Posts by sproot
40 posts • joined Monday 21st January 2008 16:36 GMT
Awesome!
No you can choose who monitors you, you're not just stuck with the Chinese. Choice is good, right?
Samsung Canada are probably wetting themselves at the thought of all the kit they'll be supplying across the border when the Apple ban hammer comes down, guess this was just to let the yanks know they exist.
I took an 18 month old macbook air with a faulty screen in (there's a line down the middle, one side is a different shade to the other - common enough fault if you search), £380 please sir. Fuck you, I'll see you in court.
They'll never see another penny from me.
Ho Fucking Ho
"By 11.30am Vodafone's spinners said that the issue had been largely resolved."
Well that's funny, it's 2pm by my watch and the billing website *still* isn't working, can't get copies of my previous bills.
Question
Why, instead of flogging femtocells, don't they just give you a VoIP client and run a gateway?
Since pretty well everyone with home broadband has wifi, it would seem to be a no-brainer. Those without wifi could be sold a wifi access point instead.
Oops - just realised the answer to my own question: dumb phones won't be able to run VoIP clients. Would still work for the new generation of smartphones though, surely?
Are you sure?
"Think about most banner ads: they have rich media and flash or video. These are all the things that would compel someone to want to click on an ad"
This is a joke, right? Those are the things I installed AdBlock and NoScript for.
Posted in Ten... smartphone survival accessories
Femtocells
Given that they need a bb connection to work, is it just me that finds it weird Vodafone don't just provide a VoIP gateway and a client for smartphones?
I know that wouldn't work for archaic mobiles, but they're nearly all Nokias and can probably get a signal anywhere anyway.
Posted in Cellco execs lay into Nokia's Lumia
What if?
Nobody's mentioned Blackberry OS on Nokia?
What's not to like? Nokia's reputation for hardware (if it hasn't died already), BB's corporate integration and appeal to the kiddies (something only RIM and Apple seem to have managed to any degree).
Marriage made in heaven?
ICANN
Are ICANN trying single-handedly to pay off the US national debt? What with the .xxx scam, increasing .com prices and now this, it seems that their role as overseers is being redefined as overchargers.
parasites, the lot of 'em.........
It'll be cracked within a year, don't worry about it.
Yes, really
I'd guess (and no, I'm not going to rtfa) that they said it sold faster than any of their previous *smartphone* models, which frankly wouldn't be too difficult now, would it?
And as for 'Know your Mobile', part of Dennis publishing who do about ten PC magazines, want to guess where most of their ad revenue comes from?
All the videos on skyscrapers in the world won't save Nokia from the Chinese copies.
@r76
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=mobile+me
Although you really want android lost, which is free
Dsiplay
If the screen's 7" then with the ratio in the pic and the pxel density stated the display looks to be about 1280x820. Not earth shattering then.....
So?
Custom ROM, FTW!
Unfortunately Matthew
They know who you are because you're in my contacts, linked by your phone number, and listed with your address and other email addresses.
There is no escape.
Easier Online Banking
@AC
First Direct, for the moment at least. Their phone service speaks English too .............
Posted in Acer: tablets will replace netbooks
How long
'til they add a flip out keyboard to a tablet, like they do on some smartphones?
Whatever will they call it?
Funny
10 posts, all saying the same thing. Where are the MIcrosoft apologists now?
Hanging their heads in shame, hopefully.
Posted in Android phones get free video calling
Desire
Video calling will be awfully impressive on my Desire, since it doesn't have a front mounted camera.
You forgot the Joke Alert
Good use / Windows. It was a joke, right?
As acronyms go
the one for Point of Sale is really unfortunate, particularly in cases like this.
Open Gov?
I'd have thought "secrecy and lack of transparency" would be the most desirable bit. SSDD as it were.
Posted in Vodafone gives up on roaming charges
When?
So when's it happening then?
Just after I get back from my hols, probably :(
Posted in Carphone Warehouse buys Tiscali UK
Shame
<quote>we know the business well and the fit with TalkTalk is perfect</quote>
Says it all, really. Two peas in a pod or, more realistically, two turds in a toilet. Pipex were great, I hoped Tiscali were going to burn for what they did to it.
And I wasn't going to feel even a hint of remorse for the Tiscali staff that got the chop when it went. They were the ones that were giving me the run around when I was trying to get my MAC to leave.
Bastards.
Bad Analogy Guy
All the posters with the car analogies are missing the point: Nobody cares that Ford put their own brand radios in their cars, Ford don't insist that radio stations broadcast in a format that only Ford radios can play.
Nobody gives a toss what crap runs on your Windows boxes, only that the internet is getting shafted because of it.
And @AC 14:03: Pot, kettle a bit doncha think?
Posted in The Netbook Newbie's Guide to Linux
@ac
Have you tried calling microsoft support recently?
They're nice and friendly, provided you give them your cc number first.
You can call canonical with your cc number too, and get the same thing.
If you want it for free, ask for it nicely, and in this context that means trying to find out for yourself first.
I don't really think that's too much to ask.
And remember, you're not a customer, you're a user.
Customers get the friendly bit from Canonical / RedHat / Novell whoever. See note about *paying*, above.
@Adnim
That's what key pairs are for, shirley?
Posted in Samsung Pixon M8800 8Mp cameraphone
Search
@A Google is your friend. I found a comparative review of the Renoir, C905, INNOV8 and Pixon with sample pics. Interesting!
Useless
Article is useless w/out pictures!
Posted in Pipex upgrade causes email snafu
No sh.t, Sherlock
Since Tiscali bought them they're no longer a quality provider.
@ Anton Ivanov
Page 2: plus Fring's VoIP and IM application</quote>
Granted, it doesn't say it *works*, but I think you can probably assume that ;)
@ Chris Martin
I installed Mandriva 2009 recently, that came with OOo3 :)
SecureCode
After many failed attempts to use it I found that Mastercard SecureCrap is only supported on Windows + mac.
Since I would never enter any financial info into a Windows PC and I don't own a mac I sent my Mastercard back.
Perhaps if they'd hired some developers to produce it instead of a beancounter it would work properly?
Paris. Just because.
Posted in Tiscali executes stealth LLU migrations
@AC
Pipex wasn't a budget provider, until the parasites at ticsali got their feelers on them.
And does anybody care what ofcom think? Since they appear to have slightly less authority than ISPA? All bb contracts are carefully worded so that they can still bill you *even when you have no service* because your line is being unbundled. After all, 'no service' is just a point on a bandwidth graph.
Perhaps ofcom can explain why they haven't stopped that? No, thought not.
Anyone reading this who's still with Pipex: Leave now, and don't forget your coat.
Solution!
ID Cards!
What a great idea, I don't know why anyone else hasn't thought of it..............
@ Luke
Some of us were with Pipex, and weren't aware they were a toy ISP.
Unfortunately, you're right: The only way to get Pipex type quality now is to go somewhere else. Something I wish I'd done when I first read (here) that ticali had bought them, would have saved me being without for four weeks while they found me a MAC code.
