Posts by Mad Hacker

Replace Microsoft with Apple and...

You sound like all the Apple fanbois who complain about how negative El Reg is to Apple. Maybe they just call them like they see them no twisting needed.

@BristolBachelor

Well Apple is restrictive but less restrictive than the companies you buy products from blissfully ignorantly. At least Apple doesn't have a license that forbids you from posting your opinion or test results about their products... http://books.google.com/books?id=qjgEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA103&lpg=PA103&dq=microsoft+license++legal+sql+test+results&source=bl&ots=1WVH8_KiiI&sig=jDzjjK4RLfeWpsMq13riYYpNaFg&hl=en&ei=rNJbTZSQFsG4tgfN2YzXCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&sqi=2&ved=0CDAQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q=microsoft%20license%20%20legal%20sql%20test%20results&f=false

As for jailbrakers MS has come down harder on people who jailbrake their XBOXs than Apple has on people who jailbrake their iPhones. In fact what MS did would be similar to Apple disabling all network services on their iPhone once they detected a jailbrake. http://xbox360.ign.com/articles/789/789640p1.html

Also you must've forgotten about this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft

It turns out, the Founding Fathers would beg to disagree.

The people who drafted the constitution already created mandated healthcare so you obvious aren't in touch with the ideals behind those who created the country that you claim to love.

http://blogs.forbes.com/rickungar/2011/01/17/congress-passes-socialized-medicine-and-mandates-health-insurance-in-1798/

Have you actually used video calls from the 90s and 00s?

Did you actually use the video calling technology you speak of? The previous video calls all sucked. I haven't used Apple's so I cannot comment but the point is when someone finally comes out with video call technology that actually works (not works reasonably well with only a few seconds of lag but actually works) video calls will take off.

Actually they've changed the accounting laws now

I don't believe Apple charges anymore for iPod Touch upgrades as they recently changed the sarbanes-oxley law to allow you to add new features without requiring a subscription accounting model.

nope

No that's one of the advantages.

You're comparing a 1.5GHz CPU to a 2.4 GHz one?

You're comparing a 1.5GHz CPU to a 2.4 GHz one?

Android UI lags a lot compared to iPhone 3Gs

I've used Android 2.1 (HTC EVO 4G) and iPhone 3Gs and can say that Android is considerably slower in response. Most people have never used both (they chose what they wanted before they went to the store to buy one so they didn't really compare performance.) I have seen (although not used hands on) Android 2.2 and it appeared to be much smoother and quicker then 2.1 and will bring Android into parity with the iPhone 3Gs UI speed. To say the Android 2.1 UI is as responsive as the 3Gs iPhone is simply a lie.

How much did you use it?

That's cool, how much did you use video phone? I haven't seen a phone in the US that offered video calling. If all the other countries are doing it, how come I don't see more of it. I have to guess it simply didn't work? Did you love it?

Figure out the answer to your question and...

You'll be a marketing guru. No idea why Apple commands the amount of excitement and press they do. Some of it must be due to their secretive nature. Many companies announce products 6 months ahead of schedule like at CES which kind of takes away any excitement. But even for companies that don't they still don't get the interest Apple does.

Maybe it's because they've occasionally released a product that really changed the market and everyone is hoping the next product they release will be a game changer. Like them or not the iPod changed music players (it wasn't the first MP3 player but it was the one that changed the market) the iPhone changed the cell phone industry and the original Mac changed the computer industry (i.e. the Mouse became "normal" and word processors all become more publishing oriented like MacWrite instead of embedding printer codes within the docs.)

You got it wrong

Shooting things ok. Clubbing them, not ok. Makes sense to me.

hmm and I thought 3 was crappy?

I thought 4 was great compared to 3. Of course neither stood up to 1 or 2.

Really? The biggest POS you've ever used?

You've obviously never used MS SourceSafe then.

DST should be boycotted

I agree completely. When I was younger growing up in the States I thought DST was a stupid American thing like shunning the metric system. Then I started traveling internationally and found other countries do it to! I grew up in Arizona one of the few states that DOES NOT do DST. Everyone else needs to get on board and stop this DST madness. If you want to get up earlier, here's a tip, get up an hour earlier. Don't wait for the government to tell you when to get out of bed!

What updates? Sony hasn't added anything I use/care about

You are saying I should be thankful for a bunch of updates for the PS3 that I don't user or care about? DLNA media streaming? It's a game system, I didn't buy it to stream media to. Profile 2.0 BD? I use a Panasonic Blu-ray player to play my DVDs, not the PS3. The PS3 is a horrible DVD player. Trophy support? My login to Sony's game network never registered correctly so I was never able to use that. Video, DivX, etc. again not using those.

So by your logic they owe me even MORE money because those updates didn't apply to me since that's the only way you justified this move.

me 2

Glad I wasn't the only one!

Microsoft hasn't released a better OS since XP

Yeah but I think most people agree, we are still waiting for MS to release an upgraded OS over XP. Most people don't feel like moving from XP to Vista or 7 because it's questionable whether it's even an upgrade. I don't know anyone who is clinging to 10.0 because they don't feel 10.5 offered anything worthwhile to them.

Really? You have seen Nintendo games I haven't seen then...

"Nintendo have a track record of making brilliant and very enjoyable games to play."

Really? I'm not saying Sony has a lot of innovative games on the PS3 (the video game industry seems to have some creativity issues at the moment) but to say Nintendo has more innovative games seems silly. Yeah they came out with a novel controller. Yeah Wii Sports resort is cute. The big improvement about the Wii is it encourages multiplayer gaming. Not sure that's innovative. That award would have to go to Atari with Warlords on the 2600 that got four people playing at the same time.

You're joking right?

I always choose my hardware and go with whatever carrier has the hardware. Almost always there's an exclusive agreement with a single carrier in the US for any cool/new phone. I can't imagine choosing a carrier for the sake of, uh, whatever. Maybe I'm the only one who thinks my carrier is a dumb pipe but I've had that attitude since my first smartphone in 2003.

That was my understanding as well

Yeah, it was an isolated case... that they got caught. Usually... they don't get caught.

Threading vs Threading

Ok, you are talking about viewing messages in a threadlike layout, like how gmail does it. What the author was referring to was the ability for the mail app to do more then one thing at once without slowing down or freezing up. That would be multi-threading and is something Outlook is horrible at often freezing up not just Outlook but the whole operating system while communicating with the mail server.

Regarding the threaded view you are talking about I've found most users don't use mail that way, they just sort chronologically as do I so I cannot comment on how well mail app threads messages in that view. I do know I hate GMail's threaded view in its webmail.

USB?

The iPad will use Bluetooth to connect to peripherals, not USB. Personally I'd like it to have FW800 but netbooks aren't meant for real computing tasks anyway.