Posts by jason

25 years of Mac - the good, the bad, and the cheese grater

I had a Fat Mac 512k

My dad bought it home one night around 1988 I think. He had bought it second hand from work. I was really excited to think I now had a 'proper' 68000 computer (Spectrum before). It also had the external floppy drive (kind of essential) and all the Paint/Word software.

We really enjoyed playing with it. I learnt a lot about handling mouse driven computers. Paint was great even though it was all monochrome but we didnt care. However, the gleam soon wore off. Software in the form of games (mainly cult adventure ones from the USA) were hugely expensive for a 17 year old and hardware? Well hardware was all custom non standard stuff that was in the realm of fantasy land.

So after about 6 months it ended up as a cute nicnac in my bedroom and then moved into the loft a while later where it still resides in my parents house. In 1993 my dad bought a 486DX PC, I was 22 with a job and I never looked back. I didnt try using a Mac again until around 2002 when an exec wanted us to hook up a webcam to his iMac. It was horrendous. I managed to avoid them again till a couple of years ago when a mate asked me to hook his new Macbook to a wireless lan. That worked easy first time. I might re-visit them one day out of curiousity. Its more likely than Linux anyway.

Mac mini said to get Ion innards

Way to clear old stock?

The current model has a middling spec that has hampered sales. You then are on the verge of releasing a new model but have tons of old stock still that isnt shifting.

What to do?

Start a rumour that the new one is less of a deal then the existing one. Folks then panic buy existing one. As per some of the posts already.

You then release the new (actually) improved model when old inventory has greatly reduced due to panic buying. Those that didnt panic or get a monk on over it buy this model.

Well its what I'd do.

'Interfering' BT Vision attracts campaigner glares

Sounds like a brand slogan.......

'Ofcom - Poweless to Act!'

Almost as nifty as Tesco's.

How the Google stole Christmas

I'm amazed!

People click on web ads? I though they were just there to fill in whitespace?

Well I never. Learn something new everyday.

World Bank confirms Wipro is on contractor blacklist

Hopeless, but lessons wont be learnt.

My old form was one of the first to send work over to India. Biggest mistake we ever made. We all knew it was bad but the board saw a way to save a buck.

After just a short time a man days work was twice as much in India as it was to do in the UK. Projects slowed to a crawl, specifications were screwed up, consultation was endless and we had to send no end of them back to India as when we got them in front of a PC to do their thing, they just stared at it apologetically. Yes we got so 'into India' we were bringing them to the UK to do work. We kept reporting how bad it was yet they still kept turning up, something was afoot.

Most of the work has now been pulled back to the UK, and a lot of rental apartments in the city are now empty. Still the damage has been done, we didnt deliver one major piece of work in the whole 5 years or innovate anything. It was a shambles.

The latest? My Gf's boss is now saying that all the 'hot code' is now coming out of Vietnam.

Strewth, here we go again.

First Windows 7 beta puts fresh face on Vista

All the bloat?

I just want to know for the love of God does it come with a Custom Install Option so I can remove 75% of the crap I dont need and will never use?

I just dont understand why MS seem to think we want all this stuff. As a home user I can usually find better, more efficient free versions elsewhere. As a corporate user I have to have most of the 'extras' removed as they are considered a security risk or a productivity time sink. My company just wants me to run the applications they need me to use to make it money, nothing more. Thats fair enough.

Microsoft just isnt talking to its real users, its just listening to the kids at TechNet. You know the type, the ones that rave about all the lastest development tech and hardware but never actually apply themselves to anything long enough to deliver something.

We just want a clean, efficient and secure platform to run the apps WE WANT to run.

Beeb names new Doctor Who

Its all 'Yoof Yoof Yoof'!!!

I can see it going even further down the mainstream yoof market. Anyone silly enough to suffer 'Demons' on ITV Saturday night? I havent seen such a turd of a show since Bonekickers.

Forget plots, acting skills, characters. As long as the main cast look good on a poster or on the front of a TV guide thats all that matters.

Norfolk children get £310,000 of free laptops

I live in Norwich....

......So I'll be keeping an eye on the local Cash Converters window over the next few weeks.

Bargains galore!

Microsoft plague threatens 30GB Zune extinction

@Martin Usher - Why a clock?

The reason the Zune has a clock is that Zune owners asked for the feature and MS put it in a firmware update a few months ago. You know those FREE updates we get that give us the same new features the newer Zunes get.

As for DRM, no DRM on my Zune, just 330 lovely DRM free albums.

Zavvi goes titsup

No Giftcards this Xmas

I wondered why I went in last week to buy a giftcard in there that they were not offering them.

Maybe they knew this was on the cards for a while and didnt want thousands of customers annoyed with useless cards.

Oh well....its was a stupid name anyway.

BBC: Top Gear Tesla didn't run out of juice

But then as they showed later....

....it was made totally pointless by the Honda Fuel Cell car.

Thats the one I'd buy. Batteries indeed!

Germans offer MoD hope of Eurofighter postponement

In that case keep spending the money...

.......on what has been proven time and time again...on stuff that doesnt work or gets mothballed!!

If thats sensible use of tax payers money so we can still do dodgy arms deals to countries of dubious reputation then fine go ahead.

The MoD/BAE/Vickers god knows who else in the UK arms trade made well have some talented tech folks but they havent a clue in many areas...say project management, budgets, delivering systems fit for use etc. etc.

I just feel that as we've seen with the financial world etc. that those at the top of a lot of these big organisations dont actually have a damn clue about what they are doing. Paper tigers the lot!

We really need to take a long hard look at defence precurement going forward. The current system is far too wasteful and expensive with little thats useful at the end of it.

As a UK tax payer I just want better value for money.

@AN Coward

So what some of us are saying is its just better to keep jobs that are not really helping (by producing expensive stuff we cant use or doesnt work) by throwing billions down the drain?

Well thanks its good to know that keeping a member of staff at BAE in a job costs millions of quid a year. Great I will sleep better at night.

Maybe we should be looking hard at if we really need all these military aircraft in the first place. Maybe BAE etc. could make and design stuff thats actually useful rather than lame duck aircraft. If they cant, then get rid of them.

Does the UK need top of the range fighters/tanks etc. to defend itself? No. Even if we did we havent the sheer numbers, budgets or the support infrastructure to make them effective anyway.

Plenty of other worthwhile stuff to be inventing and developing rather than landmines and death machines. Who knows, some of it might make a profit!!!!

@Hugh_Pym

So let me see you think its better to waste say 40 billion on developing and building something that doesnt work or isnt needed 'in house' than wasting say 10 billion on buying something off the peg that doesnt work or isnt needed.

Ok fine...you a civil servant by any chance?

Please...just buy off the peg in future......

Let the others spend the billions developing this crap and we just buy it off the shelf when its ready.

As a tax payer I'll take the hit of a few thousand jobs going in aerospace in the UK (why not join the party we are all in) if it will save me tens of billions in wastage that could be sent on real benefits for the UK (school books/CAT scanners/proper body armour).

The other benefit is we'll have roughly the same gear as the folks we fight alongside.

Microsoft knew about Xbox 360 disc-scratch problem, employee claims

Always keep disk based drives horizontal!

Seems folks are daft enough to move a 360 whilst its playing a disk or keeping it on its vertical axis.

I dont think you should ever use a disk drive vertically unless the drive mechanism has a laptop syle drive with the spindle clips that hold the disk in place. They may say you can but nahh dont trust it.

I always keep my 360 laying horizontal and I havent had a scratched disk at all in over two years.

Keep em flat guys!

HP breaks Japanese excessive packaging record

Not bad...

..I had my Tesco groceries delivered today...came in 27 bags!

How many items did I order? 35.

Even the TV guide came in its own bag.*

*May I point out I do not understand with EPG etc. the reason for TV guides but my Gf seems to think they are useful.

MP calls for Jezza Clarkson's head

BBC can do nothing..if they do then its curtains

Essentially Top gear is the biggest money spinner for the BBC since the Teletubbies. Its worth a fortune around the world and has in effect become a highly recognisable brand.

Try selling Celebrity arseholes on Ice to any other country..no? Not interested Finland?

If the BBC do anything about this then we know darker (or stupider) forces are at work and TV as we know it wont exist in 12 months time. Next Have I got News For You and Mock The Week will be gone. Anyone going against the PC line will be silenced.

However, I'm sure ITV, Sky or CH4 would snap them up in no time.

Nintendo introduces redesigned DS

All nice and that...

..but I cant use my DS for more than 10 minutes before my right hand's thumb joint really starts to get sore. Doesnt look like the ergonomics have changed.

I know from expereince that I can grip other stuff for quite some time before it starts to ache...er hold on..anyway.....

Toshiba tools up for movie download future

@scott Mckenzie - 500Gb a month?

500Gb of data? What kind of media is that? If its movies and music how do you get to listen and watch it all each month? Where do you store it?

You do have a job I take it? That must take up 8 or so hours of the day. Maybe another 6 for sleep? Maybe another couple of hours for eating and toilet breaks.

That leave 8 hours left for watching stuf if you have nothing else in your life so thats maybe 4 movies a day.

I hope thats fully paid for media too!

Hmmmmm, apologies if I sound a tad sceptical.

Blockbuster: DVD to Blu-ray shift slower than VHS to DVD

@sooty - Film Restoration

As to how a DVD is presented on either DVD or BD is down to the studio and how much effort and money they want to spend on it.

They have several options. Do a telecine transfer of an exisiting film print if its in reasonable condition. They can send it for cleaning maybe. Cheapest option if there isnt an old laserdisc print done already.

Dig out the negative if its available, clean it, run a new print from it, maybe color correct it and put that out.

Dig out the negative and all the other film elements, scan each frame at 4K resolution, digitally clean/repair the scanned frames (but not too much or it will look like video), color time and correct exposure using notes/info from the time etc. 4K resolution is very very detailed and will hold up as a archive medium for some time to come. Most major 'restorations' have been done using this process.

There are other methods and means of doing it but the rough gist is there.

There seems to be three main camps in the HD scene -

Camp 1 - Those that just are not interested at all. What will be will be.

Camp 2 - Those that do see the difference but are not bothered at this time and will upgrade in the next two to three years in case it get cheaper or something else comes along (it will).

Camp 3 - Those that have splashed a lot of cash too early and are worried that they may have bought a lemon and are really annoyed and frustrated with the other two camps as they are not supporting them by buying into the whole HD thing dammit!

@J re. £3-4 to rent.

Whilst I agree that this appears to be expensive and yes we could buy the film for £5 outright. There is however, another issue that the studios and corps havent figured on.

Some of us just have anymore room for this crap!

Some of us (read most if honest) dont actually watch a DVD more than once so why bother paying £5 to keep something we dont really need to keep?

I'd pay £3 quite happily to just 'watch' a movie the once and be done with it.

The alternative unless you go into download land is the near £25 cinema extravaganza for two. Petrol/Parking/Tickets/drinks & snacks.*

Now you see why a lot of us are wanting a nice, simple reasonably priced download service. I dont really want the physical media anymore.

*I admit we smuggle our drinks and snacks in. It feels so dirty.

Have to say......

.....I can think of better things to spend £25 on than the latest Hollywood 'remake' on Blu-Ray in the current economic climate.

Especially when I can buy a perfectly servicable copy on DVD for £3 or even borrow it from the library for £2!

HD viewing is something I can happily pass on for the time being. I'm in no rush, I can wait.

Kings of Leon to freetards: Y'all are trash

All for bashing the Freetards!

So keep up the good but fruitless fight!

But to be honest as for the KOL? Well I gave up on them after their first album. Didnt see what was so great about listening to an album which many of the tracks sounded like they were being sung by Eric Cartman from South Park!

No Thanks!

Ten of the Best... iPod rivals

I've used Apple/Creative and Archos players but.....

.....I've settled on a Zune.

It nice and workmanlike. The audio quality using WMA Pro codec is stunning for the 192k bit rate (sounds better to me than the 256k MP3 I used to use). Matches up nice and simply with WMP11 and the Zune software. Video playback is good and the UI is really fast and easy to use. Oh and the FM radio is good to have too.

No DRM as I just use my own CD rips (anyone buying 128k audio from a website needs their head examined as you dont own it and its poor value).

It also get plenty of conversation as its totally different to what everyone else in the office has. "Oooh what's that? Thats different!"

Its my player of choice and I'm off to Canada soon to see if I can pick up another while I'm out there.

Think different...buy a Zune.

Brit trio convicted for liquid bomb terror plot

Yes keep going till you get the result you need.

I remember a while a go when a high profile court case jury found the defendant 'not guilty'.

When Gordon Brown was asked for his opinion on the case he said "I'm dissapointed, there ought to be laws against such outcomes!"

Nice!

And yes I'm not scared about terrorism either. Not bothered one bit. Inept and idiotic MPs and Police chiefs yes, very scared.

Ofcom considers termination charges

@Mo PAYG

I have to say I dont understand the hate towards PAYG cutsomers. I used to be a contract person with Vodafone from 1995 till 2006. I was a light user and they got my £12 a month for all that time like clockwork but they treated me like scum the three times (in 10 years) I asked about an upgrade. I used to argue that it wasnt my fault I wasnt a text addicted 14 year old girl but they just didnt care.

In the end I left them. I went PAYG and have never looked back. I now pay just £5 a month for my phone. Thats it, its so simple. You can top it up in most shops and its so easy.

Why is it that folks think £30 a month is a good deal? Its a rip off! The networks are laughing at all those contract folks that only use a fraction of the call time they are paying for. Mugs for the most part.

If you just want a phone to keep in touch and the odd few txts then PAYG really is the best option. Fancy phones are usually slow, battery heavy junk anyway.

US made to wait for Quantum of Solace

Yes the cinema is not the best place to see a movie anymore.

As mentioned above. You have to get there and park, then pay £13 for the tickets. Snacks are £2.00 for half a litre of water and £2.50 for a pack of Skittles (we take our own in, feeling like drug mules).

You sit down in a dark room stinking of stale popcorn, split coke and nachos. The adverts (especially that truly dreadful annoying Radio1 advert that just seems to go on forever) are all old and the trailers always give away the best bits of the films coming up. How often do you see a trailer and think "hmm dont have to see that movie now!"

As all films seem to be 12A you have to sit surrounded by bored/scared 5 year olds that parents appear to have no control of, with frequent loo trips.

Message to parents - NO we dont wish to share in the joy that is YOUR children!

The films are sometimes blurry or crackly with the volume turned up so high its painful.

So to be honest its much nicer to wait a few months, get the DVD, a pizza and a bottle of wine and sit on the sofa on a Saturday night and watch it.

A third of Vista PCs downgraded to XP

C'mon then.....Where is all the DRM?

I've been using Vista now for nearly a year.

So far I havent seen any evidence of DRM at all impeding my use of my PC. Where is it? How should I find it?

C'mon show me? I also use a Zune that also 'full of DRM' so they tell me but I still havent found any. I've been able to do everything I want to so far.

No one has pinged up a RED card saying I cant.

DRM is a fanboy FUD dream I must assume.

Microsoft starts stoking hype for Windows 7

Doesnt matter what new features they do or dont put in....

...as we will be rolling it out to a corporate environment we will be disabling/hiding/removing 75% of the features anyway.

All we need for business use is a lean, stable and secure platform that enables us (the company) to allow users to run JUST the applications they need to do the job. Nothing more.

MS moved away from this scenario from 2000 onwards.

Unfortunately for MS they are being screwed not by XP but by NT4.

MS need to bring out a new OS in the next couple of years as Vista has got stung in the corporate upgrade cycle.

Corporations usually install an OS then skip the next one and so on.

So a firms that went with NT4 would have skipped 2000 and gone to XP. They will now mostly skip Vista and rollout the next one.

Firms that went with 95 would have gone to 2000 and will be looking at rolling out Vista quite probably (though many would probably be planning with XP).

Unfortunately a lot of firms went with NT4. Whoops.

The IT Crowd goes west

A good show....

....the first series was pretty good and even. However, the second series was hamstrung by the fact that the first episode (the gay musical) was one of the most solidly funny half hours ever created and the rest was just pretty so so.

Still far better than most of the output from BBC/ITV.

The only other series that has got me interest is The Inbetweeners. My Gf doesnt get it though as she never went to sixth form.

'Different' Dell to downgrade XPS brand

So nothing to do with the fact......

....that Dell has gotten burnt (ha) bigtime with issuing upper-midrange latops with faulty midrange Nvidia GPUs in them then?

Oh its nothing but integrated Intel crap from us from now on!

Once bitten.......

TomTom GO 530 Traffic

Cant understand why folks buy the top of the range models.

Its a satnav to tell you where you need to go. So why do you need all those other features and most puzzling..a widescreen???

TomTom One is all you need.

MPs lambast BBFC over Batman

12A the worst choice of rating ever. Please ditch it.

The 12A rating is just the BBFC bowing to commercial pressure. My Gf and I try to avoid 12A films due to the fact that they are usually not suitable for small children. We get fed up having to sit with in with all the parents and their 3-4 year olds going "whats that man doing daddy?" and the frequent toilet trips it involves.

Kids these days struggle to keep quiet/still and it turns into a nightmare.

Fine if it was Shrek, we would expect that but not during Terminator 3 or Batman.

All it's for is to allow parents who cant find a babysitter to go see a movie and it just ruins it for other cinema goers and can traumatise the young kids.

I remember when we went to see T3, loads of 5 year olds etc. came out scared witless and in tears over the nuclear armegeddon ending. Not clever.

Bring back the 12 only rating as 12A is a severe lack of judgement.

Obama critical of Bush regime's bioterror fearmonger gap

I wish our Govts would stop being terrorists.

Am I afraid of a bunch of beardy wierdys with AK47's out in the wilds of Afganistan? Or a bunch of poorly educated and easiliy led young anglo/middle-eastern guys in north London who feel a bit left out of the world partly due to the cards that were dealt them?

No. Not in the slightest. I have no fear of that sort of terrorism, dosent bother me in the slightest. Someone somewhere always has an axe to grind. If it wasnt them it would be someone else. Thats life. I/we never worried about the IRA why should I/we start now?

I do however, find our western Govts attitude towards it citizens far more worrying and offensive than anything Bin Laden has done. It will come to a head one day and it wont be pretty.

I just want to live my life, minding my own business like anyone else. I dont need to be part of these sinister plans thank you.

You'd think they were all in collusion wouldnt you............

US customs: Yes, we can seize your laptop, iPod

Democracy and freedom costs jobs dammit!

Yes they are badddd, since all these new regulations came into force they have created thousands and thousands of jobs for the mentally retarded and easily led.

Its a wonderful world, freedom just keeps folks poor. Ahem.

As mentioned earlier they are just after industrial secrets. As they are now waking up to the fact their US lifestyle is about to crash around them they need all the info possible on how the rest of the world lives in this new fangled 21st century. They could just ask but that would be too humiliating.

Blu-ray to rule by 2011

A few points I have -

1. Like many others I dont know anyone with a BD player or PS3 yet and my friends love their gadgets. Something wrong there for a start!

2. Yes DVD is good enough. I watch a £3 dvd on a Saturday night with the Gf, a bottle of wine and a pizza. I appreciate HD stuff (I see a lot of movies at the cinema) but I'm not bothered about HD use at home. A well mastered DVD looks more then fine to me.

3. How many DVD/BD's do you watch more than once? In my collection I have maybe 5 that have been watched more than once. The question is...do I really need to keep any of these disks that are just taking up space? Do I really need to pay a premium to have the disk? Downloads please.

4. Does 95% of the Hollywood output really warrant the HD treatment? Do I need Dodgeball/anything by Eddie Murphy or Adam Sandler/bad remake if 1080p? Not really.

BD is just too late really. It will be a niche product, by 2010 we'll be looking elsewhere. If not then if I can hold out till 2015 then I can just jump on the next ultra-HD format that you know they are working on right now.

Market churn anyone?

Dud Nvidia GPUs tip up in Dell laptops

I condsider myself lucky.....

.....I was going to buy a Dell 1530 a few weeks ago but a little voice in the back of my head said "just hold on a little!".

Thanks little voice! Oh and well done Reg for reporting a story thats been going on for a few months now.

Nvidia really need to read the ex Intel CEO's book "Only The Paranoid Survive" it goes into great detail how they dealt with the Pentium bug. Essentially when they found out it was big they just decided to replace the lot no matter what and move on as quickly as possible. Situation sorted and reputation still intact even though the wallet took a hit.

Nvidia are looking very very cheap and cowardly right now. Someone will lose their job over this. They obviously dont spend much on PR folks there.

Leak reveals Xbox 360 Pro debut due

Can they mess this all up anymore? I bet they can.

I'm a 360 owner and to be honest I'm amazed at how MS when faced with an open goal to start with and did so well initially, havent been able to put a foot right with the 360 for 18 months or more.

Daft decisions with over priced and under-specced hardrives. Lack of any real firmware updates that give value features. No real HD support. No exciting new gaming/control hardware. The lack of updates is a big worry.

You know its over for the 360. MS must now be working round the clock to bring out the next console.

Dissapointing. lets just hope they make it a one box deal so its a standard platform all round. Tired of being held back due to a small percentage not having HD's or some other feature in their Xbox. I'm not blaming those consumers by the way.

Nvidia GeForce GTX 280

@Richy

£350? Still way overpriced. Especially if you have to lump in £50+ for a new PSU.

These high end cards have become pretty redundant for 90% of users as the graphics card requirement is now just limited to what you can afford and what screen resolution you play at.

For a lot of folks with £400 burning a hole in their pocket on a 22" screen are going to get as much usable performance from spending half that.

Mid-range rules now and I think AMD's gamble has paid off. These high end cards now look like muscle car dinosaurs. Nice too look at but silly/impractical for day to day use.

Trust on the slide, Chris Moyles on the up at BBC

I stopped listening to Radio1........

....back in the days of having Chris Evans bang on and on with his 'paid for posse' about how rich he was and which great showbiz mates he'd been out on the town with the night before.

It grew tired very fast but it was kind of fun though to watch him and all he had created at that time, kind of unravel in front of us.

You can only push self-adulation so far.

Microsoft pledges to fight Vista 'myths'

Why all the bleating about DRM in Vista?

I've been using Vista Home Basic64 for about 8 months now. I dont get where all this DRM comes into it?

So far nothing has stopped me playing any media content on my PC whether ripped or commercial or stopped me doing anything really.

I dont see what the issue is.

I have a Zune as well and all I hear is folks banging on about "oh Zune DRM DRM DRM!". Again I havent had any hang ups or problems.

What is it you have to do to have a problem with this?

UK and US agree biometric heavily vetted trusted traveller deal

Yup used to love visiting the US...but now its Canada.

Our lovely yummy tourist dollars will be going north of the border from now on.

We just cant risk going to the US anymore. My gf whilst a UK subject has a lapsed green card/resident visa for the US and so before these immigration checks came into force she was always sent to the 'office' and made to wait for questioning whilst I was left wondering if I was going to be holidaying it alone.

We just dread to think what would happen now. Just not worth the risk.

I am also all in favour of putting in the same checks etc. for US folks visiting the UK. Its really the quickest way to get rid of all this BS.

Two can play silly buggers.

OpenSUSE 11 a redemptive OS with a Mactastic shine

Does this version pass the final ultimate test?

Does it work straight after install 100% with Broadcomm wireless chipsets in 90% of laptops?

No excuses of "yes it will but you need this version, that version, recompile this driver and hack this that and the other!" That isnt good enough.

Can I install this distro and my laptop will simply connect to the internet using wireless?

Every Linux distro I've used so far fails this simple test everytime and therefore renders it useless in my opinion. I really want to seriously try this route but until it 'just works' it aint going to.

UK is not a surveillance society, MPs claim

@amanfromMars

Now if I could have understood a word of what you said I may have been able to comment further........

I just wish they would admit it...

....the fact they love the power and the intoxication of knowing exactly what your 'citizens' think.

Its got nothing to do with terrorism. I dont give a second thought about terrorism. Who cares??? We never worried that much when the IRA were blowing up bits of the UK every month. A couple of days outrage in the tabloids and that was it, back to normal. We largely ignored it. Somebody always has an axe to grind so if it wasnt muslim fundamentalists it would be someone else.

I dont know anyone thats 'scared' of terrorists. Terrorists have also never taken away any of my rights or freedoms but my Govt has.

Remember when the 7/7 bombings took place? There was our proud leader and home secretary both stating at the time that "this will NEVER affect our free and democratic way of life! They will never take away our freedom!"

About two weeks later a whole raft of new restrictive (and pointless) legislation is brought in. Hold on...but you said....?

Its all part of the big lie. The 'intelligence' (ha) agencies know who most of these people are so just concentrate on them and let the rest of us get on with life.

Apple's Snow Leopard to cut the bloat from Mac OS X

When it comes to operating systems in the 21st Century.....

....less is more!

The more lines of code/crap/bloat you have in there the more chance of something going wrong.

We now have fantastic hardware so lets have some nice lean, optimised and bug reduced code to make it sing!

After all an OS should purely be the layer that allows me to run the applications that I want to run. Nothing more.

Sanyo camcorders turns to tracking technology

These are good cams

I've used three different types of these Sanyo cams and they work very well. Quite why you would buy one of those boxy type camcorders I dont know. They sit in your jacket or jeans pocket well too.

I have managed to persuade a few of my mates to buy these rather than more expensive HD cams. Once I asked them "well would you care to watch anyones home movies even if they were HD?" Even your baby wont thank you for capturing it puking on its bib in HD in 20 years time.

Short candid clips is all thats needed for most of us.