Posts by Mitch Kent 85 publicly visible posts • joined 28 Mar 2008
I mean they already do, though they may have similar roots - but there is no harm in them keeping the cash cows they have and outright buying Novell and having a Linux variant as well... They would probably destroy it, but if they made it succeed then they would garner the faith of the OS crowd, increase interoperability between Linux and MS, and all sorts of good would come from it, I'm sure half of which they could monetise!?
I know it's probably gonna get repeated ad nauseum, but hopefully eventually someone will listen.
Just because it's ... <i>The iPhone</> ... Doesn't mean something as arbitrary as middling price points are considered news?
Yes, I know I didn't *have* to read the article, but the title didn't really sell it as jsut regurgitating a tariff...
Well, not by me, however the numerous sites that just load hideous attention seeking ads that take over your screen can be blocked quite easily and forgotten, which benefits you in that now I am not so well trained at sidestepping ads in my head, i might actually see your more pertinent ads...
This has always been my backup phone - with larger battery. It's what I take when I go out and don't want to take my snazzy smartphone with me, festivals and the like. I remember when the blue screen was the nuts.
Wouldn't trade it for my Desire though. Best phone I've ever used, just a shame it's with Orange...
"I wouldn't fancy it as being very good."
... yet.
People need competitions like this to see what can be done. Once it's proven to be workable, it will inspire entrants and others to work it into something usable (or not). Photon by photon the world becomes the future we were due about 20 years ago :)
Seeing as most of the TV's from this point on will be sold as HD anyway, doesn't this just seem like them being able to work with newer systems as well as old? One of the common complaints is not being able to watch films on there as well, maybe this is being addressed? Same with possible future netflix subscriptions etc (who may or may not do HD subs, I don't know)...
Grr.
I'm a paid up member of NO2ID, even whilst I'm currently living abroad, and have sworn blind they'll never have my biometrics off me.
Now, as of literally last week, my parents came out of the process and are officially viable Foster carers, for which their current children required CRB checks.
How could I possibly say no to this, and not jeapordise my parents trying to Foster? That's not a rhetorical question, I'm actually asking - cause I couldn't do that to them, not after 16 months of social workers and training and decorating the bedroom and thats not even to think of the kids who would be worse off for it. So, I'm asking. If this comes to task - how do I fight it?
Would the article be listed as NSFW without the image? Couldn't we have had the image linked to instead with a NSFW tag rather than the whole article?
That way I can look at my reg at work and my gay pr0n at home in relative safety...
Paris, because it's a porn joke. Any other icon just wouldn't do...
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Again and again and again do we hear these big brother stories. I consider myself quite up to date, subscribe to newsletters, podcasts and such but this is the first time I've heard of this particular story. ID cards here, finger print scanning, registration and monitoring of select groups there, airports, schools, universities... How is the layman supposed to be aware of all these government plans, form an opinion and react accordingly? I understand that we can't be privy to all the decisions made in government, but it seems they have taken the approach, especially with respect to biometrics and ID issues, to overload and overwhelm. Fighting hard and fast on as many fronts as they can, starting with those edge scenarios trying to pick off the small battles first, making it harder for us that disagree to put across our argument.
Thank god the academics are sticking up for themselves, and more importantly the students they teach - they're completely right in my opinion. Unfortunately with other target groups, e.g. terrible foreign pariahs, deviant school children and terror-inducing baggage staff, they don't always have a strong enough voice to stick up for themselves.
I hope those baggage handlers aren't all terrorists, they may soon be shifting my luggage on the way out of this country. I want to fight, but if fighting means voting conservative then my options are limited.
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Mine's the one slung over that suitcase.
*Yawn*
Java's slow he says...
*Yawn*
Java's unstable?
*shoots anonymous numnuts in the head*
Java is enterprise grade kit, yes it has a relatively slow start time, and you're perhaps silly to write small scripts in it, but slow it ain't. Try googling for "Java speed myth" or anything like that. Learn about hotspot compiling, learn to use the correct data structures instead of those from a decade ago and perhaps learn to talk out of your mouth instead of your arse - your brain has a shit filter, your arse tends to just let fly...
There is no reason for Paris, but then there has been little of it so far in these comment threads anyway...
It is not always all about the iPhone! Screw that heap of crud.
You now have a portable means of unlocking most handsets you ever buy in the future. You can buy from ebay without worrying about if it's unlocked or not, borrow a buddies phone if your battery has run out etc. etc. etc.
I once used this analogy and it seemed to have worked then to clarify. It's far from perfect, but meh...
Symbian: Underlying OS, think linux
S60, UIQ etc: Front End, think gnome, KDE
If you had to go through 7 menu items to play a game, would you blame the OS or the GUI?
UIQ was awesome, way ahead of it's time. There was a huge user community years ago for the advanced devices like the (admittedly oversized) Motorola A920, then A925 and A1000, and the P9xx series as mentioned above. We (The Moto crowd) waited and waited for Motorola to bring out a new edition. Foma got a half-hearted upgrade and then Moto had the RAZR - and they forgot that they made any other phones. Was a terrible shame. Through desperation and love of Symbian I bought an S60 phone, as UIQ was going nowhere. It's ok, better than average, but still nothing in comparison.
I think SE have since tried to revitalise UIQ with a 3rd edition, but the vast majority of the devout have given up now. What once was a thriving user community is now basically static pages.
I'm with Orange and have had similar DNS problems of late, the push I needed to move over to OpenDNS. I'm happy so far.
Lot's of people complain about Orange but I guess I'm one of the lucky few. Last week's DNS was the first issue I've encountered with them. Otherwise I get a mobile contract with unlimited text and 550 mintues, free calls to my orange landline from my mobile, free calls to my mobile to my landline, and their top broadband package all for £40 a month. 1 DNS issue over the course of 18 months (and I really shouldn't have been relying on them for DNS anyway) isn't going to make me jump ship, especially when I've no reason to believe any of the alternatives are any better.
Sure, the livebox is a piece of crap, but you get what you pay for, and I didn't pay anything for it.
I'm in a well populated area - be interesting to know if many of the problematic connections are randomly placed or in particular areas...
I completely agree and think that this is thoroughly overlooked in all the facebook bashing.
There is plenty wrong with the facebook provacy setup, but I am less bothered about that than the fact that blockbusters et al can send this information out so carelessly? Just because it's facebook rather than a guy in the street does *not* make it ok for them to tell people what relationship we have without my permission. Who gets to decide this? Where am I supposed to have looked and read to say that I agree with this?
Whilst I disagree with Bruce's tone (easy to misinterpret in text), I can't disagree with his points, or how they interfere with his analogy. He uses the terms Accidental and Intentional - and this is indeed an intentional 'feature'. Whilst I don't doubt he knows what he is talking about regarding Coupling, if there were any other examples like that in the book I'd get too annoyed with it to gain anything from it. Character flaw on my part? Certainly, but I doubt I'd be alone.
And regarding the foot on a brake and pedal at the same time - as far as I know the only people who regularly do this are racing drivers, who tend not to use automatics in the first place.
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Bright Spark, great idea, woohoo! Now I'll go do some research on my great idea, after all, research is pretty integral to essay writing... Oh look! Someone else had the same idea - I'll reference that and build on it...
I'm sorry, but I *really* don't see what the problem is.
re: April Fool - I'm fed up of trying to tell which is fake and which is real today. Hell, if someone showed me flying penguins I'd prob... oh, wait a ... EGADS!
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