Posts by wowfood

Re: You mean...

Yeah, £5 to that chinese guy down the market. Thanks to him I have Windo's 8 and a copy of Office 364 and it cost me next to nothing, mwah ha ha.

Re: Carrots

I swear I remember seeing some of those purple carrots on Britains best dish. Or something along those lines anyway.

I don't know what it is about me, but I just down find purple food appetizing. Except strangely purple lettuce. Although I think it's because I find green even less appetizing than purple.

Re: Bah

Actually mid 20s.

And try living in an apartment in a holiday town. If you can aford anything bigger than a bedroom and a kitchen on a decent salary for this area then you're lucky. London rates at westcountry wages.

Re: eh?

I think the last point was meant to be along the lines of "The government is wasting time arguing about this shit nobody really cares about apart from the far right or far left folks. While there's plenty of stuff nationwide which does have a massive impact on us that they don't even sniff at."

Re: The Wii U is dead

We may finally get pokmeon on the console woohoo.

Seriously I've been waiting for a 3d pokemon game with better battle mechanics (by which I mean leer / glare are useful beyond the first town, and you have access to more than 4 moves) forever.

Re: Fail assumptions here

I second the motion. I wish Microsoft would just make up their minds already

IE0-6 "standards? We don't need no stinkin' standards"

IE7-9 "Fine fine we've complied with your 'standards' I hope your happy, now pages don't need to be made especially to work with IE.

IE 10 "Yeah so we like your standards, but we've decided to add some of our own... What do you mean they aren't really standards if only we were involved in making them? Fuck you Im a dragon!"

It seems like Microsoft are trying to reverse the tide of what happened to them before. Originally they didn't comply with standards and did things their own way, people migrated away because all sites displayed in chrome / opera / firefox / everything but IE. Now they're standards compliant they're adding in their own stuff again so that pages made using these new IE standards work for IE but won't work elsewhere, so you're forced to use IE.

I've already experienced this problem with a few microsoft sites. Visit with IE works fine, visit with any other browser and you're met with strange 'quirks'

Re: An open letter

This comes down to the issue of somantics and what selling actually is.

On the governments side of the fence, selling is the act of pushing the deal, which is what google employees are being told to do. You get a customer you convince them to buy a product and then to seal the deal you forward them to your "sales department" which effectively reads the details back to the customer, and then gets them to agree to the contract.

Google are arguing that the sale is the process of closing the deal, which is what the sales department are doing.

This is one of the problems with somantics, everyone interprets them in the way that best suits them. Personally I'm in agreement with the government on this one. Even though they aren't the ones finalizing the deal, the UK workers are still attached to the sale (otherwise how would they get their bonus?)

Honestly though I'm still worried that if these 'loopholes' are fixed it'll just drive business away. Why stick around in the UK and pay our incredibly high taxes, when they can close down shop and move everything to ireland where it's cheaper for them.

I'd still argue that if / when these loopholes are fixed, a tax cut would be in order, just to encourage big business to hang around (as well as encouraging others to come back)

Re: Vita vs Smartphone

I'm not talking in terms of I already own X so why would I buy Y, I'm talking from the point of average user A

When you are given two options, a playstation vita for £140 + memory stick and £40 per game, or a mobile phone for £200.

You do need a phone, you do not need a games console, but the phone doubles as a games console. And there are games out there that will run on the phone, and if it were givena bit of dev love I'm sure we could see some decent games on there rather than just the 99p crap. This is also why I suggested mroe synergy between vita and phones, such as giving phones some of the vita style games since they're running a similar architecture.

Likewise on the controls front. While I agree that phones lack analog sticks which is a huge negative, my suggestion was another playstation phone with modern phone hardware, the playstation phone having sub par hardwrare but having a game controller built in. Or a game controller adapter made for sony phones, which again would give access to controls.

Re: Hemp!

Hemp is like the swiss army knife of plants

clothes, rope, paper, health food, drugs, supercapacitors. It's probably one of the best crops you can get... Yet still illegal due to it being a 'drug'

Re: 'Cost' for an e-book

Agreed on this point. Especially when it comes to the larger books, the ones with several hundered pages.

The larger the book generally the bigger the savings when sold as an ebook. But seeing a book being sold for £30, and then the ebook for £50 (yes I have seen this on amazon before) you have to wonder what they're thinking.

Only the one-off costs of the author, illustrator and picture rights

Also I think what the guy meant here by one off costs was one off cost per book. Each book sold has a fixed price which is basically royalties, and of course server costs.

On the other hand a paper book you have manufacturing, quality control, transport, brick and mortar stores rent, storage space etc etc.

In comparison to a paperback, and ebook is pure profit. (excluding royalty payments and getting the initial electronic file to market)

Re: Microsoft - Enter These Holy Commands

I was actually going to joke how the new windows phone update was going to bring back the start menu, but I don't think I'll bother now.

Re: Not too messy....

It'd be nice if andorid did an annual cleanup of their app store too. Y'know, any apps which are over X months old which have a 2 star rating or below gets removed from the store (informing the developer of course) that would definately help weed out some of the chaff

Unless google do something similar already, i don't really pay much attention.

Re: Private companies DO do this

I'd hardly call iPhones cheap, but I see where you're coming from.

Re: Monopoly characters

only if I can be the thimble.

Re: This is all entirely legal ?

it's probably hidden in the fine print that the contract folks don't give you time to read.

Re: Write or rong?

I had a similar problem, my eyesight is terrible which hampered my handwriting (doctor level handwriting) took me twice as long to write things as everybody else, hence why I did things on the computer.

On the one hand I think that giving exams in pen and paper is a good thing, for those with good handwriting it's an optimal choice, but at the same time those who aren't good with forms and paperwork and writing should be given the option of using computers

I'm actually terrible at filling in paperwork too, if it's on a piece of paper in front of me it's like it's gibberish, I have to read and re-read several times, moment it's on a computer screen though it's easy as pie. I actually took to scanning in forms I needed to fill out, and adding text areas so I could fill them in on the computer purely so I can delete and edit bits where I make mistakes. Used to be I had to ask for several copies of forms for when I made mistakes.

Back to original point on this. I think it'd be nice having digital as an option for students, so they can do things in a way that suits their personal abilities rather than the status quo. Otherwise we'll wind up having the computer illiterate failing for the same reasons the handwrighting illiterate failed.

Re: Prior art

Not to mentio nall the headphones I have owned which have an invisible volume control which lights up when you swipe it.