The Colour Purple

Oh damn! That isn't right is it?

What if you refuse?

My local NHS trust now has a very clear GoogleAnalytics cookie use message: you have to acccept it or you can't get in.

What if I refuse?

Has their cookie policy now outstripped the purpose of the website?

Top bill for wiki.

Seems like all searches now need to be <blah> -wiki

If I want info from wikipedia (or wikiverse), I'll go there.

I read A Princess of Mars on an iPod touch and found it entirely fun. Book and reading experience. At night with wife asleep beside me - no pesky sidelight on (or rubbish clip-on mini-lights). Most devices have their plus side. Even this article had the odd amusing sentence. Not many but a few.

Hybrid option?

Changing focal point a lot will rarely be that helpful as far-away things will be too small when selectively focussed (or alternatively, close things tool arge): scene size limits win out.

however, were the tech here in a hybrid with a normal camera, allowing a selected focus point in a selected scene to be tweaked after-the-fact, and/or depth-of-field adjusted, then it could be useful indeed.

Cop-out.

Judge says "the law not up to the job" or "applying the law is too expensive". Either way "the law" fails when it hides until the big boys pass some brown-envelopes about instead. Man up and do your job judge, or get the hell out.

It's great to see such worthwhile innovation comming out of this wee gem a of a charity.

No wonder nobody taxes them.

http://www.economist.com/node/6919139

Monica Lewinski: Straight from the Horse's Mouth.

'Nuff said.

Lord Sugar however is measured in .... other units.

Bar room lawyers assemble!

OK: so what if you sold it as a "scooter" rather than as a peddle bike?

Would that change the regulations / requirments at all?

What is it with the car stories?

While I normally dislike the multiple domains for El Reg (multiple logins et al.), can we get a regcarstuff.com domain that I can just block? It would help if the content therein never got anywhere near the front page. In fact, perhaps some form of seperate car website might be the thing: who'd have thought?

Lacking detail

Insufficient information to determine what was going on. Low vote for this story I'm afraid.

Sure they mean triboelectric noise but...

Does "100% Mylar" actually mean "not 100% Mylar"?

Get your niche sorted.

As always, its horses for courses: LCD for moving colour images, E-Ink for high res B/W. Except for that story to fly, E-Ink really needs to improve the contrast ratio (white please, not grey), then lower cost and faster page turning long before worrying about colour IMHO.

Choose your weapons

A slow hand-clap or just don't turn up.

About time the crowd learned to deal with its content discontent.

Siri c.f. the ASA

Both utterly useless in the UK.

Sex may sell but suggests you have nothing better to show.

Seriously: WTF?

It's like the "lovely ladies" that still parade about F1 tracks - a pathetic remnent of a mysogonistic past. Unless for this bunch of *wads, the past is still very much to the fore.

I ain't seen the beta yet, but as VS2010 is basically excellent, you'd need some seriously impressive improvements to get a whole software team, if not the entire office, to upgrade.

Will it be backwards compatible with 2010 projects? If not, then a stunning improvement would be needed else it would wreck the same issues we had with 2005/2008/2010 multiple installs, license management and all that jazz.

Where's the data?

"Corporate presence on Facebook is the be-all and end-all of corporate discoverability to a certain segment of the population. Even if you have your own webpage, they'll only ever find that page if it is linked to in some fashion through Facebook."

All very nice: but if you can't prove it, its just an unverified POV.

Line rental rant.

I hate the "oh and you need an otherwise unused landline at <unreasonable> per month which we didn't mention in the headline price" deals that they all do. We've all got mobiles: the landline is only used by spam callers these days - and for billing me for what I don't want.

To thanks to the wit who first said it:

An honest US politician is one that stays bought.

Cart before horse.

First: you need a board that care what happens to the company in 5 years time, rather than their personal career path.

Then you can worry about if they are competent enough to actually run the company.

Tin foil hat time

Once the spambots start using their G+ accounts to talk to each other, SkyNet is but a hop-skip-and-jump away!

easy iTunes experience

"...it's Apple's easy iTunes experience that has consumers buying iHardware in droves..."

Seriously? Maintaining an iTunes library is like pulling teath.

How far from me to me?

If you put in the postcode of one of there banks, the "closest bank" is still 1 mile away..!

Units!

Femtometers? Surely there must be some El-Reg unit of subatomic measurement better designed for commentard use? For example, A "MurdochToss" (the distance you can throw Rupert Murdoch and still trust him, otherwise known as the plank length).

Doomed, doomed, they're doomed!

They can't even compete with themselves: they had a DVD instore at £17 which they (and everyone else) was selling online at £12. Unless I really really need it NOW, that price differential is never going to fly. They have a truly suicidal business model.

Beatles humbug.

Anvil and Bill & Ted would be my "obvious omisions".

But what's a top list without a few obvious omissions?

PS: couldn't make a 'emissions' pun actually funny. Shame.

Small dish in a small pond.

Applocker isn't supported by Windows 7 Home or Professional, which I'd guess have more than 99% of installs between them I reckon. So what number of "Windows 7" users have the functionality available and the desire to use it?

Point of (geek) order!

Of course, the second one was completed on time: it was meant to look incomplete.

But yes, what he said anyway.

"... only appears in links to this page."

Fuck off.

That is all.

Hurry schmurry.

You do know that the system should be designed so you can't do that, right?

Glories? Eh?

Glories? Eh?

Expensive crisps and mags in train stations and wee shops beside bus stops?

Its a POV issue.

The laws are designed to have loopholes, as those that make them don't want to pay tax.

Your government is for them, not you.

Sony

Once a great company.

Now just a stream of problems.

Sad.