Posts by Chris 3

Re: Count me as one who hasn't

Sorry, but how much 4:3 content is there, these days?

Re: iPad?

Really? Looks pretty iPad killer-y to me: http://www.microsoft.com/surface/en/us/about.aspx.

Re: ARMvsIntel Win 8

Surface will be branded as running Windows 8. iPads are not branded as running OS X, neither is the one kind of iPad that will run desktop apps, and another that won't.

Re: Some of you are short-sighted (but only metaphorically)

>I do not need glasses other than about 5 minutes a month so spending hundreds of pounds on them

Pop into Boots and pick up a pair of reading glasses. They do a nice pair of frameless ones that are rather stylist and cost about £20.

The Bluetooth has never worked

When things don't work like that, you just box it up and send it back & they send you another one.

Re: no no no...

Perhaps something like a Kickstarter campaign to hire a decent patent attorney to fight them?

Re: Opt-in... Is It?

As far as I am aware, no. You can only tag people by referencing their facebook accounts.

Re: But it's not "free" is it?

Exactly - come on El Reg, what's with lapping up the PR? My local boozer simply has a blackboard behind the bar with a password that lets you connect to their router. That's all you need. I hate having to navigate around crummy The Cloud login pages.

Someone doesn't understand what security by obscurity is,

So how precisely is Apple's current policy security through obscurity? And how does unlocking iOS' security to the extent needed for a virus scanner to get access to the OS innards actually help?

Re: Insult to middle class Americans?

I presume it's the U.S boiler-plate equivalent to the UK's "hard working families"

Re: And the cognizant ...

>Advertising only exists to provide a living to the operators of the Web site that you are using.

Fixed that for you. Personally, if I'm using a Web site gratis and its providing a useful service, I'm usually happy for it to display ads to me. In the last 10 years, I've probably clicked on 3, but I think the concept of ad-supported Web sites is a fair one.

I use Ad block vary rarely on sites that use particularly obnoxious ads - eye watering flashing monstrosities. The rest - I don't mind

Re: Oddly enough...

Add Apple in too. No idea why. iTunes has gone monochrome, the icons in Finder have suffered the same fate. Annoying.

Re: what's the big deal?

The big deal is that you don't have to be online for this to work. Knowing someone's Skype ID when their logged off is enough to track their most recent IP and therefore rough location. It's a daft bit of design.

Re: Very telling...

Actually - if you read through this comments section you'll find no (currently) fanbois suggesting that "that even MacOS users need to be careful with what they do with their machines". None. Find me one.

You may find people questioning the "10 years behind" statement. You may find people suggesting that actually this article is very light on facts and reads like a puff for Kasperky. But the the rabidly blythe fanboy is difficult to find. They may be out there, but they are fairly rare.

Re: Pro bono?

Puzzled me to. I suppose it is possible that he had his expenses reimburse.

Re: @voland

I dispute your assertion that "A principal that has so little authority in his school that he has to call police to put a 6 year old under control is beyond salvation. This means his authority is ZERO. ZILCH. NIL." As far as I'm concerned the kid who repeatedly tries to bite staff should be removed from school and dealt with. The school's primary responsibility is to the majority of well-behaved children who want to learn. Not the oik.

The child should be put in a room until the parent comes to collect it and can be spoken to. If a parent is unable or unwilling to collect and the police are happy to help - go for it.

I'm sick of these namby pamby people who feel that teachers should spend their time accommodating the whims of bad parents.

Re: weird logic

I think it is fair to say that the availability of of Office on Windows 8 tablets could be unique selling point that would significantly boost sales of Win 8 tablets.

By comparison, I'm not sure that iTunes availability was ever a very important factor in people buying Mac. And Apple was more interested in removing barriers to people buying iPods and promoting music sales on as many platforms as possible.

But yes, there was a bit of shock and mutterings about betrayal amongst the Macmaffia at the time, IIRC.

Re: Huh?

"They need to get off their high horse and stop telling people whats good for them and instead let the consumer make the decision for themselves."

Which of course is exactly what consumers continue to do, judging by Apple's Q2 figures. Now you can dub these consumers iDiots if you want, but that says more about you than them.

Re: Some of these people should have done maths and not engineering

I think OP's point is: Don't sell at 99p if you can't make a profit at 99p. For what it's worth most of the apps I have on my iPad cost rather more than that, because I'm willing to pay for good apps.

Re: wow in other news the sky is blue

You don't seem to understand what a rating agency does - the rating is based on the likelihood that it will default on a lone. Given its current cash pile, how would *you* rate that?

So who gets Boston?

The Lincolnshire town, presumably?

Re: Indeed

I still have copy of Tracey Ullman video with Neil Kinnock in it somewhere.