Posts by windywoo

Goes against every other netbook/Windows 7 experience

Why did you try to make a general point about Windows 7? Are you paid by PC manufacturers to burst the netbook bubble so people start buying more expensive machines? Or worse still, Apple or Google? If Windows 7 Starter Edition sucks on this then blame it on either the Starter Edition or Lenovo. Look on youtube for Windows 7 netbook and you will see they all run responsively and as good as XP. One bad experience shouldn't be taken as a trend.

Scientists taking crazy risks

This could end up opening a portal to a new dimension, allowing beings through that mortals were not meant to meet. Yog Soggoth, Cthulu, formless Tsathoggua and the worse than formless star spawn associated with that semientity.

Bad calibration?

Aren't you supposed to calibrate a battery's life in Windows by charging it to full, letting it run all the way to zero and sleep then charging again?

Stranger than Fiction

Melinda and Melinda. Two movies off the top of my head where Will Ferrell has played it relatively straight and turned in good performance. Neither of those particularly set the box office on fire, but if Transformers 2 is the yardstick by which success is measured, who really gives a shit about Box Office takings? A movie for monkeys made by one of the biggest apes in Hollywood. His movies have all the subtlety of a lobotomy without anaesthetic. His cinematic skills are those of a porn director.

Greg D

All those products certainly aren't microprocessors. They are all electronic goods, PC related if thats what you mean, but flash memory is far from being microprocessors.

lol at the guns

I too noticed the World War 2 guns. I am ashamed to realise that I know most of those guns names despite living in a country where they are quite illegal. Computer games are a bad influence!

Dim much Rob Dobs?

Of course the data is normalised, Dell has around 3 to 4 times the number of sales Apple do and they are only about 1% behind Apple in that chart. Unless Dells have super low breakdown rates I think this shows that the people making the report are smarter than you give them credit for.

The data of a 31% percent over all failure rate is the only statistic that can be questioned as having some bias, as that is what will suggest to users that they need a warranty. The percentage of failure rates by company is not relevant to whether one should purchase a warranty or not, unless Square Trade really want to target HP customers.

As has been mentioned, Apple get special mention because they make wild claims about their reliability over other PCs. This isn't the first reliability study I have seen that suggests they are exaggerating.

The judge's argument seems sound

But the defendant chose completely the wrong grounds on which to defend. Modchips aren't just used for copyright infringement. If he had argued on this point I believe he would have got much further, since nobody has banned bittorrent as a technology yet.

Games install spyware?

I just bought Left 4 Dead 2: - no spyware. Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 I am not going to buy, but still, no spyware. Wolfenstein:- no spyware. Please take your head out of your vagina.

Tablet for media uses and advertising?

Did they say they were going to revolutionise print media with their tablet by providing magazines and so on with a content delivery system? All those newspapers losing money because people can read information online for free will be interested in a tablet that allows them to plug unblockable advertisements.

Nowhere does he say

"Steve you're my inspiration" or anything close to it. I appreciate the tone is meant to be humerous but putting words into people's mouths is bad reporting.

Look at all the hate

Over desktop themes that people will install voluntarily. There's no gun to your head. Yes its corporate greed trying to find new outlets, but I looked at the themes available, installed one without corporate sponsorship and moved on. Is it much different from themes for mobile phones? Some people will pay for those themes.

@h6

Did you even read the article? Read it and then go punch yourself in the face until the fanboi urges leave you.

Irrelevant

There are only so many ways a UI can be made easy to use, inevitably they end up sharing features. It would be moronic to produce a car without a steering wheel just because you didn't want to be seen copying anyone. Apple have had to "borrow" ideas in the past. Mouse wheels, tabbed browsing and Fast User Switch spring to mind. Sometimes a feature is simply too useful to be ignored.

@magnetik, none of those tasks is particularly difficult, but finding an open program with the taskbar is simpler. And when an action has to be repeated often, the extra effort of expose or CMD tabbing becomes infuriating.The single menu doesn't waste screen real estate argument is not true. The bar is there whether applications are open or not. The dock wastes space since the space at the side is not used, and putting it on autohide simply means more mouse travel any time you want to use it.

Apple's mice still are one button in practice. There is no way to press left and right buttons simultaneously. There is no middle click on a trackpad or the Magic Mouse. Sometimes going out of your way to make something different is overlooking the simple usefulness that is present in the device you are trying to replace.

OSX doesn't cost $29

The true cost is hidden in the price of the Mac hardware. Much as I love Linux, I wouldn't recommend it to anyone who wasn't technically minded as I would spend all day answering questions about it.

I don't believe

You type out proper emails even on the iPhone. I have tried that virtual keyboard and even though its one of the best it still can't compare to a proper keyboard that you can use two hands and touch type on. Those keyboards are not good for email no matter which phone you use and you will end up sending emails not much longer than texts anyway.

Those pictures don't look amazing, but they certainly look better than ones taken on other phones that have received higher scores and praise for their cameras, certainly no worse than the iPhone. How is the music playback? This is a strength of other Sony phones and a weakness of the iPhone, yet its not mentioned here.

Your criticisms of the operating system seem to be more your own lack of understanding and unwillingness to accept anything that doesn't have multitouch. That pinch and zoom feature is such a gimmick. It really isn't necessary for zooming and is just there to make the user feel like they have just done something clever with their phone.

Change the first paragraph of the article.

Its misleading to say that this worm can connect to any jailbroken phone. It will only "clear out" jailbroken phones with SSH installed and using the default password. Was this an oversight due to ignorance or a bias to a certain company?

What do you want?

Information. Information!

You're not going to get it!

By hook, or by crook we will.

Looking up Bill Gallagher on imdb I see his past credits include Lark Rise to Candleford and Dalziel and Pascoe. I don't see anything there that inspires me to think that this will be anything other than run of the mill TV drama.

I once had to endure

The noises of my flatmate and his girlfriend having a bit of the other because it was a small flat and the noise travelled. The funny thing is I was watching Frankenstein at the time and the noises from the monster and the two love birds were eerily similar.

Propaganda

If it were true iTunes synching it would be through iTunes itself. Your title is attention seeking and promotional. There was absolutely no need to mention Palm and yet you did, which just goes to show where this authors sympathies lie. Remind me again why Apple require you to use third party applications to synchronise your music library to non-Apple devices. Is it because they it makes Macs more user friendly? Is it because they think adding more needless applications enhances the user experience? Is it because they like to punish their customers for not having purchased every electronic device they own from Apple?

No doubt at a higher price

Higher price than the previous generation but will be sold as iPhone 3GW. Other than America which seems to have phone networks comparable to tin cans and string, where would this feature be of use? On what other phone than the iPhone would this be seen as a major feature?

Cluedo

Was already made into a film which was alright.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0088930/

I think someone has the film rights to Monopoly as well.

http://www.cinematical.com/2007/08/06/ridley-scott-talks-monopoly-movie/

There we go. Directed by Ridley Scott. I can see it now, we start with the reflection of a city in the pupil of an eye, a city made entirely of red and green plastic houses.

If its accessing an official API...

Why was that not noticed by Apple's review? Why is that even possible?

Sophos seem to be pushing for

An antivirus ballot page just like the web browser ballot page. Either that or they want Microsoft to release an OS so secure that it puts them out of business and breaks backwards compatibility.

When will Reg disable Anonymous comments?

They rarely contribute anything of worth.

Irish women

Oddly don't find my Irish accent sexy enough to sleep with me on a regular basis. And as many commenters have remarked, which part of Ireland? Up here in Belfast we sound a lot like Frank Carson although we don't all say "Thats a cracker". Liam Neeson I would imagine appeals to women but he's atypical of the the town he is from (Ballymena) who you would need subtitles to understand. Colin Farrell is probably who the girls are thinking of when they think of an Irish accent. Is it really the accent they like or just the men they most associate with that accent?

Aero preview

I tested a build the other day and it seemed to support the Aero preview feature of Windows 7. Not just the current tab of course but every tab could be previewed from the icon in the task bar, just like IE8 currently works, If this is implemented it will be just one more reason I keep coming back to Firefox after I have a fling with other browsers (Opera, Chrome, Safari etc.)

@Daniel 4

Zune used to synch through Windows Media Player, and many other players still do. Apple artificially restrict their software so it will synchronise only with their device. iTunes was not created as a means to synchronise iPod music, that came later. Pre-ipod other devices were allowed to synchronise. In fact I think several of those devices are still supported, although they are so ancient nobody uses them any more.

Its too darn expensive.

What? Compared to the Macbook Air? Why do you always give Apple a break when it comes to pricing? This has greater performance in nearly every benchmark and costs half as much as a Macbook Air, yet you had your wet tongue in the earhole of Apple for the Air.

@ Joe Ragosta

Idiot. "People are so anti Apple they won't give it a try". People are anti-changing something that works just for the sake of it. Its not like a mouse is difficult or hard to use, yet Apple insist on making theirs work differently and even most Mac owners will replace a Might Mouse.

Apple offers a mouse that is different but its standard on their iMacs, meaning if you don't like it you have to buy a 3rd party mouse to replace it. By the way there is no way in hell to use a puck mouse with your finger tips.

Look at all the Mac snobs

Stop defending the hideous and extortionate premiums Apple charge. You are being milked for all your idiot cash and Apple are loving it. How else can they post record profits at a time of recession? By putting shiny toys under the noses of rich numpties who don't understand the bits and pieces inside that sleak looking case.

Where does this idea come from that PC owners can't afford Macs? Of course they can afford them, they're just not stupid enough to pay for a bad deal when they see it. Mac owners talk about OSX as if its some sort of second coming. Fact is, the differences between OSX and Windows are very small to the average user who will only be surfing the net or using Microsoft Office. Macs are average PCs in shiny cases with hugely successful marketing.

So many Apple trolls

The dark Lord Jobs reach has grown long.

I have no great love for Balmer, but Jobs somehow manages to be perceived as a great innovator and leader. If you read a little bit about him you will see stories from his own employees of how he reduced people to tears, how his company has been in trouble for share backdating and even now with the iPhone Apple are as bullying or even more so than MS has ever been.

Apple continue to sell generic PC hardware in shiny cases with a shiny operating system at huge markups and their users delight in handing over far more than the actual cost of producing the machine. Their software continues to be compromised at hacking conventions and yet their users insist that OSX security comes from more than just obscurity. Apple users tend to come more from higher income brackets and are therefore baffled that others find Macs to be overpriced and not worth paying extra.

Google I suppose are a moderately less evil company, and have success in search and are achieving success with their browser, but Google Wave is just released (or is it still in beta? Difficult to know with google) so lets not go calling it a Messenger killer just yet. Android is not a roaring success at all. There are only a handful of phones using that OS and none of them particularly popular. Google apps are rubbish, every review I have ever seen of them rates them well below other competing products, and MS offerings are still in beta so a comparison is not very fair.

The reason I stick up for MS is that the competition just doesn't produce a viable product. MS offers an operating system that will work and work well on a tonne of hardware configurations with a tonne of software. Apple doesn't offer this. Linux offers some of this but with an increased headache to me in configuration and no game compatibility (I won't count WINE sorry, reduced performance is not what I bought my hardware for).

Berate MS as often as you like, call them bullying if you like, but face it, there is no competition.

For a second I misread as

iPhone thong. For those who are so image conscious they even want their pants to coordinate with their bling.

Nice. Now lets do the same for

OSX and the iphone. While we're at it, Apple should be forced to offer other music management software than just iTunes.

Well it only took 3 generations of iPhone

And a special addition to your contract if you are in UK to get what most other phones have had for years. All hail the Mighty Apple, only they could get away with selling under-featured phones as innovative at extortionate prices.

@Gary F

I don't know where to begin because plainly reading is not your strong point. You have read all sorts of bollocks into my statement that wasn't there, or didn't read what was there.

I can afford a Mac thanks, have two, don't think they're anything special and certainly not worth paying extra for. Lucky I bought them as spares and repaired them or I would have wasted money. This is what irks me about Apple, their products are nothing special, they just look nice and people will lap that up.

All your points about other companies drivers fall to bits because Apple provides an operating system, not just peripherals. They allow other companies routers to work with Macs because they know they would be screwed if they didn't. They have to allow other companies printers to work with their OS because again they would be screwed. But since Apple make a media player and a phone they decide not to allow other products to work with the Media Library application of their own OS. They pick and choose as they please what should work and what shouldn't.

By the way, I am not suggesting that Apple write this software, just that they allow other companies to write drivers so that they can synch PROPERLY with iTunes, from within iTunes itself, not the third party company's software. Of course printer companies have to write their own software to make their products work, but frequently they go beyond what is necessary to make the hardware work and install all sorts of tray loading crap. Apple is encouraging this sort of bloat by refusing to allow other companies products to synch through iTunes, thus disadvantaging their customers. You can synch through all sorts of other programs but face it, the average computer user is not too well educated about computers and doesn't want the hassle of working out how to use another shitty piece of software for their phone. I should know, I help people with this sort of thing as a living, not Burger King thanks.

If this were Microsoft, the haters would be all over them crying monopoly. Well Apple is damn close to a monopoly with iTunes, and even if they aren't at that level yet, its still double standards to allow them to get away with this.

Sara Bee where did I hand out personal insults? I insulted a group of people, not one individual. You should see the crap they spout over at macrumors about PCs and Microsoft. Insult a lot of people and you get away with it. Insult one particular person and its a forum violation. In fact its Apple's followers that have pretty much set me against Apple. I bought a little second hand Mac and went to a Mac site to learn more about it. When I got there, the lies they told about PCs, the exaggerations made me not want to be associated with Apple. Apple's own marketing is such a crock of shit that it reinforced my feeling as well. Copy and Paste, on the iPhone marketed as if its something novel and innovative. Macs made out to be some sort of Fort Knox when in fact hackers just couldn't be bothered to attack them.

Paris because she's famous just for her looks too.

Look at all the Luddites

The ribbon is far easier to use than bloody menus, nearly every function you need is a couple of clicks away, not deep in some menu system.

Microsoft supposedly developed the ribbon because they asked users what they wanted Office to do, and discovered that people were asking for things that Office already did and they didn't know were there.

So which is it? Do we put all the features in easy to find places or hide them in menus because some people are used to that?

If this had been MS

It would have been marketed as feature rich and compatible, If this were Apple we wouldn't have heard anything and the fans would make excuses that its feature rich and compatible.

Linux may lack a bit of direction, but I'd rather have people who create the OS for the love of doing it than because it makes them big bucks.

Serves them right

If we take delight in this collossal cock up by Apple its only because they smugly berate any and every action taken by Microsoft. They delight in charging a fortune for under-featured but stylish looking goods that their magpie fanbois snap up regardless of price.

Wow so many dumb fucks here.

Does Apple pay people to troll tech sites? There was no compelling reason to upgrade to XP either and every cunt and his dad installed it and complained about security issues and blue screens. Now that Windows 7 comes along, suddenly XP is the perfect OS, where everything just works and is stable. Which is it?

Fact is that XP was out for so long it's become almost synonymous with PCs themselves. Everybody knows it and by default anything that dares to change the way computers are used will now be considered "difficult".

These companies that insist on sticking with old hardware and old OSes should be forced to use horses and carts too because only that way will they learn how badly they stand in the way of progress.

John Sanders just stop using computers you are clearly too stupid to deserve one.

@mrweekender

No the AC you quoted was right, Apple's worldwide share is 5% and in America its nearly 10 but not quite.

And Steve 116, it doesn't matter how good an OS Apple have if they restrict it only to their ridiculously priced hardware.