Posts by Rob

Re: Dehydration / attendant multiple organ failure probably.

Indeed, fatigue is an unbelievable strain on your body (internal organs wear/fail faster). Decent sleep is part of the requisite for a healthy life.

Re: Tape?

Even if it's not usable as evidence, spice it up some more and mention you have some journalist friends or that you work in broadcast media, you'd be amazed at how quickly attitudes soften enough for your purposes.

Re: things ai't gonna change until

Agree, need a big fine for the organisation and the head to face some short jail time, that might make them sit up and take some responsibility for their organisations actions (or in actions in most cases).

We can but dream I suppose....

Re: Really?

I agree, being deadly serious when I say my microwave crashed about a month ago, left it unplugged for 10mins and earthed the case, worked fine again after that. It's the nature of electronics, all it takes is for something daft like to many ions in the air proceeding a storm or maybe you put the wrong leg in your trousers first in the morning, who knows.

Re: Err, I think Google might be interested.

"Making the iPhone the de facto Facebook phone will bring millions upon millions of additional users to iOS which will not be good for Android market share."

I completely get what you're saying but I don't think people will think of the iPhone as a de-facto Facebook phone, just like most users at the moment don't think Android is de-facto Facebook phone. Most FB users just consider a smartphone or tablet as an extra device to access their Facebook on, they all have the same functionality. What's iOS going to offer that they can't already do on their iPhones? For the same reason I don't think these FB specific phones with an FB button are going to sell that much more because of that feature.

One of the main reasons Android has more market share is not entirely down to it's features/functionality, the killer that always said Android would outstrip iOS was saturation by varying price points. They are so many Android handsets in various form factors and at various price points all with various target audiences and various target budgets in mind. Which unfortunately is where Apple failed to go with it's product (although now Jobs has gone, Apple might change that stance).

Re: HTC phones

I'm with you on this one.

My first foray into smartphones was a HTC as I got the Orange SPV phone. Those were the days when HTC wasn't a brand but a manufacturer for the Telcos own branded phones. At that point I would have said HTC was MS's bread and butter as far as their WinMo OS is concerned. Since that SPV all my upgrades since have been HTC manufactured phones, I still have them all as well, I was considering framing them all together as they provide a good history of the rise of the smartphone for me.

Through all those phones I have found the build quality to be great and in some cases when it was only good, it was still better than other phones on the market. I wish HTC would also stop the Tablet train and refocus on their custom software as that looked like it had good potential but they don't seem to be paying it enough attention in terms of development time and testing.

Sadly my next upgrade will be the S3, as HTC have nothing even close to that beauty.

Sorry HTC, it's been a pleasure but goodbye and thanks for all the fish.

Re: Watch the slide...

"Still I feel sorry for those investors who bought into the overhyped and overpriced shares on floatation day, looks like the markets didn't learn from the dot com thing years ago."

I wouldn't feel sorry for those types they clearly fall into the category of bad investors or as I like to call them feckin' idiots.

Re: Why no Android phones?

I don't use the SMS based version, I have the Authenticator App installed on my phone, which is also password protected.

I agree with you about 'over-the-shoulder' theft and hence always try to avoid SMS based authentication.

Could be under-age kids that are involved in gangs and required/pressurised into performing sexual acts, there's a number of horrible scenarios out there as to why this sort of information is on file. It's probably best to stick to questioning why the Council is so shit at data security and who should take the blame within that Local Authority.

Re: Not entirely a joke, I think.

I know what your saying, but no matter how many users a particular company has unless Facebook get good conversion rates on those Ads they won't be pulling in as much revenue as Google who could have better conversion rates on the Ads they run.

If you want to pay for internet advertising you go with the company that's going to get you the click throughs.

Re: Well..

Who cares, it's in Bootnotes you numpty, does anyone pay attention to the articles they are reading.

Re: Only time will tell

Your right Google are still propping up YouTube as it is running at a loss year on year.

They can't even get a decent ad revenue out of it compared to the amount of people using it.

@ThomH

Completely agree, but that's never stopped MS before, business sense isn't there strongest skill ;-)

Re: Wuh?

Leave it, I'm already sobbing at the fact that I would have killed for this sort of thing when I was a kid.

The BBC Micro in the loft with the 'Replay' chip modded onto it doesn't quite count as the same.

Re: @mikeyboosh

Sounds like my HP laptop, albeit without that res, although it was far short of a grand.

RE: In my youth

I used to work for a factory bakery and had to be at work for 6am, I used to cycle but my mate had a 125 motorbike, as it was quiet I used to hold on his arm and get propelled to work a lot quicker, although being a lot older now and have a greater sense of danger, I realise I wrong that could have all gone. My pothole avoidance skills are still finely tuned ;-)

(Obviously being young and stupid at the time it was a laugh)

Re: A grab for your telephone number?

You can also use the 2-step app, which I have, I received a code for initial setup and after that I now use the app passcode generator when it asks me for a code.

They will use my phone number as a last resort for authentication if the app dies, or I forget every password that I'm currently using.

Re: Marketing

"There IS such a thing as bad publicity outside the media world you know."

Your right there is indeed bad publicity, but when your target audience is an age group that probably don't know what a patent dispute is but Mum and Dad have been talking about it because it's in the news, that is what you call Brand Awareness, especially as it could lead to a sale, or get the kid talking about the product line the next day with their mates. Besides that's just your interpretation of it, not everyone thinks like you (thank fck).

There are sliding scales of publicity that may seem bad but in fact still do you some favours. Apple's been getting a hammering in the courts and Apple has been hammering Samsung, yet I don't think either have suffered any negative brand awareness in fact for both of them it's been a positive effect in some cases, either way I don't see their share price going south or their products gathering dust on shop shelves.