Posts by William 135 publicly visible posts • joined 23 May 2007
Small computer shops can be and often are worse than the chain stores. You certainly have to shop around more to find a "good un". A friend of mine used to work at our local computer store. His boss often came in and asked him to remove parts from peoples computers than were supposed to be fixed and swapped with lower grade/inferior products.
Just because someone owns a small shop does not mean they are immune from greed or stupidity.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/07/04/web-sherrif-dmcas-scouta-over-youtube-content-uploaded-by-warner-music/
They [Web Sheriff] sent a DCMA that was not legal to a blogger who had a link to a white stripes video. The only problem was the fact that Warner had legitimately uploaded the video to Youtube. The blog only linked to the Youtube video.
Have a read of it. Especially the response from Web Sheriff. Hilarious.
He [Wright] is entitled to his Opinion about Sony. Of course the usual fanboy attitude surfaces whenever their beloved company gets a bit of flack. Sony is a multi-national profit making capitalist company, not your fucking best friend.
Maybe you don't agree with what he [Wright] says about Sony but he should be entitled to voice his opinion and be able to film in a public place. This is a country that enables freedom of speech. So lets stop defending those who seek to gag and censor any comments that they don't agree with. Or perhaps one day it might be you that gets censored.
So many people are worried about being taken over by Europe no-one is bothering to lock the back door and prevent us becoming the 51st state.
I would rather be a European than a damn Yank. Do you think they give a shit about us? Well, ask yourself when an American company gave you the chance of installing in English(UK) rather than English(US).
The only reason America wants to keep its 'special' relationship with the UK is to divide and conquer Europe and prevent it being a united force to challenge its supremacy. And you all buy into it with your Sky News and Daily Mail and fucking American sitcoms.
Metric is a far easier system to use. By all means claim you appreciate Imperial measurements but you need to be aware those will become American Imperial measurements. Just wait to you start getting fined for Jaywalking...
@Daniel Ballado-Torres
"Because there was no such thing as an "mp3" format 10 years ago!"
Wrong. When I was at University people were into swapping Mp3s. And that was in 1995. Heck, Nullsoft wrote Winamp [Remember that] and released it in 1997. I wrote my dissertation on Mp3 and the music industry. And it always makes me laugh that they [the large labels] are still arguing about what DRM to use... You would think after 12 years they would give it up and sell them at a $1 piece... Oh wait...
I have claimed exclusive copyright on all "Ultranconserved DNA segments" and have a patent pending. All future copying will be strictly prohibited unless you pay me a license fee for each and every living creature on Earth. If you fail to pay this license and make unauthorised copies then I plan on suing every infringement. So I shall see your children, and every offspring off every living creature on Earth. See you ALL in court.
All those idiotic self proclaimed "hardcore" and "true" gamers must be smarting that the console they written off is outselling their pride and joy and no-one really cares about what they think.
I don't have any consoles but I am tempted to buy a WII just to stick it those 360 and PS3 owners. They get right up my nose.
Especially the winner/loser section. What on earth was that about. Here, have a bit of sarcasm
Number of screws.
Xbox 360 - 43 .... PS3 - 21 ..... Winner Xbox360
Distance flung
Xbox 360 - 12 ft .... PS3 - 11ft .... Winner PS3
Number of fanbois
Xbox 360 - Millions .... PS3 - Millions .... Winner DRAW
Multinational dedicated to enforce THEIR standards on others
Microsoft - Yes ..... Sony - Yes .... Loser EVERYONE
Number of annoying schoolboys playing online FTW woot !!!1!!one
XBOX 360 - Millions .... PS3 - Handful .... Winner PS3
Loses money on each and every console sold
Microsoft - Yes .... Sony - Yes .... Losers - The shareholders
Blah, blah, blah you get the idea...
12 months prison sentence for file sharing? Just on the news the other day was some bloke who walked free with just 36 hours community service for child abuse, with one child as young as 18 months.
If the law courts on the governments carry on criminalising the general population whilst letting the real criminals go they will have a bloody revolution on their hands. Except in the governments eyes we would all be terrorists instead of revolutionaries.
The $ is worth more than life. And that stinks.
If I leave my door unlocked (by accident or on purpose) this does not give you the right to enter my property and sit on my couch or even use my phone to call 0800 numbers. I am quite positive that those people who are comparing an open wireless network to an open house would not be happy if they came home to find someone in their house watching really dodgy porn on their DVD/TV. So stop talking BS that its ok to use another persons network because there is no lock on it. Or leave your front door open so that I can come round and help myself to your facilities, you don't have a problem with this - remember.
Steven Hewitt wrote
"Anyway: ISP's have no excuse. It's like BT complaining that customers are phoning up to donate to Children in Need or Red Nose Day. Freephone numbers (thus flat rate - e.g covered in the line rental) and 100,000's of calls all at a short time. There's no difference."
Absolutely wrong. When you phone an 0800 number the call is paid for by the recipient of the call. So if you phone the RAC on their 0800 number because you have broken down then the duration of that call is paid for by the RAC. So if you made 100,000 of calls then the company running the 0800 number pays 100,000 times.
Cat owners are the worst neighbours you can have. They think their cat is entitled to shit in your garden because "its in its nature to do so" and "what do you expect, its a cat". But when you threaten to give it a kick next time you find it doing its business their up in arms about it.
Can't stand cats, can't stand cat owners.
I have one MAJOR gripe with the BBC iPlayer, and that is you have to manually use Task Manager to kill KService.exe otherwise your computer is acting as a server for the WHOLE time your PC is switched on despite you having closed KHost.exe and iPlayer in the task bar. Given that iPlayer automatically starts with your computer (including KService) many people will not realise that they are effectively being an unpaid BBC server. I'm sure all it takes is the ISP's to change their T^C to include upstream bandwidth in their customers monthly cap (or fair usage allowance), if they don't already, and suddenly a lot of people are wondering why their Internet has gone off or the have been shunted onto a 256k line for the remainder of the month. When they go to complain to Ofcom, I wonder how Ofcom are going to argue this point with the ISP. As far as I am aware they ISP's are legally entitled to do this.
I think that customers of iPlayer (I paid my license fee) should be able to choose if they want to continue acting as a server or not once they close iPlayer. This is totally underhand. Especially given the fact you are unable to set the maximum upstream bandwidth on the p2p infrastructure that iPlayer is built. If this goes mainstream, then many people will be blaming their ISP for slow browsing and lag when playing games, when in fact it is the BBC iplayer that is saturating their upstream bandwidth. This is not on at all.
All in all its a bloody awful situation for everyone, as even if you don't download iPlayer, you can bet other people will and it will end up ruining everyone's download speed because the traffic from all those iPlayer servers on peoples machines running 24/7 will overload the available bandwidth. This is a nightmare just waiting to happen.
And thus will only sell the the niche market. After reading various forums the XBOX 360 is considered for 'serious' gamers.
More and more people are becoming aware of the poor build quality of the XBOX360 and high failure rate. So parents will be unwilling to fork out a considerable amount of money to buy an XBOX 360 for children under 16 when they can buy them a WII and save money in the process. The remaining market is 16-24 yr olds who have the ability to pay for an XBOX360 out of their own pocket, and take the risk that their machine will last them until Christams.
The WII on the other hand appeals to everyone (other than the self named serious gamers), its cheaper and it looks more fun and can be played by all the family. This last comment should not be underestimated.
Simple Economics will mean that the WII will become the number 1 console by Christmas.
All the music sold today is shit anyway. Luckily they can blame piracy for low sales instead of restricting actual artistic diversity and a bland formulaic methodology to producing music. Why on Earth HMV and its ilk have all their albums split up into all those different genres, there are only 5 types of songs released these days, all of them shit anyway.
"not so. the 25p per minute plus connection charge is refunded if it is a fault with the service, whether you ask for it or not."
I notice you never gave your name when you said that and why doesn't that suprise me.
I don't believe you when you say you get an automatic refund. I have witnessed NTL's system first hand and there is no way you have implemented an automatic refund in the case of a Virgin Media error with regards to a broadband fault.
I think that the Tech Support have to refund this charge MANUALLY if they believe it to be Virgin Media's fault. And given NTL/Virgin's track record I imagine this will be done rather haphazardly and shoddily.
If it really is done automatically then Virgin have wasted their money and the customers patience as Virgin has serious billing problems (overcharging, duplicate charges, etc) that should be addressed before you claim Virgin are automatically giving people refunds for BB tech support charges without them asking.
Wait, was that a pig flying past my window???
Arif Rashid
Your comments are totally unbelievable and appear to be written by someone in Sky's marketing department.
I love the part about where you just pluggws your router in and 'BHAM' it worked first time. No configuration needed going from an NTL DSL connection to a SKY ADSL connection on your PC. Of course not. You just plugged your router in and it did everything else didn't it. ROFL.
How much did they pay you to write that...
>>Apple has analysed how people ACTUALLY use their phones and come up with the shock finding that 99% of them never replace the battery
>Apple stated that they expected as much as 10 million people to buy they IPhone so thats 1% => 100 000 people who will pay 500+$ for a phone with a bad battery they can't replace?
Why would those 100 000 people actually buy the iPhone in the first place if they are in that 1% who do replace cell phone batteries?
Perhaps I should start my own company up that only allows people in who have an IQ below that of the lowest Mensa Member. So we can all have a laugh at those suckers paying for the privilege of joining a circle jerk about who has the biggest arbitrary number. And Mensa members expect us to believe they are intelligent. Pffft.
Where do I sign up for the Murdoch payout.
After reading the comments I have to say there is a large amount of BS being banded about.
So many people say they have Virgin, so many people say they are THINKING of going to Sky, BT, etc. Well, why don't you? Surely if your phoning Tech Support that often you would have already gone somewhere else? I would. I mean, how often are you guys phoning Virgin Tech support?
If it does the job its supposed to and stop the muppets clogging up the lines then I am all for it. And I don't mind having to send in a bill to prove I made that call to get it refunded - I don't see what the problem is with that, its open to abuse otherwise.
If you don't like it move somewhere else. Perhaps the grass is greener, but your not going to find out by just moaning. Just make sure you live next to the exchange and not too many other people have ADSL broadband and your cap fits.
If you went .com then people and companies would think you are American, and so file a lawsuit against you for any negative comments about them or their company.
.co.uk means you are British and so can get away with it because whining and moaning and irony are the nature of the Brits. It also means that there is no point in them phoning the lawyers because its actually solicitors they need and whole different set of laws..
Now I am not a Vista fan by a long chalk. I bought it, tried it, hated it and binned it. I am back on XP.
I personally believe you set out in the article to discredit Vista. Unfortunately for you all you have achieved is discrediting yourself by your lack of knowledge and finger pointing.
I would expect the CPU to be active on boot up, did you really expect it to be idling?
Vista uses more RAM due to prefetch so your applications load faster. What is the point in installing more RAM only for it lay constantly empty?
UAC mimics both OSX and Linux. If it is too taxing for to click of couple of boxes when your installing programs then you really shouldn't be writing - I cannot imagine how stressful it must be for you to actually use your keyboard.
And you know absolutely nothing about security. MAC filtering does nothing to prevent someone accessing your network.
You also complain about turning on SSID being a security risk when it is not. Perhaps it is time you stopping listening to other people with as limited knowledge as yourself spreading the same type of FUD as you are. You really need to do more homework next time.
I don't like Vista, but at least have some integrity and provide some real evidence why you don't like Vista or why Vista is rubbish rather than your own ineptness and inexperience with the issues your having. Ask an expert to help you, rather than pretend you are one.
The issue your having with recovering from hibernation/sleep and reconnecting to the network is down to your wireless network driver. It used to happen regularly on XP machine until a driver update for my laptop sorted it out. And the only reason it got sorted was because enough people complained to the manufacturer.
It has taken me 5 years to finally iron out every single kink out XP, and finally I can get it to do the stuff I want. Why on Earth do persist in using Vista? Its like going back to the early days of XP with all the driver issues and such. Except this time the benefits of moving from XP to Vista are negligible (if any). There is no real killer feature of Vista apart from the fact that in the future applications can run without administrator credentials.
Why make a rod for your back?
The maximum speed limit on the motorway is 70mph. I don't expect to do anything like that at rush hour. They could build more lanes, but then everyone would complain about high taxes.
If you want a dedicated speed 24/7 with no caps then get a dedicated line and you will discover how much people like me are subsidising you big bandwidth hogs.
I am sick to the back teeth of hearing people "how unfair it is" that they are being throttled. I hardly ever reach my allocated download "limit". So it seems the rest is being taken by someone else. So either shut up, or pay up. Let's not forget - you owe me some bandwidth, so where is my refund...
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