Suck it up

..just drop the 'X' from XHTML. There you go, all better.

glitches in switzerland

its verrrry slow to upload messages here in sunny Geneva

It has to happen

please. If only for the pomposity of the organization.

http://xkcd.com/834/

Adult entertainment

The pr0n industry will no doubt find a use; high-end (fnarr fnarr) touch enabled sex toys?

Niche?

Does no other geek see a niche market in the making here? A rack TV system, like a VXI crate only prettier: room for hot pluggable hard disk, a controller (windows/mac/linux/OS 9?), a satellite receiver (or several), a digital receiver (or several), a multichannel dolby sound unit... all with the same data bus and power supply on the back plane...

Apple TV still missing the point?

If you could connect something like the Elgato to it and actually receive free-to-air digital television, I'd buy it. But then I guess Apple wouldn't be making money, so *that's* not going to happen.

Nude starlets recreate big bang

Pleease.

The bottom line

'There's bares in them thar woods'

Nice brick, mate

I know apple is all about the flashy smooth design, but at this rate you have to wonder how soon it will be before they bring out a lovely chrome covered snug-in-your palm lump of metal which does absolutely nothing and which we will all be queuing to buy.

ex fanboi

Yes, nice piece. But lets face it, despite the brilliant hardware and the luscious interface, the Jobsian lock-down on developers and users is really starting to make him look like more the evil step-father than the hip uncle, and the products acquire that taint I now associate with chinese hairbands (http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/hairband.asp). When is apple going to realise it's reached the fork in the road, and for it's own good it is going to have to open up these devices?

HTML5? Why bother

Yet more ill-formed mixed content/meaning/presentation cruft ? It's difficult to get excited about the prospect. Proper adoption of XHTML, with semantic additions, possibly with good implementations of Xpointer etc would be a step forward. Time to grow up, web.

shouty shouty

SQL IS NOT TOO_BAD.

{

for $realHeadache in doc("querying")

let $us_try :=XQuery

return

<ouch/>

}

cretinous moonshine

"The amount of power that people can produce using their bodies will never be significant compared to the demands of modern civilisation, and cannot possibly be worth the costs of collecting it."

reminded me of Ernest Rutherford's famous assessment:

“Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine”.

Perhaps France Telecom should install kinetic-energy recuperators around its taller offices to transform all their jumpers into electricity:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/12/15/ft_staff/

Random art

I see a whole new genre of random performance art being born. Reg readers should rally to the cause...

Only fraud?

People have died as a result of this fakery; surely he will be charged with multiple accounts of manslaughter?

Normalization

The suicide rate at France Telecom is not out of the ordinary for France as a whole; it employs roughly 100 000 people in France, and the suicide rate per 100 000 for people of working age is approx 21.5; much worse for men, at ~31.7 (year 2006 figures).

It's difficult to compare figures to the UK directly,but taking all age groups, France had 25.5 (men) and 9 (women) /100 000 in 2006 while the UK had 17 (men) and 5 (women)

So the question is not what is special about France Telecom, but what is particularly depressing about France?

@Beer, and @SeanM

Buy him a beer? We should give him a job!

SeanM: I'd be interested to know what the requirements are for this...I feel a google coming on..

@Apple

Double plus ungood, Apple

@Mac Phreak

Very specific, yep, hence the geek icon...but it stopped a project dead in its tracks at the time...and I'm surprised it was never finally addressed, given the fairly dramatic appearance of the fault.

@RichyS, @Anonymous Coward

Details and screen shots here:

http://shaunroe.blogspot.com/

ok, if it shouldn't resize, then it shouldn't...but neither should it corrupt the display like that

Safari: Still corrupt

well, it may pass acid3 but not all is well; try this:

http://sroe.web.cern.ch/sroe/test/test.xml

and resizing the page to get corrupt screen display. I've reported this for over a year...

More obscurely, integer arithmetic in Safari's XSLT engine still isn't up to firefox's; try this in safari and firefox:

http://sroe.web.cern.ch/sroe/test/hextest.xml

(geeks only)

'Chinese bend over backwards to attract ageing British Rocker'

'nuff said.

Good Story

'Never let the truth get in the way of a good story'. That's a sexy interface on the Mojave site, and the reactions are well presented (edited?), enough for M$ to produce its own reality distortion field, maybe there's even enough hype-r drive in there to produce a parallel universe in which Vista is truly a great product. Don't stand too close.

A bit weak

Yes I see its a parody. Its just not that good.

Brave try, though, and I hope you do better next time.

How low can you get?

Cockroaches?

Let's face it, we've all done it. Who can honestly say they've never slept with a mite?