Posts by jotheberlock

Another anti-immigrant rant goes viral in America – and this time it's by a British, er, immigrant tech CEO

Re: I'm prepared for the down votes

You shouldn't be drawing a gun on someone unless you intend to shoot them. Being 'a ranty bitch' is, strangely enough, not a good reason to threaten to murder someone.

'Boutique' ISPs: Snub the Big 4 AND get great service

Err

It's an article about alternatives to the big players, not about the consumer broadband market in its entirety. Plenty of other articles on this site if you want that.

HOLD IT! Last minute gifts for one's nerd minions

Disenfranchised? They won't let you vote?

Disenchanted, I think...

Android hackers mull rooted mobe app marketplace

Google turns a blind eye to GApps?

Not quite true. They specifically asked the Cyanogenmod team not to include Google Apps directly into Cyganogenmod (as is their right of course), which is why Google apps are a separate, optional part of the install.

Learning about chip design from Silicon Roundabout

I note that an empresario is a Spanish land agent. Perhaps he meant impresario?

Windows 8 fondleslabs: Microsoft tip-toes through PC-makers' disaster

x86 monogamy? Short memories

Microsoft has happily ported to non-x86 platforms when they felt it suited them - at one point Windows NT ran on Alpha, PowerPC and MIPS, if I recall.

Eurozone crisis: We're all dooomed! Here's why

A UKIP column on the Europe on theregister? Really? What next, the BNP on immigration policy?

New plastic telescope ammo machine gun is light as a rifle

*shrugs* Personally, I'd always assumed the reason that rifle squads/sections don't have a half a dozen machineguns each was basically cost more than weight. This wouldn't change that.

Ubuntu republic riven by damaging civil wars

The argument at the time was that Trolltech hadn't realised Qt under the LGPL (so people could write commercial apps with it). Not that that was what people actually objected to, of course; what they really meant was 'I hate C++ and everything to do with it' but 'Gnome is more free than KDE!' (because you can write closed-source software using it, forsooth) was a far more acceptable rallying cry.

Now, of course, Qt is under the LGPL so it's exactly as free as Gnome/Gtk. And I've been a happy Kubuntu user for many years so I don't give a flying fuck about this Unity/Gnome 3 mess.

Google SHOCK! Snaps up Motorola phone biz for $12.5bn

Is it possible Google might simply stop making Motorola phones?

Or at least only produce unlocked developer ones aka Nexus One? They could simply fire most of Motorola's hardware guys, not be in competition with their ecosystem, not lose money selling phones, and still reap the benefits of the patents.

Behind Apple's record sales are signs of desperation

Err

Since when is Meego a 'cloud-based operating system'?

Nokia: Keep codin' for Symbian and Qt!

You can still write Qt apps on Android

Fortunately, there is a port of Qt for Android. You need not throw all that knowledge away. :)

Shuttleworth sees fewer clouds in Ubuntu's future

Actually

Qt is still owned by Nokia. Only commercial support has been sold.

Memo to iPad mimics: No one wants a $799 knockoff

The best value Android tablet right now is the Nook Color

'Currently Android tablets are sharply divided into two categories -- sub-$200 junk and wayyyyy too expensive. I suspect the first vendor to find a happy medium will do very well.'

Barnes and Noble are this vendor, albeit accidentally. Their Nook Color sells for $250 and once rooted is a very practical and usable Android tablet. You can even run Honeycomb on it. And, indeed, they are selling like hot cakes.

Five Reasons to be cheerful about Nokia-Microsoft

Actually

To be fair, that graph shows a lot more interest in Qt than Windows Mobile 7. Looks like an argument for Android to me.

It's official: Nokia bets on Microsoft for smartphones

On the other hand

There is also an experimental Qt port for Android...

If Google have any sense, they'll support Qt on Android officially. That way they have a hedge against the Java lawsuits.

Apache threatens Oracle with Java exit

Qt is pretty much write once, compile-and-run-anywhere

'You could just use C or C++, but after all these years, there is still no definitive common multi-platform library of stuff that will do the graphics and other stuff that Java can do.'

It's not definite, true, but Qt is available on a large subset of commonly-held-as-interesting platforms (MacOS X, Windows, Unix, Android, Symbian, Windows CE, QNX) and at this point provides similar services to the Java class library.

US census takers fight angry Americans for their data

Actually

I suspect you'll find the author is an American just like yourself, both from spelling in his other articles and the second paragraph of the story -

'The census, conducted once every 10 years, hired a few hundred thousand Americans to collect names, ages and race data, using pencils and forms. '

But, you know, don't let me get in the way of your childish xenophobia.