Posts by Craigness

Re: Dependency culture

Given they're not investing in established products, some of their grants are not expected to make money and they only invested the interest on the initial endowment, it's unfair for the author to state "In its first five years handling a £250m endowment, NESTA saw a return of just £228 in royalties".

But rather less implicit in the story is the responsibility not to be totally incompetent. They can be forgiven for backing failures, not for making a failure of something which had the potential to succeed.

Re: Which says it all really

@Anon Big LOL! That is an EXCELLENT idea, but all we'd have to show for it would be comic books, novelty ties and ironic t-shirts.

Re: Enjoyed the review, BUT....

It's not aimed at everyone, it's primarily for less wealthy customers or those who don't require super-fast downloads over mobile carriers (I've only ever had 3G and it's not inconvenienced me at all). If you want LTE at an Iphone 5c price, get Moto X.

Re: Nice

Just tap the search box and it gives you a search history, local amenities and places of interest and, at the bottom, an option to "Make this map area available offline"

Re: Nice

Google Maps allows downloads too.

Re: Tesco £99

Where do the ROM updates come from? I think you have to flash a stock ROM to get updates from Motorola, whereas the Tesco one might re-lock the phone when it updates.

Re: Why?

@Truth4u it's only a £25 differential, not £50, and with the 16Gb version being so cheap you could consider it a saving of £25 for people like my mum, who don't need the extra space.

You can get a USB OTG cable for a few quid and a micro SD-to-USB adaptor for not much more. So if you want to carry a load of songs or videos you can do it.

Re: Colour me impressed...

You should check out the install numbers on some of the launcher apps, widgets, ROM managers and things like Tasker. Stuff the Iphone can't do makes a ton of money.

Re: Really amazed

It's less bad even than upgrading a hardware product for free, because these are not on general release and are essentially provided to a beta-test team of "Explorers". So it's almost as much of a fail as rolling back a software change in Dev.

Re: Google +

That's my experience too - it's very easy not to connect the accounts. And if you use the apps instead of the website you never get prompted. Can't say varied then flat.

Re: Google+ ?

Still available, and bigger than twitter, based on active users. See the latest Global Web Index survey.

People who don't use it don't realise people do use it.

I've added that reply to my list of favourite comments. No, you can't see it.

Coward, men in their 20s and 30s earn less than women, are more likely to die at work or commit suicide and less likely to have a degree. But no, it wasn't a comment about the downtrodden, forgotten minority being the true minority.

Re: is it ready?

Dotdot, which of the 3 comments you've made caused anyone to think you worked for the Register? It looks like you joined today to make uninformed attacks on Android. Click a username to see the comment history, BTW.

Re: Best Tablet in the World?

Buzzword, the point is not how quickly it forced him out of his home, it's that he's not rich despite having an Apple product.

Being made homeless by an unnecessary purchase is an idiot move in any time scale though. My mortgage is paid off and I've not spent as much as £400 on a single computer since 2004! But that's because I know what I'm buying and what it can do.

Crippled? Why not try one and see for yourself what the processor can do?

Re: Best Tablet in the World?

On BBC3's shopping centre reality/docusoap there was a guy moving to a new flat because he has a zero-hours contract and couldn't afford the rent on his old one. He has a macbook. A family whose daughter got bullied at school for being a rich kid...were using an Eee laptop. When I see people with Apple gear I don't assume they're rich, I assume they're idiots.

Re: It's cheap...

If you held or used one you'd not think it's cheap.

Re: iPad Mini 2 - The screen on the current Mini is awful...

N4+N7 = £400. I'm not convinced of the need for 7 and 10 inch tablets together. I'd go for a powerful 11.6" laptop and larger external monitor to leave all computing needs covered.

Re: Sexist numpty

She's kind of complaining that it's especially hard for women, but at least she recognises that the solution is to change herself and gain respect like any man has to, instead of demanding everyone else change to suit her needs and feelings.