Posts by Anonymous IV

USB 3.1 demo shows new spec well on its way towards 1.2GB/sec goal

Re: Users

> How many ordinary small office/home users even need to use USB 3.0?

Perhaps those who want to write a lot of data files to a USB 2.0 device?

Those who actually back up their data and who had to let it run overnight...

Fanbois shun 'crappy plastic' iPhone 5C

Re: 5C...

And, pray, what acronym do you see for the 5S...?

Re: IBM Songbook

Look for "Ever Onward" on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9oh3gqOEKU

It sounds like it was recorded about 1925...

Cisco email accidentally sent to 1000s of employees causes message list MAYHEM

Re: size

@agentgonzo: Maths was correct, holding down of shift was incorrect... I meant 94KB (kilobytes) rather than Kb (kilobits).

Probably you actually meant 94kB!

If I remember correctly the kilo (k) is the only SI prefix for powers of ten great than one (apart from the never-encountered hecto-h) which is in lower case (compare mega-M, Giga-G, tera-T).

Another instance of where a standard is flawed...

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Angry Brazilian whacks NASA to put a stop to ... er, the NSA

Re: Come to think of it....

"War is God's way of teaching Americans geography."

Ambrose Bierce

Billionaire engineer Ray Dolby, 80, dies at home in San Francisco

Genuinely surprised...

... to find out his first name was Ray, and not Thomas.

Cold-blooded, INHUMAN visitor hitches ride on NASA moon rocket

A-frog-dizzy-ac

Rockets turn frogs on? (But more probably off...)

Sage 50 activation blackout: Shops sent back to paper age

Surely better to be fleeced by a British firm than an American one...?

Google chap reverse engineers Sinclair Scientific Calculator

@Brian de Ford

I commend your well-reasoned, insightful and thoroughly researched comment.

OR

Why did you bother?

Microsoft cans three 'pinnacle' certifications, sparking user fury

Re: Underscores the problem with vendor certifications

"I have known people with degrees, doctorates and, dare I say it, memberships of <u>the relevant august societies</u> who I wouldn't trust to change the toner cartridge of a laser printer..."

You must surely be alluding to the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists, whose membership is composed of "Current senior members of the industry", "‘Senators’ of the industry", "Accomplished practitioners" and "Young high achievers"!

Women in IT: ‘If you want to be taken seriously, dress like a man’

Come back, Verity Stob, all is forgiven...

"I’ve yet to come across an article that accurately shows what it’s like to be a woman in the trenches like me"

Verity has worked in the trenches of programming and systems analysis for many years - is that no good?

Boffins lay bare exotic Lara Croft meteorite element ununpentium

Copyrighted?

Surely Intel must have copyrighted/trade-marked anything of the format <something>Pentium?

Oh, maybe not - they're not Apple...

Meet the world's one-of-a-kind ENORMO barge-bowling bridge of Falkirk

What's with the "hand-tightened bolts"?

Suppressing the urge to ask why they didn't use spanners to tighten the bolts, I ask why a powered torque wrench wouldn't have been a better tool?

Or is this just a piece of useless information, like "pan-fried sea bass"?

Kim Kardashian's bosom pal in bling snatch Instagram unpleasantness

Re: I'd rather have...

> "Money doesn't make you happy but it makes misery bearable"

Surely the quotation was "Money doesn't make you happy but it makes poverty bearable"?

EXPLICIT VID: Man filmed trying to bang brand new 'budget iPhone'

No relation?

Is that "fitness expert" Jay Blahnik any relation to Manolo, of women's feetal coverings fame?

Wait, don't ditch that IT career just yet: UK vacancies hit 5-year high

Re: Lies, damned lies and recruitment agencies.

You are presumably referring to Thomas J Watson's 1943 statement, ""I think there is a world market for maybe five computers"?

If so, it seems quite unlikely that one of them would be in Cornwall!

Fanbois taught to use Apple's new killer app: Microsoft Windows

So that's an improvement, then!

'But we like 1 Direction!' Rock gods The Who fend off teen Twitter hate mob

1 dimensional

Surely not as many as that ...

'Abel, you're fired!' Hear AOL supremo axe exec during conference call

Lenz and his lens

This seems to be a rather suspicious patch connection.

Xerox copier flaw changes numbers in scanned docs

Scan-dalous

You'd think that if the scanner couldn't resolve something, it would reproduce the 'something' as closely as possible, but not arbitrarily decide that the 'something' was 'something else'. Where's the fail-safe in that?

Microsoft loosens strings on Office 365, drops kimono on upgrade options

Re: SKUs by Microsoft

> They just leave a bad taste in my mouth...I don't know why.

Perhaps you feel that you have been SKreUed?

Amazon founder Bezos snaps up Washington Post

Citizen Kane 2.0

I like it!

Peter Capaldi named as 12th Doctor Who

Re: the Doctor can take on any form imaginable...

...so they've cast a white bloke again. [...] It's the 14th time.

That's probability for you - you just can't pin it down.

Davros liable to criticism for huge STRAW DALEK he never built

Snugsburys Famous Ice Cream

You really can't take a straw Dalek seriously when its website uses date formats like 1st/08/2013...

Apple launches global 'iWatch' trademark blitz

Re: Could it be...

I rather liked the supposed name of a new Apple software product, Ant iVirus.

I say "supposed" because of course Macs don't ever get viruses.

Microsoft partners seriously underwhelmed by Windows 8.1

Re: 'Much as I would love to wind Eadon up (where is he these days BTW?)'

No, the required word was "hyperbollocks"...

Pussy galore: Bubble-bath webcam spy outrage

Re: miaow?

Substitute "the correct spelling" for "a different spelling", and your sentence is beyond reproach!

Seagate reveals a NASty side, tears wraps off WD Red copycat disk

Lots of techical details

But absolutely nothing on comparative prices.

Internet fraud still stings suckers

Ah - you mean that gullible doesn't travel...

Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++

Hmmm. Verity's gone a bit technical, what?

Ecuador: All right, Julian, you CAN stay on our sofa - it's your human right

LAWYERS SEE THE JOKE ICON

I don't know what you're worrying about. El Reg would never, ever, reveal your real name or email address, now, would they!

You don't need phone lines or cable for ANYTHING, says Dish

Re: nice speeds

Am I missing something? If you are watching a video, does it matter that you're seeing each frame 110ms after its transmission time? Surely there's only a problem if you're sending stuff back...

UK.gov's £530m bumpkin broadband rollout: 'Train crash waiting to happen'

Re: 2 Megabits per second?

I can't begin to imagine just how much more expensive it would be to provide 10Mbps 'everywhere' in the UK. Can you?

Who's the daddy of Virgin Media now? That would be Liberty Global

An end to some of the major shambles, perhaps?

Maybe the new Chief Exec will sort out at least the following:

1) the great email domain name rationalisation débacle, which was due to be sorted out several years ago, and so postponed that it doesn't even seem to be mentioned in the forums recently (has everyone forgotten the broken promises?)

2) the partly-working SuperHub scandal, successive firmware levels each making matters slightly better, but still wireless is not completely sorted. Perhaps the new SuperHub will be the answer (once everyone gets it - free?)

3) completely-UK-based Customer Support. Fortunately it's been a few years since I've needed to talk to Customer Services...

Thank heaven VM broadband usually works.

The Reg's best-looking reader reveals list of jobs for the beautiful

Re: You don't know what it's like......

Somehow I can't see the IT chaps complaining about the "dumb blonde"...

Boffins build gesture recognition using WiFi

Why would one ever want to do this?

We have enough annoyance leaping up and down to trigger the motion-activated lights when it's dark at work.

"Gesture recognition using WiFi" looks too much like a solution looking for a problem.

[/luddite]

Dell bucks PC market tumble with Haswell business systems

Re: How many articles is that on Dell now?

I like to know which Optiplexes I'll be buying second-hand for work, in about three years' time.

WD's new disk-flogging brainwave will bring you close to tiers

Compulsory joke

I knew it would all end in tiers.

Ba-boom, Tish!

BBC suspends CTO after £100m is wasted on doomed IT system

DAB

Let's hope the DG now has a look into DAB, and bins it for a better alternative.

Cook: Apple has 'no current plan' to pull profits out of Ireland

Re: Slackers in the US

@Schultz

I think the two AC posts which follow yours seem to support the contention that Americans do not understand irony...

The iWatch is coming! The iWatch is coming!

Re: display smaller than a smartphone is going to struggle to display ... with any degree ...

Well, it is lousy - and in spite of this it caught on.

'WikiLeaks of financial data' prompts worldwide hunt for tax evaders

Easier

Presumably it's far easier to go after individuals whose tax affairs are, shall we say, slightly suspect than to go after large corporations with lots of accountants and lawyers which help the corporations to pay minimal amounts of tax...

Adobe price hike: Your money or your files, frappuccino sippers

"Can Adobe justify shifting its Creative Suite to a contentious new licensing model?2

Trivial.

Will it make more money for Adobe?

If answer is Yes, then it's justified.

On the hunt for a new ampere

@Andrew Jones 2

"The speed and distance signs in the UK are what they are because it would simply cost far too much to change them..."

Well, they did it in Eire!

"Distance signs had displayed kilometres since the 1990s but road speed limits were in miles per hour until January 2005, when they were finally changed to kilometres per hour. "

I suppose your logic would argue that changing the road signs was the direct cause of the financial crisis in Eire?

Research explodes myth that older programmers are obsolete

Re: Speaking as a consultant ...

I would be rather worried if asked about RS232 in a job interview, much as I would be surprised to be asked about CP/M. Surely relevant technology is a far better area for questions?

Continued lack of women in tech bemoaned by ex-techie lady MP

Getting the gender terminology correct

In the same way as we have a gender distinction between blond and blonde, would IT be more inviting to women if they could be called a nerde or a geeke?

New Google Play terms ban non-store app updates

Re: Facebook is evil

@IGnatius T Foobar "Facebook is evil. Therefore, whatever is bad for Facebook is good for everyone else. I support Google's efforts."

Aren't you being a bit binary? You have ignored the possibility of them both being evil...

Re: Disagreement is good, if you have some basis for it

Possibly people were downvoting Shannon Jacobs for putting "passed master" instead of "past master"?

Stroppy persons really need to minimise grammar, spelling and homophone errors in their posts!

Reddit: So very sorry for naming innocent man as Boston bomber

Re: Call me sceptical if you will, but...

So what happened to "where there's blame, there's a claim"?

Get a move on, you lawyers - there's an ambulance that needs chasing!