Posts by Tommy Pock
134 posts • joined Wednesday 10th September 2008 10:46 GMT
Come upgrade time this will have been replaced, but until then I want one of these more than I want world peace. It's beautiful
Re: So Fugly it's mother would feed it with a catapult
...there's just a small (known) issue with IE breaking after visiting certain websites, so tabs no longer work and every time you open the browser it starts with a fresh sessioon until you do a full reset or OS update.
Other than that I love Lumias, and that's what I'll be getting next upgrade. Unfortunately I ran over mine with a forklift - it didn't survive - so I'm on my old Pre3 until July next year.
Don't scrimp on handset insurance, kids :(
Re: I suppose...
And I'm sure the four Lamborghini Aventador owners are kicking themselves for not buying the hugely popular Ford Mondeo
Re: The online game
But I had a game saved on the bridge of The Heart Of Gold on the BBC one!
Thanks very much for that though, Mr Jones
/takes analgesic
The online game
The BBC killed that too ( http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/hitchhikers/game_nolan.shtml )
Can it be rescued?
I bought my MSI Wind U100 from a car boot sale for £95. Stuck Ubuntu and an extra 1GB RAM in it and now I use it almost exclusively for everything.
The only thing I find it difficult to live without is multi-touch on the trackpad - I have a unique hatred for Unity's scroll bars.
Otherwise it does everything I need a computer to do.
I don't watch films on it but I wouldn't watch them on a 15" laptop or a tablet either.
It's U-571 all over again
Re: If you want Mint on your phone
Yeah okay I probably deserved the downvotes, but I was only being flippant.
As good as LXDE, XFCE, KDE, Mate and Cinnamon are - and they're very good indeed¹ - mobile computing is exploding exponentially, it's vital to get at least a toe-hold in that, and they won't.
¹Gnome3 is dogshit.
If you want Mint on your phone
...just make sure it has a rear camera so you can keep looking backwards.
Damn.
I didn't want to like Microsoft Winpads©™® - and with the Surface RT that's very easy - but the Surface Pro is undeniably sexy. Bugger. Now I want one
Labour's surveillance state
It's alive and well, thank you very much. Here is a list, from the Conservative's own site, of the many things the tories have completely failed to do since they said they would back in 2009 www.conservatives.com/News/News_stories/2009/09/Jones_calls_for_end_to_surveillance_state.aspx
Re: Accounting
I had an HP200LX. It froze once, not even CTRL/ALT/Del would work, so the only option was to take the batteries out and the CR2032 emergency backup battery; essentially a factory reset, wiping every byte from memory. Not ideal.
I'd really like one of these
...but I like not handing over £630 even more
What's its power source?
The world's first portable nuclear fission battery?
Re: Ubuntu = FAIL
Red Hat did that to mine once. I was only able to install Red Hat and, for some reason, Suse. No other distros would install, neither would Windows. Formatting didn't help either. A bootable Disk Director Suite CD did the job for me in the end
Re: Ubuntu for phones ..
Bizarre. All the related videos are car crashes(!)
Posted in 2012: The year that netbooks DIED
This has to stop.
Laptops are called laptops, not notebooks. Notebooks are called notebooks - books you put notes in.
Also, while I'm on the subject, when was the last time you played a game on a video? Computers games are called computer games; only Telly Addicts and Knightmare (VHS) were 'videogames'.
Can we have some standards, please? We're not Americans.
Posted in Nokia Lumia 820 WinPho 8 review
Re: Battery life.
Isn't the fact that you only have one device in your pocket the whole point of a smart phone?
Posted in Nokia Lumia 820 WinPho 8 review
Re: An user impressions...
"then i could not find a way to correct one letter only"
Hold your finger down on the text input box until the cursor appears, then drag it to where you want it.
Posted in Nokia Lumia 820 WinPho 8 review
Battery life.
Battery life. I'll say it again. Battery life. It's the most important concern to any one who uses a portable device, and evidently of least concern to those who design them.
If I take my phone out I want to use it.
The 820 is of no use to me. The end.
Oh No It Isn't!
(in before panto season)
Posted in Ten Xbox 360 games you may have missed
Games you may have missed
...unless you only buy games from HMV or Argos.
Mobile remote
My Nokia 7650 had a TV/video remote app on it. I'm glad smart phones are finally catching up with phones from ten years ago
He wasn't arrested under the public order act but the offensive communications act. Burning a poppy isn't a criminal offence in the UK, so causing offence by doing so isn't possible.
A pointless arrest the CPS - assuming they go anywhere near this - simply will not win.
Re: I'm sorry
One can't really use relatively smaller sales as an indication of quality; by such a measure you could say Richard Hawley isn't as good as Westlife.
That's the thing with Resident Evil 1 - nothing happens and then you jump out of your skin and then you kill a dog and then some more nothing continues to happen.
Trying to find my way out of the alternative school in Silent Hill 1 - my god. Armed only with a torch and I can hear something shuffling about but I can't tell if it's down the corridor or up the stairs and I am absolutely bricking it; playing with a mate in the room, we both opted to switch it off, turn the light on and have a cup of tea. The claustrophobic fear that game generated was genuinely terrifying.
It helped if you'd had a smoke, of course.
Posted in Fifa 13 game review
FIFA peaked with '97, and every version since FIFA RTWC '98 has been rubbish in comparison.
Football games in general, of course, peaked with Kick Off 2 ,which has never been bettered. Sensible Soccer came close.
Whilst I realise the British are imprisoning people for illegal opinions, I wouldn't expect this kind of thing from the Chinese.
XBL DLC
On Microsoft's Xbox Live Marketplace they specify 'no refunds' for downloadable content.
Isn't that illegal? I understood even a sign saying 'no refunds' is illegal in itself under UK trading law.
Re: Nice phone
50% wrong.
But yes, it is a nice phone
Offline
Built-in downloadable maps, with turn-based SatNav containing road speed information and warnings - that was my killer feature right there. Did I mention the SatNav even works in aeroplane mode?
You're missing the point slightly
They're not trying to catch people or prove who's downloaded what, all they want is to release this report and let fear do the rest.
They don't have to resort to lawyers or to threaten individuals with legal action while the BBC are obediently reporting verbatim everything F@CT say to them.
I'm so glad
...that I grew up before the digital revolution, so I got to keep all of my mum's David Essex and Roy Orbison records
Re: I'm reading this on an HP Pre 3
Even if it is, legacy hardware won't be supported. My much loved Pre 3 is in my bedside drawer, it won't be getting the new open source WebOS. Or any updates at all, probably. As much as I loved WebOS, I had to move on.
Posted from my Nokia Lumia 800 (which isn't as good as the Pre 3)
Posted in Motorola’s next Razr ‘leaks’ online
Possible fact
It's the first ever smart phone designed using Minecraft.
...
Is this the same universal search I use on my Pre? It is NOT a function unique to Apple
Re: Okay
My Pre 3 does none of those things. I have an Android phone which I don't use, because the Pre 3 is better.
Sorry.
Gosh
Twitter's been really quiet since Mensch's new site opened, hasn't it?
Posted in Hands on with Nintendo's Wii U
I honestly can't wait
It's probably the most innovative control system I've ever seen to jump about collecting coins.
Posted in Ten... Qwerty mobiles
Typing this blazingly quickly with my gorgeous HP Prē³ - I weep at the fact that it was scrapped after being on sale for about a week. It's a proper, proper smart phone, qwerty keyboard, not designed on a budget and not designed for kids. Would have been perfect for this Reg item if they still sold the bloody things.
Sigh.
The X10 Mini Pro is the best qwerty keyboard phone on sale today, if you want one; get that.
Re: AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHGGGGGRRRR
That's a hell of a lot of words to say nothing.
Posted in Ten... Freesat TV receivers
The Bush freezes completely every few days, and has to be disconnected from the power to reset. Annoying / avoid.
I take your point
It's not Lisa Simpson giving Bart head, thankfully. But it makes Snap Crackle & Pop look like Stephen Hawking, Brian May... and another one. Maybe that git from D:Ream.
Do it yourself
The met office accurately forecasts the next day's weather in your exact area 30% of the time.
If you predict that the next day's weather will be the same as today you'll be right 70% of the time.
Tomorrow's weather: look out of the window.
Posted in Nokia sheds light on latest Lumia
It's such a shame
My Pre³ and its WebOS beats the 900 on every single software and hardware level. It's just a shame nobody else bought one and now it's dead
Posted in Rainbow Islands
That sounds like the most ghastly chore
I much preferred lobbing bombs about in New Zealand Story: a game whose almost unbearable cuteness was counterpointed by its infinite lives cheat - "sdratsabiwikgnikcufrehtom"
These comments have been the best bit
Thanks everyone.
--posted from my Pre 3
UK Trading Standards
Even so much as a sign saying "No refunds given" is illegal in Britain. Contact Trading Standards.
Posted in Ten... earphones for mobiles
I've had enough of this.
We step up to the crease, not the plate. Cricket's our national game, not rounders. Got that? Good.
Can I have the Sennheisers when you've finished with them please? Thanks
