Posts by CraigW
52 posts • joined Thursday 17th November 2011 16:51 GMT
cost
What's the bets, once the figures are totted-up, that the same kit could have been bought for full retail from Amazon or suchlike for less than 50% of the final tally?
Posted in Three punters' data use doubles
Mmmm, data
On my old Hero I used around 250Mb a month, mostly because the device was too slow to hit anything hard.
Now I have a Galaxy S3 and use around 500Mb a week, purely because everything works well.
Now if only Three would admit that the still need the 2g piggyback in some places, I could get data in the office and try and break 1Gb a week :)
Fair recompense
If MS were file sharers, they would probably be fined about $20,000 per PC.
<sarcasm>
I wonder if that will be the case?
</sarcasm>
Why?
Why do we need yet smaller sims? As long as they are smaller than the phone, they will be fine.
4pm
Well, if it had been dark at around 4pm yesterday (sunday) we might have seen it. As it was, nada.
Another nutter
And we thought 'Whacky' Jacqui Smith was bad.
Weather
Well at least this summer might heat up a bit at last.
database
Given the way the issues are distributed, it sounds more data-related than anything. Database screwup maybe?
Posted in Panasonic Eluga DL1 waterproof Android
Re: Why is battery life not a desirable feature anymore?
Root and underclock.
I recently ran my old HTC Hero for 13 days on a charge, as it can underclock to 19MHz.
Reverse usability
Usability for me includes form factor, with smaller being MORE useful. I can use my SGS3 all day at work to stream music, etc, but I wouldn't bring in something like an iPad and have it doing the same thing as it's bloody massive and I'd look like a spanner.
Just sayin'.
Not a good look
When will apple finally understand that pulling this sort of crap is not going to force everyone to go out and buy yet more iphones? A great number of android phone users simply DO NOT WANT AN IPHONE.
This shit is getting real old, real fast, and does NOBODY any favours other than the patent lawyers.
Re: don't they pay people to check things first
Yes, but then they say 'Okay, it's stupid, but it's cheaper here, so let's do it anyway'.
And then you end up with nuclear power stations on geological fault lines (Japan, USA).
US-only contest
Wtf??
El Reg does remember which side of the Atlantic it's on, right?
keything
Is the 'keyboard' thing actually usable or is it like typing on one of those god-awful rubber rollup things?
Not that a really care at that suggested price as it's waaaayyyy too expensive for something which I can't customise to the nth degree.
Blaze
That's what qualifies as a 'blaze' now is it? Done much writing for the Sun recently?
Posted in Win! a Samsung 830 SSD
Re: Not wanting to look a gift horse in the mouth, but....
Does that mean we're stuck with those wanky samsung adverts on here until October?
Posted in Kogan 'taxes' IE7 users
Re: IE7 isn't so bad
As long as they don't use too much jquery of course, or IE7 will start running like sludge and die.
Posted in Skype launches in-call ads
Re: We interrupt this conversation...
Why isn't Google Talk popular yet? Maybe because it only works in one country?
idiots
Who are these idiots? And who said they could make this crap up and people would have to listen to it?
@JDX not enough water for cooling?
Re: Build More Nukes
"We just need to stop moderating/cooling reactors with water at any pressure is all."
I couldn't agree more. It's utter nonsense that we split the atom and use it to power a giant kettle. It's like something from the 1800s.
Is anyone researching a better way to extract the energy than 'heat something and turn a wheel'?
Re: Did better than I did
You're (un?)lucky. I didn't manage to get it to install yet. Not in VirtualBox anyway. Gives a hard stop before it says more than Windows.
Posted in Megaupload founder gets uncuffed
Re: Dotcom
I know! I don't know why there isn't a '(yes, that's really his name)' every time it's mentioned.
Posted in Samsung snafu grounds blue Galaxy S III
I didn't yet, but probably because they f*cked up my order yet again.
Growth
Facebook can now only grow at about the rate of growth of the population as a whole. Other countries are not interested in it / have their own equivalents.
The time for an IPO was two or three years ago.
Re: As much as I like the Windows 8 Metro concept....
This is the correct answer.
good but
does it still completely fuck VS 2010 and VS 2008 if installed on the same machine?
Posted in Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S III
I'll take five
Well okay, one. Pre-ordered on tuesday after 3 phoned me to say it was in. Supposed to be delivered on the 30th itself.
They only have the 16Gb model for now but I don't care as it has a microSD slot :)
idiots
...are generally the root cause.
taking it back
My parental units bought such a telly from a Sony shop last month. What are the chances that it is actually a '2012' model? Are they going to have to take this one back too? (The first one broke after three weeks).
CD
I wish. I bet the bloated hog is on at least 2 DVDs.
Posted in HTC One S Android smartphone
Re: No SD card slot?
Actually, the internal storage is NOT ample. You can only put 2Gb of apps on there.
Android really needs to sort that shit out and make ALL INTERNAL PHONE STORAGE AVAILABLE FOR INSTALLING APPS. It's one thing apple has got right.
Posted in Brits get red PlayStation 3 next month
six years old
The PS3 came out in 2006. Surely everyone who wants one has bought it by now?
Posted in Ten... Kitchen Gadget Treats
imperia blades
But does the Imperia have plastic blades?? They are pish compared to the good old steel ones that they used to use.
Posted in Samsung S III to enter Galaxy next month
if it bends
I may wet myself a little bit.
If it doesn't, I'll probably still get it. HTC have lost their crown to sammy.
Named after the streets?
I don't remember any called 'A', 'B', 'C', 'D' or 'E'.. Wtf Springfield, Oregon?
Re: The story of a beta install.
And re-installing BIDS didn't fix it either. Oh, and it also broke the Entity Framework design tools in VS 2010!
It's a complete f***ing disaster of a product.
Re: "64-bit browsers are still a no-no"
@David. Have you actually seen shitepoint? It and 'standards' are at vastly different ends of any spectrum that you care to mention.
The story of a beta install.
1). Install VS 11 trial to see what the fuss is about.
2). Laugh.
3). Realise they were serious. Cry.
4). Uninstall.
5). Realise the VS 2010 icons are now horrible, monochrome VS 11 icons. Cry again.
6). Realise BIDS (2008) will no longer open SSIS packages. Begin to plot revenge.
Ahahahahahahahahahaha..
That is all.
Posted in Sitting down all day is killing you
but I just sat down
aw man, I only just got sat down as well.
Lovely device
My wife has one. Bloody wonderful piece of kit. Add the keyboard and the battery life is astounding. Streams HD netflix content to the TV very nicely indeed.
25 days too soon
For April 1st.
Not that far off the mark though.
GE / Mitsubishi
Are they also going to sue the big electricity hardware suppliers? I'm sure they make a Transformer or two.
hypothermophilic chemolithotrophs
Try saying that five times quickly whilst drunk.
Or once, entirely sober.
YouTube?
YouTube is so ad- and spam-infested now, not to mention hideously ugly, that I it could easily be killed-off by the end of the year. It's a market ripe for the picking if anyone was to come up with something half-decent. Why doesn't Spotify or others do the videos?
structure?
Growing them in the right shape over a scaffold is one thing, but do they have the same internal structure as the original?
Idioacy abounds.
Do they have any idea of how many android tablets there are and how many there will be very quickly, and they have removed the only way to use their service on them?
When the film industry lobby is so powerful that it can effectively KILL a legitimate business through bullying tactics, AND result in a service that is worse for the consumer, then something is very wrong.
Set Levinson loose on them once he's done with the press.
Posted in Facebook disses Effin Irishwoman
Teacups ahoy
Perhaps an 'of' in that page title and this story wouldn't exist. Afterall, the only deletion for was the page that was created. I have the same problem setting my own home town on my profile, and it is home to well over 5,000 people and has been around for 150 years.
