More like by Wednesday after next half of us will be running for our lives trying to stay alive and away from the ravening hoards of space-zombie-infected mutants that the rest of you have become.
Posts by jai
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SpaceX does what it HASN'T done before: Dragon in close ISS flyby
Minority Report-style swishery demoed with cheap webcam
Facebook IPO plunge sparks tidal wave of lawsuits
Canary Islands host long-distance quantum teleportation
iPad grabs lunch money from mobile PCs, pushes them in the stingers
Steve Jobs' 'private Apple spaceship' seeks public love
Quote Reuters-rebrander Anna: Still, it will be green space that the locals won't be allowed into.
But surely they can't wander freely around the old HP Offices that are currently there, can they? So what's the difference?
Or is the local authorities planning on not selling the land to anyone and instead putting a local park in the place that they'd have to fund themselves?
Apple's trial experts are 'slavish fanbois who believe in magic'
Also, I'm sure I read (possibly on this very site) that Foxconn produce products for Samsung also.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foxconn#Major_customers
If Scrib.com-rebrander Anna was at all impartial (y'know, like a proper journalist) then the article would start something like:
"Foxconn-rebrander Samsung has asked a Californian court to dismiss seven of Foxconn-rebrander Apple's expert witnesses in a patent case"
Eugene Kaspersky frustrated by Apple’s iOS AV ban
Ouch! Facebook slumps below IPO value on day 2
Windows Phone beats iOS sales in China
Does Britain really need a space port?
Re: And then there is the weather
So we build a space elevator and we don't need to launch, we just take the people and cargo up out of the atmosphere were the GB Space Platform is in orbit, and from there build and launch our craft.
I'm mean, c'mon! we built the Spitfires and won the Battle of Britain. We should be able to build a damn space elevator by now ffs!!!
Diablo III
Steve Jobs' death clears way for rumoured 4in 'iPhone 5' screen
NASA found filming August's Mars landing in California desert
a little late for testing?
isn't it a bit late for testing? what if they find a complete show-stopper in their testing, like the sand gets in the motors and locks them up, or sticks to the comms gear and prevents them being able to control it? surely all this testing should have been done before the punted the other robot off towards Marx.
Why GM slammed the brakes on its $10m Facebook ads
Scammers exploit wannabe demon-slayers hyped by Diablo III
Re: You /need/ to be online?
GTA V? Yes we're all anticipating that, but it's not going to be coming out any time soon. I'm not expecting it this year. There's been no trailers or teaser details or anything yet. Rockstar love to spend 9 months leading up to the release of their GTA games, slowly stoking the hype and the anticipation. That's plenty of time to play D3 while waiting for GTA V
Btw - you think GTA V isn't going to require online access via PSN account or Xbox equivalent? I bet it'll happen.
Stuck in a dull conference? You need Verity's survival guide
Rovio flies away from Angry Birds for all-new puzzler
Heath Robinson
The world needs more Heath Robinson contraptions. There ought to be government grants for any new construction or product brought to market that can involves a demonstrable Heath-Robinson-ness.
In fact, most of the code I write could probably be classified as Heath-Robison-esque.... :)
Using a Lenovo All-In-One? Grab a fire extinguisher!
Colour Kindle incoming says mole
Ten... crowd-funded games from veteran devs
Wi-Fi warping wallpaper hardens homes to hackers
Supersize shifting sand dunes stalk surface of Mars
Ape Apps help Orangutans talk to people
Apple orders 10in iPad, moles claim implausibly
More likely..
Considering that Pegatron currently supply iPhone 4s along with Foxconn, is it not much more likely that this report is that they will also start producing the current iPad (being named the "new iPad") in addition to Foxconn. And hence the confusion in thinking that it's a new model/design?
Apple's HTML5 bet against Android extermination
Two seperate races being run here
All these articles constantly talking about which company will win or loose, but it seems to me, they're always mixing up the races that are being run. One is for market share, the other is for profit.
Market share doesn't pay the bills or keep employers in jobs when it's divided amongst multiple companies all flying the Android flag, and all trying to undercut each other's prices in an effort to increase their personal wedge of the market share pie.
The easiest way for Google to gain maximum market share and "win" will be to give the Android tablets away free. But I don't see any of the Android manufactures signing up for that plan any time soon.
Pirate island attracts more than 100 startup tenants
Apple sneaks iPad 2 with 32nm chip into retail
Total War Battles: Shogun
Nokia's 41Mp cameraphone shoots towards retail
RIM takes BlackBerry 10 out for a spin, forgets to bring phone
Re: Sod the apps
I know that the IT Dept in companies would rather that all employees only use "work" phones for work purposes.
But all employees would probably rather use their own phone so they only have to carry around one. And all management want to use the latest and shiniest smartphone even if they don't understand how to use 90% of the functions that class the phone as a smartphone.
Yes, internal audit and legal departments would probably sleep easier at night if all employees were locked to basic 'work' phones.
But the accountants and the shareholders would rather that costs were kept to a minimum as so allow employees to bring their own devices.
And in these times of austerity and recession, I suspect it's the bean counters that have the loudest voice in the corporate boardrooms. Which means there's not going to be much of a market out there for a 'work' phone as you describe.
Sony outs its first Ultrabook
UK ad watchdog probes Apple iPad '4G' boasts
Re: pot meet kettle
So you're suggesting that Apple try to hide the fact that Foxconn build their products?
That's weird, I could have sworn they made a big deal about working to improve conditions in those factories.
Or are you suggesting that Apple products should have a Foxconn logo on them?
Because, I don't see a BBC News logo anywhere on El Reg. Or any indication of where they originally sourced this (or other) articles from.
so I refer you back to my original title: "Pot, meet kettle..."
Samsung unwraps 17in Ivy Bridge beast
iTunes fanbois outraged by Apple's sex-life quiz probe
Re: re making stuff up
Making stuff up is the only safe way to do it - if you give a real answer, then someone is going to be able to guess it or work it out.
I've been doing it for years. By now, I have a set of answers for most of these types of questions, the answers are completely unrelated to my life, but I know them well. It's no harder than having to remember a dozen different passwords or differing complexity here at work. And at least these types of questions don't have to be changed every 30 days.
Ultimate simulator to streak into living rooms next month
Judge: Big Five ISPs must block The Pirate Bay
real impact?
But, TPB only stores the torrent files, doesn't it? And those are available from a multitude of sites, not just TPB. So this is just going to stop one possible source of the torrent files, but not the actual P2P data. So instead everyone will get their torrent files from other sites (if they don't already) and it won't change anything?
The truth about Apple's mind-boggling low tax rate
Boffins cross atom-smasher streams, 'excited' beauty pops into being
Woz says Windows Phone 'sets the mark' for mobile UI
James May 'hologram' raves about old tech at Science Museum
boo
why couldn't you have included a close up photo of the marker in the review? I tried in vain to get the app to pick up the marker from the photos included, they're too out of focus.
(yes, I know I could get the QR codes from the SciMu website, but that's no where near as fun on a friday afternoon as getting it from a picture on an unrelated website is it?)
re: AR app - i'm a bit disapointed to find that it's just Mr May talking to you. I was hoping the AR in this app would be more involved with the exhibts. For example, the bisected Mini - in an AR app they could show the missing pieces of the Mini and peal them off as they get described. For other exhibits, the AR could impose authentic backgrounds around the items so you can see them in their surroundings. For the Natural History, AR apps could be used to put flesh and skin on top of the dinosaur bones...