Posts by typeo
23 posts • joined Wednesday 12th December 2007 09:11 GMT
I'd guess the wireless charging jacket will be available in different colours.
Posted in SimCity 2000
The days when games fitted on a couple of floppy disks! Managed to build up a city with Arcologies. Anyone remember if Simcity 4 allows you to import cities from SimCity 2000?
I thought this article was going to be about the UK warehouse, there was a not so glowing report on their employment practices in the FT a couple of weekends back. I'm sure it won't be the last.
Blackberry should have released this one first. I was ready to go and slap my hard earned cash down for one of these on the 30th January only to be disappointed when only the Z10 was available.
Re: Pointless unless...
They are offering free trade ups to BES 10 licenses against existing CALs for each Blackberry 10 device you purchase.
Gartner
Surely they are the equivalent of Max Clifford's publicity business in the IT world. Spin the crap.
If the quality of the TV channel programming is anything like the local radio stations that have sprung up then it will be a failure. Even the local BBC news struggle to fill their slot each evening and that's covering multiple regions, everyday seems like a slow news day.
"I am afraid there are some necessary bureaucratic hurdles you will need to overcome before you are able to run passenger services on the National Rail Network"
Yeah, like a big wad of cash in a brown envelope.
Posted in Ten… top tech cock-ups of 2012
... not just for the outage that stopped customers accessing their money. Also due to the IT integration issues that caused Santander to pull out of the branch purchase, cunning plan so they keep hold of the customer base they have perhaps?
The rubber ear buds shipped with most phones seem to get uncomfortable. The Comply foam type buds seem to be far better.
http://www.complyfoam.com/
A Quantum Leap
What about Ziggy?
Posted in Taito's Double Dragon
I wasted many an hour playing Double Dragon 2 on the Amiga. This type of game was a great along with alternatives such as Silkworm.
It was on a Palm Treo device that I got from Orange years back. Must have been a while ago though as it was one of the PalmOS versions.
If still in the 5 year warranty period they send you parts for free. Only had a bearing in a brush bar go, they swiftly sent a new one. That was after the woman at customer services had taken a listen to the racket it was making over the phone.
Big downer for perople with WP7 devices. Wonder how long ago the device makers knew this was coming. The Nokia devices did seem a bit rushed to market considering the hardware was similar to the N9 in appearance. It was almost as if they just relased it to get some sort of presence after the "burning platform" announcement and hte tie in with Microsoft.
Will add that I've been using a Lumia 800 recently and quite like it.
I dunno,
look what cheap alcohol does. Best put the prices up in the Commons bars.
And...
May well be wrong but didn't the Competition Commission do an excellent job the last time they got involved with Sky programming? Instead of paying one fee to Sky to see all broadcasted Premier League games you now have to subscribe to ESPN at an extra cost. Fantastic result. Consumer choice, righto.
Damn...
I only clicked on this article to see a mashed up iPad after the meat cleaver had seen to it. Very disappointing article.
Posted in Y2.01K bug trips up Symantec
Products on a downward slope
SEP has to be their worst product yet. Released with bugs from the outset and each time a new build is released you have to perform an upgrade of the servers or clients not just a simple Live Update. And the overhead of the client software seems to get worse with each release.
From past experiences no AV vendor is without faults but Symantec is king of the mountain for the number of faults with its software.
Symantec have also done a damn fine job of messing up Veritas products since they have taken them over. The support is awful.
Posted in RIP Personal Computer World
Not really...
a surprise. The quality of the content and reviews in this magazine had been going downhill for a while. There were a few exceptions to this, Guy Kewney being one of them. The UK edition of PC Magazine was a far better magazine, with more in depth reviews and details of technology. That went by the wayside ages ago now though. Printed media is struggling and in The Reg is an example of the way things have moved on.
Castrol R
What? No smell of race fuel in the atmosphere? Lets hope its a while before this transfers to speedway racing. Hmm, Castrol R...please don't let them release a scratch and sniff card.
Not sure...
...why they need to encourage voting. With Labours current popularity I should think there will be a record turn out to get rid of them.
As for incentives to vote, may be they should open up some sort of competition between the parties so they each offer different incentives. After all there shouldn't be a monopoly. The one with the best incentives will win! Oh hold on, they should already be doing this with their manifesto's and policies.
Makes a change...
that it wasn't nicked in Merseyside.
