Posts by D@v3

Re: Maybe a MONSTER...

"they prefer to obsolete kit the day after it gets sold"

Which would be why i was charging my 4s with the same charger and cable that i used with my 3G, from I can't remember how many years ago.

Re: Music Magpie

good idea for a service, but from my experience they are pretty tight with their money.

I've had a box sitting around for months with CD's and DVD's waiting to go off to them, but I cant bring myself to let them go for such a paltry amount. The main reason for wanting to sell them was to free up some space in bookcases, now they are in a box in a cupboard, problem solved.

It seems to be something like 10p for a CD and 30p for a DVD (on average). If you have lots of big sellers, you are likely to get less for them, than if you have loads of hard to find stuff (which you probably wouldnt want to sell anyway).

My guessing is that they get hundreds of copies of the 'big sellers' so don't want to be giving out the big bucks for extras, but are happy to give out a few extra pence for another copy of something that they only have one or two of.

What I'd like to know is what they do with the stuff once they have it.

stock issues

I was told by my local o2 store mid week (last week) that they weren't getting any 5s' for launch day, but would have loads of 5c's. You could place an order in store from Friday, and you would get it when you get it.

Or, you could order one (5s) online from the o2 site Friday morning, and get it Monday morning.

Slightly off topic, for all the people saying its (5s) not much of an update from the 5, they're right, but it is quite a step up from the 4s that I was using previously.

Re: no queues on-line

Ever tried getting tickets for Glastonbury?

Sitting in front of a PC for an hour, waiting to be served before being told they have sold out, sure feels like a bloody queue to me.

Re: Twas ever thus

"who are unable to enter University as they lack the required mental capacity. It would be wasteful to under-educate people who can benefit from a full education."

Yeah, it's much better to over-educate those that can't benefit from it.

Better to encourage all the clever clogs to go to uni, and get their psychology degree, so they can bugger off to work in a coffee shop, like a lot of people I encountered in my younger years, while I was off, learning on the job, and not running up a lifetime supply of debt.

Most people i know that didn't go to uni (myself included) instead spent their time doing an apprenticeship (or similar) and is now gainfully employed, where as many people that I know that did go to uni are now knee deep in debt and (some 10 years after leaving) are still not really sure what the want to do with themselves, and spend more time looking for jobs, than actually in them.

I'm not saying this is the case with everyone who does go to uni, I'm just telling it how I see it.

oh, and one more thing

I'd quite to see a 'one more thing' moment on Tuesdays announcement, for an iWatch, coming in at around $195, 1 week+ battery and works with all iOS7 devices. I can imagine Samsung wouldn't be too happy.

Not that i'd buy one if they did, i'm quite happy with my Pebble for now

Re: I wish them luck and good sales

but when you take into account how many (current) phones apple have on the market compared to how many samsung have (iPhone 5 vs s4, note2, mega, and i'm sure many others that i cant name) you get a different picture.

The may be selling 'more than twice' as many, but they also have many more than twice as many to choose from.

That is however, far from the point of the article, and i would also like to wish Jolla the best of luck

Re: Why don't phones display the URL..?

NeoReader for iOS does.

After scanning opens a screen with fields for 'title' (usually empty) and 'content' (usually a URL), and the options to Open, Share or Copy to clipboard.

The problem is, the URL is often a tinyurl or similar, so although you can see it, you don't necessarily know where it is going to take you.

Re: Sorry, but no.

http://www.ford.co.uk/Cars/Fiesta/Features-and-specifications

Quite near the bottom, £300. Style and Zetec only.

Re: I was going to compare this to The Matrix...

I don't get the comparison, The Matrix was great, but they didn't make any sequels...

Re: Peter Capaldi

Could be good, but I'd prefer Malcom Tucker.

Re: almost one in two

I got a little hung up on that also.

almost 1 in 2, is that like 4 in 10,

or more like 49 in 100

or even, like 499 in 1k?

or even smaller margins than that?

Re: FordSync

Is made by Microsoft, and is great, when it works, which mine currently is not. In my less than a month old car. The suggestions in the forums are to unplug the car battery, or pull the stereos fuse out.

Yes, technology has evolved to the point where you actually do need to re-boot your car. Great.

As for not getting the car because you don't like the dash, true, but annoying, when it is everything else about the car that you do like, (including the price). Or you could get a car you don't like, because it doesn't have a crap audio system.

Re: " as new phone will still need to fit present docks/cradles etc."

Just wondering if anyone has actually seen any docks / cradles with the new lightning connector?

There are millions out there for the good old 30pin but in the year that the iPhone5 has been available, i don't think i have seen a single dock/cradle, let alone any updates of the myriad of speakers and stereos that are "made for iPhone / iPod". Most seem to be going the bluetooth / airplay route.

The idea of using one of those 30pin-lightning adapters is a joke, especially as in a lot of devices it will stop the (already taller) device from actually fitting in the designated space.

Re: "Phablet"

I have already adopted a stance that says anyone who uses it in my presence gets defenestrated.

Re: Trusting ANYTHING plugging into a USB port....

@Tom35.

If you plug an iphone into a PC, you get access to (some of) the internal storage for the photos as if it were a digital camera, DCIM folder and everything.

Re: not sure i see what Apple has to 'fear'

indeed. Taking into account the massive amounts of different handsets that Samsung offer, I would expect them to be doing at least a little bit better, than their (closest?) competitor, who has 1 'current' handset on the market.

I stand by what I said. Considering Apple have 1, maybe 3 if we are being really generous handsets on the market, and are still able to knock out 35m+ sales in a quarter in which they both didn't have a big release, and are also (most probably) approaching a big release.

I feel that when things start looking bleak for Apple, we will suddenly see this long rumoured cut price iphone on the shelves, and maybe even a third slightly larger sized model to go up against the Note series. They have the options, there must be a reason why their handset portfolio has stayed pretty static since release of the original iPhone.

nope

If it's anything like mine, it's solar powered, can run in a draw for 6 months. leave it on a desk, and (afaik) it just keeps going and going and going

Re: Nook

I ordered my Simple touch on the 1st, turned up yesterday. considering (in the UK at least) the 4th, 5th and 6th were not 'business days' and that it came from somewhere in the Netherlands, i cant see the problem

Re: Wink or Blink ?

I would expect duration. a natural (non-deliberate) 'blink' is fractions of a second, where as using a 'wink' as a command could be over the course of a whole second, so that the camera that is monitoring the state of the eye is able to tell that it is completely closed, for more than 1 or 2 frames.

Re: itunes / app store

Its an update for the Google search App, not a new Google Now App.

Re: no one ever votes the wankers in again....

not sure about you, but I sure as hell didn't vote for the coalition government this time round, not sure anyone did, that's part of the problem.

enough people obviously voted for part of it though, to let them get close enough to sneak in.

Slightly better than before I guess, when we had a PM that no-one was even given the chance to vote for. (Gordon Brown, for those that don't remember)