Posts by Rob

Google have made it eaiser

to steal alot of expensive kit, they might have well stuck it on a moped and given it some pizza delivery logos to make theft an absolute certainty.

Future revenue for my kids

I think I'll set up a fortune for my future generations by collecting as many recording media devices of different types now and store them safely.

The future generations can then rent them out to people who need stuff in the above scenarios. I'm off to a poor start though, only got a walkman and a VHS machine (the betamax recorder got thrown out accidentally on the last move according to my wife (highly suspicious but no evidence to prove otherwise, investigation continues)).

Snap

"Now, when I was at uni, we hit the streets in Che Guevara t-shirts, overturned cars, battled riot police, torched banks - and that was just because they'd raised the price of beer in the student union bar by two pence."

We probably went to the same Uni

Blatantly!

The amount of PC repairs I've had brought to me after they had already been to another repair place.

The best way to clear this problem is educate the user, I always ask the user if they would like to know how to fix the problem themselves, financially bad for business but excellent for the reputation, which can in turn bring in more business so to a certain extent balances out. Generally speaking they aren't that hard to get to grips with, with most users their fear boils down to the scaremongering the industry does with it's terminology.

Aliens

They broke down on their way to mars and have probably called the AA (Astronomical Assistance).

Mine's the one with TomTom and the milkyway maps loaded on it.

Errrr, no thanks....

.... I'd rather pay, if I have to listen to an advert while waiting in a call Q I'm hanging up.

Where do you start

The use of 'muff-hungry' is pure genius it's a shame there was no angle for getting the phrase 'all you can eat muff buffet', enough of my dreams though.

Mine's the one with the tooth pick in the pocket

Typo?

Sign-off in June 2008! How long have these numpties been keeping us in the dark ;)

additional to zerofool2005's post

This is more specific:

http://www.npg.org.uk/business/images/use-on-web.php

nuff said, bang to rights, get the feckers.

Large amounts of FAIL

"1 billion users and revenue of $1.54bn"

LOL sounds like the twats that get ripped to shreds in the Dragons Den and then booted out.

Even funnier is the prediction of revenue when they haven't offered any ideas how they will start getting a revenue.

Insurance

I doubt the insurance policies cover them against Acts of Terrorism, so the blowing up the factory and kit will be quite expensive, plus the company will be liable for the clean-up costs.

@adam 20

You can't say that without experience of 'not existing', for all we know it could be vastly better.

And the moral of this post is don't pose Existential questions without thinking them through.

Costs

Surely the cost of all these court cases now out weighs the alleged damage he caused the 'merkins defence PC's.

Obvious

Of course they intend to sue, as that's an indication of her families attitude she should have stayed down the sewer and moved her family in with her.

Think if the children

Is this research we pay for? Why can't I get a science degree in the bloody obvious?

I've also taken it 1 stage further and growl instead of swear, protects the little'un's ears at the same time and is more effective than swearing, probably cause it's more primal.... there you go, I've just expanded on their research, someone throw me a wad of public cash.

Are you sure?

"...even lead to a new dark age of ignorance and poverty" we're already there!

Don't be too harsh on him

We don't want him to disappear from the web otherwise the rest of us wouldn't have someone to bait and tease when we're bored.

I for one can't stand cruelty to animals so when a turdtard like this appears it's obviously for the rest of our amusement, you've got to give some people a purpose otherwise they are a drain on humanity by not contributing anything, he falls nicely into this category.

@Tom Pittman

Don't panic, we'd never get to that stage of the problem. According to all the other posters on here we'll dramatically reduce our CO2, it won't stop the sea levels rising though cause we've just dumped a load of old crap in it, so I think we'll drown before the sea temp rises enough to melt the caps, shame really looks like a chilly death for us all ;)

WHAT!

"OHPs carry four 1-megawatt generators"

No one told me an Over Head Projector had such a large generator in it, I'm off to the nearest school to nick one and plug it into my house, free leccy!

WOW same tech as Battletech

Anyone who's every been into the Battletech universe will know that the muscle's they've descibed are the same tech they descibe as muscles in the big war machines the universe is based around, although they use something like a polymer as the main material in the muscle but it still works on the same principal.

(yup that's the coat there, the one with sad geek written on the back)

VW seem to have made a good prediction

I think their figures on how many cars are electric by 2020 is probably quite accurate. A lot of people seem to think all these electric cars are going to be given away for free, a large chunk of the population can't afford a new car, especially when it's approx. 2k above a petrol or diesel price.

Electric cars seems too much of a white elephant at the moment .

@andrew mulcock

Slightly flawed comparison, there's a bit of a difference between worse case scenario of a £500 conversion to lead free and spending nigh £10k for a brand new electric car. Nobody has even mentioned the 2nd hand car market in any of these scenarios either so I think your 10yr estimate is a little out and maybe even non-existent, still we'll see in 10yrs time won't we.

Tricky one, no underdog to root for

MS are obviously a pain for not being more open and TomTom are a bunch of high-priced-fleecing gits, which to root for?

In an ideal world MS would screw TomTom out of businesses and because MS screwed TT they'd get a lot of bad press and would readjust their market attitude to be more open and co-operative which would then make Apple a bad comparison, so Apple would then readjust their attitude to customers and the market would be better off all round.

Right, I've finished day dreaming, someone hand me my jacket....

Numpty

“We've come to appreciate that the beta tag just doesn't fit for large enterprises that aren't keen to run their business on software that sounds like it's still in the trial phase,”

Well done Google, it's not flippin rocket science

@magnetik

Funny you mention the HTC forums like that, in the early days the general complaint was the user was the beta tester and why don't they bug test more effectively.

I think the general rule of thumb with all phones is that they are compact technology so they will tend to have more bugs/issues than say a PC/Mac just because of the scale.

The reason I think Apple's iPhone gets more of a bashing than say a HTC phone is down to the marketing hype and the fact that Apple tend to go quiet too often when they should be more open about these issues, probably a little embarressed about their marketing claims, but I can't see how admitting these issues exsist will affect Apple as a brand.

Sorry that was all a little too sensible, iPhones are defective junk and HTC still run windoze yada yada yada, carry on throwing mud people.

(Paris, 'cause I haven't abused her for awhile)

Curse you Virgin

Damn it, T-Mobile's been the best network I've been on so far, if it changes to Virgin I'm going back to O2.

(Curse you branson, may you catch a prickly disease on your gonads).

@Igor

The IT angle is with the rest of the IT stories in the IT sections, something you don't usually find in the Bootnotes section.

Smut Basket!!!!

I'm appalled this hasn't been offered up as a prize yet, in fact I'm off down to wilkinsons to buy a cheap basket and fill it with smut, a wicker one me thinks or maybe plastic (i'm not sure yet).

@Phu (Richard)

To be pedantic, The Road Traffic Act of 91 and 94 take precedence over the Bill of Rights. Under British law it is the later act that usually takes precedence. So by our standards perfectly lawful.

But as you were saying they can change that when ever they like without consultation.

:-O

"Using a pair of nail clippers must have caused excruciating pain, even if he had had a few drinks beforehand."

No shit Sherlock

@Robert

It would seem logical, but Virgin generally seem anything but when it comes to quality control and customer service.

I still wish a plague on all Bransons houses (brand names)

@Pete

lol love it, you've been keeping up with the BOFH

Skynet's coming

nuff said

Smoke and Mirrors for the BBC

they can breathe a sigh of relief as the main story would have been BBC expenses and justifying why they pay that twat Jonathon Ross nigh on 6mil a year.

Too many flaws

Far too many to make moving away from my WiFi router connected to my landline broadband. If T-Mobile wnet down this route you'd get a worse off surfing experience, by default using your latptop on their 3G means you go through their proxy which downgrades all images/graphics to a lower quality, for obvious reasons but not something I want experience on a continual basis.

The other overiding factor being I have a home network with 3/4 machines on it for a reason, so counts me out, I'm sure this might be a good option for a single Mac user, they'd be willing to pay the money twice over for less of an experience.

I've heard of competition

But trying to catch-up with Microsoft in terms of errors and cock-ups probably isn't the best type of competition to be entering into (still got away to go before their level pegging methinks).

When Apple introduce the BSOD let's hope they choose a nice trendy colour or colours blended together.

Did I fall asleep

Has something happened to the video editing industry that I don't know about? This has to be the most arse about face way of editing video. Don't get me wrong I have Avisynth installed along with VirtualDub and such like, they have their place and pretty much like the first commentor said usually as a parser of sorts for various filters and clean-up/conversion jobs.

Why exactly did you suddenly need to write an article of such length on the software and put it in the wrong context?

I get my media software news from other sources, probably best to leave it that way and get back to doing what you do best El Reg.

Too much

Another example of people reading far too much into something, did it ever occur to them that the children might not actually be picking up these so called 'signals of the norm' and they might actually just enjoy the film for what it is.

Freud's got a lot to answer for...

@Micheal

That's all well and good, but the people/victims you'll be dealing with will feel like they are getting a better more caring service if they know the person in investigating the crime is a hundred miles away and knows nothing of the local area.

Policing of this short should be regional it makes a big difference to the efficiency and resources available.

Vulture Central

We love you :)

@Steve

Sorry, word on the grapevine is T-Mobile won't be offering it, they haven't even got it in testing and if you look at their T-Mobile HTC branded catalogue they've slimmed the offerings down by a few phones.

If you want to upgrade but stay on T-Mob, try Mobilephonesdirect, they will do the upgrade for you and hopefully you'll not have to pay sim-free prices for the phone.

It's my next phone in August, can't wait to get shot of this Touch Dual, I miss my qwerty keyboard.

@Cloggy

In some parts of London, crossing the road can take that long.

Mine's the one with A-Z of timelines in the pocket

Not as good

Still not a patch on Geiss or Milkdrop for Winamp (free to download, even better when linked to projector or HD TV, class A (or B) drugs not included).

When?

I've seen the words 'flux' and 'transduce' in this article, so I want to know when we're going to be able to travel back to the future with a mad scientist who's got big hair.