Hardly Apple's fault
Perhaps 4G* compatible would be a better description? After all, it's not Apple's fault that wireless providers lack the infrastructure to provide that service.
*Not that we know what this is.
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90 posts • joined Thursday 18th June 2009 17:16 GMT
Re: Easy does it!
"variations in ... temperatures of 0.5 of a degree can cause ... terrible draught"
Damn right, I had to hand back my warm pint of terrible draught last night for a replacement.
Pedantry
Pedantry is what separates us from the animals...
DC grow some balls
This offence is a CIVIL offence in the UK (assuming linking is even that!).
How can we justify extraditing a UK citizen for doing something in the UK that isn't a criminal offence? Should the Netherlands extradite marijuana users since that's illegal in the US?
We don't need no steenkin' DNS
194.71.107.15
So, they want Google to find out what users actually use 3rd part apps for and then decide whether to list those apps on their app store?
Ignoring the ass-backwards nature of this requirement, have we not already had way too much of Google and the like snooping on our online behaviour?
PS. Writing those numbers at the top of this would be enough to get the whole of El Reg shut down under SOPA.
It's mine
Taxpayer (that's me) funded research should be freely available to all UK citizens. UK companies should pay a fee, foreign corporations (Google!) should pay a much higher fee.
Posted in AMD claims 'world's fastest GPU' title
Intel AMD
The only reason AMD didn't romp off into the distance for a couple of years while Intel pursued NetBurst is that Intel illegally forced Dell etc. to use their chips and not use AMDs.
The CPU market would be in much better shape now had AMD actually built up a decent cash pile to invest in R&D to compete with Intel's Core architecture.
Is piracy the real problem?
Why is piracy any worse than a second hand record sale? The original owner may, or may not, have taken a backup/rip and then sold the disk on, when the person comes to buy the original neither the record industry nor the artist get any royalties and that person can then repeat the process.
The industry should have come up with some form of iTunes integrated service long before Apple and the movie industry must get it's house in order before broadband speed enable simple streaming/downloading of HD 3D films.
Oil is not the only constraint
Fresh water will be next. Competition between uses (consumption, industry and agriculture) will lead to real problems until someone works out a way to use the cheap oil to effectively desalinate enough to meet all needs.
This all smacks of technologism (like scientism but with technology) in that we'll bury our heads in the sand over any possible current problems because we'll develop a technology that will cure our ills. We might, but to think we'll do it in time to avoid any pain is optimistic.
Copyright and patents
Screwing consumers and innovators, again...
Blessing
Hope they're not using Holy Water or there may be a miraculously empty salt cave when the rock is rolled back.
Don't believe everything you read
Uncertainty is as effective as randomness.
When playing poker the next card to come can be:
1. Known because the deck has been stacked
2. Known because the card is marked
3. Known to external people through a camera
4. Unknown only to the players due to some combination of above
5. Unknown to everyone due to decent shuffling
The card is what it is, it is not in some quantum state, but the fact that it is unknown to the players allows them to play as if it was random and bet accordingly. With 1-4 above there is no quantum state for sure but the lack of knowledge of the players makes it as good as random for them. No faith required.
When I were a kid
I always wanted P155OFF
Now I am more grown up I think I want TA12DIS
Brits with American accents
Andrew Lincoln
Idris Elba
Christian Bale
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Clive Owen
Lennie James
Ban the LHC...
...It's going against orthodox science. Burn the heretics.
I'm no fan of the police, but...
They are there to stop/catch people doing harm to people or property, ya know, crimes. NOT to stop some eejit posting offensive messages on your glorified bulletin board.
Velocity, not speed
If the train is travelling west then it is going against the spin of the earth and so travelling slower than it would be 'at rest' (on the surface) and is therefore lighter.
Enhanced Brain Function
I want a maths co-processor.
Then a graphics card.
Wireless connectivity.
Extra memory.
Compass.
Google Maps, Wikipedia, a grammar checker, a separate program to make my body do exercise while I'm sleeping...
And the survey says...
The reason you get these stupid results is because those of us clever enough to know that a service can't be too cheap are the ones who tell survey takers in the street or on the phone to fuck right off and stop wasting our time. It is only the gormless arseholes who do the survey and this is the result you'd expect from them.
CygWin
Download CygWin, then type: rename DCIM Birthday2010 DCIM*
Prior Art?
Is there nothing you can't patent in America?
I want to patent the aerodynamics of flight. Boeing and GulfStream owe me a fortune.
To paraphrase
We're gonna need a bigger Kindle.
Naked short is not the same as a future
A naked short affects the actual market, i.e. it fills an order, whereas a future merely affects market sentiment for the underlying security.
There is no need for naked short selling, there is always a party willing to lend you a share to do a normal short, for a fee.
Fundamental issue
For simplification, Company A has sold 1,000 shares (i.e. if you own 1,000 shares you own A.)
To short sell I have to find someone with a share, borrow it, sell it, wait, buy it back, return it and get charged interest for the inconvenience to whomever I borrow it from. There is only ever 1,000 shares in existence.
With naked shorting I simply affirm that I have, or will soon have 1,000 shares of Company A. I can sell 1,000 of these shares. This means the market thinks there are 2,000 shares in Company A, halving the value of each one.
If I, clever financial person that I am, use the money from the sale of shares I don't own to buy Put Options on Company A, and write Calls for extra cash, I make enormous amounts of profit when the market realises there is a surplus of supply of the stock of Company A compared to the demand.
Should anything happen that risks Company A going up in value then I am massively exposed so it is in my interest to ensure Company A's share price is absolutely hammered. If that involves driving it out of business then all the better.
NB. This, like 1984, is not a How To manual.
It's none of their f**king business
When the EU start getting involved in M&A outside their borders it's time to rein them in.
Sure, the mergers will lead to decreased competition within the EU but if that's the problem then incentivise production within the EU. If people within the EU wish to buy goods from outside the EU then it is none of the EU bureaucrat's business the size of the supplier or the number or extra-EU competitors there are.
It's a global business and if any company is making super-normal profits it will encourage others to enter the market. The truth is it is not a hugely profitable market and if the acquisitions are not allowed to go through the (largest) loss makers may simply exit the market anyway.
Bad Camp?
This one time, at Bad Camp...
Where's the flute icon?
Get a grip
Music != picture of Mohammed.
Posted in O2 to fling out free Wi-Fi for all
Mobile number, MAC address?
Time to go PAYG methinks...
Authoritarian Kleptocracies decaying
I wonder what the half-life of an Authoritarian Kleptocracy is?
Crime
Am I the only one who thinks harm, or likely risk thereof, is required before anything can be considered a crime?
This legislation was brought in on the understanding it was to keep us safe from terrorists. NOT so that we can catch fly tippers, parents lying about where they live to get kids into schools or file encrypters.
All power we cede to the government will, eventually, be misused against us. Limit their power, tell your MP you want a written Constitution (and a Bill of Rights).
OR....
Claim to be a Catholic priest and say the data is from electronic confessions you have been taking and thus is protected...
And if you are a Catholic priest then we already know what's in those encrypted files, don't we?
Revolution
Except they had a 5th Amendment.
We have nothing. There is no right we have that cannot be taken away by the government, with the exceptions of those we have signed up for in Europe. But we ignore those too, and simply accept the fine.
I want a Bill Of Rights. And a Constitution limiting what government can do.
Posted in Schmidt: 'Google doesn't do data mining'
No Data Mining
Google are merely great data dowsers.
But
Won't somebody think of the children...
Or the children with a camera and a web connection!
Streaming 70 year old naked ping pong tournaments.
And so it begins
Right from the start people were worried about the power of search providers (and internet gatekeepers) and this is exactly the kind of moral nannying/censorship that we were afraid of.
Posted in BBC adopts El Reg units
Agreed
Three Eiffel Towers stacked on top of one another are only slightly taller than one Eiffel Tower.
They were designed to be nested.
Apparently.
Uncertainty
Or we don't know how fast it's going (or which direction).
Paris - she knows where it is and how fast it's going.
Posted in Northern Ireland gets upgraded spycams
Just Sainsbury's
I thought all garage forecourts recorded number plates lest you drive off without paying.
Which is absolutely fine, as long as they only record their forecourt and not the public road.
Posted in Extreme porn law on the ropes
Not a big deal?
Sex, like air, is only not that big of a deal when you have enough of it.
Posted in Extreme porn law on the ropes
The Missing Link
Every adult ever convicted of a sexual assault had porn.
There you go, that proves it. 100%.
What do you mean everyone has porn? What's that got to do with anything? We're the government and don't need to know about statistics, evidence or proof.
Gotcha
Maybe the trick is to then ask the question he just answered:
Int: "What's the impact on jobs going to be?"
PR: "We are committed to providing excellent care for our patients"
Int: "What level of care are you committed to providing patients?"
PR: "We will be laying off 600 staff, mainly from IT and backend systems."
PR: "Damn."
"Do we now live in a society where you are assumed to be a threat?"
Have you read the papers here, or seen the laws we are trying to pass?
All adults are (potential) paedophiles and all men are (potential) rapists.
Other than that I agree with everything you wrote....
Posted in UK.gov smiles and nods at commentards
The people have spoken
You had your say in May, now shut up and prepare to be governed.
Evidence?
Why would we need evidence when this is about protecting children? Al you need to do is mention children (or drugs) and evidence takes a back seat to knee jerk reactions.
Tell you what though, now that this has been publicised I bet a lot of pedos will go and buy them rather than use their own credit cards. Talk about an own goal.
They both should
Not as a matter of course, but simply because they are available to do things (shop/watch films etc.) when the rest of us are at work. This keeps demand (more) constant and should rightly receive a discount to keep them out when the 9-6 people go to the shops/cinemas/restaurants.
Missing the point
I believe the point was we should not have a minimum age for drinking, it should be up to the parents and the landlord to set age limits. Probably.
And in the real world...
Artists present record companies with demo's, or an amateur effort, and the record company decides it will make more money from a polished product and so hires a studio, proper sound engineers and all the other people that make an album sound good.
Opinion
David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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