Posts by Benjamin 4
149 posts • joined Thursday 28th January 2010 08:15 GMT
Re: As ocassionally happens.....
But isn't that half the fun? Trying to guess what the article is about without reading the subtitle or the article.
Why the hell are these on a network, let alone connected to the internet. All of this sort of thing should surely be completely standalone with no communication protocols to other devices.
Re: You wish ..
@Whoever downvoted this post.
Please reload your joke detector and the try reading it again.
Re: I can change my password ...
Agreed. And you should use a different code for each website. So I'm good for ten websites, then what?
Are you sure sir? It does mean changing the bulb!
Damn you Philips. You've just knackered one of my favorite comedy sketches.
Re: No HDMI?
Searched HDMI cable on Amazon and clicked on the first link. 1.8m with gold plated contacts. 99p with free delivery. As long as you don't buy off the highstreet HDMI cables aren't that expensive.
Why? Just why?
The rest of the world is movining away from broadcast TV towards streaming so lets invent a new broadcast standard on a platform where broadcast TV has never worked?
Though frankly all mobile TV apps (live and streaming seem to be a bit crap). Even the iPlayer mobile app has atrocious quality, though accessing the desktop site improves quality tremendously.
Sorry, so what's the outcome going to be. A committee will find that they pay more than other countries, and then what? They'll legislate that an iPad can only cost $500? Somehow I don't quite see it. The only way this can be resolved is through the market (i.e. another company comes along and starts selling a competitive product at lower prices).
I really don't get these laws. 10 years imprisonment while these people who get small fines for kidnapping and or rape. The world really needs to reassess what we punish people for.
Re: The netbook is dead, the laptop is dying, long live the tablet.
@Eadon
I largely agree with your statement that low spec netbooks with Linux have use cases, and that MS did play a part in killing them off (though I'm not going to get into the debate as to whether this was monopoly abuse or not), but please please please stop posting the same thing on every article. It's alright to make the statement once or twice,but to repeat the same thing over and over again for no reason is just getting tedious.
"Ballmer is the best person to lead Microsoft"
I think I just saw a pig fly past the window, probably on its way to show Ballmer how he should run Microsoft.
Posted in Oz R18+ game rating goes live
I'm all for protecting children if there is genuinely a danger, but methinks this is a rubbish way of going about it. Sure there is an age where children shouldn't be able to access content currently rated at 18+, but I'm not sure that this is it. And I'm not sure that this would solve it even if it was enforceable.
We would be far better off if parents sat down with their children and explained that there is violence / sex / whatever portrayed within this game. It's not representative of real life. Treat it as a fantasy and a way to blow off the stresses of your real life.
Wouldn't that be far more sensible than an unenforceable legislation? Even if shops abide to it and people don't buy from abroad and adults don't buy the games on behalf of children they'll still play it round a mates house who has an older brother who got it.
It's the same with all the f**king stupid legislation they keep trying to introduce to block porn. Massively expensive, never works, and doesn't achieve what they set out for it to achieve.
I'll stick with using an AV suite ta very much. I've used unprotected machines, admittedly back in the dark days of XP / IE6 so maybe things have moved on, but they were riddled with viri very quickly. (I use viri as a generic term for viruses, worms , trojans, adwere, spyware, whatever else the latest term de joure is)
I use Eset Small Business Security, cost something Like £15-20 per machine per year which seems a worthwhile investment and I've never had a virus slip past it. Maybe I'm lucky, maybe I'm not the target of this report, but for the money it costs me I'll stick with it.
Re: No love for AMD?
I'm just guessing here but he stated that he specifically wanted vPro and a set of remote management capabilities. I don't know about remote management but certainly vPro is restricted to Intel cpus (unless my brain is playing tricks on me cause I haven't done any major virtulisation work for a couple of years).
If people are successfully suing for copyright infringement in China Apple must be doing really badly!
Surely they'd all be better off moving towards where the UK mobile network industry is going and have one or two networks maintained between them and then all sell space on them.
Re: Syrup Syphon
You are thinking of golden syrup. This is maple syrup which, while not as thin as water is not anywhere near as thick as Golden syrup.
"Imorral" "Pushes the Law to its limits"
Either they're breaking the law or they aren't. If they're breaking the law prosecute them. If they aren't breaking the law change it so that they are or stop whinging about it.
Re: 'Rochdale Securities'
And the home of 'Ecky Thump'!
I really like the hardware but I'm not touching Windows Phone with a barge pole. If I could get this with Android, especially CM7.2 with ADW launcher I would really like it as a phone. Sadly the software lets it down.
Posted in Tiny Ubi Android machine pre-orders open
"I'm sorry, the term cargo bay doors does not appear to be in my mexican."
Why would I want a high bandwith mobile data connection with a 500mb or 1gb cap?
Posted in NEC looks to offload Lenovo shares
Re: buy-back
That doesn't always mean they are making a lot of money. I could be the top PC maker by virtue of selling all of my computers at cost / a loss. I'd be moving the volume but still not making money.
Posted in Ten 15in notebooks for under 400 quid
Re: Backs and second hand laptops
100% agree with second hand ThinkPads being the way to go. £180 off eBay for a proper 15.4" 16:10 1680x1050 screen - beats any other laptop in this review. A proper keyboard not one of these stupid cichlet keyboard, a track point and 4-8 hours battery life (dependent upon model and battery) and virtually indestructible to boot. A 500gb hdd and £20 on Amazon to boost the RAM to 4gb.
I seriously don't understand why more people don't do this.
I disagree that moving to satellite or cable would solve anything since those are proprietary networks and unless you want to pay for upkeep on them for me as well it wouldn't work. We should just spend the money to get internet to everyone, scrap timed content altogether and then watch shows off the internet when we want to (i.e. shows would be available to watch at any time during the day / evening / week after etc that they want them to screen on).
Re: if
If I'm to play devils advocate I'd say that just because it doesn't that doesn't mean there isn't a chance it could. And do you want to be on a plane that might crash? Besides get a real book then it wouldn't be a problem in the first place.
Anti-Terrorism Laws??? Limits should apply!
There should be a law that says laws and police departments etc can only be used as intended. For example local councils would be banned from using surveillance under RIPA etc and an anti-terrorism police department could not be used to help collar Assange.
No surprises there then
I recently purchased a ThinkPad T61 from eBay for £180. 2.2ghz dual core, 4gb ram, hdd from my old laptop, decent battery life, and that should see me for another couple of years. Likewise I built my desktop three years ago with components that were old then and it still does everything I want.
There has been minimal improvements in the market for years now (apart from cutting edge applications). Manufacturers need to come up with something to make me want to buy computers, otherwise they're going to keep loosing sales. Basically they're making computers too good (not that I'm complaining).
Given how many people don't want to upgrade why don't MS just charge for updates and support and make the most of it. I have yet to find a compelling reason to upgrade.
If you ask me anyone who does this should be given £1 million and told to get on with their lives. It would soon tighten up security on govt and military computers!
Re: Poor understanding of grammar
"Their intent was to keep the people free from an intrusive government."
And of course the current 'Merican government is soo good to it's people!
Re: Further proof
Whoever downvoted that had a massive sense of humour / sarcasm failure. Please reinstall sense of humour version 1.5. If this still fails please uninstall internet ver 2.2!
TV - right there with FB
And how often do you watch television (and I mean actually watch it, not just have it on while you pay attention to something else? TV is in decline, it has just taken a while.
As is music. Very few people actually listen to music.
My point is that all these once great things are relegated to second / third place and not the primary draws they once were!
£60 to stick a filter in the loft???
Most signal amps in the loft still use normal coax connectors. Are the really saying that the average person is too incompetent to go into their loft and stick the filter in?
Posted in Disable Gadgets NOW says Redmond
Excuse me while I feel quite smug...
For running XP and consequently not needing to do anything to combat this.
(Joke alert so that people understand that I am not advocating running XP for security reasons)
Another word for simplicity:
The complete lack of all features!
I know, I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, I'm just saying I don't see a point in it yet for me personally, since I would never have an opportunity to use it.
This is kind of pointless to get at the moment. No-where I go to can take NFC payments yet. Heck some companies I use still only take cheque and cash!
And how many viri in modern times actually act in this manner?
Re: DIY nightmare
"Some kind of white roller blind setup"
What, like a projector screen, you mean?
Re: Three hours, tkioz?
"Arguing with idiots is kinda pointless."
Agreed - they bring you down to their level then beat you with experience.
Alternatively:
I've made millions for ICANN with this scheme, I'll take some of it for me and be gone, bye...
I think the law should be they can charge 15% over standard rates only. That's enough to negotiate with a local carrier, anymore than that is daylight robbery. And you wouldn't have to buy an add on they would just add 10-15% to your normal bill that month.
Anti phishing toolbar?
Or just some common sense - is this address actually the website (is it paypal.com or p@ypal.ru etc).
Complete and utter b***ocks
These cases should be dismissed with prejudice as extreme stupidity. If you want the defamatory articles removed you get the website hosting them to remove them, then they will dissapear from Google. You can't just pick on Google as an easy target.
What's the problem?
We have a thing called a free market. If people don't want to pay these surcharges then they'll go with another company. And besides the companies that have these surcharges will just put their prices up.
@Kuugutsu
"Why not give all boys the snip" I suggested the patch since in 15 or 20 years time when we want to start having babies again it is easily reversible, and easy to apply, unlike the snip.
Jobs will be created predominately within the hard science industries and support roles for them. This will capture the younger generations enthusiasm, allowing the older generations to continue in their current roles. This may not be perfect, but it will be a good start to finding jobs.
Re: The truth hurts
"Patch police raiding little girls bedrooms" Stop scare mongering. Even in China they don't break into girls bedrooms just to ensure that they are on birth control.
2002 technology. Hmm Lets say 1 ghz, 256mb of ram and a 40gb hdd? For a lot of people that'd be alright. And don't forget that is the oldest stuff, so you'd filter it down. People who need it get modern tech and the old stuff is given to people who don't need it (people who only use the computer to check emails and browse the web a bit), say distributed once every six months. It suddenly becomes managable, especially if we got rid of some of the animations and stuff that soaks up cpu cycles for no reason.
And as for authoritarian government is it really better than what we have now with big corporations ruling the roost? You seriously think this is a true democracy? As in people powered government?
Re: So basically....
If we accept that humans will want products and that these products require energy created by burning fossil fuels to make, and even if we disagree that co2 causes global warming we can't disagree that we want to reduce pollution, therefore all roads lead to roam and therefore reducing population is a good thing.
Oh yeah and while we're working on fusion ban solar / wind and build a load of fission reactors and gas plants (and get on with shale gas extraction).
