Posts by Rob Kidd

@ AC "This'd be great.. but"

Oh, do grow \ shut up.

Well..

.. That's a bit pointless isn't it?

Why on earth would you even want to use iTunes?

I only use it because I'm forced to by my iPhone.. Getting music on and off the phone with more than one computer is not even worth trying. If there was any other way to get data on and off my phone, I would drop iTunes in a second.

And they're saying Pre owners actually want to use iTunes?? Folly, I tell thee.

Balls

I had this exact same problem yesterday in both Firefox and IE8. It was resolved within an hour or two.

Although that still doesn't make O2 look any better.

"good stereo separation"

No shit - you were testing it on headphones- Stereo doesn't get much more separate than that!

A Solution

Feed every child in America a load of nuts. The allergic ones are eliminated, everyone else can go about their business. Problem Solved.

seriously..

Firstly, almost all the noise made by the 360 is not the fan- it's the disk spinning. When the fall update comes you'll be able to install games and run them off the hard drive. No more noise.

Secondly, show me a PC that costs c. £200 that is a capable games machine and still will be in 3 years.

It's quite possible to spend into the thousands on a PC gaming rig if you want to keep at the top of the range over the lifetime of a typical game console (5-ish years).

My original point was simply that it's disingenuous and somewhat smug to claim that there's no point buying a console over a PC.

@ Mark

If it wasn't troubled, why did they yank it and release a (hopefully) fixed version? I'm really curious to know.

This has nothing to do with the 360 - no one's saying that doesn't have it's own problems.

http://search.reghardware.co.uk/?q=red+ring+of+death&x=0&y=0

Anyone else remember a time when comments used to be unbiased? Nowadays it's full of fanboys creating sensationalist posts in a lame attempt to stir up a flame war.

No thanks

Why would I buy a product which I knew would prevent me from doing what I want, when I want?

There's no way it will become a legal requirement for this technology to be implemented in every gadget ever made, so there will always be a choice - and who is really going to choose to be restricted?

Perhaps my inner tin-foil-hat-wearing tendencies are coming through, but couldn't this technology (for example) be used to repress critism of government by blocking all cameras and phones at protest rallies?

I suspect this idea is going to crash and burn.

Uh oh..

"Anyone running early Alpha versions of Windows on anything but a test machine are setting themselves up for all sorts of problems."

Incoming predicable Microsoft bashing! Run for the hills!

@ everyone talking about Sony

Sony does not own blu ray, nor do they have the right to stop anyone else making blu ray players!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blu-ray_Disc_Association

@ Anonymous Coward (Numptys)

Facebook users are clueless? Come on. If you took the time to use it you'd see it's great way to keep in touch with your friends and find out what they've been up to. Not like myspace with all those "pimped" profiles and the deluge of spam..