Re: What more ?

Before we had smartphones, you could have said the same - they all made calls and did texts. But still we had several companies continuing to get us to upgrade our handsets every year.

Re: Smack! Crash! Bang!

Why would they hit the wall - they can just continue downsizing to meet whatever the demand is.

If people are getting a bit tired of the Apple brand - simply because it's not so cool - then maybe a MS brand will have some chance since Android is the no-brand alternative, and lots of people are always going to prefer a brand.

Well Lee, I prefer to buy products based on how good they are, not because of emotional ties I have to a faceless corporation.

Hilarious, literally downvotes from smelly teenagers simply because I bought something they don't like.

Re: OOXML disgrace

Schools should use what works well and not be dragged into these stupid debates in the first place from either side.

Re: Confused

Instagram was like 2 people so I doubt it!

Re: Oh Nokia

What else would they do instead? Might as well keep going now, things can only get better really when you're starting from 0.

I got a WP Nokia a few weeks ago - I think it's great. When you say "I hate Windows" do you mean you hate Windows desktop so you refused to even try a totally different OS because it had the same name, or that you tried and hated WP?

Re: BBC

I seem to remember pretty decent coverage 4 years ago - the main BBC coverage was similar to this time around.

Um, BBC have recently (within the last 2 months) moved away from Flash. They trialed this for the "Hackney Weekend" festival - for the first time you can watch live stuff on iPad, etc. It seemed to 'just work' but I don't know what tech is utilized... Flash is still in there somewhere because on my Windows Phone it wanted Flash... I guess they maybe fall back to HTML5 on iOS specifically or something.

Re: Cockup upon cockup.

Yes it's almost like they're showing some semblance of responsibility.

What options does Apple give? I had to set up a payment option on my iPad recently but put in my card number without looking what the other options were...

Low quality genuine local stuff might be OK but how they'd fill a channel all day I've no idea.

Re: Sure

Grow up.

Re: "Many societies ... consider homosexuality to be contrary to their culture [or] morality"

So in that case you won't be telling them that oppressing women is wrong, because it's their business not yours and you want to set a good example?

Re: You'd think -

Isn't that the argument in favour of .xxx? People aren't wanting to make it easy for them to block it for themselves, they object the thing is wrong in the first place and we should be working to stop it, not implicitly condone it . Hardly a complex argument, regardless of whether you agree with it.

remind me what "freedom of speech" is

something which is decided on a nation by nation basis, not some world utopian ideal.

I'm confused, if your books are in the Kindle app then surely they will automatically appear on ANY device you sign into with your kindle ID, including an actual Kindle? e.g I have a Kindle, and when I installed the app on my iPad, Windows Phone, Mac and PC, the books were ready to read.

This slickness is one of Kindle's major strengths so I don't follow all the side-load advice, unless I misunderstood your setup?

Re: Er, that gesture graphic... unknown object

Well they were IT people presumably, they'd probably never gotten near one.

Re: ch 4

Channel 4 has a good track record of their documentaries about the disabled (and anyone challenging the limits of humanity), which feed directly into their "meet the super humans" shows about paralympian athletes. Maybe if you watched them rather than make blanket accusations because C4 invented Big Brother you'd know these things.

Re: Freeview?

Well firstly you're just plain wrong - Freesat had all 24 SD/HD extra channels and that is a free service like FreeView... it was wonderful.

Secondly, red-button on FreeView does NOT only show content from the existing channels. I don't know what they did at the Olympics but previously they have used it to show F1 practice, alternative tennis matches at Wimbledon and visualised radio shows - for instance when Moyles did the 52-hour show the whole thing was live video on the red button.

Re: Clearly Fake

What's that got to do with religion? Seems to me you're just looking for excuses to start a secular rant against an argument nobody has made ;)

Re: Is an OS upgrade not risky at that distance?

Since they are upgrading the software literally the moment it lands, I'm also confused why they didn't do it before take-off, considering how far ahead everything is planned.

Re: boo

"Unless you're a plumber, people use webmail services to keep home and work lives separate"

Normal people use their home PC for home email and their work PC for work email... Outlook is/was (not sure they even provide it for free now) very widely used with the masses who would struggle to find a webmail. The number of people using the email address provided by their ISP is evidence of this.

Re: Hmm

I haven't tried outlook.com but Outlook is by far the best desktop email application. However since gmail came along, I'm less and less convinced email needs a dedicated desktop app. I'm not in favour of moving every application into a web app but gmail is a wonderful counter-example.

Re: Never mind design...

Congratulations on not understanding statistics.

Re: "the time is right to reimagine email"

gmail was pretty much a re-imagining... when I go back to other web-based email or older versions of Outlook it's just horrible.

In my view, gmail ties with search as Google's best product.

Re: Clearly Fake

Seriously though in a way it's kind of weird just how non-alien it does look. You feel like you could step out and walk around.

Re: So, what happpens ...

Unless Adam has/had sole rights to the music, then the court case would be dismissed in about 2min.

Re: Trolls Gotta troll

I'm not sure, possibly Bungle is the troll here. After all while their music has a message it is presented in contemporary popular form, otherwise known as 'pop music'. Most people like listening to it because of how it sounds, not what it says.

When I worked as a game developer, official PS2/XBox dev-kits like this went for around £10k IIRC.

Re: False positives...

By monitoring several animals in a flock you can be more confident, and by using past data you can train your system to the same end.

And no, knowing a predator is attacking is valuable because you can get there when it's only one or two animals, not the whole herd.

Re: Firewall?

I like how you grouped CofE with Atheist.

Re: Outraged!

Wind and gravity don't impact on pistol shooting; it's too short distance. It's only 10m or so unlike rifle shooting over several hundred metres.

Recoil is more relevant but then since they already switched to air pistols...

Re: "an unnamed man in Darwin"

Took the words right out of my mouth.

Do we know which end he inserted?

Re: of course it has to be three films.

Isn't Jackson one of the few directors who gets to call the shots and tell Hollywood "I'm doing it how I damn well want"?