Posts by pctechxp

@Edwin

Yes was very amusing.

The current BK ads here in Blighty are quite amusing

http://www.visit4info.com/advert/Dive-King-Deals-from-Burger-King-Burger-King/69242

You'll feel like you robbed us

Sales in reverse at PC World

That'll be because the nation is becoming more technologically savvy and realises that PC world sells cheap shit at overinflated prices and we haven't started on the abysmal service...

Another argument for

Using your own Customer Premises Equipment so that your service provider does not have access and is why I've never used ISP provided equipment at home.

Maybe they should

Send the Equalizer (plus regular collaborators such as Control and of course Kostmayer) to Eastenders, Coronation Street, Emmmerdale and all the other soaps in turn to wipe them out.

Thwn maybe he can go to Channel 4 and destroy all copies of Friends!!

Flimsy a plasticky?

What do you expect as it is BT branded after all.

Is it me or...

Did what amanfromMars just say make sense for once (well the main bit but the title had its trademarked oddness)

I could read newspapers from when I was four and was pretty much given words to learn during my schooling.

Think they use something called synthetic phonics now but not idea how that works but heres a Google search string I prepared earlier http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&q=Synthetic+phonics&btnG=Google+Search&meta=

Knock yourselves out.

not making sense

Ovi has some real potential to be useful with the software tools installed on the latest Nokias in the pipleline

Do you mean there are features in the handset software whose server component has not yet been implemented or that the software loaded onto the handsets is a Beta?

A faithful SonyEricsson user currently packing a K800i

Darn

Someone beat me to the 0118999881999119725....3 joke.

Its very sad

To see there are so many fans of a quality, intelligent comedy that are also fans of inane crap such as coronation street.

should have been x86

As we've had over 3 Ghz CPUs for years, just imagine the power if it was stuffed with a load of Xeons

'ere we go again

Sounds like recycled 3G PR shit to me.

Remember how it was going to revolutionise the market but never did, then came 3.5G which people only bought into when they made data cheap as chips but again that old chestnut (you can have 3.6/7.6/14.4 Mbps only if noone else in the radius is using it.

Blah Blah Blah.

Time they changed their tune and stopped making ridiculous claims, least if I buy 3.4GHz CPU I know I'll get one that works around that speed, not under optimum conditions.

Coming to a petrol station near you

Hopefully it works and can be adapated to work at your local shell/BP, fit it with a card reader and have it followed around by a vending machine and you can do away with the drongos that inhabit these places.

I'm sure James Dyson is already working on it.

Tried it, found it crap, dumped it

I tried this mind numbingly boring site (even for a proud geek like me it was dull) as people just fired endless meaningless quesionnaires at me and gave me the odd poke.

Otherwise did not engage in any kind of social discourse whatsoever so in the end I asked them to delete my details.

@Adam Foxton

You beat me to the question.

In the meantime there is http://www.oldestsweetshop.co.uk/ which I've been meaning to order from.

I wonder

How many people rang their cable operator to complain and how many to enquire how they subscribe to the channel concerned

Bet the latter outweighed the former

Errrr

If the code has no function, why include it in the firmware?

Simple, it stokes rumours on sites like Mac Rumours and El Reg so the Apple die hards start foaming at the mouth.

This then means that less marketing is required when the device comes out and people will be queuing to buy it.

Excellent marketing but rather sad that there are people that obsessed with a company's products.

I suspect that the release cycle will start to fall into that of the iPod, one a year with slightly tweaked features and a new gimmick

I predict

outbreaks of violence on trans atlantic flights

Not really new

As 3D has been around for years

simple solution

If you are paying by DD, if they don't send you your MAC, log onto/ring your bank and ask them to halt the DD

The prez doth promise too much

Was a great speech but he has promised more than he can deliver I fear.

Anyway another very funny article from yourself, on top form as ever.

Prison is a hotel

I partly agree with Sarah Bee's comments if the mental health issue has been robustly proven but the rest deserve everything they get so this nonsense should stop.

If you don't like it, don't do the crime!

@Luke

Perhaps because they roll over and cough up more readily.

The accused companies should telll this firm to take a hike.

And where has....

The money come for this, Mr Brown?

It's a con

As the speeds quoted depend on noone else using the network at the time.

Better if

It was voice controlled

A boon for Apple

As their Ipod charger converts mains to USB voltage

Should have stuck with GSM

Then they could have told the governments to take a hike as apart from e-mail and the odd bit of surfing, I don't think 3G is that good

With so many talented actors

Why do they have to pick this dullard.

I would have been interested as used to watch it when I was a kid but no way.

A phone can never be a games console

Because the power system has to be optimised for its most important battery draining function, radio transmission and reception so I wish the marketing hype would stop as the hardware will never measure up to the claims made.

hats off to the chap

provided this is not PR spin, the guy should be applauded for admitting his product was substandard and taking the financial hit of scrapping a batch and starting again.

Blocking a pointless project

Any pages I've tried to look up on the wayback machine project dont work properly so its bloody pointless

Tech for tech sake

Noone uses mobile TV or video calls amd mobile broadband isn't as quick as they claim.

Wake up and smell the stench, people just want a mobile PHONE.

Shame on them

It should be part of the operator licence issused by ofcom, operators should suspend the contract for as long as the person is serving abroad and they can reactivate it again when they come back.

Indeed, why are they not giving a heavy reduction on line rental for these brave souls?

Oh dear

I feel very sorry for those Irish workers but when you throw money at a greedy yank like Michael Dell, there will only ever be one result, its just a matter of time.

Cell tracking

wasn't this used in the conviction of Ian Huntley for murdering those two girls.

I am glad such facilities exist.

could be useful

if it just reported if you had an accident when you may not be able to but the sales stuff needs to go

Shame we don't a similar telematics system in the UK.

@J

Simple, buy it SIM-free and engage flight mode and there you have a palm music player.

Shouldn't they follow our example

and deploy a TETRA network for the emergency services and restrict calls from mobiles to 911 only in these situations to facilitate calls from people trapped etc?

@AC re: K850i

I think this handset is supplied with a Lithium Polymer rather than Ion.

Note sure whether these are affected in the same way but are a different chemistry.

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