Posts by Big_Ted

hmmm lets see

Just how many 41mp photos will fit on a 16gb card ?

Unless its very simple to swap the card for an empty one this is pretty much a waste of for your average punter......

Not that I would turn down one if offered.

"Holding the iPad by the bottom corners seems to worsen the problem, and some users seem to have coaxed better performance by resetting their network connections"

Or how about turning it upside down............

Of cource even though its not stated the mobile operators are paying Apple their standard 30% on any new data plan taken out by those poor idiots who stream video on a 2GB a month limit.......

Your all wrong

The best ever Doctor / Companion team was Sylvestor Mccoy and Ace in the final series they did. It was just getting interesting when they canceled it.

And the worst team of all.........Colin Baker and Bonny Langford.........

And so Microsoft finally surrender in the OS wars by designing a phone interface and porting it to everything else.

Where I work we are about to go from XP to windows 7 due to MS stopping support for XP.

We will stick with Windows 7 until dragged kicking and screaming away from it, I wouldn't be at all surprised if by then Android has moved on to version 10 or 15 and will be a full blown OS that works on everything the way it should and we would switch to it, we will not go the route of Windows 8 style UI no matter what, it just won't work in business that uses more than Office day to day. Or even that Apple makes its OS available on more than just their own kit and it will make big inroads into windows territory.........

I feel sorry for those poor people who are selling the "New" ipad on ebay for around £700 with guaranteed dispatch on the 16th or a full refund.

The poor soles could lose money via Paypal and Ebay fees.......

Serves the bastards right for trying to profit from the shortage......

Ok the big question that needs an answer is do you get clubcard points on it ?

And why bother with this when you can sit the carpark of most larger Tesco's and use their WiFi for free......

#~#

Can I be the first to ask for a full list of these sites so I can visit them all and thereby be able to post and unbiased view on if they are obscene or not....

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And the rounded corners.....

And square icons.....

Breaking news.......

You hear it here first.

I have an exclusive source who is in the post room of Comet head office who has told me that the launch is in fact for the iPad 3 thats a 7 inch supper OLED screen device with a bloody big magnifying glass stand.

You get home and just slot you iPad 3 into and and settle on thge couch and use your iPad2 as a controller.

Better yet buy 2 of these and sit them side by side and you can get 3D for the price of a new Ford Focus......

What I wonder is........

If Apple loose the appeal does that mean that within Chinas border the word ipad can only be used by Proview ?

How would that affect all those ipads being made there, would they have to leave the word ipad off them to be able to export ?

Could be interesting if they loose the appeal....

yeah

I bought 5 of these babies for me and family.

Am waiting for ICS port to load on them, have CM7 on a couple they are great with it.

Hopefully this will aid them on problems with CM9 and get it into Beta quicker so I can test on my tablet......

Mehhhhh

Move along........

Nothing to see here

This must be the most unanticipated lauch / preview of any OS since PCDos.

We have an OS that will be split between systems that will either be fully working or if an arm based one restricted by the software.

Whats the point ?

Can't see it being any more welcome than Vista would be at a relaunch......

Strange way to look at the figures.....

"The good news for Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo is that their offerings, current and future, are the devices consumers are most likely to use to get internet content onto their tellies. There will be some 36.7m net-connectable consoles in homes come 2016, In-Stat reckons."

So if 20% of homes have a console conected to 1 tv in the home how is that the most likely root.

I would have thought that those smart tv's coming out with it built in plus all the dvd and blu ray players also with it built in are more likely.

Lets be honest here, most of us will use the telly to watch tv programs and films and not surf the net or use facebook etc. This is more so in homes with more than one person watching the telly at the same time. Its more likely that surfing will continue to be via devices we hold or laptops and desktops with media on the telly.

Whats missing

Whats missing from those figures is the cost to the economy for all the wasted time with people using facebook and twitter whist at work and not doing their jobs.

Plus I fail to see haw pressing the like button is making money for the UK......

I bet it costs more than it makes for most companies....

Give this a try

http://www.unblock-us.com/?v=2

Tried it out to see if it works and WOW

When enabled my pc works as if in the USA so I can see Hulu ABC etc etc

And when I go to netflix it shows the USA version of the site with mega loads of content on the same login.

For $4.99 a month to add so much extra VOD without having to set up vpn and DNS etc its a great way of seeing what you can't otherwise

At CES

At CES I saw a report of a tablet application that looks at where various objects are located in front of the camera and animates them.

Thats 30 times a second, take image from camera, recognize objects and location, animate them, render the result on the tablet screen, on top of that is the interaction from the tablet screen.

How on earth are Intel going to compete with ARM chips that can already do that when they are working as hard as Intel to improve performance and cut power usage.

Give them 12 months and Intel may catch up with where ARM are now but that still leaves them a year behind.

By then servers will already be getting ARM systems.

Add to that M$ and their attempts to lock down hardware on ARM tablets and the great white hope of Windows 8 being a great seller becomes a great white elephant.

Intel need to do something new not play catchup or they could end up being another Nokia living on past glories till M$ send in a senior man to sort out the M$ takeover......

Here we are on the edge of recession and what do the pc makers do ?

They roll out a new form factor that costs at least twice as much as their current offering with little or no improovement for the majority of users.

Only those who need a laptop that has mega fast disk access will notice anything, as to the form factor itself, only for a very limited time is the thing actually being carried anywhere so again over priced for what it is.

I would much rather buy a current laptop and a tablet for the price of one of these things as I would have all the bases covered.

They would have to

They would have to pay me to use their streaming service, the quality is poor and thats when it works at all.....

Major buffering and pixelation is a pain in the arse.

Tried the Netflix offering this morning and it streamed two films one on my tablet and another on my laptop at the same time using the tablet as a wifi hotspot and that was on 3G.

If they can keep that up as the service becomes popular along with their greaer offerings on tv series etc then I can see them as the winners with lovefilm filling the snailmail sector of the market alone unless Amazon incorporate it into the prime service with much better bandwidth when they release the Kindle Fire.

Sounds good to me

Anything that weakens Sky is a good thing.

Shame for those who love footie but then again if you want it you have to pay for it.

One quetion come to mind, was this thought of before Steve Jobs died and if so did he use his share holding in Disney to start a joint deal to bid for rights to live and highlights.........

Enquiring minds should be checking into it.........

I can see Sky ending with no premier league footie at all with these companies pushing for rights. I am sure that Apple, Google, Disney and Al Jezera have more cash to bid with than Sky can come up with.....

Ok.......

One question springs to mind, how many of the 51% who were not happy with their non ipad tablet had bought a cheap (£60-90) quid chinese job off ebay and how many were owners of higher spec tablets running honeycomb.....

think people....

This is the same ones with £200 off already plus a few new laptops that they are starting to stock.

No real giveaway here......

dripping abomination from the depths of hell.....

@ James micallef

Now is that any way to talk about Mr Ballmer ?

The poor chap is trying to sale a Noddy UI'd phone OS as a desktop replacement with a strait face......

He doesn't need complements to boost his ego as well.....

Correct me if i'm wrong

Correct me if I'm wrong but this will only run all windows software if you have an intel processor in it.

If you have an Arm processor then it will only run apps.

Why would I want a Mikey Mouse UI on a pc to look like a tablet when I can't have a more powerful arm based tablet if I want to run word etc.

MS have really messed up here. What they should have done is have a desktop/non touch laptop windows and a portable/touch windows which is common to the phone as well as tablets etc.

As it stands Windows 8 is not fully compatable on software on arm and totally different to windows phone.......

Being Aldi

It will have a 3 year warranty so thats worth a few quid on its own.....

Censorship

Well they have now deleted a thread on their forum pages where people were sharing information.

I hope they are proud of themselves.....

"Earth's Most Customer-Centric Company" my ass............

hmmmmmm

So the author who never writes a pro Google piece says they have made a panic buy....

Meh

This is just another fluff opnion piece that has nothing to do with reality.

Motorola may have a portfolio of patents (17,000) that won't help Google mostly but what about the 7,000 pending patents ? or has the author read through those as well.....

Fail because this is as far off the truth as the iPhone is dead piece.

How about monkey boy

Steve Bulmer looks like he could be pushed out of M$ soon so how about him, ?

If its a big ego though then Larry Elison would fit the bill.

My bet though would be the current standin will get the job as they are oviously doing well at the moment looking at the latest sales figures.

After all the next couple of years plans for new tech are already bsing worked on.

Makes sence to me.............

Microsoft bring out a phone OS thats way behind others coming to market because they missed the boat

Microsoft buy Skype for way more than its worth just because.........

Microsoft once again are behind everyone else and announce a tablet arm based windows OS that will arrive too late with IOS5 and Android 4 (ice cream sandwich) both out this year

Microsoft bring out a new cloud based Office...............................oh but you need desktop Office for it to work so not realy that cloudy.

What can they do to save themselves ?

Employ someone who is an expert in selling fantasy and dreams

Makes sense as thats what they are relying on for the future themselves.

Paris because she likes Mini Mouse

installed and removed in 1 minute

Installed on Android

No Flash support

Dumped

Oh well what did I expect..................

Open network........of course its open.

Most remote PLC's are connected to the server via phone lines in most cases using either ethernet via DSL etc or via outstations that talk to the PLC.

The problem with this approach is that if you have the comms protocol and phone number of the site its easy to try to connect.

Otherwise its down to the same approach as trying to connect to any pc out there.

Also as companies such as Utilities have so many of these things in remote locations it can take months to get round and update the firmware then test all software in the PLC to ensure its still working.

On top of that many of these remote sites don't have any security above a lock on the door or padlock.

Note how easy it was a few months ago to bring down so much of the mobile network a few months ago via a simple breakin........