Posts by Richard 116

Excellent.

I enjoyed that.

Orange results. I can believe it.

The Orange network coverage has been disappointing to say the least since moving our business account over to them from Vodafone. Actually that's not entirely true. Back in March when we signed up everything was fine but since then the number of dropped calls and the mysterious full bars but not ringing thing has increased dramatically.

We've signed up for the Orange/T-Mobile partnership but still had to turn off 3G on all our handsets just to make them usable. Orange CS (when you get a rep who will be honest with you) say this situation is unlikely to change until January at the earliest.

What about Playstation Network?

Surely if Sony allow Lovefilm onto the PS3 this will kill off their own movie offerings?

I haven't seen the video or know too much about the source but I'm a little sceptical.

More info anyone?

That skin!

I'd pay 90 quid just to have a phone with that cassette skin!

Good for them

As an employer I welcome this. I'm sick of trying to compete with businesses that don't pay at least the minimum wage and just seem to get away with it.

My goodness...

...I know this will be comment #672 of 10,000 but I'm soooo looking forward to the El Reg Massive response! Roll on the mods sorting through this lot.

And am I the only cynical bugger that thinks an announcement like this timed for a Friday is just so perfect for the Sith Lord?

Sorry...?

"compatibility is extensive but does preclude connected disks formatted with the NFTS file system."

Hmm, fail I think.

Nokia/Symbian = Fail

And how long after release of the N8 will it be until Nokia produce yet another 'flagship' phone? A week? Two?

Nokia hardware is usually impressive but unfortunately the woefully out of date Symbian will always be it's Achilles Heel. I don't care how many megapixels or HDMI connections it's got Nokia, it's all about the OS.

Sad but true...

A borrowed DVD player came in very handy on a recent 250 mile trip to Devon with our little boy. I Spy and it's more recent incarnation, spot the Eddie Stobart lorry were no match. That said, after the eighth or ninth viewing of The Gruffalo I was considering ending it all.

Can we clarify?

Both bailiffs and debt collectors are mentioned in the article and readers comments. Which is it? As many will no doubt be aware they are not the same thing. Bailiffs should usually be taken seriously, debt collectors on the other hand can be safely ignored. Or sworn at and ejected from your property. Whatever takes your fancy.

Odd that I can thank the DVLA for indirectly making me aware of this. If they didn't happily give out everyone's personal details to any Tom, Dick or Harry who wants to set up a private parking company (for £2.50), I wouldn't have discovered places such as CAG or Pepipoo, I would have been £60 worse off for going 5 minutes over and I wouldn't have a growing pile of threatening letters from Excel. Which I'm ignoring.

I'm calling bullshit too...

...on this whole article. They're still for sale online at Apple and at their retail stores.

Is that what one looks like?

The Mac user I mean. Not the iPad.

@ Jake

OK then clever clogs, tell me how much extra time I should allow when I'm travelling to see a client in a city I'm unfamiliar with. Obviously taking into account maps (folded or otherwise), A-Zs and generally getting held up by the inevitable nutcase you stop and ask directions off? Unfortunately I'm trying to navigate to exact addresses in eg the middle of Birmingham or Manchester, not meandering through the the good old US of A. And as far as I'm aware the Automobile Association Of America don't cover Wolverhampton.

I don't drive a BMW either.

"Ah, so basically they have re-jiggled and re-skinned the N95"

My thoughts exactly and no bad thing. I received one of these the other day as a 'free' upgrade and intended to just do the usual unlock, de-brand, sell it on eBay. But I'm quite taken with it. A little larger and heavier than my N95 8GB but it feels better screwed together and the software is certainly snappier. I still unlocked and debranded it but I think this one may be a keeper.

MSE v "paid for options"

"Also, would be good if someone did a full on review of its AV capabilities Vs. some of the paid for options..."

Well not a full review but this week I had the 'pleasure' of dealing with something particularly nasty on a relative's XP machine. One of those fake AV scanners that installs itself after some ill advised clicking. It walked straight through McAfee Total Protection and disabled it, wouldn't allow the running of Malwarebytes and just stopped the installation of Spybot altogether. It also thumbed it's nose at my one time favourite Nod32. MSE was the only thing that identified it and attempted to do anything useful.

I've been using it since release on my own machines and like some of the above like it's low key approach. I'll take a stab in the dark and guess that the nay sayers haven't used it or any other MS products in a little while.

wtf...

...is an 'unauthorised' Xbox 360 memory unit? lol! Never had an Xbox so I wouldn't know. However I do know that like AC I can put whatever drive I like in my PS3. I'm no fanboi but it's not often Sony look like the good guys!

Meh...

Can I be first to say it will be shit? Haven't tried it, just thought I might get in there before everyone else.

Is that the best you can come up with?

Slow day at Vulture Central Tim?

"customers would be forced to find alternative products."

What would they be then? It's my understanding that OpenOffice also infringes this patent.

Maybe we'll be banned from downloading that too. Oh hang on. They haven't got any money have they?