Re: I suppose...
And I'm sure the four Lamborghini Aventador owners are kicking themselves for not buying the hugely popular Ford Mondeo
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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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.