Posts by mr_spigot

iPhone queue ‘superficial and pretentious’ says queuing fangirl

Priorities

So many students preferring to spend their hard earned (???) on tech, not ale. What have we spawned....

Amazon Kindle Touch Wi-Fi eBook reader review

Too cheap to be great

I've taken to the Kindle wi-fi (non-touch) with a vengence since being given one a few months back. Love it to bits, but there's much room for improvement. With ebook sales now overtaking print at Amazon you'd think they would be pushing hard to capitalise on it and improve the experience. My guess is that they can't provide the improvements because they've priced them to break even or even lose money on the hardware. The low price also prevents the competition from innovating. I think we're stuck with this functional but lackluster device until Amazon decide the public are fully converted to ebook and will pay more for the hardware.

YouView: The long march to... er, where exactly?

DLNA too?

Put me down for one. Time to retire the Toppy and make use of the HD transmissions I think.

Looks fine to me, but I would like a DLNA client. I can't find out much about this Humax box at the moment though.

Barclaycard slaps pay-by-bonk plasters on mobes

Why not Bank of England eCash?

Not surprisingly, lots of comments about transaction charges. I'd love to use electronic cash this way but don't want x% of my income frittered away to the banks on cash transactions. We don't pay for transactions in hard cash because ukgov supplies it and shops absorb the cost of handling it. Now that hard cash is outdated doesn't it make sense for the government to develop ecash and keep it free. It will cost initially but may end up cheaper than printing/moving paper cash. Any downside... well they make a complete balls up of anything with software.

Alleged LulzSec hacker still inside

Hacker in Wickford?

Nice to see Lulz are so enthusiastic to clear Essex Man of any involvement. I'm sure they're right, I mean surely hackers live in Uzbekistan and the like, not just outside Basildon.

Let me just add that he didn't have anything to do with WikiLeaks either - that was WickfordLeaks, and very boring it was too. Get it right peon masses (wtf?)...