* Posts by Charles Calthrop

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Google it: Ask.com gives up ghost on search market

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re and they were right

really, does Firefox run on iphones then?

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sad news

Having Search Engines wither because of the position of google diminishes the web. Whether its relevance and retrieval was up to googles or nots, reduced competition and increased market share for google are two things we could well do without.

Northern Lights was always my favouirte

Call of Duty: Black Ops

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funny ha ha

loved the captions to the pictures in the review, very funny.

Ms. Gates: 'Bill does not use a Mac'

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Gates Halo

I bet they have done much more good than any negative poster on here

I really respect them for all the good they are trying to do with their foundation. To me, this is much more worthy than whether they like macs or not. Cue a load of comments like 'they are only giving away money they stole from their evil monopoly'

Can Windows Phone 7 help Microsoft come from behind?

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one big difference between a iphone and win7: the registration process

I want a win 7 phone from orange which I believe they are carrying. How do I find one on their website? Open orange and get some news page, browse to phones and brings up a blackberry. Search by HTC and it brings up the android desire. (got an android phone at the moment, don't like it)

OK, so, click on coming soon phones and it tries to sell me a cheap alcatel. Then I see an advert at the top of the screen for win 7 but its for the mozart. So now I have to find out what the difference between an mozart and the other ones I believe it will be carrying (of which I can find no details)

When the iphone came out there was a massive picture of 1 iphone on the homepage of the website and it said 'click here to register' - so so so much easier

Hefty physicist: Global warming is 'pseudoscientific fraud'

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re no facts

Considering his position I would bet my mortgage he has got facts to back up his arguments whether they are correct or not is the trillion dollar question

CIA used 'illegal, inaccurate code to target kill drones'

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skip

the most amazing part of the story is that pointy finger guy's photo

Reasons to be cheerful

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I really like these articles

I think these articles are great. Just to echo the previous points though, surely the contingency plan should have kicked in after you'd been up for, say, 24 hours straight?

My backround is not in this area at all, so forgive what also might be a stupid question, and apologies if you've already covered this; but why all this bother in the first place? Is it to get a better ROI, or because of end of support periods or for better functionality.

Anyway, as I said, I really like the tone and coverage of these posts; thank you very much.

Sussex police try new tactic to relieve snappers of pics

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re there's a difference?

Having lived on a council estate in inner city manchester for 10 years I can tell you that yes, yes there is a difference. One are a group of drug dealing, murdering, alcholic, braying, anti social, anti education, nilhistinc bunch of theievy pikey scum, the other are a bunch of helpful, curteous and caring people. Alright, there is a gripe here with the police, but to dismiss all policemen as criminals is almost as morinic as my heroin dealing next door neighbour. Almost.

I sincerely hope you come to realise the idiocy of your statement in your own time, without having it focibly altered by circumstance.

Brits unleash world's hottest chilli pepper

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as withnail would say:

BALLS! I'll swallow it and have a mile of runs

Jackal novelist blames NSA for wife's laptop hack

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His Name is Charles Harold Calthrop

Fantastic, fantastic first novel, (and a great film though absolutely RIDDLED with errors ) since then though it's been a steady decline though. Sounds like he's on the up if he's coming out with barmy rubbish like that. There's nothing like reading a po faced novel where "Genius computer hackers" double for Deus Ex Machina.

Report questions millions spent on NHS.crap

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wcag

suerly you could incite the mystical wcag aconym here. My experience is that managers never know what is in them so you can use it to get your own way whenever you want. Here, though,it sounds like a case where you had to have used it, legally.

All gov jobs to go online

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assuming you're responding to me

I didn't really say that. Although I do believe a free press with a wide range of political ideals is imperative, and I bet this is a pretty widely held belief.

I suppose you could argue it had a duty to thus support all newspapers to the same extent that it has supported the murdoch rags.

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and at a stroke the government kills off the advertising for the leading non right wing paper

Great move by the tories they can claim to be saving costs and at the same time driving a nail through the heart of the guardian's ad budget, so it will only be the independent and mirror against them versus the sun, the mail, the express, the times, the telegraph and daily star. How soon before the guardian goes online only and apes the time's charging model

Why we love to hate Microsoft

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however much I love visual studio

I just cannot forget all that IE 6 put me through

US $250m superbomber 'almost as good' as $8m robot

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surgical?

Surgical is the wrong term for a bomb. I don't want to start a debate about peace and love, I am talking about the meaning of words in the English Language

Computer grads can't even get jobs offering personal services

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its alright the tories are going to bring back manufacturing

Maybe media studies people are working at mcdonalds - the article doesn't seem to say despite the fact it uses them for a comparison in the headline

Budget to cost over a million jobs: Official

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gravy train

I've worked in the private sector 5 years and the public ten. While there are well paid managers in the public sector now, in terms of pay for normal people, work volume, stress, uncertainty over employment, spending restrictions and so on, the public sector is worse. The idea that we all just sit around quaffing freebies from the state is lamentably wrong.

Yes, lets just get rid of all the quangos, and let parents run and regulate their own schools and advise on educational policies, IT and let their employers determine their own equality and health and safety legislation. Lets let drug companies regulate their own drugs and advise on developmental aid.

People think that quango == waste with no real knowledge of what they do. It's capita, network rail and mckinsley we'd be better off being shot of.

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bad bad bad

all that will happen is that state provision will surely get worse and logica and capita might get bigger. I love the idea that everyone in the public sector is on a gravy train!

some gravy. Some train!

Google seeks interwebs speed boost with TCP tweak

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I know some lonely houses by the road

How many websites are they like that any more? I can't remember the last time I've seen one. Sure, this was an annoyance, not a problem, an annoyance 7 years or so ago but should I ever happen on one again I think I'd be tempted to take a look at it, for old times sake.

Also, people commentating here that websites are fast enough are probably members of the digital rich with fast internet connections and modern computers. You should consider your blessings rather than say speed improvements are not required.

Twitter on a ZX Spectrum

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what a lovely article

ronseal

Britain's bank slashes tech jobs

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ceci est

Amusing when IT jobs in the public sector go (for instance BECTA) the comments are all gloating and yet when jobs in the private sector go it is all woe is me. I feel sorry for everyone!

Lenovo ThinkPad X100e

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agree with Nigel

what's the point of this? Surely for most people it is too poor a spec for a first machine, too expensive for a second / third? I thought these things were defined by price? Id either want to pay up to 200 and not be that bothered about performance cos, hey, it's cheap. When you start going up to 500, I'd have thought most people would rather just pay an extra couple of hundred and get something decent.

Obviously I am wrong here otherwise they wouldn't be selling them but it amazes me. Maybe they're all bought by large businesses which are more relaxed about cost.

Banking industry worker faces cosh over anonymous rant

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wot

So someone posted something negative as a comment on a blog. Fine. What happened next. Did the Uni / blog editor post the details of the poster, or was he asked to do so and complied?

TBH both of these seem a bit twatish things to do as far as I can see, but the first in particular looks particularly malicious.

Brits take iTablet moniker for 12in iPad rival

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IE 6

Surely to fuck that isn't IE 6 on the screen?

Come on Britain, we really can do better than that!

Apple's iPad - the tablet with the data center soul

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search

I think that Apple will use this new data centre to power an online version of spotlight. I think when you search a mac in the next year or so, you'll be searching your mac and apple's data centre all at the same time

Oz man coughs to DD-jub job advert outrage

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He got on the turps one night

fair play to the boss there. Wish there were more people like that in the Old Country

Opera and Firefox downloads soar after IE alerts

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And here come the browser beaters

For some reason I love stories like this, if only to get a sort of sad pleasure from reading posts from people who believe they are superior humans because they use a different brand of browser.

I am sure the germans have a word for this

IE6 exposed as Google China malware unpicked

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FAIL

@Johnothan Richards

"If you're writing a browser, validate its performance against standard HTML. If it doesn't render standard HTML, fix it. If it doesn't render non-standard HTML, who gives a damn?"

Users, for one. If you built a browser and it only parsed valid html, can you tell me what you would do when people said that by using it they couldn't see anything that used youtube's <embed src code? to think of one example.

Would you just tell them airily that they should only view pages that validate properly?

Good luck with that then

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@Johnathan Richards1

"If you're writing a browser, validate its performance against standard HTML. If it doesn't render standard HTML, fix it. If it doesn't render non-standard HTML, who gives a damn?"

Users, for one. If you built a browser and it only parsed valid html, can you tell me what you would do when people said that by using it they couldn't see anything that used youtube's <embed src code? to think of one example.

Would you just tell them airily that they should only view pages that validate properly?

Good luck with that then

Escaped con who taunted cops on Facebook finally collared

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cunt

It is a sick society which cheers on the juvenile ramblings of a man who thinks a meaningful way to pass his existence is to go around breaking into places armed with weapons.

I am only surprised the offers of regular columns in lads mags and tv appearances have not materialised yet.

Aiptek MobileCinema D10

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showing snowboarding DVDs on the wall during a pre-ski-holiday party

so it's come to this, you lilly livered bunch of pansies.

Ten grand - the cost of iPhone-induced sobriety

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a partner without the benefits?

you're a newly wed then?

Google demos image rec 'quantum computer'

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you lost me at

"They're stored in a quantum system, such as, say, the magnetic spin of an atomic nucleus. An "up" spin might indicate a 1, a "down" spin a 0."

But can the fucker drink 8 pints of bitter like I just have

Dell offloads Polish factory to Taiwanese manufacturer

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Yours is here (in Taiwan)

I've been to Limerick and I've been to Poland. I don't blame them.

Microsoft's Silverlight 4 - Flash developers need not apply

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roll on html5

Microsoft has done a lot of good stuff but I will never forgive them for ie6 so the sooner they fuck off of the web, the better as far as i am concerned.

Linux kernel cured of remote panic-attack bug

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wait

...linux can pick up wifi?

Taliban attack Brit troops with explosive donkey

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neigh joke

They should enrage naomi campbell and send her in with a stack of telephones. See how the taliban like phone based explosions.

what's the difference between a donkey and a clothes horse

one's a pack horse which expoldes after its bush is set on fire...the other's a donkey BOOM BOOM

'World's largest' BitTorrent tracker Mininova kneecapped

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le deluge

Here we go again, thieves masquerading as freedom fighters

UK jails schizophrenic for refusal to decrypt files

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hmm

I was going to make an amusingly sarcastic comment about the article, then I realised that it had scared me quite a lot.

Good to see a man with principles defend them, I suppose. On the other hand, traces of explosive is a bit odd.

Uneasy all around on this one.

Taiwanese sex scammer's net double is NYC model

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best looking reg reader

I thought most of us were pot bellied dungeon and dragon loving dwarfs. I can't believe he reads el reg.

If there was a hotornot reg group, the internet would explode.

LHC starts beaming Saturday: Collisions Dec 3

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Playmobile?

I thought this was going to be a Reg reconstruction. :-(

BTW someone should tell Cern (home of the web ad-fucking nausea) that their webpages are busted

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Flhc-commissioning.web.cern.ch%2Flhc-commissioning%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0&user-agent=W3C_Validator%2F1.654

Microsoft feeds Excel to supercomputer

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old diehards on here

"Now they need a super computer and a billion lines of code to do what a couple of thousand valves could do in 1958!"

Yeah, how about saving my powerpoint as a movie, or creating a mailshot in word, or a billion applications in excel. Kilburn et al had great fun crowded around atlas 2 watching youtube clips, didn't they?

Can we not move on from the facts that:

a) Microsoft Office does a lot of things well

and

b) it does not require a 50 year regression in information technology to solve the things which it cannot do.

How long till some old fart replies and says powerpoints a load of new fangled nonsense as well.

The 'Just build a database people' on here are the type of people who, when asked for directions would retort in a nasally voice 'well I wouldn't start from here' and then go home and tell their wife what a wit they are while she thinks of her fitness instructor.

HTC Tattoo

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re screen res

yes, skype for instance isn't in the market when I search for it

I like the phone although the battery life is atrocious.

Dell details 'world's thinnest' laptop

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Want Want Want NEED

that looks cool as. I wonder if the BBC news will give as much coverage to it as they did when the Macbook Air was launched as the world's thinnest computer and all of a sudden how thin something was was a measure of how good it was.

Proles told to get online to save economy

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a classic article

This is why I love the reg, where a tide of cynicism washes waves of bitterness over tin pot IT people basking in their own glory.

iPhone app grabs your mobile number

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as opposed to anyone else who isn't ageing?

Pull the plug on Pandas, declares BBC man

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Panda's are good fun though.

Hang on, I'm thinking of that chap with the dolphin.

BBC newsreader kidnapped by Phillip Garrido

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To Wize

Pardon?

FSF launches Windows 7 anti-upgrade letter campaign

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@Adrian Williamson

""the Devs in the department work with the philosophy that "I just worked several hundred hours designing, coding and testing this application, why the hell should I just give it away?""

Sigh."

I'm really not trying to bait anyone, but what is wrong with wanting to make money out of your work?

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