Posts by Alexis Vallance

C'mon - it is a large and heavy phone

Well, I own a Touch and that's too big for your pocket. Thin, yes, but its length is awkward.

The iPhone is much thicker and weighs a whole lot more.

Smartphones by their nature are going to be a bit bigger - fine.

But for us who want a more consumer based phone, size is a factor. The first thing I thought when I held the iPhone was "I wouldn't like to carry this around in my pocket all day".

The market is full of handsets which are much lighter and smaller. All I'm saying is that an iPhone Nano would be an advantage to those of us who want a more compact device.

The Nano concept exists because it's what consumers want.. Otherwise, they'd be no iPod Shuffle or iPod Nano.

Global war.. - opps 'Climate Change'

We're spending so much time and effort doing research into all this when we could all be happy and doing nothing!

CO2 baby!!

'Sean'. Yawn.

"Anyone stupid enough to pay good money for a crappy proprietary GNU/Linux clone deserves everything they get. Apple only exist because tasteless fools think 70's futuristic is a neato look."

Sounds like you spend your life looking for Apple stories on here just to troll. Get a life - nobody cares what you think, even less so when you don't even back up your stupid comments.

GPUs are the problem

The most confusion comes from the graphics card.

They're given such absurd names, usually just consisting of a 4 digit number, that the average Joe doesn't know what's what and wonders why Crysis won't run well on his ATI Radeon 2400HD.

EA would be better working with ATI and Nvidia and sorting out a joint marketing approach which would benefit them all - and us.

Desperation

That site smacks of desperation. And it's cheesy!

Stick anyone in front of Vista and they'll all like it because it's just comfy Windows XP with eye candy.

It's like showing an existing Ford Focus driver the new model, whilst carefully making sure they don't notice the BMW dealer out of the window, across the road.

They don't know any different.

Could be good

This could be good, but if there's going to a weak link, it's going to be Keys.

Hopefully Jack will be writing it alone.

Oh dear

How long before this is offered free with their machines, along with a printer and scanner?

The party finished years ago. Dell with just embarrass themselves with a not-as-good-as-the-ipod facsimile.

So?

Isn't this just the same as saying it works with Windows, it works with Linux and it doesn't not work with OS X (as long as you're prepared to hack it a bit).

By the way, when will 'Anonymous Coward' grow some brain cells? You're just embarrassing yourself on a daily basis on here.

Fair enough

Apple are more of a niche manufacturer though. They'll never make number 1 because they're not a pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap company like Dell.

Yes, they're expensive, but they have good resale value for when you want to ditch you machine and get the 2010 iMac, for example.

Toyotas will always outsell Mercedes, because they're fundamentally different brands.

Pluses and minuses

The scheme of opening up the hard shoulder seemed good, until I actually drove on the M42. There are hidden speed cameras behind every gantry. And the gantries are about half a mile apart.

It was like watching a light show with the the number of flashes going off on the other carriageway.

Great for cutting congestion at peak times perhaps. Not so for anyone wanting to drive beyond the 70mph limit, which probably seemed like the speed of sound when people drove Morris Minors that took a mile to perform an emergency stop.

Not quite

"You can buy every single Mac component off the shelf, the exact same model from the exact same companies that make the Mac hardware, its not some super beefed up version with a million and one differences from standard PC hardware."

Apart from the EFI. Which has to be emulated with a hacked version of OS X.

"All Apple do is put it together in a shiny box and convince idiots that "hey, its better than a PC, even though it actually is a PC, but lets not dwell on that fact, lets bash Microsoft!

Apple machines are nice pieces of hardware. They're not trying to hide the fact it's a PC - they splash Core 2 Duo all over the place. You may describe them as being in a 'shiny box' but that's the whole point. They are good quality bits of kit. People buy BMWs and Mercedes for a reason, even though any car will get you from A to B.

iTouch

iTouch? iProd is a better name!

Not for me

I'm on Pay As You Go, and I use about £8 a month. I'm usually near a landline, at work or home, to make calls, so it's mostly texts.

I'd never use 750 minutes a month or 125 texts on contract. If it was £99 for a phone and £10 a month for 120 minutes / 50 texts it would be great.

That's why I bought an iPod Touch. The iPhone but without the phone bit!

Okaaaay

'William' - what's the point of spouting a load of stereotypical diatribe??

It's not even stereotypical come to think of it. You've just created two imaginary figures in your head that have no basis in reality.

I like the way you start with "What a crock of shit spouting" and then proceed to spout the biggest pile of shit on the entire page.

Bizarre.

Too right

I love articles like this.

Like the one where they actually discovered the warmest year globally on record was 1934 NOT 1998.

No surprise

It's no real surprise when the defendents didn't turn up. Did they even respond to the court papers?

You can only claim actual damages, so I assume the lawyer set out how many other people had taken copies of the game. Now, since it was undefended, they'll just get a default win.

Same as with parking tickets from private companies. The law does not allow for financial penalties to be imposed, but a rare case taken to small claims, if left undefended, will get a default judgement. Even though no private parking company has ever won a defended case.

You can also apply to have the case seen in your local court. The fact it was heard in central London, near the solicitors, makes it unlikely the defendents responded to anything.

Inept

I wouldn't mind if PayPal was any good. I received this the other day from the poor folks at StatCounter:

"We at StatCounter are having ongoing, critical problems with Paypal.

In view of the complete lack of assistance from Paypal in this regard and

the gravity of the problems, we have decided that we have no option but to

inform you, our members, about the facts of the situation. This will allow

you to make an informed decision about whether to use (or whether to

continue to use) Paypal.

Please note that these problems have been ongoing since 15 May and may

arise not only in relation to payments made to StatCounter but in relation

to ANY Paypal payments that you make. We hope that our communications will

equip you with the information necessary to make sure that YOU do not

become another victim of this ongoing Paypal saga.

The two major issues affecting StatCounter Paypal subscribers are:

- Delayed issuing of invoices

- Instances of double billing

At StatCounter we have tried phoning, emailing, posting on the Paypal

forums... Many of our contacts are ignored, but even when we do get an

answer all we are told is that "Upon review of your account, unfortunately

we do not have a time frame for a resolution to your issue we are currently

actively investigating your issue with subscriptions."

Folks - we sincerely regret any problems you are experiencing and assure

you that we are doing our best to get all of these issues resolved for you.

We strive to offer a high level of customer service and pride ourselves on

being responsive to the needs and suggestions of our members. To have our

hands "tied" in this way as a result of Paypals inaction is frustrating to

say the least.

We would be very grateful for your patience at this time as we wait for

Paypal to resolve these issues.

We would also ask you to be patient with any of our fellow internet

merchants experiencing difficulties with Paypal at this time.

For further information or to post a question or a comment, please visit

our blog."

Same old same old

The problem with Vista is that it's still Windows. Things have moved on - people don't want a revamped Win95 or Win98 any more. Vista doesn't do much than XP can't.

They need to start from scratch, but they can't. It's too risky if they get it wrong and businesses don't like big upheavals. I don't know what they can do.

Being smaller, Apple had the luxury of being able to ditch OS 9 and start from scratch. OS X was crap at first, but nobody cared that it took a couple of years to fix. If they hadn't ditched OS 9, I doubt they'd still be in business.

MS can't ditch Windows and start from scratch, but needs to. Windows 7 will be just like Vista, which was just like XP, which was just like ME.

An unenviable position.

Less lights

Less traffic lights. Over the last decade the number of lights has dramatically increased. They cause more delays than they reduce.

You guys have forgotten what a real virus is

Ah, the 6 monthly "Exploit for OS X found!" story.

Then the usual crap:

• "Market share is going up, so that's why these things are appearing!"

• "OS X is no more secure than Windows, it's just market share"

• "See - Apple don't take security seriously"

You people want to see what a REAL security risk is like - install Windows XP with no services packs and go onto Google. Sit back and wait. Before you can even get to the Microsoft site to download SP2 or get hold of AVG Free, your machine will be brought to it's knees.

OS X is not 100% secure, but it IS the operating system least likely to run into security problems in every day use. No question.

So what?

"Is it just me or are people being pretty stupid?

Whats the problem: Rogue files get downloaded onto a computer.

Whats the cause: Safari.

Seems pretty open-shut to me."

When I was on Windows in IE it happened every now and again. I don't know what the big deal is. Booby trapped sites have always downloaded malicious .exes on to your machine. The problem is the user running them.

It'll be reet

Yawn. Every few months we get something that supposed to bring OS X or Windows to its knees.

On Leopard, yes, I can still blindly stumble around the internet with no protection just as Mac users have been doing for 7 years. Still no sign of anything to worry about, no matter how many jealous nay-sayers wrongly cry "It's only because of the low market share". That argument is still a load of crap, but I doubt it'll ever go away.

Windows ain't all that bad now since XP SP2 (don't even dare go on the internet before that's installed). Not all that bad as long as you have AVG and download Windows' frequent updates.

I still prefer the carefree Mac experience, but to be honest, the vast majority of these scares are either nothing to worry about, because the chances of running into trouble are so remote, or a little marketing dig. And let's face it, Microsoft's 'Don't use Safari' announcement is more about that then any real security threat.

And Vodafone

Try using Vodafone. Their top up system crashes all too frequently, often meaning you can't credit through your phone or the internet.

Ads

The adverts sum everything up - teeth curlingly atrocious cheesy crap.

"If it's not low, I don't want to know". Utter crap.

Ignorance

If you think a council's sole job is to empty bins and clear litter then you're living in the 19th century.

Same old arguments - we could have had xx amount of police / nurses / teachers / schools / firemen / hospitals / binmen (delete as appropriate) for the money.

Some people need to learn exactly what councils do, how they budget and what their remit is. No council is going to bring in new business and jobs if they look like some amateur two bit operation, but have nice and regular bin collections.