Posts by Confuciousmobil

Not a lot...

I have a 1Tb HD which is about 3/4 full. I'm glad I didn't choose this service as a backup.

If it was throttling after 200Tb it might have a case but 200Gb? Are we still in the 1990s?

4 million?

Is 4million for both versions or just the RT? And at what price? Or is that 4 million regardless of price?

And people who want a full blown desktop OS on a tablet fail, as MS have done, to realise that tablets are not replacements for laptops. I believe that there will be a lot of very disappointed people.

The general consensus among the iPhone communities that I deal with is that Apple's aftercare service is stunningly good! Not sure where this story is coming from but it doesn't sem to tally with what I hear.

Steve Jobs..

Also pointed out why a larger screen is wrong for the iPhone. Apple Sen to be losing their way since his demise - or maybe it's just the rumourmongers that have.

We'll have to see if they do actually release devices that Mr. Jobs knew we're wrong.

Built in obsolescence?

Is this an addition that the keyboard they showed with the Surface is no good? I thought that was one of its main attractions but if MS are already making alternatives they can't think it's that great....

Android

As with most things Android, it sounds confusing.

I'll stick with AirPlay.

Email

If anyone has received that text with the blanked out email they can just send the money to my email account and I'll make sure it gets to the right person....

My next phone?

My next phone will probably be another iPhone (eventually) . I don't have a contract ,I get my phones off eBay and spend a tender a month on GiffGaff.

Why will my next phone probably be another iPhone? I rarely use the smartphone features now, but on the very rare occasions I don't have my fondleslab with me, haven most of the same apps on my phone helps with the withdrawal symptoms.....

Nothing wrong with the SIII but I already own lots of app store apps from when I first got my 3G and all the ones I've bought since. I have been fully asymilated and it would take something extraordinary to make me change now. But I said the same about Windows Smartphones - and then I saw the iPhone...

Why?

One, maybe two devices, I could understand. But any more than that will just confuse their customers. The scattergun approach rarely works.

About time...

Apple takes iOS security seriously and any flaw found is usually fixed very quickly and they try and stay ahead of the game.

Google, on the other hand, make a half hearted attempt at patching holes - but when you have so many it really must be quite depressing for them.

A bar?

Was I the only one to notice that the press building, holding up to 22,000 journalists has 'a bar' and 800 coke machines?

It had better be a very big bar, even then those coke machines will have to be crammed full of alcohol if they are typical journalists....

Save money.

Councils always save a fortune when they outsource - and then save another fortune when they bring it back in house.

If they flip often enough they will actually end up with negative costs....

Repo

For iOS they don't even use a default repo. The only non-default repos I have on my phone are for beta testing.

I wonder how many people look in cydia for this and cant find it? But at $49.95 I'm guessing not many...

I'm confused...

I misread the article. I didn't realise it was all about European Economics. It took these comments to put me right...

WCPGW?

I'll trust his cert, change my IP and give him my username and password.

I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

It's nice to know this is the market MSFT are going after with the Surface...

How many of those translations say Moses had iPads? If none, I think there is room for a new translation.

Surface?

Isn't this just like the original MicroSoft Surface?

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxk_WywMTzc&feature=youtube_gdata_player

DRM?

The only app I had this problem with was the free version of Journey Pro.

Why have DRM on a free app? :confused:

MSFT have the answer!

They are releasing Surface (one day) so I expect the trend to reverse as everyone rushes out to buy one....

Burden of proof..

So, the shares are valued based on their own figures with no verification? I would have thought that to be listed there would be some sort of burden of proof on the company to justify their traffic - but then I thought FaceBook was overvalued by a few million percent, so what do I know?

My grandmother.

My grandmother used to explain in great detail, the etymology of any word. I may be wrong, but she always said that if you were not sure then use what sounds right. Viruses sounds wrong, virii sounds right.

I apologise for my ignorance.

Surface?

Maybe this is the gap in the market the MS Surface Pro is aimed at?

I just hope that releasing the RT version first won't ruin the Pro's chances.

Landscape?

How many people use their iPad in landscape mode most of the time?

A tablet is usually used in portrait mode which, being widescreen, the Surface will not be good at (all the pictures are landscape - that is for a good reason) . For that reason, I do not believe the Surface is going to be used the same way as the iPad.

Which means it's a laptop/ultrabook replacement and I'm just not sure how big that market is. I might be wrong and there could be massive pent up demand for a device like this (I was wrong about the iPad when it first came out, couldn't see the point, but am on my second one now and love it). It just seems to be attacking a small, niche market.

It's a long road from announcement to success and to release in the USA only at launch seems to show a distinct lack of faith by MS - I wonder if it will ever make it to these shores...

I hope I am wrong as I would like to see it succeed. We'll see when it's released.

I use..

I think I've tried most carriers in the UK, had a great deal with T-Mobile (who are very good) but then found Giff Gaff. I get everything I need for £10/month. The support on the forums is excellent - and I've just found out that I actually get paid for helping out (I do on many forums but have never been paid before!)

I can recommend GG - YMMV but I have been very impressed with them - I was going to add 'for the price', but I am impressed regardless of the price.

So sad..

Couldn't you have had him stuffed (preferably in an amusing pose) and havi him in El Reg's office?

Is it to late to dig him up and have him stuffed?

Or have the Russians/Chinese already stolen his corpse to get your trade secrets?

People are expected to download an app from people explaining how they can steal your data?

Are Android users really that stupid?

[quote]whats the point in RIM trying anymore. Just give up[/quote]

By the looks of this, they already have.....

Increase?

Not quite the same as the $900k they paid to someone in 2006 .

They paid $460k to 200 people last year, they couldn't employ 3 people for that.

Apparently, even Google employees think $20k is a joke, but they get fired if they say so.

It's strange that these pathetically low figures are being spun as an 'increase'!

Actually..

Windows 8 is quite good - if only they would get rid of the silly Metro interface.

As others have said, Windows 8 is actually very good once you get behind that awful Metro interface.

Metro might be OK on tablets but why foist it on to the desktop versions? I hope they see sense and at least give us the ability to turn it off.

But then MS do seem to be losing the plot a bit....

For Windows Phone to break into the market it needs a market leading phone - if they don't get one soon they will always be known as a third rate OS.

I hoped Nokia could deliver, but unless they do soon they are likely to pul out of the phone market and where will that leave Windows Phone?

MS need this to succeed as much as Nokia do - they have both invested a lot and Windows Phone could be good, but it needs market leading hardware to show it off first - with it they could both succeed, without, I'm not sure.

I would like to see a third player in the mobile OS arena but unless they do something soon it will remain a two horse race.

Next up...

DOS for Symbian?

Symbian was showing its age when I got my E90

Nokia should have stuck with Meego.

I'm sure this will please the few people that still use Symbian but they are a dying breed. Let them have their fun while they can.

So far I've only found Quimby and Flanders in Portland, now to spend the rest of the day looking for the others....

I wonder...

I wonder why they released this video that relies on publicly available JailBreaks?

Is it to fool people who own iPad 2/3 or iPhone 4S that their data is safe?

If someone has paid $250K for an A5 JailBreak I'm guessing it wasn't just for their personal device....

Win 3.0

Win 3.0 was the game changer. That was what allowed me to access more memory so I could create larger spreadsheets in Lotus 123 V3

Luckily it took a couple of months after the release of Win 3.0 for the Lotus User Group to issue their newsletter saying it was impossible to get 123 running under Windows due to incomparable memory management.

Two days later they released an update telling people how to do it.

It had taken me most of the day to install the eagerly awaited Win3.0 and figure out how to get 123 working on it, but it was worth the wait.

Upgrades to Windows since 3.0 have all just been minor, it was 3.0 that broke us free from 640k

Wow! Channel 4 has exposed that people's names can be obtained. They neglected to mention how easy it is to take payments from NFC cards but I don't suppose people are worried by that so long as its just money people are taking, not their names....