Posts by Sarah Davis

who cares ?

.. so he swore, so what ? He has good reason.

My first experience with Linux was a complete fail due to the only Nvidia driver available offered 640x480 - so i replaced my Nvidia with an AMD and I've never bought or recommended Nvidia since. Yes I could have paid for a driver, but why? Drivers are free with the hardware. You don't buy hardware and then have to buy drivers to make it work. Regardless of what your argument is, Nvidia failed badly with Linux. They took a short-sighted and unprofessional stance - other than that it hardly warrants discussion

hmmm Legally speaking,..

just because MS say this is the case does not actually have any effect on the law

just like el Reg having a bar a the bottom sating (re cookies) "we'll assume you're happy to accept the cookies anyway." does not actually mean anything when the user happens to not be happy (as they haven't provided an "I'm not fine with this" button

jus sayin' - you can't simply declare law and think that it suddenly exists :)

broken links

the Buy from Amazon link is wrong (again - see article on Carmageddon)

by the same lack of intelligence,..

.. there are to many people in Britain who drive badly so we should, therefore, shut down all roads !!

Great way to kill a product

msn msgr 4.8 was prob about the best, it was simple, unbloated, and did precisely what was needed of it.

The problem is that so many companies get greedy, add bloatware, add pointless features, and don't listen to users, and in fact are often uncontactable. This does nothing to install customer/brand loyalty and everything to garuntee customers will start looking for an alternative that is unbloated and simply works.

'Live' is a classic example of a company so out of touch with it's market. While years ago msn-msgr was the main way i kept in touch with my online friends no-one uses it anymore. It's got worse over time and now it's pretty much pointless (though i concede that some folk may still find it useful - but i bet it's market has shrunk by 50% in the past 5 years) .. and has anyone ever clicked on one of those banner adds? can you remember a single banner advert? - lol

if your a company that is oriented by greed then you're doing it wrong !

I don't get what all the fuss is about !!

Did anybody anywhere actually take him seriously. I thought we just chuckled and dismissed him as we got on with something relevent. If this article hadn't been written, none of us would remember who he was or what he said

stating the obvious

isn't this exactly why the smart money never got involved? It was a no-brainer from the off

Hollywoods already rubbing it's hands together

well there's an accident waiting to be turned into a movie

Avoid freindly rabies victims

Rabies usually makes it's victims more dosile and less agressive, appearing friendly and even approachable. For example, the only time a coyote will go near a human is when it has rabies. So it doesn't take an einstein to figure don't approach a friendly skunk (or any other wild animal that would normally avoid humans like the plague). Also, a chicken-wire fence (or similar) dug at least a foot into the ground is a great way to control what can get in or out. That, a gun, and maybe some security staff (unless said skunk has managed to get his name on the list)

Being going on for months

as a BE cunstomer i can confirm that i have been reporting this problem to BE and the BBC for months, in fact part of the confusion is that it started happening the same day that the BBC upgraded iPlayer. BE would blame the BBC (anyone but themselves), and the BBC just never appear to reply to any emails (as far as i can tell) so they did look suspect.

But in either case it comes down to ineptitude and a lack of professionalism of both parties. Has either party acted with any competence the issue would have been resolved months ago.

BE do a good service when it works, and the support is good (if it's something easy to fix). I was one of their first customers and it took over 2 years before they managed to get anything close to the dl speed i should've been getting - I'm only 1Km from the exchange but initially they got me 2Mbits and said that was the best they could do, i did not accept this, i kicked their arse and eventually they got it up to 18Mbits. So they can be a tad lazy and inept,.... just like most services in Britain these days (ooo, careful, being a little bit 80's there, a little bit Ben Elton !!)

phhht

clearly this poor woman is doing life wrongly !... on the other hand, if she think virginity is something to aspire to then at least she's terminating her own family line and guaranteeing a well earned Darwin award

also,..

surely drinking a bucket of ugly every day could achieve lifetime virginity,.. if anyone was stupid enough to think this an achivevment

does anyone use MS Office anymoe ?

i don't actually know anyone who does ! Everyone moved to Open Office years ago, and now uses Libre Office. Whatever, I will be one of the millions and millions who won't touch it, but I am looking forward to a Win8 mobile - bored shitless of Apple's whiney bullshit, and while droid is good it's not great. Win8 mobiles soonest the betterest

tell Apple,..

to STFU !!

What a whiny, petty, greedy, little dicked company they are. You wouldn't want to buy any of Apple's over-hyped over-priced stuff on principle

yay to 1 mm, but,..

any multi monitor users have been waiting 5 years or more for smaller bevels, so it's about time, but does anyone give a flying poo about 3D. What is wrong with these companies? don't they do research? FORGET 3D, and concentrate on resolution. 1440p should have been here 2 years ago, and where's 2160. I hope they remember that many people prefer 16:10 over 16:9 as well

this is just typical brainless greed and pettiness - and just what is wrong with the world today. How stupid are the morons at Hasbro? Do they really consider that there are people who are so retarded that they may go out to buy the Hasbro product (an effigy from a recent science fiction film) and accidently confuse it for a real piece of modern tech of a completely different size, shape, colour, and function.

This kind of american opportunism (where everyone sues everyone else at every available opportunity as it might prove profitable) is utterly despicable and shows Hasbro have no real integrity and have very small peni !!

If after surgury you wear an eye-patch, should Apple sue - absurd (although they've probably considered it)

SEAGATE UNEFFECTED BUT STILL HIKING PRICES

seagate hard drive factories were completely uneffected by the floods, but they're upping their prices - WHY?

WTF ???

no seriously, WTF ?? How dumb or corrupt are these morons. How could anyone with a brain even consider this? Can you grow Pizza sauce? Is it alive? Is it a 'vegtable'? NO

no wonder our american cousins are so ill-informed

good grief rickenbacker !!

a Nobel prize was something to aim for, but "the Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering" makes it sound like a girl guides badge - trust a tory to fix something that wasn't broken and make it worse (trains, gas, electric, phones, the navy, british industry, britain,...)

Very Old News !!

I thought it was already established that Global Warming was real on account of anyone with a normal functional brain has witnessed the effects for themselves over the past few years.

Generally speaking, in any given situation, it's only morons and extremely untrustworthy (or stupid) political figures who try to deny the obvious facts.

So now normal intelligent people have officially finally been proved right on this matter,... so what? That changes nothing, and we're left in the same situation we were in 15-20 years. The real question is what is to be done, and how soon? (Assuming the Rothschild cartel bank and it's "associates" allow anything to be done, other than start another illegal war on some country that hasn't bought into the western banking system like Iran, Syria, Algeria, North Korea, Sudan, Iceland, and Cuba might be their solution we can pay for with no positive effect for those who aren't stupidly rich).

the bland blocking the bland

Symantec ? Really ? Have you ever met anyone who would recommend Symantec ?

sign of decline

I used to use Skype all the time to stay in touch with friends in Australia, Brazil, France, etc. I don't know if anyone else has noticed how bloated it's become. It uses over 120Mb of ram just to do nothing but sit quietly in the tray!! WTF!!

And now MS has taken over it insists on a completely pointless pop-up which you can only get stop using a 3rd party hack.

So none of use it anymore. Thank for making the world smaller MS

FRIKKIN' WICKED !!!

playing through the various entries, they were all bland and mind-numbingly dull except for the winning entry, which to be fair was still crap but far less so than all the other entries put together. Given that obviously they were all limited to the same constraints the winning entry was a league ahead.

I don't follow trends or fashions, I'm not young, I am a professional producer/musician, (Also, I am a crazy one, a misfits, a rebel, a troublemakers, a round pegs in the square holes, I do see things differently, and I don't buy Apple)

what about Russia, China, and Japan ?

I don't know if anyone noticed but America isn't one-sided (although politically one could be forgiven for thinking so) it also has a west coast and there's a string of islands leading back to Russia's east side and then to Japan and China. I'm sure that at some point in the last 5000 years, whether accidentally or deliberately, at least one Russian/Chinese/Japanese person must've made the journey !

The whole Columbus story seems a bit 911 !!

Politicians and Mobile Suppliers !!

... you'd have to be pretty dull to believe anything they say !

Given that Carphone warehouse use India to make it's spamming phone sales so it can bypass telesales blocking by the telephone preference service and save money by not having to pay anything close to a respectable wage proves categorically that they have no integrity or scruples - that should be enough to ward off anyone with a brain.

I got conned by them once, I agreed to what seemed like a good deal on an HTC,.. they sent me a crap deal and a Sony.

Given that so many people have had so many problems with Craphone Worehouse does it matter what they advertise - just assume that anything they say/claim/advertise is a lie.

Lets face it Mobile Suppliers are as trustworthy as Politicians

Rise of the cash machines

as el Reg has often informed us, some 'harmless' inanimate machines are planning revolution. This looks like a pre-emptive strike (perhaps she's american).

I only counted her hitting it 10 times, so was the other 40 times before or after this, perhaps on some different footage, or is that just the way police count these days

glad to see they're getting the recognition they deserve.

I was with them for a short while. As soon as I was switched over I couldn't phone any mobiles, including my own, from my landline. They said it must be the phone which had been working fine before I joined them. I left (not without a load of grief) and went back to BT, and magically i was able to phone mobiles again.

Talk Talk really are crap, in every department. You'd think there were laws against such ineptitude in a service.

totally underwhelming,...

unusual fort BT to fall short of it's promises!... oh wait a minute, i don't mean 'unusual' do i? what's the other one, oh yeah, 'laughingly predictable'!!

scum uncovered

one thing this did show was how many dodgy retailers there are out there. Taking money from a customer for a product you don't know if you have in stock / you don't have in stock / you cannot guarantee when it will be in stock should be illegal, and is a something only the most untrustworthy/dodgy sellers & shops practice!

overpriced !!

500 dollarydoos !!! whats the point. If it were half the price and had double the flash then maybe.

The thing is hybrid drives aren't really economicly viable. For storage and backup spinny drives are the solution, and for fast boot and program drives ssd's are just the thing. For servers arrays of spinny drives are the most obvious solution for speed/size/price, at least until flash prices drop

send in the clones

isn't the iPhone5 identical to the Galaxy2? which is why Apple is so desperate to make people forget about Samsung and then claim they invented first

iCame, iSaw, iConquered

RIP Mr Jobs

Pads always were a fad

Pads are so limited, it was inevitable that it would be a fad.

Is it just me,...

..or is anyone else so sick and tired of Apples arsy attitude, their over priced toys, the anal ill informed banter of fanboi zombies, and all the pointless trivia everyday on IT sites about apples legal nazi's - this company has no integrity, it's just a greedy, whiny, underhanded producer of 'style over content' gadgetry. I used to think they were ok (technically, they are) I would even have recommended them to aged or dull relatives (saves me having to explain the more complex Windows OS to them, and saves me having to attend for repairs when they do something stupid - I can say, soz, i don't know anything about them, and point them to a Mac shop :-)

I will never buy another apple product or provide support or advise.

total fruit based FAIL

well done Germany.

it's a shame that the UK gov have no integrity to do the same - which is why i always lie about my name, age, and personal details on any site where they don't 'actually' require my personal info

the solution !!

just ban religion !

... actually, just ban stupidity (that covers the religious too) !!...

...actually, if we could just make stupidity and greed painful that should suffice!

(why does the Spawn of Satan icon look like a handbag with a crap design?)

tip your Bowler

does anyone else think it looks like a poor mans clone of a Bowler Nemesis (which is itself a rebuilt Range Rover). You can imagine the clueless upper management at Range Rover seeing the Nemesis when it came out thinking 'phwoarrr, why didn't we think of that. I know lets copy it and say we thought of it first - inevitably, they got it wrong!

Paul Kunert

is he the one having an apple surgically removed from his butt ??

Paul, just because you dream of something doesn't make it so. The two people i know who got an iPad god bored of it within a month and hardly use it at all now. Apart from them, I don't know a anyone who owns a tablet of any kind, or wants one.

But there are a lot of vacuous, gullible people out there who will buy anything the TV sells them.

Is it Rik Myslewski or Mark Dean on drug !!!

... or perhaps they just have never done any real work on a computer (blogging your misinformed opinion isn't work!)

What an absurd article. It has no basis in reality. Consider the scales of computing kit. At the pinnacle you have your workstation PC (the most powerful most capable computer, with a huge array of large monitors and peripherals which allow it to do almost anything very well). Next, and quite a huge step down is the Laptop (less powerful, less capable, a lot less connectivity, but portable, and for some this is capable enough). Down another step is the Notepad (even less powerful, with an even smaller screen, and less use-able, but slightly more compact portable). Then at the bottom of the techno pile, the meager Tablets and Phones (ven less power, even less useful, with even smaller screens, and even less connectivity).

For many folk, a Tablet and/or is pointless as a serious computing device because it is SO under powered and incapable. As a portable device it's ok for txt'ing & phone calls, GPS can be useful, or even surfing the web if it's important, or playing a game if you're bored waiting for a bus, or using as a media device, but it's barely use-able unless you have a seriously light weight work load.

Realistically you can't do Audio Recording/Production, Video Editing/Production, 3D Production/Rendering, C.A.D, Web Dev, Serious Gaming, or many other professional applications on anything other than a PC because on any of the other devices the screen would far to small to be professionally use-able, it would be under powered (so take longer - if it could cope at all), it would not have adequate connectivity/capability/drive-space, and you cannot blind type a touch keyboard on the tiny screen.

(Ok, some Laptops can do some of the tasks mentioned above in a limited fashion or with compromise).

How can you plug in say,... 3 monitors, 2 sound cards, 2 midi keybs, 2 control surfaces, jog-wheel, scanner, printer, tablet, webcam/mic, usb2 hub, usb3 hub, mouse & keyb into anything other than a PC? A Laptop couldn't cope, and Notepad would be even more inadequate, and Tablets and Phones are just laughably inept (espesh if it's so stupidly designed it doesn't have any USB's).

Of course, if all you do is blog, txt, and play angry birds, and you're rather desperate to convince the world and yourself that you're cool (and quite, quite gullible) then the meager tablet probably would be more than adequate for such small needs, and you may actually believe that YOU have no need for a PC and therefore, as YOU don't need a PC the PC era is over. But for many many millions of professionals, the PC is the only option!