Posts by Paul Smith

Crikey

Seems like a lot of work to get a non glossy screen!

In denial pricing.

£650 for a useable version of the Mac mini?

Somebody pass today's Financial Times to Apple.

@ Andrew Garrard

I'm not sure what phones you've been dreaming about, but the iPhone is about 165 dpi, the Nokia N96 is less than that.

The reason no one brought up the >245 dpi of this thing is because we didn't think you'd need it spelling out again. Your 'phone' might have smaller pixels, but when was the last time you put it on a table and typed on it? Take your imaginary phone, install Windows on it, install a few applications that were designed for 83 dpi, hold it 20" away from your eyes, have a little think about what you've seen, then come back and we'll continue the conversation.

Were you planning on strapping this device to your face? In public?

CCTV has taken all the fun...

...out of hiding people's stuff.

Unless of course your the only one that knows how to operate the DVR.

Shoes? I haven't seen your shoes!

Let me check ...nope, nothing on the cams.

Hahaha!

And don't let us see you posting your stories round here again, me lad.

Do let us know ...

what percentage bothered past page two!

With pie charts and everything.

@ NukEvil

Open your back pocket dictionary and look up the word Twittering, you'll see it's not actually a made up word. Twittering: Rapidly speaking high-pitched, trivial, shit.

Disturbing

that they're worshipping it by candle light.

@ 1280x800 on 8", 9" or 10".

I'm sure 170 dpi would be pretty unusable for many people. It'd be no use at all for the applications I keep on my Thinkpad, unless I strapped the screen to my face.

You can certainly change the font sizes in a browser, but not everything is adjustable. What about the web sites that have sections of text written on .gifs? My bank would be unreadable for a start. Setting the OS dpi to compensate would drop any benefit gained from the extra res' in the first place, and as before, this doesn't work with everything.

Oh, and the VIA CPUs used in the HPs are particularly shit. Let's not get carried away with what these things can do just yet.

Holy Cow!

Some group: 'We don't want to tag our cows.'

USDA: 'Calm down, you don't have to.'

Clear-cut example of Jackbooted Owellian oppression, right there. I'm actually painting it on to a banner in my own blood as we speak.

Dumb and Dumber.

FF has had me worried ever since Mozilla decided that when I type w into the address bar on my laptop it should:

www.show-clients

www.everything-in

www.my-browsinghistory

Awesome indeed.

I also now use -f switched shutdown after a beautiful example of taking time off work / coming back to find FF3 asking: 'Are you sure? Wouldn't you like your browser to keep you logged in to Windows and your encrypted volume of security systems, banking and accounting details?' Aye, I was sure.

But I'll put up with anything rather than go back to flash overlays covering what I'm reading like some insane clown and monkeys asking to be punched.

Oh Brave New World that has...

Once upon a time, handheld computer game round-ups in November were assumed to be buying guides for parents. For the posters arguing that nobody reviewed next year's 'haven't actually been invented yet' toys, toys that play telnet and rsync, or brown corduroy toys that make a political statement, I can only assume you like the sound of children crying on Christmas day.

Perhaps you think you can justify playing 'Lego Toilet Puppies II: Scoopy Doo' yourself as a 20, 30 or 40 something commuter, but really.. trust me on this, you WILL look like an immature twat.

Crawler.

Can also be done using Draytek Vigor kit. I've tried it on '3' with about the results suggested by Nipsirc, above.

3G

There must be somebody here using 3's Huawei with Linux on these. I use XP on my Thinkpad and find the 'My Three' log-in page doesnt work with Firefox, only IE. So how are you keeping track of data usage in Linux?

@Simon

Hitachi have a 5400rpm 500GB up on Dabs, noticed a couple of weeks ago. 78 squids.

Pedometer?

The reason I don't use something bulky and fragile like the Touch for music is because I run and bike; surely it's not the most obvious device for this kind thing. Why would it have a pedometer?

Are posers strapping these to their arms/legs/face outside the North East? Is there another kind of running I haven't tried, one that doesn't involve much bouncing or tripping over dogs?

I can just imagine £hundreds of sparkling glass and metal scraping along the road behind me, people gasping.

Pew! Pew!

@ J-Wick

Thanks man.

One post to rule them all!

The most dangerous thing...

...I've ever seen anyone do on smoke is go to the shop for some Jaffa Cakes.

It's not like they rampage round the town on a weekend smashing windows, fighting and pissing in the streets.