Re: It takes a scammer to see another scammer

I dunno. I like old computers - I love El Reg's line in retro tech - and I have nearly bought various old Speccys, Beebs and such... and then realised I'd have a quick play and never touch them again. If it's games you want, you can do that in emulation, and are really going to sit there and hack out code in Basic? Especially with no internet and all the modern stuff we all take for granted? I think I'd rather code on a Pi, and actually be able to do interesting and possibly useful things.

No she isn't, she got fired earlier this year, according to her own Tweet.

Same here, but I use an old MP3 player I had at the back of a drawer. Don't need an app for this.

Re: What sort of cretin buys a Amazon Swindle anyway?

Or... er... their Kobo breaks and they want to replace it with a Kindle.

Kindle DRM is at least - cough, cough - easy to remove - cough.

Re: Is there any reason ...?

Eh? You reckon that's the case even though all Macs ship with Python pre-installed and Apple's (good) IDE, Xcode, is a free download? You have to cough up if you want to distribute applications through the App Store, but it's easy enough to distribute through other channels for nowt. Plenty of other options/languages out there too.

Re: Name Change

Or vaguely like Swiss confectionery?

Re: Consumer Credit Act 1974

PayPal and Google don't (yet) need to be. It's the card they're acting as a proxy for that's covered by the Act, leaving you with the opportunity to sue the card issuer - or, better, get them to sort it all out - if neither the seller nor PayPal/Google can address your complaint.

Re: Bluetooth

Yeah, but Bluetooth 1.0 and 2.0 will do that. So what's 4.0 got to do with keyboards and such?

Re: Tablets v e-readers

There is. A lot of 7in tablet owners I know - and me too - use one pretty much solely for reading.

Re: Ownership

Can't remote-wipe a tree-book unless they burn down your house. But at least with an e-book you don't have to insure your library in case of fire - if you e-reader goes up in smoke, by a new one and just re-download.

Re: Thumbs up for Nexus 7

Sorry to contradict, but a coat pocket is exactly where my Nexus 7 lives when it's not in use. Fits in the big pockets on my winter overcoat; fits into the pocket inlay in my denim jacket when I'm wearing that. Likewise the inner and outer pockets of my Berghaus hiking coat.

I charge my Nexus every week or so, but I do keep the Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS (don't need this, personally) turned off. Wi-Fi goes on once a week to check for updates, and that's it.

Yeah. I like the way Aragorn (Elessar) dies and *then* gets married. Bloody weirdos, those elves...

Re: Do they really play this to review it?

Come on. It's an FPS - do you really need to know what that's like to play? Run around, shoot stuff, ride on vehicles. Par for the course. I know that - what I want to know is whether the environment all this happens in and the storyline behind it are things I'll enjoy FPS-ing in.

By the sounds of it, no this is not one for me. I'll stick to sci-fi shooters, thanks.

Re: "Review"

Why? Surely it's the conclusions drawn from playing the thing that matter, not how pretty (or not) the pictures look?

Re: "Failures", surely, not "Fails"

Xenophobia then. And Brits have some way to go before they're in a reasonable position to run around calling folk from other nations ignorant - and I speak as one, not as an American.

Probably because the Acer looks terrible. Industrial design, we've heard of it.

Re: Cambridge Z88

Yeah - but three years after this machine.

Re: So a rebodied golf for people who want to look cool.

Eh? What the heck is wrong with form over function? Who *doesn't* buy a car they think looks good*? That's half the point. You're right, the Golf is overrated, but that doesn't make it bad, or this one either just because of its looks. The Beetle is not for me but I can see why other folk might want one.

*Fiat Multipla owners excepted, obviously

Re: I just got one for work

WD2Go does me just fine to get CBZ, PDF et al files from my WD Nas box; streams vids and music too. Consult the maker of your Nas box.

There are plenty of media-streaming apps capable of pulling stuff across an SMB link: try OPlayer

Hate to say it...

...but all IT products - hell, all products, period - are stopgaps. There is *always* something new and better coming six to twelve months down the line. I have bought 'old' models weeks before new ones. It happens. Live with it.

What does the iPad 4 actually do that the 3 doesn't? Nothing at all, so far as I can see. It'd be different if the new one came with loads of extra ports or something, but it doesn't: it has a nominally faster CPU - irrelevant to 95% of apps - and a Lightning port that's incompatible with all the accessories out there.

Re: God I loved this show

Yep, she's in it, playing a manager of call girls, no less. I have the DVD.

Re: Same old argument.

Indeed. Samsung has more models, so it can appeal to more people. Apple prefers to limit itself, sell fewer, but make more money. Both are valid approaches, but Samsung's is clearly more successful for now.

Not that I'd have one - Samsung's not a brand I trust.

Oh, were for art thou, Nokia?

Re: Never buy a Kindle, then.

No, don't by *anything*. Google can remote wipe apps off smartphones and tablets and, I believe, has done so. Someone else can dig out the Reg story on it. RIM has the ability, and I bet M$ does with WinPho.

Re: I’m worried that I under-specified the hard drive in my new notebook...

Rubbish. I have a 256GB SSD in mine - and it's only half full. Keep your big files and archived material on a Nas, not on your notebook.

Re: Eh?

Eh? yourself. The page on Pew - http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/device_ownership - clearly shows n = 1019.

Where do you get the 9,513 from?

Re: The coming of commercialisation

Yeah, I like covers too, but that said, you can fetishise "the package" too much. I remember some guys I knew in the 80s complaining about cassettes not because of the sub-vinyl sound quality but because they weren't the whole "package". Yet the sound wasn't serious worse than dusty LP - ah, the clicks and pops of mucky/damaged vinyl - and tapes were bloody convenient, and the only option for on-the-go listening.