Posts by Mark Broadhurst

Apple rattles legal sabre at Canadian tech school

Grey scale

http://watch.ctv.ca/news/latest/apple-vs-apple/#clip99805

for those who think the logos looks similar in grey scale it appears in the video and looks even more different.

Judge Dredd smartshell shotguns to hit Iraq in '09

$50 a bullet I'll bet

If not more its one of those techs which sounds great they will train troops to use and then never deploy them because of cost.

Oxbridge lectures now on iTunes

When I first read the title

I thought that Oxbridge was giving lectures about iTunes.

Something along the lines of

"iTunes was a service offered by apple but got dragged down by its own DRM, but was popular in the early 00's"

Mono delivers Foundation-free open .NET alternative

Very slow news day

News like this normally doenst make it to the reg.

Apple surrenders the Pink (to Microsoft)

Apple owns the word Pink?

No I didn't think so.

Otherwise it wouldn't be used by a high street shirt company.

EA in Spore DRM climbdown

Any yet they do it again ?

So they say sorry about the DRM but then bung it on Crysis Warhead and are still planning on putting it on Command and Conquer Red Alert 3.

if it is trying to learn from its mistakes and make ammends why make exactly the same mistake again and again ?

Suprise ?

"EA tells the Los Angeles Times the customer fallout took the company by surprise."

and yet they took a hit about using the same DRM in mass effect, and they didn't see the back lash coming?

IE8 beta 2 locks down some XP lovers

Obscure problem found in beta?

Its a beta why are people suprised theres a couple of bugs in it.

seriously though if your the type of early adoptor who in insterested in beta's then your going to keep your system patched up.

Internet Explorer - now with 35% less FAIL

Not so slow

I've had no probelems with speed, the only thing which is slightly slugish is the new address bar features.

At 12 Mb its hardly bloaty.

The suggested sites seems a bit naff and compatibilty mode seems to get disabled on all of the MS websites how ever.

Why do we still have Bill icons he stepped down a while ago.

Samsung unwraps MacBook Air beater

So its almost as light and thin

but the specs are about 2x as good.

Sounds like a better choice.

Apple slapped for dodgy ads

Bit like the millions of colours screens

Apples union with the truth and the law has never been a good one and only when it suits them.

Why doesn't the iPhone support flash ? because apple doesn't want it to.

Houston, we have a virus

for the mactards

they would use Mac OS but unfortuntaly you cant install it on propratory hardward like the space station.

Dell cloud computing™ denied

Dell Fog Computing

or Dell Mist Computing

Comming soon...

Road Pricing 2.0 is two years away

Responses.

@ AC - The least worst option...

The problem with that is that the proposal also brings in the idea that going on bigger roads cost more where as you would use the same (or less) fuel for going on them.

@ Stu Reeves

The reason cycling isn't taking off is because you can't tax it, no fuel, no road wear (virtually), the ideal solution would be to have a propper public transport system, while they don't make waves just look at Toronto, works wonderfully well.

iPhone 3G isn't necessarily

@ WTF

Fanboi a little ?

I think its another good example of it works fine in america the rest of the world can sort it out.

If your SSD sucks, blame Vista, says SSD vendor

He may as well have said "our vista drivers are borked"

Its not ms's responsibility to make drivers for hardware its the hardware manufacturers, just about every other hardware company out there know this.

Even if the likes of NVidia causes 26% of the crashes on vista with theirs...

and yet the benchmarks are on MacOSX ?

Vista is to blame for bad bench marks on OSX ?

I really don't think its anything to do with MS.

US PS3 sales surge

I'd have expected it to be higher

A console selling game comes out and the sales don't double ?

That's not that great.

Sony pulls PlayStation 3 software update

Such a shame.

The 360 vs PS3 arguments would have been pretty much level after this patch.

PS why do we still have Bill Pics?

Firefox 3 makes up world record to set world record

Non-existant record.

Its not really news if they are beating the previous value of nothing.

i'm going to set the record for the most number of hairs pulled from my fore arm. No one has done it in volume so its an instant record.

Built-in browser expiry proposed to fight botnet menace

How will you get people which dont update to update?

Sounds like a catch 22 to me?

Lets also face the unpleasant prospect that even if browsers did expire and you have to update. people would complain that they are being forced on to the new version when they don't think its ready yet.

Xbox 360 pricing downed Down Under

@ Mark

Once you have finished having feelings for your PS3, can now afford a propper console with online team play for a decent price.

Boffins invent 42GB DVD

Hey why not try this with HDDVD?

Or some other already dead tech ?

Still the big problem with blueray is the access time.

I can see this having similar issues.

So combining the two would be slow as hell.

Dell conjures magic SD card for virtualizing blade server I/O

Access time?

I might be missing the point here but I didnt think that an SD card had a great access time. Granted its a "special" one but come on?

Google's Gmail verboten in Germany

I know what I think of when I hear Gmail

but then again I'm a brit so maybe its bigger brand over there.

Execpt that non of my german colleuges have heard of the other G-mail either.

Sure he got their first but Gmail is a global name in my humble opionon.

The war on photographers - you're all al Qaeda suspects now

Cant Picture this.

http://current.com/items/88856223_you_can_t_picture_this

http://www.boingboing.net/2008/04/22/middlesbrough-cops-g.html

No news here this has been going on for ages.

Funnily enough after the 7\7 bombings the police appealed for footage of the bombings in order to help them find the bombers.

Dutch boffins clone Oyster card

24 Hours

If thats in tube minutes then about 3 months.

GTA IV website prompts outrage

Really

You go to the web site and it says it has been shut down and clicking on the link. makes the police come after you.

How is that in any way bad.

Grand Theft Auto IV Xbox extras delayed

Little difference

Mid-Autumn* to early winter isn't bad better done right than quickly.

Something EA and Ubisoft should take note of.

*that's fall for our American readers.

Times hack has an attack of the Web 0.2s

Well the blog is down...

Shame...

Is Vista ready for Business?

@Neil Hoskins

I wouldn't recommend it at Nintendo then!

Apart from that who else has a Wii at work ?

Phones 4u accused of misleading customers

Phones for F*ing you over.

While they do have some good deals they suck once they have you signed up.

After sales doesn't not exist the phone number you call to talk about your contract can cost you 35p\pm depending on what you signed up for.

It took them 3 months to transfer my phone from one network to another on one of their "hassle free" upgrades during which time I was paying two bills, in the end I did the transfer my self.

'Major' Flash Player beta released

Hey lets jump on the Java and .NET band wagon

The stock holders say that Java and .NET seem quite popular can we be a bit more like them ?

Microsoft orders 65nm Xbox 360 graphics chip

So this will fix the overheating problem that the last one fixed?

Maybe the next version will fix it again.

I wonder how long it will take for them to fix the XBLA so you can change consoles without getting shafted for half a dozen Arcade games again.

Grand Theft Auto 4 maker sues Chicago transport chiefs

Why?

I really don't understand why Chicago Transport would do it ? its going to cause trouble and its not like its not being advertised else where.

Should a kept the $300K and just run the ad's as agreed.

Creative settles MP3 player capacity clash

Any other industry...

would have got rid of the ambiguity on what something is that is as fundamental as a k

still if you want to decimalise bytes doesn't that mean there should be 10 bits in a byte ?

GTA IV PS3 fights off resolution woes in the UK

Chris Procter

you will find that a lot of game which are 720p scale up, but dont look as good as true 1080p games.

Maybe its coze of disk access huge city means that they will need to have a lot of data duplicated.

Web 2.0 bloat trebles web's waistline

or 500K+ if your el-reg

not that I'd consider it a Web 2.0 site.

Men could have kids with chimpanzees - gov must act

chimpanzees in scotland ?

Does anyone else think that Scotland is the last place someone is going to **** a chimp. or are the locals in to the rough stuff a bit more than most ?

Apple punts 'Penryn' iMacs

Any news on the screens?

does the 20" include "millions of colours" or just thousands.

VXers slap copyright notices on malware

So..

if you are a Malware writer and your software makes a few trips around the net and wrecks havok on hundreds of machine people can sue the copyright holder right?

France's €4.9bn rogue trader gets IT job

Like IT needs another cowboy consultant.

He wont last a week.

Girl-only fish species survives by cloning

Sex with strangers that keeps the species alive

I'm doing bit for the species.

Office 2007 fails OXML test

@Ash

I'd rather sell my products than someone else's and thats how I stay in business, if I want to spend a few days learning a new word processor then I'll take a look but if I'm working then I'd rather make money.

Besides Office 07 was out before this standard was and since schema change in order to become standards it didn't stand a chance maybe the next version (which will be backwards compaible) or maybe a patch.

'Virtual strip search' arrives at JFK and LAX

TSA claims a 79 per cent acceptance rate

Or in real terms 21 percent were given a choice and 79 percent either didnt want to avoid a fuss or didnt fancy having a cavity search or eating bullets

Anti-paedophile police treble arrest figures

Lots of arrests how many convictions

300 arrests and 18 convictions that's 0.06 % Success.

and how many lives were ruined for being arrested as a paedophile loosing their jobs, homes dis-owned by family etc. and then later released with out charge.

I'm all for getting Offenders off the streets but I'm more for identifying them better.

Apple gets (slightly) less sneaky with Windows Safari play

The only browser with out phishing protection

I wouldnt mind so much if it wasnt that its the browser witht the biggest holes in it.

its worse than IE and that takes some doing.

I even got my girlfreind off Safari and on to Firefox and she is on a mac.

Ballmer bitch slaps Vista

MS have always said Vista was Bigger

its designed for the next gen of computers as past OS's have.

People get crap performance when they update their OS but not the hardware.

just look at the minimum RAM requirements of the OS's over the years.

Blockbuster gets legal poke for Facebook Tupperware campaign

Beacon Tech

Its just not easy enough to opt-out or turn off.

Its not Blockbusters fault its facebook.

and yet they aren't getting sued.

New York lawmakers approve 'Amazon Tax'

No Taxation without representation!

what ever happened to you guys ?