Posts by druck

Nokia flops out its 4G, 4.7-inch WHOPPER: The Lumia 625

Largest physical screen, but only 800x480 resolution, really?

PHWOAR! Huh! What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, Prime Minister

Dispicable search engine terms

I'm sure the world will be a safer place for all, now google maps wont show you how to get from Penistone to Scunthorpe.

ARM servers to gain boost from ARM, Oracle Java partnership

Jazelle

ARM has had the jazelle Java byte code accelerator for years, it's not surprising they want to continue to develop it, and working with the developer of Java kind of makes sense for that.

Intel flogging Atoms for belated push into mobile market

Re: Even holding market share is not enough

Nigel11 wrote: There's nothing stopping Intel from taking out an ARM License. Their process technology would mean that Intel-fabbed Arm would be the best of class.

They already have a licence, and not just a manufacturing licence, but an architecture licence, allowing them to change the design of the processor core.

However, they'd regard that as losing because they'd have to split the profit with ARM. They'd rather keep 100% of the profit, if they can.

It's not splitting profits with ARM who only take a minuscule amount per chip, it's not being able to charge obscene margins when competing every other ARM licensee.

European Space Agency goes for mostly solid Ariane 6

Re: newsflash Arianespace is no government outfit

VAB GNC package ... it's an FO INS

Lighter on the acronyms please.

Radar gremlins GROUND FLIGHTS across southern Blighty

Re: flightradar24

All aircraft entering commercial flight lanes have to have a suitable mode-S or ADS-B transponder, so will be picked up on surveillance radar, and hence "tracked in-flight".

What happens on G-Cloud stays on G-Cloud

Please mark as an advert rather than an article.

Jiggy Pennsylvania couple busted by 25 bike cops

They also should have been held up on a charge of being too grotesque to procreate.

Play the Snowden flights boardgame: Avoid going directly to Jail

Not always great circle

Commercial flights don't always follow the great circle routes, they take in to account the varying path of jet streams, to (if possible) avoid headwinds and take advantage of tailwinds, which can be over 100kts and make quite a bit of difference to the fuel usage. It's why UK to US flights take a more northerly route to avoid the North Atlantic west to east jet stream, but US to UK flights fly further sound to get the benefit of the tail wind.

Although jet streams are unlikely to have much of an effect on Moscow to Cuba or Venezuela flights, (especially at this time of the year when it's closer to the pole), Snowden might be sitting tight, waiting for a particularly unusual weather patten which would require Aeroflot to slightly divert a flight eastwards when approaching US airspace.

Mint 15 freshens Ubuntu's bad bits

VM ready

Mint gets extra points for having the VirtualBox extensions pre-installed, so it's VM ready straight out of the box.

Our week with Soylent: Don't chuck out your vintage food quite yet

No meat, no meal

A glass of Food 2.0 intimidating Food 1.0

I see no food of any description in that picture.

Google erases G8 venue from Earth: Microsoft doesn't

If you look on Google Earth with the historical imagery feature, the empty field is from 2004, there is one showing the resort from 2010, but it is in black and white for some reason.

Chewbacca held up by TSA stormtroopers for having light sabre

Re: I'm not seeing the problem

Corrine wrote:

People who genuinely need a stick to walk with (rather than just carry one for image reasons) tend to walk a bit differently from most e.g. leaning a bit on the stick, walking stooped over or limping. These factors sort of counter the "deadly efficiency" view you're suggesting.

Not seen Yoda fight then?

'THINNEST EVER' spinning terabyte beauty slips out of WD fabs

Re: However

7mm is widely used in ultrabooks.

Reg readers tumesce as they get their tongues round 'podule'

Rocket ship

The Risc PC had a modular case, you could have two podules on a basic machine with one slice , add an extra slice to get 4 podules, and a 4 slice machine could accommodate 8.

Of course why stop there when you can build a ten slice Rocket Ship, complete with a pizza oven and kitchen sink!

Intel's plan for Haswell, Silvermont, Bay Trail: WORLD DOMINATION

The debate is far from over

"The myth that Intel will never be able to get power down low enough to get into phones is gone," Intel spokesman Bill Calder told The Reg. "That debate is over."

Really? I'll believe that when phone makers start paying for Intel processors, rather than Intel paying the phone makers to use them.

A Bluetooth door lock that puts the kettle on? NOW we're in the future

Re: What's the point?

MrXavia wrote:

Sure the risk is someone steals your phone, but as a mugger would probably take your keys, phone & wallet anyway, there is no big deal, at least with this you can block the phones access, easier than changing locks!

Think more about loosing a set or keys or a phone. A set of keys will open a lock, but wont tell a miscreant where you live. A phone which will open locks will have your address stored in the contacts, or it will be obvious from the sat nav history. They are likely to stripping your house bare before you can get home by taxi, or have got through to the phone company to try block the phone - if indeed that will prevent it from using bluetooth or NFC on the locks.

Review: Samsung Series 5 Ultra Touch Ultrabook

Re: 1366 x 768 ... stop reading at this point.

That number of pixels is only good for an 11.6 screen, so save yourself £200 and get a touch enabled i3 powered ASUS Vivobook.

INSIDE GCHQ: Welcome to Cheltenham's cottage industry

Re: Weekends Off?

It's deserted on bank holidays too.

Doughnut nav

I used to fly out of Staverton (Staverton Flying School in the old station commanders hut before it became the flying shack) and the Doughnut was a great navigation reference point, you turned right over the top of it to line up on final for runway 27. It was even more useful at night being lit up and visible for miles, unlike the landing lights which are only visible from head on. People were always amazed that we were allowed to fly over such a sensitive location. Oh and I'll admit to doing Vne along the Golden Valley By Pass, but I'm not saying on or above!

More than half of Windows 8 users just treat it like Windows 7

Re: The big news here

Some users launched more than one TIKFAM app a day? How can that be?

I my case it was probably true, on the first day I got the new laptop I launched perhaps 8 or 9 apps, found them all to be utterly utterly dismal, and never touched them again. By the end of the week I'd replaced Windows 8 with Linux. So while I was I Windows 8 user, I was launching more than 1 a day.

Vodafone revenues hit as customers in Europe hang onto their cash

Re: Money, money, money

dramill wrote:

Would I like a 3G tablet? No, I'm saving for a Surface Pro

And they didn't spot it was a wind up at that point? You are so cruel!

Hey, Teflon Ballmer. Look, isn't it time? You know, time to quit?

Re: good news about Microsoft?

An AC wrote:

But why do you care? Are you a stockholder?

Even if he isn't, his pension fund probably is.

Mobile tech destroys the case for the HS2 £multi-beellion train set

Awful experience

I suspect you'll not see much economic benefit from tourists using the route either, given the large amount of the journey which will be in tunnels. One benefit of trains is being able to watch the countryside pass by, being plunged in to the blackness of tunnels and subjected to large pressures changes every few minutes is a pretty awful experience. So I can't see it being used by anyone other than commuters or business travellers with their heads down looking at a laptop.

Murdoch hate sparks mass bitchin', rapid evacuation from O2, BE

Re: I'm going

John Smith 19 wrote:

Plus net are now part of BT.

Yes they are, so you get the benefits such as FTTC as for Infinity, and when there are any line problems they don't just blame BT and leave you to fend for yourself.

But also they still operate as separate company, and unlike BT they know how to run an ISP. They offer good, reliable and competitive priced products, and are open and honest about any traffic management and any service outages. I've been with them for over 10 years now, and wholeheartedly recommend them.

Acorn founder: SIXTH WAVE of tech will wash away Apple, Intel

Re: Question.

Jake wrote:

When was the last time Hermann Hauser actually contributed to anything relevant? I'm thinking 1978ish.

One could ask the same of the large number of bitter retorts that make up your posting history. You might spend your time more productively looking at the copious information on HH's recent work on the internet.

New Lumia 925: This, loyalists, is the BIG ONE you've waited for

Toys

The phone looks less like a toy than the other hideously coloured plastic Luminas, shame the OS is still the same bright coloured child's blocks.

Smaller, second-gen Surface slabs to arrive in June?

@LunkwillAndFook

A truly superbly sycophantic first post astro turf there, I have to say you fooled me completely right up until "My wife".

VTOL hybrid flying car promises the skies

Re: Parachute - from the article...

A non steerable chute which will at best give you a hard but hopefully survivable landing on empty level ground, but may also crash you in to the side of tall buildings, mountains, trees or lakes depending on which way the wind is blowing.

TV gesture patent bombshell: El Reg punts tech into public domain

Re: I really don't like the idea of gesture TV

Two of you will have to sit very close to each other and watch the film with one eye closed.

Ten Windows 8 Ultrabooks

S200E not an utlrabook

The S200E isn't an ultrabook, it has a shiny metal keyboard deck, it's thin and light with a good battery life, but it leaves out the most important feature that Intel requires for it to be called an ultrabook - being hideously overpriced. I have an S200E and it does everything I want of a small laptop, I wouldn't buy some of the grand plus machines even if you gave me the money.

How long will it take Facebook Home to hit 1bn downloads? 76 years

Mixed reviews?

According to the BBC, half gave it one star and only 1800 Facebois gave it 5 stars, that's not mixed, that's overwhelmingly negative.

Cyberwar playbook says Stuxnet may have been 'armed attack'

Attack one way or another

Call it an attack if you like, but stuxnet is probably the reason why an attack in the real world by Isreali aircraft hasn't yet taken place, with all the ramifications that would entail.

Oi, Microsoft, where's my effin' toolbar gone?

Feature of Bug

At least the toolbars dispersing was a 'feature', using Libra Office Calc last night on a spreadsheet originally from Excel, the cell column labels kept being replaced by the first row and contents of some cells changed randomly between 3 numbers and 3 hashes. I suspect it is due a bug in Calc not handling the cell protection added in Excel, looks like I'm going to have to export just numbers and formulas to a new sheet to get rid of any latent problems.

Reg readers reveal MIGHTY DOMESTIC DATA CENTRES

Bad photos

All the thousands of pounds worth of computer kit, and no one has better than what look like 5 year old camera phones to take the pictures?

Mark Shuttleworth: Canonical leads Ubuntu, not 'your whims'

Re: Unity and TIFKAM

Unity is worse than TIKFAM, because in Windows 8 once you've installed Classic Shell, the deskop becomes just like Windows 7, if not slightly nicer. The only thing you can do with Unity is to completely banish it, by installing a different Window manager, lucky there are quite a few to chose from.

Next Windows 8 version can ditch bits of Metro

Re: Making Windows 8 look like Windows 7 isn't a climbdown?

Once you do make Windows 8 look like Windows 7 by installing a Start Menu replacement (such as Classic Shell) and banishing TIKFAM apps, then it's actually not bad. Pretty quick and with a nicer Task Manager and and File Manager progress windows than 7. My Vivobook has a touch screen, but I only ever use it for filling out web forms, as its easier to touch lots of tick boxes, no real use for anything on the desktop when you have a large multi-gesture trackpad.

Review: Toshiba Satellite U920T Ultrabook

Re: how much?

Hey, the keyboard has full sized cursor keys, that's got to earn it some points.

Ubuntu 13.04 beta touts search privacy - before it hooks in eBay, IMDb etc

Re: Shouldn't be needed

Could not stomack Unity, tried kubuntu, lubuntu and xubuntu (in decreasing order of liking), the went the whole hog of switching to Mint+Mate - fast, low resources usage, good default package mix, and works just like I expect it to.

Colombian boffins reconstruct flight path of Russian meteor

Re: 500 kilotons

500 kilotons is the total energy dissipated during a re-entry taking many seconds, rather than all released in a fraction of a second in a nuclear weapon. Therefore the damage was a lot less than an equivalent tonnage of bomb.

Surface RT now on sale in 13 more European markets

Valentine's Day Break Up

Continental Europeans who can't think of anything to get that special someone for Valentine's Day might condsider a Surface RT fondleslab

Only if they are the sort that is too cowardly to break up by text message, and are hoping on that someone will ditch them once they try out the dismal was-metro only experience.

Opera joins Google/Apple in-crowd with shift to WebKit and Chromium

Opera better on Reg Hardware

I've only fired up Opera once in a long while, and that was to check what was up with new style The Reg Hardware pages where images overlap or underlap the right hand column, when viewd in FireFox and Chrome. Opera, however, rendered them correctly.

I'd still urge The reg to fix the pages, and to get rid of the highest rated comments box which is completely unnecessary.

Out of ARM's way, Brit chip juggernaut runs over analysts again

Re: Bought my ARM shares for £1!

After buying mine at just 42p about 6 years ago (after a ridiculous drop from £1.20 due to a single profit warning), I watched them go back up to £1.50, then sink back down and wobble around the pound mark for several years. I decided to sell at £1.02 in 2009, and thought I'd made a tidy profit, but since that day they haven't stopped going up since. They were £9.33 yesterday, if I hung on I could have been minted.

Who ate all the Pis?

RISC OS too

I thought I'd be using mine to play with Linux, but after I put RISC OS on an old 2GB SD card I had lying around, its been in the slot ever since. As Chika says RISC OS does look really nice on a good HD monitor via HDMI, and it's fast due use of the on board video acceleration. Next up is finding something interesting to do with the GP I/O - it's just like having a Beeb again!

DARPA shells out $194m for 'phase 6' of STARnet chip project

Funky?

The Center for Systems on Nanoscale Information Fabrics... wants to move from a deterministic to statistical computing and communications.

No, just NO.

Microsoft's Intel-powered Surface Pro to launch in February

Slower than a broken tube train

"it's presumably going to suffer the same system slow downs that all versions of windows have Ben affected with since the dawn of time"

It's ok it starts off slow and stays that way, well Metro apps (or whatever they are called this week) anyway. On the Win 8 desktop even Libra Office (oft criticised for being bloated) loads in an instant, but the Metro apps such as Weather and Calendar sit there spinning the hourglass for eons - I know they are cloudy, but it's connected to a fast ADSL and no google services take more than a blink of an eye.

2012 in supercomputing: Ceepie-geepies, a weak ARM and the need for speed

ARM HPC

" I don’t think ARM will be regarded as a true alternative for HPC until we see 64-bit ARM, which is due sometime in 2014."

The Register says otherwise:-

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/17/applied_mixcro_x_gene_open_compute/

Myanmar to open telecoms to foreigners

Burma

There is no such place a Myanmar, the country is Burma, until a democratic government of that country decides to change it.

Secrets of an ad broker: NoSQL, millisecond auctions and FLASH ARRAYS

Re: Very clever, I'm sure

Up votes Vs Down votes says otherwise.

Look out, Flash! Phase-change RAM IS HERE ... in Nokia mobiles

Asha

Ah those are the Nokia phones that are still selling in any appreciable numbers, unlike the other range. What were they called again?