Posts by JDX

Facebook changes data-use policy despite 87% poll opposition

Re: Most users don't care

Why do you think FB is supposed to be a democracy in the first place?

Re: Strange

I very much believe there are at least 100mn active users. It's ubiquitous.

Re: and people wonder...

>>There's your answer, folks.

Maybe one day you'll run a company. On that day you'll realise by about 0945 that it's your job to decide what your company does, not your users' job to run your company by democracy.

Brit judge orders Facebook to rip masks from anonymous cowards

Re: Facebook has a real name culture

It does have a real name culture because most people using it use their real names. The fact some don't (my cat has an account) doesn't change the normal usage.

Microsoft so sorry for limp wedding tackle gag gaffe

Re: Having evaluated this "sketch" myself I am forced to the conclusion that...............

Yeah the only offensive thing here is how terribly cheesy it is.

Those poor dancers.

Reseller kingpin: My rise from school disco boss to FTSE 250 biz

Re: Eastwood boy done good

Branson is also dyslexic.

Facebook testing "announce important post" feature

Re: THIS IS AN IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

Except they have to pay for the feature. So only your really rich friends will be able to adopt this stratagem. In which case either you're an idiot for being friends with that type of person, or you're friends with them for their money and deserve what you get.

Re: Hey Morons

Also:

1)they don't get notified when you unfriend them

2)you can selectively choose which things you get notified about, to cut out a good chunk of dross

Of course when people you genuinely like post too much crud, you could start commenting on it and moan - they might stop or they might unfriend you, either being a net win!

Hey Morons

All you who are whinging about how their friends spam them with dross, and dread this feature making it even worse...

YOU'RE THE ONE WHO CHOSE TO BE FRIENDS WITH THEM!

Says more about your circle of friends, or desperation to have some 'friends', than anything else.

Intel to target TV viewers with facial recognition ad tech

Re: I'll wait for the OSS version.

I find pressing || on the remote isn't so taxing I want to buy a TV that guesses when I want it to do that for me.

Samsung's projector phone beamed up to Blighty

It shows your age that you consider every kid who plays music on their mobile phone to be a chav. I find the same thing - the older I get the more kids I view with distrust.

Ten... Sata 3 SSDs

And tape drive £/Gb are far cheaper still so clearly that's the way to go.

HMRC Tax Calc

Re: I have a better idea

The employer is interested how much they pay you, not how much of it you get to keep. They're not your mummy, learn to figure it out yourself.

Leftie writers?

>>swamped, no doubt, by starving millionaires desperate to know how much their 5 per cent tax cut was worth

Really?

Windows 8: Not even Microsoft thinks businesses will use it

Considering so many businesses are still on XP/Vista, MS can still derive huge income from businesses upgrading to W7 - which is a great and well-tested OS. Cheap workstations are now able to run W7 with ease, etc.

So I see no real problem bypassing enterprise.

Apple seeks resurrection of HTC importation ban

Re: Stuff Apple!

Good for you you big man you. Of course it's not like HTC, Samsung, Google et al are using the exact same patent systems to make their own attacks wherever possible.

Sean Parker launches Chatroulette killer: For why?

>>But today, even with free telephony and ubiquitous webcams, video chat hasn't broken out of its niche market of murky exhibitionists.

People use video-chat on Phones/FaceTime all the time.

Facebook tests parental-guidance tools in plan to pull in under-13s

Re: Under 13's

So might as well accept this will happen and get parents to preempt it by setting up a monitored account. If the link automatically severs on the 13th (or whatever age) birthday this could be a neat solution.

Microsoft confirms UK.gov to dodge licensing hike... almost

Blah blah blah, tax payers' money, blah blah open source, blah blah blah, idiots.

There you go, saved 50% of the comments from being written. You're welcome.

Oz has to go nuclear, says Adelaide U scientist

Isn't Oz perfect for nuclear power, shove the plants in the heartland where nobody lives a thousand miles from anything?

Firefox 13 now available for download

Re: utter madness

>>Does any chrome user that hasn't just downloaded it actually know what version they're on without checking?

No and that's the point.

Windows 8: We kick the tyres on Redmond's new tablet wheels

Re: *rolls eyes*

So use it predominantly in Desktop mode then.

UK.gov beats down Microsoft software price hike to 1pc

Things increase in price every year, it's called inflation you idiot.

Windows 8 Release Preview open for download

Changes?

If we could get away from copy-pasting how crap W8 in general is, would anyone be able to comment if they made any noticeable changes since the last beta?

We can't afford the CPU, hard drive, video, etc upgrades MS thinks are necessary

So you're working somewhere that hasn't bought a new PC for 5 years? Sounds like they really value their employees.

Universe has more hydrogen than we thought

helps explain why the rate of star formation has slowed down

When I were a lad there were new stars nearly every day.

Amazon's Lovefilm HD shuns Sony fanboys

Doubtless it's their own internal meaning of 'HD' - more HD than the non-HD versions :)

Netflix also has 'HD' but doesn't say what it means by that.

Windows 8 release preview imminent

Re: hoo ray

Nobody wanted to use a stupid Start Button either in 1995.

Apple's Ping has fatal pong, says CEO

Re: Spotify

>>I've yet to work out why music *has* to be social anyway

Well it is to make money, but music IS social in real life too. You tell your mates about new bands, share memories of great gigs, relive the past when you hear certain songs, etc.

Dot-word bidders in last-minute dash after ICANN reveals timetable

So soon we'll be visiting the.register?

Galaxy S III pay-monthly tariffs compared

Re: Ouch

I'm amazed by how advanced modern smartphones are but the idea it is the norm to carry a £500 gadget in your pocket just isn't something I like. We're supposed to be poor!

Ouch

£35+ a month for a phone.

Samsung Galaxy S III

Faster than Tegra3?

Is that what the graph was showing - that this is the very fastest smartphone in the world right now?

Microsoft forbids class actions in new Windows licence

Re: I must be missing something here

>>Sorry if I am being naive here, but who the fuck are Microsoft to determine how people may choose to exercise their legal rights?

It's not MS who decided it, it is the court. Read the article.

Re: If the first thing they do

No they're just doing what they're allowed to do. No doubt it will be commonplace soon.

No because as the article already said, legal precedent exists for them to do this.

It's rather cynical and mean but if the law allows it, they'd be suckers not to do it.

Megaupload founder gets uncuffed

Dotcom

Really?

Facebook needs Opera - to rescue it from dependence on Apple

Opera users should love FB

If you hold Opera shares, they just went up 25% based on this rumour.

anyone that's a "Web Pro" uses Opera

Good one.

More seriously, surely this can't be for real. FB, who exist specifically to make money from users' data, teaming up with Opera, who flat-out reject opportunities to do the very same thing?

10gen bags another $42m for MongoDB roadmap

Bubble

Never mind the new .com bubble, when is the NoSQL bubble going to pop?

Facebook phone tagged for 2013 release

Really, IT geeks need to learn that their personal opinion is not 'common sense', it's just another personal opinion. FB is obviously cool regardless of whether you like it or not (personally I'm not fussed).

Re: The beginning of the end?

There have been other search engines that Google displaced. But Google is a solid company. FB may well be displaced but it's not going to happen immediately and it's not going to happen overnight. Also, none of FB's predecessors had anything like the same number of users so saying it's inevitable to be displaced as easily is not comparing like for like - search engines were quickly displacing each other and then one got big enough to firm up.

Go back further and Operating Systems were constantly in turmoil until a couple got big enough to grow firm. So FB may not be so quick to go.

Re: I need

Plus the hundreds of millions of teenagers and young professionals who also think it's cool.

MS have competition on their hands...

...for lowest market share.

Free Windows 8 desktop app development is dead

@Sean

I'm confused how a trackpad is the same as a touchscreen? I have a MacBook with a multitouch pad and it is still fundamentally acting as a mouse - I have a mouse-cursor I move around the screen using one finger... then I have additional multitouch gestures which are decoupled from the mouse.

So how does this help with Metro which is a touch-based UI where you want to touch a tile? Can you go into more detail how using a trackpad changes things?

Re: Why do Microsoft..

"Now they are alienating all of the smaller software devs out there by forcing them to use the Metro Interface"

No they aren't.

Virgin Media flushes pipes clogged by piles of Spotify fans

Almost Unusable

"On Virgin Media here in Edinburgh UK and can confirm that Spotify is almost unusable – every song will play for 5 seconds, stop for 10 seconds, play for another 5 secs and so on."

And that's only almost unusable?

Foxconn receives Apple smart TV order - report

Re: Ummm...

'simple' doesn't mean 'least functionality'. It means the simplest way to access a wide range of functionality. A channel up/down is the simplest functionality but a big pain when you're on #1 and want to watch #400. Modern TVs have a massive amount of functionality but crappy UIs which makes accessing that difficult.

simplest interface you can imagine

I am intrigued if SJ really has come up with something different - iPod and iPhone genuinely did do this (it's about the only things they really invented IMO). But I really don't think it's voice control, that would be a huge disappointment.

Dual-dock prototype iPad eyed on eBay

It's fine, just put your docks on the other 2 sides.