Posts by Matthew Anderson 165 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Apr 2007
We are talking about external chargers not mains chargers, the type that hold batteries in and are rechargeable and heavy. They are good for charging phones, cameras, ipads etc with many other uses too of course and different ones for different specifications.
Very useful but they add weight that is not needed if you are weight conscious. With the iPhone there is little choice, with an Android (all models as far as I know) there is choice.
It's nice having the choice.
There is nothing inconvenient about swapping a battery. Hold on a sec.
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Carrying a large external charger about with you however is extremely inconvenient when compared with carrying an additional streamlined battery.
I just came back from hiking 92 miles, I brought along an additional PHAT battery which weighed a few ounces. Far preferable to carrying a large heavy external charger.
I'll stick with my Nexus One purely for those reasons ta :-)
I have a Dell Streak and love it :-) Others I know (all of two people) with one love it too. Games and movies were a dream whilst browsing net etc a pure joy compared with smaller screens whilst still sitting comfortably in my pocket unlike something the size of an iPad.
For these reasons I think there is a market, I'm annoyed that Dell decided to abandon the Streak which will put me off all other Dell products in the future but should Samsung market theirs well then hopefully it should be a decent success. Definitely room in the market for these babies and a big F*ck you to Dell from me for taking £500 from me for a product they were not going to support for much longer than the year I had it.....
Ten years is, ten years. A decade. A vely vely long time. In that time Apple will have gone through a crisis, recovered or not, made some mistakes, messed up, etc... Prolly even been hit by a virus or two :-)
The likelihood of them becoming some industry leader in the games market, a market they are vely vely new in, is. Unlikely.
100 useful ones only!
Seriously, the app market is a great feature but if they do not revamp it then we are just being swamped by all the trash apps out there. It is beyond frustrating looking through the android marketplace for decent apps, yes you can find them but sheesh, you would think Google could design some decent search and sort features as they are supposedly experts on this kind of thing.
In its current form I hate it. Gingerbread update might come with some new and improved marketplace features but I doubt it.
Sounds fair enough to me. If I was US based I would of course happily use a proxy, installed on a third party computer without their knowledge, to access said blocked sites.
Now now, no complaints about me hacking someones server to install redirect code onto it please. If you are OK with me using torrentz to steal shit, then you are OK with hacking surely? Oh, what's that you say ell reg commentards? Hacking is bad and I should be strung up as it causes all you sysadmins amongst you lots of extra work? Poor souls, but it's OK for you to then download shit for free that you should be paying for right?
I don't really give a fuck if they block, stop, prosecute. I just give a fuck about all you morons going on about it and using censorship issues as your main defence when actually you just want shit for free cause' you're used to it.
Que the down votes :-)
It's a denial of service attack not some malicious server + format + must destroy hack. When the flood stops or at least subsides, and from what I gather it was fairly weak, then service resumes as normal, all be it a reboot may be necessary. Worst case scenario is that they get charged for the additional bandwidth the flood generated.
If the students has not given permission then surely installing spyware on the computers they are using (assuming they did not have to agree to small print T&C before using them) counts as unauthorised access. It could also be argued that their privacy was compromised and that the computers had been impaired by the installation of software unknown to the recipient. As well as the security of the computers being impaired due to th software which was installed on them being remotely accessed.
Dono what the data protection laws are like there but here I would suggest that this contravenes them also as private data is being taken from a computer without the computer owners knowledge.
The transfers of these files will have used up bandwidth, there is impairment for you. Modifications to cpu load and ram will have occurred, again impairment.
It's pretty stinky this and even stinkier that nothing was done about it after the event. As usual, 1 rule for the establishment and another for the rest of us. Hope the civil suit goes a little better.
@Plus a lot of less computer literate users (such as older people, i.e. over 30)
With that rather sweeping statement you just pissed off 95% of the ell reg readership. Well done, what are you, ten? Piss off back to Toy Story and GUIs. you:\del *.* Y/N - Confirm Y
:-) <-- We created these you know. And the fucking box you typed that comment on. And the fucking site you read and the fucking device you read it on. You, my lil boyo, don't have a fucking clue. [-_-]
I'm getting them to multiple email addresses and to the tune of a dozen per day. First they were one liners with really bad grammar but they been getting sneakier as the week goes on. Here is one that I thought pretty good.
Hey guys
Already mentioned this to some of you and sorry about the mass email but thought I could be missing out on a good opportunity if I didn’t…
So… I’m looking for geeks all over USA. They need to be highly intelligent and shy/nervous around girls etc
All the contestants genuinely had an amazing time last year and are actively recommending it to their mates this year. They get the chance to teach hot girls a thing or two, and get the chance to win $100,000! So far – I haven’t spoken to a single geek who’s been offended that I’ve called them one. But if you’d rather – please do pass on their details to me and I’ll get in touch with them anonymously.
I’ve attached flyers in case you want to forward on, or put up in your office…
Thanks so much
Hope to see you soon
Seems to me that the general opinion in this country (and others) is that if you do something wrong then jail is the place for you. We are in 2010 now not 1810 and I like to think that we are a little more sophisticated than "stick him in the slammer".
The fact is no one was hurt by his actions yet he gets to spend 9 months (ok half that) behind lock and key, costing the taxpayer money and probably ruining his life to a certain extent. Punishment needs to fit the crime and in this case no one was hurt, no losses made, no damage etc so wtf is the point in sending him to jail? I'm not saying don;t punish him, just that there are better options available.
I read this a few days ago and thought it was a bit on the harsh side. I'm fairly sure a good dose of community service and a suspended sentence would have worked just as well, especially seeing as they dangled the carrots with a view to this scenario happening.
It's a bit like looking through someone's diary and flicking through to the section named "PRIVATE DO NOT READ". You know you should not do it but the temptation is there and it seems harmless at the time.
I'm not saying he should have been accessing bank accounts or looking at saucy bikini pics but at the end of the day all he did was look, 9 months seems a bit harsh for that.
How did they save the donkey? Did they go over, collect said donkey, bring it to the UK and plonk it in a lovely green field with other saved donkeys?
As far as I can see they simply confirmed the donkey was in good health.
Am I missing something here?
What an ass of a story from the Sun as always.
So if one man drives his car and 100 miles an hour in a 40 zone we should ban all drivers from our roads?
Seriously?
So long as bikes, motorised bikes, skateboards and the like are used responsibly then there is no reason for them not to be on the footpaths or anywhere else for that matter (ok so not on motorways) but just because some old codger in your town drives like a lunatic does not mean that everyone should shoulder the responsibility of his dangerous driving. Get real dude ;-)
@ Why not close all prisons, there is no call at all for punishment of any crime. Hold their hand, make soft cooing noises and "There, there it'll be alright." Throw some cash at them and give them a free holiday.
Hell yeah! You are onto something there. I'm with the free living movement, tree huggers and anarchists. Live and let live I say, now stick em up and gimmie all your cash biatch.
We should do the same for drug offenders, speeding motorists and people who overfill their wheelie bin. Teach them the error of their ways and use them all to act as a deterrent to other unfortunate teens and potential young offenders by locking them down 24/7 there by ruining any chance they have of gainful employment or further education and forcing them back into a life of crime.
Appoint this man Lord Justice for his truly modern take on dealing with a modern crime.
Windows firewall is easy enough to bypass so i really would not be putting any trust in their level of security. Granted it renders you immune to most "in the wild" worms that are circulating but if you have anything worth protecting on your PC then a slightly more robust firewall is in order.
You would be so lucky. It was about 30 seconds last time I tried that nonsense. Considering there are only so many IP ranges you may possibly be on and there are hundreds of thousands of pwned units scanning the "known ranges" on a constant basis, 15 minutes would be an over exaggeration :-/
That was the whole point - excellent marketing teams mean you wouldn't know if you are deluding yourself or not. These marketing teams have long term knowledge of how YOU tick and are more interested in a sale than the tech team are in a finished product. Meh - Paranoid Android ;-)
I'm glad however that your iPhone is better than my Nexus, for you anyway -and that you find good use out of it. I find the Nexus fun, but annoying. As a work tool or on the fly email/interwebs access, no thanks. I far prefer the bulk of the laptop and nipping into the nearest pub for 6 pints and some proper access to fiddling about with a phone that does none of the things I really want, with ease.
Lot's of thumbs down but that was to be expected. :-D
I really, honestly, couldn't give a stuff what they do or how many they order. And then of course I decided to comment so I obviously give a stuff enough to say:
None of these "smart phones" actually work very well. Not so friggen smart if you ask me. They freeze regularly, cannot be used outside in daylight, have a gazillion useless apps and fight it out over who has the most, have "state of the art" touchscreen tech which quite simply is a nightmare to use at least 50% of the time and....
And yet we all clammer over them as if our own brand is the best bit of kit we have ever used. The reality is, if you stop lieing to yourself, is that they are buggy bits of sucky kit that have excellent marketing teams behind them and we all buy into it (OK so you didn't so no need to comment plz).
I have a Nexus 1 and it's shit. Still, after I have paid £800 odd quid + extras over 24 months at least I will feel ripped off enough to never buy another one, ever. Roll on a phone that just, yannow, phones... The rest of the pizazz can be done via my laptop/desktop/paper+pen+ruler+imagination.
Any decent virus writer checks his work against all major AV applications before releasing it into the wild. Meaning the code aint gonna get flagged any way.
So - the point of this code would be to prolong the life of the virus after a detection signature has been created?
Or to try and sneak in an already known virus? (sounds pointless and amateurish)
1 laptop of mine - £700.
1 Mobile phone - £400 / 35 PER MONTH.
1 Netbook - £350
1 Desktop PC - £750
3 Games consoles - £550+
Peripherals for all - £1000+ (controllers, mice, hard drives, memory cards......etc)
Broadband connection/Mobile broadband connection - £65 per month
I renew most of these every year and can see NO real incentive for me to add the iPad to the list, especially not at those prices. It's a gadget and one which falls somewhere between a mobile device and a netbook but offers NOTHING new.
If I was to lay out all my communication and media devices on my desk it would be full. Where on that desk I put an A4 slab of marketing hype I have no idea and neither do I have a clue about for what purpose it would serve that my other devices nicely laid out on my desk do not.
I'm not saying I wouldn't have fun playing with it but as a day to day device it would gather dust where my other devices get used regularly.
They have pulled off a great marketing stunt with the iPad by offering something of no value or useful function and brainwashing the geeks and fashionistas into thinking it is a must buy.
If I got an iPad would I throw out my Nexus One? No. It's not a phone.
If I got an iPad would I throw out my laptop? No. It's not a work device.
If I got an iPad would I throw out my desktop? No. It's not a work device.
If I got an iPad would I throw out my netbook? No. It is compatible with my phone/desktop/laptop.
If I got an iPad would I throw out my games consoles? No. It's not a dedicated gaming device.
Quite simply, no thanks Mr Jobs and at those prices the potential UK buyer may well be a little more sceptical than those across the pond.
It makes a huge difference to my browser experience and I am on 512 also. It takes a split second for Chrome to load, compared with 3+ seconds for Firefox and that's a fresh install on a new laptop. The previous install of FF with plugins took around 6 seconds to load. It may not sound like much but I do not like waiting around for a bloated browser to load, which Firefox has become. Especially when I am trying to work efficiently.
Everything loads smooth and fast, i can have over 100 tabs open and it does not interfere with my browsing experience. The same cannot be said for IE or FF.
Eventually we will have a broader range of tools to plugin and we shall see how this affects performance, for now though you could not drag me away from it.
This is a complete waste of USA taxpayers $. He is a very stupid young man but no more stupid than the gazillion other young men and women who break the law in so many various ways. From students stealing traffic cones to plums re-arranging a restaurant sign to say "pe.nis".
No thought of consequences, no immediate danger. He needs a good stern talking to by the powers that be, community service for being caught and let on his merry way.
It's a breach of the peace at most or the equivalent in the USA (equiv prolly being 20 years n the slammer)
All makes sense to me. The fact is that flash is a CPU hog and with the limited battery life on laptops and phones it makes no sense to use it if you want an efficient bit of kit. Adobe needs to address this. If I use anything flash based on my shiny new laptop the CPU dial goes from ticking over nicely to off the blimin scale, fan goes into overdrive and everything warms up by several degrees. (extended flash use not a drive by website visit)
I get 3 hours movie watching from my laptop battery yet just over an hour uptime if my kids play any flash games on battery only.
Stevey boy has a point.
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