Posts by Brian Witham
21 posts • joined Wednesday 6th May 2009 16:03 GMT
Posted in Fantasy Premier League falls over
Getting ready for this season's banter....
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
oh well
I guess I should've known someone would beat me to the TSA reference. At least if they were the pervotron operator they could get a near fix and be unseen doing it...
Paris because ... well I suspect she'll always need secondary screening when not in a private jet.
Whoah @AC 1039
Steady there lad... lest a crazy judge decide that is menacing and we see you prosecuted under s.127 Communications Act.
Crap! I was playing flight simulator and just blew up.. I'd better get my shit together.
Perhaps the reg better start auto "joke alert"ing posts?
Posted in Vodafone moves 360 goalposts
Thoughts
I vaguely recall that Vodafone's contract has a clause that says the phone is separate from your contract. I believe they did this to try and weasel out of warranty issues...
If the phone is not part of the rental agreement, and is therefore YOURS, doesn't that mean they have no right to infect your phone with something irremovable.
I suspect that such logic would only apply to phones that didn't have the crapware to begin with though
Posted in US legalizes jailbroken iPhones
Ah indeed
I often wonder if those who do this sort of spin actually start believing their own bullshit...
Oh dear
If we hadn't been spending this on websites, maybe we wouldn't have cut backs on loan guarantees of £80m for useful stuff like Forgemasters - projects that benefit British industry etc etc...
Posted in Steve Ballmer defaces fanboi MacBook
I'd have asked him to do something else
I may just be me but I'd have asked if he could've brought back Flight Simulator...
Posted in Vodafone struggles to get iPhones out
Hate not to complain bit
Got my phone on the day promised albeit an hour later than expected - toying with it right now in fact. Hmm no sideways thumb icon.
Beauty
Upgraded on my netbook and it is wonderful... using it right now, sadly too early for battery life testing and so forth but I'm one happy chappy. I may even get rid of the xp partition soon.
Posted in Guardian gagged over Commons question
I forsee
I forsee another "Downfall" parody clip brewing...
Let us stroke the invisible hand
Or we could of course put our faith in the market place.
Now that we are seeing some competition - which should have been there from day one. All it will take is one network offering official unlocks and it will happen - o2 would suffer.
Of course this assumes rational people (not bloody likely) and non - cartel. So the usual economic assumptions with the usual pitfalls
It's a red herring
Sim Free is meaningless when it's not Network Restriction free
A pox on 02!
Posted in HTC readies radical Touch HD revamp
I think I speak for everyone when
I ask the following cliche...
Will it have a normal headphone socket!?
Ah satisfying, roll on android, my time with you win mo will be over soon
Posted in O2 just can't keep it up
Touching Wood
Hate to tempt fate here but Vodafone's data network has never given me anygrief - in fact only windows mobile has. No iphone for me until I can use it on ANY network I damn well please
Posted in Apple blogger legally unlocks iPhone
Title? Gawkkk!
Well I'm glad to hear that I can pick one up in Aus when I head out. And I'm also glad to hear people have no trouble when they bring it home
Posted in iPhone makes eyes at T-Mobile and Orange
Well it must be up to me
To point out the silly statement about oranges and apples - together at last
Ok ok I'm leaving now
Oh the joys
What makes me laugh is how Microsoft's Modus Operandi of getting behind someone to stab them in the back has always remained constant - and yet we still fall for it. One day government will force this company to commit to open standards so we don't have to play their games..
Sorry, just woke up
Well, they have seen the road ahead...
It could be a wild stab here but maybe since the appeal isn't going so well they realised the entire legal system and not just one corrupt judge in the initial trial doesn't understand their defence. When the road ahead is so clearly leading to destruction they've taken the sensible approach - find some sucker and bail out now.
I await the days when true freedom comes, when we don't need sites like TPB becasue the entertainment industry stops raping the consumer with region coding, price discrimination and price exploitation.
If they let go of old marketing, embrace the low marginal cost of digital media and give legitamate users the freedom to use the media they've bought - the freetards will be manageable. Acceptance that people will breach copyright - and adjusting to support the "right" way is the only long term strategy.
You strike this one down and another will grow back - must like the damn weeds in the garden - time to get the flamethrower out
Posted in US lawmakers call for AppleT&T probe
Sound thoughts from Washington?
Someone tell me that I'm not dreaming but I do believe that they are suggesting something to protect the consumer? Would our european overlords look into this as well? I for one would like to have a camera in the room when an o2 exec is told the iphone must be allowed on any network without outrageous penalties...
Posted in Microsoft fans call for Opera boycott
@Defiant
But that's a major point - you CAN uninstall Opera without harming your system! Where's the irony button?
Not on the List
So why was Abu Hamza et al let in? This guy may be a right wing nut job but I don't think he's advocated blowing us up anytime soon...
