Posts by cs94njw

Google mingles Drive and Gmail for 10GB attachments

Gutted. Tried the popup compose thing and didn't like it. This functionality sounds ace tho :(

Assange needs to get some sunlight and fresh air, say Ecuadoreans

Government has agreed to let him get medical treatment, but they should say "tough".

You broke our law by hiding in an embassy.

You hid in a building which perhaps doesn't have all the mod-cons like fresh air (but yeah, it's got bloody windows though), and even the ability to leave your domicile.

Who knows whether he's guilty or not, but so far, Sweden has never been fingered as a malicious or unfair country. And if anything, I would expect them to protect him more than the UK.

Jeez - just leave the embassy, get on the plane, and sort this out.

'There may come a day when Hobbits promote slot machines ...'

I can't blame the Tolkein estate. If they agree to sell the rights to services, then they're gits and they do seem to be money grabbing.

If they forbid gambling and similar services, then I think they're looking after their brand.

We shall see...

Brit retailers tell Amazon and Google to pay their taxes

Re: If the public were angry, they would not buy from internet multinationals

Do I like to get the cheapest price I can? - Yes

Do I want a high street? Yes

Would you prefer to shop in a high street over online? - Well... sometimes.

Would you stop using a company if they continued to avoid taxes? - Sure!... unless it's the company which gives me a wonderful mobile experience, or gives me a huge range of cheap products which are free to deliver. Everyone else - no problem.

*Boycotting Starbucks purely because of the asking your name thing. Didn't they study the British people!?

Lawyer sues Microsoft rather than slot an SD card into his Surface

Re: you keep forgetting something

Why can't he have all of that, and 32GB free?

If a user wasn't meant to store data on these tablets, they wouldn't bother advertising storage capacity. If they are meant to store data, then I would expect to store the amount specified.

The guy is taking a risk. I presume he has to pay up-front fees, and if it goes to court and loses, I assume he'll need to pay Micro$ofts fees too.

He has a very valid point, and whether it's greed for himself or not, it'll help other people who are less bolshy.

Google, Amazon, Starbucks are 'immoral' and 'ridiculous' over UK tax

*cough* Lewis Hamilton *cough*

I guess the only solution is to favour tax paying establishments.

Perhaps only running deals with tax paying companies, or inviting them to the special meetings. Or even just the public choosing who to go to (Hmm... not that keen on not using Google, they're quite convenient... :( ) Ditto on Amazon too :(...

Re: what do you expect them to do

The same way that Ireland lowered taxes, and then ended up having a screwed economy?

Man, 19, cuffed after burning Remembrance poppy pic is Facebooked

Re: Stupid

Bah - in this country you're old enough to pay taxes (16), but not old enough to vote (18). Gits.

French gov 'plans to hand Google €1bn tax bill' - report

Re: Profit != Turnover

How are you going to pay the tax bill on the turnover, if you only have the profit left over?

Ubisoft forgets to ship activation codes for music game

Re: oh the irony

That manager sounded quite nice.

BT and Virgin sue over £10m state-funded Birmingham broadband

Birmingham build a POP, and then leases to BT and Virgin - ala unbundling. This preserves competition, but probably removes the cost of BT/Virgin installing there.

I bet by Birmingham doing it, all that nasty planning paperwork seems to fade away too.

Tech rivals team up for free web dev docs

Call me old fashioned, but when someone says here's a website full of the correct information for you to learn from.... I don't expect to have to write it myself :(

I just hope there's no wackos editing the wikis.

ReDigi fights for right to sell used digital music

If reDig win this, and I can't see it happening, they would be the global power in music purchases.

Why bother buying from iTunes, when you can buy "secondhand" from reDig?

Essentially an online CEX. And if the tunes aren't cheaper, then why bother buying from reDig?

Essentially this is the same as buying games second hand from CEX or similar. Games industry don't like it so they are modifying their platforms to prevent it.

If they win their case, iTunes will introduce the same functionality, and end up killing off reDig.

Google Wallet: Rub our button, cough 15p for quick read

Yeah, I could live with this. I'd need a way of setting a budget though.

Plonking £15 into my account, and then trickle using it. I guess like XBox points.

US court lifts ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

YYYYyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

New I-hate-my-neighbour stickers to protect Brits' packages

If this goes as badly wrong as it could, retailers will be up in arms with all the re-sends they are having to do. If my neighbour is on holiday for a week and my package is left there, I'll be politely expressing surprise that my package hasn't arrived yet - send another!

Steve Jobs backs Amazon from beyond grave in Apple trademark row

YYYYYYYYYYaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn!

Toyota kills city 'e-car for everyone'

Goddam :( I've seen supermarkets with electric charge points, and so I thought we'd be seeing leccy cars within a year.

Sadly, it needs a company to mass produce, fail, and then a chinese company to come along, copy the idea, fix the problem, and then work. :(

Actually quite disappointed. I could never afford one, but was looking forward to something second hand ;(

Smartphones may soon listen in on you while they sleep

Those problems are tiny.

A more likely and serious problem is Apple seeing them in court, and a list of patents they might infringe.

Samsung spends $4bn tarting up Texas factory

Would be a nice way to avoid import restrictions....

Perhaps they might not build the devices there, but an intra-factory transfer of "stuff", which then just happens to get dispatched from Texas?...

Ubisoft: 'Vast majority of PC gamers are PIRATES'

Wow - awesome!

Their games will be free to play, and if I like it, I can spend the normal purchase price and have the full game!

Er... that's right, yes? What? I'll probably ending up paying a shed load more? Oh.

Ah well - it won't be that way on consoles....

Er... Xbox, Batman: Arkham City - Catwoman "extension".. er... well... yes there was that.

Had a go at F2P Everquest recently. I played far too much years ago, and my characters were still alive, and so actually I had most of the functionality that was available. There was lots to buy though, and I wonder how much they truly affected game play.

News Ltd's Australian chief demands copyright overhaul

The BBC is a huge content producer, but they steal photos from other people without paying for it.

Irony corner?

NASA gets funding for Mars InSight mission in 2016

Why?

Curiosity is there to explore the surface and have a decent look around.

Surely mission 2 is to deploy some habitation tents?

PayPal drops into McDonalds, begs meat-guzzlers to give it a bonk

NFC was one of the big reasons why I went for the Galaxy S3.

I'm sitting here tapping my feet, wondering when the hell someone's going to support it!

Also, what happened the Olympic trial of NFC with the S3?

Blizzard pwned: Gamers' email, encrypted passwords slurped

With the recent Amazon/Apple thing, and now this...

Every website needs to either drastically improve their security (or 2 form authentication) or make it less strict.

I'm not going to risk my hard-learned security question answers and passwords to websites, if they keep losing them. I'd rather have a unique really simple password so when it's hacked I've not lost much.

Video shows armed assault on Kim Dotcom family home

Re: There used to be a time

That guy was probably crapping himself. Helicopters, people with guns, etc. A "subdued" security guard?

If I had one, I'd have my shotgun handy as well.

And WTF - loads of people in America have guns and do US cops storm a house first? Kim isn't going to pop a cap in the ass of someone who politely knocks on the front door, and ask if he would mind accompanying him to the station.

And why didn't they arrest him when he was out of the house?

Gemalto gets NFC gig: Singapore punters will all bonk the same way

I want pay-by-bonk :(

Apple plans extended iPad display through 'Smart Covers'

"- or even if it'll be awarded the patents it has requested - "

Huh? The one thing we can *guarentee* is that they'll be awarded the patent.

O2 dropped the ball in Olympic cycle race Twitter fiasco

I'm watching Dressage (not my choice) at Greenwich park next week. Hope the Three coverage is working well, I'm expecting to saturate their coverage or fall asleep - I haven't decided yet.

Samsung plonks universal search BACK into Galaxy S IIIs

Huh? There was a software update for the S3? Didn't see it here.

Nationwide DOUBLES card payments in fresh banking gaffe

Santander. Went to branch to add my wife to my bank account. Went shopping that night and had my card declined. Turned out they'd removed my overdraft (I never said I was good with my money), and so I couldn't buy any food.

Had to wait til the next day to get it reinstated, although they actually offered and gave me compensation.

Three punters' data use doubles

Recently upgraded from my HTC Desire to the Samsung S3.

Saw the article somewhere about that Zombie game now being free (Dead .. something?), so thought I would take a look....

118 MB download!! Don't get me wrong, gimme the pretty graphics and functionality. Gimme gimme gimme!

But... that would have been the entire phone memory of my HTC Desire (ish). And I pity the fools who've downloaded the BBC Olympics app for their phones... I hope they're all with 3.

Atlassian heading for the exit?

Critique - it would be nice to mention which software they make. The name rang a bell, but I had to look it up to remember they make JIRA.

Valve to raise Steam for Ubuntu

Re: WTF!?

Then why the huge delay?

WTF!?

Hello!? Half Life 3!?? Stop playing with platforms. Release Half Life 3!

Study: Users prefer Google+ over Facebook

Re: Timeline?

The one thing I do regularly, have a peek at my friends profiles on the Android app, requires me to click on the top left hand corner, and scroll down *loads*. Accessing Friends profiles are considered less important than:

Messages

Nearby

Events

Find Friends

<Any groups I belong to>

App Centre

Chat

Photos

Spotify

etc

etc

oh and here's Friends.

US networks: Political donations by text? Rlly nt a gud idea

I never thought I'd say this, but...

Wow, I feel sorry for the operators. In an amazing piece of seeing into the future, they've done well to envisage all the unreasonable crap that could come their way. Fair does to them.

Museum of Computing recognised as PROPER MUSEUM

Goddam!

I didn't spend 3 years at University doing my BSc, jeering at Arts students as they contemplate life and inspiration, only to be bloody managed by them :(((

China reveals new strategy of stockpiling rare earths

Re: So what if they are stockpiling?

The American Prison system?

Re: Watch and learn

There's going to be a lot of money in finding alternatives, either from mining in other countries, creating the minerals from scratch, or by finding alternatives to those minerals.

When they do - China are going to be stuffed. I hope they've got something else they can export...

Sony, Samsung trade body to push HbbTV to Brits

Re: Dear TV makers

This is a good point. When I upgrade my PC, I can buy a new hard disk or graphics card, and it's only a small amount of my monthly salary. If I have to buy a whole new PC ~£800, that's a holiday somewhere or something very significant.

If they keep beefing up TVs (even though I do wish they'd integrate BluRay and PVR into a TV), they are going to be very difficult to purchase.

Unlesss.... Sky does to TV what mobile companies do for phones... sell the TV as part of the deal and add the cost to the monthly subscription...

Europe's prang-phone-in-every-car to cost €5m per life saved

Re: Nanny state...

Ahha - but if you combine this with the results of the Tricorder competition:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/13/build_star_trek_tricorder_please_ask_x_prize/

You'd have a system which calls the ambulance if a seat belt is done up, but there's no heart beat.

Google Maps takes shelter from the British summer

Re: Maps?

I do wish they'd stop calling Nescafe, 'coffee'. Illy makes real coffee. Nescafe's stuff, through possibly OK for builders, are merely freeze dried crap. And in my area, usually give me wind.

Apple wins US ban on Samsung's Galaxy Tab 10.1

FFS. Walk into Currys and tell me all the black LCD TVs don't look the same (yeah yeah apart from size, etc). What's important is what's inside.

What's going to happen next? Amazon claiming a patent on cardboard boxes which happen to have addresses on?

Bonking for money to be built into the next iPhone

Perhaps Apple support is needed for NFC to get moving

99% of music/charging docks are for Apple devices, with Android sadly lacking.

Perhaps Apple support is needed before companies take NFC seriously :(

*Impatiently looking at his Galaxy S3*

Users still slack about passwords: Trustwave

Re: Weak passwords

I've seen a few low-importance sites that require a high security password. I keep a few high security passwords, and a couple low security. If I give one of my high-securities to a low-importance website, then I risk my important stuff being compromised.

If a low-importance website won't accept my low-security passwords, and it's not important enough for my high security - I don't register :(

BeThere earned my ire recently. I forgot my password on their website, so I had to reset. I tried to reset to my high security password and it forbid me from re-using my password! Like I'm going to make up yet another password just for them!

Apple's iPhone 5 connector said to be a control freak

Choice for manufacturers - cater for Apple's proprietary new connector, or start making devices which cater more for Android devices.

It's sickening seeing a shelf of speakers and other accessories in PC World/Currys, and realizing they are all for Apple, with only 1 token gesture for Android.

Apple pulls in TomTom, kicks Google off iPhones

Re: TomTom iPhone/iPad app

Are TomTom suicidal?

I don't bother buying a SatNav as my phone has Google Maps. And if I can get all the TomTom functionality on an iPhone, why would I ever bother buying a SatNav.

Smacks of desperation to me.