Posts by Matt_payne666
244 posts • joined Thursday 27th August 2009 18:32 GMT
new series of Preppers...
cool, the current crop of doomsday preppers have been getting a little stale, economic collapse and dinosaurs are all unlikely, but this... this looks like a very real worry... but how will we prepare? under ground bunker? it will be more underground... bug out to the hills and live off your relatives? sounds like a better plan... either way, I look forward to seeing new fear poured on to our American cousins...
I know when I have a presentation to give I tend to dig out my best screen shots and my most completed ideas...
Im not sure how big business works, but if I had a team of designers, Id probably get them to mock up some static slides of how I envisioned the finished thing to look, not get the canteen staff and marketers to knock up some pictures...
Re: "By making the screen taller, not wider, [...]"
reminds me of this iPhone 5 advert...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNBP18nrRdw
Re: one reason
yep a silly move - the wireless charging is cool and it doesn't add too much bulk... there are Chinese add-on qi charger coils for the Galaxies which fit under the standard battery cover...
32GB as an exclusive? its not as if mediocre flash is expensive! im not sure how winpho8 deals with memory, but my 32GB 920 certainly doesn't have as much storage as my old 32GB iphone4... 16GB wouldn't last long at all - even with the tiny amount of apps for winpho8!
Re: Really?
just an observation... you may call winpho8 outdated, but when you switch apps, the screens shrink, you then swipe side to side to select the app you want... much the same as the new app switching in iOS7...
and standing up for one of the new iOS7 features, insignificant as it may be - the tilty parallax backgrounds is possibly the opposite of being an MS Shill
I just saw some more iOS7 screen shots... and aside from the ghastly icons, I like the way they are flattering Microsoft, the new app switching, other than the upward swipe now bares an uncanny resemblance to the app switching in Win Pho8....
I must be honest and I do like the look of the paralaxing backgrounds... those are quite cool, but I guess wont be available on pre 4s devices....
Re: Not quite as pointless as I thought.
My winPho8 device has a small tile for BT and WiFi right there on the screen to toggle them...
I still have my iphone, its just an ipod with satnav now and It was a godsend when apple moved the BT option to the main page of the settings... it was a pain having to navigate several trees deep to disable it in the past.
Re: MS to fire up their photocopiers!
Yep, Microsoft will instantly flatten all the icons on their phone OS... oh, wait...............
Re: Yeah, right
I work from home too... If my employer turned round and said - you buy your own kit, id tell him to get bent...
As it is I have a nice i7 supplied for my use, but I still use my own equipment for the majority of my work. Its a choice that I should be allowed to make, and not one that I would like forced on me!
BYOD is fine if you can afford to replace a vital work bit of kit at an instant... If my work machine is lost, damaged or has an issue - I can be assured of a replacement or fix in a day or two... If I was relying solely on my own kit Id have to factor in enough funds to be able to fully replace my laptop at a moments notice.
Re: Flat design
Flat design, possibly add some live information in the tiles - creating a 'Live Tile'
Ground breaking!
no doubt any flattening of the interface will be seen as design perfection, whereas the flattening that Microsoft has been introducing over the past year has been seen as gack
Re: All fugly except the mac
I thought the mac was the most stylish all in one, but recently Ive been deploying Dell Optiplex 9010's - the business version of the XPS reviewed here - Core i5 23" with touch for £700...
The all silver look, I personally think is a bit samey - yes the macs looked awesome when first released about 5 years ago, much like the alu laptops, but its all a bit old hat - the Dell is no way as thin, but it has good proportions and the stand is a lovely designed swivelling unit... less wow factor than the newest imacs, but my new suite of 9010's looks a lot more stylish than my sandybridge iMac suite. (and with a big saving!)
£35 per month will land you a new iphone5 for free... £20 will get you an iphone4 for free...
the report doesn't stipulate a particular iphone model and the most common iphone I see is a 4/4s
not a good test, but I was sent to the laundrette a few months back by a misbehaving washingmachine and I was the only person in there without an iPhone... the attendant and 4 other women... from the looks of them, not all were there because of broken home appliances...
Over here in blighty an iphone of some description is free on just about any contracted tariff... so its no more elitist than any other phone.
as for fake video...
Yes, it was used, but have you seen, I mean, actually witnessed with your own eyes the stabilised output from video on a Lumia 920?? try running through a childs soft play centre, chasing a 4yearold (mine!) with even a mid range real camcorder, I can pretty much guarantee the end result - whilst probably sharper, will be a lot more bouncy! and not in a good way...
I could use a different metric... speed boat & small chop....
Re: Windows phones built to Microsoft's hardware recipe
one of the major deciding factors on my 920 purchase was the camera... I have an EOS with L series lenses, I also have a Bronica which is occasionally dragged out to play... then there is a fully rugged compact for the beach, cliff diving and off road bugging...
but the convenience of an always on me camera, which spits out pretty decent photos is a huge bonus... I just guess that Eadon doesn't have young children!
Re: Plesase stop using the term 'Landfill' android
Windows Mobile 6.5?? no one really uses that any more... have you has a look at the pricing guns & racks of self scan readers in most of the large supermarkets? or the hand held POD scanners used by delivery drivers...
Or can you give an example of an Android or Apple mobile OS of that age that is still in widespread use?
Re: But...
wouldn't a return on nothing be infinite, or some other brain numbing number??
or would we just get a divide by zero error....
Re: I've seen a ruggedised mobile phone used to hammer a nail into a wall.
not just rugged phones, heres the current Lumia 920 screen being used to hammer a nail...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf1fRu9YgfE
perfected the printing years ago...
its ejecting the tasty morsels from the machine that requires work
'Jam inside' errors used to occur regularly on one of my printers...
Wireless charging
I hope this isn't a direction nokia is taking... I have found the ease of charging my phone really rather pleasing... yes, its not hard to poke a micro usb cable in, but at night or at my desk, if I want to pick up the phone I just do... there isn't a mess of lead to snag, or deal with...
and the wireless jacket, Christ on a bike! way to murder a lovely design!
I used to like the old swapout policy... ITunes does a very good job of backup and restoring a full phone...
and apples quick and easy nearly new phone has pleased me when I had my iphone 3G replaced twice and my partners iphone4s - refurbed yes, but new batteries & new cases = better than what I handed in...
hmmm... wheres Eadon to stand up for this??
"Customers are apparently allowed to black out "sensitive details" on the copied documents, according to our source. "
Well, that's sorted then... they can have a copy of my back statement and passport... ill just blank my photo, my address, DOB, Account & passport numbers, expiries, transactions, bank address, etc....
and possibly scan a turd for good measure too..... effort to clean the scanner glass after - totally worth it....
Re: He has a point
Ill upvote this as I've been using win8 since the RC, the advantages far outweigh the new start menu... Which isn't really that difficult to navigate...
why do I always think Omni Consumer Products when I hear of OCP taking over the world!
Ive always thought there were one too many (major) variants of Win8 - winPho8+WinRT should merge, 3 different metro apps for - as simpletons see things - the same OS is silly - screen sizes differ, but hardware specs are similar enough to support the same os on both devices, this will create a much more sensible environment for devs which will in turn help the end users, which will in turn help Microsoft...
WinPho8 is nice - better than iOS&android? all have advantages and disadvantages, take application availability out of the equation and all three are equally as good as eachother....
I and my users....
I like win8 as it is and I personally think that MS have chickened out a little replacing the start button already...
My laptop doesn't really reboot, so its almost always at the desktop, if its not, then a large tile (showing a picture of my desktop) takes me to it...
If I wish to launch a program that isn't pinned to the taskbar I go to the bottom left and click - much like I used to with the start button... then instead of navigating a small tree to find my desired application I click a nice big icon.
My gripes lie with the disjointed way that proxy settings are reflected across the system - TIFKAM, windows update and other settings dont always reflect the settings in internet settings, requiring netsh importing, which is a bind...
windows q and rhe bottom left+right click are tools that I sorely miss on win7
As for my users... when confronted with win8 well, there is confusion, but like most things they have grumbled and then just got on with it... for good or bad, change happens and humans adapt... its only a few cosmetic changes, not replacing the keyboard with a sliding block puzzle block device inscribed with Klingon!!!
I have often been classed as a cynic....
Facebook is driven by advertising and publicity...
there is no such thing as bad publicity...
A photo of a woman brestfeeding/post surgery/artistic/etc - all tremendously mundane...
A video of ultra violence on the other hand, this will create media interest, this will create morbid curiosity, this will create page visits... page visits = advertising income....
Common decency and moral values? these were left by the door long ago.
isn't this contempt of court or some other naughty deed??
Posted in Twenty classic arcade games
not a good game, but one worthy of a mention
Holosseum - I had never seen anything like it before! holographic fighting...
Posted in Twenty classic arcade games
Re: Golden age of racing games
Yes, but no!! I learned to drive playing Hard/Race Drivin' - realistic speed, force feedback, multiple turns lock to lock, ignition key, real gearbox and CLUTCH PEDAL!!! not to mention a loop-de-loop!!
and a huge soft spot for ridge racer full scale...........
Ive a Gen1 500GB momentus XT and it cold boots my win8 enterprise core2duo laptop to the logon screen in 14s, and another 12 to join the domain....
Had this thing for a few years, tried a full SSD VertexIII and yes, its quicker but instantly compared to almost instantly wasn't worth the space trade off...
Posted in Review: Britain's 4G smartphones
sort of and generally speaking your right, but I know that with available bandwidth I like to ramp up streaming quality... I use plex and if I could afford a 4g connection I know id enjoy loosing some more compression artifacts...
Re: Really?
Yep, I have had a Lumia920 since launch day... and have had to do a hard reset to find that all my app data had gone down the pan, my homescreen needed setting back up and lots of the contacts were screwed.
The phone does backup to skydrive and I checked the settings before I restored... losing all my car fuel data was a sod! as was the only game I had played... neither app having the ability to export data...
it would be nice if Orange got behind their own NFC products... Orange Quick Tap NFC payments can only be done on 2 or 3 phones... and not on any of the win8 phones that support the feature....
I cant belive no one has mentioned the lack of a 'backup and restore phone' option in winpho8! yes your app list gets saved and you can re-download them, but any data will be lost and hardly any apps have an export option... yes, your contacts get synced, but if you add images to the contacts those don't get restored when you reset and restore your phone...
Migrating one win8 phone to the next should be as painless as an iPhone, back up backs up the whole phone, restore restores the whole phone... simple! people do loose phones, people do break phones and people might possibly want to upgrade one win8 phone to another...
Re: Poor Apple.
and Silicon Graphics/SGI has been doing its own take on UEFI firmware a lot longer than apple........
Too many windows 8 os's...
I think Microsoft should have just had 2 OS's, Full win8 for laptops, desktops, and high end tablets/convertibles.... Win8 Phone for phones...
And for ARM devices, they should really be running Windows phone 8 OR RT, merge or kill off one of the two... phone and tablet hardware crosses over nicely - just add another resolution or two and a happy phone/tablet software ecosystem could grow... instead there are 2 small niche software platforms in the ARM hardware stable... similar, but different... with a terrible software selection.
as for surface pro? well, im typing this on an Acer W510 Full win8 convertible, running on an atom, I wont be doing any CAD or any video editing, but for office, internet and remote desktopping, its a very useable platform, after remembering odd swipes, metro makes sense, the win8 desktop and standard windows applications respond nicely to prods and having used the machine all day having the battery remaining at 70% is remarkable!
Come on orange... allow secure nfc equipped nokia's to use your secure tap payment system! Don't be the last to the party!
all publicity is good publicity... I upgraded my iphone to win8 in November and the current crop of titles is so poor... so much for the 'top x titles are on windows store' no they arnt!!! the current crop of apps look like the zlist apps on android and ios.
Re: @AC 10:41
what's RICHTO???
hmmm.... a couple of those racks would sit nicely next to my Onyx, Octane, O2 and Indigo............
Re: Winding watches daily
Not necessarily, the omega speedmaster pro isn't a self winding caliber, its a manual wind even today.
to be honest, im surprised its taken this long to become an issue... the number of these things ive seen spring up, with no accompanying text is quite alarming and I live out in the sticks!
even ive been tempted to make my own QR labels - nothing evil, just pointing to an educational site saying - 'you were lucky this time' and see how much traffic I can generate!
a friend of mine wants to get an e-reader for his wife... the thing that got him was the amount of stuff and zingyness that the kindle fire could do, compared to the kindle, for not a lot more... the perceived value of a 7" tablet is huge compared to the equivalent e-ink device... no wonder traditional ereadres are getting a beating...
but once down to brass tacks, the e-ink is a much superior device for the task of reading books... so he his getting the standard kindle...
I have a couple of tablets and an old Sony e-reader, I can count the number of books ive read to completion on the tablet on less than one finger, the e reader on otherhand, dozens....
Re: Fewer apps == fewer crap apps
unfortunately most of the apps on the winpho store are like the tier 3 shite that you find at the bottom of the apple app store, with very few tier 2 titles and quality titles from major players is even thinner!!
Re: MS seems to lack vision here...
I agree here, I bought a win8 phone expecting much tighter integration with office and real win8... this is a missed opportunity, but nothing that cant be fixed with an update...
The app store side of things... I knew the limitations when I migrated from iphone, but with 'the top46 of 50 apps availiable' chant I didn't expect a huge amount of issues... of the apps on my old iphone, only onenote and skydrive are available on both platforms...
MS does really need to throw some weight behind this platform as the devices and experience are better than my old iphones...
Re: Here's an idea ...
Well that is jolly short sighted of you... Given a choice between a licence for a current OS or a licence for an old OS Id take the new one every day. there are always foibles with a new OS and a learning curve but this is silly nose cutting sensationalist madness!
or do you not a) realise that your Win8 Pro licence is downgradeable to Win7 pro or b) deploy an oem shipping image on your devices?
Re: So far...
with mouse to close a 'metro' app move cursor to the left top corner, it shows app thumbnail, right click and close...
Metro proxy.... yes, that implementation is a real shambles!! you need to [Netsh winhttp import proxy source=ie] to sync the ie proxy with the system... then it sometimes works or else it will work after a reboot....
I just use the trackpad as a dumb pointer, gestures were more hassle than they are worth...
Re: So far...
yep, transparency is gone... but bizzarely the task bar is still transparent, if a translucent bar, 30 pixels tall is enough to anger you that much, id hate to see what happens if you get a dirty spoon!!
to change the lock screen image... windows key&q type lock screen, lo and behold there are the settings for the lock screen.... rocket science it aint...
