Posts by Lamont Cranston

Re: Strange description of Chromecast

Browsing Netflix's catalogue on a tablet, before flinging it to the TV must be better than navigating the catalogue on the TV, using the telly remote.

I imagine that the Chromecast has a good chance of having more services ported to it, too, unlike your "smart" TV, which is probably not going to get anything useful that it doesn't already have (no 4oD, itvPlayer, or demand5 on my Panasonic, for example, all of which exist as Android apps, and so will more than likely get the necessary development to run on the Chromecast).

Re: proceeded to review their samples based on their normal laptop usage

If a laptop were being advertised as a "desktop replacement", I think reviewers would be perfectly justified in comparing it to an equivalent desktop - if it had a smaller screen and a lack of ports, these would be legitimate criticisms.

If MS are touting this Surface as a "laptop replacement", surely it's reasonable to see how it performs it that role?

Re: This whole thing is idiotic

If you got busted as a teenager for nicking booze, is it too much to ask that a) you've grown up since then and don't do that anymore, and b) we all be grown up enough to recognise that teenagers get up to all sorts of stupid shit and that we shouldn't let it define them?

If something really happended, and there was a record of that event, why would it need to be deleted? If it's slander/libel, then there are already laws to handle that.

I think I approve of the way Google is handling this one.

Re: Currently BB10 can run Android binaries impressively...

They really should make more of this fact. Not having the Audible app available put my other half off of getting a Blackberry, a few months back, which was a shame, as it seemed like an otherwise ideal (and well priced) handset.

Re: "...€165..."

A phone for when you're out and about, and a handy pocket computer for when you're at home (or in any other suitable wifi spot). Not everyone wants to suck down data when they're out and about, and not everyone wants to fire up a laptop just to check facebook at home.

£54 for a 120GB Evo, on Amazon, at the moment.

Eagerly awaiting the delivery of mine. Samsung, Crucial, Kingston, and Sandisk are much of a muchness, pricewise, right now.

Re: Amphibious cars aready done

He should have a word with Renault, have them revive the Racoon.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renault_Racoon

Re: But the earth is only 6 thousand years old

A wizard did it.

Re: "Add an extra mesh option with the same animation rigs, and job done"

You left out the months of research and physics modelling that is necessary to ensure that their oversized breasts bounce in the appropriate fashion.

Re: And who will not be happy

If people checked their facts before yelling "fascism", Godwin would be wrong, and we'd never know that an arguement had run its course.

Re: "the village's coat of arms bears the Star of David"

Looks like a Stylophone, to me.

Thanks for the $20k,

enjoy your copy of Book 1.

Re: Unfamiliar UI

So, awful, then.

Re: Mouse and Keyboard

Mouse certaily offers faster, more accurate aiming, but scrunching one's left hand into a claw for the keyboard element is murder, if held for any significant amount of time.

Aim assist and a decent gamepad, please (along with resigning oneself to getting repeatedly owned in multiplayer).

But, geeks are cool now, right?

I assume that's what they're going for, anyway - besides, no one else is going to care that it can boot an operating system that they've not heard of.

Re: Meh

Did I read the review wrong, or is not the battery life improved over the previous iteration, whilst the tablet has become thinner?

re: "space"

Very much this. We had an Eye Toy on the PS2, which worked out little more than a brief novelty, as standing up and flailing your arms to play video games is not really very much fun (and it didn't work too well). The Wii controller works (reasonably) well, but experience has shown that sitting down and not having to point the controller at the screen is the preferred mode of play - anything that involves multiple players standing up to play together will inevitable get switched off after a couple of rounds (during which at least one person will have taken an elbow to the face).

I'm sure Kinect is technically very accomplished, but I don't think it's what people want in their living rooms (or bedrooms).

Re: Macho

If it's good enough for Steven Seagal...

Re: "Cloud computing is shite."

I find your counter arguement to be compelling, Neil.

Re: Eh?

Pretty much, yes.

I used Opera, but have Firefox installed as my son likes the logo. Opera will probably be gone, soon, as, far too frequently, I find that some pages won't load properly. Having to switch browsers to get a page to load is maddening, and Firefox tends to be on the list of browsers that authors test their pages against.