Posts by Dirk Vandenheuvel

Samsung turns screws on Apple, hikes A6 processor price 20%

Re: I wonder..

Chinese companies will pick this up in the next few years. Samsung has everything to lose, not Apple. Hardware manufacturing is easy.

And that is why a monopoly by Samsung is a bad thing. Everybody that doesn't like Apple will be happy, untill you all have to pay more for your mobiles/tablets/microwave ovens.

Microsoft shoots Windows Live Messenger, brings in Skype IM

Wow... you didn't bother clicking one button to go back to the "old" look?

Ten... Apple iPad Mini alternatives

"Ten... Shit Apple Pad Mini alternatives"

Fixed.

Slideshow: A History of First-person Shooters in 20 Games

I would add Terra Nova to that list.

Asus gets paid handsomely for swallowing Google's Jellybean

So does that mean there are actually people who buy Android tablets? Wow.

New science: seas will rise due to CO2 ... but not for centuries

Wow

Kinda funny to read another head-in-the-sand article about climate. I guess we will leave the problems to future generations then... that has worked very well in the past.

Hands on with the Samsung Galaxy S III

Laggggg

A lot of reviews are mentioning input lag compared to IPhone/WP7.

Quad core and lag? Amazing.

How politicians could end droughts forever But they don't want to

"the supply of which is effectively infinite"

Yeah... I think I have found the flaw in your plan. How many times in the past have people used natural resources as effectively infinite? Look what happened there.

There is also no such thing as a free lunch.

Google motors into cloud storage with Drive

Bad news?

Wait? Offering an inferior product is now bad news for your competitors? On what planet is that?

HTC One X Android smartphone

Specs

And you are going to use this "power" for what exactly?

Battery life is much more important.

Coders' 'lives sucked out' by black-and-white Visual Studio 11

Re: real coders use notepad

I thought real programmers used : Copy Con > Program.exe

Re: Two points:

Because VS is vastly superior maybe?

Just make sure the icons can be changed easily and I am sure some cool guys will have a whole set of awesome icons 1 day after release. Nuff said.. case closed.

Smartphone owners demand bigger screens

Well the (Android) men have to have something to show off their ePeens vs teh cool iOS kids.

New sat data shows Himalayan glaciers hardly melting at all

Fail headline

Headline is wrong. They are melting but new extra ice is formed at the top of the mountains and that compensates (probably from more water in the air).

No bail for Kim Dotcom

I am sure he will get a talk show next.

Assange™ to present own TV show

Is it called "From Hero to Zero"?

Google shares tank after disappointing financial report

Hot air balloon loses some air? Water is wet.

US killer spy drone controls switch to Linux

" If I would need to select between Windows XP and a Linux based system while building a military system"

If building a military system, I wouldn't use any of them TBH.

Microsoft mum on leaked Phone OS plans

Dual core?

Let me know when dual core mobile phones offer something extra.

Higgs boson hunters have god particle in their sights

Wow... ugliest slide evar???

New account of Flight 447 disaster published

True...

It is very weird they continued to pull up. You natural instinct in a stall is even to go down and increase speed, your body can usually feel a stall. All very strange. Then again I have never experienced a stall in a big plane like that, maybe you don't feel it.

Global warming much less serious than thought - new science

>or much more extreme events should have occurred at certain points in the past - and they did not

Errrr??? I guess it depends on what you would describe as "extreme".

What about the almost total wipeout of see-life during the Permian–Triassic extinction ?

Cheap gas is a 'crisis' for Greens, but not for us

Oh you are one of those...

Case closed I guess.

See... that is the thing. Yeah that Cheddar cheese you had on your sandwich is from Australia and it is indeed too cheap. Local food needs to become cheaper compared to imported from 8000 miles away.

Joke?

Is this article a joke? Energy is still WAY too cheap. Our whole planet has become addicted to cheap energy and we are doing silly stuff as a result.

Pay-by-wave: At least it's better than being mugged

"It is super safe! ". People have said that about all secure payment schemes in the past, you underestimate the creativity of people who steal and the technology available to organised crime to deal with this new electronic payment system.

HTC prepares quad-core smartphone for 2012

It is called marketing.

Yeah it is the 80s all over again I see.

Number of cores is no measurement of the speed of a device (just like bits).

Reminds me of the 80s... where games consoles used to wave bits around to pretend they havd more power than a less endowed competitor.

Oh well.. I guess there will be idiots who will want a "QUAD CORE!!!!" phone.

Five... great games for the Xperia Play

Was I the only one reading this as "great games for the Five Xperia Play users"?.

Motorola to launch 8in Xoom 2 for Xmas

Just in time for the land fill.

It's time to end the Windows Wait

I got an SSD last year as a boot disk and I will NEVER go back. The best thing that happened to my PC in years. W7 boots up in just 7 seconds. PCs should come standard now with SSD boot disks IMHO, it just makes the whole "computer" experience so much better for all users.

Google+ opens up to enterprises and apps

Hundreds of businesses? Oh wow!!!

/sarcasm

Groupon sues ex-sales heads for defection to Google

What? Google copying something? Madness!

Father-of-three attacked teen after Call of Duty jibes

I wish I could punch smack-talking teenagers through the telly every now and then. A lot of these young kids spew out more nonsense than Eyjafjallajoekull.

Ballmer disses Android as cheap and complex

He shouldn't really care that much about Android since a lot of Android makers are paying MS some good money for IP.

Chrome browser 'is becoming Number Two'

Browsers? Lol.. so 1990s.

Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5

So why is Google copying it then?

Microsoft updates Hotmail to deal with grey spam

It is an email client people... what is "relevant" or "not relevant" about reading some text from other people on the planet? Seriously.

What seems to be relevant is the need for internet people to be "edgy" and "emo" about just anything nowadays.

At least Hotmail is not an excuse to ad-spam me (yet).

Android outsells Apple 2:1

Surely beer outsells champagne?

Watchdog takes aim at premium-rate phone apps

Sure *not* being able to do this on an iPhone is a good thing.

45% of Android users to upgrade to rival phone OSes

As expected TBH.

Most Android users probably want an iPhone but went for a copy-cat Android because of price.

MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux

Storm in a glass of water. Surely this will just be a setting in your boot-setup screen?

Star Wars: The Complete Saga Blu-ray disc set

Buy it I certainly won't.

I like my Star Wars untouched please.

Oracle suit outs Google's closed source Android tactics

Naive

Seriously... did all the Android hardware companies think that they would get a free lunch?

Ex-Microsoft accountant jailed for $1.1m Redmond theft

Future?

"been unable to see any kind of future for himself"

After living the life of a millionaire for 10 years I don't think he has to complain.

Google feeds patents to HTC for assault on Apple

Lol

Can Google get even more pathetic?

Amazon's cloudy vid-tablet breaks cover: Not an iClone

Why?

Who cares? I don't want an iPad clone, I want a cheap Kindle book reader with great battery life and nothing more. If I wanted an iPad clone I would buy an iPad.