Posts by Christopher Rogers

Aye

Good riddance. The backward Dinosaurs of IT yesteryear have no place here. Paint Shop Pro could have been a product to ding them out of this hole, but alas, its now crap. Paint.net anyone?

couple of points

@ Bob H - I had an orange phone here in northern ireland about 8 years ago and spent most of my time ROAMING into the the Republic of Ireland (the cost was awful).

I'm now back with orange after a few years of O2, and i have to say, its a very different story. I've been getting a 3G signal is some rather rural places and even in my house in Belfast's suburbia where O2 seemed to drop, Orange have been great.

@ David Simpson 1 - I agree. The government made a bollox of dishing out the bandwidth and the firms jumped through hoops to get what they have. They should be allowed to keep it.

Labour have accepted the end is nigh....

Thats why they are allowing everyone in the party to have a cameo appearance and make up rules as they go along. This whole ending actually started about a year before Blair quit and really they are now just playing at being government until they have to hold a general election, when hopefully they will all fuck off into the night. Rasputin as business secretary shows how far away from good sense and normality this lot really are.

For the damage they have done in government, they should be tried for treazon and publically executed.

Please, make it stop

Don't give this bunch of Labour tossers any more powers. The have royally fucked the UK and they'll do the same on the internets.

"Officials said they believed it is unlikely the powers will be used, but they were necessary to ensure Nominet took account of the interests of wider public and business interests, and not just those of its members." - Bullshit. When has a government ever given itself "just in case" powers and never used them?

Mandelson is Rasputin of a modern age - creeply hovering around in the background, pulling the strings, playing those in power like the puppets they are.

Fuck the whole damn lot of 'em.

what a prat

how did he think this was different to me buying the cd, making an MP3 from it and selling it on???

I hate

the fucking internets.

I blame

the government again. Tossers.

YES!!!

I can finally talk to KITT!!! All i need to do now is get my diesel peugeot to learn to drive itself and answer to the name!

Nice

I want one. Tho i would prefer an ED209.

Damn connector

SE really seem to have lost their way. They produce decent phones lower down the range but in this new world of touch screen tech, they dropped their nuts. I really really wanted this to be a great phone, but they really didn't produce the goods - and to maintain that connector from the old ericsson days (plastic clips that break eventually and metal pins that get dirty and/or corrode) is criminal. Micro USB and a 3.5mm jack should be standard these days, or at the very least, extUSB.

I even fear for the X10...

I went HTC hero direction and frankly outside of the lack of flash and crap pc software, its a fine piece of kit.

Who Cares?

Who actually uses home server? what a crock.

@swaygeo

Your wrong. Unless your the going to be the network facilities director for T-MO.

@Gareth 11

"Sun Invading My Space hits wrong target"?

I love it

Talk about giving the media what they want! I'd bullshit my ass off doing that job :-) The only limitation is imagination!

Its simply proving an idea

The Renault Vel Satis put pay to any ideas of 'out there' car design. It looked shit and therefore sales were shit.

This will never be a mass market car.

Nah

This phone should be out now.

What i want is...

An o2 contract like the iphone / pre contract, with an htc andriod based phone. I'd but that. Don't want an iphone (it doesn't appeal to me). The pre is very nice, until you start to use its bloody awful keyboard and cut your wrist on the built in razor blade. Also, memory expansion? Infact the only upshot is its OS.

So O2, gimmie my third option and i might just spend another 15quid a month with ya....

I love it

my eyes don't hurt after reading E Ink pages....

MSN

waste of time.

Skynet is go

This is it people. The world wide system that is going to dominate. Be afraid.

Well

I like it. It works on old gear, new gear and is pretty straightforward. A nice look to it, doesn't crash and is responsive.

But then thats not enough for most people....

Is god

not the bloke who points at lottery winners in the ads?

I'm starting to like Ballmer

He's doing some sensible with MS's products, like listen to what the money spending crowd want. And before i get the old "downloads are the way forward" bullshit, can i point those persons to 1. Dire broadband in the UK and 2. The popularity of the PGP Go.

Have to agree...

The only thing wrong here is pricing. I got it for 37.95 (legit) but really this should be 70 quid for full home premium tops.

They need something...

With online retailers pummelling them that way and Best Buy hitting these shores next year, the clock is bound to be ticking on PC World. They should have scaled back their bricks and mortar operation and improved their online operation ages ago. Instead they are on the downward spiral.

Ironically, it was Windows Vista that gave them a kicking in '06.....

@gerryg

The simple reason is windows is easy. Linux distros haven't got their product in the position where joe public feels comfortable using it... Therefore Windows will always have an audience.

I'd love to see Linux become a big player, but its a long way off....

Dry yer eyes

Bloody Yanks. Just cos you got opened up by a UK weirdo doesn't mean to say you can stamp your feet until he ends up in one of your overcrowded hell holes. Infact, you'd be right screwed if he was a terrorist operative.

is it not...

Weapon of ASS destruction??

Transparency

EDS build it in. Access for all (security for none).

Drugs...

It probably explains the Jeremy Kyle Show then...

I love it

A car crash in slow motion....

Great

Really. it is.

Packard Bell

The best reason why NOT to buy.

@magnetik

I have no doubt about the OS X experience. However, some people may prefer a Ford Ka over a Merc as it better suits their needs and doesn't come with the same hefty price tag.

I agree that Linux has a serious amount of UI work to do before it could be a real mass market contender (and I was gutted when BEos vanished as it could have been a massive threat to Windows. I am aware of the links to Apple, but BEos ran on my computer, i didn't have to go and get specific kit for it (though a BeBox would have been nice.))

The long and short of my arguement is that Windows/Linux allows people to have kit they want/can afford doing all the things they need to do. Apple provide a similar service except they alter the user experience and add a premium price tag to that. And even at that, many Apple users run VMs of Windows/Linux.

Its one of those debates that can run and run....

well...

I'd buy it. If its good...

Hateful.

I'm going to microwave my eyes.

Ah yes

"a lap dance is so much better.." by the bloodhound gang comes in to mind. To be honest tho, a bucketload of double entendres can not do justice to what is an already hilarious situation.

I bet it was the best w*** ever right up until the truck crashed itself.

Yea.....

I have to agree with the others here, the UK digital radio structure/plan/fiasco is going nowhere fast. Technologies are moving on and DAB is being left well and truely behind. tech like spotify can come out of nowhere and make a massive impact, where DAB has had years and massive investment which doesn't appear to have given much return.

too soon?

You would think the bank would give him a hand....

Slow news day?

Shewee's are old news. Very old news.

No surprises

But oh well.

Microsoft keeping everyone happy?

Apple are allowed to keep control of all apps/hardware and they have the final say on how their products are used. Imagine Microsoft decided to produce their own PCs which were the only machines allowed to run Windows. These same machines come with a version of Visual Studio and Office as well as with the usual MS addins they get anti-trust haammerings for (IE and WMP).

Lets see how many Manufacturers of software and Hardware take MS to court (most likely backed by various governments) if that were to happen.

Windows 7 is a good job. I'd compare the experience of it on my 5 year old AMD box to that of using Linux with KDE (and i like KDE).

Yes apple gear is nice and all, but the price ain't worth paying. Why would someone buy an overpriced mac for email internet, photo management and word processing when a cheap windows PC does excatly what is says on the tin?

Fanbois can go fuck themselves. There isn't enough of them to be important in grand schemee of things.....

Pahahahahahaha....

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahaha!

Asshole. She won't do that again in a hurry!

Well....

That would definately get you up in the morning....

Did i mention....

...that i managed to pick up a copy of Win7 for £37.99? And frankly i like i9t more than OSx (and somewhere around the same as opensuse).

SUSE does Gnome?

Of all of the SUSE installs i have done, i have never once used gnome - usually because it defaults to kde....

I honestly think SUSE with KDE will be the closest thing to Windows 7 for the Linux world. It will be the nearest point where a user could jump from Windows 7 to linux.