* Posts by jai

2310 publicly visible posts • joined 8 May 2007

Sony profits down, but PS3 sales up

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ps3 ftw !!

long day at work... too tired to type in rapid sony-fanboy comments to enrage 360 owners... please see previous ps3 articles and consider yourselves flamed!!!

:-)

Exploit code targets Mac OS X, iTunes, Java, Winzip...

jai

@Steve - re: doxpara

thanks for the doxpara.com link - just tried it - nice to know that my company's dns is secure

a little worrying to note that the O2 dns that my iPhone uses is not

The PSP: what's its future?

jai

i think it's alright

i like my PSP and the games on it i've throughly enjoyed playing

but that said, i haven't switched it on in months

it's still better'n a DS though - just because i prefer the type of games that you get on a psp than those that seem to come out on the ds (although the new GTA game means i'm going to have to buy myself a DS before xmas)

what the psp really needs is a 2nd analog stick, better integration with the ps3 and yeah, flash memory instead of UMD would be a plan i guess

but i don't think it's half as bad as people make out

Reg hack insults the Parachute Regiment

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pictures

obviously, we need pictures of both teams so that we can draw our own conclusions

It's official: Samsung shows off i8510 8mp cameraphone

jai

re: Just a point...

quote: Not all of us want annoying scratchable smudge-covered slow-to-respond touch screens.

and neither do us iPhone owners - which is lucky then really that our iPhone screens don't scratch, respond quickly and smudges from your pizza covered fingers don't obscure the display and are easy and quick to rub off anyway on your trousers

Steve Jobs is 'cancer-free'

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RE: I wish Steve the best of health, etc,

the trouble is, the last time they tried, to two idiots that took over basically ran the company into the ground because they thought it would be a great idea to run Mac OS on generic looking boxes, and then on cheap clones (which is just one step from running it on generic pc hardware)

if Jobs hadn't come back, there would be no Apple any more

sure, that's not to say that no one could replace him as do as good a job (ha ha) but the guys that tried it before failed completely. seems a bit blaze for a company to pin it's future on the theory that "3rd times a charm"

Vendor touts PC's Mac OS X compatibility

jai

but why would you bother?

look at the thing! it's an ugly, plain black box. ooooh, it's got silver trim! it's pug ugly and looks just like any other windoze pc.

i wouldn't put something like that in my loft! let alone somewhere that people can see it.

but you lot are missing the point - there's nothing more special about this than another pc out there - you still have to hack it to get OS X to work on it - the only difference is that in this case, the vendors are providing the hacking tools

and you'll still get a not quite perfect OS X experience - whenever anything goes wrong, you won't know if it's your sub-standard pc hardware that's at fault, the glue-and-string used to make OS X work on the non-apple hardware, or a genuine problem with the system

US PS3 sales surge

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re: really

interesting, AC's post reminds me a lot of the kind of posts that were around last year, saying how great HD-DVD was going to be and how the stats that showed BD's growth were skewed and that the Register was being biased against HD-DVD in it's articles

Apple iPhone 3G

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re: Wish list - cut & paste

how would you implement the "cut and paste" on a system with no keys and only finger input?

first, you need to find a way of allowing the user to select a chunk of text. presumably, you'd put two fingers on the screen at the start of the first word, and drag the second finger to the end of the last word. that would highlight them.

(this opens up it's own bag of worms though - if you allow the users to highlight text, then they'll want to highlight text both within text input boxes but also from other areas on the screen - such as from text messages that have been recieved, emails that you're reading before you click teh reply button, text on websites, etc etc.) you need to find a way to make sure that a scroll action isn't mistaken for a highlight text action.

then what? do you assume the user wants that text cut? what if they just want to copy? do you pop up a menu offering a choice of cut/copy/delete?

and once the text is on a clipboard, how do you paste it? a double tap on the text cursor? holding your finger in the same place for 5 seconds?

Yes, Mac OS 1.0 could copy and paste - but it had a mouse, a drop down Edit menu and it had a keyboard with the Apple-key on it. these are all missing from the iPhone and so it's not as easy to implement

jai
Jobs Halo

re: missing industry standard features

i'm sorry, but these so-called "industry standard features" that everyone keeps on banging on about - the front-facing camera, mms, memory-cards - are they actually useful

i don't know _anyone_ who does video phonecalls or video conferencing on their mobile. if you need that for business, you'll do it in a meeting room.

mms were a fad and their time has past. send an email with a full size picture for free instead of an expensive tiny fuzzy text messsage picture - if you lot want to keep living in the dark ages of sms technology that's your problem

and memory-cards - these, like dvd/cd drive and floppy disks before them, are things of the past. in the same way that the MacBook Air has dispensed with teh need for a cd/dvd drive, so too has the iphone dispensed with memory cards! stop living in the past!!

Apple grabs number-three US PC market slot

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@ webster phreaky - re: @alistair millington

alright, own up, what have you done with the real Webster?

those sound like suspiciously pro-mac comments and to be honest, it unnerves me when comments like that have Webster's name attached to them. it's a sign of the End Times, i'm sure, the Lamb opens the 7th Seal, the Four ride forth and silence covers the land... and Webster begins to proclaim the excellent qualities of Apple :)

UK gov announces Road Pricing 2.0 - Managed Motorway

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meh

i've no objection to paying a bit to use the road if it means there's no idiots in front slowing everyone up

they should have the system for the normal lanes where speed limits are reduced to 50mph in high conjestion, but there should also be a fast, toll lane where the speed limit is 90mph

Pope apologises for Apple's MobileMe sins

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Jobs Halo

blasphemy

i'm highly offended too!!!!

but then, i'm a fully paid up follower of the Cult of Apple, so the offense i take is from completely the opposite direction to that of Mr Millar

after all, the iPhone Came, We Saw, and We Bought

and now it has arisen again as was propesised by His Holiness Jobs

i've even seen the holy trinity (the original, the 3g and the 16gb)

i've not seen any similarly compelling evidence to prove the existance of Jesus

Nokia E71 smartphone

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ugly

that's horrifically ugly

and the screen is far too small to be useful for reading work documents or watching tv shows

this Nokia effort is a smart phone aimed at the old generation of smartphones before the iPhone and the SE X1 and even the HTC Touch Pro/Diamond

Sony PS3 movie downloads are go

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prices

i wonder why you bother to include the GBP and EUR conversions of the dollar prices for this.

it's not available outside the US - it'll probably take AGES before it is, and we know full well that the prices on this side of the pond will be far greater than your calculate figures.

Apple has that syncing feeling over MobileMe

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nice

30 days of extra use and what seems to be a suggestion that they've every intention of speeding up the desktop app side of things too (even though I still fail to see why anyone _really_ needs it to be much faster than 15 minutes - exactly what's going to happen in the 14 minutes in between that's going to inconvienance you that much?)

jai

can you hear that?

it's the sound of Webster printing this article out and sticking it to his wall with blu-tack

and then probably doing something lewd and gross to himself while reading it

Hackintosh maker gets legal greeting from Apple

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windoze drones

you people banging on about how apple should release OS X to run on non-apple hardware are missing the point. it isn't anti-competative behaviour

apple users do not choose to run OS X, and therefore have to buy a mac. we choose to own macs because of the combined package of hardware+OS

i wouldn't run OS X on a generic pc if it was possible because then i'd have all the same trouble as other pc users and OS X wouldn't be as reliable because it'd be bulked out with code to cope with every type of pc combination instead of just the hardware set up i have.

lets face it - you lot are just gagging to be OS X users but your too proud to admit it. you're only apple-haters because your jealous :)

Unpatched Windows PCs own3d in less than four minutes

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pwn3d

if you're going to try and be hip and with it and down with the kids in your titles, at least get the 1337 nomenclature correct, innit :)

El Reg nails Street View spycars to Google Maps

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flashers

i'm surprised no one's tried streaking alongside these cars yet

Want a new career as a contract killer?

jai

no women no kids

i always wanted to be a hitman

ever since i saw Leon and then a little later Gross Pointe Blank

even Assassins makes it seem like a cool job - much better'n sitting on my 'arris all day in front of a computer typing inane comments on El'Reg articles

and now that Wanted is in the cinemas, well that's just it, guns, action, money, and you get to get off with Angelina Jolie! WHY didn't my guidance counsellor at school suggest being a hitman to me when i was young enough to begin training? why did he leave it to Holywood to show me my ideal profession?

Oz censor, gamers fall out over Fallout 3 ban

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@Corrine

you might have a valid point there

if Morphine is in the game, it does suggest that the other Fallout traditional drugs are not. also, from the censor's description, it seems that the side-effects of OD'ing are not present.

what else is missing from the game? what else has been made more realistic and moved away from the traditional feel of the original Fallout games?

WTF have Bethesda done?????

have they removed Nuke-cola too?

does this suggest they've taken one of the greatest games of all time and turned it into Eldar Scrolls with a big scorpions damnit!!!!!

jai

GTA4

but GTA4 doesn't promote drug use - there's no point where Niko shoots up

it's even anti-drink&drive because if you go out drinking, you exit the pub staggering all over the place, it's hard to drive and if the cops see you they immediately give chase, and because your inhebriated and can't drive straight, it's tough to loose them

so actually, there's no parallels between Fallout and GTA4

all that said, how stupid does the australian censor board think that average australians are? are they really likely to confuse living in a post-aplocalyptic wasteland where you have to fight off mutants and zombies with real life?

3 days on: The iPhone users still to make a call

jai

still no stock in the shops either

i just checked the two nearest O2 store to Bank underground station and both of them have no stock, and have no idea when they'll get stock back in.

they hope for the end of the week, because they're expecting to get new stock once a week, but they suggest to check back regularly as they can't guarentee they won't sell out of the new stock as soon as i appears

i know everyone on this site loves to slate the iPhone, but you've got to admit, it's selling a lot more units than any other phone at the moment, so there must be something right about it, regardless of whatever Webster thinks

Apple iPhone 3G

jai

mouse

y'know - it's possible to record the Keynote presentations without the mouse icon being visible too - makes it look a little less amateur

O2 buckles under 3G iPhone demand

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phew

i was a bit gutted that i wasn't able to queue up this morning for upgrade my old iPhone to a new one - but reading on the forums about all the trouble people are having and how quickly the stock is running out in the shops that are able to use the system, i'm kinda glad in the end.

think i'll wait till next week and try and upgrade then

odd that we've not heard from Webster yet - i guess he's stuck in a queue as well, waiting to get his one

iPhone apps hit the racks at the iTunes store

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Jobs Halo

@webster

i'm sure webster (being a sick and twisted individual) will get his rocks off on this image

http://images.macrumors.com/article/2008/07/10/110549-ipd_400.jpg

myself, i feel somewhat physically sick looking at it - oh the humanity!!!

Belgian operator will sell iPhone simlock-free

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3G with 1.1.4??

how do you get a 3G iPhone with 1.1.4 f/w?

even if these have all fallen off the back of a truck that s'posed to be delivering them to O2's online store(!) then they'd all be loaded with v2.0 surely?

sounds to me like these are all old stock of 1st gen iPhones that they're trying to shift by labelling them as "iPhone 3G"

Rabbit murderer stalks Ruhr Valley

jai

re: All together now...

i'd rather sing along to the awesome (and now seemingly prophetic) Moloko track, Killer Bunny

iPhone 3G to be in 'very short supply for weeks' - carrier

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doesn't wash

if they run out of stock, how come the "we've run out of stock" message didn't appear until the middle of the afternoon?

if they sold out within a couple of hours, why is that there were so many people who were trying to get one between 8am and 10am and yet were unsuccessful?

are they accusing Apple of (effectively prompting) a DOS attack? :)

Minister urges end to videogame rating feud

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pictograms?

so what pictograms will PEGI use to classify GTA4 so that parents will get it through their thick skulls that the game is only suitable for adults and not for their little Johnny who's only 12 but he's a good lad really?

do they have a pictogram for driving cars far too fast and wrecklessly? for beating people to death with a baseball bat? for picking up and gettin it on with a prostitute before letting her out the car and running her over to get your money back?

how many pictograms can they fit on the back of a video game box?

whereas the BBFC has a very clear and easy to understand 18 on the box. it matches the same system used for movies, so it's easy to get an idea of what the content will be like

and it shouldn't necessarily be the stores that are prosecutable

they should change the law so that if your offspring suddenly goes on a Rampage around town and then claims "the computer games made me do it" then you get to go to jail with them

then maybe parents would start to take some responcibility and do their frikken job!

O2 starts 3G iPhone stampede - and runs away

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@Dave Cumming

you are obviously not a true believer

you've not felt the rapture of RDF from his holiness Jobs

:-)

c'mon, man, this is a technology news site - at least half the people reading this site are all early adopter techno freaks. if we wait till October then everyone else will already have the new iPhone too and we won't be able to show it off to anyone

or worse, there'll be something even better to get excited about and we'll forget all about the iPhone 3G

there is no future, there is only the here and now that matters

jai
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no more available

just tried once again to discover the following:

"Due to huge demand for iPhone 3G we've run out of stock online.

Come back on 10th July for more information"

http://upgrades.o2.co.uk/maintenance.html

i have iRage now

jai
Unhappy

re: safari

wierd - on the macrumours site someone reported that they'd had no luck with Firefox but the first time they tried it on Safari it went straight through without a glitch

i've been reloading and entering my details non-stop now for 4 hours

if the rest of you could just STOP trying to upgrade your iPhones for 10 minutes it'd give me a chance to get my order through the system. thanksverymuchverykindofyou :-) :-)

jai

so incompetant

i always wondered why everyone complains so much about O2

this is the first i've been with them and, upto yesterday, i'd had no complaints at all

but to be caught unawares that there would be a stampead like this is just ridiculous. did they really expect people to get the text message this morning and think to themselves "well that's nice, maybe i'll log on this evening when I get home and put my order in"?

i'm hearing that people have called the customer services up, but have been told that upgrade orders can only be placed online, they won't even allow you to do that in the shop on Friday!

I'm >this< close to just buying a new one and getting a new number instead of smegging around with this upgrade process.

Apple drags its heels on iPhone security patches

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re: Pfft

but you can't just "SSH into an iphone connected onto the same WIFI network"

you have to have installed a cracked version of the firmware first to enable SSH

you can't complain that the guys iphone allows people root access because he's the one that's given it to them

jai
Jobs Halo

a little late for this news?

surely the next version of this software will be version 2.0

that will be available for the original iPhone and the iPhone 3G

and it's rumoured to be released in 6days 14hours 52minutes and 25seconds

or are you just writing this article now so that in almost a week's time you can feel smug that Apple obviously listened to you?

Palm, BlackBerry-beating demand for 3G iPhone claims researcher

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Jobs Halo

re: um. Who paid for this research?

i see how the numbers are _that_ bad

the article suggests that the research only asked which phone the punters would like to get

i'd like to get a 1968 GT500KR Shelby Mustang to drive, but that doesn't mean i can afford, nor am likely, to get one

nearly everyone i know _wants_ an iphone - but none of them have got one yet and all of them are still not keen on either the price or the network operator with the new one.

but if you ask them which phone out of a list they'd like to have, they'd answer the iPhone

Consider yourself Moderatrixed

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@S&LiAR

"a man whose only involvement with technology is to turn on his HD Plasma, sit in front of it with his hands down his pants, belching along to MTV videos? "

way-hey! sounds like we're made for each other then - i can't stand Plasmas either, which is why i've got an LCD - and hands are definately not down pants, they're too busy playing GTA IV

we should hook up - what you doing tomorrow night? bring pizza - extra large pepperoni - and red bull because it's so annoying having to stop playing in order to sleep

Sony pulls PlayStation 3 software update

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re: Xbox anyone?

...AND you get a free RROD to light up the front of your doorstop

M$ are generous like that

Court slaps UK BitTorrenters with landmark damages award

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leechers

so leechers, in theory, should have a sound defense as they can prove they never let anyone download from them, and are therefore not liable for any further fines beyond not paying for the software

Land Warrior wearable war-smartphone survives Iraq baptism

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fishing for hits

"Admittedly, the original Land Warrior didn't use a touchscreen, but a more cumbersome process where a chest controller moved a mouse across keys on the monocle display."

so, in fact, it's completely nothing like the iPh*ne's keyboard at all

and sounds impossible to use and no wonder they rejected it

in fact, the only reason you've mentioned iPh*ne is to try and get hits registered on search engines isn't it?

Who will be the next Doctor?

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Alien

Robert Carlyse

I want to see the next Dr Who as Begby from Trainspotting

the Dr's far too much of a pacifist for the world we live in today - i wanna see the Doctor striding into a pub on a distant planet, calling the Darleks a bunch of ***ts, headbutting the Face of Bo and then glassing a Sontaran with his pint and kicking a Cyberman in the happy sacks

An iPhone with a keyboard?

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Jobs Halo

your reality, sir, is balderdash and i'm delighted to say i have no grasp of it whatsoever

i always said, if you need more than one mouse button to do something, then it is not worth doing!!

admittedly, us mac acolytes now have the ability to right-click and very useful it is too, so my new devise-de-la-vie is "if you need keys to type it, it isn't worth typing"

Staffer spills beans on O2 UK 3G iPhone launch

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Jobs Halo

PAYG = £370

The rumours are that getting the phone PAYG will cost 370notes.

but that said, that's a lot less than the 30quid a month tarrif will cost over 18months, so it seems a good deal - specailly if you're on a different network and hope to crack it

i wonder what the data costs are on the PAYG tarrifs. the O2 yearly tarrif is made worthwhile because the data is turely unlimited - if they offer a PAYG package with a reasonably priced data plan it could be quite interesting

Yes! It's the Knight Rider satnav!

jai

no sweeping lights?

so in every single image of the unit, the lights on the sides are in exactly the same position - do they not voorp voorp from side to side (or top to bottom in this case) like KITT's does? that's a bit lame and cheap. how much would it cost to put a small circuit in to pulse the leds in sequence?

Rare Mac Trojan exploits Apple vuln

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Joke

Lister FTW

So all of a sudden they wake up one mornin' and the Greeks have gone. And there outside the city walls they've left this gift; this tribute to their valiant foes: a huge wooden horse, just large enough to happily contain 500 Greeks in full battle dress and still leave adequate room for toilet facilities? Are you telling me not one Trojan goes, "Hang on a minute, that's a bit of a funny prezzy. What's wrong with a couple hundred pairs of socks and some aftershave?" No, they don't -- they just wheel it in and all decide to go for an early night! People that stupid deserve to be kerpowed, zapped and kersplatted in their beds! You know what the big joke is? From this particular phase in history we derive the phrase, "Beware of Greeks bearing gifts," when it would be much more logical to derive the phrase, "Beware of Trojans, they're complete smegheads!"

Firefox 3 downloads hit 7m despite server FAIL

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re: WHO IS USING FIREFOX, WITH --OPERA-- AROUND

Just a shame Opera can't stop you typing in caps-lock or fix your spelling mistakes, eh?

@Robert Grant

The problem with the server failure is that they postponed the 24-hour period. All other Guiness Record attempts are strictly monitored. You don't see someone going for the domino records, knocking over a couple of hundred, and then saying, it's alright, we'll just reset them and try it again, eh? Land speed records have to be two consecutive runs, there and back - you can't go one way and then say, well the cars a bit pooped, we'll let it cool down over night and try again tomorrow.

So Mozilla moving the 24-hour period like that makes a mockery of the whole event.

jai

7,000,000 and one, so help me god

i couldn't resist the temptation to find out if it's worth it or not

and my AdBlocker plugin doesn't work so now - but interestingly, i mainly installed that to stop the poxy adverts on theregister because they would take ages to display before old firefox would render the actual news text. however, FF3 isn't doing too badly and loading all the items quickly

but what on earth is the point of the HUGE, highlighted green back button?

is Mozilla suggesting that it's users are too stupid to work out which way is back and which is forward?

it's very ugly and i'm hoping that a theme comes out soon that can make it look more like the old interface

Firefox 3 Download Day falls flat on face

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re: Do you wanna be a record breaker?

where's Roy Castle when you need him? (oh yeah, right, i forgot)

still, it won't be the same without him playing the trumpet as the credits roll

i still think it'd be far more fun if 2 million people all downloaded Opera or Safari on the same day

because as you say, there is no official record yet - so even if just one person downloads it, they'll have got the "record"