even shows how El Reg looked as a young vulture in the summer of '97
I prefer that version!
Posts by JDX
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Archive.org web trove hits FOUR HUNDRED BEEEELLION pages
Netflix FREEZES prices for existing UK users to stop them quitting vid-streaming service
How Google's Android Silver could become 'Wintel for phones'
$3.2bn Apple deal would make hip-hop mogul Dr Dre a BEEELLLIONAIRE
Windows XP market share decline stalls, Mac OS X surges
Friday 9th May 2014 08:05 GMT 
Re: "What methodology is used to calculate StatCounter Global Stats?"
>>That explains why even strong pro-Windows websites like TheRegister
Also, El Reg is one of least pro-Windows websites I visit. I suppose to Linuxtards used to visiting sites like BallmerBlowsGoats.org, sites who objectively report on Windows and Linux are massively pro-MS but that's only in comparison.
Friday 9th May 2014 08:03 GMT
Re: "What methodology is used to calculate StatCounter Global Stats?"
It also only measures computers which go on the internet, and are turned on. Noscript is not a common plugin (in terms of market share not absolute numbers) so the skew is within tolerable margins, certainly not enough to materially affect their findings.
Can anyone confirm that AdBlockers do block analytics tools?
Web cesspit 4chan touts '$20 bug bounty' after hackers ruin Moot's day
Cameras for hacks: Idiot-proof suggestions invited
Thursday 8th May 2014 07:15 GMT
A step backwards
Forcing journalists to take their own photos can't be good for the end product. Unless it's a myth perpetuated by photographers that photography is hard, which I a very much doubt, this seems like a boss saying "my nephew did some graphic design at 6th form, lets pay him £5/hour instead of hiring an expensive graphic designer".
A first-world problem solved: Panoramic selfies, thanks to Huawei's Ascend P7
ARM exec: Forget eight-core smartphone chips, just enjoy a SIX-PACK
Google updates Maps app for iOS, Android, adds Uber support
Wednesday 7th May 2014 08:15 GMT
Re: Offline functionality...
This kind of functionality comes for free in Lumia phones - full GPS satnav with no data connection required. And I know you can get the same on iOS apps so presumably the big-name apps are on Android too.
You might have to pay £2 but unless you're totally cheap or ideologically opposed to paying for software...
Potato in SPAAAAACE: LOHAN chap cooks up stratospud with Heston Blumenthal
You'll hate Google's experimental Chrome UI, but so will phishers
El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse back on the bacon
Atom, GitHub's code editor based on web tech, goes open source
Mozilla asks FCC to unleash the nuclear option on net neutrality
El Reg Quid-A-Day Nosh Posse crawls towards finish line
Chinese iWatchers: Apple's WRISTPUTERS ALREADY in production
Friday 2nd May 2014 08:48 GMT
Re: You will need
Well I'll happily stand corrected that such things exist and are affordable. However given that I've NEVER seen anyone use wireless earphones, while I have seen wireless headphones quite frequently - though still a tiny minority - I stand by my other point.
Taking an absolute number of users proves nothing. It's a tiny, tiny niche of the earphone market of interest to a very specific group of people.
Now that being said, one thing Apple are good at is making people decide that suddenly a pre-existing, barely used technology is desirable to the point we have the silly jokes about Apple "inventing" things. So given that BT earphones actually do exist I will also happily change my position on an iWatch to "cautious interest".
As a side question - I'd love BT earphones which were two separate parts without a connecting wire, so you literally just plug in each ear. Do they exist?
BSkyB broadband growth chopped in HALF
Quid-a-day Reg nosh posse chap faces starvation diet
BBC hacks – tweet the crap out of the news, cries tech-dazzled Trust
Wednesday 30th April 2014 19:41 GMT
Re: Flash?
>>As far as I know most mobile devices do not easily support Flash content.
>>However thr BBC seems determined to ignore this.
Their live sport doesn't require Flash, and this is a welcome improvement. I think it's the same for coverage of music stuff e.g. festivals - I hadn't realised news wasn't the same,
Google forges a Silver bullet for Android, aims it at Samsung's heart
Firefox, is that you? Version 29 looks rather like a certain shiny rival
Wednesday 30th April 2014 10:25 GMT
Re: Terible idea
But you're saying it's not better for the majority of people because it's not how you want it to be. That's a very bad assumption. Look at what you're using the main menu bar for in FF, and ask yourself if that's what a regular user who just wants to browse the web would be doing.
For instance I reckon I click the Chrome menu button about once every couple of days, to re-open a recently closed tab or look in my history. That doesn't make a permanent menu bar particularly useful and to me, the Chrome approach IS a better experience.
Neither you or I are typical users though. Our opinions are equally worthless :)
Wednesday 30th April 2014 07:41 GMT
Re: still no top left double click to close
Because most users don't know any better. That's why when you buy a typical camera it has auto-focus and auto exposure settings turned on.
I might not know better for you individually, but as an experienced software designer it is my role to know better than the average user. If you ever worked with your customers and ask them "what do you want" the last think you do is implement what they ask for, or you end up with some god-awful mess of an interface.
Maybe you missed the part where they allow you to change it using themes. So what exactly are you complaining about - to typical users they are trying to present a one-size-fits-all "auto-focus" approach but for expert users you CAN configure it to behave as you prefer.
Tuesday 29th April 2014 23:20 GMT
I disagree. The browser is a window to the internet, a container to let me view the website. I don't want distracting... 99% of the time I only use one button and one text field so why show me stuff I hardly ever use? In fact for non-techy users, all that stuff is just confusing.
Plus, in Chrome you can stick loads of extra stuff under the tab bar if you so desire. So I'm certain you can do to even greater levels in FF.
Tuesday 29th April 2014 23:14 GMT
Re: WTFFFFF?!
Windows 3.11 worked. Wearing a suit and tie every day worked. The world moves on, either you accept this and move with it or you get left behind, talking about the Old Days and becoming increasingly irrelevant.
Nobody should work in IT if they can't accept a rapid rate of change, regardless if it seems justified.
Tuesday 29th April 2014 23:10 GMT
Re: Terible idea
Menu bars were "modern UI concepts" once you know.
Exactly comparable to music, IMO - most people get 'stuck' at some point and from then on, new music is crap. Prior to that, you rolled with changing genres and styles. It must be a natural part of life - I personally believe that unless you consciously fight this it will happen with music and technology. Whether that's a bad thing or not I can't comment but it's why I quite deliberately expose myself to new music and tech, and try to watch out for myself wanting to dismiss some new website as a "stupid fad".
What HAS BEEN SEEN? OMG it's a thing that looks like an iWatch
Twitter investors squawk as user growth, income disappoint again
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