Posts by Lee Shields

T-Orange puts names on dotted lines

No happy

I'm pretty gutted about this merger

I was with orange and the service, both in the air and on the ground was lousy. When driving it was unusual not to get cut off at some point and reception around the area I live (which used to be good) seemed to get worse and worse. The comedy of calling support to complain and getting cut of several times was lost on me.

After trying to call a taxi for 3 hours with no network service on new years eve, while everyone around me were making and receiving calls I chucked my phone in a pint and used a land line.

A few days later I called nOrange and was on hold for literally 2 hours, I had a call plan so just left it on hands free, after 2 hours I hung up without even being answered.

I then paid my contract off (hmm, they don't provide the service but I have to pay to get out of the contract, wankers) and went to T-Mobile. The service could not have been more opposite, immediate call answering from the business support unit, great deal, they even called me back after emailing a question. Superb service, even now a few years down the support unit is great.

What now?? Will I wind up with the worst of orange or the best of T-Mobile?? Who do I escape to next??

Legendary McLaren F1 designer talks up e-car plan

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Why does everything start with the letter 'i' now?

iDamn iLucky iWe iAlready iHave iEnglish iOr iConversations iWould iTake iAges

Hacker frees iPhone from Jobsian tyranny (again)

@ anon coward

"There is a legit reason to unlock, apple should acknowledge and accept this."

"Of course there is, but if they were to acknowledge this, they'd have to admit that the primary motivation for the locking is that they get a lucrative cut of the profit from the tied provider. It's a convenient excuse to avoid looking greedy."

But I ask again, how the hell do I get an iPhone that hasn't come out of a contract (and thus been paid for one way or another), and if it has apple have had their cut. Once the contract ends the phone is mine.

This is the same for all phone providers, but if I choose to unlock a nokia for example, in or out of contract, firmwar [sic] upgrades dont try to block me from using it.

Free Phone

I've jailbroken and unlocked a damaged phone I was given. The guy paid for an upgrade and his old phone literally went in the bin.

He found it and I replaced the damaged screen and unlocked it to use on T-Mobile?? Contracts are paid, nothing iffy, and there is nothing i'm interested in installing. I have several paid for apps installed.

There is a legit reason to unlock, apple should acknowledge and accept this. It's also more relevant for them that other phone suppliers as they rarely offer the functionality of the iPhone.

Why is there a hardware rather than provider lock in there anyway? Surely the contracts still have to be signed and completed or paid off? Where does the supply of unlockable iphones come from?

Apple plans turbocharged Mac Pro speedster

@ Anonymous Coward

"Not a sensible conclusion to draw, based on a sweeping generalisation that follows from your own limited sample and considerable prejudice."

My 'limited sample' includes supplying macs into design/print and photography for almost 20 years and seeign the steady decline over the last 8 years or so. I still deal with a primarily design and print client base and they are now taking the cheaper option and buying imacs as they just cannot justify the premium for mac pros.

As for prejudice I still own 2 macs, although I confess they rarely get used now, and my current phone is an iPhone 3G.

So neerrrr

Hard Drives?

Surely there will still be huge bottleneck with drive access?

CPU and ram can only do so much for normal users who are accessing networks and drives all the time

Yeah batch processing Raw files in Capture One or something will be like lightning, but I dont know any photographers with money to buy hardware like this, most are on their arses. Same for many designers.

So it will be bought by fanboys with too much cash to web browse, sync their iphone 3gs's and post on blogs about how much better than a PC their new mac is.....

Plan for 20mph urban speed-cam zones touted

How about sorting the hospitals first

More people are killed by infections caught in hospital than on the UKs roads.