* Posts by illiad

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Opera spruces up email client in 11.60 browser cut

illiad

Opera is great, fantastic, BUT!!!

The company producing opera seems to take it as 'only their project'.. as in "this feature is really nice, and I don't care that the users don't want, cannot figure out why *I* think it is great..."

they also have what used to be a good forum, until they stated banning users for not liking the changes and removal of features!!

also many websites that Firefox etc have no problem with, do not work fully..

look at the graph on this inq article..

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/01/chrome_firefox_browser_share/

do you see the red line?? the above is the main reason, added that Opera seems to not like huge advertising the way mozilla does it...

Erotica 2011 stands firm against rise of the sex machines

illiad

Mr Grumblefish...

dont you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybian :) ??

.. and yes, used to be a good fun place to go with kinky friends.... :P

there were actually some good porn stars there then.. Linsey Dawn McKenzie, Lorna Morgan, Kerry Marie... last time only lorna was there, said it was just getting too expensive to get a stand.. :(

Unless you have a trade pass, its not really worth it now.. a lot cheaper to go to soho or camden... also NO nudity, NO cameras, bloody boring!!

the European erotica shows are much better, with full nudity, no problems with cameras, or even with touching naked models!!

Swearing doesn’t help pain if you do it too much

illiad

Just for english speakers...

many italian swear words when literally translated, are very boring....

the main point is to direct the 'energy' of the pain elsewhere... thats why preg women delivering are told to breathe heavily or inflict the pain to the poor husband holding their hand!!!! :o

hit your hand with a hammer? at least you know its coming... :P

thats nothing compared to a sudden crippling cramp in the middle of the night...

and most complex swears need thought - how many short, single syllable, mutter-able, very common swear words do you know?? try it!!

Freebie Android anti-malware scanners flunk tests

illiad

C'mon, el reg.... :P

do a quick search for 'best android av' and you will find a lot better 'source' for an article!!!! :)

lookout and AVG 5th & 6th,,, BUT!! you need to read the article from dottech at 5..

http://dottech.org/mobile/android/best-free-apps/22803/android-best-free-antivirus/

lookout AFAICS does not do files or web, so be careful and fully read the article to see if you will get enough protection!

what do you prefer, a dead OS, or dead battery???

Adobe confirms mobile Flash Player's race is run

illiad

@Erik Borgo

what a load of carp.... so where is the macromedia author?? on a desert island, having sold out to adobe I guess... :)

have you forgotten that flash is NOT just one thing??? SWF files are still used by almost everyone.. go ahead, block those and see how 'pretty' most webpages are!!! I think you will find most will stop working properly too! :P

then there is the major part, for video, that also needs JS to work...

and the much smaller parts. to work dialog boxes, autocomplete, etc just to make forums easy to use...

And *everyone* is forgetting that HTML5 is *one* tiny component, that is part of lots of stuff that has not properly been tried yet!!

I await the next "HTML5 is a buggy exploitable mess" report soon!! :D

illiad
Angel

why dont you READ the article??

Its says flash is NOT dead... so android users will stay happy... :) version 11.1 will be fully supported, but not updated to 11.2, unless of course a major security update is needed.. :)

the 'html5 victory' crowd will NOT be happy, as AC 9th November 2011 17:36 says... Unless they stop celebrating, and start thinking of ways to block HTML5 malware!!! :) :)

I remember years ago, when a new flash came out and many browsers were almost unusable, due to the pop up blockers not working!!!!! :P

New tap turns water into super-cleaning potion

illiad
Trollface

@ AC 10th November 2011 11:28

nooooo... but expect more queues at A& E with rather strange injuries to themselves...

Um, I was cleaning the kitchen window naked, and slipped and fell... :(

Colossal dead black neo-sphere approaching Earth

illiad

rendezvous with rama

nobody read that??

Nokia: The first year of the Elopcalypse

illiad

@5.antiago:

I am not sure exactly how non tech you are, but there are those I know, that do not even use 5% of their phones capability... one of my friends does not even know about what happens when he 'transfers files' to another IPhone.. I found out it actually uses a phone number, and so is not 'cost free' like bluetooth transfer..

Of course the main reason he got it, was a good deal, good support, and looks nice... he will most likely change it next year when he sees a better deal!! :o

the same would go for other makers I suppose... people see the flashy ads, but when they get the phone they can barely use it!

They are then reminded that these ads cut out the 'waiting time' to make them look better, and all the other basic stuff that is missing... did you know that the previous version of windows mobile did not have 'cut & paste' ??(so you can get part of a message or document, and make it part of a new message to send or email)

The majority of those making big complaints, are those that use the phone fully, like a minicomputer..

My only beef is the plain stupidity of nokia, for not seeing the popularity of android/linux and only looking at how 'rich & powerful' MS is... forgetting that has been mostly through desktop systems...

My beef against WP7 is the main OS screen.. no chance of customization, only the six or seven GIANT buttons on the front.. it looks like a 'granny phone' or some juniors toy!! and check the reviews, and see what is *missing* .. so get it, if you dont mind the above.. I would wait until 3 or 4 months after launch, to see the real story...

sure, it can do great things, but so can all the rest... have you seen the new GalaxS2 skyrocket with a 1.5G processor?

Just note the Nielsen ratings, Android 43%, apple 28%, RIM blackberry 18%, WM 7% ..

Nokia said it would be happy to be 'third'?? nope, fourth...

www.gsmarena.com/android_extends_its_lead_in_the_us_smartphone_race_nielsen_reports-news-3346.php

illiad

@KeithSloan

yes, but the problem is Elop is another 'brainless businessman' ... they can only see the amount of money that business has made, as a mark of its success, and so a 'safe stock option'..

I would bet Elop would not know a windows PC it he fell over one - his team of PAs do all that...

and seems to forget that MS made it's money on desktop software, not on any kind of portable computer stuff...

and yes, nokia has really good hardware, BUT its no use without good software and support!!

I waited ages while my old nokia did without flash (that android somehow got years before), struggled to play videos that android had no problem with, even connecting to my pc was problematic, unless you don't mind your PC being almost taken over by the over-complex software nokia supplied to do it, and then find your old PC does not have the power or memory for it!!!!

Is it any wonder most have gone to android where there are much less problems, and a huge amount of software to download??? .... unlike the 'void of info' nokia store...

Cable employee admits replacing Superbowl feed with porn

illiad

looking at the vid, its seems he was recording something, and had forgotten that when it was finished, it would switch the feeds!! make sure the switch is disabled next time, or use a separate recorder!!

this fuax pas is about as bad as setting a recording of the big match, and forgetting one set earlier... so the final part of the match is replaced by your wifes program!!! :( :(

not good when 20 mates are watching...

Vegas man begs web for $1m to fix gigantic scrotum

illiad

LINK to PIC & vid!!!

Look closer at the article... you see that colored text??

damed newbs...

Ecclesiastical judge tells church: Let there be Wi-Fi

illiad

more double blind tests needed..

Like the one where they said it was going to be on by this timetable..

1st week: On: mon, wed, fri, sun.

2nd week: on continuously

3rd week: off

4th week: On: mon, wed, fri, sun.

5th week: off

6th week: On: mon-tues, fri-sat.

A number of people reported strange effects during these times, and felt much better during the 3rd week.. of course, phones were banned during the experiment - its a BLIND test!

THE TESTERS LIED...... :) :) the transmitters were NEVER switched on until the 3rd week! during the 3rd week, they were switched as for 1st week then 4th week was on continuously, then off for the rest.. :)

Just shows the power of paranoia.. :)

Google unfurls Dead Sea Scrolls

illiad

Rob Dobs

hey if you cannot breed, you dont even get a chance to selfish! :D (so its 'want no kids' people too...:/ )

Please research what Dawkins actually means by 'selfish' - It is not an emotional state, but DNA pushing its own..

Think about finding a parking slot - you want to get it before the other guy, dont you??

sure you can adopt, get someones egg, etc.. but it wont be *your* gene pool..

illiad

You STILL dont understand the selfish gene...

Its *nothing* to do with 'gathering resources' etc.....

It is the physical and mental abilities you get from your father and mother etc, and how you use them - eg resistance to germs, heat, climate.. ability to make something to improve over others..

BUT!! you have to be able to have children that will carry this on..

If you can prove Einstein wrong, become a great politician, revolutionary engineer, you WILL be remembered for 100 years or more... :)

Ford, Brunel, Newton, Galileo, Planck, Maxwell, Lorentz .. how old would they be now??

illiad

Alan Firminger

believe it, there is no god... and if there was, he gave up on us long ago...

they rewrote and mangled all the stories, changed them so that they could rape the land and resources, thats why....(have you seen the religion documentaries on BBC?? )

and then you see all the death and suffering , what god would stand by and watch??

illiad
Happy

Ahhhhh :) does this include the 'cover sheet' ??

..

.

eg..

to my darling Isiah, who helped in the writing of this work.

The contents of this publication is a work of fiction and has no relation to people living or dead.

illiad

:( :( :(

beaten to it.... :p

Boffin melds quantum processor with quantum RAM

illiad

quCPU...

CPU means Central Processing Unit... it is not based on how it does it... if it was it would be called 'Electron Processing Unit' - all the transistors inside control the flow(or not) of electrons..

illiad

Michael 31..

well we will have wait and see, wont we??

- and do remember that MANY things were once said to be impossible..

they once said that driving a car at more than 10mph would be damaging to the human body..

no man should fly, its against nature...

this new dvd is totally uncrackable... (done in 10 minutes, *while* he was showing it off at some exhibition... :) :) )

I am sure once the quPC is working, many geeks will break many quPasswords / qSecurity.....

Hands on with Toshiba's 'world's thinnest' Android 3.2 tablet

illiad

still not thin enough!!!

maybe when it electronic paper, that pulls out from pen- size hardware...

http://jkontherun.files.wordpress.com/2006/12/roem2.jpg

NASA to work on approved sci-fi books

illiad

unbelievable....

do you mean that "Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979)" is STILL on someones 'yet to watch' list???????

Lithium cells take salt to extend life

illiad

so WHERE is LiFePO4??

if its so good, where can you buy them in mobile form factor???

Beyonce bigs up girls in space

illiad

hey peeps you decide.. :)

guys, what do you think is 'hotter' ??

"sexy girl" or "sexy woman" ??

the rest: how much does this matter that beyonce called you that??

I think it is only those who lack confidence and understanding that would worry about it...

.XXX to launch nothing-but-smut unsafe search

illiad

why its needed..

- so we can find the halfway good stuff, in between the viagra ads and all the other carp.....

and all the sites that just promise, never show, just attack your pc...

But seriously, if you are a straight guy looking for a horny babe, how do you avoid all the weird stuff out there?? - nothing against it, and I bet they would like to find their kink, when all they seem to get is 'boring stuff' .. :p

Heat sink breakthrough threatens ventblockers

illiad

read the pdf??

Just one thing, I think the diagram shows the wrong rotation direction.. if air goes in at center, the fan will rotate anticlock... unless the arrows indicate air flow coming OUT of the disc...

these may have been answered, blame the authorization delay... :(

"heavy and necessarily sharp edge spinining flywheel"? that would be most good HS/fans then.. plus the *production model* has *fan guards* :/

"air gap for thermal transfer" - this is the SAME gap that exists in most fans!

As for the need for fans.. there are enough HUGE heat-sinks about, and if you are NOT doing a massive overclock, a fan may not be needed.. if you do, liquid colling is easier..

Dust? plenty of cases that include fine dust filters, so it stays outside, and 'positive case pressure' will ensure air goes OUT of the cracks, not in.. :)

Opera boss walks off stage, citing musical differences

illiad

(cont) AC: you still dont get it....

.... they tend to make *huge* changes, removing features that first brought users to opera... one excuse was so it would look better in mobile... ??? huh dunno really...

latest one is totally changing the way speeddial works, meaning more conversion and grumbles about being how bad it looks... more going to FF....

illiad

AC: you still dont get it....

I am not complaining about the name!! call it anything else, fjord, viking, hammer... even netty!! :)

I have been using opera since 3.6, and have never seen any attempt to collaborate in the extreme level that Mozilla Firefox has... in fact it has always been a problem when Google upgrades its code, Firefox *always* works, but opera never does, varying from crashes to strange graphical displays, to just some elements not working... losing yet more fans, who see FF rendering these properly, even though they are not 'proper spec'.. another 'fiddle' to keep FF users happy..

I have always advocated opera, but they really 'broke' it after 10.5, anyone who did not like their 'pet new project' were 'removed' for talking too much about how good the old one was... so I'm mostly using FF and dolphin.. opera only for the very simple stuff - it freezes otherwise... a shame really..

Opera staff does not seem to want to protect it's designs, even though they are obviously incomplete!! FF has taken them, and vastly improved upon them, where any wants or complaints to opera about this results in ignorance or discipline... losing yet more users to FF. ..

"ancient mobile phones" argument is stupid, they are not being made any more... they will soon die, or be upgraded... and I bet opera would upgrade its mini browser, exceeding their capabilities - leaving the old phones to die... they would just say "get a new mobile, then you can run our fantastic NEW version!!"

They have already done as much with very old versions of windows....

are you an 'adobe flash' fan?? it is just the geeks and conspiracy peeps that are not... the teenagers do not care, they want their flash games, moving content, etc, that all need it, and cannot bear the slow and buggy alternatives.. guess what mobile browser does not have flash??

or are you in one of those countries that only has 5 yr old mobiles??

I think the problem is maybe they value their 'internet standards' (W3C or no??) , their 'pet' UI yes, it is very good, but they tend to make *huge* changes,

illiad

@A C 28th June 2011 07:30

Sure, there are the juvenile posters, and those who do flame wars about market share...

But you dont need technology to find out!! just say "opera" to the average internet savvy guy...

"huh?? oh yes I'm studying 'La traviata' "

"what? oh yes, she interviewed diana ross.."

say "firefox" and see what they say......

As Christopher P. Martin says it is mostly for the mobile/mini opera, for those who want to use their *ancient* mobile phone...

that's a bit like counting all the horns on wheeled vehicles, PLUS those on pushbikes!!! ROFL

illiad

title

500 million huh???

by that reckoning, safari will be 1800 million, chrome will be 3000 million, and firefox 4500 million...

and NO, YOU prove the numbers...

the forums at TechCrunch show the real story..

At least other browser forums dont ban people for disagreeng with desing decisions... they would just say "download this addon, it will do what you want... :)

4G interference will knock out Freeview

illiad

Peter Gathercole:

I think he is saying "users who've plugged them into their own televisions" to to exclude those who have a box sitting doing nothing due to your brand new TV, or just not connected due to the freesat part only being used... there is a difference!!

illiad

what ofcom annouced *last week*...

"C61, C62 clearange and the 4G broadband sale"

http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051813

"Ofcom moves to protect Freeview interference from 4G mobile devices"

http://www.ukfree.tv/fullstory.php?storyid=1107051834

Oh, and tech heads please note that though the site has good info, the guys answering comments does not seem to do tech, hates links, and will ban anyone confusing him ... :(

there is already a good forum here, and digitalspy.. :)

http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1485127&highlight=4g

illiad

@Mike 137: clearer...

a better way is ..

a 'perfect' filter is a cliff, ie straight up!!

most filters are a hill... the steepness depends on design and has other problems, like 'Pyers' said..

illiad

Graham Anderson:

WTH not invest in a decent cable system, or even a 'stealth' SAT system - many installers will paint on a 'brick effect' or similar, there is also a dish that is designed to look like a garden ornament, among others... surely they could help....

Judgment Day prophet resets doomsday clock

illiad

guess what he says on 22nd?

er... 3rd time lucky???

Mumsnet founder: Our members are 'very keen' on PORN ...

illiad

the original from 2006 World OF Warcraft..

http://www.gametrailers.com/user-movie/the-internet-is-for-porn/1299

illiad

no, no, no!!! this old thing again...

the whole thing about stopping child access to porn, is rather hopeless...

A 5 year old kid these days usually has far more computer knowledge than the average adult, and can run rings around any 'prevention' put in place, and even if they do not know why, they will see it as a challenge to get into the 'forbidden fruit'...

It is far simpler to teach morality and respect to your children at an early age, so they know why it is not nice to smoke & drink too much, and all the other evils that exist outside in the real world..

And teach them properly about love and respect for the beautiful thing that is men & women...

You would be surprised how well they accept this, all they want is plain facts... then they will leave it alone..

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illiad

well

Mycho:

If you had been listening, you would know that polyprop HAS been banned, but the effect is natural and slow, so no real problem..

AS for 'extreme porn' LOL - look up 'opearl' to be really shocked.. :)

Dave B 1: look harder!!!

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&as_st=y&tbs=isch:1&q=Chelsea+Charms&btnG=Search&ei=XA3PTfLeDJK18QOs-4zbDQ&gbv=2&biw=1318&bih=643

you will find there are lots more like her in USA, they are just strange that way....

illiad

lola???

it seems both men AND womens brains are short-circuited by those melons....

http://thismorning.itv.com/thismorning/life/worlds-biggest-boobs

and COVER THE SCREEN so you can listen to what she says...all is intelligently explained.... (there is no 'container' involved.. )

I guess you were thinking lola Ferrari, who had extreme implants, and painful muscle ops..

HTC Desire S Android smartphone

illiad

camera360...

may I ask how is your battery life???

many reviews of this say it really shortens it, is it worth it or not..

Mozilla to ship Firefox 4 on 22 March

illiad

@luxor:

A strange one here - - this works ok in FF & opera V10.1 (1893),

but NOT in 1190 or 2048.. the numbers are NOT in order!

http://epgservices.sky.com/epg/release/current/sky.htm

any explanations??

illiad

@FF4 devs :)

PLEASE can the addon 'interface network' be standardised, so that old addons will still work with a new version???

If I find some small app that makes my browsing much nicer, it is a pain when that stops working due to it being produced by a single guy in his bedroom, with little time or money to work hard to make it work *again* on yet another version of FF!!!

illiad

@luxor

what OS, Opera version are you using?? I am using the *current* final, 11.1( build1190) on XP..

I have just checked the 11.1 BETA 2048, and while you can at least select the parts of the map, It still does not highlight them as FF does!!

'opera too difficult for me'?? NO, I think some websites are too difficult for the Opera staff...

-- when they are not too busy moaning about other browser companies, and banning users for trying to say what should be done to improve opera!! this is the main reason for their low profile, many big fans ahve given up, and gone to chrome or FF... :(

illiad

The Red pill cures all?? not really...

at http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/england/ scroll to the bottom, and try to select the parts of the UK.. works ok in FF..

(No, if it needs win7, forget it, it wont support my 3c905 NIC!!!)

other misc stuff does similar, not so easy to check... how is Chrome for an Opera user?? I have managed to get FF to work like opera, but FF4 is incompatible with most.. so instead of waiting months for addons to catch up, is it possible in chrome in XP??

illiad

What about chrome??

Or would you rather get hacked, DDOSed, malwared, etc OR just your cookies stolen by google??

illiad

OK, moz gurus..

HOW do you change the HUGE addons menu to something smaller???

and if you can convince the moz addons website to *properly* define compatibility...

they still think 4b2 is just the same as 4b12.... the addons certainly dont!!!

I hope at least all refs to betas will be wiped out, and only FF4 FINAL compatibility will be rated...

World's bees face multiple threats

illiad

IT angle?? you are wrong, there IS one!!

http://www.rodaleinstitute.org/2000231fp_Collecting-keeping-wild-honeybees-boosts-coffee-yield-adds-new-layer-of-agroecological-stability

without coffee, IT all goes to sleep!!!

and its almost ALL others too, that depend on them to propagate..

AFAIK the problem is LARGE countries, where bees are moved around too much, get confused, get affected by hundreds of different environments/ pesticide mixes/ geology... heck if YOU woke up **every day** to find you are in a totally different area, no food in the house, have to find out IF and where the shop was, what coins they use.. I am sure you would get sick after a while!!

Seagate launches XP-supporting 3TB drive

illiad

Future boot drives will be SSD, surely???

and the ONLY reason I can see shops selling a PC with *one* drive is to save money, so they can sell more...

[pcshop]

Who cares about the customer, they just want 'an internet' and loads of space to save their pron on!!!! :D

If we put TWO disk drives in it will cost more for labor, connectors, power, even customer support( trying to get the idiot user to check *which* drive may have gone wrong...)

[/pcshop]

face it, geeks... these stooopid drive sizes are only for sellers and others that love large numbers....

If you ARE a seller, I hope you realise you can sell it good, on having a 'wisper quiet drive', i.e, SSD...

believe it or not there are shops that WILL cater for the more demanding customer!! :)

Android phone to replace shop till

illiad

Ever wonder why many shops dont take credit, cheques, etc??

The cost of them changing it into 'money in their bank' is usually far too high for their small business.. Even the Oyster (London transport NFC) card shops will only take cash..

It will have to be *heavily* subsidized for anyone smaller than a supermarket to use...

Firefox 4 squeezes onto phones

illiad

Rafael L: Not on the mobile Opera...

yet again people build an argument NOT based on the article! AFAIK *mobile* opera has never had 'sessions' or 'open closed tab' - now if you had said 'open from history' ....

Oh, and Desktop FF (without addons) DOES have 'open closed tab' and also a very basic 'sessions', so it can recover your pages after a restart from adding addons.. :)