Posts by J. R. Hartley

BlackBerry not afraid to throw its mobe biz under a bus, says CEO Chen

Re: Apps apps apps

BB10 now rund Android apps natively, so that can't be the problem.

Maybe the problem is that nobody knows BB10 runs Android apps natively.

:/

Getting it right on the second attempt: Sony Xperia Z1

IR Blaster...

Really???

Does it REALLY REALLY???

Mine doesn't have one for sure :/

Nokia tears devs' hearts out, shutters Symbian and Meego stores early

Well that's the end of that then :/

Brit inventor Dyson challenges EU ruling on his hoover's energy efficiency ratings

Re: It's no good

As much as I dislike the man, he has a point...

Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII

Hmmm...

Icahn to Cook: 'Buy back $150bn of Apple's stock, or tell me why you won't'

Re: He can't think of a reason not to?

Please don't talk about Marconi :/

EU move to standardise phone chargers is bad news for Apple

Re: Apple's not the bad guy here

The only company that did chargers properly before micro USB was Nokia. In the end, even they messed it up by making the 'mini-Nokia' connector standard.

(The cynic in me reckons the only reason they did that was to try and shift some new chargers.

I mean, the average UK household has 2.675 old Nokia chargers*)

*possibly

BlackBerry Black Friday: $1bn loss as warehouses bulge with hated Z10s

Re: This reminds me of the fall of Amiga inc.

Mehdi fucking Ali :/

Shame.

Such a bloody shame :(

IBM proffers $1bn for Linux development on Power

The title is no longer required.

Hmmm...

Microsoft conceals job ad in Bing homepage

Shirley...

Smart developers != IE users

:/

Apple branded porno-peddling perverts by Chinese Pravda

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Just had to log in for the first time this year to say that I hadn't heard Foxconn rebrander in ages and it made me laugh out loud.

Good stuff :)

iPrefs-seeking shareholder Einhorn drops Apple lawsuit

Re: Might be a silly sideshow

Iprefs.... wasn't that an Amiga thing?? :/

UPnP scan shows 50 million network devices open to packet attack

Re: MAC users?

But sure Macs don't get viruses.

Game over for Atari? One life left as biz files for bankruptcy protection

Re: End of an era

Are you for real?? Amigas were well better than Ataris!!

Laughably so, in fact.

Happy birthday, Lisa: Apple's slow but heavy workhorse turns 30

Bollocks stuff.

“Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh.”

You mean:

“Commodore ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1980s with the C64 and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Amiga.”

There, fixed it for you.

Nokia axes 300 IT bods, outsources 820 to Tata, HCL

Nokia is going the way of Commodore

They had it all, but they fucked it all away :/

US Patent Office seeks public input on software patents' future

Roundtable??

It better not have rounded edges :/

Ten… top tech cock-ups of 2012

The facts are these:

1) Apple screws over their customers.

2) People are starting to wake up to point 1.

3) Apple are not cool anymore - no innovation and petty litigstion hasn't gone unnoticed.

It's game over for Apple..

US patent office: Nice try Apple, but pinch-to-zoom is NOT a new invention

Good God, I can't wait for somebody to take a bite out of Apple :/

Search engines we have known ... before Google crushed them

I used to use Lycos on Windows98.

Im only 29 but typing that made me feel reeeeealy old :/

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

I smell Apple's lawyers..

I wonder what bullshit they will use to sue this time?

Second Higgs possibility pops up in CERN data

Goddam right it has :/

Goddam!!

Ray Kurzweil to become Google's top engineer

Your foster parents are dead.

Windows 8: At least it's better than ‘not very good’

Windows 7

...will be my next OS, as soon as I can borrow a retail copy off a mate. Until then it's XP :/

Windows 8 can get stuffed.

The 30-year-old prank that became the first computer virus

You lost me at...

Apple II... dominent home computer.

Facebook ditches mobile HTML with native Android app

About bloody time!!!

The old app was possibly one of the worst i've ever used. A quick glance at the reviews on Play Store tells you all you need to know.

Apple loses iPhone patent lawsuit

Hahahahahahahahahaha!!

Karma!

That square QR barcode on the poster? Check it's not a sticker

QR codes...

...Are shite.

Valve chief confirms Steam-centric console-killing PC

Shirley it would be madness to put windows on such a box.

Australian Police say don't use Apple's iOS 6 Maps

Hold on a second...

Did I just read "Apple Australia contacted The Register"?

STOP THE PRESS!!!!

Apple are on the back foot.

Hahahahahaha. Arseholes.

Apple, Samsung patent judge: 'I feel like I'm in Groundhog Day here'

Re: Anyone else

Fucking hell I am sick to death of AAPL and their bullshit.

Can't wait til they go tits up.

Tim Cook’s 'One more thing': Apple TV rumor-stoker

I really couldn't give a shit

As per title.

John McAfee rushed to hospital over heart attack fears

I must be going soft but..

I'm starting to feel sorry for the man, he's clearly away in the head :/

John McAfee 'captured'

Re: where he is going...

My pun will be Avast improvement though.

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It seems he is ripe for the madhouse!!

'Look, isn't there some way we can get Julian out of here?'

Using the PSP as a remote for PS3 games..

.. was an idea that I thought was pretty cool (for the map in GTA for example)

It got quietly dropped.

With hindsight I can see why.

Chinese buyers falling out of love with iPhones

Apple can fool some people sometimes

But they can't fool all the people all the time.

MIDI: 30 years old... almost

Re: Don't forget the playing (on a PC) of MIDI files

I love my S3000xl. Needs yet another replacement backlight though :/

Plus MESA on a PowerPC OS9 Mac is an utterly miserable experience all round.

Re: Don't forget the playing (on a PC) of MIDI files

General MIDI != MIDI

Re: It's still limping on

Real men use MIDI.

RIM bribes coders: Make BlackBerry 10 apps, GET A FREE SHINY

Call me a fool but...

Do BB devices not also run Android apps? If so, why would I waste time writing a native BB app?

It's the OS/2 effect.

Troll sues Apple for daring to plug headphones into iPhone

Apple will reap what they have sown.

Badges for Commentards

Sorry but the badges are a really naff idea :/

Exec responsible for Apple iOS map fiasco walks the plank

Optional

And that's a wrap for the crap map app flap chap.

OS/2 a quarter century on: Why IBM lost out and how Microsoft won

If Commodore didn't mismanage itself to the early grave...

We'd all be running Workbench 8 on our shiny Amigas. What a pity we aren't :/

Mall lurk man: Apple smashes Microsoft in Black Friday fondle wars

Re: slightly higher than they think OEMs" Indeed, that is precisely what they have done in fact.

Just so they can get market share. I mean, why would the average punter get a Surface tablet over an iPad if there wasn't a big price difference? I completely despise Apple, but if I absolutely had to have a non-android tablet, I would get the iPad. Because of the apps. Unless Microsoft made me an offer (on a Surface tablet) that I couldn't refuse.

Re: slightly higher than they think OEMs" Indeed, that is precisely what they have done in fact.

:facepalm:

Surface Tension

If Microsoft really wanted the Surface to sell, it should have been priced at 200 quid max.

Fucking idiots :/