Posts by jai

association with a strong brand???

"BD has the capacity advantage, while HD DVD has the benefit of being associated with a very strong brand: DVD"

since when is DVD a brand name? and i'm sure the movie buying public aren't so stupid as to be scared away from BluRay because it is a new name, but they'll flock towards HD DVD because they recognise the last 3 letters in the name??

that would only work if DVDs were no longer available and also if they could play HD DVDs in their old DVD players.

all three formats are disc technology. everyone is familiar with this "brand" of media because CD did all of the work there back in the 80s

nice

i like the way your screenshot of the cnn page includes the disclaimer text that says "This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed"

delivery drivers

you guys are missing the whole point about delivery drivers. they won't use the signal to "drive to the 15th floor"

they'll use it to work out how many stairs they'll have to climb in order to deliver the parcel, and then just leave a We Called And You Were Out card stuck under the ground floor door

or just loose the parcel at the sorting office and save all the time and effort involved in driving to the block of flats in the first place

Re: Pity

".... they picked her & not 7 of 9.... ah well"

how could Spock's mum be a Borg though? that wouldn't work - you'd need some kind of space-time continuum mix up for that to happen.

Great Scott !!! there's a perfect movie cross-over to have Marty McFly as the Captain of the Enterprise

"No Klingon calls me chicken!!"

p.s. i like the way all you die-hard Trekkie geeks are posting as Anon and not admitting to being the card-carrying pointy-ear-wearing geeks you are :-D

@buckmelter

"This is a show stopper for me, and I will have to revert to 10.4, since my job as a software engineer for Sun requires Java 6"

what professional developer worth their salt would upgrade their key development environment without first testing it on a backup/test machine? and who upgrades a work environment on the first weekend of a new OS being available anyway?

anyone with half a brain will wait for all the bugs to be ironed out by consumers and possibly for the first patch to come out and then try it out on a test environment before going ahead and upgrading their production machine.

possibly a bad idea

"The code uses a known vulnerability with firmware 1.1.1, which it subsequently patches."

so if it fixes the vulnerability, then how would you go about reversing the changes if you no longer wish to use the not-really-all-that-amazing-3rd-party-apps afterwards? and when Apple release 1.1.x with the killer must-have enhancement that you want, how do you go about applying a hack to revert your iPhone to pre-hack status? surely only a hardware reset which'll wipe all your data

also, while you have to respect there is some technical complexity probably involved in opening the machines via a web interface, it just makes it too easy doesn't it? which means that Apple will be bound to step in to fix it, which ultimately means it'll make it harder for the machines to be hacked in the future

(my main gripe here is that by the time i get my hands on an iPhone at the UK launch next month, it'll be impossible for me to load 3rd party apps and it'll all be the fault of this AppSnap!! damn their eyes!!)

re: Selling a service???

Apple don't sell a service to you the user. And you don't pay Apple for any service.

Apple sell you the hardware.

AT&T (and soon O2 and Orange etc) sell you the service of being able to use the phone networks and make calls and data transfers and voicemail etc etc. And you pay AT&T for that.

AT&T then decide to hand part of what you paid them to Apple in order to make sure that none of their rivals are allowed to sell the iPhone as well. It's AT&Ts choice to pay Apple the chunk of your monthly payment but it means they get the majority of the iphone purchasers on their network, so they're happy.

whole new pricing tier

"There are [people] who are willing to pay a lot for a phone."

But the thing is, Motorola can't just put out a Razr3 and charge 400quid for it - people are willing to pay a high price for a phone, but it has to do lots of things and it has to work easily.

i bought a SE M600i when they first came out and the software on that keeps crashing and needing to be reset. cos it was cheap i've coped with it for the last year. but i'd be livid if i'd paid 400 quid for it and it didn't work

re: @AC

the IT angle? surely any IT professional worth his salt will readily admit to enjoying watching Jackie Chan movies. get a number of tech geeks around a pub table and eventually the conversation will end up discussing the merits of Police Story over Police Story 2

surely not a problem for Take2?

in these days of amazon and ebay surely Take2 aren't that concerned. anyone in the uk who really wants to play this will import it from the states once it's released

no verdict

i'm sure even if this does make it to trial, the defendant will somehow miraculously escape prosecution. much like the mafia, i suspect He'll wait until everyone in congregated at the courthouse, which will then be destroyed by and Act of God

re: spoilsports

i think the least the Reg can do is make a copy of the unedited version available for us all to read

re:

Webster where are you when we need you?

re: n95

the point is, all the problems with n95 may be solvable by running patches or unbranding the phone or whatever. they all require some research on the web and mucking about with the phone.

the iPhone, like all things Apple, just works

no need for any mucking about to make it do what it is supposed to do

you might think that means its only suitable for non-techy types who don't know how to tinker with their phones

personally, i'd rather spend that time tinkering with the phone to make it do more interesting things, functions that it wasn't meant to do, not wasting the time fixing the bugs that the manufacturor couldn't be bother to fix

3G in feb08

it depends on which rumour sites you believe, but a 3G iPhone could be with us as soon as Feb'08 according to ThinkSecret

http://www.thinksecret.com/news/0709iphoneeurope.html

title

ah ha, i've worked it out. webster freaky is Cade

and honestly, i can't believe it took you a whole frikken week to write up this rant. this isn't journalism, it's nothing more than a blog rant

re: title

i'm not sure where Dave got the idea that the author of the article was comparing an iPod to HiFi quality sound.

the only time hi-fi is mentioned is on the first page where it is clear that it is referring to your home audio entertainment system (be that a surround sound system, a compact "mini hi-fi", or some kind of insanely expensive seperate component system which these days is only used but the sort of sad audiophile freak who gets their rocks off pretending that they can actually hear and appreciate sounds outside of the hearing range of most normal people.

HiFi used to mean High Fidelity and was a classification of the quality of sound. These days it's just slang for whatever kit you use to make noise come out the speakers

fair better use

yep, i'd like to add my name to the list of Reg readers that are more interested in using the technology to print pictures on themselves than to use it for medical means and improve peoples lives.

but really, you'd wouldn't want the tattoos to be permenant. if it was just a case of shoving your arm in your SkinJet then why have a tattoo that'll last for several years and fade to a smudgey blue and look really rubbish when you're old and grey. why not have a different, full colour, tattoo every week?

classic vs touch

if the touch had the same capacity as the classic, who on earth would buy the classic? or it'd have to be twice the price and then you'd complain that it was so freaking expensive

re: Biased Much!

Sony didn't pre-announce that they were giving away the tvs IIRC - otherwise i'd have been there to get one. or if they did, it was announced after there were already 100 people queued up outside the store so it made no difference

re: 179 mph?

nope, when it comes to speed, we like it in Imperial measurments here in Blighty. just as we like to buy our fruit and veg in lbs. none of your euro metric rubbish for us thanks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_units#United_Kingdom

what forum was this on?

and why are monks surfing web forums and getting in arguments with 12 year old trolls instead of spending their time more profitably by meditating for world peace and practicing moves from Jet Li movies?

re: B&O

you refer to the BeoLink 5000 i think. which did indeed have a transparent lcd display at the top of the remote control to tell you what av source you had selected and the channel etc that was playing. however it wasn't touch sensitive. it did have buttons on front and back, but they were normal buttons on the main part of the controller, not used via the lcd display

http://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=696

however, it wasn't a patch on the BeoLink 7000 that was just the best thing in the whole wide world

lightsabre smightsmabre!

"hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster in your hand, kid!"

september

play.com still have it listed as a uk release on the 28th Sept

amazon haven't got the game listed at all as far as i could see

rubbish

when i were a lad we didn't have no fancy gadegtry in our bedrooms to keep us awake all night

but that didn't mean i went to sleep when i was sposed to - did no one else read books by torchlight under the bedcovers?

just because the technology has changes doesn't mean that kids are behaving any different - it's in the nature of all kids to try and stay awake as long as possible

and it doesn't matter how much sleep you get, schoolwork is still boring

re: A Ms

i'm also disapointed that it too such a racist incident to take the show off the air. i would have thought that common sense would have prevailed and people would have realised that this is lowest common denominator tv - but evidently not

can we arrange for some horrifically taboo argument to occur also on the normal BB and get that banned forever?

Cha...

blowing missiles out the sky and stuff is all very well, but surely the only worthwhile goal is to make something powerful enough to be able to write your name on the surface of the moon with, no?

http://www.omgwallhack.org/media/img/joe/chairface-moon.jpg

Re: Finally EyeTV has competition

odd - i've been using EyeTV as my main PVR software for the past couple of years and it's brilliant - especially the latest versions.

storage space

hmmm... 2gb nano isn't going to be large enough to hold both a reasonable amount of music and video. possibly they'll get rid of that and move the nano's to lower price points? maybe the 8gb gets replaced with a 16gb?

meh...

i think i'll wait and get an old 360 cheap off ebay to play Halo3. i can always paint it black or get Jessica Alba vinyl covers for it if i really can't stand the colour.

Also, Stranglehold seems like a strange title to mention as being a reason for buying a 360 Elite - it's only coming out on the 360 2 weeks earlier than it's PS3 release. although it'll be overshadowed by the released of Warhawk and Heavenly Sword i guess

re:Not unfair, just how the world is

yes, and look at how popular gifs are these days?

bloody sacrilidge!!!

i can't beleive they have to front to try and remake such an iconic and classic movie as this. it's going to get slated, no matter how good it might be, because it won't be as good as everyone thinks they remember the original being. were no lessons learnt from the Itallian Job and Precinct 13 and all the others. modern film techniques and special effects are no match for the nostalgia that people feel for these classics.

@Gav - well _obviously_ surely every IT geek has seen and is a fan of Enter the Dragon, no?

motion sickness

can we not have Eva Green AND Julia Stiles? together with Angelina and Kate as a quartet of pvc-clad goth vampiresses from the Dr Who discussion?

anyway, Bond is terrific entertainment. you don't need to think too much and get emotionally involved with the dilema and consence of the character - just sit back and watch the big set explosions and the funky gadgets

Bourne maybe a more realistic trained psychopathic killer, but not so entertaining. and thankfully it seems Bond films have the budget to afford a steadycam for the cameramen so that the audience isn't afflicted with motion sickness during the action pieces. honestly, at times it's hard to see any action on the screen in the Bourne films because the camera is jerking around so much

space elevators

space elevators are the answer. no need for gob loads of fuel being spent in getting to low orbit and discarding loads of rocket boosters. just a nice steady (kinda slow) ride to the outer atmosphere. okay, so it's probably technically a little difficult to get one to work, but it's a one-off payment for many years of continued use - it's green and affordable. instead of creating more landfill sites, we could ship all our rubbish up them when they're not being used to send up people and spy satellites and stuff, and then fire the garbage into the sun.

and it'd be cool - they could build a resturant at the top or something. maybe it could stop halfway down and people could skydive or bungie the rest of the way. no reason why the space and entertainment and extreme sports industries can't work in harmony is there?

a need for parenting licenses

isn't there a saying along the lines of "you need a license to carry a gun, pass a driving test to drive a car, but any frigging idiot can be a parent"

Re: I can't be the only one...

fear not - you're in safe company here. all this talk of egyptians was also making me think of the film. gonna have to watch that film again soon

@Law

and what good is a software eject anyway? you've still gotta get up and walk over to the machine to change the smegging disc anyway