Posts by A Gould
20 posts • joined Wednesday 31st October 2007 19:24 GMT
Posted in Viewsonic PC Mini 132
I'm sorry, what? £350?!
My Revo R3610 cost £160. Pretty much the same spec. Does the same thing. WTF?
Posted in Hisense 1080p Media Player
Delivery cost
Given that there is only 1 UK distributor, and that they charge an extortionate £7.99 delivery, reporting the price as £60 is a bit misleading.
It's actually £68.98, which is significantly closer to £70 than £60.
Would agree.
Not sure what all the Win 7 hype is about really. Been using it for a week or so and so far I have experienced little different from Vista SP2.
The differences are no more than a OS X upgrade which is...er £25.
Posted in Buffalo Linkstation Pro
Not for techs?
Any technical users will gut this of the stock firmware and slap Debian on it.
1.2GHz CPU and 256MB RAM, should run very nicely.
Er...
Perhaps that's because they can only be as fast as the drives inside them?
It's a bit like complaining that your 2CV doesn't go any faster even after you've installed a top of the range gearbox.
Fortune 500
Only care about TCO.
That's it. Can they get the same work done with less money?
Posted in Sony reveals slim PS3, drops price
Ah the special Sony exchange rate.
It seems that it European consumers are forever subsidising American ones when it comes to Sony products.
Selling stuff inside th EU is not 1.4x more expensive than selling it in the US.
Posted in Ovi still bouncing on and offline
Oh wait...
There's 'Nokia Magnifier'. Now that's a killer app. Whenever I focus, it gives me an error, and when I close it, it throws a kernel exception. Fantastisch.
Posted in Ovi still bouncing on and offline
Its not as slow...
today, but there's still nothing good on it.
At the end of the day, all the innovative developers are writing for iPhones. Nokia have missed the boat. Ovi is just a pile of crappy wallpapers and ringtones.
Posted in Ovi swings to open position
Its like swimming in porridge.
It's slow, and is full of useless crap
Posted in Toshiba Qosmio X300
Toshibas are crap.
In my extensive experience, Toshiba laptops are the most unreliable and badly built of the premium brand machines. The hinges in particular are diabolical.
If they want it so much...
why don't they learn objective-C and do a 10.4 port themselves.
Posted in Samsung punts popcorn flicks for pounds
Either that...
...or I could buy an DRM unencumbered (might as well be these days) DVD with a bunch of extras, not have to hope that my hard drive doesn't fail (or my phone get nicked) and have something tangible from Amazon for £5.98. Until rights owners realise that people will not pay more for less they are going to have trouble selling downloads - cf. music downloads which are generally cheaper than their CD equivalents.
There's something cheaper than a mobe jammer...
...ear plugs.
I still have my PMP300...
...but no parallel port to plug it into.
What's wrong with...
...Using a computer at a desk? Has anyone ever tried using a laptop on their front? It's horrible.
Posted in Steve Fossett dead: Official
@By Cor
It's far more likely he's with Jim Morrison, frankly.
Posted in Google in mass 404 land grab
This is completely different.
You fail to see that there is a basic difference between the two kinds of behaviour. In on case, you have a cable provider moderating html output (something the end user can do nothing about) and in the other, you have a piece of USER INSTALLED software altering html output. If you don't like Google Toolbar, uninstall it. You don't have the same luxury with your ISP.
Excuse me,
Maybe it's the Brit in me, but didn't they think about politely asking him to leave first? Even bouncers ask you to leave nicely before they lay into you.
That the "officer" pulled a gun as a first response is, quite frankly, scary.
I was also under the impression that in order for a policeman to arrest you, he needed reasonable ground to do so. In this case someone taking to long asking stupid questions doesnt really seem like an arrestable offence.
