Posts by DAN*tastik

HTC One X Android smartphone

Re: Don't do it!!!

When unsure, try to replace the "hoos" sound with "who is".

Does it make sense?

No => then it's "whose"

Yes => then it's "who's"

Facebook accused of 'wanton' use of Canadian woman's pics

Re: Facebook?

Click on reply and then change the reply address to that of the person you want to send it to? Can't think of a client hat doesn't suggest the names of those in your contact list as you type, it's not like you need to know everybody's address by heart...

Condom compartment hidden in iPhone case

"The Register is making inquiries to learn if the Playa can cope with common condom sizes, namely Huge, Gigantic, Colossal and Enormous"

If you want to discreetly carry those on you, you'll have to get a tablet that doesn't overheat, otherwise you're just looking for trouble :)

Plastic that SELF-REPAIRS using light unleashed by prof

Re: Pre-coffee interpretation

That is the PIP implants problem resolved. You're a genius

Twitter a poor predictor of movie success

Re: @Khaptain

I find your punctuative pendantry extremely irritating. Mainly because it has reached heights mine can only dream of. So far at least. I had to upvote you.

I hope you will be equally keen to correct "would of"ers and "should of"ers. I am tired of fighting illiteracy on my own.

So, what IS the worst film ever made?

Re: Repo! The Genetic Opera

I actually liked it... But then, again, I like everything she's in...

The Matrix 2

Not only it was excruciatingly bad, but when I left the cinema I was almost in tears because they soiled the name of the film it was a sequel of. Which I adored.

Maybe it should be the Matrix 3, but I couldn't even be bothered to look for its torrent.

Eddie Murphy heading for worst movie ever glory

I will have to watch it

Everytime a film is classified as the worst ever, I feel compelled to buy the DVD ( maybe not at full price, I can wait a few years )

Let me tell you, if there is one thing that will never gather dust in my flat is "The hottie and the nottie". I am sure there will be a remake of it soon. Hopefully with exactly the same actors and plot.

Java won't curl up and die like Cobol, insists Oracle

Opinion of a Java developer

A good stab at trying to kill it, in my opinion, comes from the big companies where it is used.

It seems hard to see jobs listed which don't, or will, require Spring and Hibernate.

Luckily I only had to try to work with them for a year or so, but I never managed to figure out what can't be done without them. Apart from badly performing code without unexpected behaviour.

The last project in which they were used wasn't doing anything spectacular, just some clever business logic behind it, but nothing uncodable.

The project kept on missing every possible deadline mainly because of the two.

For example, a select statement using Hibernate which performs an update to return a resultset - http://ladobbins.wordpress.com/2011/11/02/i-hate-hibernate/

Or, again, one of the joys of using Hibernate: unpredictable number of queries for a select statement:

http://itroman.wordpress.com/2010/12/05/why-i-do-hate-hibernate/ ( Hibernate is not predictable )

Mapping tables for many to many relationships become a pain if an extra column must be added, or there's more than two tables involved.

Letting Hibernate take care of caching data makes it even worse. Is it just the table I am caching, or the entire objects whose IDs are in the mapping table?

There's versions of Spring which clash with Hibernate ( happened to me ) which created problems with transactions ( if I remember well ). 3 people searching forums for 3 days before realising it wasn't something wrong in the sea of XML needed to keep the stuff together.

All this for not using plain JDBC. Why is beyond me.

Also, in over a year, I haven't managed to understand what Spring does so specially that you can't just stick to sane Java.

Why do people use a tool which uses XML for coding ( not just passing values ), doesn't check for code consistency so all the compilation errors only appear at run time ( a bit like when I was learning Java and used to code on Notepad ), and leaves a cryptic 200 line stacktrace to let you there could be a typo in a variable name instead of a squiggly line which appears as you are typing it?

The same opinion was shared between pretty much everybody in the company, apart from a couple of people who first introduced it.

I am sure one day, when they are not fashionable anymore, a lot of people will wonder why they were even introduced. If that day doesn't come, I guess Java is pretty much fucked. My opinion.

And yes, I am still bitter, absolutely, when I think about those two pieces of shit brought to the project ( and my life as a consequence ). I am sure many people could say the same... At least judging from the people I used to work with then. Rant over

Microsoft drops 'risky' Windows 8 preview on World

@ Vic - Re: Re: @ Nya

Did some research and there are conflicting opinions regarding apostrophe for acronyms.

Pretty much everybody seems to agree that there is no standard rule.

However ( from http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=1903946 ):

"Before I realised I use one (an apostrophe) habitually for acronyms and dates when I was taking my TEFL course the teaching assessor would always circle my acronyms and re-write them"

So I guess I'll stick to that from now on. Thanks for enlightening me :)

@ Vic - Re: Re: @ Nya

Not replying to be arsy cause I am not perfect and neither is my English, but there is no clear rule for the plural of acronyms. So CV's could work, not banana's. If I am not wrong I read it in a book called "Eats shoots and leaves".

Thanks for mentioning anyway. I will double check if things have changed since then, or I was just wrong!

When I used the word "gender" instead of "sex" on here though, that was a right cock up :)

@ Nya

"would of preferred" should be "should have preferred".

Not extremely relevant to your comment... But if we all help each other by correcting other people's mistakes, it will make us all more employable. I am sure HR people receive plenty of CV's all the time and the ones in which English is used in a "creative" manner must be the first ones to end up in the recycling bin.

I appreciated it when people corrected me in the past - especially when I was learning English - and now I am just giving back :)

Juniper buys Mykonos to beat off web app attacks

Called Mykonos because?

Is it particularly weak against back door exploits?

Motorola Motoluxe Android smartphone

typo

... what you're doing...

Apple orders PC builder to 'choose sides' in laptop battle?

I thought that was iTaly? :)

Googorola's desire for iPhone royalties will upset Apple cart

@ dazed

Genuine question - what do they have to offer in exchange for that cross licensing? If they ended up talking about "design language" or something similar, after their "rounded corners", maybe they don't have much...

Google spews out 'privacy' email to Sky punters too

SHOULD OF ALERT! SHOULD OF ALERT!

Before moving everything to the "cloud" take some time to go back to primary school.

Really, moderators, please please please start filtering out comments which contain "of" instead of "have".

Or just disable the Preview and Submit buttons to save yourselves the time to go through those cringing posts

Page won't show his ring to prove Google+ 'engagement'

I meant "It is a mine".

Thank you.

Are +users as illiterate?

I am creating a basic javascript tool for my site that doesn't allow users to enter posts containing horrors such as " could of ", " you was ", " hisself ", "theirselves" and so on. Yes, I am anal.

I hadn't logged on to Facebook for a long long time, but then realised it a mine for all the strings I want to filter out.

If +users can't spell to save their lives either, I could consider joining because it could be useful for my project :)

Windows 8 to get self-healing 'Storage Spaces'

The same happens on my computer too

When it happens, I click on the down arrow key, or shift + space bar, half a second and I am back where I was before.

If your operating system and / or browser turn this simple task into a disruptive one, you should consider changing either / both.

Alternatively, I believe it is possible to open more than one article at a time in a different tab, by the time you have gone through the main page and opened all the new tabs you want , the page with the first article will be fully static.

Another option would be to find all those who find the banners annoying and form a pressure group to make El Reg offer an ad free paid subscription version of their site

In the meantime, we can just sit down for a minute and wonder if people tend to blow things up out of proportion, I guess

Oh, and don't forget to click on the banners in the meantime.

iPhone users get iJustHadAShag bedpost-notch boast app

Already have so many ideas to market it...

Grindr plugin is the first!

With geotagging it would help you remember which neighbours you have already had a coffee with, so you can avoid them and make new local friends

Scientists probe Earth's core, make mystifying discovery

@ Moderators

I understand that it is not easy to implement a filter that spots the wrong version of *your* *there* *wear* and the likes, but here's a quick fix ( pseudo code ) for posts like this

String post = request.getAttribute ( "post" );

if ( post.contains ( "should of" ) || post. contains ( "could of" ) || post.contains ( "would of" ) )

{

post = "";

deleteUser ( userId );

}

You're welcome. Or is it yuor welcome? I don't know...

Not so fast: Italian boffins say neutrinos not faster than light

@ Destroy All Monsters

"Now, to a layperson (like me for example), it might well make sense to say that "but you can't know that they would that"

Maybe it wouldn't be the solution, but worth doing it just for a laugh nevertheless:

Get some random company* to sue these neutrino people over their statement. Get the neutrino people to get some lawyers to defend themselves.

See what shit lawyers come up with to argue over stuff they don't even remotely understand.

*Dunno, a company that sells things with back lit LCDs. They could claim that since they used light before anybody else, other people can't do things with it too. And breaking the speed of light = YOU BROKE IT, YOU BOUGHT IT!

Don't think any company would be so vile though. Oh, wait...

Samsung v iPhone 4S French entrenchment: 'TOTAL WAR'

People downvoting a post with the troll icon?

So they agree that round corners and gestures should be patentable, or am I just confused?

Apple posts 'battery fix' iOS update

I live not far from Waterloo and 3 works fine

3 mobile are partially to blame because they knowingly sold you a handset not fit for purpose, but there's nothing wrong with their network - or is it just me and people I know being very lucky?

Next time you have to choose a phone, check the forums first and look for one that is more versatile when it comes to holding options.

UK to big brands: Get off our Facebook, mate!

Are they still recruiting for G.O.M.?

Because I would like to go on a bit about films that give their facebook link as official website.

If they can't afford / be arsed to have their own site, it probably says quite a lot about its quality

Eclipse Xtends Java

@ Robert Carnegie - how this could work

Just guessing, but if "name" is a private string, it could assume that thing.name = "abc"means you followed the bean naming convention and replaces .name = "abc" with .setName ( "abc" ).

JSTL does the same with the getter: ${ thing.name } returns "abc" .

If you mispell the getter as getNAme(), and name is private, it won't work

Jobs was 'working on future product day before he died'

iAnother iRevolutionary iNvention iFor iSure

I wonder if it was iOval iCorners or iCons arranged in a spiral fashion?

iPhone 4S: Our *hit list

Taking the piss?

Wasn't he still alive when they released that mobile that needed a 25 quid ( or dollars, can't remember ) plastic thing to make calls?

Man 'drinks 2 pizzas' before skidding off road

Q: Is that an IT story at all?

A: No

Q: IS it worthy of mention here?

A: Yes

Apple's US bid to ban Samsung tabs hinges on design

Blatant plagiarism

They have problems with their cloud and all, products are substandard ( if you read the specs before they put the apple sticker on them ) and they focus on suing other companies.

Maybe SCO will be after them now, and leave Linux alone?

MS kills, un-kills kills Zune player line

*I have a new ipod and i'm buggered if I can get it to play podcasts in any sort of sensible order (or marked them as listened to when listened to, and not listened to when not listened to).

*

Suits you.

AT&T asks Apple to signal iPhone 4S is a 4G phone

Pretty sure Samsung will keep an eye on any false claim!

'Silent majority' is content with elderly Java, says startup

Spring?

I, to this day, still can't read the word Spring without cringing and feeling compelled to answer back.

Thank god those days are over, I really do not miss those neverending xml prayers to beg the JVM to do something which would take a few minutes using plain Java...

I am also not convinced that transforming compilation errors into run time exceptions makes sense. And the runtime exceptions leave a stack trace which would take a few A4 pages to print.

Maybe it's just my experience, and I have to admit they also masochistically wanted to use Hibernate and GWT with Spring, but the plain JEE I am using now is just a relief.

Hope you have an easier life with it where you are!

Android outsells Apple 2:1

@ Dirk Vandenheuvel

And Big Macs ( no pun intended ) outsell cheaper organic apples

Irishman's coke-packed abdomen poses for police

I.T. angle!

He nose ajax!

Hey Commentards! [This title is optional]

@ Live by the sword

Ooooops :)

That was my point ( and own fail ), it would have saved you from reading my comment, and I have just learned that radiobutton as a word doesn't exist, and it's Nazi, not nazi...

By Christmas the world would be free from should-of-gone's and your-my-best-friend's.

Everyone's a winner :)

Dictionary.com will be my best friend from now on, I guess

We also want to filter posts by poster's gender

I would like to suggest 2 radiobuttons so you can choose the following options:

A) Show boys' posts only

B) Hide girls' posts only

Also, since I am an anally pedantic foreign grammar nazi, the following options:

A) Click here to report spelling fails

B ) Hide illiterate posters' posts because they can't be taken seriously

Sweden rolls out invisible infrared tank

@ Quiet and small

If they are huge and loud, switch on the little external fridges round the edges a to give it a Pacman shape, huge speakers blasting "WHATEVER INNIT WE CAN DO WHAT WE WANT INNIT WHATEVER" in a loop and the enemy will think they are being attacked by an army of teenagers coming to loot their country. They'll be waving their white flags even sooner than if they thought they were real tanks

BBC testing fix for iPlayer on iPad ... 6 months later

The problem didn't exist really

"programmes playing via the web but not via the app..."

it's a bit like having a broken kettle and a clean milk pan on the cooker and sobbing because you can't make yourself a coffee.

They shouldn't have wasted money on making an app to start with. My opinion. Possibly somebody else's too?

E-petitions site: Death wish FAIL

How well it works

I believe it depends on how it is implemented.

In the USA it is not a deterrent. But there aren't many executions happening there.

In Dubai they are a bit more trigger happy so to speak.

A friend of mine moved there for a while. In London he was going through quite a bit of charlie. In Dubai he couldn't find any at all.

Not sure if they are as strict with alcohol smugglers, but you couldn't find much of it either. There is a licence to buy it from supermarkets, or something like that, for which you can apply after 1 year of residence.

When i visited him, all the wine that was left in the glasses ended up back in the bottle for next time, and he said it was quite common practice because of its scarcity - free zones were a completely different environment, but you couldn't take any at home.

That convinced me even more that, if enforced, it works. Against or in favour, and which crimes should it be enforced for, it's a different thing.

It is still used in many countries of completely different cultures - USA, Singapore, Dubai, China, for example -. A more objective argument would be an evaluation of the results achieved by all those different countries. "But it doesn't work int he US" doesn't seem, to me at least, to provide a full picture.

Duplicates not allowed

Every time you vote, you receive an email to register your vote.

If you vote for the same petition twice, when you click on the confirmation link of the second email, it tells you that you have already voted for that.

Given that most people I know have more than one address though, I can sort of think of a way around it...

Paul McCartney's ex-wife makes phone-hacking claim

Anything that gets her on telly...

I was seriously amazed that she didn't rush to Gatwick or wherever complaining that she couldn't go to Turkey because of Holidays 4U UK collapsing.

Birmingham council backtracks on moving IT jobs to India

@AC Satire

The joke alert icon a clue maybe?

@ Current moderatrix in charge: Is there a way to filter out political correctors' comments? They waste valuable HTML page space...

Hundreds of dot-brand domains predicted

Fully agree

If I had my own neon transformer company, I would stick to my fart.it domain, far(...) better than .fart!

Google+ disk space cockup creates notification spam-storm

Marketing?

We are so overwelmed by requests that we find it impossible to keep up! Quick, jump on the boat before the whole internet runs out of disc space for your OMG's and LULZ!!!1!!1!

All you're friends our all readey their 2!!! OH MY LULZ!!! :))) ! <3 <3 <=3

Find our wot there havin 4 breakfast! Quuuick!

Moderatrix kisses the Reg goodbye

Dearly remembered

Sarah, I will miss you.

<== Could we have the icon here assigned to the new moderatrix ( or moderator? ) in your memory? ( maybe thumbs up and down as a readers' referendum on the idea? )

Or any other icon dedicated to you, just because... The one with the tombstone seems to be free now...

I will have a pint tonight and toast to your years at El Reg. The bitter tears that will flow into the glass will make it last forever.

Dx

Vatican launches second website in just 2000 years

Will it include Manners v 1.0?

When the last pope snuffed it, I sent them my CV. Wasn't actively looking for a job, but I was younger and my own jumbo would have been a bit of a statement. And I could have done a much better job anyway.

I'll give it to them that Vatican's site was so slow it must have been under a good DDOS.

Still, do you think they ever got back to me, or even sent me an automated message acknowledging that they received it?

Student suspended for posting random satire on YouTube

His an idiot, right?

"You can't read!" - said the guy who can't spell.

Playboy sneaks NAKED LADIES onto iPad

It certainly will

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