Posts by Eradicate all BB entrants 481 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Jul 2009
.... that you have no understanding of IT, because you think just blocking shit works so well. Never heard of web proxies? Tor? For feck sake even GoTo on a friends pc would easily pass any local blocks. Maybe it is because he works in IT that he knew blocking would be useless.
....... they must be the obnoxious little shits popped out by liberals, you know the kind, when you are anywhere public and the brat is throwing the almightiest of strops all the parent does is say 'Tarquin, we have discussed this before and you know these actions create friction which will not aid in the resolution of your current displeasure of not being able to fill the trolley with sweets'
From what he stated in the video he had punished her previously for similar actions and said if carried out again the punishment would be worse. Judging by the daughters post it seems she doesn't have any respect already. As for getting it by force? Not so, he was merely being inventive in the way he carried out the punishment. I come from one of the last generations where punishment was a fair few hard whacks on the arse from my dad (now that was punishment applied with force), and I have nothing but the upmost respect for him.
...... where you have to connect it to a computer with a malware suite called iTunes in order to register the device.
As for revolutionising TV they are a bit late to the party, I can already do all of what was mentioned on the kinect. Telling my xbox to play brasseye brought a tear to my eye :D
.... investigate the usage of the word 'extended'. If I purchase something with a years warranty already and they want to sell me a 3 year extended warranty I want 4 in total (not that I would ever buy a warranty). But they get away with it.
Best bargaining tool you can ever use when returning something is to have the local trading standards number programmed into your phone. Instant refund/replacement before the call connects :D
Actually while not a direct comparison it is a fair comparison as since when have Apple started giving away OS X systems for free? If the application was not locked to one OS and given away free then you could understand (even if not agree) the reasons for such a move.
I would even go as far as saying your comparison is not the fair comparison as you are using it to obtain a product for yourself. Applying that to the iRipoffyourcreativity app, the app would be there for the creation of the content and the physical creation of the published works, delivered to you to distribute through whichever channel you choose.
So as you have actually had to pay Apple a considerable amount of money in order to be able to use said app the enforced 30% cut is rather greedy.
If you are dumb enough to buy the cheap plastic fetid crap that is an OEM pc then you deserve all the heart ache this will provide (which when seen in the wild will be the usual 'we got worked up about this?)
'Waaah waaah waaah, we have to pay the MS tax on oem systems and now we cant install fruity wigglebat13 on it.'
Bloody grow up and build the pc you want to install it on. And before you trot out 'users can't build their own, it's too hard' most component shops will do it for you for £50.
Also laptops, cry about them and I will follow Jay and Silent Bobs example :D
...... as while the public will pay the fine the NHS were responsible, they collated and compiled the data so should not have let it out of their sight when it was so easy to access.
While we aren't the most modern shop here we always run drives through killdisk a couple of times before passing them for disposal. Yes, the most determined person in the world may be able to revert what we did in order to obtain files, but it at least proves that we made an effort to make sure we aren't passing easily accessable info to 3rd parties.
...... while I will continue to think chip+pin was only introduced to push the blame further onto the card holder.
The terminals were comprimised, and chip+pin does not encrypt at point of entry, just at transmission so if they are on the POS they have your pin. In fact knowing the slack standards banks have I doubt any of the info is encrypted at point.
....as Betamax lost out on 2 things.
A 3 hour blank VHS tape was an E-180, a Betamax 3h 35 min tape was an L-830 meaning that when purchasing the VHS number was easier to understand.
VHS tapes had two windows making it easier to quickly estimate if you had enough on the tape to get another hour of recording onto the tape. Betamax with it's one window and occasional tiny marks on it made that all but impossible for the average user.
As for the change, as a retailer if all of your suppliers say 'make this change or no more stock for you' the choice is simple, make the change or go out of business. For the linux boys, if open source is your thing then get your old action figures out, use your phone camera and lightworksbeta and make your own versions of the popular hits of today. Actually ...... sod you guys, I might just do that myself :D
..... it is the middleman that is an idiot. After posting my well written CV to a popular tech jobsite a number of years ago this is how 95% of calls went
Recruiter - I have just downloaded your CV and read it and have the ideal position for you
Me - What position?
Recruiter - It's a business analyst with.....
Me (interrupting) - I'm a techie, why the hell would I want a BA position? 'click'
The only task a recruiter should be allowed to do is put all the CV's in a nice little pile to send to the interviewer. 10% of my salary to forward an email is not working, it is parasitical.
..... point that Siri does not run on the iPhone? To the best of my knowledge what you run on the phone is an interface that connects to backend servers which do the hard work. Which is why most of the Siri functions failed the other day when someone punched the wrong button at Cupertino.
As for the IR sensor excuse, that is pathetic. Even if the older phones cannot provide the same function through hardware it's not that hard to push a button on the screen is it?
New tech not possible on old phones? After an update last night my Xperia Arc can now take panoramic and 3D panoramic pics, this with a single lense camera (ok I need a bloody 3d tv to look at them though). If they were honest most people wouldn't care.
..... a quick poll around the office, Droid users get laid on a regular basis (even the fugly ones), our one WP7 guy gets laid on a regular basis. The one iPhone user doesn't, and we suspect he never has (bags of sand kinda guy)
Another source of evidence is the first day of sale queues for apple products, it would be fair to say most would panic and pass out at the sight of the opposite sex's naked body.
He should have watched Die Hard 2 for a clear example of a hack being directly responsible for a number of deaths. Knocking the ILS off by a few hundred feet to destroy a whole plane full of people with bad british accents.
And he should also know anything featuring Officer John McLane is a 100% factual documentary and not a fictional movie.
....much better than 3. The car rewards for levelling are better as you get to choose from a selection, the sound is much better too. Head tracking kind of odd at first but not too distracting. If you import your forza 3 save you get extra cars too.
As for the top gear stuff, so far so good as they are challenges such as knocking down as many bowling pins in a lap as possible.
If only my Logitech momo worked on the xbox
.... bug Sony about it. Bug Lenovo, Acer, Asus, Samsung and all the rest. The requisite is that if you want to ship boxes with W8 on this needs to be enabled. Nothing in there saying there can be an option to turn it off is there.
And before you even think about stating 'normal users won't be able to do that/know that' normal users don't usually have dual boot systems. Despite using Open OS's you boys sure are closed when it comes to thinking about alternatives.
Yes I am a windows fan, it lets me play all the games :P
..... by some of the responses. All the ranting about not being able to do what you want and you still buy from the big box vendors.
If you want control build your own, like I do. It's not hard and the slight cost increase (sometimes it can be cheaper) pays for itself in 2 ways, you get the components you want and you have the lovely 3-5 year warranties on them you don't get from box pushers.
Some crap analogies to help it along, Like buying a Ford then complaining you can't run Nissan's sat nav, buying a washing machine then complaining it breaks your dishes, buying a Yale lock and complaining a Chubb barrel won't fit in it ........
.... as my first ever experience of Amazon was my last.
Item was in stock, I ordered early in the morning, paid extra for next day delivery as I would be at home. Then heard nothing until after 6pm when I received an email saying it would be dispatched in 14 days. No option to cancel, wouldn't refund the extra paid for next day delivery. Amazon was the only place I could get it at the time in the UK but managed to order it from Japan, and received it before the one from Amazon was sent, promptly sent the Amazon one back for a refund once it arrived (2 days after dispatch as well). Never again (I only wish Play would let you pay extra for next day)
It seems Apple are burning their bridges with existing partners, find a new chip supplier, sue the old one. Both Samsung and Motorola have been big partners in Apples recent boom, but now they have the required share prices, new suppliers and a big market share they seem to think they no longer need their old partners.
Would you renegotiate a supply contract with a company suing you? Sign a contract with someone who may sue you? To Joe Public Apple are a company taht produces shiny, to tech companies they are quickly becoming someone to avoid at all costs.
So come on Apple, as you are the only company who innovates these days let's see your design for the GSM module, let's see your extensive patents in regards to battery tech, can we have a tour of your display panel factory and R&D department?
Taking many parts and putting them together is not innovation, and you don't even do that these days, someone else does it for you. Stick to designing shiny cases and stop suing REAL innovators.
..... just a shame they don't have tight quality controls like Sony, for example the PS1 blu-tac cd spindle that melted after an hours use, almost the entire initial batch returned to us, the PS3, that wondrous answer to all of your blu-ray needs, except when it stops reading the discs after a few months.
Maybe its the sloppy cheap as chips manufactoring that allowed MS to fix/replace affected units without charging, and the bespoke McLaren-esque factory conditions and build quality that forced Sony to charge its customers for their ineptitude?
Or maybe MS spent the profit on proper server security for Xbox live?
Many posts about it being a consumer device so why would you want to upgrade it?
My TV is a consumer device, it runs on Linux, has expansion ports and can be upgraded by me.
My DVD player is a consumer device, I can update the software on it to improve divx playback.
My MP3 player is a consumer device, I can easily replace the battery on it and many years ago upgraded the firmware so I could use drag and drop instead of the bundled software to load files.
The fact that more and more 'consumer devices' are able to do this really makes that argument weak.
It's plainly obvious you do a little as you took the trouble to read it, scroll to the bottom, click the comments link and post a comment complete with punctuation and new lines.
Gods man you entered a password to do that, to me that shows you care a great deal but for some obscure reason want to hide it behind a wall of apathy.
Portal2 on PC uses Steam rather than PSN (D-Link router and home NAS?)
It's why it's got the better features than the gimp who owns the PS3 version (PC games have had free user generated content since the 90's, cloud saving (Isn't webmail 'cloud saving'?) and streaming updates? really? wow......a bit like Unreal Tourney did so you didn't need to install every single map or mod ever created?
That's of course in addition to the MUCH better graphics on the PC version
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As for PSN being down, don't worry, should be back up by the time your console game has installed
Having played NFS since the original road & track on the 3DO it seems that the NFS series is in its 3rd nadir (The other 2 being the original and Underground 2). I found the original shift had the right balance between arcade/simulation which you could affect by your driving style.
Yes the drifting sucks (why is it nowhere near as good as Underground 2?) but I have managed to get to world tour without completing more than a couple of the events.
As for a comparison against GT5 .... well nothing will ever be as good will it? Even if GT6 featured a lego car on a roundabout it would still be lorded as the greatest ever, except to my brother, a huge GT fan since the first, played the 5th ...... and started spitting at his PS3 in disgust (GT5 was the only reason he bought one)
Anyway back to Shift ...... NFS has never been a sim, it's intended to be fun and both myself and my 9 year old son love it.
Due to spending the best part of 2 years being asked by Abbey, when signing in, to stop using Firefox and instead use IE6 which they said was much more secure.
Remember, that the banking industry does not implement a system to reduce fraud, they introduce systems that push the liability onto the customer, Chip & PIN and PCIDSS being the most famous of these.
..... I would in a second. We "professional" IT types do perform a wonderful job in regards to cost control, design and engineering. It's the higher up morons (those with iPhones and macs) who ruin it with stupid requests and restrictions because they like shiny. We "professional" IT types realise that the systems that actually do work are ugly and need time and attention and have no glamour associated with them at all.
I'm sure the MET office would be happy to scrap their current system to replace it with half a million mac mini's, which won't run their DB's ...... or backups....or control software, but my.......they will look pretty won't they.
P.S. Can we have a Michael Ironside Scanners icon?
Having managed a store purveying in fine wines and other such alcoholic beverages in Harrogate I can confirm that it is a ghetto slum (Sales figures of nasty cheapo lager and Lambrini prove it). Apart from a few nice streets around the Stray it is just council estate after council estate.
Leeds has its fair share of rough estates but the locals tend to pick fights with the police directly so these instances may not make it into the figures.
....why so many people have problems with it.
GTAIV - GFWL - Never had an issue
Dawn of War 2 - same again no issues
Fallout 3 - No issue
The list of NO issues goes on. OK yes I am technically able to resolve issues once they arise, but have found I rarely need to. Those who I know have issues with this sort of client are usually Virgin or BT BB customers and the fault is with crap modems and not the applications.
@ No GFWL on my xbox, its the same service, just called Xbox Live.
Back to the game, I am looking forward to giving it a bash, played DN3D to death when it came out but wisely sated my appetite for hoon shooters with Serious Sam in the intervening years.
...... Apple are annoyed that they get no benefit from advertising revenue.
Commercial radio stations charge for advertising based on listener figures. Through normal means there is no way to give a specific number for the amount of listeners they have so it has to be generalised.
A radio station with its own app could show the number of app users as confirmed listeners, therefore giving them the ability to charge more for advertising. Apple will not get any benefit from this and also wouldn't want someone improving their revenue stream in such a manner.
By lumping all such radio stations into one app they cannot get specific listener figures therefore removing this additional revenue stream for the stations. The only advertising Apple wants is their advertising.
.....is that the Vue in question is in the city centre, next to the financial/law district, hell of a lot of laptop users there. As for iPads, Leeds Light is a small shopping centre full of stupidly expensive shops ..... home to the more money than sense brigade.
Does that answer the questions raised?
.....should note that Sony copied the Logitech QuickCam that came out in 2000 with games you could play by jumping around. It was fun 10 years ago playing a basic basketball game in a glass fronted store drawing in quite a crowd.
And yes you can use Kinect from your sofa with hand and voice control for apps but not sure about the games.
Get a Mac, clean install OSX, remove iTunes, Safari and Quicktime. Update. Untick the previously mentioned items (but not the big 300/400MB update) They are back :|
And as for Ubuntu, power on machine, update, reboot. Next day power on machine, update, reboot ...... continue for the rest of your life.
Not defending MS, just adding balance to the froth and spittle covering the above posters keyboards.
From the top down view (CEO) you may have the correct comparison, both Sony and Apple want complete control over not just their devices but the markets their devices are in.
Sony have had a number of exclusive titles since launch that do utilise the full power of the console, such as God of War 3. Has this improved Sony position in the market? I doubt it seeing as 1 Xbox 360 title (Remember, a device with nowhere near the potential of the PS3) called Halo 3 has outsold all PS3 exclusives put together, also a number of cross platform titles on the PS3 have outsold PS3 exclusives individually too.
Apple is running the app store in a similar fashion to Sony's gaming console cycle, at first have few restrictions, development open to all and as the platform improves/matures slowly lock down more and more. This has nothing to do with user experience, it has everything to do with balance sheets though.
Its seems that developers have realised that the users want the same experience regardless of platform, this in turn saves them money on development allowing more features to be added to said app in the same development timescale. How long before Apple state that less powerful developers are not allowed to release the app on the iPhone if it is available on another platform or vice versa?
Apple had a choice, ban translated code tools or work with them to improve how they translate the code to make it work better on their devices. They chose the former and I believe it is this decision proves they dont have a long term view at all, its just a short term land grab.
As I throw it at the MFD as I walk back into the office, push 2 buttons and its in my email.
So I need neither the device, its dock or the terrible terrible software that it requires to get my notes stored electronically. Unlike plain text on a nice shiny screen my handwriting is so bad no-one can tell what I'm writing anyway. I can then put my paper in the recycle bin and save the planet :D
Do I get a cookie now?
Because those saying IANAL then following it up saying this story is trash and this won't stand up under fit for purpose.......read where the story came from......Pinsent Masons........big fecking company full of lawyers.
As for those saying you can ignore the update and keep using it, not if you want to play games. You arent allowed to connect to PSN if you don't update....and most games wont play(or save) without PSN.
As it has already been stated, Sony used the Linux OtherOS to make the device a computer and get a tax break, they have now turned around and said its a console while still telling the taxman its a computer.
when you consider oracle licensing. They license per core and not socket.
Put 1 oracle DB on a 4 socket 16core server.......thats a big license cost vs 8 virtualised servers running an oracle db on each, still the same license cost (roughly) but 8 db's. Then you can consider the hardware savings.
Although from the title I was expecting the story to be about people dumping Oracle for MySQL
....tis you who fails
I bought Jaws on VHS in 1994. Buy purchasing said item I was granted a copyright license. This license lasts until the copyright holders term expires.
Jump to today, I can no longer purchase a suitable device in order to exercise my rights to make use of said copyright license. So I ask the copyright holder if they can, for a nominal fee to cover costs, send me a copy on modern media. I am quite happy to pay for the dvd, a cd sleeve and the postage costs. They say no, you must purchase another license. The license on the back of the media does state that the license in non-transferable, meaning I cannot pass those rights to another individual but does not list any restriction on my rights as the original license purchaser.
So therefore I have to use alternate methods in order to make use of a license I have already paid for. Remember a cd/dvd/BD is only a medium to initially transferring the license to you.
The mandybill was not caused by so called pirates, it was caused by an archaic business model desperate to keep control
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