* Posts by Rob

1524 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Apr 2007

Possibly the world's most pointless review

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Should have...

... reviewed the model sitting on the chair, she looks a lot more interesting :)

UK Skylon spaceplane set for engine test in '3-4 years'

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Ditto...

..."We here on the Reg spaceplane desk at least will be hoping that the world does see a successful SABRE test within a few years." Would love to see these guys succeed would give a massive boost to the space industries.

Zuckerberg: I'm 'quite sure' I own Facebook

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Reminds me...

... of the character in the Italian Job (the newer film that has no relation to the old one) where the computer hacker guy keeps claiming someone in college stole his work for Napster.

Did Zuckerberg creep into someone's student halls and steal a disc while they were asleep?

Airline ejects passenger for being hungry

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Hmmmm...

...all-day-breakfast....brb, cafe down the road....

Sky in talks to sell Easynet, claim insiders

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If that we're the case...

... we wouldn't have to worry about the RoTM anymore as Talk-Talk are so bloody useless Skynet would never get a decent bit of bandwidth to spread itself round the world (all the terminators would probably outsource themselves to India as well).

The Register comment guidelines 2010

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Better use of those 20 words...

... would have been to descibe what 'orrible nasty pain we can inflict on him instead, just as entertaining :)

Xmas kicks off on 2 August

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Bah...

... pissing humbug, people like selfridges are part of the reason xmas is such a flippin pain in the arse for some of us, I don't want to hear about it until November at least (see I went for a compromise and said November, personally I'd like the retail religious festival of crap banned).

Daily Mail promotes 'the new Betamax'

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Agree

Minidisc is still a quality device for getting voxpops.

Abu Hamza ruling clarifies McKinnon case

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Probably since...

... she's been fighting this battle which has lasted a few years now. When something like this consumes your life you'll have nothing better to do than to read up on the rules of the game that your playing.

If it was my son, I could probably imagine I'd be going for my bar exam right now (the law type, not the alcohol type, done that one already).

Blizzard exposes real names on WoW forums

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Too many people using this argument

"Be sad in peace, and don't have cow-orkers giggling at you." I can't believe how many people seem so insecure that they are in a virtual meltdown because someone might find out they play WoW in their own time, I don't give a monkeys who at work knows I play WoW, granted I won't go around shouting about it but I won't deny it either. If an employer finds out what you post in a forum, what are they going to do about, it bears no resemblence to your performance at work (well it shouldn't, if it does that your hangup), they can't sack you a tribunal will see them roast for that.

Time people gre some balls and learnt how to be a bit more confident in life.

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Seriously...

"Personally I hope that players do leave WoW in their droves: I have the feeling it may have had it's day." Sounds like a bit of EVE fanbois-ism, have you seen the subscriber figures for this game, last time I looked it was at about 11m and that didn't include the China servers. Blizzard makes millions a month of this game and they are now rolling out new content through expansions on an 18month basis, if anything they have the MMORPG formula sewn-up from a mass market perspective.

Facebook has had similiar problems but people keep subscribing and Facebook keeps tweaking, this is all a storm in a tea cup (mostly by a bunch of teenagers no doubt that think they have a right to slag people off from behind a fake persona).

P.S. and yes my name is Rob

BT and TalkTalk threaten court to kill Mandybill

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Seeing as it's Mandleson...

.... could we swap cucumber shape for cactus (with really narley spikes) for our added pleasure.

Fanbois love sex toys: Official

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I'll have it...

... never one to see a good cake/bun product go to waste.

Stick it in the pocket on my way out, cheers.

Women would rather be on Facebook than on the toilet

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Interpretation

I read that as drunk slappers

New 3D displays use falling water drops as 'voxels'

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Correct me if I'm wrong...

... but didn't some guy in Germany about 5yrs or more invent a water mist system that didn't exactly the same thing? I think he had even developed it as far as being interactive with 'hot zones' to touch and change the display. In fact I'm pretty sure I read it on the Reg as well.

El Reg how good is your archive, does it go back that far?

Microsoft patches Freetard-by-design bug

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I'm gonna give you a...

... a Fail cause your expecting WMP to find codecs itself, that's the one thing it is crap at. Bypass all that and just install a codec pack with every common codec known to man and WMP will quite happily play anything you want reliably (well it has done in my experience).

London hospital hosted grumble flick shoot

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I'm guessing...

.... NB stands for 'No Brain'

P.S. Welcome to the Bootnotes section of El Reg

3D TV: Avatar or Ishtar?

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Wrong comparison

"The vast majority of porn studios sided with HD-DVD due to cheaper production costs." That's a format war, I'd say the HD to 3D route is a tech level/upgrade issue. Either way the porn industry wouldn't care which format was finally settled on, they were just interested in getting better quality video of plumbers servicing bored housewifes whose names could have been cindy or debbie, which required a bigger disc than a DVD.

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You could be right...

... but lets attach a time frame to that statement of about 10-15 years.

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Industry has lost it's marbles

I just don't get how the industry sees 3D as being even remotely profitable, the amount they must of spent on R&D over the years coupled with manufacturing costs vs units sold, now throw into the mix the uptake of HD. Surely HD should be a warning sign of the overall customer apathy about this sort of TV tech, it still hasn't reached market saturation in terms of how many people have HD TV's let alone how many people have taken up a HD subscription with say someone like Sky.

I think the industry is overstating the consumer 'want' for this technology. If they want people to buy into it en-masse they should perhaps employ Apple's marketing dept they are great at selling mediocre tech at ridiculous prices.

Vital PARIS supplies jet in from US

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Clarification

"...otherwise all hell will break loose with farting and popping all round." Just to be clear you are talking about the construction of the plane and not the El Reg team the night after a curry.

*I'm in shorts and a t-shirt why the hell would I need a jacket*

'The internet's completely over', declares petulant Prince

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Shame...

... he made some classic tunes in his early days and now he's just another religious celebrity nutjob.

Apple denies iPhone 4 antenna glitch, blames inaccurate signal bars

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In short.... yes....

.... it's plainly obvious your eyes require a software update, have a word with your manufacturer.

Computer grads can't even get jobs offering personal services

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Your a credit to yourself....

... now go and teach the lazy scum who think that once they graduate they should be offered a job on a platter.

Microsoft's past - the future to Android's iPhone victory

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Saturation and choice....

.... are the main advantages of Andriod over iOS4.

Saturation is always a battle that once it's won usually helps to dominate the overall competition war. As mentioned by some comments, Andriod on the face of it could be an inferior platform but if it saturates the market with so many different devices and price points against the 1 model that Apple are offering at a fixed price globally than Andriod will surely come out top. The quality of the product vs the superioty of another won't help as the VHS vs Betamax battle proved.

Apples best move at the moment would be a recall, they can afford it and they could do it well enough that they would not only reinforce those customer loyalties that were waning but maybe even pull in some more customers out of respect for the move. I think the atenna problem is a severe chink the armour that is Apple's roadmap to success and market domination.

Personally I prefer Andriod, due to price points and choice.

Two infosec blunders that betrayed the Russian spy ring

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RE: Hidden cameras

Yup, thought of those, generally annoying if you want to pick up speech cause it's easy to defeat lip readers. Also the changing of locations helps get round the fact that the agency doing the surveillance would need the inside track on where the next meet location would be to give themselves time to hide the cameras in the first place.

Beeb reinstates teaboy in Pestogate scandal

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Great story...

... well done El Reg, as usual the BOOTNOTE stories do provide some good amusement.

(Thought I'd emphasis the that this is the bootnotes section as some commentards seem a little riled about the quality of these articles on the Beeb photo).

Everything Everywhere now something somewhere

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Crap name

Should have gone with something like Orange-Tee

Government lunatic magnet goes live

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That's fine...

... just as long as they don't ignore the ones with 'cannabis' in them ;)

Nipper's naked arse provokes Street View outrage

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More

I want to hear the 'mooning a restaurant' story!

Budget to cost over a million jobs: Official

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Straw

The greedy bankers were just the last straw that broke the camels back, it was already overloaded withe a few bales from Labour spending.

Beeb sends teaboy outside with iPhone

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Waste

So does this mean they got a refund for the image they used from Getty? Or has that cost now been written off?

Windows 7 SP1 'beta' leaks, hits torrents

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Bad luck by the sounds of it...

... my Win7 64bit has been rock solid, far superior to when I was running Vista on it and I dive in and out of photoshop, premiere, aftereffects and various others of a similiar ilke.

Was it a clean install or an upgrade? I've always been an advocate of a clean install.

'Biggest thing in farming for 10,000 years on horizon'

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I'm Spartacus...

...but no farmer

(It's Friday, I'm stuck in the office, it's great weather outside and I'm bored and want to join people on the beach with a beer)

Google's Android market needs Jobsian strongman

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Not quite true

My wife has a G2 and a couple ore female friends have just bought the Desire, none of them are techies and they all love the way Android works, which came as a bit of a surprise to me as I thought they would be mainly picked up by the stereotypes you mentioned.

Naked Cowboy wrestles Naked Cowgirl

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Be serious

The only thing the majority El Reg's audience read was "Naked Cowgirl" and "burning breasts" after that they all scanned the rest of the article for a picture or link.

(I've given it a joke icon, but probably not too far from the truth though)

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Eye Surgery

Seeing as the warning wasn't really harsh enough from El Reg I'm booked into a Laser Eye Clinic to have my retinas burned out so that this doesn't happen again.

Expect an invoice from councilling service very soon.

Avro Vulcan - The Owners' Workshop Manual

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Tears of flippin laughter

I can vouch for most the translations to be completely true and correct

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Shame...

... it can't always be like that :(

Fans fall in to await iPhone 4 arrival

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kissed a girl.... and liked it?

no need for a coat it's loverly weather outside, I'm off to the beach for my lunch break :)

Zuckerberg advises UK.gov on using Facebook

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Will the film...

... talk about the 2 brothers who originally came up with the idea and are currently in the middle of a settlement dispute on how much Mark is going to pay them?

Facebook seems to be working for some local authorities but ot so sure about how it would work for central gov.

Apple iOS 4 update due today

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Don't get me wrong but....

"Consider this - do you think HTC would have such devices or that Android would exist (at least in its current form) without the iPhone?"

... just being pedantic really, but in short yes, HTC was well on it's way down this road before the iPhone was released. HTC Sense was being developed at the same time that Apple's iPhone was, I think it was released just a mere few weeks before the iPhone went on general sale (although that was along time ago so I might be wrong).

N.B. Not a major fanboi for any OS just trying to sift the facts out of the huge proportion of bullshit that flys around nowadays.

New leader, same old job for Martha Lane Fox

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All aboard...

... the new improved Gravy Train Express is now boarding... she's as about a s useless as her new (old) job.

BOFH: Risky business

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Well said...

... bloody Woody Allen....Grrrrrr

Did ID card applications surge after scheme was scrapped?

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Momento from Labour Governement

I have one already, I see it everyday when I read the news is called the fck'd economy that Twat brown helped create as a chancellor and a PM.

ToryDems stoke ID card 'bonfire'

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Dear ElReg

Can you provide seanj with an award for the most upvoted post?

One of Sarah's free buns will do (if he doesn't want it, I will).

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We already know what the bombshell is...

... we've seen it in the bomb factory called the labour government for the past few years. With the advent of the election Labour painted in white lettering on the side "Massive Cuts, thanks for the gravy train with love, Labour Gov"

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Private Appointment

Now if we could just get a private appointment with him so it can be said to his face it would definately be, in my book, the best comment of all time.

Robobeachcop demands licence from Poole snapper

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Being largely naked...

... in a public open space like a beach is more or less declaring to the world that your not bothered if perfect strangers see your bits, although I agree with the point about an ad campaign as permission should definately be sought for an image that is the sole focus of generating a revenue.

Sadville founder lays off 30% of staff

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Please, please, please...

... carry on reporting the demise of his utterly useless and 'sad' product, it's mere exsistence annoys me.

(Plus I can gloat to some friends that my predications were bang on, Linden fck'd their marketing up right from the start)