Posts by Gordon 10

Mozilla throws 'freedom' at Microsoft, Google, Apple tanks

Don't be so sure

Aol and others failed because the wall was obvious and their selection was much worse by comparison. Both the Android and iOS stores are already more mature, and more importantly so is the audience. Until something game changing comes along I expect the walled gardens to stay.

In fact walled gardens on the net have existed far longer than the free Internet.

Just because there is freedom on the web doesn't make it intrinsically superior to the walled gardens - as long as both meet users evolving needs.

Don't assume the free web will win just because you feel it should. The average user doesn't give a toss so long as their needs are met. The Internet just follows the same rules area the rest of our social institutions 5% lead and as long as they are content 95% follow.

Shakira attacked by sea lion who mistook BlackBerry for a 'fish'

Seals or sea lions

There is a difference.

Apple's secret outsource: 'Even more software to be made in India'

If you had actually bothered to read the comments you would have seen its to do with the general quality of the big India outsourcing shops - not Indians in general.

Now most people with any experience of them would agree that's self evident - only those currently work for them would disagree IMHO.

LG DM2350D 23in passive 3D monitor and TV combo

Struggling

Hang on a sec can't most monitors do 3d with the right graphics card and drivers - at least for games?

Doesn't the fact that this set compromises that ability with a lousy refresh and has crap tuner mean you would be better off with a good monitor and a pc tv tuner?

Seems a bit pointless.

HP hands in-house Android code to TouchPad tablet hackers

Kudos to HP

Normally this kinda stuff gets deleted and never admitted to.

Hopefully it will be some use to those looking to polish CM and others.

Halliburton latest biz to dump BlackBerry for iPhone

Google Good. PIM apps running inside an encrypted container.

They will be the good app calling the good server calling exchange.

Yahoo! chairman! falls! on! his! sword!

Bubbles

Farcebook is riding an inflating bubble.

Yahoo is covered in the gunge of the previous bubble.

Translation

We're finally admitting that Yahoo is doomed and activating our golden parachute clauses whilst our share options are still useful for something more than toilet paper

Revealed: Apple's plea for fairness in mobile patent war

Apple have a share.

Not the same as owning specific patents.

Toshiba 14in USB LCD Mobile Monitor

Cheap Tablet better value

A cheap 10" tablet would provide similar functionality and much more besides, using Airdisplay or the Android equivalent.

Cant see the point.

Ten... Freesat TV receivers

Humax and Bush observations

Have 2 Bushes and the Humax HD (non-DVR) box dotted around the house.

Humax

Best image quality.

Really slow cold boot. (We use a remote control plug).

All the IP TV facilities appear as beta's on FoxSat first.

Bush

Best budget buy by a mile.

Almost instant cold boot compared to Humax.

Has a combined Freesat and Non-freesat mode. No fiddling with the settings menu to switch mode.

Downside Fugly but functional UI.

Beg to differ

I have 2 bushes (fnarr) and the basic Foxsat HD box.

Both bushes have been as reliable as the Foxsat - no issues with any of them.

Russians drill into buried 20 million-year-old Antarctic lake

Are they Mad?

0€

What if R'lyeh is down there?

Has Microsoft finally killed off Windows 8 Start button?

@Martin

I think you missed the invisible sarcasm tags on the original post.....

High Street chains vow to play fair on warranties

Caveat Emptor

WTF? These seems to be another case of nanny statism. Unless Dixon's et al are behaving fraudulently or using pressure tactics what they are doing is perfectly fine.

Its the people who are stupid enough to buy these warantees without doing a cost-benefit analysis who have the problem.

This is just a variation on the "filling may be hot" warnings. Duh - no shit sherlock.

An NT-powered Windows Phone? Not so fast...

Yea hilarious

Until you realise that the failure of winpho means we have a choice between the malware ridden cess pool of android and the super-max lockdown of iOS.

Ok exaggeration in both cases but consumers *need* a strong third platform it will keep Apple and Google honest.

UK gov rejects call to posthumously pardon Alan Turing

Coward

Its easy to blame the "ruling classes" isnt it than to admit your parents and grandparents as part of a democratic society have an equal responsibility for the electing of a body that passes or refuses to repeal distasteful legislation.

For the futility of judging yesterdays laws by todays standards - see my other comment.

Turning it on its head. Lets extend the sentences for all those who were sentenced before wacky jacqui reclassified cannabis from class c to class b.

An apology costs nothing - but reversing a decision made correctly inline with the law at the time is madness - whether you agree with that law or not.

This looking backward and trying to judge historic decisions in the light of todays morals (which in themselves are only transitory) is laughable and doomed to fail.

Analyst touts iPad 'transformer' after CEO confab

Maybe I should patent an ipad shaped device with contacts on the corner. Then it could be used in landscape or portrait.

New dole system is 'digital by default', like it or not

Congratulate them after something is delivered that works. It doesnt matter what the dev methodology if the end result is crap.

iOS 5 'crashes more apps' than Android

What I was going to say - but quicker!

Also the population within each app store using Crittercism would have strong bearing. Eg if its good Apps on Andriod and only badly coded Fart apps on IOS.

Some coral reefs growing in a warming world

One of the global warming poster children

This finally draws attention to one of the great GW confusions - when oceans get warmer the coral & reefs move - old ones die, new ones thrive. Instead of thinking of thinking of things as absolutes we need to remember its never clear cut and everything is a system in flux.

Eight... HD camera smartphones

Your whining may have a point if they were links to clove technology but since they arent you don't.

@fuzz

Videos and pics on the iPhones have all ways been available without iTunes - check your facts before you post.

The iPhone photos folder shows up as a camera under windows.

'We're totally in LA pissing people off'

I'd like to know

How many followers that couple has. The fact that they were tracked says something very scarey about the amount of surveylence the Feds must be up to.

Windows 8, Windows Phone 8 DNA splice is on - report

I think the Journo is getting the Kernel mixed up with the UI.

iOS and OSX use the same kernel afaik. If not the same then kissing cousins.

Verisign admits 2010 hack attack, mum on what was nicked

Contradictions

“The Company’s information security group was aware of the attacks shortly after the time of their occurrence

Really? Then how come senior mgt weren't aware?

I smell bullshit.

Android users more likely to put out

Indeed

"She has a masters."

I rofl'd.

Snaps confirm new CPU for Apple iPad 3

Or alternatively

It may just be an A5 with a souped up graphics core to handle the display - just as they souped up the graphics between ipad 1 and 2.

Five ways Microsoft can rescue Windows Phone

I've read Cory Doctorow (Little Brother a modern classic and Makers meh) and owned WinMob phones.

I wouldnt touch Postscript source with yours.

Final Fantasy XIII-2

Not much of a point to hang a game on is it?

I remember when all games visuals were done in-engine. They may not have been pretty but at least you could you-know *play* them.

JEDI alliance: Jellyfish overlords won't rule Earth after all

Am I the only one

Who read "David Cameron" but thought "David Tennant" due to all the Doctor Who references?

Cosmic rays blamed for Phobos-Grunt fiasco

Proof

Post proof that the shuttles were sabotaged or it didn't happen and your tinfoil-hattedness invalidates the rest of your post.

Airbrushed Rachel Weisz gets watchdog hot under the collar

But but

No-one actually believes these ads do they? Virtually every womans and mens magazine pics are airbrushed to death - no-one really thinks that is a good representation of the person do they?

Not that I'll cry over a cosmetics company getting a slap.

40,000 Apple fanbois demand ethical iPhone 5

Tomorrow

40,000 people change their mind when told the new iphone 5 will cost £1000.

Honestly I dont get how naive people are. Apple at least play a reasonable amount of lip service to their suppliers workers health - not brilliant - but better than a lot.

Ocean currents emerge as climate change hot-spots

Note to All

Climate <> weather

Apple lures Dixons boss Browett to run global retail biz

Tim Cooks first big mistake

He must be insane. The customer experience in PC World has always been diametrically opposed to that of Apple.

Newzbin barrister struck off for owning site he represented

Myths about Barristers

Its interesting to note that Barristers are very like salesmen in some respects - they are essentially fee & commission based - therefore their range of earning can vary considerably and also vary wildly over time. They also have huge upfront training and development costs, - its far easier to become a solictor than a barrister as solictors have a much greater chance of getting their training contract paid for.

I would say you are better off being a mediocre solictor than a mediocre barrister.

As a profession both will earn greater than average wage but not orders of magnitude bigger than an IT professional for example. The average London contract wage is probably a similar ball park to the average barrister wage.

Motorola slices out Razr smartphone bootloader lock

I think Moto need to check consumer law. Afaik its not possible to revoke certain consumer rights. Manufacturer Warantee's generally exist in addition to your basic consumer rights.

Come on Moto - dozens of other handsets come without locked boot loaders - less weasel words and legalese and more support of your customers.

Amazon sold 6m Kindle Fire tablets, says analyst

Unless of course you actually read the article. But hey never let facts get in the way of a blinkered comment.

Star Trek tractor beam to save Earth from asteroid Armageddon

Or Possibly a solar mirror

One of the other options I have see proposed is a solar mirror of sufficient strength to create a jet of the objects own material to act as a thruster.

US entertainment lawyer casts doubt on Megaupload case

Let me correct that.

Everyone is convinced they *will* be found guilty.

Simply because truth and justice are no longer the American way ( and it's doubtful they ever were)

Dumb salesmen are hurting us – Nokia CEO

Actually

WinMob was a pretty decent stab at a phone OS. I had 4 handsets in a row and functionality wise it was comparable with a blackberry of the time plus it was second only to symbian in available apps.

Unfortunately MS threw all that good stuff away when it went to winpho.

Eurocom Panther 2.0 Core i7, SLI notebook

Different strokes for different folks. In my experience people running raid 0 are willing to take the risks for the benefits and are well aware regular backups are mandated. I certainly am and have been running a pair of x18m's that way for 3 years.

Big biz BlackBerry refuseniks adopt Apple over Android

Or perhaps they are more cost conscious and recalling corporate BB's and issuing Good onto personal iPhones and maybe allowing them to expense the data usage?

Or alternatively

Win Mob has declined to under the radar.

Win Pho has yet to hit the radar.

I bet they are seperate categories.

Paranoid much?

WRONG

I'll think you'll find that a big percentage of Good activations are actually personal handsets being used for work.

The whole point of rolling out Good is that it creates a secure wipeable container on the iphone to manage your workstuff in without compromising corporate security.

Archos 35 Smart Home Phone

Lack of BT

Lack of Bluetooth seems a missed opportunity as the Dect incumbents tend to charge through the nose for it.

I presume its due to BT usally being provided by the radio chip, and dect chips with BT are few and far between.

Shame though.

Nintendo cuts full-year forecast – by BILLIONS

Design fail

have you seen a 3DS?

Someone should tell Nintendo the 80's called and they want their industrial design back.

Seriously I think Ninty see it as an iconic style thats part of the companies unique brand statement. In reality it looks like a cheap chinese OEM import in a world full of iconic looking phones, tablets and PS Vita's.