Posts by stim

Microsoft kills off public availability of Windows 7 beta

pouncing...

>>"It could be also the case that the penguins can smell blood and are circling waiting to pounce ."<<

Or maybe it's 'cause Linux users are a bunch of twats with nothing better to do than invade windows 7 articles and post useless comments which get in the way of reading what we want to read about...

linux twats: please get off the windows forums, we dont want to read about it and no, we're not going to start using it. Go and post in your own forums where you can chat between yourselves.

hurry?

maybe they are not in a hurry and just happen to have produced a pretty good OS which doesn't actually need a beta 2...?!

Microsoft SKUs Windows 7 clarity

here we go...

i don't know who's worse... Linux fanbois with their 0.8% market share or XP fanbois stuck in 2001... either way, 7 (and it's sucessors) will ultimately consume both.

Ubuntu's Shuttleworth praises Windows 7, welcomes fight

love it.

i love windows 7.

linux looks lame.

Sales show SanDisk's SD-not-CD player a hit with punters

we are losing quality.

is a shame that they only release SlotMedia as 320Kbps MP3 and not lossless quality material... i still don't see why you'd want to buy something with less quality... why not just but the CD, then you have it in true 1141kpbs and can make it lossy if you want... funny things is, 1GB SlotMedia could fit the whole album on in lossless format, there's enough space on the thing.

with all the hype about HDTV and High Def this and High Def that, it's sad that music seems to be going the other way.

Microsoft delays first Windows 7 public beta

seemed to work for me...

got my key about 11pm last night (9/1/08), took an hour or two, but eventually got in...

US teen cuffed for sending nude phone pics

typical

typical yanks - no wonder the world is in such a mess.

iPhone 3G isn't necessarily

@ greg

Greg, saying the iPhone is useless is a bit of a stupid comment in itself - what are your reasons?

i like it...

i've been on vodafone for years and thought i'd never moved, i've had N95's, Sony Ericsson W910i's, 8800's (Scirocco & Arte) and a whole bunch of other devices, which depending on where you are, performed adequately well for a mobile device. Didnt think much of the original iphone for not having any 3G capabilities so didnt really explore it, but have jumped on the bandwagon with the 3G and left my almost 10 year contract with Vodafone.

So far, i don't regret it, i think i would have rather stayed on vodafone, purely for historic reasons, but the 3G iphone on O2 i'm using is pretty speedy and certainly destroys the competition in terms of being able to display what i need. So, it may take a couple of seconds to load the bbc front page, but then it is downloading the full desktop experience and then crunching it to fit into safari for iphone, but the postives of having the full desktop experience far out way the speed, size, or anything else that all of the other devices could offer. The real gem with the iphone is the screen size and the device size, i.e. slim so fits in pocket. This far-outways the micro-seconds savings i might make on different 3G areas. (And to be honest we don't get 3G everywhere anyway, so until that happens, there isnt much point in worrying about it).

I'm definitely not a mac fanboy, nor an iphone fanboy (i lean way towards the windows environment) but i must say, i do like this 3G iphone a lot and it's gonna take something really special to tear me away from it... (nokia 5800 tube maybe - although looks pretty thick/deep)....

Windows Vista has been battered, says Wall Street fan

i like

I like Vista :)

It even works well on my not-so-powerful Sony Vaio G-Series.

You just have to know how to use/tweak it.

Caribbean firm circumvents BD+ copy protection

@anonymous coward...

so you think the adult industry is just going to ignore hi-def?! i think you need to rethink your statement - the adult industry WILL go hi-def, consumer demand will ensure that, and what HD options do they have now? blu-ray me thinks.

Copied or not Blu-Ray is the next gen format for your films, streaming HD content from online sources is not really a viable option...yet (and don't come back with apple's or equivalent pathetic HD-Lite alternatives, they are not true HD).

The main trick up Blu-ray's sleeve, as far as copying goes, isnt the DRM (which will be totally hacked), but is the sheer size of them. Sure, hard drives are relatively cheap, but you're still only looking at around 25 - 35 HD films per terabyte - unless you're compressing them down (which misses the point if you're trying to retain quality) or copying them on to another BD disc (which currently are £12/disc (single layer) or thereabouts) then you may as well just buy the original thing! hard drives will obviously get bigger but at the moment what other choices are there? the majority of users aren't techie and won't/can't copy discs and will just keep fueling the HD evolution, which is certainly not dead!