Posts by jai

Ferrari for the price of a Cooper?

somehow, giving the pricing of the googlephone, i doubt that will be the case

games

isn't Microsoft's idea for realistic avatars is just going to open up a new avenue of income for those gold-farming spam emails that now, instead of just grinding the money-making parts of the games in their sweatshops, will now all take your avatar account and train it up to full fitness in an intensive 3 day, 24 hours-a-day regime, all for just $60

iPad interaction

you missed the most interesting part of the latest rumours.

on this NYT blog http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/2010-the-year-of-the-tablet/

a "source" has told them "you'll be surprised by how you interact with the tablet"

does this mean you finger? (not so surprising considering the iPhone)

a stylus? (shocker - considering Jobs' view of phone stylii)

or something althogether more rude??

not fanbois

technically, the ones being rickrolled aren't proper apple fanbois - the True Believers of course haven't jailbroken their iphones

it's just the freetards who jailbroke their phones - and most of those are probably penguin-fiddlers

re: It's ironic.

but the thing is, they tried all those things you suggest in the 90s when they got rid of Jobs and very nearly killed the company until Jobs came back, and put his vision and his controls back in place

what's changed in the last 15 years that means it'd be any different if it happened again now?

this could be great.... but i fear it won't be

the old films look so very dated

it'd be cool to see one with modern special fx

but it has to be all about the battles on the Road.

the first one's a brilliant classic

the 2nd is great, the finale battle with the tanker is ace, but it's criminal that his Interceptor gets toasted before that

and the 3rd, if he's not chugging along in a train he's trekking through the desert finding quicksand or upto his pelvis in pigsh!t

what we want to see is a heavily modified 1973 Ford XB Falcon Hardtop burning along endless barren roadways, with either Max or his protege at the wheel dispensing much needed justice in a world gone to hell

i fear what we'll get is something heavily sponsored by Honda where all the scum of the post-apocalyptic wasteland are seen to be car-pooling in their environmentally freindly hydrogen powered vehicles

that's rubbish

the worst one is the one in January when you get an hour's less sleep

today's been a great day so far

normally, if i fall asleep for an extra hour in the morning it's followed by 20 minutes of sheer panic and terror as i rush around trying to get to the train station so that i'm only late for work instead of unemployment-inducingly late

but today, the alarms went off, i hit the snooze 60 mins button, woke up when they went off the 2nd time and still got up, felt refreshed, and was even in the office early!

they ought to put the clocks back every weekend!!

@Mark Lockwood

genius idea

i'd vote for any party called "Badgers, Not Potatoes" regardless of their political views.

nuke from orbit, it's the only way to be sure

if there are exoplanets in a habitable zone, is that a good or a bad thing?

in theory, any life to have thrived on the planet would be spead out much more disparetely across the surface, so possibly less likely for the secific conditions to generate intelligence to occur

but then again, on a planet that size, natural resources will be bountiful. no need for natural alternative energy sources, they're probably heading towards us in their steam powered spaceships as we speak

we ought to strike first, just to be on the safe side

where's the control group?

this experiment only compares two types of gamers - there's no correlation to other activities

what about people who are down the gym training for more than 4 hours a day? compared wiht those who don't work out that much?

people who's work requires them to drive a car for more than 4 hours a day? compared to those who's daily commute is 30 minutes?

people who sit in research labs doing stupid experiments for more than 4-hours a day compared to those of us who use our time for worthwhile projects?

i suspect, if there is indeed a link, it's more likely that anyone who does a similar task for 4 hours each day will get into the habbit of reactionary thinking because of the repetative nature of their daily tasks. those of us with more varied daily activities (regardles off what that activity is) have to think more proactively because we're likely to be faced with different situations.

I don't see the link to ADD there, it's just the human brain adapting to the environment it is in

the images are too terrifying

oh the huma.... i mean the playmobilanity!!

i fear the worst for the baker and his wench :(

stating the bleeding obvious

this isn't a market analysis, it's just stating the obvious

Android is a platform that's available to any hardware manufacturer that wants to use it. iPhone is only available to one. it's not economics that tell you that Android has the potential to be in more people's phones, it's basic, junior school mathematics

doesn't rhyme or fit the song

Buying bread from a man in brussels

He was six foot four and full of muscles

I said, do you speak-a my language?

He just smiled and gave me a iSnack2.0 sandwich

And he said.....

[all together now, sing along!!]

@The BigYin

"force Apple to standardise the library format and have it made an ISO standard"

please read the rest of the comments on this thread - and every other time this topic has been mentioned on El Reg

last i was aware, XML is a restricted subset of SGML which is ISO standard 8879

iTunes library is accessable via XML

Palm just need to put a couple of hours work in to build an app that'd parse the file. there's tons of 3rd party shareware apps that do this, i don't understand why Palm have so much trouble

tarrifs

i thought there was an article recently form one of the "expert" analysts who claimed that the iPhone tarrifs were loss-leaders for the phone companies and an unsustainable model?

but it seems that the model must have been successful enough for O2 with the iPhone otherwise they'd have changed it for the Pre, no?

pfffffft

i like it actually

@ Jimmy Floyd

re: Brand allegiance "Is that really an issue for gamers? Or, indeed, anyone?"

damn right it is - you're obviously not a real gamer. when was the last time you started a game in the evening and didn't quit until sun rose the next morning?

as obsessed as i am with the GTA series of games, i drew the line at owning an Nintendo product just so I could play GTA Chinatown (i borrowed my mates one, but hated every minute of using it)

thankfully it's now coming out on the PSP so I can give back the wretched DS and play the game instead on a decent platform (at least until the iPod/iPhone version comes out, which i expect will top both of them).

"users should be made more aware they should only use them as a guide"

and there really ought to be a minimum IQ level below which you are not allowed a driving license, for your own good

if you need to be told not to follow TomTom regardless then you really shouldn't be allowed Outside without medical supervision

possible

if they did it, it'd have to be more in line with their heavier tracks. more in the style of the Super Massive Blackhole tracks than those on the latest album

Bond themes should really be loud and anthemic, which Muse can do well

but one of their slower tracks just wouldn't work

perfect

just what i need for multiboxing Eve Online - i want one!!!

pffft

the only good Nirvana song is the Wierd Al Yankovic version, Smells Like Nirvana

preTunes

why doesn't Palm care enough about it's users to build a proper method of syncing their music? instead of having to resort to skullduggery and all this cat and mouse

apple aren't loosing that much buisness - the number of Pre users are miniscule compared to ipod users

it's Palm that are risking loosing customers because people will eventually get annoyed with all this mucking about and go and get themselves an Android or RIM phone instead (because, presumably, they're anti-iPhone types and the Pre's iTunes compatibility was not the reason they went with it)

re: Stunning stuff

all the littlle green men are standing _behind_ the Hubble lens, sniggering

<---- smug OS X user

nuff said

makes sense

people have been banging on and on about there ought to be a smaller, cheaper iPhone - so it makes sense for Palm to target that supossed market

but - is there really a market for this level of smartphone that doesn't have wifi?

so much failsauce

the polorized ones they have at the cinema are the only ones that work for me - one of my eyes doesn't focus, so the two colour specs don't work for me

i'm not totally sure how the cinema ones do work, but i certainly get a 3D impression - perhaps not as much as normal people - but it's better than just seeing everything in green.

have a nice cup of tea and wait for all this to blow over

time to re-check my survival plan for the Zombie Apocalypse then.

it's only a matter of time before that ant-zombifying fungus follows swine flu and begins infecting humans

mines the one on the coat rack beside the door at the Winchester

product?

what are they going to sell? is it just going to be shelves and shelves of Windows7 boxes?

fail stores will be epic fail, i fear

museum?

not sure about the museum example myself

last time i took a mobile phone out in a museum and pointed it at a piece of art the security guy couldn't run across the room fast enough to stop me from taking a picture

i doubt you'd be able to fob them off by saying, i was just looking up more information becausae your little plaque here doesn't say anything useful

re: Dirty

give Safari 4 a go

i really like it (although I prefered the beta's method of having the tabs at the very top of the window).

re: Requires a restart

i suspect it is the OS

the 4.0.1 required a machine reboot also. that's why i only just got around to applying it on Monday

i for one...

...demand a PlayMobile reconstruction of the orignal Capricorn One project... i mean the original moon landing

@alan 39

>ITS A COMPUTER GAME FFS

you, sir, have obviously never played EvE

or if you did, you omgragequit after a few days of being scammed and blown up

it's not just a computer game, it is a way of life and a state of mind

@nsld

because then there'd be nothing to make Psystar any different from any other PC seller. the only reason people pay attention to them is because of all the publicity they get from this OS X controversity.

without that, people wouldn't know who they are

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funny though - cos after all that he wasn't the first to post the pull apart pics

SIXTY minutes????

it's not going to sell well in the UK then - you'd have to wait all summer to get enough charge for a 10 minutes phone call