Re: Calm down..

>> The problem is that whatever the LEA did, they were onto a hiding. <<

Whatever they did? They could serve decent meals, not sure that would have reflected that badly on them...

Re: Excellent Work by the Council

What a stupid thing to say. It's a council run school not a private building and more importantly not allowing her to photograph the meals they feed her is censorship. Her blog used to have pictures of the shit food, now she's not allowed to post them.

Or was that irony?

Re: Desperate?

if only you were 70% as funny as the real mister shitpeas...

it's SPTUPID

stupid!

re: FFS of course it's a marketing exercise, unless of course it is a review

because of course those are the only two kinds of articles.

Re: Quad Core?

>>looking at many other devices, it quite clearly does not.<<

Doesn't it? I've got an android phone (sony xperia play) and it definitely struggles at times. Not so badly that you think it's crashed, but so badly that you press something twice because you don't think the first press has registered.

The boy's Monte Carlo is apparently getting slower and slower. We got it for christmas, he's just been telling me he writes his texts then puts the phone down for a minute while the screen catches up, checks his message then sends...

So while you can argue android doesn't need quad core, it seems that there are definitely phones out there that are running android that are under specced for it.

Re: Quad Core?

the original question was "Is Android so bloated that it needs a quad core CPU?".

It's more likely it's because it's badly written, not because it's bloated. If it was because of bloat it'd need a load of memory not extra cores.

But then, writing something that works well on multiple cores is trickier than writing something that works well on one, so it can't be that badly written, can it?

So why does a phone OS need quad cores? Does anyone have anything sensible to contribute rather than just trying to shift the discussion to another OS? I'm interested in knowing why Android needs that much power, what is it doing that needs it?

Oh, but in the spirit of the discussion, iPhone OS is rubbish!

Re: Where's the fuse?

Seriously? you'd rather kill someone that have to get your car fixed?

Re: We've become innured.

I disagree about Holographic tv, I believe we want 3d tv that has real depth of vision. The problem with stereoscopic 3d is it gives the illusion of depth but doesn't fool the brain properly because you're not changing focus to see things further back. So while you can tell that something is in front of something else you can't really tell how far in front. Real 3d telly would make you focus in front of or behind the screen and would give a much better impression of depth making for a more immersive experience...

@AdamWill

I don't care if marriage is redefined to include same sex couples. Currently that's not what the word means. Stop getting so arsey with me, I'm not trying to oppress you. I just think that words have definitions that should be adhered to. That's why I hate it when people say "leverage" instead of "use", it's incorrect use of language that reduces clarity and meaning.

My point was really that civil partnerships give gay couples the same legal status as different sex married couples. That seems to me to be much more significant that whether "marriage" is redefined to include same sex couples.

Re: ASA powerless

To say that gay couples shouldn't be allowed to live together is homophobic. To say that the definition of marriage excludes gay couples isn't homophobic, it's just shows a grasp of what the word currently means.

It's good that gay couples have enough rights these days that they can focus on semantic fluff like this, but a civil partnership is a marriage in all extents except the word used, isn't it?

TBH I don't give a toss either way, Marriage is not really an institution I have much time for, gay or straight. But to claim that everyone who thinks marriage means a man and woman is homophobic is wrong, it's just the traditional defintion of the word.

Re: mpc-hc

vlc is a bit cakey, for example it stutters playing some videos I've downloaded recently, but it's a good way of getting round the region lock on windows pc dvd players!

@JDX

How is it entirely different? Can you elaborate? To me Apple's monopoly on tablet computers seems very similar to MS's monopoly on desktop OS...

Re: Not much of a loss for Mozilla

Surely they'd have to make Apple include a "choose your browser" popup on ipad first....

Re: "Cloned code detection system"

Sorry, I thought we were talking about Windows...

Re: Another Big Patch Day, and a Week of Start Up Repair Routines

Bought my daughter an ASUS Eee pc for xmas year before last, she loves it and both hardware and software are pretty robust. Nevertheless the ASUS bloatware that came with it is shit and throws exceptions approximately every half hour. She just ok's them and carries on.

The point I'm making is that these machines have crappy OEM builds of windows with badly written services that don't do what they're supposed to and blow up all the time. That's not really Microsoft's fault, I'm sure ASUS could also mash up an install of UNIX if they tried hard enough...

Re: What social sites ...

umm, is it Google+?

Re: Totally OT

That + thing still seems to work on bing.

bing just scrape google results anyway so you'll get pretty much the same results as you used to...

but you have to use bing. eww....

Re: Deserving

>>Don't get me started on clothes, but if you dress raunchy and go up to a star athletes room at 2am don't come crying to me that you were raped.<<

It doesn't matter what the situation is, rape is unacceptable. Even if you're a star athlete. What fucking difference does being a star athlete make?

The "She was asking for it" excuse is just that, a pathetic excuse for unbalanced men. If you can't control yourself around scantily clad women then you're the one with the problem.

Re: Facebook....

OK. So if that was ironic then presumably we do need another social media player to spam us with our friend's tastes. Or was only part of the post ironic? This is too confusing...

Re: Do you know the definition of Audiophile?

thou dost protest too much, methinks....

#@Stanislaw

You picked the only machine in the list that didn't use basic to make that comment on! Now rewrite that in FORTH!

Re: Facebook....

Aww, you poor thing, knowing someone with the wrong taste in music...

Re: I don't see the problem

I believe the problem (at least to Oracle) is Google thinking that because an option is "better" they can ignore the fact it's legally dubious. It's pretty clear that Google knew that this case was coming, they just figured it's US justice and they have pots of cash so it's worth a go...

Re: Businesses terrified

in what way is this bullshit? Google do love to sniff data, they won't even let me enable gps on my android phone without giving them "anonymous" data. (if it was genuinely anonymous it'd just be a lat lon pair and of no value at all). We all know their "accidental" wifi data slurp was not accidental. The android store has plenty of malware on it.

It's a perfectly legitimate point of view to be paranoid about them. If you're in charge of a businesses' IT and you think this is bullshit then you're not doing your job properly.

What am I thinking about?

Telepathy?

FFS

get over yourselves...

Re: No.

That's right, we can't get enough of those eons....

Re: Too many stores

Bristol too! Two games, a gamestation and a game franchise in Debenhams, all within a minutes walk from each other. What were the management thinking? It's almost criminally incompetent...

Reminds me of when Fopp closed. Whenever I was in there there was a queue of people waiting to buy stuff, they couldn't sell it fast enough. Still not making enough to keep it going.

When they say bricks and mortar is dead for retail it seems to be as much through bad management as through a change in people's buying habits...

Re: How about containers?

Sites that offer personalised content to each visitor are broken at the application level? That's a pretty large chunk of the web that's broken....

Re: The saving

What makes you think they haven't paid for food and heating first? Don't get me wrong, there are all sorts of fools out there getting into terrible debt. That doesn't mean that if you're not on a massive income you should live like a hermit and shun all technology. Some people budget responsibly and it allows them to pay the bills and have little luxuries every so often.

This kind of knee-jerk "It's the chav's that ruined the economy" bullshit really gets on my tits.

>>I have not asked for it, I don't want it.<<

No, me neither, but when I contacted my credit card provider (Virgin) and asked for a card without contactless tech I was told they couldn't do it, all new cards have it built in. So you might not want it, but you're going to have a hard time avoiding it.

Anyone know whereabouts on the card it is? Surely a quick bite in the right place would disable it permanently...

Re: "Chrome catching IE slowly"?

Not trying to stand up for Google here, but how come Windows will run exe's that are sat in the user profile folders? These are for app data, not apps themselves. If MS had any sense they'd lock this shit down right now and pop up a "restore ie as default" message when Chrome tries to load from the profile and excepts. That would be hillaire!

Re: No HD

the ps3 one? The one that throws up a network error message if you pause it for a minute?

The wii one doesn't do that, guess it must be better than ps3 and xbox....

re: by idiots, for idiots

Hilarity aside, they're targeting the biggest market. Why do you think Apple's "it just works" is so successful? Because it appeals to clever people? Surely they all use linux...