Really?

If a jingle at boot is in your list of biggest problems then I would say you don't really have an issue. BTW Mute your phone before booting and the jingle does not play... No rooting required :)

As for calendar support - what exactly is the problem? Using either HTC Sync or by setting up an exchange account within the OS I can sync the calendar with my work calendar... Where is the problem?

Having done far more with my Desire than I could ever do with my iPhone I think I have way more control over what I do with it.

I do think different

Surely that it the problem - if you have an Apple you are not allowed to 'Think Different' you have to 'Think Jobsian' :)

Totally agree

I have just purchased a pair of CM9's for my living room (and a couple of Cyrus amps to drive them) and the sound is stunning!

But... I've also had to re-rip my whole CD collection as the new speakers / amps show up all of the faults in the MP3 compression (even at the max bit rate) when comparing it to CD's.

So much so that the iPod has been relegated to the study with our small speakers for background music whilst working. The living room now has FLAC and CD only...

My personal experience is that...

...yes all Acer stuff sucks :)

Maybe you want to watch your movies on the move?

And if you have a BluRay collection it would be nice to be able to do this simply.

I don't want the hassle of ripping them and converting them, I want to put the disc in a drive and play it...

And pointing out that the resolution sucks (is barely more than my current 11" ultra portable, and apples own 11" ultra portable) is not a valid reason for not including other tech that should be in an expensive toy.

Apple do make nice looking, well built machines (excepting the iPhone 3G that felt awful in the hand, and seems to always break in the same place), but for the rest... Meh.

Title, what title...

I think that are interchangable, but I do hear lots of people complain that their partners spend all night behind the computer...

I can just go for PEBAK if you want?

And really, you had to be annonymous for that comment! Coward :)

You've never worked with users have you? :)

There are two camps of non techie users that I know of.

Ignorant: I don't know, and I don't care

These people just click yes to everything and cause a friend / relation many hours of grief trying to clean up their system

Ignorant, but scared: OMG! What has popped up on the screen, the world is going to end

These people generally have clean computers, if only because they never get turned on. These people cause friends / relations hours of grief as everything they need to do online is done over the phone, with said person giving information and the friend / relation filling in the form

(Yes I am bitter at wasting my time)

But I think that it means anything that a techie thinks is a good solution is likely to fail at the first hurdle for a real user. I am including my own solutions to regular problems here (how hard can it be to teach someone to press two buttons? Very aparently.)

So if you use your pop up window I think it would just be people not clicking on it ever, or clicking on it regardless. The biggest security threat to a computer is the person sitting behind it...

No you tosser...

So you like to have a go a windows for creating FUD, but if someone acting on behalf of your beloved Linux does then that's fine.

How about being balanced? How about saying FUD is pathetic no matter who it comes from?

And I'm sure the poster was not having a dig a Linux, but at the study - which let's face it is, at best, a little flawed....

Wow... Short sighted isn't it?

Where I work, admittedly not in the UK, we get all the books we need brought for us (buy the book and claim it as expenses) and for self study we can use works time provided we put double in of own time. For training we get the time off, and for certification we get the exams paid and 1/2 day free.

And it works, most people here are loyal to the company because the company treats the employees well. We do unpaid overtime *only when really needed* (read twice or three times a year) without complaints and take any issues in our software personally.

I've never understood the UK need to treat employees like dirt, and then act surprised when people jump ship and return the favour.

What do you do as an employer when you want to use the latest and greatest technology? Hire a new employee as you refuse to train existing ones?

Another dwarfer!!!

I couldn't help but think about that as well...

I just can't believe that someone would even think that was a good thing to send out!

@Arkasha - Thankyou

Thanks for the info, it's always nice to get feedback from someone who has been using one.

Oddly enough of all the techies in the office who had a 3G or 3GS not a single one is looking at going for another iPhone when the contract is up...

Quality design, great joke...

I was shown something interesting on my iPhone 3G yesterday by a colleague (who also has a 3G). A big fat crack in the black plastic where the connector is. Why is it there? Because Apple in their infinite money grabbing wisdom decided that a micro USB connection (which is much smaller) would not allow them to rake the money in so they use their own massive connector. The plastic on the iPhone is of such shocking quality that it flexes at this point in the middle. And so has cracked. His has also gone in the same place (admittedly far worse than mine as he did drop his, something I have not done)

This, along with Antenna gate, is why a Desire (or something similar) will be replacing it and not an iPhone 4.

Reasonable looks; I don't think the iPhone is a looker personally, I just got it as it had the best OS - for me - for a smartphone when I was buying. But I wasn't expecting such cheap materials in a shoddily designed product though.

Quite easily actually...

Modern camera's use a live feed on the screen at the back, DSLR have a through the lens viewfinder. Both WYSIWYG.

This has a viewfinder, that is in a different location, and has a slightly different view on the world, to the lens. So yes it can be difficult to frame a shot. Why do you think there are so many shots from pre digital camera's where people have bits of them cut off at the edge of the frame.

iPhone for sound quality?

I have owned an iPod classic 80GB and have an iPhone 3G. The sound quality on them both is comarable. And shockingly poor (I moved from a Sony Mini Disc player to the iPod). I went for the classic due to the storage capcity (I could fit all of my music on one device and Watch videos) and the iPhone becuase at the time it did mail, internet, music and phone calls better then the other devices on sale (at least for me).

But sound quality was something that I had to compromise in order to get the capacity for the iPod, and convergence and convinience for the iPhone.

I would excpect most phones with a 3,5mm jack to out perform the iPhone in terms of sound quality... (Usability of the music player I am not sure, I've never used one yet)

Really...

I've been thinking about this when talking to colleagues about things like the Lightning sports car.

There are all sorts of electronics to stop the wheels doing their own thing with the torque that is available (and 370Nm is impressive! Makes my current T5 look tame, shame that the performance that goes with it doesn't). Why not use al electronic gearbox to limit it to make the throttle response better? I use the range of the throttle in my car in most gears depending on what I am doing, having no gears at all makes that more difficult. Having an electronic box gives an amout of control back to the drivers, and as it's only an electronic cotroller doesn't add too much to the price...

Whislt this isn't the car for me it is the best step in the right directin that I have seen. Useful amount of power and torque, simplified drive train. Now about those fuel figures they didn't release? That'll be the killer feature should the be good!

Totally agree

Whilst I was shopping for a vacume cleaner the salesman tried to get me to buy the Dyson instead of the Bosch parket one ended up with. It was 4 times the price (really 400 for a vacume cleaner? Meile's looked cheap in comprison) with the best sales pitch of 'due to the way it's desgined it actually performs as if it has 30% more power. Shame that with the 30% 'extra' it was still 1/2 kilowatt less than the other machines on sale...

Really???

When I try to copy gig's worth of data across my 100Mbs switch I see a huge difference to when copying it ovew direct 1Gbs link between my two computers. And that is on 4 year old laptops (One Core Duo, the other Core 2 Duo).

Not quite top of the range any more...

And 6 years ago cheap Xeon servers could also transfer huge files much quicker across a 1Gbs connection than across 100Mb connection.

OK I'll take that back - there are two options

But the default is worse than the old one, for more money...

With the 2.6 it's a whopping € 934,01 euros! You can buy some serious machinery for that price! For comparison an iMac only costs € 1.099,00 with 3GHz, screen, wireless keyboard and magic mouse.

They definately missed a trick here... Do they not want to sell the Mini's?

How about thinking before you type...

'regardless of if they look like a female ?'

Really, if someone is presenting as female, and is lucky enough that she looks female who is going to tell?

What about XXY (or should those individuals get their own lavatory?)

Whilst I appriciate that most of you here can't seem to get your male brains past the 'going into a womens loo, hehehehe' schoolboy threashold (and as nerds are happy to have someone lower on the pecking order than yourselves when it comes to someone to pick on) think about this logically. A woman would like the right to be treated as a woman. Not to switch on a daily basis, not to skip country, and not for something kinky (there is a difference between sex and gender you know), but to be who she is.

In doing this she is hurting who exactly? And if she is hurting no-one then why get so riled by it?

Some nerver you have Mr Anonymous!

Try looking into the issue just a little more before going off on one.

To drill you need to follow local laws. Due to the oil company lobbyists is the US these are not as stringent in the US as in the EU in order to maximise profits.

On top of that BP hired a US contractor to do their drilling for them. Oil companies do not drill themselves, they hire locals to do it. Who follow local laws and HSE requirements. As I understand it BP is paying for the cleanup (not the local contractor)...

Try looking in your own back garden for reasons why this happened.

Just what does your rant have to do with the article anyway? Or do you just like bashing foreigners?

Err, maybe there is a reason

I have 350+ books in my house, and add probably more than 20 a year. I love having a room acting as a library, browsing through the shelves looking for the book I want.

The smell of the paper and the physical feeling of the thing in my hands.

I do not own an ebook reader, and won't until I can get the ebook free when I buy the paper back. Same as buying a CD and ripping it to my iPhone - CD for listening pleasure, iPhone for listening on the go. Real book for home, ebook reader for on the train.

But WTF with the prices! I can buy 4 or 5 books in the UK (waterstones constantly have the 3 for 2 offers even on newer titles) for the cost of one ebook from the apple store!

As for the device, I was waiting for something that would make me go wow... Instead I got an oversized iPhone (wihtout a phone?).

omg... People really think like this?

So not only are the goverments and companies acting like big brother, people are now starting to act like Winston Smith 's fellow citizens...

I do nothing illegal - it doesn't mean I don't care about my privacy...

As the old addage goes '1984 was supposed to be a warning, not a prediction'

Here here

The *only* reason I went to apple when I went from an MD players to an MP3 player was capacity.

(OK I now have an iPhone which sucks @16GB, but the rest of the phone made it worth while...)