domain and restore from backup, but all your SEO expenditure and so on is not backed up.

Similarly you can create a new FB Page but your user-base is still on the old page.

London bus timings mobile beta site spotted

re: In fairness

I was recently in Oakland, CA - a city of substantial size comparable to Manchester/Liverpool. They have it.

Amazon's cloudy vid-tablet breaks cover: Not an iClone

not e-ink?

I thought the new Kindle would be e-ink with colour. If this is _just_ a tablet, I don't want one as a Kindle replacement... I bought a Kindle precisely because it's great for reading on.

Microsoft: Our clouds are cheaper than VMware clouds

moron

Windows server isn't crashable, even recent Windows desktop is pretty stable.

Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy Note

@tmTM

Dunno, people with big hands and poor eyesight?

Apple's ex-cop and the case of the lost iPhone 5

@Barry Shitpeas, Spanners

It's hard to decide who are the most mouth-frothing fanatics - the fanbois or the anti-fanbois.

Domino's to serve pizzas on the Moon, apparently

see the progress of their pizza in real-time

I can do that here in the UK.

Toshiba outs 'world's thinnest, lightest' tablet

thinnest laptop

Do they still have a bounty on spotting errors?

Sharp shows off 8K4K hi-res prototype telly

22.2?!

Just wear a set of headphones...

CERN: 'Climate models will need to be substantially revised'

@anarchic-teapot

Scientists don't stand to make $$$ either way. I don't think that was claimed. But they stand to attract funding if they toe the right line.

Politicians use CO2 as part of their election plans.

Governments shape industry by subsidising green programs like electric cars and solar panels and wind farms.

Oil companies can sell oil as fast as they can mine it regardless, and personally I think we should be pushing to reduce oil use regardless because it is a finite resource.

HP's UK PC boss: We're going nowhere

We are now working on ensuring everyone that owns a webOS device has a positive experience

So they weren't worried about that previously?

Apple's Tim Cook gets one million reasons to stay on as CEO

why work?

If you are earning $10s of millions a year, it's hard to see why not retire once you get to $50m or so... do they want/need the money or just never think about retiring?

Apple MacBook Pro 17in 2011

Notebook?

Isn't a notebook a term for a small laptop? How can a 17" laptop be called a notebook?

iPhone 5 less than a month away

Fakes

That fake iPhone 5 sounds cool.

Mango release rumours leave Nokia behind

Nokia as hardware only

All these other companies rely on their hardware alone, and have strong brands using Android, much as Nokia is using WM7. Even if MS bought Nokia, no way they would kill the brand because to my generation, Nokia IS the mobile phone...

Google Chrome beta turns on native code machine

What's the point?

A browser-specific extension in a minority-use browser... it might be really cool but who is going to target it when it means their stuff only runs on Chrome?

Kabam! Facebook gamers fume after script deletes fake stuff

Real World

It doesn't matter how much you shout and scream about bad service, and how right you are... if a company is deluged in 1000X complaints and customer service calls, they are not going to be able to respond promptly. Regardless that it's their mistake, what _exactly_ do you expect them to do about it but struggle to fix it as quickly as they can?

Gordon Ramsay sues father-in-law over alleged spyware plot

@elfros

That's because you're a small, bitter, jealous excuse of a man.

Google points finger at human after robo car accident

sad or good?

Good to see such a cool tech FINALLY coming of age.

Sad that we had to rely on Google to do it... surely some smart, venture-capital backed startup could have done this and made a name for itself.

Nintendo set to make a loss on every 3DS

3D's a fad

Bet they said that about colour TV too. And HD TV.

it would seem someone's been doing some ambitious maths

Because obviously you pay for the bits, and then they magically get glued together, packaged in a pretty box, shipped across the world, and distributed to shops, for free.

Acer founder: 'Tablets, ultrabooks just a fad'

Confused - what's an ultrabook?

Is it a regular PC running a regular OS, just really small? i.e. a Windows Air?

Google waggles free* Android phones at Americans

of course it's free

You pay for the contract and they give you the phone. Money changing hands doesn't mean it's not free, just that it might not be a good deal.

Bullfrog Syndicate

Awesome

Such a brilliant game. I spent years waiting for a sequel and then SW was rubbish. I would so love a proper remake using proper 3D.

My personal favourites included:

- trying to get 200 people into a car

- trying to run over 200 people in a car

- a weird bug which let your ghost take control of a vehicle

- Gauss gun!!!!!

Cambridge Audio Azur 751BD 3D Blu-ray player

re: we aren't all cashing in our Apple or facebook shares this week

It might offend you to know this, but there ARE quite a lot of rich people who buy expensive hardware. I'm sure you'd prefer they only reviewed stuff on sale in Aldi but there's a wider audience to consider.

It's official: IE users are dumb as a bag of hammers

Do not feed the troll

To late, El Reg served them a 8-course dinner.

Firefox maker moves towards a browser-free world

@Steve Knox

"If you don't like it, don't do it. There are plenty of good programmers out there who are fine with developing for the HTML5/CSS/JS platform"

What a great piece of critical thinking. People will get good at using a bad tool, if it's their only option, therefore it's not a problem.

The word "tool" seems highly appropriate to your post.

Samsung Chromebook: The $499 Google thought experiment

future?

I take the point that in future it might work well for typical home users. But do you really want the situation you can't print your file because your internet connection is down?

Always on internet is some years away.

Microsoft rolls out One Big Windows strategy

Seems a good idea BUT

Something so radically different from MS will surely take a couple of versions to get right... so we'll repeat the pattern of W8 being crap and W9 being what W8 was supposed to be?

Hundreds of dot-brand domains predicted

so can we have...

www.apple? apple.apple? crab.apple?

Seriously though where you use sub-domians like sales.coke.com now it can be sales.coke. But it all sounds rather messy.

Microsoft plans to open 75 retail stores in US

@buzzword, metavisor

Linux weirdos have hated Windows for ages. Linux is still an OS for weirdos, as far as the PC goes. Apple is still a minority OS, propped up by their hardware. Inevitably iPhone will become replaced by something else cool and Apple will implode to a remnant... all this web stuff might or might not kill MS but Apple are screwed the moment iPhone isn't #1 phone.

MS to WinXP diehards: Just under 3 more years' support

Why would my company spend vast amounts of money fixing something that ain't broke?

Because when MS stop doing security updates, the OS will become increasing vulnerable and the cost of having all your systems infected could be substantial.

GOLDENBALLSUP! Beckham website defaced

Beckham undoubtedly outsources the management of his site

No, really? Because I'm sure otherwise we would have imagined he was dab hand at PHP.

Game gears up for Mac OS X Lion release with... Panther

Um

I've got 10.5. How do I update?

Behind Microsoft's $15 Samsung Android royalty claim

forget who's right and wrong...

...it must be pretty interesting working in the midst of this constant war of patents, suits and so on.

Google gives in: Schmidt to face US antitrust grilling

Worrying for Google

Not because of what they do, but because of Eric's track record for stupid statements.

Is Facebook worth more than Google?

re:Facebook is too well established to go anywhere now

Remember MySpace? Altavista? FriendsReunited? All were household names, all collapsed as users switched to Google and FaceBook.

FaceBook might seem to big to die out, and it would be a big upset, but it does happen.

Apple patent: 'Pour' your data from iPhone to iPad

rude

"with the flick of the wrist" - are you suggesting Apple users are good at wrist gymnastics?

Anyway didn't MS already do this on the Surface?

NHS told: freeze all Microsoft spend

Hilarious

It's cute to read the suggestions of doe-eyed innocents that the NHS should "just drop MS" (sorry, M$). It's also a little sad to think how those fresh-faced, enthusiastic kids will realise their naivety as they enter the world of work.

I doubt even most software people (myself included) can grasp the true size of the work that it would be to transition, and the enormity and complexity of the NHS.

Schmidt preaches 'deep integration' desire with Facebook, Twitter

re: survey

The vast majority of IT types are not anti-Google or even anti-Facebook. Just the vast majority of those who bother to write a comment every time a story related to either is written.

If you make assumptions about IT demographics based on Reg comments, the majority of IT people use Linux and Scroogle. They don't. Even most programmers are on Windows.

Microsoft muzzles IE chief's 'native HTML' nonsense

WebGL

In theory, IE could implement WebGL on top of Direct3D I should think. However, a more abstracted 3D API for the browser might be better i.e not GL or D3D, so that each browser can implement it using any tech they want depending on platform. Or maybe WebGL already is that, and the 'GL' in WebGL is about as relevant as the 'Java' in Javascript?

Facebook gets awesome with Skype

plugin

Just if it prompts to download as .EXE on Windows, doesn't mean it is Windows-only... can someone clarify what happens on nix/Mac?

Presumably it is a plugin simply because HTML5 isn't widespread yet and it allows them to re-use existing code.

Ofcom slaps Channel 5 for loud PlayStation ads

loudness

Yes, things can seem louder without breaking the rules. C5 have evidently gone even further :)

To those who say why have ads, or "I ignore them", well you are the minority. And in all probability, even you are still probably influenced by ads.

Microsoft inks Bing deal with Baidu

have to wonder...

how many of the Bing haters have actually used it, rather than tried it once