Posts by TeeCee

Re: @Johnathan1

I doubt it is a coincidence that Private Eye ran a cartoon depicting an angry mob outside a peadiatrician's premises at the height of the peado witch-hunts, about three weeks before that story went public.

Re: What happened to their ARM alliance?

You are correct. It's common knowledge that AMD are working on a 64-bit ARM chip and I reckon that using their APU expertise to produce a SoC based on that is a given.

While the use in mobile devices is obvious, I reckon the heavy grease for that is in low-powered servers. Maybe with the capability of GPU compute use of the integrated graphics cores?

As I've observed before the big plus for them in this area is that, if 64-bit ARM proves to be a winner in that market, it's something that Intel can't respond to very quickly. It'd be something of a novelty for them to have a winning product line that doesn't get steamrollered by Chipzilla in short order.

Yes, the last thing they want is that investigation to include is a study to establish what the cost price of these things really is, which is something of a prerequisite for establishing whether someone's price is likely to be cost plus (ok) or not (dumping).

Note how striking the (sim-free) price drop of a smartphone is between its launch and what you can pick it up for some months later. Presumably they're not actually flogging the things at a honking loss once the "must have now" shine has dulled on them.

Re: This is a new one for us.

We make it fairly easy to find your posts http://forums.theregister.co.uk/user/4800/

Login, load that page, run down it clicking.

You might want to keep that quiet. I just had someone run through my "recents" awarding a down to each. I did puzzle over what dictated the selection, but then I realised that it was the first one on any article still on the main page or "recent stories".

So some poor prune made a point of going through every current comment section over the weekend and adding a down to each of mine they found. I'll take feedback from axe-grinding arsehats if they have to work at it, but let's not make things too easy for them.

Still trying to figure out which it was that had given the hump to someone petty-minded enough to do that.

Re: I'm not the least bit concerned

I think the problem is finding people happy to sit at the back end, not in the pointy bit at the front.

Re: Parachute cord and springs?

Sorry, but reading that I was suddenly ten years old again.

You just managed to evoke that feeling of tension as the little metal ball rolled down the rickety staircase in "Mouse Trap Game" and I would hold my breath as it hit the hand-onna-spring thingy. Exhaling was only possible after that had fired, the big ball had dropped through the bath onto the seesaw and the diver had correctly been catapulted into the pool.

Re: Re "famous Neil Gaiman"

"...less to elicit information than to emphasise the obscurity of X."

Which, as it adds yet another reference to X to the world's search engines, has exactly the opposite effect.

Re: Dear 'The Register'

So you'll have to come up with a different term for Google.

Minions of the Evil Empire?

Re: A fart in a hurricane

I thought the best illustration of the problem I've seen was as follows:

If Europe were to remove every single fossil-fuelled vehicle from its roads overnight, it would take Chinese growth somewhere around two weeks to make up the difference in CO2 emissions.

So yes. Everything we're doing in Europe has all the impact of a wet fart in a hurricane.

My view is we'd be far better off spending the cash on infrastructure to mitigate the effects of a warmer climate in the future than we are pissing it up the wall in a grandiose "King Cnut" exercise, ensuring we'll be truly fucked when it bites.

Re: problem here

"...something that has no bug you have described."

Er, actually I've never seen that "bug" in several years' gmail IMAP use with, er, Outlook (XP, 2003 and 2010 over time). Thus I suspect it's not a bug, but a config ballsup somewhere.

Re: By perceived value only

Shares don't bounce all over the place,

Apart from when some bunch of arsehats take the global economy outside and shoot it in the head of course.

Re: Video conferencing?

<Insane giggling>

+1 Internets to you Mr/Mrs/Miss/Ms Coward.

Re: Who voted these buffoons in?

That might help, depending on how the EU have pidgeonholed UKIP.

As far as I can make out, the only thing that causes the hand-wringing, bien pensant lefties of the EU to get their knickers in a knot is when there's a rise in votes for the extreme right.

I'm not sure that UKIP is considered quite rabidly fascist enough to get them to take notice and thus not worth a protest vote.

Re: Sounds a bit expensive

Let me fix that:

"$1500 was the pre-pre-release figure for the especially eager usersad git."

Re: Are rat kidneys tasty?

I'd have thought that the fact that they're full of rat piss would be a shade offputting.

Re: The current big office turd ..

So you took an article about the rise of robotics and a dog crapping on the floor and managed to get an unwarranted rant about Windows out of it?

You are Eadon and ICMFP!

Re: Yes indeed

Always been my problem with that one.

Any mode of transport that relies on setting off thermonuclear warheads under its arse and relying on the bit between you and them to keep all the nastiness on the other side of it has a fundamental problem.

Finding someone daft enough to sit in it.

Re: Monday morning

You need an intelligent WTF meter that can recalibrate automatically when the article is about Google.

Re: Hmmmmm this reminds of sci-fi horror flicks

I found a paper about a scientist during the French Revolution who agreed with a man about to be guillotined that he would speak to him after the execution....

Last time the whole "what happens when your head's chopped off" thing came up, I had a snoop around and came up with this.

I suspect it's the second example you're thinking of (which is well documented elsewhere, so I didn't bother going into detail) and possibly mixing the two on the dates.

Re: So Obviously

If that had been aimed at homosexual Australians, he'd have said "ram" not "sheep".

Re: Where's the value?

While it is true that they are fiat currencies and have no intrinsic value, they are tied to something tangible.

That "promise to pay" is backed by the assets and reputation of the country (or countries) that owns the currency, vested in the reserves of the appropriate Central Bank.

How much precious metal, hard currency, etc does the Bitcoin Exchange hold to underpin its promises? What's its GDP?

Re: Is There Proof Of Nork Nuke At All ?

(the Tsar Bomba for example, had more in common with a building than a warhead)

I'd be interested to hear how you airdrop a building from a Tupolev 95V.....