Posts by Jimmy Floyd 545 publicly visible posts • joined 7 Oct 2008
I've heard it said that Domino is a fantastic back-end application, which is why it gets chosen by IT departments to handle their e-mails.
This is, however, only part of the story because the problem is that Notes is such a dog to use. Users therefore hate it. Menus are unpredictable, unintuitive and the whole thing is a UI disaster. I mean, who the hell decided that File -> Tools and (separately) Actions -> Tools would make sense as a menu structure?!?
Excellent work. That should help the hackers get downloadable WM6.5 ROMs out for anybody to upgrade from WM6.
Of course, Microsoft could then sue for copyright infringement but they'd be muppets so to do. If they want to keep people on Windows Mobile they'd be well advised to let people maintain their interest.
It wouldn't make sense to distribute it free, naturally, since consumers would delay buying sparkly new phones, but stemming the flow to AN Other mobile OS has to be the top priority, even if it costs a bit in the short-term.
Agreed. It would be very astute of MS to give this one away to existing WM users, perhaps as a kind of "sorry the interface has been so bad." They won't, of course, but it might delay my jumping to something else too.
At the moment that's looking like an Android because I won't let Stevie-J dictate to me how I should use *my* device. But there's no way I'm waiting until WM7 for what is meant to be the dogs. If it's that good I'll come back.
I love(d) my Windows Mobile, and the one before it, but your article is spot-on: "fun" is not part of the equation. In fact, sometimes the GUI is downright slow and objectionable. BUT it is flexible enough to be able to install and run software that makes iPhone users look on in grudging admiration ... so long as I don't let them try to operate the less-than-intuitive interface themselves.
iPhone wins every competition on looking good and providing a pleasant UI. But so what? If I'm limited to what Uncle Steve says I can do with it, it's only half a smartphone and I'll be ice-skating to France before I get one. Yet the Windows Mobile handles like a racing Trabant, even if (and sometimes perhaps, because) you can bolt on whatever the hell you like.
So, we have Form vs Functionality. iPhone vs WM. Is there nothing out there that can provide both?
You're right, there definitely is more to this than meets the eye:
"The total financial loss to the bank was calculated at $69,940.94"
From a $25k loan?! I'd love to know how that was calculated. Even with interest payments (at inter-bank rates: remember that this is the LOSS to Citi) and cost of staff, a loss of nearly $45k is a bit of a stretch.
Unless, of course, their insurance against default was provided by AIG...
Quite correct; one party can't just arbitrarily change a contract mid-way through.
More interesting from a legal standpoint is what would happen if they changed the T&C's to state that, in the event of an early termination, the phone would be returned to Orange. I'd be inclined to tell them to stuck it since I would have been paying the subsidisation cost for said phone up until that point and wouldn't be willing to give up the 'equity' in my phone (if I'm not confusing housing with telephones!).
It's not Hire Purchase. That's a whole new ballgame.
In May 1997, when I was slightly more bolshy than I am now, I never would have thought I might vote Tory. Now I might.
Actually, I'll almost certainly vote for the candidate with the best chance of unseating our local Labour MP (who is, sadly, an otherwise decent chap). So long as it isn't BNP or UKIP, natch.
From a decent University that, which inclines me to believe this was actually a serious piece of linguistic research and not some joke doctorate from Scumbag College (who nearly beat Footlights College, Oxbridge on University Challenge dontchaknow).
Bugger. Have I seen through the implications of a carefully worded headline?! Mine's the one with a Nokia 6150 and no T5.
No, but I am forced to listen to incessant - almost evangelical - rantings by people who think their iPhone is the greatest thing ever, not to mention hype-inducing coverage in the media (that means you, El Reg).
This would be fine if the product in question was technically any good and didn't just look pretty. "Look, Copy & Paste AND 3G in one device! Amazing!"
If I put a Ferrari body on a Mondeo chassis it'll look awesome ... but it's still a Ford!
The problem is that more senior courts have to put faith in the lower courts, otherwise their existence could not be justified and the whole hierarchy would become flat - leaving just one Supreme Court and us back where we started: a court without any oversight.
I think (and may be corrected) that appeal is usually limited to one of two cases: either where the original court made a procedural error (it then goes to an appeal court who decide solely on the basis of that procedure) or where the issue at stake is a fairly hazy point of law that needs clarification (in which case the House of Lords / Supreme Court have their say).
It isn't clear from the story whether this Finnish case falls into one of these two scenarios. The ECHR therefore seems like a pretty good option (and, with any luck, a successful one).
Big Brother icon. Again. Because we IT people thought we had it sussed with the implicit freedom of the Internet but have now given way to Orwell's nightmare.
"OK, admittedly, this is not particularly exciting..."
Neither, in fact, was the Magny-Cours race-track in central France. Slated since its introduction to Formula 1 in the early 90s for being in the middle of nowhere and utterly uninspiring, it finally disappeared last year. Or was it the year before? Can't remember. Don't care.
I'm with David W.: let's have some decent names like Indianapolis, Monza or ... er ... Sepang.
Good. I'll be using it to gauge which people have too much money and too few outside interests.
"So you can watch some football and ... about 5 films. At lower-than-HD resolution. Great. When I get bored of this in 5 minutes you can move on and tell someone else about it."
The only irritation is going to be their puppy-dog expectations of emotional validation at their underwhelming purchase and how I'm going to have to restrain myself from bringing into question the quality of their education.
Steve, because he makes nice-looking but technologically-suspect products too.
If this really was a matter of high-level national or personal security then why did she give Tiscali genuine details? Why trust a company with something that could get you killed any more than you would trust a man on the street?
I suspect there's more to this than has been released.
Point of order: if he's been convicted then isn't he now just a "spammer", rather than a "spam suspect?"
Reminds me of that old classic Chase HQ where you had to crash, smash and generally bugger the "suspect's" car (leaving one to question what would happen if they were a genuine criminal!)
"Mac security has the potential to be a bigger headache than Windows security because Mac users are less inclined to get their hands dirty fixing / patching / dealing with an issue."
Discuss.
(Note: I have no particular view on this, but the grenade icon was the closest I could get to a timebomb)
There's nothing like wallowing in past glory, wouldn't you say? But if that's the best thing you've done in the past decade....
Still, credit is due for acknowledging the other side of the argument. Few in the music biz do even bother to recognise the opposition which (rather like any major conflict around the world - I'm looking at you Middle East) only serves to exacerbate the fight.
Steve Jobs, because as much as I detest Apple it must be recognised they have given the recording industry a deserved kick up the backside.
My friend once asked if he could "bum a fag." 'Nuff said.
Lessons for the Yanks? How about Lessons For The Limeys? Too many of my fellow countrymen fail on the following:
"at the weekend." (US: "on")
"licence" (US: "license")
"cricket" (US: a game where you have to ... erm ... with the ... stumps ... out ... in ... oh, never mind)
So, are the 1.4% percent of respondents who *claimed* to have gone live with Windows 7:
a) muppets
b) lying
c) about to be fired (either before or after their boss finds out what they've done).
Windows 7 RC is a good system (and I say that with no great love for M$) - it's the OS Vista should have been - but to put it in a business situation smacks of a lack of common sense.
Then again, these surveys do have a margin of error of (I'd guess) +/- a couple of percent. Which could mean anything.
Here's the deal: you learn to spell and I'll pretend you have a real opinion. Fair?
But seriously folks ... Brits of a certain age may remember 'Jimbo and the Jet Set' - the cartoon aeroplane whose designer got inches and centimetres confused. Brits of all ages, however, are probably quite capable of buying a piece of wood of the size 2" x 4" x 1 metre. Who says we aren't bilingual?
You've got it spot on. As a general overview for 'stuff' it's hard to beat Wikipedia but if you're talking specific and accurate information, forget it.
Still, Wikipedia does have a point. In London commuters get the choice of one morning and two evening free papers. They are, without exception, complete crap. The quality of journalism is non-existent, aimed at the lowest common denominator. Why should free Wikipedia be any better (or worse)?
Mine's the one with the FT in the pocket - because it's the only paper I've found that doesn't seem to be written by journotards.
Do you gentlemen above really have an issue with your fiancé getting a male stripper in for her hen night?! Do you really?!? Do you intend on seeing a stripper at your stag? If not, why not?
Thank God for my girlfriend who was quite happy for me to go and have a private dance from a female stripper during a mate's stag last weekend. In fact, the only stag I've ever been on where there were no naked ladies was one where the hen specifically prohibited it - she also happens to be an immature control freak (probably co-incidental).
If I was marrying my girlfriend and she DIDN'T get a stripper for her hen I'd be concerned about her future sex drive. But then perhaps I'm a bit more sexually confident then you gentlemen above...?
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