Posts by Stephen 2 200 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
You're the exception. Take a look around at the stats and you'll see that the number of failed kickstarter projects that make off with the money are large. The number of projects that take the money but then refund after a LONG time are large. The number of projects that deliver ON TIME are small.
I think you're talking shit tbh.
There's no way you can compare this to a 3D printer which can create somewhat accurate and certainly useful objects. This pen would be a pain in the butt to use and its a kickstarter which means 80% chance it won't ever actually make it into the buyers hand, if it does then it will be a year later than planned - by which time there will be something better available on store shelves.
I bought the Samsung SMT-S7800 about a year ago. Cost me around 250 quid at the time. It's a freesat box with built in HD for recording/pausing and all that jazz. The interface is absolutely wank and very slow. It has an ethernet port and a way to watch Youtube videos but again its dog slow and hard to navigate.
I paid a premium for the Samsung unit because I expected a decent interface, I was very wrong!
Publishers of those videos already have a way to monetize the vids, as long as they're a youtube partner then they earn a commission from the ads.
But I guess some would like to be able to charge $x per month or similar. I'd imagine they're the same people who's views will go from hundreds of thousands to just a handful.
Apart from a few special cases, like online workouts and that kinda thing, the whole model would be impractical. You're not likely to signup to a bunch of different youtubers and pay them all $x a month. So more likely you'd pay one fee to Google who would then give the youtubers 0.5% of that. So just more money into Googles pocket.
There are alternatives to Youtube with better features, nicer layouts etc. People use Youtube because it's free and fast. Take away the free bit and people move on.
Some things earn money for Google, some things cost them. Overall it all adds to locking people into the Google ecosystem and earns big money in the long run.
If they really want to help video creators then they could increase the amount of commission they pay them for ad clicks because right now its insanely low.
I used to love Firefox and scream its praises. Then it stated throwing up alerts and warnings and upgrade notices every time I launched it. I groan every time I have to use FF now because I know it's going to bug me with questions as soon as I open it. I'd read that they'd stop doing this but they haven't.
So if their phone is anything like their browser, I'd be throwing it against the wall after a week.
They should just save the money, we don't need another phone OS. I wont even charge a consultation fee for my advice here.
The original APC is okay, it has some issues that are quite annoying, like the limited Android OS without the official play market (available with a hack but doesn't work perfectly), limited output on HDMI (720) and kinda just generally not as great as it first seems.
With the number of cheap android sticks and boxes out there right now, APCs offering is too little too late.
You have some good points although I do think you're being a bit hard on how useful the app is.
I strongly agree about it being a bit of a rip that BT still enforce compulsory WLR for those of us who just want to use the line for internet. Many other countries let you use the line for internet only, without forcing you to pay 'line rental' for telephone services.
Okay that's cool.
So this might also be the solution to houses who have kids shouting over who gets to use the phone next. One person can use the landline and the 4 kids can then make their calls from their smartphones.
So 5 calls at once all using the same package. Sounds good to me!
Does it have to be on a smartphone as aposed to a smart device? i.e. could you use it on an ipod touch instead of an iphone? And could you use it on an android tablet (without cell) instead of an android phone?
I'm not sure why so many people are struggling to understand the benefits of this.
Many people are signed up to BT call plans. I myself pay about 8 quid a month for unlimited 'free' calls to landlines, 0845 and 0870, any time of the day.
So I can now make those same calls from my smartphone. For example if I'm sitting in a hotel in Dubai and don't fancy spending a fortune on a long distance call back to the UK. Skype would be an alternative but I'd still have to pay per minute. Why not make use of my BT plan?
For those bitching about data costs being higher than the value of the call, you don't have to use 3g/4g, you can use any wifi point as well!
I wonder if you can call your own number. For example lets say I go abroad without the misses and want to phone home from my smartphone to talk to her. Would it work?
mmm after you take into account the OS, you've got say 5, 5.5 gb left. Add your apps and games and you're down to 3gb. Add a small selection of music and you're down to 2gb. A HD recording from your camera will eat up a gig in 20 or 30 minutes. So umm yes there's good reason to complain about 8GB on a modern top of the line phone (which this is).
There are after market battery extenders for most popular phones. There are generally 3 options.
1) External usb battery. These vary in size, usually about the same size as the phone itself and give 1-3 full charges (depending on quality/size/cost).
2) "cases" that have batteries built in. The phone sits in the case like a cradle. They can make a phone a bit bulky.
3) Larger batteries and replaceable back covers. You replace your stock battery and back cover with new larger versions. Makes your phone a little chunkier but not too bad really.
3.1) Higher rated batteries that squeeze more juice into the same package size. Just watch out for cheap knock-off batteries that say they' hold more power but actually hold less.
But then I got to the bit where you said there's no expandable storage. The 8gb would be unusable for me after I install my apps, games, a bit of music and record a couple short videos. The 16GB would just about get me by but I'd always be deleting my video recordings.
I bought a 64GB microSD for my Galaxy S3, so I now have a total of 80GB (minus whatever the OS takes up). I don't have a lot of big apps but HD video recordings do take up quite a lot of space.
Password hashes are often stolen as a result of sql injections. So the attacker doesn't really have any solid access to the server, only access to the info stored in the database. So they really have to brute every hash.
If they had access to the server then they could just change the login page to log/email every password in clear text as the user logs in.
Isn't the Ouya just an android box? As far as I can tell it's nearly identical to the one I already have and use as a media centre. The difference is that mine has an air mouse and the Ouya has a gamepad.
Add their fancy frontend to my box and give me the controller and I wont need to buy the Ouya.
It's quite boring and obviously he's had to call it an 'experiment' rather than a game, otherwise the media wouldn't play it out very well.
Aside from it being quite limited and hard to access, even if you could access, it did a piss poor job of keeping everyone updated with each others progress. So you were quite often just digging at an area that had already been dug but the server hadn't pushed an update out to you yet. That's one of the reasons why they've been manually clearing layers rather than waiting for users to get every block.
The manager didn't need to do it like that and make an awkward or embarrassing situation.
Some customers eat a lot, some customers barely eat anything. The price should take that into account and balance itself out as a profit. I can't stand places that have an all-you-can-eat and the staff stare at you because you grabbed a couple extra hot wings or something.
I agree they have the right to turn a customer away but at least wait until they've finished the meal and just have a quiet word telling them not to come back.
I always used to have problems with delivery.
The 'order before 11pm' thing is amazing and when it work's it's great. But it seems like the couriers are hesitant to actually deliver.
I used to wait until about 1 or 2pm before I'd call the courier (especially if I'd seen one of their vans in the area). They'd always say the same thing, that they were going to deliver the next day. I'd say 'but isn't it meant to be a next day delivery, so it should be here today?' and they'd just reply with 'well yes, but, well.., uh okay we'll have someone drop it off' and then it would come a few hours later.
It got a bit tiring having to call the courier each time and actually ask them to deliver it on the day they're meant to. Ebuyer would always refund me the full postage cost if it was late (cant remember if it was credit or straight refund).
I pre-ordered the Kindle FIre HD earlier, before I saw this article. I went for the 200 quid 32GB version.
Now I've seen the 8.9" version with larger CPU, better resolution and such like, I'm gonna go for one of those. I travel a lot so it's not that difficult for me to grab a US version.
Most 4G dongles seem to fall back to 3G networks just fine. Does anyone know if that be the same for the 4G kindle?
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