Posts by James

Fantastic

You couldn't make this shit up.

What the hell

Signals in Perl! Why?

If some colleague handed me a Perl script that had all this shit in it, it would never be used.

Meter Readings

When is the last time EDF sent an meter reader out to your house? I've not seen one in the 4 years I've been living in the UK. I have to tell them my reading.

And there go my plans for a cannabis grow-op in my shed.

@Bob Merkin

At last, someone who seems to understand how difficult it is to preserve backwards compatibility.

MS is really good at this, I can still run a Win95 app on XP. I work on an OS and everything is about maintaining backwards compatibility. It's a big deal

When I see people complain about how long it takes for MS to release a patch it's clear these people haven't a clue about what's actually involved. Even buggy behaviour must be maintained if there are 3rd party apps that rely on it.

Look at Linux - people complain about driver interfaces changing among releases

Symbian has BC issues too that people whine about.

We're not dealing with PHP scripts here, people! I'm absolutely sure that OS programmers would love the freedom to fix everything they know is broken, but they'd lose their customers before long.

Why is this newsworthy

Seriously.

Phone records video! It's been done for years.

@Steve Foster

Would you include dodgy paint, dodgy milk additives and dodgy pet food in that list of nefarious elements?

I don't know if this is true or not, but I seem to remember a story about the Chinese govt including brute-force decryption chips in Chinese TVs to help them crack encryption. I'd love it to be true.

the mobile division has bet its future on Android

Ha ha, what future would that be then? Third OS lucky.

Mine's a thief returning a RAZR

"many hours of viewing and detailed analysis"

Can they not just Fast-Forward to the time of the assault?

Paris' assault beings at 2:34.

bollocks article

not one mention of nokia or symbian which at&t is very involved in. But hey, let's just pick hype from old articles and call it news

IBM, the natural choice

Don't they have lots of experience for building databases of people, something to do with Jews in Germany?

Meh

One reason/excuse for Apple's behaviour I can think of is that the US thinks the AppStore is some magical service that will revolutionise the smartphone world. Apple aren't the first to do this sort of store but they're probably the first to get it right. It will only be seen as successful if they manage to keep the useless crap away from it.

I don't like Apple or own an iPhone

Not a chance Moto

By being OS whores they seem to blame their lack of success on the underlying OS they choose. Of course it has nothing to do with Moto engineers themselves.

And their shit UI.

Bye-Bye Moto

Is everyone missing the point?

She tried to stick with Linux but it wasn't for her. She's no different from the 99% of humanity who really don't give a flying fuck what their OS is, as long as they get to check emails and save Word documents.

Linux is clearly not ready for the desktop.

And for the AC @ 03:16, just re-read what you wrote:

"So you just right-click and 'repair' in Windows, huh? And about 14% of the time it actually fixes the problem!

Really, Linux isn't that hard... you may have to search online for some answers if you don't know how to do something"

How can you go online if your internet connection isn't working??? This women isn't the only idiot around here

Unsurprising

Did they really expect people to upgrade their graphics card every three months for ever?

No shit

Dell has been planning the move for years, with the help of Accenture. It's true that the recession has nothing to do with it. I've commented here before about Dell managers buying property in Poland to rent to future Dell workers there.

As for degrees, Irish universities are too busy in training up people for what industry wanted last year. The number of grads who are capable of innovating is quite slim in my opinion, the majority just know what they think they need to get by for a few years, before realising that they're in the wrong job and moving on.

Ireland has gone back to the 1990's within 3 months

fanboys???

Since when did Motorola ever have fanboys?

@Its about time

It amazes me that you knew all this about MS, but they didn't themselves. You must be a genius.

It amazes me that you think you know what you're talking about

@Matt Bradley

That's really great Matt, don't take your *mobile* phone out of range of your home WiFi in case you get raped by roaming charges. Awesome

Slam slam slam

I hereby lay down a challenge to journalists to come up with a verb other than 'slam' to describe this type of article.

Wacky-Jackie Smith

That's how her name is stored on my database, it can never be changed, not even with a stern letter. I'd love to see journalists misspell her name and refuse to correct it.

What do people use the menu for?

To see what the shortcuts are!

@Huh?

You can get the latest firmwares for almost any smartphone at service centres. Nokia now allow users to download new firmware and flash their phones from their PC at home. These all contain bugfixes and new features.

Paris flashes in public.

Oh no!

There was a man painting a picture of a street scene in Wimbledon Village last week. Just before the tennis started! I thought nothing of it at the time but now I'm tempted to report him to the police.

Paris: Because she likes a big SLR

@Jason Hall

You know you can turn off the check that only allows signed apps to be installed? Sure, some apps *must* be signed by the developer but most don't. Signing means that the app doesn't need to ask you if it needs to do something potentially risky, turning this off means that you will manually have to give the app permission to do the risky stuff each time it asks.

There is a manual.

the only conclusion... Nokia doesn't think Symbian is suitable for internet tablet devices"

Or, you can conclude that Nokia doesn't think Linux is suitable for mobile phones.

Dollars!

Who wants dollars these days? Pay me in sterling and I'll develop for your fantasy phone.

Meh

Most of these GM crops end up in animal fodder, so I'm sure farmers will be delighted their cows are on low-fat high nutrient diets. Grass is so 20th century.