Posts by Robert E A Harvey
2417 posts • joined Sunday 8th October 2006 16:17 GMT
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First it was, Windows Phone 7 will be great, and it wasn't,
I got heavily downvoted for suggesting that WP7 should not be cut any slack because I suggested it was not a brand-new OS but, err, the 7th iteration.
Now it is a commonplace that it is just WinCE rebadged.
I got suckered into WM6 on a phone, that never worked and never got fixed. Ditto WM6.5 . Had I been fool enough to believe the hype over WP7 they would have done it to me again. There is no good reason to trust WP8.
Re: Dead and buried
>If the rumor is right UK government intends to do that.
It's quite a good idea. Snag is /all/ of their suppliers should be on the list. First one they name will be straight to the high court like a spoiled teenager: "they are still talking to Frank! It's sooo unfairrr! Wah!"
oh yeah
that's the bugger. Late, tired etc.
Posted in Oracle nudges Sparc T5s back out to 2013
Take no bets
I'm expecting T5 to be the end of the road, unless someone takes it off them.
Re: well
HP were pretty unkind to mobile. Letting the PDA/phone business fester, then the Palm fiasco. Don't blame mobile!
R&D is good.
It seems a long time since anyone invented something new.
How's the varistor doing?
Any plans to research new methods of data entry?
What about higher screen res? Any movement on making x1500 screens for the price of x768?
And software? any good stuff from enterprise that could be packaged up? intelligent data mining? The post-spreadsheet data mangling app? translation? natural language? Visualising? Project management?
oh?
No mention of phones & tablets? Have they changed their mind on those again?
Bear of little brain
I use my phone for talking & texting, but have been considering a change of heart.
But the more I read the more bafflingly complex it becomes. This or that 'edition' of a phone? what is/is not LTE? who will have what options? Not to mention what happens if you dare take your mobile to another country. I think the whole industry is doing its damndest to make sure I won't bother.
Going to go back to Morris Dancing & wood carving, I reckon.
Re: Penny wise, pound foolish.
I agree with solidsoup, the 70% idea is windowdressing. This thing will have to face the laws of thermodynamics twice, on import and export, so I'd have thought the 25% figure is as good as it gets.
@GitMeMyShootinIrons Re: Agreed.
>even with SSD, a slim form factor and a fancy new processor.
...and no optical drive.
Even 300 quid laptops come with an optical drive. for £900 they should either spend the money saved on a proper screen, or put an external drive in the box.
@David Gosnell Re Novatech
I really like the way you can buy stuff from them without a copy of Windows.
Ping Cliff Joseph
I think you should print out this comment section and send it to whoever lent you the sample, then tell us their response.
Is there a genuine reason for it ?
Not to put too fine a point on it:
>Is there a genuine reason for it ?
Yes. They are all tightwad cunts who want to have us by the nose
Posted in iPhone 5: the fab slab to grab
Re: The state of his marriage
There's no such thing as a single entendre.
whatever works best, I reckon.
rain-fade
I'm sure you are right, but I had far less experience of Ka on ships - the sputniks we used were equipped for C, and if the rain was heavy enough we would lose either signal or symbol lock.
Like I say, my Sky (?Ku?) box doesn't like wet weather
Posted in iPhone 5: the fab slab to grab
The state of his marriage
>Maybe you should get an iPhone.
Maybe he should give her one.
Posted in iPhone 5: the fab slab to grab
>Surely there is no excuse for GPS not getting your position to within 1m these days?
It's still very dodgy in city canyons.
Not Needed
Satellite internet makes sense when the US population is so sparsely scattered. In Europe population densities are higher and terrestrial solutions more practical as well as actually faster.
Not to mention the weather. I used to work on ships and our C-band internet feeds were often interrupted by rain at one end or the other. (My domestic Sky TV sometimes goes off in heavy rain).
And Europe has more aesthetic control over building use: the planning laws would go do-lally over so many dishes, whereas in the US people have large back yards to lose them in.
</sweeping generalisations>
Oh, and it is expensive.
Sod the eBook
Is Emma Watson going to do the film?
Posted in Icelandic town demands vulva museum
Homologues
Meh. You've seen one, you've seen them all.
Mammalian structures are remarkably consistent.
Posted in Icelandic town demands vulva museum
Architectural issues
I'm wondering what the Entrance Hall would look like
Telecommuting
Surely M$ of all people should be able to employ people in Brazil and the UK and Portugal and Kenya without them dragging their sack of bodily fluids to Redmond?
or if it doesn't work for them, why are they trying to flog it to the rest of us?
Obvious Question
> Apps that take advantage of hardware-specific features
> – such as phone dialing and SMS, GPS positioning, or
> sensors – aren't much use with BlueStacks, either.
Is that mostly 'cos the host hasn't got the hardware, rather than a Bluestacks issue?
Re: Win8 Most undesirble Chrimbo Present competition winner 2012. win8FAIL
Well, I think the greedy little sods should get a stocking with a wallnut, a satsuma, A Beano annual and a new toothbrush. And think themselves lucky it wasn't full of Coal.
Depressing
The narrower the subject matter, the easier it is to pass the test. Limiting case: it is very hard to decide if a human or a machine is solving 3+3.
But it is depressing that our Turing candidate is being assessed on it's Genocidal abilities, rather than - say - playwriting or portraiture
Re: Godzillium!
That's even better than my Godzilla-based joke!
Posted in Google spikes old MS file formats
Re: @KJ re downvoting
2 up, 3 down.
Well done lads. I knew you couldn't resist.
Posted in Google spikes old MS file formats
@Vic Re recruitmenr reptiles
When I was last jobhunting 80% of agencies only wanted CVs in .doc.
They were the same 80% who sent my details to every damned job that didn't match what I was looking for.
Posted in Google spikes old MS file formats
@KJ re downvoting
I've given up trying to understand the mad downvoters.
All I know is they consistently rob me of my ambition to have 10x as many up as downvotes!
New plan
Why don't we think about what we need to teach, and how, and then think about the hardware required once we know what it is for?
And would this not have happened if the culprits had installed Windows 7? or AmigaOS? or OS/2?
Data gloves
Anyone remember Byte Magazine? Loads of articles about data gloves in the 1980s.
touchscreen CRT monitors in use in factories back in the 1990s
Indeed. Baker Perkins was using them in 1985. 20 inch. summat like 2100x1500
Sorry?
Why is anyone surprised by this?
Had you told me there was no such linkage I would have been very doubtful and demanded serious evidence.
Nearly right
http://forums.theregister.co.uk/post/1519560
- That was about T-muddle, but same idea, different hat.
You can't trust 'phone companies.
Posted in Ten external battery packs
Re: What, no AAs?
Yes.
I have a 4-cell caddy I got free with an external hard drive, and it is fantastic for topping up phones. And at £0.00 it was a bargain.
Posted in Ten external battery packs
Product convergence
I was quite happy to put the double size battery and big cover on the back of my Motorola Timeport, back in the 90s.
I think that phone manufacturers are all chasing the one market. I'd have thought that, like the big-button market for older users there was a case for a big-battery market for people like me away from base for days.
I agree that the fact that so many of these external devices exist show the phone makers are being a bit too mee-too in following each other down one road. Lets have some divergence for a change.
Posted in Apple iPhone 5 review
Re: 'The thinnest, slickest, fastest iPhone yet.'
Comparing a product with its own earlier versions is very thin gruel indeed.
What matters is to compare a 2012 iPhart with a 2012 Androne.
TL;DC
Too Late; Don't Care. Lost interest in her now.
@Velv: The Swiss have saying about Trains
True. Two illustrations.
I was standing on the platform at Hardbrukke, on a frosty, foggy morning. The train was 45 seconds late and a chap started to have a panic attack. "Where is the train?"
I was in Chur, and as people were getting off they were being given leaflets. The train had been 1 minute late 3 days running, and this was the explanation.
Is it time for this again?
http://www.eclectech.co.uk/mindcontrol.php
Odds
It's a million to one, I tell you!
Copyright
I've got a pocket watch based on the design which I bought at an SBB ticket office. They do guard the design very carefully, and I expect them to win this one. And so they should.
Re: Fox would not have been caught out like this ....
I have a mental picture of people walking through the door at Fox and their phones exploding in thier pockets.
Posted in False storm
False storm
This is going the rounds at the moment:
http://paritynews.com/network/item/325-department-of-work-and-pensions-uk-in-possession-of-169-million-unused-ipv4-addresses
I find it hard to imagine that it is the scandal some have suggested, just the fall-out from an allocation policy set firmly in the early years of networking.
But it might raise a few bob, like selling off the spectrum. I shall be signing the petition that suggests it:
http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/38744
Interesting
This makes all those 700 quid laptops with x768 screens look even more of a ripoff.
And an SD slot too. I can feel my wallet twitching.
Re: Yac Yac Yac
I still have a Yac number for fax-to-pdf.
But for web sites that insisit on a telephone number I normally go to the 'contact us' page and cut-and-paste their head office phone number.
OK Mr Downvoter
Either you have concrete knowledge that $MEGACORP spent money training me in XP and Office, or certain proof that I am not at all puzzled.
Do let us know.
