Posts by g e
2227 posts • joined Monday 16th July 2007 12:21 GMT
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Microsoft have come a long way
But for another company, arguably a competitor, to be fixing your shit for you still...
Presumably Moz sent MS a bug report stating what they'd done, too? Just a guess.
So in other words
Apple still haven't anything stronger to rebuff Proview's claims than name-calling?
Looking good for Proview still, then, I must say.
Re: Protection?
Especially if you paid for the service like the landlady did.
"provided from a place in the United Kingdom"
They're provided from space, the word 'Satellite' is the clue here. Or are they saying they're provided from the football ground, perhaps.
Seriously though, how many subscriptions' value were burnt in that ridiculous court case just to try and get a few hundred quid out of a pub?
Nose, Face, Spite.
GreedFail
Painted into a corner
Doesn't look too good for any of them and trying to prove that they all decided independently on the same thing at the same time and then told it to Amazon is going to take some professorial trick-cycling.
Popcorn please!
Re: CBS being cunning?
Maybe they do... would help offset the losses of AOL...
Posted in iPad 3 benchmarked
Re: Yes
As in treated their customers like chattel...
Fucked antenna design.. oh it's YOUR fault, your nasty hands are holding it wrong.
So the precedent is firmly set. Cite that.
Black helicopters
Cos without 'em it just ain't a DARPA story...
CBS being cunning?
They've maybe done the sensible thing and reviewed the history of how apple have dealt with other media co's historically and, realising they're a massive and likely important consideration for appletv decided they don't need apple pushing them around once they've signed up.
Can make apple cry, will make apple cry. One of a few co's in a position to, so playing them at their own game, maybe. Or, perhaps Google have something in the CBS inbox, too, so they can afford to give apple a bit of a dig.
Posted in iPad 3 benchmarked
Re: Downgrade in fact
Could be a squared relationship... benefit of the doubt? ;o)
Posted in iPad 3 benchmarked
gpu
You'd defo have to up the GPU for a 4x pixel count increase, they'd all get returned for refund if you didn't
" a constitutional obligation to give it all away"
Well that and the £2BN+ license tax/fee it receives every year, yes.
You don't **HAVE** to buy that Dad's Army DVD, that, at least you have a choice in.
BBC1 is just unwatchable for the most part these days with Bellenders and Celebrity Domino toppling, etc. BBC2 has Horizon, Top Gear. BBC3 is more promising as is BBC4 but really. Four channels? Sack the repeats, cut out the bullshit and put everything into BBC1 and BBC2 and maybe they'd be worth 1/2 the license fee.
If I contrast non-BBC content watched with BBC content and work it out pro-rata vs my SKY subs then SKY looks like great value by comparison, even if I 'forget' to subtract the ADSL and phone first and SKY costs me 4x the BBC tax per month and I can choose not to have it if I want. I still need the TV for the PS3 and XBOX so not like that can be bunged (42" HMDI tunerless monitors are not cheap).
If they intend to charge for iPlayer it better be outside the UK only. I'm already paying for it and all its content. Surely they could have a £5/month sub to non-UK IP addresses instead, there's revenue in that.
IDE
I really want a decent IDE on Android, something like Netbeans (albeit cut down and not such a memory rapist).
That would make a Transformer Infinity a serious consideration as a laptop replacement...
Posted in PayPal slaps down Dr Who ‘charity book’
Errr what???
He used paypal because it's..... *cough*
Posted in PayPal slaps down Dr Who ‘charity book’
Re: Actually PP may be doing the right thing here
Presumably the seller made it pretty clear this was 'pre-order' or 'crowdfunding' ?
As long as the buyer is clearly made aware then PP cannot claim anyone was mislead, surely?
I couldn't possibly recommend PP to anyone as anything more than a hobby level payment solution, they're too much of a liability, like an apple app store for your money, it's up to them if they let you at it. I know many companies put big sums of money through them but I'd never trust them with my business' primary revenue.
"rendering the iPhone 4S merely a more expensive iPhone 4"
The defence rests, Your Honour.
PARIS ? Personal Assistant & Rapid Intelligent Search ?
At least
We technical types will become elite again, as everyone puts their crap into the cloud and gets nothing done with it because all they have is a stupid bloody tablet to access it with and it can only do email, calendar, misunderstand your speech and angry birds and the other 50% of it only works in the USA.
No-one will know what applications actually are any more ;o)
Putting my rates up in 2013!
Re: ROFL at this...
At least we're not seeing mindless ASUS Transformer stories everywhere every day.
Re: Truecall
We just registered with the Mail Preference Service and the Telephone Preference Service - virtually zero junk either down the phone or through the door.
Anyone calls with unsolicited crap then they get this treatment which provides a perverse sense of smug satisfaction... http://focusrite.livejournal.com/1627.html
Pint for everyone!
One reason
Set your outbound CLI to a premium rate number and wait for marks to call back to see who you were.
Bung the inbound return call into a call queue saying "We're busy but value your call", etc and you can rack up a lot of moolah quite quickly and for very little outlay.
Bish Bosh
800A ?? Shocking (eeew crap pun)
Eh?
On my old Honda the starter motor fuse is 60A, dunno what the Jag is, will be more but I'm pretty sure you don't need 800 amps to turn a V8 over, either. Unless you mean *literally* flip it over...!
Re: Stop-Start
Thought as much. Shame as maintaining an ignitable compressed mixture at TDC could be a pretty efficient stop-start strategy. No good for diesel, though, either I spose.
Hohum, back to the drawing board!
Stop-Start
I always wondered what stop-start cars did when stuck on the M1 for an hour.. do they really restart the engine every 2 car lengths and are they clever enough to know when stopping it means it might not have the juice to restart it?
Now I don't know how tight a seal the piston rings make but I'd have thought stopping the engine with a cylinder fully injected at top-dead-centre would perhaps allow you to restart the engine by kicking a spark into that cylinder if the engine was warm, rather than cranking the starter motor, allowing for many more restarts. Maybe the fuel vapour condenses too fast in the cylinder when left unignited.
Perhaps that's how they work. Dunno.. Ramble ramble
Re: Maybe Proview got that ban in the end
Hence use of the word 'maybe' as in 'it's a possibility though as yet unverified'
DUH.
Maybe Proview got that ban in the end
Or maybe someone @ apple thinks the Wii demand model is still sensible.
Or maybe they think they can drag sales out to overlap Samsung releases to dilute Samsung's sales
Or maybe they screwed up again. Fail.
Bloody right
Bombardier & trains, anyone?
F'ing Citibank (bit off topic)
What annoys me most about Citibank is that's where I have to pay my VAT.
HMRC have ditched their Bank of England account and gone with Citibank. Nothing quite says 'we don't give a stuff about the economy' quite as much as all the VAT in the country being stored in the USA....
I'd have thought it was against the national interest to have that much UK money stored with a foreign interest.
Fail cos well, it's uk.gov, innit
The great fresh smell of
An opportunity to grab patents you want to use to kick other companies around with.
I hope Canon buys the lot.
But does this 4G work outside the USA?
We must know!
Re: Are they doing a sony?
Locked to a **USER** on a console with the option to buy 'cheap' keys for the other console users, mark my words...
The games market will tank, surely.
:o(
I predicted this a coupla months ago, the destruction of the 2nd hand game market.
So, they're going to halve the price of the games now every copy is a sale?
Yeah right. They'll get dearer.
Re: I was..
Doesn't that make it 'Arse-Us' in Americaland ?
I say Ay-sus, not knowing any better until 3 minutes ago...
"the Sun may be headed into a lengthy quiet period"
If it gets colder the Warmists won't like that...
Imagine virtually conclusive proof that the gimungous nuclear reactor at the centre of our solar system could affect the temperature of our planet...
Posted in Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’
Well
At least it seems to work outside the USA...
That's an improvement.
Posted in 'The new iPad' selling out at AT&T
Not surprising
When you consider the bullshit the Daily Mail are spouting about it today..
!!!!!!FOUR TIMES FASTER!!!!!!
Scrshot sent to El Reg
If he brings an creatures back...
Won't they explode from suddenly not having 1 tonne/cm2 pressure on their exterior?
Humans get messy enough when they get just 15psi (apprx 1 bar) less exterior pressure (outer space)
OMFG
I'll hang on for a Samsung Galaxy S3 I think (yes I know that's a phone). It'll be a free upgrade from Vodafone.
Then I'll have something nice and fast to play with while I assess a Transformer Infinity to see if it'll replace a laptop.
Seriously. That's a shit revision for a lot of money, it should've been called the iPad 2s
No digital tuning?
Surely the LTE module/chip is digitally tunable? Perhaps the cheap ones aren't or something.
Or maybe the antenna's are too band-specific, 700-800 is quite a difference in RF and we know what apple are like with antenna design...
What?
You mean there's "stuff" outside of America?
Say it ain't so!
Ooookaayyyy
So it's OK for the gov to steal royalties from starving artisans but not joe public when a rich (and generous-to-politicans) corporation gets its shit downloaded by Joe Public who may never actually have bought it otherwise anyway...
Tidy, as they say in the Western Land of the Druids
" because just once"
So, actually, a fabulous-tastic advertisement for TOR for free
Nice :oD
Re: In essence...
Woo.
Abacus - Calculator
Dare I venture...
The iPad Meh-s
If they'd called it the iPad2s the meme would be complete...
Chuckle
Perhaps a video of baristas queueing outside a store would be appropriate also?
:oD
"abandon its policy"
So it now thinks it's more profitable to settle/play ball than sue.
Presumably either they've identified a gaping infringement liability in their stuff, realised they risk getting a shedload of patent invalidated or have noticed that a lot of people are being put off buying apple stuff by, errr... apple.
They don't strike me as a company that would play fair when there was $50 profit to be made.
Snickers is completely pointless
Jordan doubly so
(Props to Douglas Adams, posthumous pint)
Sounds like
the legal hoops HR have to go through in the process of making people redundant, consultation phases are mandatory, I believe, as are a few other things and all these things have to be seen and documented to be done before you can actually make people redundant otherwise you leave yourself open for unfair dismissal or a bunch of other no-win-no-fee lawyering from the dismissed.
Ummmm
How did they identify the perps? Did they have static IP's or something?
Or perhaps this is how long DHCP records are kept for (at least...), which is somewhat revealing
