Posts by Pete 6
53 posts • joined Saturday 11th July 2009 13:08 GMT
Posted in Review: Renault Zoe electric car
Re: Dodgy Renault Electrics?
> clinging to 70s stereotypes much?!
Hardly! A colleague of mine would regularly carry around in his Megane spare coil packs and spare bulbs (they blew in the rain). The radio would refuse to work when it was "a bit cold" and the electric window motors were replaced twice under warranty as they would seize and generate vast quantities of smoke as they burned out, in both his and his wife's car.
I think the stereotype is still justified.
You can try, but
You can take my VMNG300 modem from my cold, dead hands. It's working fine, even at 100mbit. Saw 12MB/s today from Steam which will do me fine. I don't want, or need the superhub for that extra 20mbit that Virgin keep promising me.
Works on the Galaxy Note too
Swipe the screen with your palm or double tap the screen with the S-Pen whilst holding the pen button.
Use IE6
Thanks to creaky old IE6 I was browsing Wikipedia at work and didn't notice any difference.
And all this talking has her rocketing into the top 100 actors on IMDB already. Was at #99 as of this posting.
Bah
I tried to shed the piratey ways so I tried Lovefilm's streaming service a while ago, using my free month that I got on the PS3, and the quality was abysmal. They claim 'DVD Quality' but to believe that you must be blind and deaf. Horrible low resolution blocky video and truly awful compressed-to-death audio.
I phoned up to cancel on the same day, I didn't even have the subscription for 3 hours.
I'd gladly pay for a service that can offer HD streaming, Youtube manages just fine for free, so why can't a paid for service?
I'm pretty sure they fixed them the release after the "broken" version. I've not had any issues in any recent versions anyway, they work just as well as they always used to.
In the video, they said it was filled with water. A higher power laser is required to display images in air.
It already exists, it's called "Games for Windows Marketplace". It might be half decent if they get rid of the having to pay for "Microsoft Points" to buy things with.
Posted in Logitech Touch Lapdesk N600
Seriously?
How hard is it to use your right hand? It's only a trackpad. I'm pretty sure I'm not the most ambidextrous person in the world but I don't find it at all difficult to use the trackpad on my laptop with either hand.
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I tried using my phone as an MP3 player, but the hissy output, meagre storage and crap battery life are somewhat of a disadvantage.
I'll stick with my old 160GB ipod. As much as I'd like to get something else (as the battery is now a little ropey, it used to be fantastic, but it is nearly 5 years old) there's nothing that does the job as well. Shame itunes is such a bloated pile of slow garbage.
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I've also got an N900, and seeing as Nokia have basically abandoned it, the sat nav on it is utter garbage and so lacking in features it's worthless. As the userbase is so small, you can't get anything decent for it.
I'll be sticking with my Tomtom for now. I can wait 30 seconds for it to kick off, when I'm driving I generally know the general direction I'm heading for at least that long, I'm not a total vegetable that needs my hand holding right from my doorstep.
Posted in Sony Tablet P in pictures
Yawn
The PS3 ran linux like crap. I don't understand where the obsession ever was.
I already use Opera
Where's the "smug" icon?
Pretty much what's already been said...
I've only ever really clicked a few ads on El Reg that linked me there. I had a browse, saw how overpriced everything was, and shopped from elsewhere.
Creative still exist?
Does anyone buy any of their shoddy wares anymore?
It's there now
Just checked Windows Update and it's there in the optional updates, around 90 to 900 MB download.
Posted in Virgin Media busts £1bn a quarter
Proof of what
Of course a help forum is going to be full of people complaining about faults with their connection.
I'm very happy with my 50 Meg virgin line, I've had no trouble with it since I had it installed years ago.
Posted in Seagate tells flash bigots to get real
Erm, sorry
I already swapped out the 250gb drive in my netbook for a 120gb OCZ flash drive. Best decision ever.
No really
I wouldn't give a toss if it imploded, never to be seen again.
Posted in Europe's broadband bird goes up tonight
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what?
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Virus free since 1996 and long may it continue!
(I'm a PC)
Posted in Brits say 'no, no, no' to 3D TV
Gimmick
Nope, not interested either. It's a fad that will be gone in a couple of years. It's only taken off in the cinema as it makes recording off the screen with a camcorder a difficult task. It all seems rather forced and contrived.
Posted in Virgin Media begins 100Mb upgrades
Limits and caps
There is now. The 50mbit service has an upload cap and is subject to throttling on newsgroups/bittorrent at peak hours when the network is congested. Virgin are yet to specify any real details of it yet though. I can say I'm yet to be affected by any of it though, and get 50mbit down and 5mbit up all day and all night.
No thanks
Quite happy with my netbook thanks very much. Why would I want to cripple myself by buying something less capable like an iPad?
Posted in Intel trials downloadable CPU upgrades
And how long....
... before someone releases a keygen so you can upgrade for free? All kinds of brutal and draconian copy protection on games have been beaten within days of release, what's to stop this from going the same way?
Posted in Apple Ping unfriends meanie Facebook
Also
Every new version of iTunes seems to break something old and useful and introduce something new and garbage.
Admittedly I itunes it for my ipod but I havent updated it in a couple of years. I got sick of hacking it every new version so it would behave in ways previous versions did.
Posted in Nokia seeks to tap the X-Factor
Oh jesus
How about some actual useful content? I know i probably brought it on myself by getting an N900 but the Ovi store on that is nigh-on useless. Thank god for the application manager, or we'd never have any software.
Posted in Apple Magic Trackpad
Dongle
It's not as if the dongles for wireless mice are "annoying" because they "stick out". The one I have barely protrudes 5mm from the port and its perfectly happy sitting in one of the 10 usb ports I've got on the back of the computer
Erm
Um, they don't? Try reading instead of jumping to zealotry.
Posted in Daily Mail promotes 'the new Betamax'
However
I drive up and down the country fairly regularly and I'm yet to find an area (other than deepest darkest Wales, where even FM radio dare not go) that has poor reception in the car. It actually makes sense on the road.
I'm pretty sure
That I'll only see an upgrade to something newer and fancier than IE6 at work, is when MS drop all support for XP.
It can't come soon enough IMO.
Why?
Why can't the browser use the codecs installed on the computer like any other media player software? I can play both ogg and h264 in media player without any fuss, why cant my browser do the same? Why does it have to be hardcoded to use exclusively one codec and one codec alone?
If this is a noobish question, i apologise.
Newbies to what?
The English language?
Strange
Me too. And I don't think it was a forged "from" address. I have myself in my contacts list and the message is sitting there in the "sent items" folder and was sent to everyone in my hotmail address book.
Something fishy is going on.
It might be one more reason...
But theres still no good reason at all to get a Mac.
£150?
There's no way I'd pay that much for 7 either, that's why I paid £60 to amazon for a copy.
However
For usability and functionality, use Windows!
Hell why not
For what it's worth (usually very little) I've signed it. I'd like an update if not for the security reasons (though I don't see how you can make it more secure seeing how tightly locked down the internet is on MoD systems) but for the fact that half the internet is broken on IE6 and it's about time we had an update just so I can use Google Maps on a semi reliable basis.
Well,
BT's catchphrase was "It's good to talk", just practicing what they preach I guess.
Unite actually works well
Been using it for a while in the betas and it beats the hell out of mucking about with flaky file transfers over IM programs. It's not enabled by default, so what's to complain about?
I'll bet that...
... the same people holding onto XP are the same people who initially refused to upgrade to XP from 98 stating the same old reasons again and again.
And you couldn't pay me to use Linux. I happily forked over £65 for 7.
Personally
I've never had any issues with NWP or any other force, but it's just a matter of time I'm sure, Even if my bike is 100% legal, correct size plate and original exhausts and all.
Posted in Apple gives Palm the boot - again
So don't update to itunes 9?
I havent updated my version of itunes in ages, every new release brings a raft of new useless features that I have to hack around in the registry to return to the same way of working as the previous version. You might need it if you have the latest all-singing all-dancing iPhone or iPod but version 7 works fine with my iPod classic.
If you have a Pre don't update to 9 and it'll probably still work fine (just a guess, no actual proof of it working!)
