Welcome to the 90s, OOo
Will they discover wireless next? Ooh and then invent an ergonomic mouse that curves with your hand...
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Personally I don't think there's any point in whining to the Competition Commission - there's plenty of alternative handsets and contracts out there.
Nobody could reasonably complain that the iPhone is their only choice for a specific task. Unlike, say, Windows price fixing and embedded browser; Windows is still the only choice for business use, so people can quite reasonably complain that they are being held over a barrel.
I'm not saying that the iPhone isn't overpriced, though.
I do love the 'reflected black light' in that diagram - excellent SCIENCE as always from Wikipedia :)
I will be happy to buy an ebook as soon as I can get one a) DRM free (or at least with the option of TXT/PDF), b) stylish (ie. NOT Kindle) and c) cheap.
My guess is Apple will bring one out soon, and dominate the marketplace by selling ebooks through iTunes. They have the infrastructure, which is 99% of the problem, and why they won the MP3 wars; they'd be foolish not to at least try.
I haven't turned on my Wii for six months. All the games on the market are seriously shit movie tie ins, or require the purchase of another expensive add-on. (Wii Fit? Wii Motion Plus? What the f**k?)
Come on Nintendo, release another Zelda. Twilight Princess has been one of the only truly decent Wii games.
"At least Mozilla let you know when updates are available"
Firefox never seems to let me know when an update is available, the Reg is normally where I hear, and have to manually tell Firefox to check for updates :(
I wish it would integrate with Windows Update and Apple Update, but both scenarios are probably pipedreams.
These will be perfect for shop windows - where transparency is key, but valuable advertising space also retained. Cost is not important, but visibility in mixed light is; so OLED technology will be perfect.
The best equivalent I've seen so far is laser projection onto a specially coated portion of the window; which has to remain in relative shadow during the day. Displays built into the window will be much more promising, although costly when the window is broken...
We probably could regain money by selling old equipment, but frankly it would take up more in our IT admin's waged time than we would regain.
We send ours to enviro-PC (at cost to us, but not much) who securely dispose of data and reuse machines where possible - in schools and third world countries, as far as I know. Duff equipment is disposed of responsibly. I don't really care what happens to it all, or if they make a profit on it, as long as it doesn't a) end up all in the ground or b) end up contaminating poor scrapheap workers in China or India.
I think it's a shame so many people think hard drives should have their platters destroyed - any disposal company worth it's salt will know how to securely destroy data without physically destroying the disk. The only reason people need to see the physical effect is for evidence.
(recycling icon plz :)
Dude, you're starting to sound seriously bitter. Is it really necessary to endlessly pick apart every suggestion anybody in the world makes towards a more efficient future?
I know climate change is questionable, but even you must realise there are benefits to using less power and polluting less. And the only way we'll get there is through debate, not argument.
Installed it on a couple of work machines yesterday, but just for testing.
Yes, it's a light year ahead of Vista and even XP. But it smells of catch-up, not innovation. There's not a single element that's made me go 'Wow' or 'OOH' - unlike all the OSX and Ubuntu upgrades that I can remember.
So good. But not good enough.
One major problem I have - what the fuck is with Virtual XP? It's a bolted-on crock of shit. Surely, SURELY Win7 is not so different to XP that it needs to slowly boot up a whole virtual machine to run one little legacy application, and on top of that poke in the eye, expect us to configure and support that virtual machine?
Compare it to Rosetta for MacOS X, which opens in the blink of an eye and seamlessly runs software designed for a whole different bloody physical architecture! I use Rosetta every day but had forgotten that it even EXISTED.
Since Virtual XP was announced, I was thinking of upgrading our office machines within the next couple of years to Windows 7, as there's several legacy applications which almost certainly won't be upgraded. But sorry, the actual experience of Virtual XP is total FAIL.
One of my concerns with buying an electric car would be that I'd be buying a very expensive battery that will date very quickly - within a couple of years, it would be replaced by lighter, cheaper, more capable batteries. If I was renting batteries, I would expect to keep up with the technology.
I'm on the verge of buying this app, along with an EyeTV device for my Mac. It would be great if it would allow TV over 3G. Is it just AT&T which ban this, or do O2 as well?
Seems silly Apple enforcing a rule meant for one country, while harming business in other countries. (Silly, but not surprising)
"How will most people connect to the internet in 2020?"
What are you, fortune tellers? Considering the pace of technology, it won't surprise me if the answer is not mobile phones or computers, but something we haven't considered, like wrist devices, retinal implants or personal dolphin slave.
If the children (and their teacher) are as historically knowledgable as they suggest, they will know that the death toll from the fire was very small.
(although rumours spread faster than the fire, that foreigners were deliberately starting fires; leading to street violence and lynchings of anyone a bit forrin looking, particularly the Dutch immigrants. Did the children go on to re-enact any of this?)
Still hoping we can have a playmobil character icon instead of one of the lesser-used icons (Bill Gates angel?)
"Apple needs to integrate an API..."
Apple won't do anything unless it provides them with a revenue stream. Internet streaming radio provides nothing to them. The only way we'll end up with streaming music is if they build it into iTunes (which, actually, won't surprise me).
Likewise, the FM capability will only be released once they have this revenue stream going - the ability to purchase songs you've listened to.
It's a shame, as the iPhone / iPod are capable of a hell of a lot more than Apple allow them to; but to be fair, they're catering to the mass market, not hackers and gadget freaks, so they'll never let them be truly innovative.
Yes, the injunction would have been quashed without Twitter/blogs/Stephen Fry/whatever. But nobody would have heard about it, other than Private Eye readers.
And the point is the bad publicity storm that has been stirred up, to the cost of Trafigura and Carter-Ruck; this will have two effects;
1. Carter-Ruck and other solicitors will think twice before applying for injunctions, about the potential publicity 'Streisand Effect'
2. Trafigura and other business and private clients will think twice before employing Carter-Fuck. And that can ONLY be a good thing. :)
This attitude is a real shame, as Dell (until recently) made the best netbook of them all - the Dell Mini 9. They're like gold dust on the second hand market now.
I was fortunate enough to get a 3G-enabled one and absolutely love it - 6 months more than Michael Dell thinks I should - and my colleagues are equally attached to theirs.
Why does it need that hefty great logo and (tm) sign? It says 'google.com' in the URL, no more branding necessary.
And why bother with the search box, without anything else to distract the user, they'll know where they are typing.
All it needs is the text you are writing. And a blinking cursor.
Wait... or... no text is necessary if you have a microphone plugged in. Just a blinking cursor. And by cursor, I mean a round, red, glowing light, which pulsates in recognition when you talk to it.
In fact, who needs a monitor? The red glowing light will do.