Posts by Michael Habel156 posts • joined Tuesday 21st August 2007 11:46 GMT
The BBC should really consider redoing a reboot of it!
The One with the Sub-Ethera Sence 'o Matic Thumb in the Pocket Please.
And why is it that I find this to be utterly and completely pretentious, and indeed perhaps the single BIGGEST Eyesore yet devised by a Committee of complete dolts ever foisted on the masses of the general public at large?
Microsoft are ohh so oft accused of nicking "iDeas" from Apple, what a shame they couldn't be arsed this time 'round to actually create something more sensible then the Metro Interface.
Me thinks that perhaps that since I'm already skilled enough to use Linux on a daily basis (i.e. Command Line Linux not GUI!), that I might actually have to consider making it an OS option come the next 'round of Hardware Updates.
There just is no way I'm ready to give up the age old Start Button for a touchy-feelly Metro thing-a-ma-jig. that's as completely as ugly on a +24" LED Monitor as it is on a 3.5" Phone.
Oh surly we could just call him Lord Voldemort now can't we?
Tablets can only become affective only after they ditch the On-Screen Keyboard for a Handwriting Input Method. Strangely enough, Apple had the right idea with the Newton. But it was about Twenty Years ahead of it's time though.
But for Tablets to be of any use, they first need to become as easy to use as a blank Sheet of Paper. Only this would actually be enough to pique my interest in Tablets though.
Dumb Fondleslabs with a biased fixation to access the Web and their associated App Stores will never catch on in the same way. even if everyone seems to think that this is the way that its going.
But, nothing AND I MEAN NOTHING is more annoying then having to sacrifice over 2/3'erds of the Screen over to the On-Screen Keyboard.
Basically Fondleslabs leave me kinda mehh.....
Really taking off in the Hotel industry. Where this product would likely be used.
That said there could surly be a better way to monitor such usage, or in that rare case EXTREME USAGE, of such Electrical goods.
Surly Samsung would tote their TouchWiz (5?) interface, and not the standard AOSP One.
As for ditching the physical Home Button for a YASB One, yeah I could see them doing that, if only to get the Crapple Lawyerbois to stand the flip down.
Other then that, why does it have to be in White?
I used to think that was cool, and it was ON THE iPod (Pre Phone!), now it just nasty, and Black is so much cooler.
This couldn't have happened to a nicer company FLIP CRAPLE!!
Hopefully the German Courts will tell Craple to go forth and multiply soon enough too.
Android FTFW!
Always has been, and will undoubtedly will remain so. I see no reason why, or even how this will change. (For the Desktop)...
But, lets look at integrated Devices, i.e. Set-Top Boxes (Cable & Satellite), Phones and Tablets as well as Data Storage Systems. Linux has always thrived well here. And none of these Applications would require a "Desktop" of sorts.
I have used various Linux Distros, Redhat, SuSe, Mandrake, Gentoo, Debian and Ubuntu to name a few.
The thing I always hated about Linux is that Once you spend enough time figuring out how to do things on on CLI you'd have to then relearn those incarnations for another System.
As a huge Fanboi of Klaus Schmidinger's VDR Project (http://linuxtv.org/vdrwiki/index.php/Main_Page), One of the major highlights of my life is when I need to either update to a newer (or change over to a different) Distro, and find that I then need to reconfigure that Distros' version of LIRC to work with my Remote. Or in the case that most of the newer Distros are finally moving to Ubuntu as a base. Find that LIRC has been superseded by something even more assinine, and compleatly fails to do it's job. Even as the Distro makes chime in as to how this would make Most Remotes work OoTB. Imagine my surprise when ~90% of the Buttons actually Worked, save the Blue, Menu, Exit and Info Buttons then DO NOT WORK!
But, then I'm still loathing the withdraw of the 60W Incandescent Light Bulbs as well
plus ça change I guess....
But Linux on the Desktop? Naghh it's never gonna happen, and unlike my Desktop loving friends here, I can't wait to see the back of 'em. What I wouldn't give to find a decent MoBo that actually still had a full complement (i.e. FIVE) 32-Bit PCI Slots on it. Good Luck tracking One of those down. Gaming belongs on the Consoles, and productivity can be done on a Notebok / Netbook or even Tablets or Phones. (although I'd like to see these Two pick up where Crapple left the Newton for this endevor though). The Desktop may very well still have a lot of life left in it, for those chores that Mobile Devices either can not or will not handle. But these are on the whole very limited in scope and those who'd cry the most about 'em will not still this tide.
The Desktop as we know it is dieing out, I wouldn't even it give it Ten Years time. before it falls off the map, and Windows 8 with it's touchy - Feelly Interface is a good a harbinger of this as any.
Pirate Flag Cause One of the great things about it (VDR), is You don't need a Skybox to record things, and as Linux is otherwise unrestricted you can actually record what you want when you want, and not what Sky (or others I'm thinking of HD+ here), would tell you, you could.
I always wondered about the CPRM crap that was supposed to be in (or on), all those current Gen Mem-Cards. S(ecure)D(igital), S0NYs' M(emory)S(tick), Just to name a few.
How do these DRM features work again?
In the case of the latter I was able to copy my "legally" owned copies (PSP), to my 4Gb Sandisk MemoryStick, Doing this had it's advantages
1) No need to carry 'round multiple UMDs'
2) Shorter loading times
3) Slightly less drain on the Battery as the UMD wasn't constantly running.
I'd have thought that those nasty DRM buggers were there to prevent that kind of thing?
S0NY have thankfully managed to work out a system whereby this can't (yet), and cheaply be done. Their answer? None standard Formats.
So just how long till we see a Playstation Vita to SD Converter for the PC?
Or some hacker Card Reader that will address the Card direct?
Personally I doubt we'll see any 3'erd Party Cards come out for it, but for now it seems that S0NY are somewhat safe, for now...
But, dear Register, do pray tell us about what happened to all the Fabled DRM measures ON TODAYS CARDS that only seem to do all of jack all?
I can't be the only reader here that's interested to read about this?
AdBlock Pro and NoScript, and those pesky Ads aren't so pesky anymore....
I feel for you. I too would like to know why we need to reinvent the Wheel, and kill off the Incandescent (i.e. Tungsten), Bulbs?
If the Windmill crazy Tree-hugging dolts with their GeeWizzs' want something ~less polluting~ and, are stupid enough to pay over the odds for their next iDevice (read Lightbulb), then I say more power to 'em, BUT PLEASE LEAVE ME ALONE!
But I guess it's too late to save the good 'ol 60W'er now that that it got banned throughout the E.U.
Dammed shame I failed to stock up on 'em before hand...
when will we see Flash (NAND Flash), Storage at a level to match the capacities of bog-standard HDD's? I mean what's so great about NAND Flash HDD's with piddly amounts of capacity. I mean what are the up to these Days 320Gib? With a Price Tag that has like a 1 with 3 "0's" at the end of it. When you average run of the mill Magneto HDD has something approaching 3Tib and only costs round say €70.00(EUR), or so?
I mean really how can NAND Flash hope to survive this kind of disadvantage?
Surly not everyone has a very large IT Expense Account to though at these things much less find any justification for doing so?
So when do these nut jobs want us to ditch our beloved Patters for this Junk again?
as I can use the - (Minus Sign), to weed out the garbage results I'm more or less ok with this.
personally though I'm with the neigh sayers on this One though.
Why replace an otherwise decently working standard, and replace it for something that expends more energy requiring that I use an additional keystroke, where as before I didn't have to.
As for Google+ I think Google are underestimating their Users, after all Google pretty much is the web (or at least the search provider of choice).
Shame that Altavista, Yahoo, and Co. seemed to have fallen by the wayside though.
I wonder if anyone could out Google in the Search Biz, now that Google have seemed to move onto selling Ads, and Social Media services.
Solid-state HDD Manufactures (ODMs and or OEMs), plain to make their Gear more attractive to the Man on the Street? I mean a 3TB HDD (i.e. Platter Drive), for ca~ 150- € seems to me a more attractive proposition then say a 40GB ~ 60GB SSHD that cost 2x to 4x as much?
And here I thought the Future was in Flash.
Well not at this rate, and I for One welcome our bargain Basement 3TB 2.5" HDDs
only affect S0NY published Games, (like say Resistance 3, or in this case Uncharted 3 etc...), or indeed ALL FORTHCOMING TITLES FROM SCEx (J,A,E), including any and all Shovelware?
This could be the final Nail for me, PC Gaming is a FREAKING JOKE!, I can not properly spew my utter detest towards the entire FPS genre. Tiresome, boring, unimaginative, and just about everythings been done a million times over.
Whats left Racing Sims? That's fine I guess, but what to do when I want to play something from NIS (e.g. JRPGs) , supposing I wanted to try something more "Casual" what are my choices in the J'n'R Shpere on the PC? My Magic 8-Ball says no.....
So hopefully all this will do is to drive the Retailers to force quicker Price reductions, Cause there IS NO WAY IN HELL I'M PAYING 60€+ for the king of crap that's in my current line-up.
The only exception to that rule would have been Gran Turismo 5, A Game that convinced me to get a PS3, and a very expensive Wheel. I still need the even MORE EXPENSIVE Playseat though.
So that'll be down to the statuesque then.
I flippn hate Crapple as much as the next Android / Samsung loving fanboi that I'am.
But, really come on this is what you use choose to fire your first volley at?
If all those Fashiontards haven't managed to figure this much out for themselves yet that Crapple only OFFICIALLY sell disposables.
Then what hope is there left for this World?
What what about reason Number 11?
Crapple HATES Adobe?
I see to recall a story, not to long ago in fact, [url]http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/04/07/wp7_update_hack/[/url]
Where Microsoft nuked their users who dared to put a Tow over the line,
While I can appreciate the sentiment of being first, +3,000(insert Currency of choice HERE).
Seems to me nothing more the having to much Money and not enough Cents...
Wow I remember the last time they made this free, like Promotor Fidei I to live in Germany, and hate all the censorship. But, was not aware that a low violence version would be needed, seeing that the Player is supposed to be an Android. An albeitly non-green chocolate factory version though...
then I'll be off to pack my Bags, and head off to Mountain View then....
MeeGo, or are Nokia under some NDA from Balmer to "forget about it"?
Seems to me that with MeeGo you have everything One could want from Android (e.g. Linux and FOSS), with out all that messy IP issues.
Personally I hope that the EU Courts tell Apple to get stuffed,
I know it's not likely to happen though.
replace Mirror with Image of his Holiness (St Stevens of Jobs), and then you'd have your "Killer App"...
In other words implying that Android is cheep. LOL WHAT A RIOT!
Any decent Droid Phone HTC Desire (HD) or Galaxy S / S2 is gonna set you back as much as any iCrap device.
And I'm not about to be dictated to by some iDork in a Turtleneck about the thing I can AND CAN NOT DO on my device.
Can your iCrap play Matroska, how about ogg and the Daddy of 'em all Adobe Flash?
I didn't chose Droid cause it was cheeper, I chose is cause IT IS BETTER!
Mores the pity that Nokia sold out to the like of Redmond, cause the N9 could have been the Device that saved Nokia, As a Consumer I would love to have such a device, and assuming that Nokia did there Homework before hand, then it's unlikely that MeeGo would be so gimped by all the BS that Crapple are throwing around right now.
Hopefully when Samy meet Crapple in Court the Judge will have the decency to find in Samsungs' favor and tell his Hollyness to get stuffed!
Why U no have evil Jobs no more?
It's time to gl-ze the Dough-nuts....
No Flash, no sale!!!
Then I take it that, you never heard of the Belkin Voice Recorder (http://www.macworld.com/product/20082/belkin_voice_recorder_for_ipod.html), or the Griffen iTalk (http://www.macworld.com/product/26781/griffin_technology_italk.html), then now have you?
had, have no interest in whats so ever, I might pick up Duke Once it hits the Bargain Bin, but as far as FPS Shovelware goes I'M SICK OF IT!
And as if I were ever inclined to actually find myself wanting this lame Game, I would suddenly find myself not wanting it any longer. Is S0NY want to charge me for access to their PSN Network, then they should just do that. But, WHO WOULD BE STUPID ENOUGH TO GIVE THOSE FECKERS THEIR CREDIT CARD #s again after the recent events? I don't think I would that's for sure.
In closing every Game that will require some "Code" to "unlock" features that were granted to me the moment I took delivery of the Box. Will equate 1 lost Sale to whomever thinks this is a naff idea.
Fail well...
I loved the F-19 Sim on the C=64 and more to a point I loved the design I wonder if it ever went into production though.
Skull for Black Ops? No wait I'll take the Black Copters One then....
I wish these regulatory bodies would do more to combat this kind of noise pollution.
It's always annoying that these Broadcasters always push those Ads as "12" when they show the Programs around "8-9".
It almost makes me wish I had One of those old Magnavox's of the early 90's that had the in-built Volume Leveler built in to combat this kind of BS.
Makes me wonder why the Industry still hasn't made this a standard yet.
At first I was going to how....
(Then I thought why bother)
Then I looked at it (NS310), and then immediately thought, would Apple try to get this banned too, cause it really does look more then a bit like an early Fruity iBook (or whatever they called 'em back then).
And why is the Screen covered? I can only guess that it's not touch sensitive. I just know that given time Dust WILL GET BEHIND THAT SCREEN AGGGHHHH
So does it run Mac? (or Hackentosh?), Sadly my N150 does not with its crappy Intel Graphic Chip.
Personally I find this move to be VERY OVER RATED. + an age old adage of rather reading the Manga (Comic Book version), of Akria instead.
It's kinda like those Lord of the Rings Movies from a while back, they are ~ok~ at best, but in no way a proper substitute for the real thing (i.e. Printed Material)....
And the Film wasn't even that good, when taken into account with its source material.
"Users though, expecting the first version of Mac OS X to drop at any moment, clamoured for the model with the more powerful **ATI Radeon 32GB VRAM** graphics card - which did have a fan, and a fairly audible one".
Now I know that the likes of nVidia as well as AMD/ATi, just love to pile on insane amounts or RAM onto their Cards, but really a WHOLE 32GiB's of VRAM in 2004? in a time when most Cards only had 32Mb MAX on em. Heck the most VRAM (I believe they call it GDDRx these Days though), I've seen post 2004 was around 2048Mb (Or only 2Gib) of VRAM on-board.
It's not much to wonder that all that VRAM needed some proper cooling then.
But I can not leave the age old question alone...
With its 32Gib's or VRAM Can it run Crysis?!
that make the F-16 Fighting Falcon?
Well time to go and self medicate myself on Magical Ponies, having magical adventures again!
Fanboi for My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic!
that Nokia did something about that nasty lookin WP7 UI
I've stated it before, and I'll state it again... YUCK!!
Whoever thought that page images that cliped the Display wad somehow a good thing, should be taken out back and mercilessly beaten down till they breath their last!
Heres hoping that Nokia can somhow still save themselves and by proxy, Microsoft.
By changing that crappy UI into something more like that in Meego.
Sadly somehow I don't see it happening though...
Sadly this does not seem to work with *docx or even *.doc Template Files, which I need in order to keep my School Logs up to date. Google docs as pretty much all the other 'alternative' Programs share this trait unfortunately.
I have yet to find anything other then M$Office (beit 2003, 2007 or 2010 of which I use 2003!), to do so. No not even Microsofts HTML version of Office Live will allow me to edit such files, it instead sends me to a Site where I can buy there broken version of Office 2010.
If I knew that it would do so I'd might be tempted to get an el-cheepo W7P to take care of this chore, but I suspect that this task would also fail there.
As for making those HATEFUL Powerpoint presentations, of which I had to make a few. Why would I waste my time on this, and not say on my Netbook, which has the Keyboard and an actually readable Screen?
I missed the fact that this was for the iBone and Max-iPad.
I actually have the Android Version of this App....
You could just type in to Goolge: intifada apk
To find it, along with a pro thrown in there for good measure now and again.
Then just roll to your Download Folder and install it.
Shocking how easy it is to find Premium Apps for Android though Google.
Not that I would ever condone such a thing!
Sorry for the confusion.
The question wasn't about Flash, I know that Flash works in Opera.
The Question was about how to BLOCK POP-UPs & BANNER ADs, presumably with some modified urlfilter.ini and then getting the Browser to ignore the blank Image Placeholders.
giving One a mock Adblock Plus effect [e.g. Firefox Mobile 4 and or Beta 5] on a Browser that actually works.
Dolphin HD 4 seemed to be able to do that, since the current Update to 5 has broken that, and had its Adblock Plugin removed from the Marketplace, I've been in search of a Browser that can actually do this, AND FLASH.
Why is it that People need to flip a b!tch about this?
These are the things that should be standard in EVERY WEB BROWSER made today!
Ok I'm gonna throw out a quick question to the Opera Fanboys, in hopes of an answer.
How does one enable Adblock on Opera Mobile or Mini.
I really couldn't give a toss about which version, I just want a decent Browser that enables Flash that kills off all those pesky Pop-up / Banner Ads.
Sadly nothing I found on (or for), Android seems fully capable.
As it finally dawns on me that Dolphins ABP is broken (it's listed as "installed", but falls to initialize under D-HD5, so Ads' go unchecked.
Could use Firebadger, but would have to forgo Flash, which is a NO NO!!
If I had wanted a Flash FREE Device I'd had bought an iDevice like the other iTards!
And the Default (Chrome?) Browser can not be permanently fixed to report itself as a Desktop (UserAgent), plus there seems to be no Plugins (See ABP), for it either.
Granted Opera seems like a decent browser, and having barely managed to workout how to change the UA for it.
I can not for the life of me figure out how to get rid of those retched useless datawasteing Banner Ads.
Help?
But, I think that the Author forgot to mention that this Browser is like the only One, that has proper Flash support built in. No not even Firefox for Android has it.
This coupled with the fact that you can change the User Agent (i.e. to Desktop), thus bypassing the Providers less useful Mobile Webpages for the Full Version.
Then you'll quickly understand why this is a MUST HAVE APP.
Microsoft a company famous for ripping off Apples GUI for years, even if it were only an Urban Myth, should've had the decency to do the right thing and continued in this tradition.
I'm sorry have you actually ever seen the W7P User Interface? YUCK!!!
Now look at companies that do it right, Google (Android), and Cpple (iBone)
Just managed to get a Galaxy S i9000 about a Week ago, and I FREAKN' LOVE IT!!
and, I still have yet to even root it!!!
Pic =/= FAIL in the case of W7P it really should be EPIC FAIL though!
Perhaps Sir you are missing the point, while on the face of it you are essentially correct in your assessment, you have also failed to take into account the assortment of current Games such as (but, not limited to), Gran Turismo 5 (3.50) Killzone 3 will probably needs v3.55.
Neither of these versions have the possibility to run Linux which ended back in 3.15.
So not only would you be giving up PSN ~and who need's that anyway?; you're also giving up the ability to play new Games on your PS3 as well.
You might have missed the Memo where IEEE1394A (e.g. FW400), was actually powered
Taken from Wiki:
FireWire can connect up to 63 peripherals in a tree chain topology (as opposed to Parallel SCSI's electrical bus topology). It allows peer-to-peer device communication — such as communication between a scanner and a printer — to take place without using system memory or the CPU. FireWire also supports multiple hosts per bus. It is designed to support plug and play but not hot swapping. The copper cable it uses (1394's most common implementation) can be up to 4.5 metres (15 ft) long and is more flexible than most Parallel SCSI cables. In its six-circuit or nine-circuit variations, it can supply up to 45 watts of power per port at up to 30 volts, allowing moderate-consumption devices to operate without a separate power supply.
So Pic. related
I saw that Episode, and I didn't get any negative vibes about what he said.
I mean in the One way Mr. Fry is correct in is statement, perhaps Mr. Yamaguchi was luckier then Mr. Fry had intimated, but given what a Atom Bomb could do to you (and that's before the massive Fireball!), I'd have come to a similar conclusion.
Given the choice between going quickly by massive incineration, or dieing a slow drawn out painful death due to Cancer & or Radiation poisoning and massive Third-degree Burns.
I'd opt for the former.
I'm kinda sure this was what Mr. Fry was hitting at.
Besides how many People get the BBC in Japan anyway?
I thought I was living on the Frontier (as to reception via Freesat), and I'm in Western Germany.
Perhaps it's the BBC that needs to regrow their Skin.
Besides that quip about the Mexicans' on Last Weeks Top Gear was far ~more~ offensive.
There are times I really hate this Politically Correct Bullexcrement!
Yeah I know that Spastic ~could~ be a derogatory term in certain contexts but, I fail to see it here.
I suppose "Fluffy Furry Kitten" would be a more acceptable name for this Character then?
pass me a Babelfish?
Thanks
No really just WT(Bloody)F are Apple up to these day?
Why is it that I can still ~albeit~ foggily remember iTunes being One of the greatest Audio Media Player ever (ca. Version 4), before it got saddled with all this useless Crap like MobileMe and now this crap.
This outrage just might be enough for this oldfag with his 3Gen (the One with the 4 Red lit Buttons on it), the newfags will be like WTF? so heres a Pic. http://www.apple.com/r/store/gallery/ipod3/images/1.jpg
Nope no fancy Colour Screen here, but it did have Touch though :)
Seriously why do I have to have this Bloat just to continue to use my iTunes Account, when all I want to do is manage my iPod?
I'm thinking it's time to start looking for some other alternatives to iTunes.
Gee I'm tied for choice here Evil Steve or Fail.....
I'll take Fall!
