Posts by JDX
3619 posts • joined Friday 28th May 2010 13:33 GMT
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Re: Too many "exclusives"
Thanks to those who downvote a simple question but don't even bother to provide an answer. Presumably because I dared to suggest or at least imply that paying for content was OK?
Re: goodbye Adobe
Presumably they are more interested in professional users who use it all the time and "subscribe" already by upgrading to new versions as a matter of course.
Its just makes it more difficult for new talent to enter the industry
Why? Surely they still offer a free trial at the very least?
I haven't looked, but do they allow short-term subscriptions that cost less than buying a boxed copy?
Re: Too many "exclusives"
WEll isn't that how it is in the US with HBO, ShowTime, etc - each is a separate package in some way? I never understood how US TV works...
Re: All very true, but..
You couldn't just use a metal pipe, it has to be of very close tolerance surely? And using a metal pipe to ensure a proper fit would DRASTICALLY increase the pressure in the chamber which would promptly explode.
For now anyway - doubtless we'll be able to 3D-print in diamond soon or something.
Re: Nokia competing against Android
Because hardware marches on at a crazy pace... hence Lumia selling at £99 already which will very soon be $99.
Re: Landfill
Please don't spout this crap. You might not like W8/Metro but WP8 is in no way a broken OS, I'm not sure even Eadon has made that claim, and the WP UI is at worst average.
Nokia is already selling non-WP phones as this article is all about, so obviously they are 'allowed' to.
Re: Nokia competing against Android
Why would I hope that - I don't live in a developing nation. I know that WP is a good platform, and reviews say it is better than Android on bottom-end smartphone hardware so from that perspective it would be good to see competition - Android should not have the whole market.
Posted in Review: BlackBerry Q10
making the "up" swipe to see the active tasks
Isn't that what iPad does?
Re: What on Earth is the point?
If you are controlling sales worth billions, why shouldn't you be worth 1% of that?
poor sap businesses
Yeah, vouchers are such a new-fangled idea. Old ladies haven't been clipping them from newpapers since before you were born, proving that vouchers are a workable form of marketing.
Re: Goodness gracious!
Um, it's 9 Billion not million.
Re: How do they offer access to Facebook for free?
Easy to see which data is to facebook.com
Re: Nokia competing against Android
Not really. You can't make generalisations across the entire world like that. WP could be a surpise hit in the low-price sector.
Because fragmentation is a pain when moving devices. They could agree not to launch their own service in return for a share of Amazon's profits. DRM aside, Kindle is a great cross-platform solution.
$99
That's only a little below the full-smartphone Lumia 520 price-point. So presumably Nokia will soon be competing directly agaisnt android with WP8 in the low-end, which could be pretty interesting to watch.
Why don't they just hatch a deal with Amazon - who sell more books on iPad than Apple do IIRC. Make Kindle the 'official' reader app for Windows.
Re: No No No This cant be right
You have it backwards. Piracy is going on, but adding DRM doesn't reduce it. For anyone to suggest people don't pirate music in massive droves is just naive/stupid.
Re: Copyright Mafiaa wildly exaggerate, as this shows
Presumably the point is not that people aren't pirating their books, but that pirating DRM copies is so easy it makes little difference?
I don't know, do e-books suffer the same levels of piracy as music & video?
Re: Antimatter and anti-gravity anyone?
Anti-matter responds to gravity in the regular way. AM in tiny quantities is easy to make as evidenced by the existance if the PET Scan.
Re: *If* true that would make the Standard Model a pretty blunt tool.
Um, as a "religious nut" I applaud this kind of scientific progress...
Re: C'mon, this is going to be great!
Good point. A new Twitter will arise that lets you literally follow someone as they walk about (or TWitter/FB/G+ will do it)... thounsands of people sitting inside watching Stephen Fry try on shoes...
infrastructure czar
Grow the f*** up.
Sigh
Another great high publicity case to support DRM... if you want content not to be covered in security crap then act like responsible adults rather than take advantage.
Move with the times
To all those who think nobody would ever wear anything like this... modern sunglasses would once have been very bizarre, as would a baseball cap or shorts. Fashions change so it's only a matter of time before this is seen as normal.
Plus of course, thick-frame glasses are cool right now so simply add another thick arm and some plain glass lenses and it will barely be noticeable, especially as the tech shrinks.
I could see you getting the same treatment though without the need of a prosthetic.
I love the 2nd photo
Makes it look like a TNG shuttlecraft with the props invisible.
Posted in Review: Crucial M500 960GB SSD
Re: blimey
Chris I thought they became unwriteable first, so could be moved to spare sectors - why a drive has X% spare capacity?
Posted in Review: Crucial M500 960GB SSD
blimey
I have been toying with getting a SSD as second drive but now I might as well get a big SSD to replace my current spinny drive entirely.
Question: does fragmentation still exist on SSDs or is it entirely a relic of the mechanics of spinny disks?
(also I want to get a silver RAIN comment in but not sure if anyone will get the reference)
because DirectX is a nightmare in itself
No it isn't, it's far more friendly than GL in my book.
I had to Google to find out how to restart a Windows 2012 server from an RDC connection
That's a power-user scenario, you're supposed to RTFM FFS if you're on a server.
What's wrong with being able to buy apps through a store if you want to - Apple have this but it's unlikely anyone will go store-only for desktop apps as it would kill their sales.
As for confusion, maybe that's just you.
Re: We told you it was shit
Yeah I've come to feel MS were right and we were all wrong on the Ribbon front... cue downvotes...
Weed out the problem
How many morons are going to lose their hands when their print has a defect and explodes?
WebGL
No IE support then. I didn't think browsers on mobile supported it either, I know my iPad doesn't (I checked).
Re: Really don't understand how Microsoft keep getting it all wrong.
Apart from the app-store, everything you say about WP is tripe.
Auto filming when scared/surprised/aroused?
I wonder if it's able to detect your pupil size and start filming when this suddenly changes, i.e. when something interesting happens?
Re: I went the other way.
If your wintel boxes crash, they're built or used wrong.
Re: Does the company know anything about BootCamp?
If you have to start mucking about with USB then it is no longer straightforward compared to "insert disk, press go".
Of course many Macs don't have optical drives which makes it less straightforward still.
Re: Surprise!!!! - Windows is the LEAST reliable...
Well done Eadon, a new low. Go read it again and find something related to criticise.
Posted in Star Trek: The original computer game
Something's wrong...
Nobody has made some vicious attack on the new film yet.
sensible
Twitter is both a real company and not years into its life like FB was. Seems a good time to IPO - they're established but not stale.
The less networked way twitter works - no friend groups except in a transient way - might give more longevity too (maybe).
Re: "dogs shouldn't be hanging round the counter of a food shop anyway."
Ah, it's cool to diss things that are popular. What a non-conformist you are.
Although doughnuts for breakfast.... eew. Are DD really competing with SB though, surely DD sells coffee to go with the donuts?
Re: Eh?
Because schools and libraries don't provide free internet to poor people...
I live on Ramon noodles and chicken with peas and various spices
Sounds tasty, I'd eat that.
Re: Not exactly...
the HD4000 is pretty good, a massive leap from the previous generation. It runs full D3D10/11 and our 3D software runs on it happily. Obviously not going to be used in a gaming rig but it will run games.
just 0.88 crashes a week
Is that .88 crashes per PC (mac) per week? Because that seems incredibly high to me - I use my PC for 8-10 hours a day for gaming, development, etc and frequently go for weeks without restarting (I hibernate). I cannot remember the last time it actually crashed or blue-screened. I don't think this is particularly unusual...
Re: Apple users use OsX most of the time
Are we sure they don't amortize the results per hour of use or anything like that?
Re: Let's see....@Andy Prough
The laptop I don't turn on never crashes, and is about as useful as a Chromebook.
Yeah you'd think if they were bankrupt they'd struggle to pay the lawyers!
