Posts by Mike Judge

Penguin e-books back in libraries – but no new titles

confused

almost every regional library lends epub books...

search.overdrive.com/

No Xbox Live hack say insiders

Something fishy here. Microsoft covering up?

I had my account emptied too.

I havn't clicked any scam links and the username and password are unique to Xbox Live, so there is no risk of it being obtained from elsewhere.

This sounds like a hack to me, but it's conveniently being blamed on phishing. Something stinks at Redmond on this one.

Google guru blasts Android virus doomsayers as 'charlatans'

ermmmm

" Android, out-of-the-box would install and run any signed app (if configured to use alternate markets).'

so that's not really out the box then... it also warns you against so if you try and enable non market apps.

Kindle Fire demand hits iPad rivals not iPad

short lived

when consumers fin out it runs an intentionally crippled version of Android designed to stop competition..

Mozilla promises more speed with Firefox 9 beta

More broken promises?

Don't Mozilla promise this every release, yet Firefox gets slower and more bloated...

Nokia's Windows comeback: Great but what's next?

compared to?

an Xbox with a 60% failure rate that louder than an aircraft taking off, that destroys your disks if you do much ad go near it, or a zune player that's so crap even Toshiba disowned it...

really its but hard to better Microsoft trail of hardware disasters.

problem is...

Microsoft are copying apple with the walled garden approach. you can't write apparel that might mean undercutting microsoft, you can't make web browsers for windows phone (opera mini an mobile have been cancelled due to MS rules).. and any content only works via Microsoft.

its all sounding very applelike, from a company Just as evil.

out of the 3, Google at least give me stuff for my info. the others take it for free. font be fooled that apple or microsoft font know just as much about you.

Ten... Blu-ray disc players

Indeed.

Why would anyone waste £170 on ANY of the Blu-Ray players on this list in that pricerange, when a PS3 can be gotten for £179 that does everything they do and a whole lot more besides...

By not including on this list, turns it into a pointless "gadget show" list of randomly cherry-picked players.

Modern Warfare 3 flogged on eBay for a grand

Proof that console owners are idiots.

As they could have bought an Xbox for $250 and downloaded a torrent of it, thrown the console in the bin when it got banned,,,

Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

can't wait.

uncharted 1 & 2 are the best games on any system of,any generation bar none. I had no doubts uncharted 3 wouldnt raise the bar even higher, making all other games look inferior by a large margin.

to get the best from uncharted 3, make sure you play the predecessors in order. the story and characters build

IGN Perfect 10's

in EVERY category. I don't recall a game ever getting that... Having started playing Uncharted 3, so far it totally deserves it.

I recall how in awe I was in Uncharted2 when you got on the train. You ain't see nothing it, Uncharted 3 takes it to a new level...

Raises the bar and then some.

As iPhone 4S battery suckage spreads, fixes appear

iPhone4s launch

was scheduled to coincide with Job's death (to give the lacklustre product the launch hype it needed), rather than when it was actually finished...

in true Microsoft style, launch it when the marketing people tell you it's ready, rather than when the engineers tell you it's ready.

Jobs: 'I'll spend my dying breath destroying Android'

So Steve how's that war going?

LOL, from what I can see both Google and Apple make smartphones (like Ford and Toyota make cars), and Apple are the ones stealing stuff.

I mean iOS5 steals Android notifications, it steals Androids voice control, iOS4 stole Android's multi-tasking and folders.

I’m betting that iOS6 will steal Android widgets.

So how’s that mission to destroy Android going then Steve???? Not very well it seems....

Forza 4

Poor mans GT5.

Forza is a dumbed down, poor mans GT5. Whilst GT5 may not be perfect, it's still mile ahead of this in term of physics, graphics and car/track selections.

The only letdown in GT5 is the clunky menu system, in every other respect GT5 is generation ahead of Forza.

Microsoft flags Firefox and Chrome for security failings

Browser Sniffing Rulez OK!

Opera: Can't give you a rating.

Opera masked as Firefox 2/4

Opera masked as IE: 4/4

EPIC FAIL.

Really, you would have to be an idiot to fall for this... However, as most IE users are idiots, they have a warm fuzzy feeling of safety right now....

After hack nightmare, Sony bars lawsuits with new TOS

Weird

As this is standard legal speak, infact other companies use the same wording, but guess what, nobody is beating them up....

www.t-mobile.com/Templates/Popup.aspx?PAsset=Ftr_Ftr_TermsAndConditions&print=true

Aren't you embarrased how easilly you can be manipulated by a bogus news story? Even Paris didn't fall for this tripe.

RIM share price nosedives following stinky numbers

The masses are buying iPads because thats all they know. They havn't bothered to get off their fat lazy arses and look at anythung else.

If Steve Jobs says its the best, then it must be the best. That's how they think, why would he lie...

They are the idiots, as there are plenty of better and cheaper devices out there...

Microsoft merges Windows 8 with Xbox Live

In short

A way of sending adverts to idiots signed up to their pay to play subscription service.

How long before Microsoft try and lock all games on Windows PC to use their pay to play advert pipe?

Google crams arsenal with 1,000 IBM patents

the failure

is your understanding, as you can easily code different activities and layouts for different devices and is versions. I recently wrote an appointments thats a single APK supporting tablets and phones android 1.6 to honeycomb 3.2

World ostracizes firm that issued bogus Google credential

Opera

How Opera works:

http://my.opera.com/securitygroup/blog/2011/08/30/when-certificate-authorities-are-hacked-2

Whilst all browsers support revokation, only Opera does the full deal including dealing with blocked revokation responses. Opera also has an online repository of blacklisted root CA's which your browser will periodically check.

This is why Chrome and Firefox have issued emergency updates and Opera does not need to.

Tablet wars set for Apple vs Amazon head-to-head

Hang on...

Asus alone are shifting 1m Asus Transformers a month, 3m a quarter, plus there are all the Xooms and Galaxy Tabs.

Surely Android in total must be knocking at the door of iPad sales numbers? Sure it's not a single supplier that's doing it, but that will come next.

And as for this tripe about Amazon being able to make a GOOD and CHEAP Android tablet, it's not going to happen. A decent IPS panel with a capacitive touchscreen it over £100 component cost, so you are looking at £199 AT BEST for something that is of adequate quality.

The raft of cheap and nasty £150 Android 2.2 tablets should be enough of a indicator to everyone that it's not currently possible to make something good for less than £200 at retail.

Ten... budget Android tablets

Just Remember...

None of these tablets are proper Androd tablets, for that you have to pay proper money and be running the tablet version of Android (Honeycomb). These are all running a hacked smartphone OS, and this be what Apple fanboys (wrongly) think all Android tablets are like.

A proper Honeycomb Android tablet like the Asus Transformer, The Galaxy Tab, The Xoom, will totally spank all of these (and the iPad2)..

Google+ offers new 'Ignore' feature

OK then...

" just at the point when interest in the company's social network seemed to be on the wane."

The service hasn't even launched yet....

Ultra-cheap HP TouchPads to hit UK at 6pm

Of course they aren't genuine.

Conviently sold out at 6PM on the dot, the page then shows where you can buy an equally obsolete Advent Vega running Android 2.2 for £199...

Seems like a trick to pull in the idiots...

Windows Phone may be cheaper than Android - Inq boss

Microsoft's mouthpeice

Last year Microsoft told everyone to hate Sony. This year Microsoft have refocused on mobile and have simply told the media to cancel the last order and tell all your readers to hate Google.

That is really how fucked up the internet is, the men with the most money can tell sites like this what to tell everyone through the power of advertising budgets.

Anyone that can't work this out frankly is a utter moron. Nobody at El-Reg works for free, where do you think the money to pay the wages comes from.....

Sony: PlayStation Vita will win gamers back from tablets, phones

fixed it for ya.

the piracy scene for the PSP was massive

T-Mobile JavaScript comment stripper breaks websites

Errm,...

People aren't using Opera Mini?

Hundreds of Brit pubs to offer free WiFi

The biggest problem

Is that you spend so much time faffing around with webpages and registering with BZOpenZOne and trying to log in just to get that "free" wifi.

My Wetherspoons offers free Wifi, but in it's current guise, it's too much fucking around to get online, so I don't bother. I "suffer" with 3.5G..

Average sozzled Brit sinks 5,800 pints during life

Party on...

that is all./

Canonical ARMs Ubuntu for microserver wars

Canonicals lack of direction.

They seem to be making it up as they go along, as I clearly remember Canonical giving me the big FUCK YOU when they dropped ARM support for my Sheeveplug from Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic) ...

I have since moved to Debian anyway, who didn't leave me in the lurch with their knee-jerk decisions...

Nintendo aims to fill stockings with Wii slim

I wonder if the Xbox fanboys will go to town on this

for removing Gamecube compatibility, like the Xbox fanboys did about the PS3 losing PS2 compatibility and OtherOS...

Who wants to bet not...

iPhone users richer, brainier, more tasteful than Android-ers

No Suprises.

Everything about iPhone is image over everything else, and that survey just re-enforces that.

Android users don't follow the crowd, they are smart enough to explore better and cheaper alternatives.

Scottish gov moans over broadband cash handout

Devolutions a bitch

that is all.

Now fuck off and stop moaning. You wanted devolution, sort out your own fucking broadband...

Popular Android modder takes job with Samsung Mobile

Ok then....

"With Google's purchase of Motorola's mobile division for a whopping $12.5bn, competing manufacturers are scrambling to find ways to remain relevant. "

Says who? All these competing manufacturers seem very supportive of the Google takeover, and all their shares jumped significantly off the back of it.

This just seems to be following the Microsoft remit. Last year El-Reg were told to badmouth Sony, this year, Microsoft's new target is Google and Microsoft are instructing their media mouthpieces to badmouth anything Google related.

Mozilla strokes coders with Firefox 6

I can't believe

that El-Reg gives two dedicated full pages to what is efficiently Firefox 4.02..

I'm guessing this must surely be a advertising feature sponsored by Mozilla right?

Smartphones rain on Sony PS Vita parade

LOL

at all the idiot "experts" that can't tell the difference between a 99p iPhone game and a proper mobile console game...

Seems any moron can call themselves an analyst these days, and i'm betting there are "analysts" for hire that will say anything you want them to say, Microsoft and Apple seem to employ them by the dozen.

Injunction suspended: EU can buy Galaxy Tabs again

"better snap one up quickly before they disappear again."

Is anyone REALLY stupid enough to believe that this won't be permenently overturned, and Apple forced to pay Samsung a shitload of money, just like LG had to pay Sony a shitload of money last year over the 2 week PS3 ban over something that turned out to be a load of old chaff....

Has Google wasted $12bn on a dud patent poker-chip?

OK then..,.

You actually believe Microsoft's claim they invited Google to join the Nortel patent gang..

Do you know how dumb that sounds?

HARRY POTTER CHAINED to new Sony reader

Errm, PRS-650 is available in the UK

We have 2 of them in our household, and very good they are too. Blows the socks of anything Amazon have ever made...

Google gets UK OK on privacy in slurping probe

So when does Microsoft get audited?

As they are also driving around sniffing Wifi and tying them to locations....

http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_on_the_issues/archive/2011/07/01/microsoft-shares-source-code-for-wi-fi-data-collection-software.aspx

Personally out of all the Evil companies, Microsoft are the worst, and I suspect whey they show here are what they actually use are two very different things...