Posts by Vitani
109 posts • joined Tuesday 30th June 2009 13:26 GMT
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It hasn't been called British Telecom since 1991
... just sayin'
How many Wiis have Nintendo sold?
Hmm, time to install that free copy of Kaspersky which Barclays keep insisting I install...
If you like Mr Tesla, then help then save his laboratory and turn it into a museum!
http://www.indiegogo.com/teslamuseum
I'm glad we have the BBC in the UK; they have a charter they have to stick to, and no shareholders to insist on making more shovelview that will rake in the ad revenue. While Sky/Virgin/ITV/etc. "make" more and more reality (i.e. cheap) shows, the BBC continue to make/fund/broadcast great, enjoyable, GRIPPING shows.
Not to mention their kids TV... along with Disney they are the only channels/programmes my kids will watch (and both happen to be ad-free = happy Daddy!)!
> Overall there's a reluctance to pay for subscription services. A third of the survey group subscribe to internet entertainment packages, and of that group, 19 per cent belong to free schemes. Just 45 per cent of this group pay over a tenner.
> Perhaps the compelling service just hasn't been invented yet
Or perhaps people have tried it and been stung?
I subscribed to Spotify for about a year, and then one day they removed 80% of the tracks from one of my favourite albums, I unsubscribed a month later. I know it's not "their" fault, it's the music business and their licencing terms, but I'm not going to pay Spotify, and indirectly the record industry, to keep doing this kind of crap.
Posted in Gmail goes titsup for 30 MILLION PUNTERS
Re: Related?
That's a feature of gmail, you can send emails to example@ and put any amount of dots in there and it'll still get to you - e.x.a.m.p.l.e@ = ex.am.pl.e@ = exam.ple@ = example@
Sounds good to me, well, the first two do anyway. If the third one ("the threat of injunction removed from all FRAND patents") gets into law, then surely there's nothing to really stop people just infringing on all of the patents?
@Joefish
"There is no personal password" - There is, it's your PIN.
"in-branch 'advisors' hand you a PINSentry in order to access your account" - this is rather than taking your signature, which is written on your card, and easy to copy with a little practice.
OK, you could say that if someone knows your PIN then they can do anything, but that's nothing new, anyone with your card & PIN could walk up to a cash machine and take money out without any problem!
Indeed, the people in Fact 2 lost an advertised feature one way other the other, I really don't see how this didn't win. And perhaps worse, it's now set a precedent that you can sell whatever you want, and pull features at will with no repercussions.
Posted in 2011's Best... Games
If by "marketing" you mean "bribery", then yes, I think you're right!
Posted in OnLive Game System cloud gaming console
Additional question
In this world of capped-broadband, it would be useful to know how much bandwidth this thing uses, and thus how often you could play it when your ISP limits you to 2Gb a month.
Posted in China gets 64 quid Android 4.0 tablet
Hmmm, what a tempting piece of in-car entertainment kit...
What is it with the film industry and jumping on sinking ships?
The music industry abandoned DRM years ago, and they seem to be doing OK ...
To all those who think this should be opt-in
How would you feel about having to opt-in to having your web page added to a search engine? Or does the current system work fine, and a nice little robots.txt works to exclude you from the bots? This is just the same (although I'd prefer something snappy like "_nm") and 99.999999% of people wont care, it's all public information anyway
I've used contactless many times, and have pretty much had the opposite experience to you - about a 25% failure rate, although that is excluding the times that the reader is known to be broken (I'm looking at you McDonalnd's Drive-Thru). Even so, I think that a 25% failure rate is still too high.
I have found though that the best way to "wave" is to just hold the card over the reader until it beeps, but then that's not really waving at all is it...
"biannually"
Twice a year, or once every two years? Biannually/bimonthly/biweekly are such confusing terms ...
I agree with him, I have three "identities": one my family and real-world friends know me as, one my gaming friends know me as, and one for the furry community. As you can tell from that short list I wouldn't want them getting mixed up, but I don't really want three separate Facebook accounts either!
Posted in iPad baby baffled by paper magazine
All babies do this with books & magazines (heck, even some grown men grope at magazines), it's just the tablet responds to those touches where as the paper does not. Interestingly enough, the magazines respond when she tries to turn the pages, but the tablet doesn't. That to me sounds like the death of tablets! Or not.
Nice bit of entertainment, poor bit of journalism. Should be filed under Bootnotes, not Hardware.
Posted in ISPs end PM's web smut block dream
"Think of the children!" -- the parents should be, that is, not the government.
Can I just say ...
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Posted in Toshiba outs 7in Android 3.2 tablet
I don't own a tablet, but I do wonder; does the thickness of these devices really make a difference?
I can see how it would make a difference on a phone because it has to slide nicely into your pocket (although my "thick" G1 managed fine), but I don't know anyone with pockets big enough to fit a tablet in. Surely weight would be a bigger concern?
Posted in Spotify tethers future to Facebook
Do what I'm doing
I've stopped paying for Spotify recently for different reasons to this article, but I'm using the money I'm saving to BUY the music I want, rather than renting it. I find the good old fashioned radio is great for finding new music, then just go to a shop and buy it.
One thing I'm still wary of buying on-line is large electrical goods; TV, fridge, washing machine, you know what I mean. Comet is a great place to buy such goods from, unfortunately I only need these things perhaps once every ten years, and that isn't often enough to keep them in business. While I do think that is a shame, I'm not going to increase the frequency of my freezer purchases just to keep them around.
Posted in Nintendo 3DS gets more stick
As an avid Nintendo fan, and life-time supporter in the "fan-wars" I'd just like to say, "aaah ha ha ha haa, this looks so dumb".
That is all.
Optional
I'm no expert but surely the rights for copying belong to the composer(s), and thus, it should last as long as they live, at which point they are owned by no-one (i.e. public domain).
I can understand that a percentage of the "fees" may go to the record label, but that'll be defined in the original recording contract - not the law.
Maybe if this was the case, it would be an incentive for the record labels to keep their artists on the "straight an narrow" as to prolong the life of their contractors and thus the record labels' income.
Re: Version Control
I've used version control, Source Safe (ugh!) specifically, for years and you can delete files - permanently. It's not obvious, but the UI allows for it.
While I agree that there are lots of "un-delete" programs out there, in the last 13 years I've only ever needed to use them twice (once successfully, once partially), yet I think in the last 13 *hours* I have deleted more than two files absolutely positively 100% deliberately.
I don't want the OS holding on to files I don't need indefinitely against my will. If I want version control, I'll install it.
Ha!
I *wish* I could afford to save for a pension! What with debts, kids, rent, and bills I can barely afford to save for Christmas (let alone a mortgage!).
Good thing I'm planning to win the lottery before I retire :o)
Posted in Sony drives DAB+ motoring
1980s
Who had CDs in the 1980s? They only became readily available late in that decade. Maybe you're thinking of the 1990s? Or was that not long enough ago to make your point?
:oP
Posted in Windows 8 ribbon entangles Microsoft
Hmm
I notice that there's a few screen shots of their old file managers: DOS, Win3.1, XP & 7, but where is Win95/98? Missing because it's the best version they ever made perhaps? Don't want to compare the latest bloatware to something small and functional?
Hmm ...
3DS
£130 is quite a lot when you could buy a tablet for that kind of money (with a bigger screen, more apps, etc. too), especially when if you want a "real" game, that'll set you back another £20. But the 3DS is nice, the games are fun and I get perhaps a bit too excited when I get a new StreetPass hit (Although at my recent trip to Alton Towers I got no hits, none!), it's all good, but only if you like the price.
Hmmm
Wouldn't it be cheaper, easier and make much more sense to just change their marketing strategy rather than change the console?
Question
Does "innocent until proven guilty" not apply to companies?
Also, is Apple's patent even a new non-obvious invention? If not, it's not patentable anyway ...
Posted in Ofcom maps state of UK broadband
Indeed
Most of North East Lincs has Diamond, erm, ntl, er Virgin Cable so that's probably why it's in the top-ten. I imagine if Lincoln city was taken as it's own "county" it would be up there too, but might be dragged down by the sheer amount of new houses in the city (including my own) which don't have access cable even though a house two doors down does (I'm not bitter or anything!!)
Having moved from Grimsby to Lincoln (I know, I'm one of the lucky few who escaped) I do miss the nice fast speeds of cable, but one of the perks of ADSL is picking an ISP which doesn't throttle your connection when you try to download a load of games on Steam :o)
4mb/s isn't _that_ bad ...
Cutns
Sounds like kittens!
Posted in 3D fad fades for Yanks
Re: Gaz
Or it could be the simple fact that for something like Shrek/Dragon there are two ticket sales for every one person who wants to see the film as children can't go on their own. Plus children of about 7+ will insist on seeing the 3D version of any film, where as adults over 25 will hopefully see-through the gimmick and be happy to see the film in 2D, especially when it's cheaper.
letters and/or digits.
"eliminating the need for markers in the real world"
"'object recognition technology' to spot real objects, such as photographs and posters"
AKA "markers"?
So, it's still needs markers, just not pre-defined ones?
A nice advance, but it's a poorly written article/press release.
Well
I guess if they can't add new features (how many features can a word processor have?) they need to do _something_ to get people to buy the new version, otherwise they'd go out of business and ...
Does anyone know
How does 1.25 pence compare to land-line termination fees?
Yes
It's the "your SMS is delivered" message you can choose to receive
Whoa
I didn't know that! They have kept that one pretty quiet!
As I'm a Orange PAYG and my wife is an Orange contact customer, it would have been nice to be told!
Pardon?
£350? No chance. If Chrome OS is going to "work", then the hardware needs to be cheap cheap cheap!
Oopsie
"found under the 'Tools' tab in Stream"
Stream?
