Posts by Recaf
20 posts • joined Thursday 27th January 2011 12:28 GMT
Re: Testing, testing, 1-2
Pre-release versions of AIR are available from Adobe Labs website months in advance of release, so BBC have no excuses for not knowing about this sooner.
Oh, the hypocracy
So, the ASA block an ad for using "instant" to mean <1 minute, but still allow mobile networks to describe <1GB of internet usage as "Unlimited".
Oh well, at least they seem to be heading in the right direction...
"over the next 20 years"
That's £20m/year across all UK companies or about 5p each. What a load of bollocks.
Posted in Microsoft kills Windows Live brand
Re: Changing again?
Unless of course they finally drop it and merge "MSN Messenger" into Skype?
Plus 3G subscription, Apple Care, leather case...
Let's call it £1m. It's only tax payer's money after all.
Posted in Nokia exec praises Brazilian...
Using the same calculation as the UN...
... who calculated the 7 billionth human being by picking a random name out of a hat and with a margin of +/- 1 year.
You know, using a nice accurate, scientific method ;-)
XBox live is free
Silver is free, Gold is around £30/year (needed for network play)
Posted in BlackBerry PlayBook in US price plummet
Re: Why is Android important?
From a developers' perspective, it's not the Android OS itself that's important, but the PlayBook's support for the Dalvik virtual machine (i.e. Android apps) and Adobe AIR, which make it a viable platform to develop for, despite its relatively small user base.
Posted in BlackBerry PlayBook in US price plummet
£169
We picked one up for £169 (£140+VAT) at PC World as a test device after discovering it can run Android apps and have been pleasantly surprised by how good it is.
If nothing else, it plays DivX and has HDMI straight out of the box ...
"aren't service providers offering TV like services required to provide freeview channels free of charge?"
No, although I believe that Sky and Virgin are obliged to provide access to the UK's 5 main PSB channels (BBC1/2, ITV1, C4, C5) as part of their license.
"This rumoured TV set may not include any access to live channels"
I think they'd struggle to sell even the most dedicated Apple fanboi a TV that can't receive regular TV channels!
Adobe does a Nokia
Do they share a PR company?
Give taxpayers' money to Virgin Media? You may as well burn it.
Need I say more?
ASA
If you're as fed up with it as I am, complain via http://www.asa.org.uk/
How is 3000 texts 'unlimited'?
Regardless of how tired my fingers might get, unlimited should mean unlimited: if it's 3000 texts, say "3000 texts", I've had enough of all this 'fair use policy' bullsh*t.
Typical
It's time to apply the same rules to broadband as the banking sector: making 'typical speed' the most prominent element of the advertisement.
Sex offenders will automatically come off the register?
"Explaining that the government will do the minimum to comply, she explained that sex offenders will automatically come off the register."
A missing 'not' in there somewhere, I suspect ;-)
Confused?
You begin by saying companies should innovate not imitate, but in the same breath say Nokia and others should embrace Android rather than develop their own platforms.
Make your mind up!
Posted in PSP 2 'as powerful as PS3'
Enough to outclass the 3DS?
Probably not: the existing PSP technically outclasses the DS in almost every way and look at how that turned out.
