Posts by Archibald Trumpetbeetle

Interwebs taunt Sir Jony over Apple eye candy makeover

Re: People forget: Icons should be iconic!

You're circumnavigating the world .... wide web!

Apple cored: Samsung sells 10 million Galaxy S4 in a month

Re: @ Dazed and Confused

> Have a downvote, because "Their just phones FFS" bothers me too much

Unterminated quotes bother me too much!

'Untidy' Shoreditch just CONFUSES American techies - Olympic hub team

Also it's a numbers game.

The amount of startups created is huge in the US. And loads fail, but obviously some don't. But people aren't afraid to have a go.

Don't bake your Raspberry Pi - now you can WATER COOL it

I like mine with gravy

no text

BlackBerry bets fans are willing to upgrade skills

May I suggest 'TCFKARIM'

as the reg's new name for RIM.

Unlocked iPhone 5 on sale in US, cheaper than UK - but not cheap

Is the only difference between the models the storage amount?

Apple really charge $200 for 48Gb of flash? Even worse if you go for the 32Gb model: $100 for an extra 16Gb!

Oi, Apple, stick to phones, forget about TV - Time Warner CEO

Re: If you are not on the ball, you will Perish..

Coming up next on Apple: iSitcom! A bunch of hillllllarious 20 somethings sit around in their iApartment and discuss how great Apple products are.

NASA SECRET DISCOVERY ON MARS: Meteor offers possible clue

Re: Strengthen the case for boots on Mars

Well in time it won't just be boots on mars... i imagine there'll be a superdrug, and smiths, and a robert dyas

Automatic Facebook couple pages: Nauseating sign of desperation

Re: *chunder*

I was in a massacre once, then I took an arrow to the knee!

Apple stops Caring in Italy, probably all Europe soon

Re: So where does that leave someone who's paid £129 to them for a refurb?

You don't know what sour grapes are.

Twitter survives election after Ruby-to-Java move

Re: As a grown up, I say..

Yeah the language or platform doesn't matter - I can write C in any language

Facebook login-via-email-link option BLURTED user secrets

Re: No disrespect ...

Well not every news site can have their finger on the pulse quite like the BBC's expert technical journalists (Eg Rory Cellan-Jones)

Apple iPad Mini 8in tablet review

*slurp slurp*

oooh is that good apple

Debenhams cafes ban outré terms like 'espresso' and 'cappuccino'

Good for them.

A lot of people have no interest in playing the coffee-wanker game.

At work the other day, some chap came in for a meeting with us and we got some coffees from the refectory. It "proudly servers" Starbucks' coffee. After a while he noticed the starbucks logo on the cup and said "Ah it's Starbucks'. I thought it was good !". I had to stop myself laughing.

Now I don't claim to know anything about coffee, but to me Starbucks is the McDonald's of coffee. Mass-masket shit for plebians. No one serious about food goes to McDonald's. Does anyone serious about coffee go to Starbucks? Even the name sounds tacky. I feel dirty if I go in such a place.

Re: rantomatic

They wouldn't even know what an ounce is.

The new Mac mini eviscerated with ease

Re: Have to say it...

Refit --->

Amazon UK leaks Windows 8 retail box, TV ads

Who wants to come to my Windows 8 launch party?

It'll be fun.

Inside the real-world Double-O section of Her Majesty's Secret Service

Hmm I'm struggling to find a good angle to

start an Apple vs Android discussion.

Apple: Blue-shirts can fix iOS Maps in their spare time

Yeah it's no big deal

The towns are holding the ground wrong

Rapper rips up Microsoft's Atlanta store during performance

It was just his way of expressing his

dissatisfaction with the new metro interface, the office ribbon, and the death of clippy.

iPad mini to go on sale in one month?

Re: To stop us all posting the usual buy/no-buy/walled garden comments...

FILE_NOT_FOUND

Bloke jailed for being unable to use BlackBerry Messenger freed

Re: Hmm, should this have ever gone to court?

Maybe he was playing the numbers game with all the teenagers, and the texts to parents/family/male friends were his alibi

Tim Cook: 'So sorry for Apple's crap maps app - try Bing or Nokia'

Re: IE6

Yeah I can't wait for 3d mapping, it will be so useful to find locations when I'm flying in my hovercar.

This comment posted via royal mail!

Because my phone battery ran out.

Christian footie match ends in almighty brawl

Jesus saves!

But Pele heads in the rebound.

LONDON iPHONE 5 MADNESS: 'You must be CRAZY to buy Apple'

Benchmarked against best-in-class peers, your comment is a top quartile performer, and moving forward I will seek to leverage the upvote button.

Google offers tool to bridge Android and iOS app dev

I was thinking of writing a tool

for writing common non-UI code with a series of elegant C pre-processor macros. I'd write code in the macro language, and then I'd have a different set of macro definitions for each target language. It would have been AMAZING.

Ding dong, the Ping is dead! Apple brings in Facebook for iTunes

Re: Can anyone....

install rockbox on the ipod

The iPHONE 5 UNDERMINES western DEMOCRACY: 5 reasons why

And the $99 dev account, otherwise you're just stuck

with the emulator, unless you jailbreak the phone.

HTC's 4G patent beef could get iPhone 5 BANNED in US

Re: OK I'll feed the troll

May I recommend the documentary Status Anxiety. You'll love it.

Small clip here. Skip forward a minute or 2. These 2 Crass members are two of the sanest people I've ever heard.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fHNGVW9U3A

Hold the chips: Apple axes Samsung RAM order for iPhone 5

Re: Dentopedology of the keyboard...

What's that, the study of childrens' teeth?

Why I've got a sync'ing feeling about Amazon's new Kindle Fire

Brooker already used this pun i'm afraid

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/feb/28/charlie-brooker-pfroblem-with-macs

Apple confirms 'surprise' September 12 event

Fictional exchange which may occur

Pre iphone 5:

Droidman: Look at my big S3/Onex/etc ...ooh look at the big screen

Fanboi: Urgg it's too big, I don't need a phone that big

Post iphone 5 release (assuming it's going to be bigger):

Fanboi: Ooh wow the screen is so big, just what I needed !

Bruce Willis didn't Buy Hard: His girls can't inherit his iTunes

Re: Apple Schmapple

Get rockbox

British boffin builds cool maser after argument with wife

Re: Applications?

A new generation of microwave ovens. 0 to Tasty in 0.01 seconds.

O2 dropped the ball in Olympic cycle race Twitter fiasco

Surely they have the concept of a priority device,

that gets preferential treatment by base stations, that these GPS devices could have used?

NHS trust spunks £67m on e-patient records, Twitter, Facebook

Re: Social media?

Also a Facebook plugin to allow you to share the fact that you now have chlamydia with certain other users.

Apple faces Italian shutdown over warranty skulduggery

Re: You would

Top pedantry

Finally a use for quantum computers: Finding LOL-cats faster

Some joke about doing something fast

but not knowing where it is

Insider cuts into Apple, peels off Intel Mac OS X port secrets

Re: OS X & x86!

> you can enjoy the best of both

The stability of Windows with the value-of-money of Apple hardware. Sign me up!

Rogue kebab provokes Carlisle post-pub car deathmatch

Shish!

Don't retrieve your doner

You might become a goner

Watchdog relieves iPhone 5 scammers of £10k

Why the hell doesn't the SMS protocol

support some ability for the user to accept or reject a premium-rate SMS when each arrives at the phone, with a warning on the cost.

Hands on with the Apple iPad 3

> It stops reading e-books being the strain on the eyes viewing iBooks on the iPad and iPad 2 was.

This sentence troubled me greatly. I think the "It stops the reading of ebooks being..." or even "It stops e-book reading being..." would be better.

Third of Blighty stuck on snail-speed broadband

Ha, I get 2mb in Tooting/Earlsfield, SW london

That's all O2 said they can do, because I think it's Wimbledon exchange our line is one, but that must be a good mile and a half away at least.

Two thirds of Brits crippled by mobile phone loss terror

I rarely post on the reg

out of fear of chronic Votedownaphobia