Posts by Thomas 4

"My boss will kill me"

Before or after the owner of the Ferrari?

Mine's the one with somebody else's car keys in the pocket.

How to phrase this without sounding like a DM reader

I really hope the officers involved in this fiasco, which smacks of bullying and intimidation, get their balls nailed to the wall for this. Metaphorically speaking.

A disappointingly light review

While good for the basics regarding speeds and dongle quality, there are afew other areas I'd have like to have seen taken into consideration. I mainly use my Vodafone Mobile Broadband for gaming and have been having problems not tied to firewalls, AV, etc but within the actual service itself. From what I have been able to figure out, this seems to be linked to an inability of Vodafone to support certain P2P connections for games such as Borderlands and Civilisation 4 amongst others.

As there are more people slowly beginning to use their mobile internet connections in this way, it might be something to consider for future reviews. The other one, of course, is customer and technical support being included as part of a review but I can imagine that would be hard to test.

Zynga were wise to listen

Being neglected and being abused are things PETA has a lot of experience with.

A real let down

I was bitterly disappointed when I found out a hung parliment did not involve several hundred metres of rope.

Oh God...

I'm crying real tears here for the gene pool of human race. My sole consolation is that the ratio of men: women is proportional to the number of police officers needed to arrest a Gizmodo journalist.

My 2 penguin's worth

I've been keeping half an eye on the whole Sony/Linux thing for a few years now - came close to getting a full Linux kit for my old PS2 until it gave up the ghost. The people that are really suffering as a result are folks like those at Yellow Dog Linux, who have been working on a PS3-specific version of Linux only to now have all that effort wasted.

Granted I don't if I will get around to putting the Penguin on my PS3 but it's an option I don't want taken away for the most vague and pointless of reasons.

Unexpected move

I really expected Palm to end up being bought out by Huwaei(?) or or another Chinese company rather one of the major players like HP. I have fond memories of my Tungsten T3 and my first PDA, an iPAQ 3870. Merging the two together would have been really cool a few years back but in this day and age I'm not sure if it can make a comeback. It certainly won't make a dent in the consumer section, Apple and Android have that wrapped up but it might have a place in the hearts of nostalgic IT managers looking for a RIM alternative for business.

Above statement may have glaring errors and a demonstrable lack of understanding about corporate IT.

Misleading title

....hands up all those that thought this article was about Apple fanbois trying to f*** their latest gadget?

To our Californian readers....

First one to send a tip off to the cops saying Chen has a 4G iPhone hidden up his ass gets a free pint. You get get another if you manage to get photos of the ensuing cavity search.

I'm sorry sir, but you have reached your lifetime limit for posting

.....is one way to keep the commentards away.

Register Science.....

....we do what we must because we can.

You know, if El Reg took its science seriously instead of looking for SUBATOMIC DEVESTATION and QUASI DIMENSIONAL RIFTS TO LIZARD SPACE, it wouldn't even be a tenth as awesome as it currently is.

One bit of this story doesn't add up...

This mysterious "unidentified person" that nabbed said iPhone and was also responsible for selling this story to Giz and Engadget - if he really was just some random person, would he honestly have cracked the case on this device? The average person on the street certainly wouldn't have done so and a lot of tech people wouldn't have risked damaging the phone by taking it apart.

I call bull**** here.

I know the culprit behind this

I recently cancelled my EvE Online account in order to pay for a flight to Denmark. Damn you CCP! *shakes fist*

Not that I'm complaining....

...but when did El Reg start reviewing games?

Oh for the love of Christ...

....its a freaking film about freaking aliens. It's not the second coming of the iPhone.