Posts by JDX

Re: LostALLFaith: Will they still be around next year?

MS is STILL profitable even with all those losses. Even if they make NO profit, that means they have paid all their staff and kept the business running and their cash-pile intact.

When you can 'waste' $5bn and still be in profit, you're not about to disappear.

Re: The maddness continues

They've said that converging the OS is on the cards already.

So apart from being able to actually interact with it, it was just fine? I think that's part of my argument... non-RT apps (i.e. all those Windows applications) will look crappy on 8" and be hard to use.

Re: Yeah right.

Hey Andy, 5 people apparently were there and as eyewitnesses have downvoted you.

Or, the typical Reg commentard believes it is their right to be a complete prick to anyone and that being called on this in anyway is a breach of their freedom.

Doing a lot to dispel the angry social-inadequate nerd stereotype guys.

Yeah if you were a lawyer you could have bleated about your human rights and put him in his place.

Re: "It's called free speech"

The point is, the employee didn't know if they were legally allowed to deny him access or not. Nobody has commented on this. But being a typical arrogant lawyer he uses this as a threat. Lawyers do this all the time and since the person they're doing it to is rarely a lawyer, they can get away with anything. Nobody dares deny a lawyer.

I knew you lot were a bunch of whinging sad-cases, but seriously sticking up for a LAWYER?

What do you expect the EJ person to be doing, pushing the plane? Perhaps out with binoculars looking where it had got to?

Re: this should give everyone a pretty clear idea ...

If I owned an A.C. super-boat I'd damn well be watching it rather than attending a conference too. Those things are incredible.

Re: Waterproofing is pretty cool though

I was thinking the same... add a feature that was a joke and get all the media coverage.

Re: *holes

Diddums, so it's OK for you to call people names but not for people to call you on being an obnoxious jerk?

PS: I've never owned an iPhone.

Re: *holes

If you can talk out of yours, they can probably use theirs as fingers.

Re: all-in-one iMac

I bet it doesn't include a modem either.

Re: Next gen WiFi???

Andy Prough... that could be anyone.

John Downs, age 24 3/4, 56 Poplar Drive, Guildford. (left off postcode to protect my privacy)

Re: Can we PLEASE get to grips with this "Apple are expensive" line?

I think they are still very expensive on pure spec. £1750 for a PC with 8Gb of RAM and an i5 seems a lot... this is not a top spec for a desktop PC.

I actually believe design is worth something, and that screen is very pretty too, but I don't think arguing "it's a reasonable price for the spec" is tenable.

Just for laughs I spent 30s on Dell and got a 12Gb i7 & system for £1050.

Re: Did you really need to explain what an iMac is on a tech site?

Actually, I just did go to the Apple store.

http://store.apple.com/uk/mac/family/imac

Since there was no i7 model listed I assumed El Reg were correct. Hiding it as a final customisation offer wasn't something I spotted until I double checked.,

Re: This is the most assine article ever....

How has it been proved wrong? Creating a 2400dpi latex fingerprint copy is not exactly an easy process.

Re: Funny really ...

So you think a burglar is going to follow someone around, waiting for them to discard an empty soft drink can, before fishing it out of the bin and then nicking their phone?

Re: How easy is it REALLY to get your fingerprint from a phone?

The only means... no. By far the biggest.... yes. Someone nicks your phone and wants to be able to unlock it.

Re: If is crashes like IE10 then I'll pass

Your PC is likely to blame. Or it's one of those freak cases - you can find at least one person for who any app you think of simply won't work, to the mystification of developers.