Ramazan • User • The Register Forums

Getting it right on the second attempt: Sony Xperia Z1

Monday 18th November 2013 17:24 GMT Ramazan

Re: There’s also an FM radio

And it can also make and receive voice calls, unbelievable!

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How to relieve Microsoft's Surface RT piles problem

Thursday 14th November 2013 15:59 GMT Ramazan

@Michael Shelby: Re: SecureBoot is not the problem

I'm not buying a Surface [RT] because I can't install Debian on it.

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Ding-dong, Cthulu calling: Infogrames’ 1992 Alone in the Dark

Friday 1st November 2013 11:24 GMT Ramazan

Re: same will ... if I were to replay it in 10 years’ time

Maybe not if you were to play it the first time 10 years from now. I find the whole "great for the period" argument rather moot. Some games (like StarControl II, Ultima 7 BG/SI, RoA StarTrail, SystemShock II, DeusEx (the 1st one) etc) are great for any period, not sure about Alone in the Dark though - I didn't like it then, I don't like it now, so maybe it's great just not for my taste.

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RIP Bill Lowe: Father of the IBM PC no longer reading drive C

Wednesday 30th October 2013 15:12 GMT Ramazan

Re: it was them that told Bill

[citation needed]

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Don't crack that Mac: Almost NOTHING in new Retina MacBook Pros can be replaced

Saturday 26th October 2013 10:56 GMT Ramazan

Re: BMW could go to Lake Baikal

Try this in the winter, buddy

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Saturday 26th October 2013 10:25 GMT Ramazan

Re: screen went blotchy, bad hard drive, bad NVIDIA Geoforce graphics card

Exactly the kind of quality that speaks for itself, "bashing" needs not apply.

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Former Nokia boss Ollila: Stephen Elop was second-choice CEO

Thursday 17th October 2013 18:40 GMT Ramazan

Re: Ollila says there were several reasons for Nokia's spectacular decline

"in a choice between the Microsoft OS and Android, Windows Phone had been a unanimous choice" - no wonder they've lost.

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Turkish TV presenter canned for flashing too much cleavage

Friday 11th October 2013 15:14 GMT Ramazan

Re: Turkey has common borders with Syria, Iraq and Iran blah blah blah

99.9% of heroin comes to UK via Turkey. Nothing would change at all if Turkey was EU member, your argument is totally irrelevant here.

It IS matter of culture, religion and race, maybe, if you factor the former two in the definition of race.

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Friday 11th October 2013 15:10 GMT Ramazan

Re: why Israel isn't in both NATO and the European Common Market

Yet Turkey IS in NATO, being neither Northern, nor Atlantic state. And of course, Turkey has nothing to do with Europe at all, as the territories it holds west of Bosphorus and Dardanelles have been illegally occupied.

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Stallman's GNU at 30: The hippie OS that foresaw the rise of Apple - and is now trying to take it on

Tuesday 8th October 2013 12:54 GMT Ramazan

Re: they also develop GNU/kFreeBSD, and recently, beta versions of GNU/HURD.

In fact the other way round - they also develop GNU/Hurd (they had it running half a dosen years ago IIRC), and recently, GNU/kFreeBSD

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Tuesday 8th October 2013 11:52 GMT Ramazan

Re: proprietary binary blob drivers -- A lot of this is graphics

Wrong -- http://redmine.replicant.us/projects/replicant/wiki/GalaxyS3:

Known freedom issues:

* Proprietary and likely signed bootloader

* Modem, WiFi, Bluetooth and NFC firmwares are non-free

* Modem could access GPS

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Billionaire dumps Apple stock because Steve Jobs was 'really awful' guy

Tuesday 8th October 2013 10:13 GMT Ramazan

Re: there are gifted, talented people out there that can "replace" him

that can try at replacing him again and again and never succeed. Here, fixed it for ya

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Down with Unicode! Why 16 bits per character is a right pain in the ASCII

Friday 4th October 2013 12:48 GMT Ramazan

Re: SMS character sets

Actually SMS-es use UCS2BE (!), not utf8.

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Sony Xperia Z Ultra: The quad-core 2.2GHz MEGA SCREEN PHONDLESLAB

Friday 4th October 2013 10:31 GMT Ramazan

Re: VLP

Seen bigger cameras, a LOT bigger and ten times heavier, and ten times more expensive.

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Friday 4th October 2013 10:04 GMT Ramazan

size of SIM card

Article didn't tell anything about SIM card size - is it regular miniSIM, ridiculous microSIM or idiotic nanoSIM?

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Snowden's email provider gave crypto keys to FBI – on paper printouts

Friday 4th October 2013 07:06 GMT Ramazan

but he still handed them over

While he could run "badblocks -svw /dev/<any HDD/flash drive that could contain SSL keys>", then go to FBI and tell them that's he'd ran that badblocks scan with -w option by accident

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500 MEELLION PCs still run Windows XP. How did we get here?

Wednesday 2nd October 2013 08:35 GMT Ramazan

"business-critical apps tied into Windows XP via its IE6 browser"

ROTFLOL

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Oracle's Ellison talks up 'ungodly speeds' of in-memory database. SAP: Cough Hana

Tuesday 24th September 2013 15:14 GMT Ramazan

Re: Anyway, TimesTen is a completely different product

Do they use different SQL syntax. Or TimesTen doesn't support PL/SQL?

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F-16 fighter converted to drone

Tuesday 24th September 2013 13:55 GMT Ramazan

you still cannot dock starships in automatic mode

http://gagarin.energia.ru/images/stories/kosmos/dock1.jpg (year 1967 FFS)

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One day we'll look back and say this was the end of the software platform

Tuesday 24th September 2013 13:38 GMT Ramazan

Re: He was reflecting the conventional wisdom in the late 1990s

So he was absolutely right, just the names were changed - Microsoft to Google and Dell to hordes of Chinese manufacturers.

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I, for one, welcome our robotic communist jobless future

Thursday 19th September 2013 13:23 GMT Ramazan

Cheap or not, you've got to fight for your right to have it. Otherwise food might constitute anything from 0 to 100% if you surrender manufacturing rights to capitalists.

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London Underground cleaners to refuse fingerprint clock-on

Tuesday 17th September 2013 09:13 GMT Ramazan

Re: to destroy many a British industry in the 60's and 70's

FFS, British industries destroyed themselves without any help from unions (they started to decline, so did salaries/conditions, then people started to protest, not the other way round).

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Tuesday 17th September 2013 08:45 GMT Ramazan

Re: It does not matter how poor or desperate someone is

Yes, and let me extend this notion for ya - no matter how stupid their religion or beleives or their leaders are or how primitive or savage their culture is and no matter how powerful you are relative to them, you must never take away their dignity.

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Tuesday 17th September 2013 08:37 GMT Ramazan

Re: having to provide your finger prints for services is pretty scary

Wake up, people, overthrow your governments

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For PITY'S SAKE, DON'T BUY an iPHONE 5S, begs FSF

Thursday 12th September 2013 07:41 GMT Ramazan

iSkipped 5/5S/5C

But the reason was The Ever Shrinking Apple's SIM Card Format. I've cut my wife's miniSIM to microSIM when I've boght her iPhone 4S and I've bought separate microSIM for her iPad 2, but I won't subject myself to these inconveniencies anymore. I've grown tired of that marketing shit, so no nanoSIMs and no more microSIMs either. I want to use plain old miniSIMs, and I want smartphone's storage to be accessible as USB mass storage device (a la Amazon Kindle), and no stinking iTunes, please. There are absolutely no technical reasons for requiring smaller SIM for iPhone 4 series and even smaller for iPhone 5 ones.

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Torvalds suggests poison and sabotage for ARM SoC designers

Wednesday 11th September 2013 07:05 GMT Ramazan

Re: maybe we should humour him for once?

Yeah! Bring in ARM SoC developers and The Holy Hand Grenade!

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Wednesday 11th September 2013 07:03 GMT Ramazan

Re: When your employer refers to you as a resource

That's a crucial difference - Linus wasn't a resource, at least not a replaceable one. Just like Guido van Rossum was until jokes about bus running over Guido stopped as Python gained [dev community] momentum.

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Wednesday 11th September 2013 06:54 GMT Ramazan

absolutely agree with Linus

The post is required, and must contain letters.

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Google Nexus 7 2013: Fondledroids, THE 7-inch slab has arrived

Wednesday 11th September 2013 06:42 GMT Ramazan

Re: how a 35% difference can really be considered "reasonably close"

1. 50% is a lot, 35% is reasonably close

2. considering that the 35% price difference is between XXX device and Apple device, the latter is a bargain in fact

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Finns, roamers, Nokia: So long, and thanks for all the phones

Friday 6th September 2013 13:41 GMT Ramazan

Re: the first iPhone was laughable by European (ie: Nokia) standards

"the list of features it didn't have that were standard on Nokia phones is as long as your arm". In fact, the first iPhone was so much greater than all European phones together, that even without MMS support it was _far_ greater than anything else.

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Friday 6th September 2013 13:41 GMT Ramazan

Re: 6310i

I have two Motorola StarTac 130's, they pick up a signal just about anywhere, and have a style.

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Friday 6th September 2013 13:41 GMT Ramazan

Qt

Maybe Microsoft didn't need no stinking Nokia at all, but only wanted The Excellent Trolltech's Qt

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Microsoft, Nokia and the sound of colliding garbage trucks

Thursday 5th September 2013 13:02 GMT Ramazan

Re: One unified brand...

Nokia is plural of Nokuim, the same's true for Lumia (cf. delirium/deliria)

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Jury reckons Motorola wasn't 'fair and reasonable' to Microsoft

Thursday 5th September 2013 12:51 GMT Ramazan

Darkness of Greed

Nothing interesting here except that the jury were objective this time. "Fair and reasonable" is hard to define, but most probably other licensees disclosed amounts of their payments to Motorola so jury were able to calculate statistically significant mean and STD.

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