Posts by FanMan

BYOD is a PITA: Employee devices cost firms £61 a month

Naff off

I don't want my device managed thankyouverymuch

BlackBerry Q10: This quirky QWERTY will keep loyalists perky

The Puerile Acronym Otherwise Known as BOLLOX

Those plucky Canucks are fighting back manfully, good on them. If they want to be called BlackBerry why not just help them out and go along with it?

Plunging BT sales hit every branch of the biz on way down

well, kinda

If you can get through to the tech guys they are the salt of the earth, best in the business.

Their sales people, on the other hand, - if you can get through at all - 20 mins is not uncommon - are half-deaf, disconsolate, script-driven automata with the attention span of elderly goldfish.

BlackBerry bets fans are willing to upgrade skills

Blackberry manager Stephen Bates did not inspire confidence on R5 this AM... nul points!

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p014f43k

Official: Fandroids are smarter/tighter* than iPhone fanbois

I've filled in the missing option

OFFICIAL: FANDROIDS ARE SMARTER/TIGHTER/LESS SUCCESSFUL* THAN IPHONE FANBOIS

I'm sure there are squillions of fanmen like me who spend £'s on their iPhone bills making ££££££££'s of monthly sales. It's an investment. A tool. You don't get very far if you don't use your tool.

RIM blows on the dice, gets ready for its FINAL THROW

Surprise me

I jacked my last berries because of the inadequate and overpriced apps, the browsing, the fuzzball, the labyrinthine and incomprehensible settings. Actually I did like the real keyboard, and the good value international roaming packages. Fix all that other stuff to Apple standards of GUI and I'll think about it. Maybe.

Reg Readers love their gadgets

Zzzzzzzzzz.....

......who cares?

Just what the world needs: Android in the rice cooker

I remember...

Bernard Levin devoted a whole Times page to fulminating against Sony's then novel idea of a shower radio. I immediately went out and bought one. It's still going strong, having comfortably outlived its palaverous detractor.

Just saying.

Siri: Can you make a Raspberry Pi open a garage door?

Re: Missed Opportunity

And he could have sprayed a big fat apple in the door around the handle

Oh and where is his motor?

It's official: Mac users are morally superior to Windows users

"It appears that Mac users are merely more unselfish with their disposable income than are their Windows-using counterparts."

Or maybe they have more disposable income because, starting from zero, a Mac will get you where you need to be faster than any other ordinateur. Fact.

iPad mini to outsell iPad, get Retina Display? iPad to slenderize?

Re: @ Jim in Hayward

Jim is obviously an American, that's how they say it over there.

Grinchy Google to shut down another batch of services

You could say the same about iGoogle...

... but I'd be more than happy to pay for it, I'm surprised they don't offer that option

Re: Sigh...... "unloved and little-used services"

... yeah, like iGoogle. My door to the universe. Big, big loss.

Sheryl Sandberg offloads $41.5m in Facebook shares in just 6 weeks

Re: Just to jump on the bandwagon...

Well that's all fine and large but if you borrow against something you are still on the hook for the value thereof, tax or no tax.

Better to cash in real time while the gettin's good, you ask me.

Boffins spot 7 ALIEN WORLDS right in our galactic backyard

Stop this now

Let's just stop drawing attention to ourselves. Alien visitation is almost certain to be bad for us.

Lovefilm does a Wii after rival gets loaded on new Nintendo

But no Letterman either!

Such a blow. I'll sign up for any service with current and vintage Dave, never mind anything else.

Re: Lovefilm also has better content - agreed

Lovefilm have much more depth of content - much better for obscure movies. The organisation is a bit more scattered but I can live with that

Tech titans lose our loyalty: Are fanbois a dying breed?

Re: Are fanbois a dying breed?

"I hope they're a dying breed."

I've been happily buying and using Apple kit since 1989 and will continue to do so; and I attend Eucharist almost every Sunday morning. So I'm on your hit list twice over. I don't really know why I've upset you, though.

Badges for Commentards

Great - a Bore's Charter

Rewards for quantity not quality make no sense.

Brit retailers tell Amazon and Google to pay their taxes

Switch to PC World? I don't think so!

Businesses have a right and duty to minimise their tax. Starbucks and Amazon are not breaking the law so fair play to them - we should get the framework changed if we want more of their money.

I use Amazon all the time and will continue to do so. Much of their sales are from UK based third parties who do pay tax and still offer competitive prices even after Amazon gets their cut.

Starbucks is great for nice tea, cool sounds, and good wi-fi - but for decent coffee it's Costa all the way, tax or no tax. (Mine's a Cortado thanks.) Plus Costa have real baristas and real espresso machines, not the automated junk Starbucks use.

One in four don't clean their stinky old browsers - especially Firefoxers

My Mac Firefox stalls (spinning beach ball) several times a week and successive updates have not helped so I'm not so exercised about updating all the time. Firefox isn't getting any better, as far as I can make out, but I'm used to it. Security is a worry though.

Walmart workers filmed playing iPad frisbee

Stuff Wars I: The resistance begins

Maybe the beginning of revolt against the alienation inherent in consumer culture. Respect due.

Bald? Looking old before your time? Don't panic, but you might DIE

People in their 70s are more likely to die

Well I never!

Credit card-sized mobile simplified for oldies

Patronising crap

Signed,

J Gilmore (aged 69 3/4)

Sony KD-84X9005 84in ultra-HD TV review

Go ahead, import death into your house if you want to.

You're going to want a return on this investment by spending lots of time slumped in front of the thing.

Watching TV has the same calorie burn as sleeping and half as much as reading a book.

Just saying.

Dry martini, shaken not stirred: Cracking the physics of Bond's martini

Re: Churchill's recipe

That's way too sweet. Call your barman pal in Singapore and ask him to hold a vermouth bottle up to the phone.

Scientists is it

It was them jokers that came up with the Chorleywood process which gave us poor benighted Brits the sh**tiest bread on the planet. Keep them away from our hooch!

Apache promotes OpenOffice to top-level project

Clunky amateurish junk

My (Mac) experience suggests: Life is way too short to be struggling with these clunky home made poo poos, or indeed with Mac Numbers (yekk), for that matter.

Pay Mr Gates for the real McCoy and enjoy a professional product.

And if you just want a free midrange spreadsheet app, go Google.

Can all these well meaning brain boxes find no better focus for their benevolence than re-inventing the wheel?

SAP customers fancy licence payments 'holiday'

If you can find them... then maybe

"Just employ a few decent developers.. hell of a lot cheaper then paying for sap every year."

Trouble is they are like the A team, as a non IT business person I would have no idea where to look or how to judge. For example, much of our organisation is done via Google spreadsheets. It would be great to set up a single aggregated sheet pulling info from all the other sheets but apart from manually there's no way. I have no way to tell if it's possible and if so, where to get customisation help.

Windows 8 pricing details announced as preorders begin

Re: RE: Like a Mac, it is still a turd, and not useful for anything but it is still very shiny.

How very very dare you!!!!

The tips stop here: Starbucks to take Square Wallet payments

"....you'll still have to carry change if you want to be sure of a decent cup of coffee".

Yeah, that, as well as execute a brisk 180 degrees and head for the Costa on the opposite corner!

Fact!

Google shovels more small-fry apps on Larry Page's pyre

Well, what about iGoogle?

How is ditching that giving me a beautifully simple experience? Except in the sense that if you disappear something, them you're making life simpler coz its not there any more.

Micro Anvika goes titsup after Olympics fails to save its shops

Squeezed till the pips squeaked

Micro Anvika were the only people in Tottenham Court Road who didn't sneer at the word Macintosh. It's a real pity Apple couldn't leave space for loyalist vendors instead of sucking all the business into itself like a fruity black hole.

Councils launch eight spying ops on Brits A DAY using RIPA

Go to it!

Dog fouling is heinous. I'm all in favour of using snoop tech to nab the poopers.

Google shifts more of Postini into Apps platform

Pile of...

Did Google really pay $600M+ for the pile of poo that has been mangling our inbox for the last four years?

Beeb stuffs $21tn into Olympic-sized swimming pools

British Airways got there first

BA likewise proudly measure in OSP's the amount of airborne "tea" they serve each year. It sure tastes like that's where they got the water for the manky tepid Millac-infested swill.

Numbers don't lie: Apple's ascent eviscerates Microsoft

"Lets face it, it is rather retro kernel design"

I just wish I had a fraction of the technological insight required to evaluate that remark.

Really.

Acer bigwig sees gloomy future for Ultrabooks in Europe

Maybe the only thing being proved is ...

... the green-eyed discourteous are aways with us.

Budget smartphones all the rage as punters look sub-£100

Re: I'm all for budget ... and see no need bells & whistles on a telephone.

I think there's room for both kinds. I'm guessing your phone might be the legendary Nokia 6310i which was discontinued years ago and which I still pack as back-up. They still fetch good money and I'm surprised Nokia has never yielded to the demand to start making them (or an update with the same ergonomics, talktime, robustness and reception quality but a more durable paint job).

Council chief overrules blackout on Scots 9-yr-old's school lunch blog!

Re: An Oldie Recalls

PS. Your basic stockbroker belt gastro-pub fare, in fact!

An Oldie Recalls

These "meals" are just pitiful. I attended a Scottish comprehensive (the Nicolson Institute, Stornoway) throughout the 60's and was fed much better than that. Lentil soup, beef rissoles with peas, cabbage, and mash, followed by sponge and custard ("doorstep and dishwater") was a typical elevenpenny lunch, as I recall. A child might have departed stupefied but not malnourished.

There is something very wrong here. (I wonder what these Outer Hebridean canteen ladies are serving up these days....).

Nokia eyes private equity buyer for bling-phone firm

The allure of luxury

I lost my wallet last week, a perfectly seviceable Kiki James model KJ039-0085, £49.00. I was about to re order when my attention strayed to the functionally similar Mulberry 8 Card Coin Wallet at £200.00 - four times the price. I'm not a deluxe kind of guy but have to say this eye watering price has bought extended and possibly lasting satisfaction.

Just saying.

Firefox 13 now available for download

And still the beach ball whirls...

I keep hoping all these new releases will come up with a way to just work without all these eternal seizures and failures to respond and spinning beach balls and what not. I already upgraded to 13 (Mac) and it's no improvement.

TomTom does the dream-job-onna-island bit

Fix the darn TomTom call centre (0845 161 0009) before dreaming up PR jollies!!!

An insult to poorly-served loyal customers. TomTom could give lots more people a warm fuzzy by setting these 25 on to the customer service lines instead. The waiting time is woeful to infinite, the music is execrable, no queue place notification, no call back service. Just dire. I like the traffic service but as soon as I find a decent alternative with decent customer service, I'm bailing out.

Nympho hauled to loon-cooler after serial bonkathon brutality

IT connection

I am struggling to discern the IT context of this otherwise comprehensive report.

Ten... Satnavs to suit all budgets

Re: I use paper maps. Free, from AAA.

GPS has been a godsend for me, ever since the Garmin Streetpilot which was only slightly less stressful than using maps and put me off the Garmin brand for life. The TomTom was a breath of fresh air and I've been happily loyal to them ever since. Even if you don't drive much, a GPS is a fantastic investment in time saving, fuel saving, and above all, stress busting.

I always take my GPS with me when travelling to far-off lands. Even if the hire car already has it, it's just so... comforting to have your own (zero learning curve) and you can keep all your favourite locations.

Re: Hm, odd

It's a lot better having a dedicated GPS than using your phone.

Re: @ElNumbre (was:I use paper maps. Free, from AAA.)

The live updates on the 1005 allow you to avoid tailbacks. The Live 1005 can be set to do that automatically. But of course, you may enjoy being trapped on the motorway for hours on end, if so, knock yourself out!

Ten... Bedroom Gadget Treats

I like these articles. At least they remind us where all you boffins might end up working on of you hit a career snake instead of a ladder.

The iPhone movement sensing REM sleep monitor app is interesting and fun and you don't have to duck tape it to any part of your anatomy.

My proven tips for sound refreshing slumber, not in any particular order:

Get a walk in, ideally 40 to 80 mins minimum

No more than 2 - 3 drinks

Bed by 11

Shower or bath before retiring, clears off skin irritants and subconsciously reminds one of babyhood

Don't be completely nude, wear T shirt or similar to keep shoulders warm

A sh*g or self love as cirumstances/tastes permit

Nothing with a screen on it in bed. Book maybe

Darkness