Posts by Select * From Handle
179 posts • joined Friday 31st July 2009 09:42 GMT
"Android today is like Microsoft's Windows 3.1"
Technically yes and they maybe following microsoft, have you seen the google play store recently? on my S3 it is looking a bit erm windows 8... solid green bar, big skinny fonts... i must admit it does look nice though...
Sign in to browse...
I already see one problem youtube. The fact that it is better to sign out to use the website version of youtube... yesterday i was browsing youtube to try and see what was trending to possibly come across something comedy! but i was signed in to youtube... i was looking for about 15 mins to try and find the categories but i could only see what people had posted that i was following... i then figured that i would use a diff web browser that was signed out which allowed me to browse trends... so why would i ever sign in to use youtube..?
Maybe they are relaunching Pippin...
What never heard of it? hahaha yeah i didn't know that existed till last week...
Srsly....
Did she just get expelled for a mentos in coke experiment?
I am no apple fan
But "Visionary designer Sir Jonathan Ive’s perfectionism could be holding back the development of the latest version of the software used on iPads and iPhones, according to a recent report." i do believe in releasing software when its ready. The new iOS will be interesting but with all software and games, if you leave punters waiting saying "this is going to be awesome" when it comes to the release day and the software falls short of perfection. Punters will look elsewhere, take Diablo 3 for example 10 years or so development 4-5 years of pre release hype, the biggest backlash from customers in the gaming industry. iOS 7 will be very interesting.
Re: bollocks
I too thought bollocks. its not just that the PC has slowed while tablets are growing. its the fact that Logitech used to be the prestigious mouse/keyboard that you could get from most pc shops. But over the last 10 years alot of websites (overclockers, aria, scan etc...) have now got a very wide range of really top quality keyboards and mice. Razor pretty much remaining fairly dominant in the gaming industry where as Corsair have released some really good peripherals over the last few years. What have Logitech done? off the top of my head, i cant think of anything...
Dear TomTom
Why have you not moved into creating in car stereo systems yet? A TomTom touch screen radio/satnav with bluetooth/USB phone connectivity is something i would buy without hesitation to replace my crap fiesta radio...
The only radio i have seen that comes close is a parrot one that is in my local halfords... it only had google maps though which i though might suffer loading issues and the screen wasn't that big.
Re: meh....
All correct bar the TV... :P
meh....
i stopped wearing watches when mobile phones came about. My reasoning? Why have a timepiece on my wrist when i have one in my phone...
I really don't see the point of a smart watch if i have a smartphone. In the future are people really going to walk around with a computer in their pocket, a computer on their wrist and a computer on their face?(smart specs)
Tbh i was wondering who Microsoft would Complain about first.
Google or Apple. As Windows has to have that annoying browser choice icon on all desktop OS's at first boot. I was wondering which OS (Android or iOS) they would try and get the same treatment.
This will be interesting :D
"In fact, it thinks 3G connectivity is not all that different from 4G."
I am on three atm and tbh im getting 20mb/s connection... I speed tested someones EE connection at work and they got 30mb/s.
I don't see the benefits of an extra 10mb/s bandwidth on a phone... Granted though it could help three more if they upped to 4G because they allow tethering, Which would benefit though's who use their phones for their laptops internet gateway. I would concentrate more on stronger signals tbh.
I read the title
and i first thought that www.bbc.co.uk./weather had been hijacked, but upon opening the link and seeing the twitter image i was a little disappointed :(
I agree that Virgin should expand their network
Last year i was in an area where i could get VM Fiber. i choose their top package and tbh it was amazing! actual download speeds of 8-11mb/ps i could download a 10gig game in minutes, i downloaded gigs and gigs of versions of windows and what not from MSDN subscription library and i never once got hit by QOS... i must have topped 100gig at least one month...
The house i had before this was also in a VM area but it was a block of flats that hadn't been cabled up. when VM came round they left saying they "cant install fiber broadband". When i wrung up and asked them why, they told me "it is not economically viable" but we can offer ADSL, as any sane person would do i told them to do one.
I have now moved again to an area not covered by VM.
They should expand their coverage and not turn away customers because it may cost a bit to install fiber.
Re: I upvoted you
Smart phone? Tether? Personal Wifi? Ring any bells? USB Broadband dongle? Most people have a smart phone and im sure you could get a portable broadband easy... you can even get them pay as you go... (granted connection may drop when moving but that doesn't kick you outa the game) and if you say "what about abroad" to which i will reply, "you have gone on holiday, for the love of god put down the laptop."
this is what i was getting at in an earlier post.
I too think its a step back to have everything run off the roads and if u place something on a crap road. i.e. police station or power plant and u need to upgrade the road. You have to delete the power plant or police station with no refund...
the city's are small and get filled up in no time usually by a solar plant that takes up a silly amount of space just so you can power your casinos...
yeah it annoyed me also when you start a new city in the same region the money doesn't transfer, an upside though everything you unlock does and you do get volunteer help from other city's i.e. they randomly help put out fires and stuff. (im guessing its alot easier if you play with lots of your friends)
But i honestly think alot less people would be annoyed if game itself was actually a better game...
I bought the deluxe version also £70 down the drain for a few extra buildings... the way they made it out was that their is extra game modes... not just extra buildings.
Posted in Build a BONKERS gaming PC
Re: Missing a few details
You actually add response time if you put two SSD's in RAID0 and i you would be better off going for one of OCZ's PCIe Solid State Boards. but you may have to drop a graphics card though.
Re: allowing the game to be played offline would require "a significant amount of engineering work
the game works now stop moaning... "here have your pacifier back"
Re: I upvoted you
Tbh i cant see why people are moaning so much about always online DRM... most people have broadband which is connected to the internet most of the time and most people will have their pc/laptop connected to the internet most of the time because, hay, you need your latest facebook update... yeah simcity was unplayable on launch week, but that has passed now. but tbh even on launch week i didn't have many problems(granted some did) D3 had the same connection issues but that was fixed after a week or 2. the only problem with simcity and D3 is that their DRM is protecting a somewhat average game. D3 was linear as hell and from what i have seen they still haven't brought out PVP. SimCity is also fairly linear and lacks new content, if feels like a cut down version of previous simcitys with better graphics. The only people in uproar as i can see is single player gamers that wanted to play a single player game and freetards.(yes it has been cracked to play offline but you still cant save) . With that rant over im quite annoyed that they didn't offer Crysis 3 and the fact that they offered Plants vs Zombies is laughable.
Posted in Build a BONKERS gaming PC
a single i7 extream cpu?
Thats not bonkers!
2x CPUS on a dual socket mobo! now thats extream!
See link.
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-038-EA&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1695
Why are they comparing crap packages...
"In this category, the proportion of panellists who, on average, received more than 90 per cent of their maximum speeds at peak times ranged from 35 per cent for Virgin Media’s ‘up to’ 30Mbit/s service to 91 per cent for BT’s ‘up to’ 38Mbit/s service."
So basically if you want a crap package, BT offers a less crap, crap package... i had VM's flagship package 100meg and i never once got hit by QOS/traffic management in peak hours...Granted though VM did have outages but they are 100x better than BT for customer service and their bandwidth is still 30% larger than BT... I used BT Broadband years ago (like 8-10 years ago) and i will never go back, i could write an essay on my experiences but it would bore you to death and as most people have prolly tried BT at some point, you may already know how bad they are...
Suspiciously well-designed fan site
I feel like Sheldon off TBBT, was that sarcasm? because that website is wordpress with a slight variant of the default theme.
When the S3 was anounced last year
At the Samsung event they were all raging on about how the S3 will be able to wireless charge (with an accessory) and stream PowerPoint style presentations to a TV with another accessory. I have a Galaxy S3 and i have yet to see any of these accessories....
I will be very annoyed if the S4 comes out with wireless charging before them...
Great!
Now what about the flaw in Kaspersky security center.
You know.... the one that when your licences are due to renew, the week notice that appears on all the clients that have KAV install which also cause all the clients to block all network communication and freeze them.
or the flaw where you upgrade versions which causes the same locking out and freezing..
You have gone down in my books kaspersky...
Posted in Amazon yanks SimCity download from store
All games with hype that require an internet connection.
Fail bad on the first day/week (WOW, D3, Guildwars 2, COD and prolly alot more...) The accountants should just follow this rule.
What ever predictions they crunch from data times that by 10 and get the bandwidth/servers to account for that. Surely overkill is better than this much bad press..
Oh how very nice of you apple...
"Sums under $30 will be refunded in iTunes credits rather than cash."
I assume that you will still be taxing all purchases made with that $30 reducing the cost of the claim by 30%....
bad apple.
Re: MS did not even cover pre-orders in some cases, so they could say "SOLD OUT"
Eadon we are trying to help you overcome your problem, so please point to the part of the body, on this doll, where Microsoft touched you.
Re: Destined for failure
I was a former RIMMER but i got rid of my blackberry because of the App Store. You say 70,000+ apps but have you ever used the apps? 90% of the apps were crap, i never saw the point of BBM over MSN messenger so that never tied me in either, the only up side was the for the first year it was a solid phone.
But after a year my "y" key broke which gimped it and RIM then released an update which slowed the phone somewhat. Jumping ship to android was a huge relief as most apps just work and i now have a decent banking app and a considerably bigger range of entertainment.
To get me back on Blackberry their App store would have to grow considerably with decent apps.
When you play the game of thrones,
you win or you die. There is no middle ground.
I am going to University in sept this year.
I really wanted one of these to take to lectures, as it would be great for a portable compact dev machine!
rather annoyed at Microsoft if they don't release it in the UK before then.
" and then a tiny amount of data."
Last year Three mobile stepped up to this crap about data tarrifs, with All-you-can-eat-data! i joined three last year because of this.... now i have a smartphone and my own portable personal broadband hotspot, which they allow... 100% awesome.
Looks like a huge amount of updates.
Since i had a Blackberry... well done Rim.
If these FireFlys don't resemble Serenity.
im not interested. :D
Read the first line and gave up...
"BT customers can now make calls over the internet from a smartphone app and have the cost added to their landline bill."
So like skype but you get billed for it? Nooo..... that is all....
13,000 households, surely it cant be that hard to send someone round to check up on these obvious fraudsters...
Re: Do my eyes deceive me...
I do believe that you are right, that does look like a computer that has no case and they are using card to stop the board from shorting. 100% bodge job.
Dammit...
I have been quaffing Canderel sweetener in my tea since el Reg posted an article that coffee/tea in the work place is the main reason for IT staff being fat... i don't want to be FAT! But i don't want to lose my sanity either! :( Rock/Hardplace
Re: Kinnect
sony has iToy and probably a few since that harry potter book of spells thing requires one for augmented reality...
Dear Microsoft
Announce the 720 make sure it has a Blue Ray drive and Free Internet and i will happily buy one.
- PS3 user that is looking for a change...
i have 2 BenQ XL2420T
They are amazing....the title of this post though is balls... Firstly "Full HD" 1920×1080 monitors for a start have been around for ages. . Secondly "AFFORDABLE" ? really? my BenQ monitors Burnt a huge hole in my wallet and social life (as i couldn't spend money for months). "Affordable" should be changed to "desirable". Lastly "MID-SIZED" my two BenQ monitors take up an entire work desk THEY ARE HUGE!
Try this title:
10 big ass desirable monitors to make you wet, but ultimately you should get the BenQ 1's because the colours are so vibrant that they will burn your eyes out! The rest of the extras (2ms, 120hz, hdmi sockets) are just a bonus!
Subtitle:
Your wallet will hurt..!!
while 79inch 4kx2k screen would be nice if you wanted to view it from across the street...
i would be more interested if they made 42inch screen have a higher DPI for a sharper image tbh...
Google biasing search results...
They could bias the results but its probably more like Google know their search algorithms inside out and how Google bots crawl websites giving them a better advantage of showing up in key word search results...
Drove a Hyundai i40 recently...
and i thought the sat nav was really good!
I don't see why they would change it to Google maps. surely loading maps on the fly is going to be a downgrade, what if you lose signal...
Why has no one posted a "Microsoft Tax" joke yet....
Yes i can't think of one either but its all setup for a "Tax the Microsoft Tax" type joke.
Posted in Windows 8 fails to revive world CPU biz
Vista needed an awesome PC to run it. But now.....
Vista needed an awesome PC to run it I.E... 2-3ghz quad core and at least 2-4gig ram. Now that the OS is fixed so it is fast on older hardware (i.e. Single core 1.8ghz pentium with 1-2gig ram), why would people upgrade the hardware when they can just buy windows 8 upgrade for £40? I can only see gamer's or enthusiasts upgrading hardware...
Re: .....
45 down votes, Troll complete! :D
.....
"Microsoft's Live Tiles have "backfired" with "hyper-energised" tiles that have far too much going on, according to Nielsen."
Fanboi alert.
Inc Lawsuits against the underarm smelly company.
Lawsuits include:
Lynx - Africa
Lynx - 2012 Final Addition
Lynx - Dark Temptations
and 12 other fragrances just for infringing patent 101 - Your name R belongs to us...
