Posts by Jason Irwin 21 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jun 2007
Get a grip.
Hoover? Sellotape? Names pass into the common vernacular and no effort by idiotic lawyers will stop it. It's a great advert for their product any way.
Customer: I need to photoshop some images, what should I buy?
PC Store Clerk: Durr....what's a computer?
Customer: Oh, look, that box says "Photoshop", I guess I can use that to photoshop.
PC Store Clerk: Software...is that a pullover?
Customer: I will definitely purchase this "Photoshop" product so I can learn to photoshop and wow my friends with my now photoshopping skills!
PC Store Clerk: What is a "friend"?
If these people pay for something through an untraceable/unrecoverable means (i.e. not backed by a credit card) then that's their own fault. Can they really be that pathetically stupid?
It'd be nice to live in a world where you can trust folks, but we don't live in that world. The fact that people still all for these scams staggers me. Don't send cash, don't pay by cheque, don't use wire transfer, don't pay for big ticket items without seeing it; and (the big one) if it's too good to be true, it probably isn't true!
The only way to be safe on eBay is to use PayPal backed by a credit card and if it all goes pear-shaped to beat PayPal over the head with the backing of your CC company should they not perform (although PP were really helpful when I got stiffed by a deadbeat seller.)
In descending order...
1) Ease of use
2) Battery life
3) Voice clarity
4) Durability (impact, scratch and water resistance)
5) Other features
Unfortunately manufacturers are more concerned about widgets and crap which have no real bearing on the phone's ability to be a bloody phone!
...should be on the left for right-hander and on the right for left handers. That's why the "+" and "Enter" ("=" on a calculator) are larger so they can be easily bashed with a thumb. The pads are, after all, based on the old adding machines.
As for the increase in lefites - I doubt there is. But there is now no suppression of using the "dirty" hand for tasks such as writing.
"...security firms have a duty to maintain protection against older threats for just this kind of eventuality."
What about OS manufacturers producing software which can't be hacked to within an inch of its life by a 12-year old with a few scripts and "PCs for dummies"?
It's MS who should be getting strung up for this - they've have 13 years to sort their security.
If I am not going to get the physical box, extras, free artworks etc. then I want to pay a damned sight less than the DVD price. Also the portability issue (I can play the physical DVD in any device I choose and don't need to "authorise" it) still makes the DVD more attractive. PC, Laptop, Console, DVD player, portable player; all quite happy to chunter through my DVD and no DRM to stress over.
For just a download of the show I'd stump up (maybe) 50p. Tops.
Transporting personal details across international boundaries? Corporate espionage (which is what the content scanning would be)? Spying (again, back to the content scanning)?
If this ever does come to pass it's just more of a reason to use the (much, much better) alternatives like OpenOffice, Thunderbird, Ubuntu etc etc.
"Football pitch" could refer to a number of different games and thus pitches. Association Football, Rugby Football, Gaelic Football, American Football, Australian Football or even Wall Football (still played - Eton Wall Game).
"Soccer" is a contraction of "association" so really is the most correct term to use as "football" is just too damned ambiguous.
Of course the whole this is moot as "football" (whatever kind) is a rather pointless game and just an excuse for old men you watch young lads run around in small shorts.
I use Office 2007 at work and I hate it. It's bloated, takes me an age to find some menu items and Outlook if bug-ridden crap (randomly locking and erasing email contents during edit etc).
OpenOffice, by contrast, is tiny and does everything I could want. I fed it some complex word docs and the graphics did jump about; but it took me all of 10 minutes to reset them. For the price, it knocks Office into a cocked hat.
I have not yet looked into developing on OpenOffice, or checked out the compatibility with Office 2007 (I'm running an older version of OpenOffice); but with its speed of development and improvement, I don't think it will be long before MS find a serious contender in the marketplace.
Christ I hope so.
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