Posts by Jags

Can't they just round it off

I can understand the '806,400,000,000,000' part but not '.01'.

Can't they just round it off to '.00' LOL

Shweeet :)

KooL, but sentence should be one week per copy of pirated software sold, at the least. Still its kool.

AMD needs new leadership

AMD needs a new leader/CEO who can deliver the real products than just whinning...

Don't just keep releasing future plans & benchmarks, start selling 'silicon' as PC makers won't be able to build systems on just benchmarks they would need real silicon...

I wonder...

US media giants against US google(youtube)... O gee I wonder who all those pro-piracy, anti-copyright spinsters(applies only to those who are) will favor in this court battle ?

Usual 'hate-replies' are welcome :)

Knock knock...

[guess my comments posted earlier didn't go thru]

An EU official to another: we need Money...Alott & FREE, can you think of any thing

2nd Official: D'uh...US companies...Microsoft, Google, Intel...they all are evil & they all make tons of money

1st: How do they do that(make money)? do they have like thousands of employees & spend billions on R&D or something...

2nd: Do you want FREE money or not?

1st: Sorry, I was like started 'thinking' or something

2nd: Now you just listen, let's just slap Intel for few billions

1st: But what we'd tell the world about it?

2nd: D'uh...its pretty simple...we'd just say, Intel makes better & faster processors than AMD. And you know what most of the US & rest of the world will support & celebrate 'we slapping Microsoft, Google, Intel'...

1st: What if US government protest or something...

2nd: Dude, do you ever watch/read like TV/News! US government is sooo unpopular in the US, if they even dare to protest, all of the US will beg us up to slap Intel even more...

1st: Dude you are like a genius or something

2nd: I studied at Harvard & Yale but don't tell anyone.

I wonder...

French Court, French Laws, French Judge, French Web Site & French Film Producers...

O gee I wonder what all those 'Pro-Piracy & Anti-Copyright Spinsters' would blame this onto...

"Dorm room chit-chat does not make a contract."

"Dorm room chit-chat does not make a contract."

just enjoying this... :)

Really Nice :)

Really Nice :)

has El Reg became a newsletter for 'Heavey RF' ??

I'm neither a Rocket nor a RFID Scientist. But as a loyal reader(and a technology enthusiast) I was shocked to see an article on El Reg that completely failed to mention a single solid reason(beside price, which eventually gonna come down as acknowledged by Heavey RF) against the technology it criticizing.

So I went ahed & read the original 'rant' ( http://www.heaveyrf.com/news_and_events/rfidbomb.453.364.html ).

And What I found that, besides Mr.Ronan Clinton's( MD, Heavey RF) anti-Wal Mart vendetta, he mentioned only a single solid reason(no ‘one size fits all’, there are hundreds of different RFID tag types, short range, medium range, long range, LF, HF, UHF, 2.4GHz, 5GHz)

While, just with one 'google', I found this:

RFID Benefits:

1, Reduce warehouse and distribution labor costs

2, Reduce point-of-sale labor costs

3, Reduce inventory

4, Improve forecasting and planning

5, Reduce theft

6, Reduce out-of stock conditions

7, Improve customer experience( details for each point is here: http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/eac/expertAnswer/0,295208,sid63_gci1153220,00.html )

So my question to El Reg chief editor: has El Reg became a newsletter for Heavey RF ?

any patch/update trackers in here!

I'm NOT a patch/update tracker...does anyone know how many patches/updates have been issued to Vista/os x since Jan-'07?

Excerpts from Computerworld's email interview(found at http://www.macworld.com/news/2007/04/30/daizovi/index.php ) with Dino Dai Zovi, the New York-based security researcher:

Q: From your research on both platforms, is there a winner between Mac OS X 10.4 and Vista on security?

A:I have found the code quality, at least in terms of security, to be much better overall in Vista than Mac OS X 10.4. It is obvious from observing affected components in security patches that Microsoft’s Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) has resulted in fewer vulnerabilities in newly-written code.

anyone for prevailing market rate?

here's a simple solution:

truphone or whatever MUST accept prevailing market rate for interconnect( from everyone not just t-mobile ) OR they just close their shop & make room for genuine businesses...

Would be awsome!

Child porn or not, it would be great to see #1 facilitator of online piracy shut down. 'coz its damn easy to help distribute other's contents.

If piratebay really wanna be #1 entertainment provider in the world, they should produce their own movies, music, software etc at the expense of billions/trillions of euros & then distribute it for FREE... or even better they can give away a real, brand spanking new ferrari with each free download at their own expense if they wanna be real generous.

height of blindness...

"Look at things from the bright side, the bloke was lucky this happened in a free country."

China, a free country???

is this the height of blindness WITH eyes or deafness of a brain.

is that 'i' stands for inferior in 'i'phone!

in addition to the bugs mentioned in the article there are other shortcomings in i(nferior)phone:

1, NO 3G/High Speed Internet(YES, its available from the same at&t in major cities & i'm using since Nov-06, works fine between 700 to 1400 Kbps)

2, NO GPS

3, NO MMS(did apple design this in 16th century?)

4, NO A2DP(NO Support for Stereo Bluetooth & they call it best ipod ever?)

5, Just Crappy Bluetooth(only good for Headsets, Can NOT transfer pics etc between PC & phone)

6, NO Video Recording

7, NO Custom Ringtones(can NOT use your own MP3s as Ringtones)

8, NO freedom to install/run 3rd party apps(Like I watch some LIVE TV, CNN-IBN, thru TCPMP on at&t 8525 OR NO internet radio thru GS Player. There literally hundreds stations available for FREE, so u don't have to buy itunes)

9, Guess you can NOT watch Xvid/DivX videos either

10, Can NOT copy/edit text or documents(as per engadget)

So my question to all of you fine folks is...is that 'i' stands for inferior in iphone?

Great News for Humanity!

though these spammer are tiny dots in spam universe but at least its a start...a little great news for Humanity

Al Jazeera-ization of theRegister...

Up untill now I thought of theRegister as a trusted & reputed online journal & recommended to many. has theRegister became a platform for anti-US sentiments? (just like al jazeera) 'coz if not this article writer shouldn't be at theRegister.

"But, alas, he probably believes what he is saying, just like the rest of America's copyright ayatollahs.

What a topsy-turvy world we live in"

what is he trying to say by "America's copyright ayatollahs"???

he sounds like EU & rest of the world does not have & does not believe in copyright laws...

What if someone copycates theRegister site & figures out how to divert all traffic & all revenue of the site? is that ok with theRegister ???

is the article writer gonna pay some thousands of people working at Microsoft, Adobe, Oracle, Symantec, McAfee to name a few?

Pacifier for Hector Ruiz, Plz...

Someone need to give Hector Ruiz a pacifier PLEASE... So he stops whinnin n cryin...

Hector tries to misinterpretes Intel's innovations and R & D as a monopoly...

If Hector really cares about AMD he should step down...that would be a great & much needed favor to AMD

hi Ashlee Vance!

Its not just you Ashlee & its not just at apple u find ape PR

It sounds that ape PR is well spreaded outside ape PR...

And on a related note I've a Q for you (Ashlee/da reg)...there was a post about potential change in "theregister" domain name, .com or .co.uk

is it, by any chance, gonna be "theappleRegister"...OR its ALREADY that & I'm missing the silent "apple" part...

.Com

Anyone outside UK would agree that to be a truly global site it should be theregister.com

Shame on Orange!!!

30MB/Month...what a Ripoff...

I use 30MB in may be 15 minutes on my Cingular 8525(in Los Angeles)...

Guess EU needs a law or something to mandate that unlimited means UN-LIMITED. Period.

HTC Shift / Kaiser, anyone...

It sounds to me that Jeff Hawkins or whatever haven't heard of HTC Shift / Kaiser apparently...

And yea, I'm posting this on my Cingular 8525...

Possibilities R Unlimited...

Its nice to see a great innovative concept from Microsoft in a long time which have unlimited possibilities.

And is it just me ....that the people that can't come up with innovative / useful ideas (and make it happan into reality & beat Microsoft at Windows etc) just keep critisizing Microsoft ?