Posts by Alistair MacRae

US spying is finally starting to affect US business...

Guess that finally will make them change their ways :P.

I've got a set of engraving tools.

I'll write anything you like on the fruit machines.

I'll charge apples prices though :P

Question to someone sciencey.

If you put a compressor in helium airship and compress some of the helium into a tank, will that drop the amount of lift generated?

If so could you use that to control altitude on the airship?

Another victory for the consumer!

Glad courts are all trying hard to get us a fair deal...

I used my iPad2 at christmas!

I installed and attempted to play the wolf among us. The apps store says it runs on the iPad2, they lie! It's frame rate is terrible so I got it on PC instead.

My iPad is really just for watching fails of the week and other various YouTube detritus.

Other than aesthetic and weight changes I don't see the point of upgrading.

2K res is all well and good but how much stuff is running that?

Fit a slow release valve?

I have visions of those nozzles you push into orange/milk cartons to pour with.

Hammer that in the ground with a screw lid.

You're welcome humanity!

What will the Register do?

That's 50% drop in story output when they sort out patients!

Just teasing really, love you Reg.

A few problems to overcome

Just thinking about how they'd get around GPS spoofing to misdirect the packages.

I suppose there'd be health and safety concerns too with a machine flying over peoples heads with up to a 2 KG payload.

I wonder if someone would try and shoot it down to collect the loot.

That poster is horrific!

Not real though surely?

Why not freak apple out and double their asking price to $760M

Then just increase the cost of the parts they make for Apple to make up for it :P

Looks like the Normandy from Mass Effect

Maybe not in the first pic, but definitely in the side profile picture.

Apple sounds like an attention seeking child

Hey guys look at me! Where are you going? Wait a sec, I'm gonna do something...You'd better keep looking... because it's going to be awesome...any minute now...

What's the point of stating you're working on something? That much is obvious, people would be alarmed if you weren't.

But all this talking while saying nothing is pointless, trying to keep shareholders happy?

Make XP open source?

That would generate some good will towards MS wouldn't it?

No real profit in it though I suppose.

But will gam devs use it?

This cloud computing stuff for gaming sounds very interesting but the advantage that console games have over PC as everyone one knows, is the every console is the same and they can tweak it to get the most from the hardware.

Internet connections vary massively, a game dev can't be sure that offloading the work to cloud will work the same on every console so I don't see how it'll be taken up.

I suppose they could introduce a minimum requirement for the internet connection but that will start dividing the install base which is usually the last thing console devs want to do.

I wouldn't say we've stopped evolving.

We still have to breed and the circumstances bringing about the ability to find a mate still are needed.

We will still continue to mutate so we will still "evolve" in some kind of direction.

Any one seen Idiocracy? It was about the intelligent people focusing on careers and stupid people kept on having more and more children till everyone was stupid. (this was a comedy and not even a good one IMO but you get the idea)

I have a iPhone 5

I have an iPhone 5, the only reason I got it is because I dropped my 4S and broke the screen.

The iPhone 5 has a faster processer and more RAM I just have no idea what that extra stuff is accomplishing.

I have seen no real difference in real life between the 4s and 5 though, has anyone?

This new iPhone 5s... what's the point of it?

You can't use Skype on the 360 without xbox gold either can you?

It's not surprising really, chances if you're going to be recording gameplay you'll already be on Xbox live gold anyway.

Any word on if Sony will do the same? They are charging for online play now at least.

I didn't subscribe to Xbox live back when I used to have a 360 and remember most services weren't available. I think they even wanted you to have to have gold to watch the iPlayer at one point.

I remember a there was talk of a subscription subsidised price that was going to be for the Xbox One that is the only way I could justify having both Xbox live and an Xbox One.

Chess and brain power?

Not sure if chess is a battle of brain power.

I beat my girlfriend every time we play chess, however I have yet to win any argument.

I'd rather face the armed robot in that respect

Rapid Release

With releasing more often will we end up going through 2 versions of Windows OS before getting one everyone likes rather than the standard every other release?

If they make something that is useful...

If they make something that is useful... I'd probably get it.

I cant imagine I'd get on with an iWatch. I don't want to have to charge up a watch every night or even every week. Plus it'd need to be waterproof.

I dont think Microsoft ever did well in Japan.

It seems the Japanese have more loyalty to their home product.

Isn't Sony bleeding money at the moment? I'd be interested to know how PS3 and xbox game sales rank against one another.

The PS3 used to be a good deal as just a blu-ray player and that may influence things.

Not sure what is going on with Nintendo really. They announced the Wii U ages ago dropping sales of original Wii consoles and then after that they made the mini Wii.

Also they made the 3DS that sold poorly, so naturally they made an XL version of it and put that out.

Seems like they've lost the plot

Does this mean push wont work anymore?

I only signed up recently because it did push so easily.

What about GLaDOS?

Surprised she didn't show up in here?

Can apple buy Foxconn or some other manufacturer?

If they built their own stuff wouldn't that save money? Or does their buisness model rely on exploitng Chinese workers on low wages?

If they opened their own apple factory in China could they not get away with it then?

Go an iDevice and don't need one anymore.

I bought an 4S and there's no compelling reason to upgrade to the next one and a few things holding me back. I dont want to use an adaptor for my docs, and with updates coming along and being able to wipe apps of MY iPhone I'll stay where i am. There's less reason to stick with apple when I'd have to change my docks anyway.

I also have an iPad2 but cant see a reason to upgrade. The 3 is too heavy and the mini is too small and adaptor is wrong. Again not feeling a need to upgrade.

Where could he be?

“Where could he be? Threepio! Threepio, will you come in?”

Enjoying the game but,

I wouldn't call it hyper-realistic. The graphics are fairly poor IMO, its pretty console focused as you can tell from the menus.

I'm hoping someone releases a mod with higher res textures or something.

Bring on the next console generation. The tech's too old now.

How about the cross

There's people going round with a symbol of a man being tortured to death all over the place. Not appropriate for public viewing surely?

EELS!

Eels up inside ya! Finding an entrance where they can.

Can you keep google maps still?

I don't want to upgrade and lose it. I find the street view and lots of points of interest very useful.

Can you have both apps?

I think Microsoft is trying to unify products.

If you look at how Microsoft has been behaving it looks like it’s trying to make all its products appear more unified.

They change Hotmail to outlook. They Create the Windows 8 OS for phones. They mirror that with the metro interface on the PC side of Windows 8 and then match it with their tablet.

Their new Xbox will be called the Xbox Infinity. Symbolised with an 8 on its side (see Microsoft buying up URLs of xbox8).

I think it’s not a bad idea but I just hate the way it looks on the desktop.

If I were Microsoft I would have windows 8 for the PC keep the standard desktop interface as we've always had with the option to use the Metro interface with an icon or key press.

Then have the Metro settings for the interface sync by cloud across all devices so you're looking at the same screen whatever device you're using phone, computer, tablet, or Xbox.

That is really where Microsoft strength is, having it finger in all the pies.

David Bowe

Why not play life on Mars? More appropriate methinks.

Why did they fit speakers to the thing though. When every gram costs money to get to space they put speakers on the think.

Is it in case they meet some Martians and need to say hello.

With the delay the locals would get bored and wander off.

It'd be good to see AMD rise again.

I've been buying Intel chips for a bit now and it still feels dirty.

Last core i remember using was the clawhammer. I think they went into decline since then.

How about that Italian bloke who has done cold fusion with the e-cat?

Once Andrea Rossi’s E-CAT stuff gets going if it's actually real then it should overtake Apple right?

Unless Apple comes out with an iCat?