Posts by Geoff Campbell

Ah, bugger.

Oh, well. I guess the third party market will cater for them well enough, anyway.

GJC

Can we hand it to them....

....after we've pulled the pin out of it?

GJC

Roddenbury

I believe he also viewed the transporter as something of a double-edged sword. Having used it to keep the narrative loping along nicely, they then had to engineer all sorts of reasons why it couldn't be used to extract characters from danger, to allow there to be any narrative at all.

GJC

What on earth does the Apple TV have to do with anything?

It's a completely different class of product, at a completely different price point. There is absolutely no overlap whatsoever.

It's quite likely that Jaffa Cakes are outselling the Apple TV, but I find it difficult to draw any sane conclusions from that fact.

GJC

Huh?

What bugs have you found on the Galaxy S? Mine has behaved impeccably since I bought it in the summer, and is just perfect in all possible respects.

It got the Froyo update about a week ago, too, the first time I'd plugged it into my PC for some time.

GJC

Prices have halved, more or less

I bought a PRS505 a few months after launch, for £200. Today I can buy a Kindle for £109, or a PRS350 for £129. What's the problem?

GJC

I wasn't making that assumption, in fact

What I was assuming was that users' storage needs will have reached a plateau for a while. Music, video, and photos get a particular quality level, and need not go any higher, and the number of each that a user has is unlikely to change much. So I suspect that 1TB will be fine for most users, with 2-3TB for the real heavy users.

Of course, technology could change that - widespread uptake of 1080p HD movies in digital format, perhaps. But I'm guessing not, personally.

GJC

I'll take that down-vote....

....as an indication that I hit a nerve. Splendid!

GJC

Yeah

Human nature sucks - politicians seem addicted to big projects that boost their egos and build great empires around their departments without actually delivering anything of any value to us poor saps who are paying for it all. Ho hum.

GJC

No vowels?

That address has four vowels in. Perhaps you might learn a little about the area you work in before doing the "Loud, confident and wrong" thing?

GJC

That's not how retail works.

It's perfectly possible that the initial manufacturer of these phones was paid, say, a tenner a unit (to pluck a figure out of thin air), and still everyone involved in the deal made a profit. Single units are not made in isolation.

GJC

Windows Phone 7

I've been playing with an HTC HD7 for a couple of days, and I have to say that I'm impressed. Seems to use the small screen space well, performs well, reasonable selection of apps considering how recently it was released.

I think Microsoft have announced that they won't be pushing it for tablet use, though. And I think that's a mistake. On a 7" or 9" tablet, Phone 7 seems to me to make a heap more sense than Windows 7. On bigger tablet, maybe, maybe not, but the licence cost of Windows 7 is certainly going to skew the market badly.

I think I'd still go for Android, personally, but it does rather depend on the overall package.

Interesting times ahead.

GJC

@Fraser

Do the sums, Dude! The so-called "free" phones generally cost a couple of hundred quid more than buying SIM-free and getting a SIM-only deal from the network operator of your choice. And so you are paying for the priviledge of getting all the network branding and operator lock-in.

Makes no sense to me at all. If you can't afford the phone, take out a bank loan to pay for it, it'll still work out cheaper.

GJC

And, as if on cue:

http://www.tvstick.co.uk/products/productinfo.asp?catid=1&prodid=38

Early days yet, but it's a start. Any chance of a review, El Reg?

GJC

Poodle lovers' club?

Is that one of those specialist web sites?

GJC

I know, I know - coat, door....

2003 will read .docx and .xlsx quite happily

Microsoft released a compatability pack some time ago, which works well.

GJC

Like it or not....

....Tux is now Google's bitch.

Fortunately the offspring from the unholy union is both good and numerous.

GJC

Interesting, my Samsung Android went off an hour early on Monday

I can only assume that a clever programmer decided that the alarm code should put the alarm times back an hour at the time change, but did so relative to the clock after it had gone back, or something.

Easily fixed by unticking and then re-ticking the alarm, but at 5am on Monday I wasn't hugely pleased by this....

GJC

Tax-exempt is something of a myth.

For vehicles registered before 1st Jan 1973, a tax disk is still required, however it costs £0. Failure to obtain and display one are still two separate offences.

GJC

Information *does* want to be free.

That is a standard plank of any competent security policy. That you don't understand the context and implications is not our problem. Do some reading.

GJC

They could scrap the Windows version....

....and close the company down.

I mean, c'mon. I know there is this myth that only Macs are good for image processing, but how many people run Photoshop on Macs, and how many on Windows?

You, Sir, fail.

GJC