Posts by jai

oh the irony...

...of reading this article via the m.theregister.co.uk portal...

i suspect the research is backwards

all this proves is that someone who is a fan of something, and probably thinks about it much more than normal, recognises and appreciates the image of the thing they like

for relgious types, it's their imagry and icons. for mac fanatics, it's the shiny shiny boxes and dock icons.

for soccer fans it's the sight of 11 men getting sweaty together and for world of warcraft players it's a can of mountain dew

sounds promising

although, ideally they'd be on a bluetooth unit to remove the wire, and I wonder then would there be additional power drain?

want one!

seems i better buy a lottery ticket this weekend then!!

exactly how many...

...Bothan's died to bring us this news?

such a shame

the original game was so much fun and different when it came out

shame to see the franchise has become just another typical uninnovative franchise :(

the Dave special was a big hit

in as far as it was a big hit for Dave the channel.

Apparently it drew in record numbers of viewers for the channel. Probably not close to the numbers that watched the show in BBC3 at it's peak, but for Dave it did well. And that translates directly into record numbers of viewers of the adverts that were showing in those slots, which allows Dave to charge more from the advertisers, and so fund the new series.

Lister: What d'ya think of Betty?

Cat: Betty Rubble? Well, I would go with Betty... but I'd be thinking of Wilma.

Lister: This is crazy. Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone?

Cat: You're right. We're nuts. This is an insane conversation.

Lister: She'll never leave Fred, and we know it.

yawn

isn't this the 3rd or 4th year that there have been rumours of a low-priced iPhone?

a ribbon to hang themselves with

Ribbon will ensure that no one ever upgrades to W8 and will instead increase the market share for Linux, OS X, GoogleOS and whatever else is out there that is at all useable.

[slow claps for Mirco$oft]

hurrah!!

really hope this isn't an April Fools, that'll be really disapointing

hoover

> when people talk about competitors’ stores, they call them 'app stores'.

On the rare occasion that i tidy up my flat, i get out the hoover.

It's a dyson, but I use it to do the hoovering.

plays anywhere?

apart from outside the US

and apart from on an iPhone (no iOS player app yet, web player doesn't work on iOS Safari)

and apart from your work pc which is likely behind sufficient firewalls and site blocking to prevent you getting connected to the Cloud Drive

So I can use it at home then. Where I currently have all my mp3s on my home computer and can play them instantly wihtout having to wait for stream-lag or for non-peak-periods when my ISP isn't throttling my bandwidth.

so yeah, fantastic idea Amazon

so what you're saying is...

...the iPhone4's so-called antenna problem is actually helping to save my hips from falling apart?

good quantities?

the Orange shop on Cheapside has only 7 units

but then, there's no one queuing outside yet, so perhaps 7 is all they'll need

Only there's no setting sun in space

nor credits nor horses for that matter

"without attitude control keeping its solar panels facing the Sun"

attitude control? these spacecraft can get agressive if left unsupervised? :)

one step behind

so it'll always be able to run Android apps that are one version behind the latest android release?

you'll have to wait for RIM to release an update to their app player?

so, why not just get a fully android tablet and not have any restrictions or delays

also, the article seems to suggest you can only buy the android apps through the blackberry store? so they're only going to allow certain apps to be available?

what's with all the can-love?

there seems to have been a never-ending string of Headphone reviews.

when will we get a decent earphone reviews? i don't want to walk around like a throwback to the 70s with big heavy cans on my head, i want some nice lightweight in-ear-phones that give reasonable sound and also the y shape lead that goes around the back of the neck (which seemed to be the only style available in the 90s) and not the Y style that seems to have come back into fashion despite it's prevelance for getting caught in thinks and pulling the 'phones sharply out of my ears

sweeeet

i want one for xmas kthxbye!

hopefully more Sneakers than Hackers?

I'm hoping it'll be more like Sneakers - I can see Christian Slater in the Robert Redford role, just a bit more extreme and amusing.

Trouble is, Slater has bad luck with tv shows, even the ones I like (like My Own Worst Enemy) get cancelled, so I'm worried about this one.

is this why

is this why i've had no 3G connection at all to O2 yesterday and today? and even seem to be having trouble getting an Edge connection.

The remarkable thing...

"The remarkable thing is that it works and it's very fast"

The remarkable thing is that they didn't do it like this the first time, and so drove us all to install an ad blocker to try and avoid the lag

criminal

It's was pure extortion. These should be criminal proceedings, not just claims for recovering costs.

better advice

Better advice for their customers would be "if you wish to browse the web, get a better phone with either Android or iOS"

deja vu

it's a Psion Series7!!!!

god i loved my Series5

but that was because it would fit in my jacket pocket and was very easy to type and navigate both while holding in the hands and lying on a table.

I'm pretty sure the Series7 didn't work because it was too big to work well as a hand held unit, just not portable enough.

and i wonder if that will be the same problem with this Asus. Just too big to be a portable tablet, so why not just get a netbook instead, and have the easy of a full OS and a mouse pointer?

5 years after end of life?

So "end of life" doesn't actually mean end of life? If a product is EOL'd, doesn't that mean that it's no longer supported?

Besides, if you're _that_ worried that the websites you visit are going to be maliciously crafted to pwn your iPhone then you should pony up and upgrade to a current model like the rest of the world has.

meh

i'll wait for the NGP

faceplate

the fact that it uses the same faceplate as the recently leaked one makes no odds. you'd be able to fit that faceplate on an iphone4 style back or an iphone3/ipodTouch type back.

funny

I remember the incredulity displayed on the Reg comment pages when there was no cut/paste on the iPhone.

good news

i'm not sure i want to watch Rastamouse in 3D

personally

Personally I've been waiting until I get Killzone3 before getting a Move controller.

There aren't any Kinect games that i'm interested in playing yet.

So that's one more sale to Sony coming along when March payday rolls around.

So seems this rumour is false too

I guess that's the trouble with reporting on rumour stories, they are, afterall, just rumours.

Seems the "delays" aren't going to happen and everything is on course.

Does anyone else get the feeling that perhaps these analysts were just trying to move the stock market prices for themselves?

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/22/rumors-of-iphone-5-ipad-2-delays-called-untrue/

stop scaremongering

You see what you've gone and done now?

The article is inaccurate and wrong and as a result you've raised the blood pressures of all those 'droidtards above.

You're killing your readship y'know, slowly by slowly, day by day.

(Actually, I've no problem with that - the world would be a nicer place with less bile-spitting Android fanatics and more happy Apple enthusiasts, but this method is surely going to take too long to bear appreciable results)

For what it's worth, not that anyone will read this, SaaS apps aren't included in the 30% subscription tax

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/02/21/steve-jobs-email-suggests-in-app-subscriptions-dont-apply-to-software-as-a-service/