Posts by h3

Re: Lack of options?

Think the greenmangaming trade in thing only works with their capsule client. (And seen as they have disabled my account before and couldn't explain what they had done or fix it then there is no way I trust that).

Re: Loyalty my ass

Getting into a new market is important to them so for a while that will translate to being good for the customer. (If they ever get a decent share it will stop).

If Xbox starts to drop seriously low then it will become good for the customer again.

The best stuff for the user always comes from Microsoft when they are trying to compete.

Re: NOT TRUE AT ALL! First year launch blues

Nobody ever got used to the Cell chip or used it properly the whole time.

The problem is the hardware in these new consoles is so cheap and nasty.

If it isn't 60fps and ideally 1080p it is not worth playing.

Re: "Indie Labels"

If it is owned by one of the big 3 record companies it is not indie. (They have supposedly indie labels that they own and operate somewhat separately but the definition is to do with ownership).

(I thought there was 5 but seems there no longer is).

Major labels since 2012 (Big Three)

Universal Music Group (part of EMI's recorded music division absorbed into UMG)

Sony Music Entertainment (EMI Music Publishing absorbed into Sony/ATV Music Publishing)

Warner Music Group (EMI's Parlophone and EMI/Virgin Classics labels absorbed into WMG on 1 July 2013)[2]

Re: voluntarily ???

I use a variant of that but stones or soil (And I basically never get any junk mail any more).

RE: Smitty

I am at the point where I would rather given the choice of an ecosystem controlled by somebody I am not too bothered as long as that somebody is not Google.

Re: Noboby uses Bing for a good reason

Bing Maps is good at least with the ordinance survey maps turned on. (Best data there is for the UK).

Re: lock him in

If he is in Russia he is not getting extradited period.

Re: Two sides

I think I would rather have the other type of icebreaker put into my skull via the back than have any involvement with that.

It is the same.

There is no difference between what China is doing now to the USA and what the USA did to Britain when it was first formed.

Cannot imagine the British at the time found it very funny but however at the moment I do find it hilarious.

Re: I have much sympathy

Some of the Microsoft ones can save money. e.g Intune (Instead of paying staff or contractors).

Re: Any downsides to not supporting DRM?

Content that should be not in a browser in the first place.

Anything using DRM belongs away from my main browser.

No need to make it easier for them.

Netflix doesn't matter because it is built in to both my TV / Blu-Ray player.

No need for it to be in Firefox. (Don't care about Youtube one bit).

Re: Discovering texting at 92

These aren't feature phones though they are dumb phones.

(Same as the cheapest Nokia's).

The media seems to like redefining terms constantly to make one term mean everything even when it started with a decent unambiguous definition.

Re: Barmy

I don't think you understand the principle of "spent". The point is supposed to be once it is spent its over with. Otherwise all that would happen is more crime. (And more cost to keep people in prison) and the career criminals would just change their names. (They probably do anyway).

Re: Good for the owner

I cannot see what can be done at the moment to stop e.g setool from rebuilding anything. (The bit it uses via the testpoint is in rom. From there you can do a hardware initialisation / full imei rebuild / reflash the rom.

Blowing some type of hardware fuse in the SoC is the only thing I can think of that would work.

Re: They have learned actually

Yeah Nintendo of America totally butchered loads of games removing religious and alcohol references from them. (Without doing anything about filling in the gaps. Just stopping the games making any sense).

Re: Cygwin

Cygwin is garbage anyway. If you need something similar then use UWIN it is much much better.

Cygwin is a total mess.

(Not saying this is what the article creator should use but people who otherwise would use Cygwin should use UWIN.)

Re: Indeed

Nobody (Other than Google who has full control over everybody with Play Services) full control over their Android devices other than people without Google Play Services on it. (Or a never ending fight against Google. All the location tracking type stuff in it is mandatory certainly for my Android 4.1 device. Need to mess around with the startup tasks even then Google has backdoors that reenable it periodically).

Even on a Nexus the only way to have a decent experience would be an AOSP rom and the Amazon Appstore and that is it.

Anything using any of my battery should be of value to me. (If it benefits Google also as a side effect so be it. No way I am happy with the way they are going about things).

Google+ is another cancer affecting the whole of Android. (Downgrading to older versions of Gapps gets around it other than potential accidental updates).

At least Apple seems to allow disabling location access to Applications. (Only Apps I want to be able to use my GPS are Navigon / Google Maps. Google won't give me sensible choices for that).

Play Store won't let me search for apps in a way that I want. (i.e that don't use full internet access or don't include IAP's or admob). Dunno if Apple is much better in that sense.

Least goodwill I have at the moment is towards Google (Even search the changes they have made make me have to expend much more effort than I ever used to.)

Then Apple. And Amazon I like the best just because they treat their customers well. (Suspect my battery will be the best it has ever been on my old tablet when I finally switch to AOSP + Amazon).

Re: Security guards suffer this all the time

What are hobo-dollars and what does SWITD mean ?

I am not sure something like this would bother me too much I would be too detached from it.

(With certain family members present I would welcome it as it might redress the balance a bit in terms of something that would annoy them as much as they annoy me the rest of the time).

Maybe

If the branding is not too bad (Don't want to be advertising Tesco for them. If it had say that Hudl Logo I would be ok with that) and the bootloader is unlocked I might get one presuming it is half decent hardware and well built.

A war between Tesco and Amazon can only be good for the customer.

Re: Update! Update!

The issues that are caused by rubbish like HTC Sense/Google Play Services/Touchwiz far outweigh any caused by the Intel stuff.

Re: Any surprise?

Sooner or later you have the choice of either stopping using the Google Play Store (And so having Google Play Services force updated) and using no apps from there or only using the Amazon Appstore.

At some point the device will become useless like my Xoom has due to that problem. (The last ROM it got made it the best it has ever worked). There is absolutely no way around it - Whatever Play Services updates changes everything from working perfectly to totally laggy.

Re: Worked great for Windows 8, right?

The Windows shortcut keys have never changed either.

Re: "...not achieved this monopoly through offering a better search engine"

The ordinance survey data is the best there is (And that can only be used via Bing) it isn't the default though.