Posts by A Gould19 posts • joined Wednesday 31st October 2007 19:24 GMT
Posted Thursday 5th November 2009 10:23 GMT
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.
Posted Thursday 22nd October 2009 09:46 GMT
In Windows 95 to Windows 7: How Microsoft lost its vision
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 Thursday 15th October 2009 16:15 GMT
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.
Posted Monday 28th September 2009 12:02 GMT
In First USB 3.0 hard drives fall short of SuperSpeed speed
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.
Posted Thursday 27th August 2009 09:23 GMT
In FSF launches Windows 7 anti-upgrade letter campaign
Only care about TCO.
That's it. Can they get the same work done with less money?
Posted Wednesday 19th August 2009 09:13 GMT
In Sony reveals slim PS3, drops price
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 Wednesday 27th May 2009 15:15 GMT
In Ovi still bouncing on and offline
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 Wednesday 27th May 2009 14:58 GMT
In Ovi still bouncing on and offline
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 Tuesday 26th May 2009 10:52 GMT
In Ovi swings to open position
It's slow, and is full of useless crap
Posted Tuesday 26th May 2009 09:25 GMT
In Toshiba Qosmio X300-13W laptop
In my extensive experience, Toshiba laptops are the most unreliable and badly built of the premium brand machines. The hinges in particular are diabolical.
Posted Tuesday 28th April 2009 13:35 GMT
In Firefox devs ask navels when to curtail Mac OS support
why don't they learn objective-C and do a 10.4 port themselves.
Posted Thursday 19th March 2009 16:46 GMT
In Samsung punts popcorn flicks for pounds
...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.
Posted Monday 7th April 2008 22:44 GMT
In EU sets cellphone users loose in aircraft
...ear plugs.
Posted Tuesday 1st April 2008 13:01 GMT
In Women overtaking men in tech abuse
440BX?
Posted Monday 10th March 2008 14:16 GMT
In Ten years old: the world's first MP3 player
...but no parallel port to plug it into.
Posted Thursday 28th February 2008 22:25 GMT
In Elonex £99 Eee PC rival to arrive in June
...Using a computer at a desk? Has anyone ever tried using a laptop on their front? It's horrible.
Posted Monday 18th February 2008 11:37 GMT
In Steve Fossett dead: Official
It's far more likely he's with Jim Morrison, frankly.
Posted Thursday 14th February 2008 00:00 GMT
In Google in mass 404 land grab
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.
Posted Wednesday 31st October 2007 20:02 GMT
In Student taser victim spared electric chair
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.
