Re: That could have been me....

So the advice is don't download stuff outside Google Play or stuff inside Google Play which might be bad. And then people wonder why there's Android malware.

I think f-droid.org will still be my first port of call.

Re: huh?

Facebook Home != Facebook Phone.

Re: Yes I have taught drill

There won't be any pensions, especially not in Italy.

There, I saved you going on that trip.

Re: Shit port placements

I've got an Xperia S. Not many complaints but this is the first phone I've had with the USB/charge port in that position and it'll be the last. The L-shaped USB connector making the short cable that they supply the phone with point upwards doesn't help either. The unfortunate design becomes apparent when you answer a call with the phone on charge and promptly wrap the cable round your head - all that effort they've gone to to make the phone look cool and it's wiped out as soon as you pick up the phone.

Re: Instead, feed it to the rich

Looking at the recommendations, it seems like they've already been fed a constant diet of it over the past few years.

I, for one, don't welcome our CJD overlords.

Re: Android?

As Nook are doing a fire sale of all their devices I think you've already got your answer.

Those nice black and white e-readers will not have a Windows RT equivalent as Windows RT's doesn't support that hardware. That'll leave just the more expensive colour e-readers which will be replaced with Windows RT slabs and maybe a UI limited (or should I say further limited) to e-books. And once again we'll have another fascinating example of how Windows RT fails to sell.

Why they think it's necessary to buy the Nook name is a mystery, if they were buying Kobo I could understand it. So much cash and so little idea of what to do with it.

Re: Nokia cannot hide from their failure

Even at this late starting point Nokia could provide much more on an Android system than HTC and the rest can, with the possible exception of Samsung. They can build a theme and launcher based on MeeGo, improve power management (again based on MeeGo), and supply a complete series of apps based on those found on MeeGo and Symbian phones (Nokia Maps, media, office apps, file manager, etc...). With most other Android manufacturers you have the Google apps, a music player, a couple of third party apps like Astro, a half-hearted manufacturer shop and then you're left to your own devices.

Of course what they should have done two years ago was put a Dalvik interpreter in MeeGo and put out a nice range of MeeGo phones, but we all know why that didn't happen (see icon).

Make sure they're not too close to the lines or they'll short them them together and transmit malware via a series of 0s and 1s.

Re: "head of software design"

Er, no. That was my point. There's more to software than the application and how it's used. OS X is more than just Aqua, if he gets into something like filesystems or task scheduling all he's going to be able to do is say 'make it so'.

"head of software design"

I had to do a double take. Head of user interfaces, head of interface design, etc... maybe but head of software design? Next someone will spill all and say they do UI prototypes in Visual Basic then when the boss says it's okay, hastily knock up something behind it which more-or-less works.

about:config > plugins.click_to_play > true

This makes newer versions of Firefox prompt even for the latest version of Flash, otherwise if you've got the latest version it gets run.

Then you only install the plugin version of Flash, not the Active X version.

Re: bring back 'save as'

The reality distortion field is strong in this one.

Versioning, autosave, and the first steps of removing the application light from the dock so you can't tell if the app is running or not unless you change the pref might be fine for a phone (stress might), but not for computers.

You need to copy work and you need to have temporary copies of work. Versioning and autosave take that away from you, you make a temporary change (e.g. cut a few pieces of text or select part of an image for printing) and later find that that's what the OS considers as the good version even though you obviously don't. In other words you're fighting with the OS which is something that you're not supposed to be doing with Apple.

Re: Errm....

Unless you want to use something unimportant like the calendar API or whatever Google's decided to change because they've decided it's a nicer API that way.

Re: Quote

Dia for much cheapness.

Best to eat the meat on the day though, but inspect it carefully before buying nonetheless.

Icon shows how you have to cook the food just to be on the safe side.

Re: Does this £1/day include energy costs ?

Then you've already lost the challenge with Spanish leccy prices.

Re: Don't know what you want?

The current share price reflects confidence in Apple's future performance.

Re: Menus and Toolbars :)

Yes, until you went to a page with lots (meaning a few hundred K) of images and Windows 3.11 ran out of memory and forgot how to repaint the screen then crashed.

"Loosing"

Grrr.

Re: Test Results?

I was going to suggest middle management.

Re: Almost perfect

Well if the OS is not important I'm not sure if the build has got much going for it. Nokia's Windows Phone case design hasn't changed in two years, give them twenty years more and maybe they'll finally become fashionable.

Re: screen aspect ratio

1280x800 is 16:10.

Re: Android?

No, the source is the same, the bytecode and interpreter that executes it is different.

Re: What kind of idiot

What kind of OS would let a signed app change itself then happily execute it the next time round?

If the Play Store (amongst others) takes care of updating, the OS can safely assume that any changes to the app package are malicious because the app has been compromised. The OS should refuse to execute it.

Re: Don't need to download dodgy apps

Not available on all apps though. Oddly enough one app it's not available on is the backup service which uploads your app data as soon as you log into a Google account.