Posts by toadwarrior

Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review

Re: its rubbish

Fandroids always seem angry but then I guess if my favourite platform's highlights were piracy, malware and privacy invasion then I'd be upset too.

Nintendo Wii U launch and pricing disclosed

You can't use 4 and you were only meant to have the one until people cried about that. Just reuse wii controls or buy the wii u pro controller. Buying 4 tablet controllers would be retarded.

Re: is that all...?

My Ps3 is 320gb too which is overkill because I don't download games. Not that it really matters since Nintendo is more open and you can buy you own additional storage from anyone unlike the 360's overpriced proprietary drives. The wii u will no doubt the same so just any old external drive.

Re: hmm

She has to get you to approve all purchases? You must be a real joy to live with.

Re: Pointless

Yeah and people said both the wii and ds were going to fail and they're some of the best sellers ever with only maybe the ps2 doing better. Even the supposed failure of the 3ds was selling faster than the ds at launch and the 3ds had like no games for months and now it sells even better.

Everything Everywhere's 4G: Why I'm sitting this one out

Re: Crap Customer Service

I don't think any of them can claim to have great service but Orange has consistently been the worst by far for me. I've left the country supposedly with roaming on (got confirmation) only to land in the country with nothing. I call them and they're all like "you didn't enable it" and the second time it happened they obviously reenabled it while I was out of the country because as I landed in London I get another confirmation text.

While trying to leave them, they fucked up the whole process leaving me have to join up again for a month and just generally anything I've asked for, they don't do and they won't confirm anything via email obviously to reduce the chances of being caught out.

I despise them and I'm not happy tmobile merged with them. So far tmobile hasn't got worse but I'm not sure if I should stay or not. So my next phone I'll probably buy outright since I'm out of contract so I can leave asap if needed.

Who's afraid of Windows 8? Trio leads Microsoft migration pack

Re: Hmm

Or their IT department doesn't mind doing thing every few years that will interrupt their internet browsing and they were smart enough not to get locked into shit old technologies.

Foxconn to investigate iPhone 5 factory woes

I saw not mnetion of children. I won't buy any phone that isn't made by abused children.

Australian tabloid decides to fight trolls ... with trolls

For a country full of danger animals and the reputation they get for being hard, I think australians are a bunch of little pussies.

Whether it's video games or the internet or whatever, they want to censor and regulate it like a bunch of nazis because bad parents can be bother to look after their stupid child.

iPhone 5: skinny li'l fella with better display, camera, software

Not surprisingly Apple haters don't like the iphone 5. I can now go to bed knowing the world is alright.

Re: Evolutionary

At least iplayer works on it.

Re: There really is no NFC?

No NFC is a good thing, imo. I wouldn't be happy buying a phone that had NFC and no way to turn it off. It's a security concern and nothing more.

My busted old Android phone works well enough so considering the only real "innovations" are things like NFC, I'm happy to stick with what I got.

New iPod nano and touch: Lightning strikes again

Re: The nano very reminiscent of the iPod mini!

It looks like two of the previous Nanos combined. Which is also why people had said the Lumia looks like a Nano in the past.

The iPHONE 5 UNDERMINES western DEMOCRACY: 5 reasons why

Re: Jai, I agree but with this qualification......

What does the desire HD have to do with anything? My lenovo get 5 hrs of battery life on a bulky oversize battery but that means nothing in terms of my mac which can get 10 hours battery life.

Likewise judging ever phone based on one is stupid.

Re: Jai, I agree but with this qualification......

I've never owned a second battery for a phone. Unless you work in the desert, it's not hard at all to top up a phone at some point in the day. It's even easier with USB leads being standard so you can charge up on PCs and not worry about being caught out using someone's power socket.

A second battery seems like a waste of money unless you work in a remote place and happen to talk a lot or play games rather than working.

Re: The iPlayer doesn't work as well on a non-iOS system?

You'd think that but given android is the work of communists and offer no way for honest hard working artists to secure their content so the thieves can't get at it, that means the BBC can't do anything until android allows someone other than one advertiser to make money on the platform.

iPhone to account for half of US economy by 2030 - projection

Of course it'll benefit the economy. Apple pays good designers and coders to create their product unlike some freebie OS projects that just rely on copying.

Iphone users also pay for their apps. The freetards just pirate and the bitch it wasn't worth a whole dollar.

iPhone 5 to boost US GDP says JP Morgan

Yeah but then you're stuck with a cheap phone whose OS will be lucky to get one upgrade because they rather that you just buy another phone if you want an upgrade.

Google's Nexus 7 tabs 'can't perform' if flash RAM crammed

If you buy a budget tablet you get budget performance.

As far as most people not using the whole amount, I assume android owners are like iphone / ipad users then they do have music and movies and apps for their commute and it doesn't take too many movies to eat into 16gb.

And if you plan on using the thing for more than a year then you will just accumulate junk. The average user knows how to add things but rarely deletes things (probably out of fear of breaking something) so if this problem is real then google needs to do something.

For a company that has so many supposed geniuses you'd think it'd cross their mind to test the thing with its storage used up.

HTC's 4G patent beef could get iPhone 5 BANNED in US

I predict there will be lots of cheering in mother's basements today up which may help soften the blow when they realise everyone wants the iphone 5 and not some tesco value android phone whose sole purpose is to track you and steal your personal information.

E-publisher 'fesses up: 'Apple UDIDs were ours'

How much did the FBI pay them to say that?

Apache man disables Internet Explorer 10 privacy setting

Sounds to me like someone got paid off. The fact they're basically saying they won't support it if people exercise their choice not to be tracked.

So DNT is pointless and rather than worry about the implementation, bin the damned thing if people can't actually use it.

Microsoft to comply with Brussels over browser choice gaffe

Re: I still don't get why this only appies to MS

Because apple hasn't been convicted of abusing any monopolies that warrant such a punishment.

Their PCs do allow complete freedom over the browser. IOS sort of does but then again it's sold as a more of a complete packaged consumer electronic device than a customisable PC. Just as if you moaned that your PS3 only had one browser, you'd probably be told to quit wasting people's time.

Listen up, Nokia: Get Lumia show-offs in pubs or it's game over

Re: So, it has come to this

If you worry about what other people think of you because your phone is yellow, then you must be the country's biggest sissy.

Google's stats show few Android tablets in use

I don't think I've ever seen someone with an Android tablet

I can guarantee that every day on my commute I'll see people with e-paper Kindles and or iPads. Despite being on one of the busiests lines in the country and always being on packed trains, I don't recall ever seeing an Android tablet.

I think it's because it offers nothing. Amazon's e-paper kindle has a battery life that lasts for ages and it's an exceptionally nice screen for reading and they're super cheap now.

What does Android offer in terms of books? Oh, I can get the Amazon app, read it on a screen that's no nearly as nice on a device that costs more and has a worse battery life? No one wants that.

If you want something more than to read e-books the ipad is superior. It feels nice rather than being some low-end bodget android device. It has a great selection of apps, movies and music all from one account and because it is a walled garden, you don't get a bunch of deceptive bullshit apps or tons of "fit birds" calendar apps which are all basically the same thing but a way for someone to pinch people's data.

Despite the fact IT people have a heightened view of their own intelligence and look down on everyone else, the most basic concepts seem to fly right over there head. They seem to not grasp the concept that they are a minority. Most people don't want to root their tablet and play torrented FLAC files while posting online about how much their favourite corporations owns everyone else and how you're a faggot ass loser for not liking the same thing.

Android tablets are stuck in the middle and do not do a good job of fully replacing an iPad or an e-paper kindle. The only thing it has going for it is that it's not made by Apple which appeals to butt-hurt basement dwellers.

Judge: Apple not liable for dropped, broken iPhone screens

Re: Surprise - another US Court that fails to find against Apple...

That doesn't mean anything. My friend and I both had G1 phones and I drop mine loads more on all sorts of surfaces including the pavement and didn't get any crackks for 2 years. His was cracked after dropping it a couple times.

Same for my 1st gen gameboy. I had no issues despite dropping down stairs, on concrete floors, etc. My brother dropped his once on the carpet and it started showing a couple dead lines.

Don't let me stop the fandroid circle jerk but your supposed evidence is meaningless.

Raspberry Pi production back in Blighty

British workers aren't the problem. It's british managers. It's not smart to put the british in charge of something. Just look at all the colonial african countries.

Re: Can't bloody wait for mine....

You obviously didn't read the article. Yours will be chinese.

Re: RE: but why does it have to be Sony?

The angry sony hating basement dweller meme has been done to death. Try something else if you want an upvote instead of a down vote.

Google snags patent on price discrimination

Re: I could have sworn

It does. There were loads of stories about tickets flights being more expensive if you shop with a mac and either I get really lucky if I shop around or amazon does adjust prices which has recently resulted in an SSD purchase.

It's an old tactic and not really patent worthy and in fact I doubt google's implementation works. Had they applied this algorithm to chromebooks they'd have known not to sell them at all.

South Korea probes 'mobe patent bully-boy' Samsung

Re: @ AC 1433h - All seems rather unfair......

Enjoy a downvote for poor logic.

Terms for frand patents were agreed upon and no one makes you turn you patent into an essential standard. So if samsung and motorola don't like those terms they could have also choose to keep it to themselves.

They choose not to and need to play by the rules of frand patents. Next time they can opt not to make their next patent a standard and do without the guaranteed income (or patent cross licencing) from nearly every computing device manufacturer.

You right...that is only if you're too stupid to understand the difference between normal and frand patents.

They can do it with their non-essential patents but when you voluntarily make your patent essential there are restrictions.

It's not a hard concept to figure out.

Apple Java update fails to address mega-flaw – researcher

Re: Do consumers really use it that much on any platform?

Many IDEs are java based, most desktop sharing is java based so that covers businesses and some consumers.

Then there is minecraft which is definitely popular with kids so there are definite reasons for businesses and consumers to be using java still.

The world's first Windows Phone 8 hands on – what's it like?

Re: I had a Lumia 800

They won't put android on it because android is a budget OS for budget phones.

These phones aren't meant to appeal to the homeless and football fans so even though windows is risky it at least won't appear to consumers as if they put a tesco value OS on the hardware.

Intel's 'Mobile Etiquette' survey uncovers global peevishness

Obviously because everyone also has an excuse as to why they can do it

Game devs beg UK taxman: Can we pay 30% less?

Rockstar is American culture

The gta games and everything rockstar does draws very heavily from American culture, especially film. For games produced largely by British people they're some of the least british games. That doesn't warrant a tax break based on promoting British culture.

In fact my concern with these tax breaks is it'll do nothing for British culture. They'll keep pumping out games with US. Pice actors regardless of the game's location and the locations will still largely be based in the US or where ever the US is doing war.

Video games are still culturally a ghetto. They rarely try to appeal to anyone who isn't an American teenage boy.

Speaking in Tech: Lawyers are the enemy of the cloud

Lawyers are the enemy of everything. They're a cancer.

BBC dishes out fanboi-only telly downloads ahead of ITV plans

Android owners are freetards and google appears to only care about advertising dollars so you guys get ignored. Fandroids will just bitch anyway that it's not like their torrent based solution and tell the BBC to die so screw 'em

Fandroids are a bunch of thieving freetards. I don't blame the BBC for ignoring their platform.

Apple hoards LTE patents to deflect Samsung attack

One is concerning frand patents and one is not. If your patents deal with a standard then yes you must be more reasonable because it's a standard and therefore you can use it to bullly others. It's not a hard concept to grasp.

Re: Why on earth

I'm glad that everything has to be about android for you. But no one cares.

Torvalds bellows: 'The GNOME PEOPLE are in TOTAL DENIAL'

I like how we get "super" users comparing windows (an OS) to Linux (a kernel) and while calling others stupid.

Linux and run in just about anything. It doesn't care about user's intelligence and is often put in hardware aimed at non technical people with no problems.

Internet Explorer needs fresh dev infusion for a full recovery

All those things work in other browsers too and the other browsers are better supported by popular sites like Gmail.

And most of those people don't stick with IE because they want to but because they're afraid of changing anything. As you says it works so they don't want to break it. I suspect they would be more likely to change it if they weren't afraid of their computer.

Re: Tired of MS playing politics

WebGL and IE isn't a technical reason. They claim it's due to security. I suspect they will fight WebGL until they can find some way to push DIrectX then it'll be acceptable to them to do WebGL-like things.

Firefox, Opera allow crooks to hide an entire phish site in a link

Re: But, but, but ...

There isn't anything strictly wrong with them. I've wrote my own which also allows easy access to a preview page showing the real URL and a clickable link to it along with some other stats. If I ever allow anyone to use it and it takes off then anyone could script something to catch the links and redirect to the stat page for extra safety. You can do that with any other URL shortened with similar methods.

Samsung: We can't find any child labour at our Chinese contractor

All you electronics involve companies with little to no morals. Why should anyone be surprised?

Bruce Willis didn't Buy Hard: His girls can't inherit his iTunes

It's fake

http://techcrunch.com/2012/09/03/bruce-willis-itunes-music-library/

Is there no low Fandroids will stoop to?

Re: Brucey Bonus

So much stupid in one posting that it should be illegal.

You do realise itunes has been drm free for sometime. Print you tunes and stick 'em up your ass if you like.

I never have problems using itunes when helping family but that's because I'm not making up porkies to troll nor am I some butt hurt help desk monkey that gets flustered when using software I hate.

Any music Bruce bought that is DRM free from itunes can be given to anyone but for the drm stuff he'll have to burn it to cd or suck it up. It's not like you can give anything you buy digitally to someone else unless it's drm free.

Can't wait to find out he has a steam account and watch him get butt hurt over that.