Posts by Tony Paulazzo

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Isn't that too little too late now we've got BIOS munching malware?

Actually installed the developers preview on my HP touch smart laptop and not hating it yet, except, how are you supposed to exit those (fullscreen) apps solely through touch? only way I've found so far is to re engage keyboard and alt tab out (the tx2 hides the keyboard away under the touch screen), also the pen text recognition feels a bit sensitive, but early days I guess.

I look forward to playing with it more and that has to be a good sign.

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>Copyright laws exist in all civilized countries to protect art.<

Or... Extended copyright laws exist to maintain the rotting corpse of a few giant entertainment consortiums who manipulate politicians for their own gains - kind'a like bankers don't want oversight committee's watching what they're doing, or politicians liking to claim ridiculous expenses.

Very few musicians see returns on their albums after a couple of years, maybe a few long lived ones, the Rolling Stones, Bowie, Cliff etc.

The entire system is corrupt to it's core.

Artists create art because an itch forces them to.

Optional Title - I like it...

But Amazon has a huge stock of books, films, music, ecomics etc, plus its own app store to sell you stuff to put on the hardware, Samsung et al doesn't.

Also, stop being so down on Google, being an advertising corporation they're about the last company on Earth not screwing the consumer, and I like Android (well, with the HTC overlay at least).

In one way, the Apple litigation thing might work for Samsung as they're bound to come out with something truly special in the the second iteration, special enough to blow Apple out of the water - one can hope...

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Global village my fecking arse!

Screw HP

Pulled from Australia, selling for $100 Canadian in Canada and here in the UK, they're still on sale for £300 - yea well screw HP; that's the last laptop I buy from them (lol).

I WANT A £75 HP TABLET (complete guesswork on exchange rates there), NOW!

Grumble, whinge, moan, global village my shiny metal arse...

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Freedom defined is freedom denied.

@ Stewart

>drop box app on iOS to suddenly infringe apples terms and conditions!<

That'll suck, but if you have Dropbox already on the ipad, they can't delete it, can they?

The icloud sounds all kinds of wonderful (hurr durr), but I use Dropbox because it talks to my PC, android phone and ipad, I'm doubting S Jobs will allow that sort of interspecies carry on.

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>I know quite a few pad owners, and they all use them for the following two purposes:

1) To watch films or show photographs on the move.

2) To show people what a cool gadget it is.<

Dream diary (always on, no need to find a pen as you desperately try to recall the dream before fully waking up), ecomics, ebooks, various games, surfing, listening to music, watching media, two spreadsheet projects on the go, idea's database, emails, address book, food shopping list (automatic downloading to phone and PC with those last three via Google), keeping the kids quiet, keeping your mum quiet, showing it off to your mates down the pub - oh yea, Facebook, Twitter and, hopefully soon, a Guardian app with lovely formatted pages, but until then we've got Flipbook which lovingly formats all your RSS, Facebook and Twitter feeds for you.

Shockingly enough, it's the photo app which is the weakest part of the ipad, you can do very little with them and have to install them via iTunes (and I guess, your camera). What should've been the ipads strongest feature is severely lacking.

It would be better

if North America just shut out the rest of the world and we ignored her. They can just carry on picking on Canada and the south, and the rest of the world could get on with their lives. Seriously, fuck Hollywood and all who sail in her. Fnord.

Jeez

Whatever happened to the power of consumers, we've become beta testers for corporate giants and bitches of the content gate keepers; mafiaa, bpi etc. Time to stand up and be counted people, if your product doesn't work as advertised demand a refund.

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>accept that all sorts of people, including Apple, perhaps especially Apple, make excellently designed and specified kit,<

I despise Apple with an unreasoning hatred bordering on psychopathic, but I loves my jailbreaked iPad :-). Still, can't wait to see what amazon release, and at what price point.

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>OTOH, maybe he's just spouting a pack of lies.<

Congratulations AC, you win the internet for a day.

In other news: Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely... and something about staring into the ABYSS....

Zounds! Fnord. With the news that the three political leaders temporarily found a backbone to share and intimated that News International should stop the bskyb buyout thing until after this debacle had been finished with, the evil IMF Zionist media conspiracy evil empire aliens thing lost an important battle... tho' they did fuck over Italy so...

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>because ultimately governments cannot be trusted.<

QFT

Flash (saviour of the universe)

>there's not an awful lot of difference<

Looking at the pictures I'm surprised Apple hasn't hauled them into court already over look and feel.

>the 4:3 ratio is the ideal for tablets<

Agreed.

>there's no memory card slot... TouchPad's screen looked less crisp than Apple's... the touchscreen felt less sensitive than those of other tablets... My first-gen iPad feels smoother<

In other words, utter fail - back to the drawing board... Either be very cheaper or create something better than the competition.

>WebOS is way more cloud-centric than iOS<

Which is great, until everyone is paying per Mb for internet access, or the American government close huge swathes of it down chasing piracy with Thor's sledge hammer.

>Adobe Flash-equipped, natch - browser<

Plus 1 (thanks Google+).

>communicate with HP's WebOS 2.0-based smartphones<

Very RIM like.

Jeez, is anyone trying to innovate in the market anymore? Whatever happened to the Notion Ink Adam? In all honesty I might have gone for this tablet but for the missing SD slot, that just smacks of corporate greed.

So now the market awaits the Amazon tablet with trepidation and hope, and as more times goes by I get further locked into the Apple eco system as I spend more on apps, wondering what the ipad 3 will be like...

Smiley for the contentment induced by my ipad first gen (except for the missing Flash and SD support).

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To those knocking the religious offer of prayer. I'm pretty sure that New Science tm posits that thought can manipulate external forces, ergo, prayer being directed thought, could totally work on some level. Reality is now stranger than fiction.

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I trust Google about as much as... well, El reg, but it would be kind of funny to see Facebook crash and burn from 6 Billion to worthless in as many months, then Google gets ripped apart by the American 'you're making far too much money and controlling the market' bureau of monopolistic practices and Bing becomes No1 search engine - or maybe I just have a strange sense of humour.

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What is the reason for not including an SD port and HDMI? I mean aside from greed. It's a complete no no for me, it's one of the pissers about the iPad, flash I can mostly live without, but personally I'd rather have an SD slot than a crappy camera. And yea, the cost is too high, they're not even trying to compete.

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iPad Safari sucks! Give me the option to change font size, or go full screen, or fix the reloading page when you click the back button (no gestures for touch screen Safari), before worrying about speeding up web pages by milli seconds.

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>who are portrayed as younger than 18<

They should have shown the porn disclaimer, 'all virtual characters over 18, virtual birth certificates on file'.

FFS!

Apple apologists

Denial is strong with this group.

Apple copy Android notifications, rip off wireless synch and camera/volume button ideas, sell icloud lockin and jokingly tell their developers to 'just change the name, no problem', and people are still defending their every action.

Sent from my jailbreaked iPad.

Flash (saviour of the universe)

Actually, since 4od and BBCi have both released apps for the ipad, I've found I no longer crave Flash as much (esp. as it seems I have to update the bugger twice a month these days). And since most of the recent tablets are pretty similiar specs wise, I only have two criteria:

1. Battery life

2. Screen quality and type

I have the first gen 16GB ipad, and don't get me wrong, I still love it (after 7 months it still requires charging up at least every other night), but that 16GB limit is seriously pissing me off and fuck Steve Jobs for not putting in a tiny microsd option - how much would that of cost? but its non appearance does mean having to go to another tablet when I finally feel the need to upgrade, which in turn means not being too sucked into the Apple eco system too much.

But so far, what other tablet has a better screen and battery life? Still waiting.

Safari has been given a facelift in iOS 5

>Safari has been given a facelift in iOS 5<

A year old mac feature, ripped off app instapaper and (visible) tabs constitutes a facelift like taking paracetomal proves you're a junkie, jeez!

Where's full screen mode, changing text size, the ability to choose your own browser (cause they sell alternative browsers in their app store), adblocker, Flash integration, download ability...

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>Am I the only person who wants to keeps his files, documents and data firmly planted within my own four walls.<

No, me too, but unless I got this wrong, here's what I can do, upload my over 30GB of ripped CD music up to their cloud from my PC - most of it probably recognised by their match your music tech (mostly 60s, 70s and 80s stuff), then listen to what I want on my 16GB iPad without killing the paltry allowance (no sdcard or USB port which now starts to make Apple financial sense).

Unfortunately I've got a PC, Android phone and iPad, so the calendar etc synch will be useless to me, luckily I can still carry on with Google calendar which does let me synch all three disparate devices together.

Don't hear much love for Safari updating, just ripping off instapaper, an app for reading pages later, no full screen mode, no enlarging text, no changing the default browser, or at least, not publicly acknowledged so far.

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>The iCloud music storage system is also expected to be wrapped in advertising, to help Apple fluff up its revenue stream online<

Because they're hurting so badly cash-flow wise they need the lift?* Or because the big four music gate keepers are demanding a certain base cash injection per month?

* See Apple make more money tham MS and Intel combined.

Fuck

The Recording Industry Ass. of America right in the ass!

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Hollywood Burns in Hell

Pretty much matches my thoughts on this.

Actually, there was a sequel, it was awful.

Fuck the US!

Title pretty much sums up my feelings.