* Posts by craigj

87 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Jun 2011

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Smart telly trends make Apple 'iTV' a certainty

craigj

Re: ITV

*sigh*

This product has not been confirmed by Apple. If indeed it does exist, Apple have not released anything to say that they will name it iTV. El reg and other websites are simply giving a name to a probable product, that might emerge, maybe soon.

Please use your brain.

Apple's new TV allegedly spotted... in Canadian office

craigj

"Imagine being able to hook up your DVD player by just plugging in the cable and clicking a button."

Almost like plugging in a scart lead and pressing AV on your remote.

Virgin Media finally turns an annual profit

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THE SERVICE varies greatly depending on where you are in the country and which part of their network you are on.

I've had amazing service and piss poor service in 2 different places.

Drink diet pop all the time? Look forward to VASCULAR DEATH

craigj

Maybe...

Maybe they were drinking diet drinks because they were fatties* and that was the reason for an increase in vascular death?

*No offence intended, I'm also a fatty

Samsung outsold Apple in world smartphone arena

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Hmmmm

How many articles can El reg drag out of re-interpreting different figures from different countries & surveys in different manners to tell us that Apple/Samsung/iOS/Android is number 1?

Every other day there are contradictory reports that either iOS or Android is beating the other by looking at specific figures / surveys.

Online ad body: Let's slather 'opt out' icons everywhere

craigj

You do have horrible ads that start of big and then shrink, moving my eye away from what I'm reading though

craigj

run your own named/bind9?

Seems a little excessive when you could just add the domains to your hosts file, no need to run a dns server

Microsoft de-cloaks Windows 8 push-button lifesaver

craigj

Wow you're right!

It also wont mend my computer if I inadvertently throw it in a river, MS should probably ditch the feature then.

Apple's Galaxy Tab ban was best advertising ever - Samsung

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WTF?

What?

"made the Galaxy Tab 10.1 a household name compared to probably what it would've been based on the investment that we would've put into it "

It either is a household name or it isn't - It can't be a household name in comparison to probably what it would have been.

Google promises 0.001 of revenue to free the slaves

craigj

0.1% for charitable causes. 0.001% specifically for dealing with slavery. It's all in the article if you care to read :)

Netflix set to make your video history public

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"Twitter became a booming business for a reason"

Twitter isn't & never has been a booming business. It's a booming web property, butTwitter doesnt make any $$$

Microsoft researchers build spam filter for HIV

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Microsoft's algorithms were useful in understanding the mutation of HIV

I knew they had to be useful for something, because they don't stop the spam I receive daily

Despite Android lead, iOS devs slurp scads more mazuma

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Well...

The truth is, there are some very nice android phones out there...

but hardware manufacturers will stick Android on any old phone, whether or not those users are likely to use its "smart" features or buy apps.

A good chunk of those android device owners will use it *shock horror* as just a phone for calling & texting.

That's why I think the idea that Android is leading the smartphone market is stretched a little. Smartphones sold != Smartphones used.

Facebook 'shrinks' six degrees of separation theory

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"it "examined" all 721 million active Facebook users"

One would assume an account has at least one connection to be defined as "active" by this experiment.

Facebook phone rises from the dead, again

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Joke

Risen from the dead?

Maybe this is the real Jesus Phone!

Kesa shells out £50m to offload Comet

craigj
Joke

So I guess now its...

hailey's comet

Has your account been pwned? New website will tell you

craigj
Joke

Does the website...

...also tell you if certain vulture mascotted IT news websites have inadvertently emailed your details to other people?

BBC iPlayer to require TV licence

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And yet...

I can happily listen to BBC radio without a license... doesn't make a lot of sense

Steve Jobs' last words: 'OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.'

craigj

Don't really think this needed to be reported on.

The man was dying, did we really need to know the poor guys last monosyllables?

Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5

craigj

Admit it Lewis Page - You wrote this just to get a chuckle out of the commentards didn't you?

Go Daddy flogs 50 MILLION domains

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Validation?

Much as I hate it, a typo squatter's, spammer's or con-man's $10 is as good as anyones to godaddy.

They still flogged 50 million domains.

Personally I'm not sure how, their platform is one of the worst I've ever had the displeasure of managing domain names on.

The Secret of Monkey Island

craigj

Look behind you, a Three-Headed Monkey!

Play.com swallowed by Rakuten

craigj

£25m seems a little low for a big UK online retailer

Apple to unveil white iPod Touch alongside iPhone 5

craigj

iPod Touch 3g?

I beleive that's called the iPhone

Nokia offers $10,000 for new ring tone

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Joke

Re: I completely ignore phones unless

I completely understand, how could you be expected to know how to answer, without a ring-ring?

But then you probably also didn't realise it was a phone, as it wasn't plugged into a phone socket in the wall, and didn't have a rotary dial that you turn round and a curly cord connecting the headset to the base unit.

Antitrust nemesis accuses Google of 'WMD program'

craigj

Well...

Can't really blame them for trying...

Opera showed us that if shout loudly enough, you can get your competitor to advertise your product freely alongside their own.

Browser choice screen anyone?

MacBook Pro turns to golden Apple

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Yawn

El Reg seems to post an identical story about once a year that somebody has [gold plated / diamond encrusted / added expensive tat to] their [iPhone/iPod/MacBook] - I like apple products, but this is boring.

David Cameron turns water cannons on social networks

craigj

Great...

Why don't we ban telephones, royal mail and speaking to people. That should stop 'em!

Mozilla and Baidu join battle for the new cloud OS

craigj
Facepalm

Hmm

The article seems to suggest that Apple is a step behind other vendors in shipping an OS thats geared towards the cloud and web apps.

Has everyone forgotten that iOS launched without native app support (apart from mail etc which shipped with iOS)? Jobs said that iphone apps would all be web apps. Native apps only exist because of overwhelming demand from users & developers.

Sorry, time travelers, you’re still just fiction

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No. 2

> if time travel will ever exist - ever - then time travelers are here, now,

Unless of course what's happening here, now, in our time is ultimately uninteresting and not worth visiting in the grand scheme of all time in the entire universe?

Gamer claims complete console collection

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@Micky1

I can see a master system 1 & a master system 2 in there!

Data Robotics gives up and changes name to Drobo

craigj
FAIL

Re: Wahtever

The news is the company name change, not the product.

Strange you took the time to post a message and not read the article.

Carry on, jake...

CERN 'gags' physicists in cosmic ray climate experiment

craigj
Joke

clouds

"clouds are made of condensed water vapour"

I thought clouds were made of servers in data centres... wait, am I on the right website?

Will News of the Screws reappear as Sunday.co.uk?

craigj

News of the Screws?

Isn't Screws of the World a better pun?

One per cent of world's web browsing happens on iPad

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Stop

Is nobody seeing what I'm seeing?

Despite more and more android devices being sold, overtaking iDevices in the phone market, their use on the web is meagre.

I think a big chunk of these android devices being sold are low end phones, whose owners are not using the web (or even apps?)

Therefore when the android fanbois go on about beating apple, they are actually just quoting sales figures for devices in a market that apple currently doesn't compete in (low end phones).

Bloke ordered to remove offensive numberplate

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@JayB

I guess you didnt read the part that said "He would receive a refund for the plate."?

Umbrella-wielding Steve Ballmer gets cloudy with Office 365

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Coat

Office 2010 Pro Plus

All these articles about the cloud are sending me to sleep, I think I need an Office 2010 Pro Plus

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