Re: Contacts

I have no idea why this was left out of the article.

Because Gavin Clarke wrote it to make Barry Shitpeas and Eadon happy.

Re: I don't really see a problem

Your complaint about IMAP was that it doesn't support something it was never intended or designed to do.

Not a complaint, merely an observation. You asked for the advantage of EAS over IMAP, I gave it to you. I am neither wrong nor silly.

Further, I quite like IMAP. I don't like GMail because Google's implementation of IMAP is non-standard and seriously annoying.

Re: I don't really see a problem

Your point is akin to saying SMTP doesn't stream video.

It would be, if Google's offering was limited to email and had no calendar or contact management functionality. Since it has both, my point is more akin to saying that a particular mobile phone OS can't do SMS.

Re: Fixed it for ya, Microsoft...

House rules, Eadon.

Unless Google are paying you to ignore those.

Re: i have to use outlook.com

I don't believe you "installed" outlook.com on your Android tablet because outlook.com is a fucking website. You might have visited the website but that's a pretty inefficient way to use mail from a tablet.

If your hotmail client (the sensible way to use outlook.com email on an android tablet - I do on mine, for example) is bloated and performs badly, use a different one.

Honestly, the ignorance of the FUD on the Register's comment pages is depressing.

Re: EA

I'm really sorry you bought into the hype. I considered myself interested but pre-release information and especially the Beta test confirmed clearly that EA/BioWare had fallen into the WoW trap.

I'll explain since I don't want anyone else to buy the hype of the next WoW-trap game, and the one after, and the one after that.

If you build a new game using the mechanics presented in World of Warcraft, those mechanics are 11 years old. The new game must by definition contain less content than the eleven year old game (which has been updated and expanded numerous times). The audience you are trying to attract is an audience that likes those mechanics, and therefore almost certainly already plays WoW. Your game has less content and is therefore by definition "worse".

Players will soon realize that gimmicks added to the core mechanics (voice acting, storyline quests) are finite and rapidly exhausted, leaving them with the WoW "grind for gear" system. But their WoW characters already did the tedious grind and so did those of all their gaming friends so they're unlikely to stay in your game beyond three payment cycles.

That core market will inevitably go back to WoW which leaves your game with no players. The one thing MMOs offer is other players to do stuff with, and your game no longer has those. Therefore, it cannot keep anyone who hasn't gone back to WoW (Star Wars fanbois, people who didn't already play WoW).

You simply can't make money by remaking WoW, regardless of how good your gimmick is.

Re: AFAIK

----------------------------------------> you

-> the point

What this means is that instantaneous reception of distant data is now feasible. That means no lag in data transmission. It's not about building a teleporter.

Kids today.....

Re: AltaVista.digital.com

And typos were dangerous back then. Anyone else remember webcralwer.com?

Re: And the Lord said....

More likely, there are several orders of magnitude more Windows users (market share would appear to support this theory) which in turn means that donations are divided among a vastly bigger base, most of whom will be at work (Macs in the workplace are even rarer than Macs as consumer items) and thus wary of websites being tracked as well as more likely to contribute to an office pool.

/shrug

dull flamebait is dull.

Re: Ahem

Worse how? Not purple enough? Not easily shit-toned for Instagram? Low-light too good? Not enough camera-shake?

Hard to think of any measure by which your statement is anywhere near accurate.

Re: UKG showing common sense? Surely not?

And fire Claire Perry.

Re: Doomsday eh?

It's probably that place in the PlusNet ad.

Re: Few use the "smart" features of smart TVs

Almost nobody uses a windows PC as a TV. They use XBoxes and other STBs to add value to TVs. Therefore, there's hardly any market share to lose.

Re: If they won't pay tax, maybe they should pay for infrastructure

The things you mentioned are encompassed in the Business Rates which it's impossible to dodge unless you're a registered charity or illegally operating out of your shed.

Not even Starbucks can dodge that one.

I agree that the law needs a change. Companies have to act in obedience to the law whereas acting according to "morality" is often something their shareholders can actually sue for under "Best Interest" laws.

And they do. And the ones who sue are often pension funds, which also dodge as much tax as possible.

Re: C# is dead

Eadon tells lies about C#.

Again.

Dead? Deserted? Abandoned? Or expanded, enhanced and built in to MS's latest operating systems as a fundamental piece which (with .NET 4.0) physically cannot be uninstalled or removed without trashing the OS

Eadon. You liar. The only problem is that your lies are always so stupid - nobody with a brain would ever think about believing them.

Re: Meh ...

@JDX - if this was the case the Dell Venue Pro (a WP7 launch handset) would not have a functional microSD card slot.

Which, er, it does.

Re: And they said they re-wrote Office from the ground up for RT

MS use Team Foundation Server.

But hey, it was more imaginative than Eadon's FUD. Well done.

Re: Too little, no credibility, too expensive

Are you saying Sony DIDN'T take away OtherOS and fill the world with rootkits, Barry?[1] Point of order - it's not FUD if it's true.

if so, what drugs are you smoking?

[1] I can't think of any Sony apologist quite so determined to plug their wares as dear Barry.

Re: "shifted more installs than linux on the desktop"?

So what's your point?

Is it "It's popular therefore it's good"? Then Windows on the Desktop is great and all the others are trash. Is that what you want to say? Do you want to LOL at the puny desktop share of linux and OSX? No? Didn't think so.

If it's "popular is good but only on mobile" then I suggest you just answer every query with "because hypocrisy" as it will save time.

Re: Win 8 Phone will fail

All of these have shifted more installs than linux on the desktop.

Does that make linux utter trash that should be burned with fire?

If so, you may continue in your hate campaign. If not, shut the fuck up.

Re: Win 8 Phone will fail

Nerds don't want Windows but nerds are a miniscule market. Nobody cares about nerds.

The public just want a phone that can do stuff. They don't even give much of a shit about how many apps it has (that's more nerd crap). You can talk about ecosystems forever - it won't matter. If the phone looks nice, can do all the stuff the consumer wants and is sold well - and this is the major obstacle right here, ignorant nerds in phone shops* - then it'll sell.

*Note - this is what killed Symbian.

Re: Too little, no credibility, too expensive

Eadon clearly believes there's something hilarious about a string signifier after an "M" OH YES AND IT MEANS AMERICAN MONEY AHAHAHAHAHAHA

Or he's an idiot. You decide.

Until the phone is reviewed, we don't know whether it likes half a gig of memory or not. As far as I know, this is the first announced WP8 phone with less than a full gig. So... wait and see, I guess. WP7.x had no issues with 512MB.

Re: Too little, no credibility, too expensive

Downvoted for "M$". It instantly makes any comment you make the work of an eight year old.

My mum's in her late sixties. It's easy to use with big text and has Nokia Drive and doesn't require iTunes.

I'll bite on the troll because that's my mother, dickweed. Your mother might want to root a Samsung Galaxy 3 and put Cyanogenmod on it, my mother doesn't.