Posts by Steve I

Re: Err...

Remind me again what these better phones were?

Re: guessed password-recovery questions

Well, the easiest thing for any of these type of questions if to use your wife or girlfriend's place_of_birth/mothers_maiden_name/pet/car/colour etc.

but I guess that's not going to work either, is it?

Re: PS3?

Indeed - it's great that primary-school kids are Internet-savvy.

Re: I call bollocks.

I remember a discussion on a forum once on the CLI vs. GUI. One CLI fan commented that he could knock up a quick CLI command string to convert a folder of 100 JPEGS to BMP (or whatever) much, much faster than someone doing it in a GUI graphics program.

Mind you, he couldn't see the irony of using an image-processing problem to demonstrate the advantages of the CLI over a GUI.

Re: Here we go

But compared to the phone i had (running Win Mob, IIRC), I wasn't too sassauge-fingered to find anything wrong with the buttons, my headphones fitted, the camera was better, could have done with C&P, quick-dial: meh (Just dial a favourite or contact), far better browser and more useable with the massive increase in data over my 500Kb allowance, MMS - never sentine in my life and why would I when I could send an email? Notes - as good as Outlook and perfectly adequate, it did triangulate cell towers which my phone didn't (and see data allowance above).

Plus the OS was smooth and intuitive.

Re: Re returns

What on Earth are you wittering on about? Claiming money plus interest for the time you had a product before you decided to return it? What colour is the sky on your planet?

Re: One Windows doesn't work!

"Sooner or later, people will wake up, and Apple will be in trouble.". Too right. OK, so we were a bit off with the 'iPhone will flop" comment before it launched, but this will surely come true.

OK, we thought it'd happen in 2008, then 2009, then 2010, then 2011 and err ummm,, but no fear - one day people will realise The Truth and that us nerdy techies knew best all along and that they don't want some that they can just use without having to re-compile the kernal every few weeks.

Re: Desktop != Tablet != Smartphone

"They made MAJOR changes to a very functional OS ( XP , W7) rather than taking small steps = fail.

The expect that users will forget 10-15 years of habits and instantly move over to a new paradigm = fail.

All they had to do was move in small steps, test the water and either implement or remove.."

Who do you think they are? Apple?

Re: No tablets before 2008?

Yeah - I had one of those. I carried it around in my jacket pocket and pulled it out on the train and effortlessly held in one hand to read e-books and swipe through emails and web-pages.

Hang on - no I didn't.

Re: Why won't the mainframe die?

"I may have even written one or two myself." One or two what?. Mainframe viruses? No - you haven't.

Re: vexabibulus is a word

(vexabibulus ... means the feeling that one experiences when one discovers that the toilet roll has been mounted incorrectly)

....or that the perforations don't line up... (Yes - I know how to fix that).

It should go in the dictionary with reciprivesexclusional (a number defined as having any value other than that of itself e.g. the number of guests at a restaurant - will be any number other than the number on the booking) an luposlipoculinophobia - the fear of being chased around a kitchen table by timber-wolves whilst wearing socks and a newly-waxed floor.

"Ah Logic Lite. The equivalent of Ejay Dance 6"

Not really - Garageband is Garageband; it's not the 'lite' version of anything in as much as there's no menu options that, when you try to use them, you get a pop-up saying Sorry - that feature is only available in Garageband Pro. would you like to upgrade for the special one-time fee of $29.99?"

And the same for all the other iLife apps - they are their own apps with support forums etc and you know that other Mac users have the same software, unlike all the other bloatware, feature-crippled, unheard of, unsupported, written-by-1st-year-Java-students cr@p that other machines get loaded with.

So when my Dell-owning friends ask for advice about their free photo editing software "Glorius Korean Software Kompiny (sic) Foto Editor Pro Lite V32.5!" and why it's asking for $30 to crop a photo "Please be upgrading to wonderful Korean Software Kompiny (sic) Foto Manipulator Expert V 24.8 for advance features" I have to say "Dunno mate. My last pc was an Acer it it came with "Most Brilliant Picture Changer V5" but needed upgrading to "Hoo-soon Picture Magic 9 " to save changes."

"It's definitely been tried. I attended a talk by a guy who did an experiment like that on himself (essentially inserting tiny wires directly into the nerve - an incredibly painful process apparently).

If I remember correctly he was receiving the stimuli from someone else, having it sent over wifi then into his own hand."

aaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddd... we're back at comment 1.

Re: look at the web logs

"...do exactly what I need them to do... lack of camera for Skype."

Good job Skype isn't one of the things you need them to do.

Re: Well yes... I guess

Perhaps a 'depth-first' approach wasn't the most suitable, in this case?

Re: A fundamental problem with this...

This : HS2 alleged benefits - beat me to it.

Re: Facetime?

"So in true The Register style, they are jumping the gun looking for theoretical negatives against a tech Apple have implemented first, before checking the real world performance. They did the same with their ill informed article on Apple 5s 64 bit processing, which has now been confirmed as ignorant speculative negative hokum:

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2013-09-27-arm64-and-you.html"

Don't come around here with your 'facts', young man. This is The Register, not some tawdry fact-reporting website.

Re: Tray-loading optical drive?

You're right - in years and years of owning slot-loading optical drives, I've never had one scratch the crap out of my discs.

Re: You forget to add Tax to the US price

"Except sales tax here is usually around 8.5%, not 20%."

He's talking about how much the US price would cost in the UK, so adding 20% is right.

Re: Less is more?

"- One button. One LED. Just 2 UI elements.

- Use Morse code for all IO."

Binary, surely?

Re: Seems Irrelevant

"But very few people want 4k video. Many people still buy DVD because it's £5 cheaper than Bluray"

But very few people want HD video. Many people still buy VHS because it's £5 cheaper than DVD.

There's a pattern here...