Posts by Tom 35

Hulu, Apple TV deal sparks fanboi Glee glee

Hulu

I didn't know it was available in Japan. Maybe some day it will be available in Canada and other parts of the world.

Apple iPad fondlers are about to enter a THIRD DIMENSION

they need a working model to have it patented?

Not any more. You could get a patent on a warp drive.

Trolls can take something we can almost do, take a guess at how it will be done in the future and get a patent. Now wait for someone else to do the hard work and get it to work... profit!

Lenovo iPad-smiting Windows 8 slate slips out

Re: It runs PC apps?

So it's a netbook, without a keyboard. I expect with a high price (my guess $998). Should make a great toy for the execs to run their powerpoint, and impress the other execs.

Microsoft: Gmail rival Outlook.com will 'look good on your iPad' 

Waste of time and space

Click new message...

1/3 of the left hand side of the screen is taken for the To: address. Great way to save space!

Your subject goes on the top, above the format tool bar.

Your message below.

Delete welcome message, and what appears in the empty inbox?

" Wow, you've got a very clean inbox! (Did you know you can receive messages from other email accounts?)"

Wow, that's very clever Microsoft, now piss off.

Anonymous declares war after French firm trademarks its logo

Do they also like

to kick bears and poke wasp nests with sticks?

Maybe they just bought a load of insurance.

Hobbyist builds working assault rifle using 3D printer

Re: Bloody wonderful, dont idiots ever think first?

Or Disney Mickey Mouse toys.

Samsung lets slip info on WinPho 8 Odyssey

Re: Windows Phone.

1. Use rusty hacksaw to cut chain.

2. Find guy that chained my arm to the wall and fling WP at his head.

Problem solved.

'We asked firms if they were looking at Windows 8, most laughed'

Re: 0xB16B00B5

The yanks freak out over boobs. See the stupid fuss over the "oh my god, if you slow down the replay and zoom in you can sort of see a boob for a second" super bowl thing.

Surface slab WILL rub our PC-making pals the wrong way – Microsoft

It's actually a double shot.

First the OEMs get a boot to the head with MS selling Surface, Then they get a kick in the arse when MS expect them to sell systems with Win8 installed.

Twitter airport bomb joke conviction binned in common-sense WIN

Re: What about the Crown Court judge?

They can't stand streaky windows.

Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' for PC biz

Re: @h4rm0ny - I believe the MS is getting a unusually bad rap here on this one.....

Is that a fact? Can you give a reference for that please ?

I'd like to see that too. I've only read that it's NOT required.

Re: Misunderstanding

Yes if you have a computer that runs Windows 7 it will most likely run Win8.

But if you want to sell computers, just being able to run Win 8 is not enough to get you the Windows 8 sticker. If you want the sticker then you have to follow the new rules for stuff like secure boot.

Apple CEO: Frothing fanboi iPhone 5 hype screwed our sales

Re: @DougS

Except for "blow away even the most optimistic analyst estimates". Not much chance of that.

Apple will allow you to trade in your old one for a new one if unopened

So how long do you keep your new phone in the box, just in case they release a new one?

How is that "quite good"?

Story gone

Better watch out...

With that headline you might get sued by Monster Cable.

Apple seeks whopping $2.525bn Samsung patent payout

Catering to cheap bastards who

No, people who think iTunes is a bloated pile of crap.

I can download a free ebook from Baen directly to my tablet, then later copy it to any computer without the need to install any special software (for XP WMP11 needs to be installed to get the right drivers, but you don't need to use it to access the tablet, just explorer is all you need).

So square with rounded edges is innovative

Apple was the first to copy all the old tablet shaped things, so now no one else is allowed to.

You might have done if the Nexus 7 was not for sale.

No I wouldn't.

It's up to version 3, sorry "the new ipad" now and I didn't buy one yet. I had no plans to buy one.

I find the iPad to be over priced, too big, too locked down with too much control freakery on the apps. Apple can stuff it. I do have an ipod 2g and I expect it will be the last ithing I buy. Even jailbroken it's still a pain getting stuff on or off the ipod.

Nexus 7 is not perfect but it's good enough, received mine last Friday.

Amazon crimps free Kindle 3G surfing

until the calendar flips over to a day starting with a "1".

So the 10th, 11, 12, 13... :P

Virgin Media's 'bye-bye to buffering' beardy Bolt boast BANNED

Expensive mistake? What?

"They said the ad was no longer running"

So what did it cost them? They can't do something that were not going to do anyway? Oh dear that's going to hurt!

US Justice Dept rejects criticisms of ebook settlements

why is Apple involved

Because Apple demanded a "no one can sell for less then me" contract.

Iranian nuke plants rocked in midnight 'heavy metal blast'

Sounds fishy to me

"a worm played Thunderstruck by AC/DC at high volume throughout the night."

Why would their computers even have speakers capable of producing high volume, that could not be turned off?

Google suspends 16GB Nexus 7 orders

Re: Does Google not know why people want local storage?

The free media player I installed lets me connect to a share on my computer and play video files. I have not rooted my N7.

There are reports that you can use a USB OTG cable with a USB memory stick but I have not picked up a cable to test it yet.

No screen problems with my N7.

Nokia woos networks with 'exclusive Windows 8 mobe deals'

It's not Nokia anymore

"Such a step would be a major break with tradition for Nokia,"

Nokia is now a Microsoft toadie desperately trying to copy Apple's business plan.

USB charges up to 100 watts

Re: Great idea!

What? I can't run my kettle off my laptop USB port!

What good is that?

Top plods reconsidering mega deals with Olympo-blunder firm G4S

Re: Holy Cheeseburger!!!

"Yes, a great idea, outsourcing all these services to the lowest bidder, who in turn will hire poorly paid, undertrained, unmotivated personnel to fill the positions."

Normally they fire everyone, then offer them a new job with less pay and no perks with the new company. The best staff move on to better employers. You are left with under performing, low paid, bitter senior staff and your poorly paid, undertrained, unmotivated new personnel at the bottom.

Little surprise if they decide to make their own perks.

Judge frees nude TSA protester, citing free speech rights

Re: Doubtful, I think

No he didn't smuggle the stuff in, he parked it outside the fire exit.

http://www.oregonlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf/story/12-killed-59-wounded-in-colo-theater/7a91e6f2ec474f46b1c391f3178ee655

If someone else had a gun they would be dead.

Microsoft hires former Hillary Clinton adviser as top strategist

Re: It's The Name

It may not be a bad search engine, but it's not a good search engine. Google will almost always give you the result you need higher on the page.

But yes it really is a STUPID name. The only time I say "why don't you bing it" is when I'm asked a stupid question and I'm being sarcastic in response.

Our product sucks

Don't fix the product, hire a professional prevaricator to sell it.

Mega spam-spewing Grum botnet finally KO'd

Re: Volume...

I had that happen but I was receiving 600 per minute and had to delete that email address. It was like a DDOS attack as my mail server was crawling. Even just bouncing them was slowing down the server.

Lucky it was just an address I created to receive some mailing lists I subscribe to so not a big deal to change.

YouTube blurs faces to protect the innocent

Do they

Keep a clean copy for the cops? It would be too bad if the idiots who post videos of themselves doing something illegal can't get themselves arrested.

New lightest-ever material: Ideal power for electric car

Re: So many uses...

Do you mean SIMPSON'S INDIVIDUAL WATER ABSORB-A-TEX STRINGETTES!

That was the first thing I thought of when I read all the things this stuff was going to be good for.

BSkyB punches Virgin Media in ads watchdog fist fight

Re: copper wire

Try Bell Canada. They have Fibe internet (not a typo, they lost the r when they got slapped for false advertising ). They call it "Fibre network to your neighbourhood" in the fine print. It's just ADSL.

Sony: Walkman, meet Android

How is it crippled?

It's a Sony Walkman so it must be crippled some how. It seems that everything newer then the original tape Walkman has been screwed up some how.

Crappy software to get stuff off your PC? Custom cable? Limited format support? DRM?

iPhone 5 poised to trounce Android, devastate BlackBerry?

Re: small sample

Who paid for the survey?

How did they select the people. People in a high end shopping mall, with an apple store? It's easy to warp the results if you know what you (or your customer) wants.

Re: Scale drawings of screens

all repondents preferred the smaller display.

or

all repondents thought the Razr was ugly.

You have to create images of the same phone with different size screens if you want to know what screen size they like.

Hacktivists lift emails, passwords from oil biz in support of Greenpeace

Now when something blows up

The oil companies will blame anonymous.

Wouldbe Apple App Store killer WAC disappears into GSMA

under the control of the network operators.

So herding cats.

No surprise it starved to death.

New UK immigration IT system late and £28m OVER BUDGET

optimism bias

Is that how you say "lied your ass off" now?

LG execs fingered in Samsung OLED tech theft

it stands to lose “trillions of won” from the leak.

Did they hire an ex record company exec?

iPhone 5 to be skinniest Apple yet SHOCK

I might be intrested

If they make one that will last a full day without an external batter added on.

Microsoft pops preview of 'biggest, most ambitious' Office yet

Re: But Can You Use It To Write Documents?

But they just have to add more stuff to list on the box to sell updates. Even the extra value stuff is crap, most of the fonts and almost all the clip art is unusable (I think I used one of the arrows on a wet paint sign once).

When you find some website that was created in Word it's always good for a laugh.

Acrobat is another program where I don't want sound and video crap, I want a file I can email to someone or post on a web site, and another person can print, and the print will look like my copy no mater what software / OS he is using.

Re: Sigh...

Way would you need more then 5 minutes to know Metro is shit?

I spent longer trying to find a way to turn it off, or better if I could disable it in an active directory policy.

I put Metro on the same list as Active Desktop, and the Office paperclip, except they were not as bad since they could be turned off.

More Steve Jobs iPad mini attacks from beyond the grave

Re: Ummmm Yeah. Right.

I've got a Nexus 7 on order. I was offered a used iPad 2G by a co-worker who lined up for the "new" ipad but decided it was too big. Would have liked an SD slot but otherwise the Nexus is just about what I was waiting for.

Olympics security cockup down to software errors - report

Large numbers of recruits aren't turning up.

I wonder if someone was just making up people to meet their numbers.

It costs $450 in marketing to make someone buy a $49 Nokia Lumia

Lumia sales were already sagging.

How can they sag when they didn't have any to start with?

Spotify coining it at home in Sweden: But are artists getting any?

Re: Some people have missed the point

So it's just the same old thing that's been going on since the record companies first appeared. Still hear all these people pointing at consumers whining that we don't pay enough.

The only real difference I see is that with records/CDs I can buy from anywhere I want, with stuff like iTunes, I can only buy from itunes.ca, or with Spotify I can't buy at all since I live in the wrong place.

Christians get God-optimized 'Edifi' Android fondleslab

Can it add up all your sins for the week

And suggest a donation each Sunday to keep you in the good books with god?

Enter your Visa/MC/American Express here...

Religious wars brewing in ICANN gTLD expansion

Re: Hmm.

"represent the whole Muslim community"

Good luck with that. Could say the same for any large religion that has split into different groups.

Microsoft promises resellers bumper 2013 with total line-up refresh

Microsoft as investing in improved partner rebates and rewards he said

We have to pay people not to laugh at Windows 8.