Posts by ACcc
18 posts • joined Thursday 15th October 2009 10:25 GMT
Hmmm
While Iagree the RT version of Windows 8 doesn't seen set up for business and to expensive for home use compared to android or even ios devices, I'm not even sure win 8 as a full x86/64 system works for business as you can't add anything app-wise to the touchy-feely side of it without a Microsoft account, which I'm sure we'll go down well in business.
As a personal OS it's not too bad, but the fact you need to integrate everything to as hotmail or live account is quite annoying, but gets really irritating when installed as a test machine on a domain.
Re: Misleading
Yep - all the exchanges except ours in the local area are being done. Probably because we live in a predominantly rented / 'lower socio-economic' area and it's uneconomic. Bastards.
This reminds me of the ever so effective CIA spy cat
See here for details:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acoustic_Kitty
Re: What about those websites
@C 7
Which Microsoft website only works with IE?
I can name a Microsoft website doesn't even work with IE - I remember giving up on IE7 in the early days when it used to blink out of existence with no warning, no error message, just vanished, when opening pages on the MSDN site. I've a suspicion it still does.
Posted in 2012: The year that netbooks DIED
@jd I use my Sony netbook to hardware test Windows 8 when I found the hot corners a passion on avm without full screen running. Running Lubuntu as the alternate os, but has also run xp, x/ubuntu and open suse. great little machine for not overly complicated tasks and downloading from iplayer, basic camera work with Shotwell, gimp, ufraw. If I need instant web access i've got a tablet, but for some tasks a keyboard is just better
Posted in Ten Linux apps you must install
Re: GIMP
This ^
While GIMP isn't quite Photoshop, it plenty good enough for the majority of photo work.
UFRaw to import / handle CR2 files into GIMP.
Re: Not particularly accurately, though
I think maybe the inability to play hd was based on the idea that even at 720p (being nominally hd at 720 by 1280 pixels) the iPad mini would have to down scale to fit it on the screen (due to the 1024 screen width) therefore not supplying 1:1 mapping possible on the kindle.
I agree, not full HD, but if it can't even play 720 at full resolution and therefore requiring the processor to work resizing the video, they've got at least half a point.
As everyone else said
1366x768? Really? I've got a 3-and-a-half-year-old Sony Netbook with a 10 screen with that resolution and a 7 inch Nexus with 1280x800, both of which came in at sub-£200 (the netbook was second hand)
Re: Good
Umm - I haven't noticed adverts on anything except free games or apps. And I can generally pay for those to get rid of the adverts if I so wish. And I suspect, thought the article doesn't say so, that ad supported games will still serve adverts, it's just the home screen/lock screen adverts that will be disabled.
Incidentally are you talking about rooting the device to install adblock, therefore getting free games and also not giving the developers any money? Tight much?
Re: What 2048x1536 resolution movies?
I refer you to the fine gentleman quoted below:
Posted Thursday 28th June 2012 15:36 GMT
Wild Bill
....I can recognise sarcasm, even on the internet.
*sigh*
Image Compression
Everything image wise gets compressed by default, especially if syncing from an Android phone, which is really irritating, and there doesn't seem to be a fix.
You can't disable it by default in the browser either, which I want to if I'm using it as a back up - I don't want to back up my photos only to get the 'safe' version back at half the resolution.
Drag and drop doesn't play in Linux in the browser, you can't upload directories without an app.
Shoddy.
Posted in Ten... freeware gems for new PCs
Re: Hmmm MSE
Have to say I had to remove MSE from a low spec laptop and go to avast - MSE was taking up 100 meg memory, and on an XP machine with only 360, that was killing it.
And while I'd have used Lubuntu for my own machine (and have had it running nicely enough on an even lower spec laptop with 160 meg & 600MHz Processor) the machine wasn't for me, so had to be XP.
Re: Something I suppose
Swype - fricking awesome....
Dr Michael M Nissenbaum, a radiologist
Hmmm. Am I wrong to think he's stepping somewhat outside his bounds of expertise on this, or has he been mislabelled?
Posted in Android's UK phone sales quadruple
That's not a bad thing
...they might have fixed the antenna by then.
Ummm
They weren't reviewing it, they were testing it to prove/disprove the antenna rumours under controlled conditions - scientific experimentation requires proof, not opinion.
Scientific experimentation takes place in labs to cut out outside interference that may distort the result and cause people to go 'Oh it's not a real issue, I can't replicate it'
The point of testing is to make it replicable.
Quick Maths
From the ONS - population of Greater Manchester = 2482328 in 2002 census.
(http://www.statistics.gov.uk/census2001/pyramids/pages/2A.asp)
Let's just say that 2 million of voting age, of these 1736 have got an ID card.
0.0868% of the population have chosen to get one. Less than 1 in a thousand.
Mmm. Proving to be really popular aren't they. </sarcasm>
No problem
It worked fine for me. Logged in fine just before I saw your piece. Checked again just now and it's still okay?
FF portable, 3.5, user agent switcher off.
