Posts by b166er

I think

people should be encouraged to buy iPhone 4's. It will surely leave more room on the tower for me.

TheOtherJola

Huh?

How is it easier to track smaller payments in cash?

At least small card payments are tracked automatically on a statement.

Hilarity

Disclaimer:I don't care either way.

It's really is hugely entertaining to watch you all shoot Microsoft down in flames, so first of all, thanks for the laughs.

Steve Ballmer IS a colossal doofus, however Microsoft continues to be relevant. Examples?

Xbox, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, Office Live, Bing, BlueTrack mice, and that's just on the surface. So it really is humorous when you write them off because they're having trouble in the mobile sector.

I personally don't get the iPad and will have a sportsmans bet that they end up the iFad. (prepares to eat iHat)

It's too cumbersome to be of any long-term use. Sure, we all want something LIKE that, but it's going to end up on a coffee table at best.

If Microsoft want to get back into mobile, they need to hurry development of the folding/scrolling screen, because that's where true portable computing nirvana lies.

Speed cameras detect speed

However most accidents are caused by driving without due care and attention; not speed.

Therefore, start booking drivers for behaving like such c*nts on the road and our roads will be that much safer.

I'd like the technology to 'blacklist' cars whose drivers have exhibited fuckwittery, so I can refuse to let them out of side roads/merge in the future etc. I suppose that technology already exists in some respects; BMW, Range Rover, Mercedes Benz, Volvo XC90, people who look like they think they're more important than anyone else...

From Wikipedia:

In March 2008 Portsmouth City Council introduced a 20 mph (32 km/h) speed limit (reduced from 30 mph (48 km/h)) on 410 km (250 mi) of the City's 438 km (272 mi) of roads. The scheme cost GB£570,000 to implement. The Department for Transport commissioned a study to evaluate the impact of the speed limit reduction, using before and after data for traffic speeds and casualty data. The main findings of the study were that at 0.9 mph, the reduction in traffic speed was not statistically significant and that although there was actually an increase in the number of crashes resulting in killed or seriously injured (KSI) road casualties in the year following the implementation of the new speed limit, that was not statistically significant either. There was no overall change to the number of KSI casualties and there was a 15% reduction in the number of slightly injured road casualties

Original source;

http://www.dft.gov.uk/pgr/roadsafety/research/rsrr/theme4/interimeval20mphspeedlimits.pdf

Only

the Desire is not a geek phone. Sure, it can be, but out of the box it's as user friendly as the iPhone.

In fact it's selling so well, that HTC are having to use a different screen in newer models as Samsung can provide enough AMOLEDs.

Let's not get confused and think that Apple are the only company that can do good UI. It seems they have difficulty with hardware sometimes too.

At the end of the day, the market will show whether the iPhone 4 has an antenna problem.

Tom 15

Evidently

Funny really,

that the Desire which is basically the Nexus One in a different jacket is flying off the shelves.

Alt-Tab hypervisor required

Just run Linux and Windows.

Use linux for anything remotely risky and windows for games, photoshop, proprietary VPN software etc.

Why can't we have a VM hypervisor that lets us Atl-Tab between OSes?

I don't care about hardware, it's cheap and would be easy to have a machine that could run 2 OSes side by side.

Fix the f*cking tab order ^^^^^^^^ (I don't want a password reminder)

Online vs Brick:

I went into PC World with my mum because we had seem reasonable Microsoft webcams on the PC World website for £15 and as I was only there for the weekend I thought I'd go in and get them so I could configure it for her before I left.

Once in the store, we headed for the webcam section and to our surprise saw the model listed on the website for £15, marked up at £26.

I checked on my Desire and sure enough, £15 online. I asked a sales droid and he confirmed that the online price is cheaper as it's handled by a different company. He said you could reserve it and collect in store, but the Windows machines don't have internet, so use a Mac (you'd have thought they'd have locked the Windows machines down, but heh).

So I used a Mac and reserved the webcams for that store. We then went to the checkout, where our webcams were brought for us, paid £30 and left!

So if you're a regular punter, it would cost you £52 and you'd have to carry the goods to the till yourself, whereas, if you reserve them online in the store, you pay £30 and have someone take them there for you...madness!

I assume it's a ploy to advertise cheap prices on the web and then rely on people blindly purchasing in the store expecting it to be the same 'bargain' they saw online. Buyer beware1!!111!!!!!

beebplayer no more

I uninstalled it from my Desire, it doesn't work anymore.

m.tvcatchup.com FTW

OK for the sheep I s'pose

Only sign with a company that offers 1 month rolling contracts. They're obviously going to work harder to keep your custom. I guess most people aren't aware of these ISP's. I try to change that by recommending Zen and Freeola.

Surely

SSD ticks all the boxes required for backups? Tape is poop.

Blah

It's about time some entreprenurial engineer overhauled the way we keep our windscreens clear. Wipers seem somehow antiquated.

fully

You mention that RemoteFX is only 'fully' supported in a VM. What's unavailable through RDS?

SID's

Mark Russinovich (SysInternals) withdrew NewSID last year after he researched the necessity and found it to be a myth: http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2009/11/03/3291024.aspx

Thanks for the introduction to PING.

Simples

BBC good or BBC bad?

Yes, that's right, BBC good. Proceed.

Either that, or get rid of the BBC and I'll happily never watch any television again.

PirateSlayer

Are you a masochist?

World War

One to keep ticking over in the background.

I will achieve world domination :)

Do you have the formulaic skills required?

T-Mobile's result

I thought TMO used 3 masts also?

@Mike Watt

You do realise that TMO and 3 share masts at the moment, don't you?

That coalition will grow to include Orange masts later this year.

If you really want better reception, perhaps you'd better go to Vodafone, besides, I hear they're offering 500MB for only £5 a month :P (I get 3GB with TMO)

Result

EA?, I remember them. Apparently not so much 'in the game' as in the bank.

Why not?

She seems to have her head screwed on...I guess she can handle getting it screwed off

Commies

Enlighten me, what's wrong with communism?

because

I have an appointment with a Genius this afternoon.

Specialist

What with all these niche parties, a hung parliament seems like the most sensible way for people to get access to all the skills of all the policticians.

The true political debate seems to me to be less about the politicians and more about the democratic process.

HA HA HA FUCKING HA!

Instead of spending a fortune trying to protect their software with a system that would have its pants pulled down, they could have made the game cheaper and consequently sold more copies.

You may say that then more people would have downloaded it if it had no copy protection...that's rather moot now isn't it.

Dancing on it's grave

Regarding decompressing SoftPaqs, you can always use Virtual Floppy Drive (vfd).

BIOS' can get flashed from USB (providing the BIOS supports it) or CD. My copy of XP hasn't needed F6 for ages, thanks to DriverPacks.

Now if only a large conglomerate hadn't invested all that money in a brand new optical format, we could dispense with this spinny stuff entirely.

Or just get a Desire

and cackle loudly as Jobs throws a chair or something.

Erm

Some of you.....well, jake....think these bozo's had some kind of plan.

Yeh! That's why they stole the bike the first night and then returned TWICE in the hope of taking more.

Google spokesman "The imagery on Street View is no different to what anyone could readily capture or see by travelling down the street " OK, sure, but most people don't have photographic memories. It's also a lot less obvious casing establishments from your living room!

history repeating

last time, gates bailed apple out with a rather large cheque. will it be ballmer this time? that would make the fanboi's eyes water, huh?

Use your noggin

Hopefully that was just a troll.

You see, rural users have been paying the same as town-dwellers for their broadband and receiving a lesser service. IE subsidising town-dwellers getting better broadband. Now it's time the favour was returned and townies contributed to get the rural users up to speed, see?

Simples

At last

from the horses mouth, platform doesn't matter.

5 lines of Python...shame on you Apple.

Scam

Isn't this like the bus shelter scam? You know, win the contract (nudge, nudge) to once again fit bus shelters with glass panes so there is a huge aftermarket revenue driving around replacing them all the time. Then all you need is the contractors who replace the glass to go on a pub crawl breaking some as they go.

This works for car windscreen/shop window replacement contractors too. Take a few car windscreens out of an evening, chances are you might get some work tomorrow!

So with this story, cable installers go around nicking copper (or glass under the guise of copper) so they get scrap money for the cable and the contract to replace it. At a couple of quid per splice, it's good money. Potentially double if VM are telling you to get it done in a hurry because it was an 'unplanned' outage.

Cynical, moi?

Ahh buckle this

BlueGreen and Marvin the Martian.

That 750 tonnes of concrete is encased in heavy steel and secured within a rather large boulder, though!

Bunch of moaners

all missing the point, RemoteFX has been a long time in the making and I for one can't wait to test-drive that sucker.

DVD

i installed Windows 7 on a Presario in 12 minutes the other day, from boot to desktop, using a USB key. Why the hell would I want to use a DVD drive for this purpose. Seriously, optical drives are old hat.

I might at a push, have a Blu-Ray drive in the living room, but I'd rather download it (legally) and, using the money saved not buying the physical item (???), to buy extra storage for the media server.

Still, the Vostro is eye-candy I suppose, but a single core sucks.

by the by

It still should be Aeron chairs if the companies involved looked after them. Herman Miller supply them with a 10 year on-site warranty.

Design of the decade award, don't you know. The material for the back and squab was invented for the chair.

try before you buyers

isn't there an Android emulator? I seem to remember there was.

Google needs to be the carrier, it's about time the cellular industry got it backside dragged into the present.

Yannick

What's this Doom 4 you speak of?

In Quake II, call sign Bitterman dropped in at the beginning in what could be described as a marine drop pod.

Perhaps you're thinking of Quake 4 in which Kane comes down in the entire ship?

tech-savvy?

why flash? Doesn't work on my mobile, c'mon Microsoft, get tech-savvy, we know Ballmer's hip with the kidz