Posts by HMB 638 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Oct 2010
I dooo hope Windows Store get's talking animals. I don't know where I'd be without being able to pay for a talking donkey and a talking giraffe and a talking monkey, they're animated AND funny! WOOO!! What's not to love!?
*All sold separately
(One should be able to deduce sarcasm)
Good question, I'm not entirely sure. XDA reports that 4.0.4 is ok, but then you could have multiple updates on that one version number. Only way to be sure would be to run the safe tests on your phone.
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?p=31994542
"UPDATE2: Lennyuk has confirmed that you shouldn't be affected by this so long as you're using the latest S3 rom."
"Lennyuk" - "All current S3 firmware should be patched, samsung were informed of this issue some months ago and actively fixed it."
I could do more, but if you're interested, go read the thread! :P
You know I wrote a structured, logical argument going over my experiences with Chrome, IE9 & IE10. I just deleted it all, because there's just no point.
There are too many people who will go "M1croshaft Internet Exploder sux donkey balls".
They don't care about trying the latest versions out, listening to Microsoft saying what's new and what's been done. They don't care about how much work has gone into it because all they'll ever see is the time they tore their hair out making a site work in IE6.
So I'm sick of it. I'm not going to bother making any sensible logical arguments that are vaguely pro IE10.
Time for me to go ride a penguin or something.
More customers are still stranded on ADSL 1 as BT can't be arsed to even move them to the 21st Century Network which gives uses ADSL2+.
What the hell? They don't even have to touch the wiring and I bet the DSLAM is already ADSL2+ compatible! That or they were idiots when they ordered it in 2005 or whatever.
I really liked my 50Mbps service from Virgin while I had it. I felt it was a great product and the customer service was OK. BT's customer service was not just worse, but snottier too.
Virgin did accidentally disconnect me once (engineer doing another flat left us disconnected), that was annoying, but I complained and got money back.
The worst thing Virgin did was take a functional, well behaved Superhub (we got ours on R30 and it was fine except for 40Mhz wide WiFi (300Mbps)) and forced an update on it that screwed the wireless and something on the routing. It stopped SSH & VPNs from working. I had to go to modem mode.
I think Virgin's problem is it needs greater technical competence in some key areas. The firmware debacle has been pretty shockingly bad. If you can forgive them for that and run in modem mode, it's still one hell of a lot better than ADSL2+
What responsibility do Google have to Apple? Google is a profit based business. It's duty is only to it's shareholders and customers.
Companies that let themselves get left behind because they're worried about hurting the feelings of people on the board of another company get eaten up and pooped out. They're unsuccessful companies.
The whole idea of a free market economy is competition which drives innovation and lowers price to customers and I want the latest tech at the lowest prices.
In any case, imitation is the most sincere form of flattery:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CW0DUg63lqU
"You make them out to sound so peaceful and lovely. Not at all like a country the runs people over with tanks.
You might want to read this, it's just the beginning of a more aggressive China.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-19710040"
Well... I'm so glad that the police in the UK never push over protesters and kill them. Isn't it a good job we've never built aircraft carriers. I mean otherwise we might look like the aggressive ones eh?
With LTE Advanced (1Gbps Down/0.5Gbps Up) I think that becomes plausible. Contention and mast density are critical though for making it really work.
I love broadband over mobile, but contention is a MUCH bigger issue than on fixed line with the shared radio space and not just because I put much in capitals. :P
Was that what you took away from the last few years?
For me I happened to get the impression that spending far more than we ever had to spend had left us massively screwed.
Me personally? What would I have given up to make the budget fit? Probably two massively expensive wars that didn't seem to achieve anything. Yeah... I would have given up those. Come to think of it, I don't think I'd ever want to vote for a Government that screwed us all royally so it could pointlessly kill members of our armed forces.
But perhaps you just wanted a less considered general venting at authority?
Booo!!! Hiss!! Authority!!!
On a tech news site I think it's entirely relevant. On the BBC website I think it's because the BBC is staffed by a lot of upper middle class hipsters who can't see why everyone can't afford to buy a "proper computer".
I appreciate that's not their official line to the public too.
Yes, I have met people (not just one person) who work in the BBC.
@tommitytom
See, I read what you said and just thought you were trolling, leaving aside my own thoughts on the matter. Then I looked at the you tube link and thought, "huh, well what do you know?
I think the man in the video is a great, smart, shameless, hypocritical, artistic, childish, entertaining bastard.
(Disclosure, I bought a Samsung Galaxy Nexus, but I do like the iPhone and iPad, though never ended up quite motivated enough to purchase any of them)
That sounded really cool until I looked at their website and found that there were no unlimited products and peak hours were basically all week (not weekend) when you were likely to be awake.
Their starting product on fibre has a 30Gb allowance, on fibre!! I couldn't deal with that myself.
On the previous firmware to R36 I found that the wireless problems I had were entirely down to it trying to use the 40Mhz mode. Restrict it to 20Mhz only and it behaved perfectly.
After the upgrade I had to put it into modem only mode to get reliable, workable Internet as it was screwing up most secure connections and causing them to fail. SSH was unusable, as were my VPNs.
If television series are so wonderful, why is their money stream largely funded through advertising?...
- Surely if TV programs were better they wouldn't need to be funded through advertising? Doesn't that mean all ad funded television is rubbish?
"If you aren't claiming to release a finished product it is a defence against people suing etc."
- And yet here we are, talking about how bad a non-beta product is. What a crazy world.
Cloud based... hehe.
So how are users going to improve horrifically poor resolution on satellite imagery? Will Apple be supplying canons to fire your phone out up into the air with software that takes a snap at max altitude?
Presumably the more people try to use the petrol stations on top of skyscrapers, the better the accuracy will get.
"If you've got remaining warranty why wouldn't you get Apple to replace the battery for free?"
Apple website quotes:
"...one-year limited warranty includes replacement coverage for a defective battery..."
"...Apple will replace the battery if it drops below 50% of its original capacity..."
and slightly out of order
"You can extend your coverage to two years from the date of your iPhone purchase with the AppleCare Protection Plan for iPhone"
@Bob Vistakin "was is as good as this? http://goo.gl/amB1g"
Hahaha, no it was really pretty competent. :)
I had NO anti-android or "grass is greener" sentiment to my earlier message. I just acknowledge good ideas when I see them, no matter where they come from.
Someone else earlier said that Navigate did offer alternative routes, I never said it didn't. I just mentioned I liked them being options at the start.
Navigate never used to try and feed you info you didn't need, it was better when it just gave you the vitals. Going through Leeds, it was telling me what was coming up next at really inappropriate times.
I know you're joking there, but from watching the video there are some things that I prefer:
1) The navigation doesn't incessantly babble more instructions than necessary. I have used Google Navigation in Leeds and got to the point where I was shouting at my phone in the car and turning the air blue. Silencing the phone solved the problem, but it's not a secret these days that giving a driver excess information on a sat nav doesn't help and causes stress.
2) The navigation allows you to choose from alternative routes when you start.
While these are good points, I don't believe Steve Jobs would have let the product out in it's current form of readiness.
I don't think it's about faster hardware, it's about writing smart code that prioritises animation frames instead of letting a trivial background process spike CPU use and jitter the animation. Apple & Microsoft know how to do this with low power single core devices. Android Jelly Bean (on my phone) has made huge strides forward in fluidity but it's still not quite there if the phone is thinking about something else.
In short - It's not all about the hardware.
"The rich pay more tax than the poor, so really it's the rich subsidising the rich."
You've clearly never seen how much tax some rich people pay when they get a small wage and large dividends all worked through clever accounting and a separate limited company. All made possible by a government that frowns on the practise in public but hasn't changed the game.
For the love of god! There is no science in grey goo. Seriously.
Moulds that exist in the air and consume food are the closest thing to grey goo you'll ever see. They eat anything they can. They self replicate. They're efficient and persistent.
The energy costs alone of breaking chemical bonds for replication of a nanobot are beyond that which a nanobot could source unless the material was rich in chemical energy (e.g. mould and bread). Let's not even consider communication or computational capacity!
Grey goo is science comedy, it's not even science fiction.
Credible things include:
Plastic eating organisms (plastic can burn so you can release energy from it)
Hmmm... (can't think of more for now)
If you can't manage to go into your BIOS and change the secure boot to 'custom' or 'off', it really is best that you don't attempt to install Linux anyway.
There are around 2 billion computer users in the world. Around 1.8 billion Windows users would benefit from secure boot by eliminating traditional rootkits. It will slightly inconvenience 40 million, for the sake of 1.8 billion. Stop being so selfish.
(I'm having a competition for downvotes with this message so don't feel shy if you want to knee jerk)
Those laws have already been used against people using Islam as an excuse for hate.
There were plenty of government reassurances that satire and parody would be fine.
Admittedly I'm waiting for the temporary motorway speed limit of 70 mph to be over after it was set temporarily in 1967.
"A downvote ? Seriously ? Can someone explain why this delicious echo of Lord Izzard of Cheam is downvoted ?"
It doesn't matter if what you say is funny or what you say is true. What matters is: "Do the readers like it?".
When you get a downvote, it could be anything from a carefully considered, intelligent and rational decision to an immature teen who thinks he knows about computers, smoking pot at his parents, wearing a soviet Hammer & Sickle t-shirt.
If downvotes bother you too much, it's time to spend more time with good friends in the real world ;)
I don't mind the move to Nano SIMs. It's fiddly, but you can see why an engineer would be pointing at their designs saying "if we made this smaller we could put a bigger battery in".
I think anyone will be hard pressed to sell phones without removable SIM cards to people who've always had removable SIM cards. It'd be a tough sell. The consumer knows they have the power over their phone.
Now... I am not sure if I believe the article personally. How small do you think the new Pico SIM will be when it comes out in the next 2-3 years? :P
You're issue is BT's monopoly and your answer is to disallow network competition? Are you mad? You honestly think a state monopoly is a good idea?
The market gives people what they want (because that's what people pay for and makes them money).
The state gives people what it thinks they should have (Go drive a Volga http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Volga_31105.jpg ).
I assume you don't believe in a free internet then?
Broadband is important to Government, that's why they tax fiber connections at so many thousand a year per mile. It's because they want to encourage competition in Broadband.... Wait a minute!?
There you go, that's your opportunity Wales, make a big fuss about broadband tax hurting competition and access and see if you can get tax relief. That might do something interesting.
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