Posts by Ale 28 publicly visible posts • joined 14 Feb 2008
A big yawn for O2 then, that's what Vodafone are already charging for roaming in Europe. Even on pay as you go sims.
It's very convenient if you use google navigation for short trips to the continent, as that rarely uses more than a few MB. Even a day's driving across France doesn't suck in more than the 25MB limit.
Not much of an improvement over the original Xoom.
Xoom 2 only has 16GB as opposed to 32 on the original.
The 20% hike in processor speed is not much, esp as the xoom 1 is easily rooted, and processor speeds of 1.5GHz are apparently not a problem.
It's a bit lighter, but 700g is not really a problem for me.
Not sure what else has been improved (gorilla glass?), and the xoom 1 32Gb wifi is currently available for about £320.
Unlocking xoom tablets is trivial. The xoom 2 will also be trivial.
I bought one on the back of the last price reduction, also got a free bluetooth keyboard and mouse. It's a lovely tablet wich I have used constantly.
Because it's so easily unlockable, I re-flashed it with the US rom, available on the Motorola support page. It now thinks it's a US Xoom, which being a Google experience device, gets its updates directly from Google.
I agree with the previous poster who mentioned the Sony s370. I bought one for £90 last year to do exactly what this box is meant to do. iPlayer, loveFilm, qriocity (sony's pay per view streamer) and local media streaming. It also plays blu rays!
Why pay the same for a no name box which does less?
The question quoted is in English, and the survey was carried out in Europe, so it's an English test!
How many people on here know the answer to this question?
"Respondenci byli obok przedstawiony scenariusz, w którym dwa sklepy sprzedawały identyczne telewizory z płaskim ekranem. Powiedziano im, że w sklepie, cena wynosi 500 €, ale 10% zniżki jest oferowany. W sklepie B, cena 400 €. Konsumentom zadano którym telewizja będzie tańsza"
If you look at that Kindle edition of the Clarkson book, you will see just under the outrageous price, "This price was set by the publisher".
This is what is being investigated. The publishers are forcing Amazon to place outrageous prices on ebooks.
I wouln't be surprised if it wasn't Amazon that asked the OFT to investigate.
Nope, most were due to left turning lorries.
Personally, I would far rather come across a dangerous cyclist than a dangerous driver.
Every time I have been seriously injured in London, it was down to a car pulling out infront of me.
Some cyclists don't stop at red lights, but I'd say nearly all of them will give way at one. For the ones that don't, there's natural selection.
Many "one way streets" in london are actually only one way for motor traffic. Many pedestrians and drivers seem not to realise this.
On the other hand. Most car drivers seem fine with going through red lights as they change, talking on mobile phones, speeding, goin the wrong way down one way streets, parking/driving on pavements and cycle lanes and generally not being aware of what is around them.
You are comparing a 12m contract from Tesco, with a 24m contract from 3. Of course the tesco one seems more expensive!
If you're going to keep the phone for 2 years, you can switch to a sim only tarif on tesco after 12m, which makes the total cost cheaper, and tesco also includes wifi.
I really don't get the complexity of this. Once you have a plant capable of using electricity to convert CO2 + H2 into hydrocarbon fuels, surely the rest of this scheme can be dropped?
A Normal car converts hydrocarbon fuel into CO2 and water in the atmosphere. The power plant then takes CO2 and water from the atmosphere and converts them into fuel. No need for expensive sequestration and transport. Unfortunately also no need for headline grabbing "carbon capture kits for cars"!
And as for this being bad for renewables, wouldn't some some great big fuel storage tanks be exactly what would be needed for the massive storage of energy required to make the renewables viable?
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