Posts by Bram

Time for Change

This sounds like the same story technology pushing forward with engineers being creative and the standards commitees who spend a year and a day to shuffle their papers and agree on what type of coffee to have at the meeting to decide what type of letter head they will use to send out the invites to delegates.

I say use the traditional USA cowboy mentality to get the whole thing started then reign it in when its established, starting off with a standard focused aproach usually stifles development take a look at the whole wi-fi max, 3G and other mobile technologies and the massive delay in HD videos and broadcasting, it took so long to agree on standards that it became obselete before its implemented and consumers will probably stop caring.

Depressing

The real joke is that they are going to bring in these restrictions and laws and people will probably stop file sharing. T

hen with other sweeping cuts there will be less Police on the streets and everyone can welcome back the organised Chinese gangs who sell DVDs for a fiva (they might even sell blue rays!) these gangs also use people trafficing as a a form of recruitment.

Illegal file sharing is the lesser of two evils and the so called 200m opportunity lost cost they are talking about is pure economical magic, most people who download films and music are very unlikely to buy the thing, and the small majority that would usually go and see the film or buy the album. When you can sample the product properly you tend to notice its trash and then you don't buy it, why should I buy something if its a mystery?

To all the music artist perform you music live first if I like I'll buy it. I'm not taking a chance on crap, to the film compaines stop making sequels and trying to peddle double price 3D tickets it just me a bloody headache and it doesnt patch over weak storylines (boobs can do this a lot better and its cheaper!)

what comes to my mind

You know that saying that we only use 10% of our brain, its not totally true we only use 10% at any given time but we use the whole of our brain.

Like a smart it can do a lot but not everything at once. Phone as a remote control?

What happens when you get a phone call and need to lower the volume or the person on the phone tells you to watch a certain channel to have a gossip about something, great idea but a novelty people will buy it and only use at christmas times to impress the under 8s.

Apple TV and other TV boxes are kinda pointless when

1) they are being built into televisions making the front room tidier

2) a vga/dvi cable (which most modern TVs come with the connectors) costs about £5

3) if you own a modern console you can stream films from your PC or watch their services already

Whay are Apple planning to waste their time money and s**t on their reputation. I think it could be time to search for a new CEO one who will stabilse the ship rather than pushing them forward relentlessly into areas that are pointlessly dangerous

Apple good or bad...

Well at least Apple are doing something the only problem I have is that they are like the kid in school who is always bursting to give an answer to a question no one else wants to answer because its easy and quite obvious. The thing which everyone else is forgetting is that annoying that they are they end up with all the kudos.

What I reckon is going to be the real lynch pin in Apple TV and all the streaming is what content will be available outside of the US. The big US TV networks and film companies are so tight arsed they won't release any content and the trash they do release will be at a ridiculous price.

I think I'll stick to my clunky consoles with iPlayer.

Whats Important

Whats important is that children learn the basics before they get to the tech.

There is no point giving a child a keyboard before they have learnt to write. Don't just give them a iPad let them research the thing and find out for themselves whether its a good idea or if something else is better.

The fear is a generation will grow up not being able to use simple tools like dictionarys and reference books in order to find information. How sad will it be if when ever they want to find any information they go to a consumer deveice and take what ever it tells them as Gospel (excuse the pun)

The only saving grace is that its private school kids who are going to grow up being detached from the real world... hold on

what can you do?

they are trying to boost romanias economy by allowing them into the EU. The part they missed was that without them having anything to trade in or any skills to sell all they are going to do is take the piss.

I am quite a liberal guy but I'm not an idiot the standards should have been higher before they were allowed full membership into the EU, I'm still surprised Greece made it in!

Please no Jingoism on The Reg lets keep it focused

Institutionally Retarded

This is abosolute BS, really how can anyone in the justice system sleep at night.

They haven't got the time to help everyone and we're not allowed to help ourselves because we might inadvertedly help out the criminal.

Instead of telling us to stop trying to solve our own problems deal with the lawyers and judges who have a twisted idea of justice. Seriously how can someone claim to be an expert in law and justice when they see it fit to charge £60+ for a frickin letter!!! where's the justice in that.

The police are institutionally retarded, they actually think we are all incapable of of stopping a crime because they can't and they being paid for it.

Time for change...

ACPO?

I have had the pleasure to work with ACPO and most of the policing bodies, and I can tell you that they are deluded in a very special way...

They promote diversity, equal opportunities fairness etc. but the reality is you can do all the above as long as you do it their way there is no room for deviation from the senior management's plan and they always know best.

They live in a bubble where they are saviours to us all and if they don't do what they do then civilisation will come to sticky end.

We do need to ask what do we need the police for?

I personally want the police to be on hand when my house gets robbed not beating down civilians and intimidating normal joe bloggs

a load of comments...

...little commonsense

lol

Every computing device has managed to infuriate me no end, Macbook died was told it would cost me 500 to fix the logic board (mother board) and there is a bloody update for iworks and itunes every bleeding month that adds functionality I dont want and with a useless 60g HD is becoming a pain (I havent updated in well over a year get a new notice everytime I log on).

When I had vista 64 retarded update stopped the pc booting and my web stopped working (never used it anyway) very time I start up the linux box I get so distracted changing/configuring/customising another feature that I don't actually do any work.

The saving grace is the windows PC is usually free or very cheap to fix and can do everything (win7 rocks), the mac is v. simple to use and is fairly reliable and the linux box is a good challenge.

Pen and Paper trumps all

Hypocrites

Why should us as the members of the public be watched by the government and have to accept its for our own good, yet governments don't want to be watched by companies, we can say that companies just want to make money so their objectives are quite obvious but governments can be quite idelogical and punitive in their actions, their actions are determined by acient gripes and the elite few.

Thats life

Google broke the law in a foreign country and being an American company they should know that everyone else (apart from their loyal underdog) would make a show of collecting their scalp (Microsoft and the EU battling over Internet browsers and media players).

For all the good google has done it has also done a fair share of bad you ask all the small companies that can't get a hit out of google or all the money pouring out of the e-commerce world and into google's pockets.

This is the cost of globalisation so just kick back and enjoy the ride, Im just waiting for Andriod to develop self conscienceness and judgement day to roll on.

Cuts

This whole cuts thing reminds me of the the Douglas Adams Hitchhikers guide to the galaxy books

In one of the books they come across a group of pretty usesless people who did all the nonsense public sector jobs in an ancient civilisation. The leaders of the civilisation decided to take all the nonsense roles and bung em into a spaceship and blast them into space.

With all those nonsense public sector people gone the civiliasation entered a golden era, until the whole civilisation died of an ear infection because they got rid of all the telephone box reciever cleaners

The Real World

Its funny when I hear people especially IT guys and girls saying Unix is the onl thing worth having and the other side starts to banter on about Macs are simple and for everyman and then the new kids on the block bang on about Google being the way forward with cloud services the fact is that all the champions of these realms have missed the real issues...

Macs are far to expensive for the average user

Internet services require the internet which is not accessible everywhere at a usable speed for the majority

Unix requires too much specialist knowledge

These are the practical reasons why people opt for the subsidised windows format on a third party hardware box, plus it gives them the choice of buying a budget end system without having a stigma attached, you don't have to have an internet connection to write a document and if something goes wrong you dont need to open a terminal to solve it, or spend hours asking linux gurus online who scoff at you for not knowing a vague command line prompt.

I have a linux box, a macbook, windows7 box and a windows 2008 server and they all have their uses at specific times but the windows box is what I tend to use most often because it covers most bases without too much hassle.

PS

Im not a microsoft fanboi, I can just see the bigger picture no one solution is best

a bleeding joke

I work in a government organisation apprx 2000 staff members running the evil IE6 and office 2003, previously I worked in a school with apprx 1200 student and 200 members of staff (a very large school with a big sixth form) the school a had a range of bespoke software titles a range of users a load of networking standards and equipment etc.

Guess what the school migrated to IE8 and Office 2007 over the six week break all staff and student were up to speed with changes and all bugs ironed out by christmas and that was with a team of three technicians.

Government has a problem with IT beacuse they truly don't understand it and all the managers are over paid IT illiterate morons who had a bad experience with an IT project in the early ninties and are scared sh*tless of trying something new.

A waste of time

This is not going to hide anyone from from the authorities any no one should be downloading this fix, its probably rigged to report you straight to Sony and the other media industries.

The fact is Media is quite expensive to the average person (believe me I have been poor) paying 79p for a song that your not going to listen to that much in 6months or a year is just a waste, movie rentals catalogues online are not extensive or big enough (in the UK at least) to be worth the £4-8n per a movie extra storage space, broadband connections and TV screens and media players to view the content is not that cheap either.

If young people can't be involved in the new media content and spread its popularity then it will never take off, the main culprit in this whole silly mess is the Media companies that failed to change their business plans in the decades they controlled the industry, why oh why am I still being offered pop corn at the cinema can't stand the stuff! I would like a hamburger and a milkshake, that would make me go to the cinema not a bloody 3d film with smurfs, which I have to wear glasses that don't fit well on top of my glasses.

When an artist/director creates some media content there is no reason it shouldn't be available worldwide instantly (without favor to the US) and at the same price (not just by replacing a $ with a £) and maybe YouTube wont stop people from watching content from other countries for no obvious reason other than a request from a controlling media industry, they'll stand up to China but not EMI lmao

There is a reason

The BBC has a mandate to produce content representative of the population, for the slower members that means they have to in order to recieve their license fees cash produce content that caters for all members of society.

1Xtra has 550,000 listeners, there is approximately 2 million people within the UK who would classifiy themselves as Black African or Caribbean. This station is the only part of the BBC that produces content for this demographic.

The BBC covers all other demographics in one of its mediums. 1Xtra also produces shows and informative programming as well as music from various African and Carribean countries and its the only national provider of this music.

No commercial producer serves this audience because its too small.

Please don't complain or say you can just put a few tracks on to radio one. 1Xtra its needed.

James Cameron anyone???

Is it just me or is Judgement day around the corner. Google already have a strong hold on the internet and have their helping hands in certain governments pockets now they are working with DARPA with the NEXUS ONE...

The endo of the world is nigh!!!

Where's my sign board and tramp attire

Sense

The problem is Microsoft spread it self too thin and they are taking the blame for their OS not working properly on the numerous hardware configurations out there.

The only reason the iPhone and Apple in general are precieved to be a better OS is because there is a very limited amount of hardware configurations.

Most of the handsets made for windows mobile were just not good enough and it made the OS pretty poor. If your WM didnt work maybe its because you bought a cheap handset or you didnt check that the manufacturer had the right specs for the software.

I have no problems with Apple or Microsoft, Android I don't trust one little bit, why would anyone give advertisers access to their phone! You can choose to not use the internet or watch TV but you can't just turn off your phone (in case of emergencies).

HTC HD2 is a great phone and XDA will get something sorted and you never know MS might change their minds (lmao maybe just maybe).

I reckon the reason why they are releasing 7Series at the end of the year is because they want people to feel like they got something out of new handsets like the HD2, TG01 and X2.

Brains

its just a mock up, it obviously will go landscape they are just showing the keyboard and the front screen. If it was a picture of a blank text it wouldnt really be showing you anything of interest with windows 7 series

A little short sighted

There is apparently going to be a business version of the windows phone series 7, so you can have a stripped down version with more functionality.

Windows mobile is still the best for business because you can do what ever you want with it and Im guessing the business version of windows series 7 will allow you to customise nearly everything unlike the consumer version.

Try not to get your knickers in a twist