Posts by Yugguy

Protesters stop ground breaking on world's largest telescope

Re: Once again...

"just leave me out of it."

You brought the subject up, son.

Vulture takes BlackBerry's Passport through customs

Re: I don't get this problem.

Fair enough. I don't feel the need to look at my smartphone constantly so I don't need to use it one-handed.

Using a phone one-handed

I don't get this problem. The only time I use it one-handed is when I am making a call.

The one-handed thing seems to be done by smartphone zombies, whom I despise anyway.

Antarctic ice at all time high: We have more to learn, says boffin

What this means is

We still know VERY LITTLE about how both cosmic and human factors affect the earth.

Women! Worried you won't get that Job in IT? Mention how hot you are

Re: Why is there such a push to get women into IT?

Given that the average IT nerd looks like the backend of a bus, why would you NOT want more girls?

I get this all the time

I'm told I can't work in IT as I'm too well-dressed.

It's a cross I have to bear.

No tiles, no NAP – next Windows for data centre looks promising

Re: The tools to do our job

Aye powershell, just enough like vbscript to make you think you can easily recode your scripts. Just different enough so that you can't.

I've learnt it, but I had to treat it as a new language.

The tools to do our job

That's all we need - simple, effective tools.

No window-dressing (see what I did there), no distractions, just the tools.

LTE's backers vow to KILL OFF WI-FI and BLUETOOTH

I used to work in this industry

The sites themselves are owned seperately. The comms over these sites are owned seperately. The government contracts in these services for the blue light network. The service owners also contract out the services to the yellow light companies.

The only time change can or would be made is at government contract renewal time.

This is some years off.

I doubt any company has the will or wherefore to build a competing set of ground sites across the entire UK. The current emergency services network is 99% UK GROUND coverage - NOT just 99% population.

Fiat 500S: So pleasingly sporty we didn't want to give it back

Re: ...one doubt is about stop and start

"I am fortunate enough not to have to drive very often"

Then your opinion on this subject is about as useful as fart in a wind-tunnel.

Start-Stop

The most pointlessly overrated piece of 'tech' ever. Saves NOTHING in the real world and is a just a complete ballache. Wife has it on her Yaris. You can't disable it permanently so you have to do it every time you first start the car.

I like the 500 though.

Apart from the 500L which is just a giant turd.

Doctor Who becomes an illogical, unscientific, silly soap opera in Kill The Moon

Suspending disbelief

Suspending disbelief only works if the film/series/book is consistent within itself.

I LIKE Peter Capaldi

I like his crusty illogic. Makes a nice change from Doctor Who being played by children.

I do wish Christopher Eccleston had done more though.

Will we ever can the spam monster?

Who the hell????

Keeps clicking on these things???

Just stop.

You havent won a prize in a lottery you never entered.

There can't be a problem with a ticket for a journey you booked.

YOU COLOSSAL IDIOTS.

Google wants to KILL apps with the 'Physical Web'

This is just blanket advertising

This is the equivalent of J.Jonah.Jameson's flying, blaring billboards shouting abuse at Spiderman.

I would do the same as I do to all the ads I have to skip on Youtube, add the company to my list of companies I would NEVER buy from.

Microsoft's nightmare DEEPENS: Windows 8 market share falling fast

So, Windows 8 FANBOIS

When are you going to finally accept the fact that Windows 8 is rubbish and noone wants it?

Desktop, schmesktop: Microsoft reveals next WINDOWS SERVER

Windows Update?

So will Windows updates via SCCM still be a complete unintuitive ballache as now?

WSUS was/is so much nicer.

Take THAT, hated food! It's OVER, tedious chewing! Soylent strikes back with version 1.1

Why?

Just why?

The only market I can see for this is where you don't have a choice. Expeditions as it is presumably space and weight efficient. Third-world perhaps for the same reason.

How is this different from a product such as slimfast apart from it has more calories?

Facebook: Ha! Like we'd stop researchers messing with your mind

Lemmings

Just don't use Facebook. The end.

Apple blacklists tech journo following explicit BENDY iPhone vid

Re: Apple, there's really no need for you to get all bent out of shape over this.

Somebody threw their PR department a curve ball.

This bendy meme

Is funny.

The end.

Cable guy, Games of Thrones chap team up to make Reg 'best sci-fi film never made' reject

Just film Moorcock's Elric books.

JFDI.

NOW!!!

Renault Twingo: Small, sporty(ish), safe ... and it's a BACK-ENDER

Too right

"They are called Road Traffic Accidents but there is usually nothing accidental about it,"

I have said this for years - most "accidents" are not accidents, they are the result of someone, or several someones, driving like a bellend.

Renaultsport

Renaultsport versions have always been superb to drive so it will be interesting to see what they make of this.

'In... 15 feet... you will be HIT BY A TRAIN' Google patents the SPLAT-NAV

Sweet LORD I've seen it all now.

How about you just bloody LOOK AROUND INSTEAD OF STARING GORMLESSLY AT FACEBOOK WHILE YOU MEANDER ACROSS THE ENTIRE PAVEMENT.

Or better still, just get run over and let's start cleansing the gene pool./

Vodafone to stock BlackBerry Passport – on sale tomorrow

Indeed

I'd have one if it was in the 3 hundreds.

In fact I'll have one because it DOESN'T have integrated Facebook or Twitter. Because it CAN'T take my pulse or blood pressure or walking speed. Etc.

Business is back, baby! Hasta la VISTA, Win 8... Oh, yeah, Windows 9

"Get used to it"

That's what you all tell us. Utter rubbish of course.

I have got used to Windows 8. Hovering the mouse around the 0.000000000000000000mm square area to activate the search bar. Windows-R, type in the name of the app, or at least the name I think it might be called.

I can work my way around quite well now. Yes, I have got used to it.

In the same way that I would eventually get used to it if all the car manufacturers suddenly decided to build cars with all the pedals in a different order.

Which, like Windows 8, would be the most pointlessly annoying, unnecessary change.

Touchscreen doesnt work in an office

Unless you want your entire workforce off with back trouble.

Can you say 6 months off sick?

TEEN RAMPAGE: Kids in iPhone 6 'Will it bend' YouTube 'prank'

They do you know.

It's all true.

Scrapping the Human Rights Act: What about privacy and freedom of expression?

Re: At first they came for the Paedophiles

That's a bizarre list of people to link by any stretch of the imagination.

Consumers agree to give up first-born child for free Wi-Fi – survey

People are STUPID

This is news?

iPAD-FONDLING fanboi sparks SECURITY ALERT at Sydney airport

Re: i hate this man

I didn't think you were allowed on the Internet unless you HATE vast swathes of people.

i hate this man

And every other mindless shuffling smartphone zombie.

That glass of water you just drank? It was OLDER than the SUN

You've got it wrong.

Ale > lager > water.

Microsoft on the Threshold of a new name for Windows next week

is it

Windows Sorry?

Good grief! Have you seen BlackBerry's square smartphone?

Re: Fugly as all hell

You're annoyed. Lol. OH NO!!! Someone on the Internet disagrees with you.

You must immediately spend the next 6 months finding any and all posts from these people and downvoting them.

Well I WANT ONE

It has a proper tactile keyboard and it runs Android apps. It has decent battery power and gets a decent signal.

Ticks every one of my boxes.

Google hits back at 'Dear Rupert' over search dominance claims

Re: A Difference

What Android phone are you using, as I check my Samsung S3 regularly. Went through a spate of disabling apps a while back as I worked out what I really didn't need but I don't see anything new on there for a long time now. You DO have to revert to factory version and then disable but it can be done.

Unless the new apps are hidden?

Apple 'Genius': iPhone 6? We've had NO COMPLAINTS about our BENDY iThing

Anyone with half a brain

Wouldnt stick ANYTHING valuable in their arse pocket where it can be a) nicked and b) broken quite easily.

Are you a fat boy? Get to university now, you penniless slacker

Re: If fat, get tough!

That's not the fault of exercise, but your genetics.

I'm 44, I have lifted heavy for many years, did thai-boxing for many years, still run 3 times a week.

I don't have any joint problems, because luckily there is no arthritis in my family. I do take fish oil and glucosamine, but it's the genetics that are the thing.

Cancer and heart disease there's loads of, so it aint all roses.

Re: Unfortunately it starts early

You've hit the nail on the head though, the fact that the parents often have neither the knowledge, wit, nor inclination to feed their kids properly.

4chan outraged by Emma Watson nudie photo leak SCAM

All I'm getting from this is

That there aren't any naked pictures.

Ab phab: Apple is Britain's coolest brand YET AGAIN

Re: Me, me, me, me, me....... and me

This could be the best comment I have heard in a long time.

How much could I NOT give a flying whatsit

About wether anyone else thinks I am cool?

Fashion is for people who can't work out what they like and need someone else to tell them.

It lasts for about a millisecond until the next fashion arrives.

When it's time to change my phone if I feel an Apple phone meets my needs I'll get one. Or a Huwei, or a Samsung, or a Sony.

And I won't give a second's thought to what some pointless scrotes think about my choice.

Apple iPhone 6: Looking good, slim. AW... your battery died

Re: How much?

I had the excess dross disabled on my Samsung S3 in about 10 minutes. I have never had any of the problems you document.

Are you hard of thinking?

Man, its smartphones are SQUARE. But will BlackBerry make a comeback with them?

Me maybe

I do miss the tactile response of an actual keyboard. I can type far faster and more accurately on the old blackberry than I can on a touchpad smartphone.

Exercise-tracking app not QUITE fit for purpose

How about?

Forgetting all about apps and poncy clothing and all that utter, pointless dross and just pull on a pair of running shoes and run for a while. Then run back again.

Make the while longer until you run of time.

THE END.

It doesn't need to be any more complicated than that.

Reg bloke zips through an iPHONE 6 queue from ZERO to 60 SECONDS

Re: Hah

To be fair it's a good point.

There's a bloke across the way from us spends 4 hours on a Sunday washing his car.

Each to his own.

Seriously can anyone explain to me why?

Why queue to be the first to get anything?

You're the first for about 2 milliseconds. And then everyone else has theirs.

Wait a little while and

a) you can buy it at your leisure

b) you'll probably save some money.

Although I think I might buy a few Iphone 7s when they come out just so I can flog them on to some retards on fleabay.

iPhone 6: The final straw for Android makers eaten alive by the data parasite?

You CAN stop google

I've disabled all the excess bloatware off my Samsung S3. All the pointless little Samsung and Google daemons, even shit like voice recog that I'm just not interested in.

Google Play won't let me update to the latest Android version because of all this but as I haven't found anything that I can't do because of this I couldn't give a toss.

I could update by rooting but I can't be arsed frankly