Posts by Anonymously Deflowered

Looks good but..

I have been researching these things recently because I want a media PC for the lounge. This looks very good but I think I'll be getting an Asrock Ion 330 BD http://www.asrock.com/nettop/overview.asp?Model=ION%20330-BD - same price as this EEE but with a Blu Ray drive. It has no OS which is a minus point because I would probably want Win7 but I'd give it a go with Ubunto before deciding on Win7 (I have Win7 on the other computers in my house).

Re: Wind noise

That's what the aforementioned ferrets in the photographs are for.

Understatement

"a planet called Nibiru or Planet X will collide with Earth during the 2012 holiday season, wreaking havoc and devastation on an unparalleled scale"

I think a planet "colliding" with Earth would do more than set the scene for the heroic actions of a lone American to save the human race...

Oh dear

I placed an order on play.com late last night before I'd heard about this problem. I thought it was odd that I didn't receive an email acknowledging my order and to think that it might've been sent to somebody else is a worry.

I have some suggestions for him

1. Visit a young offenders institution and ask the same question

2. Then a primary school

3. Profit!

Makes me gag just thinking about it

I wouldn't put my face anywhere near the seat of a festival toilet let alone *through* it. Crazy girl!

Wheely-chair critics

I love how many armchair critics there are on El Reg, ready to chip in with their superior knowledge and hindsight.

Good luck to the buyer

if Skype doesn't match the seller's description

Fair enough

I will opt out of this but for the majority of home users this is a good way of making the internet more accessible.

Automatically providing search results might help with phishing though, if people then click on a link they believe to be the site they intended to go to.

Download, install, update...

...bloat, update, bloat, update, .... ignore

Pile of shit software. I want something lightweight, that loads quickly, displays the contents of a PDF and lets me zoom in/out and print. I've given up updating my software because the updates are so frequent and time consuming, and I'm sure I'm not alone in choosing to leave my software unpatched like this.

If they removed the bloat, surely they'd also reduce the number of vulnerabilities?

And anyway, why does software that displays the contents of a document even HAVE "vulnerabilities"?

Hmmm

I've been using DD-WRT for a couple of months and I've been really impressed but I was thinking of trying another firmware because my virgin media 10Mb connection rarely delivers over 2Mb when I go through my router. This news and discussion will motivate me to install Tomato as soon as I get home from work tonight!

Cuffed

The use of the word "cuffed" seems to cause problems with people thinking it means "lightly punched" instead of "handcuffed".

Bravo

Frank Drebin: Nice Beaver!

Jane Spencer: Thanks I just had it stuffed.

Computing power

Interesting. How much computing power does 65MW of electricity buy?

Please supply with your application:

- Your personal diaries

- Your address book

- 12 months of phone bills, itemised

- Any letters you have received from family, friends and lovers in the last three years

- Receipts for everything you have purchased in the last three years

- Your house keys

- Your alarm code

Imagine the uproar!

Agree with the above comments

Every SE Walkman review I've read on the Reg has moaned at the lack of a 3.5mm socket so I was astonished to see a complaint when one finally arrived.

And I'm not sure how the complaint at the way the panoramic picture makes the road look bent is fair. I can't figure out in my mind how else it *could* look with subject matter that close to the lens? Why not test the panoramic stitching on a PANORAMIC VIEW?

A Twitter user

is a "Twit", surely

argh

It never fails to astonish me how many luddites read The Register.

@Michael

Good points, well made.

"When I were a lad...

...computers had moving parts in them. Imagine that! Hahahaha

My first computer needed a desk to put it on and you had to plug it into a wall socket.

And when your grandma wanted to watch a movie she had to put a disc in a special device. No, really! we used to have to use magnetic tapes before that..."

Looks like the end of disk storage is nigh then. Whaddya reckon? 5 years? 10?

And what's the longevity/reliability of SSD like?

Relativity?

Isn't that degree of accuracy over that timespan rendered fairly pointless due to clock drift caused by relativistic effects?

/waiting to have my wikipedia level physics flamed by someone who knows what he's talking about

Now why didn't I think of that

Such a simple and elegant solution to a problem that I hadn't even realised existed until now. I hope the patent doesn't prevent the idea being used by other companies because much as I'd like to, I can't bring myself to love Apple.

@jeremy

Bravo, well said. I'm all for progress but I don't remember ever being alone and so desperate for something to occupy myself that TV on my phone would have been desirable.

The man in the photo

Must be from the future. Look at his shiny silver jacket!

RE: Insurance?

...and if you crash whilst landing should you claim on your air or motor insurance policy?

Action Adventure dominates

That's hardly a surprise even if you put aside the fact that most of the early BD adopters are male PS3 owners. Not many genres are worth the extra cost of high definition, I mean who wants to pay £10 extra per film to watch rom-com or black and white classics in high def when standard DVD will do the job just as well.

@Paul Young

Click on Settings in the top right corner of your gmail screen, then find the Labs tab with your eyes.

Why is Mike still not satisfied?

Sounds perfectly reasonable to me - if the image was taken from a page other than flickr so copyright couldn't be investigated. It was a human error after all, so accept the humble apology and £75 and drop it. It gives Mike a nice little anecdote to share at dinner parties and no harm done.

Wrong email address, perhaps?

What if the reason he got no response was because he emailed info@kasperky.com ?

Dubious

Methinks some people are exaggerating the truth in order to make this claim.

I don't see how this is the fault of the operating system, there is no way it's taking that long all the time unless the employer has installed Vista on completely inadequate hardware or installed other software that slows things down. Perhaps they have roaming profiles and all the employees have filled up their profiles with gigabytes of photos of cats or porn.