Posts by Grozbat

Why no forward hopping?

Why is there is no way to skip forward to a specific place within a podcast?

Quite often the phone loses the stream and the app forces you to start from the beginning again, which is annoying if you've listened to half of an hour-long podcast.

My old Nokia had this feature years ago. It's not rocket science.

Heat going to waste?

As far as my research tells me, they are letting the waste megawatts of heat dissipate into the environment instead of using it as heating for local housing, for example.

Does anyone know if there is a technical and/or economic reason for this?

Seems to me that 120 meagwatts could heat quite a few flats.

IPHONE FANBOIS...

...upgrade to iOS 5 where the camera app can talk to the Twitter app!

Alternatively, upgrade to Android where all apps can talk to any other app.

Core blimey

Humble featurephones have had dual cores for years - one core for the OS and one core taking over multimedia duties from the DSP that used to be common in phone architectures.

And smartphones have had three cores for good while - one for multimedia, one for the phone OS and one for the Application OS (Symbian, Android, whatever). Not sure what's new about LG's phone.

Symbian is dead

The iPlayer only works on a very few Symbian models, and only works in the UK. Contrast that with the fact that the BBC recently cut off support for RealPlayer - which is standard on all Symbian phones and worked outside the UK (at least for radio). This suggests that Symbian is a dying OS, with dwindling support.

Why?

Can someone explain to me why McKinnon should be subject to US law when he committed the infringement while in the UK?

sushi porn

What was the film where a japanese dude ate sushi off a naked chick? Does that count as sex with dead fish?

Seemples

Google's ebook store may not make any money but it will make Android phones more attractive. More Android users means more Google search users which means more ad revenue for Google, as any fule kno.

Retro

Plastic discs! I remember those.

necrophilia

In spite of this journalist's assertion that there is no evidence that necrophilia exists, a bloke in Sweden was found guilty of it a few years back. Evidence enough, I would have thought.

Bleedin obvious

Tim's suggestions are fair and don't let any country wriggle out of their obligations.

Which is precisely why the politicians will never agree to it.

Dead end OS

For me a killer Symbian app - one I paid €30 for - was SymSMB, to browse and copy files on a networked PC.

Then Nokia forced it off the market, claiming copyright infringement, without offering their own alternative.

Result, Nokia shot themselves, and Symbian, in the foot.

Nokia deserve to go down the toilet, as they surely will eventually.

My phone

For the record, I have a Nokia Symbian phone, and have installed the following apps:

Opera Mini - Great web browser

Google sync - Invaluable calendar and contacts sync.

Timer - The boffins at Nokia forgot to include a timer as standard. Doh!

SymSMB - For moving files over Wifi. Nokia have now shot down this app, claiming intellectual property issues. Way to shoot yourself in the foot, Nokia!

Make of that what you will. There is certainly none of the flair of iPhone apps, despite Symbian's many more years in the market. If Symbian has a future, it is in a tier in between featurephones and iPhone/Andoid phones.

Pah!

They don't even have "We Are Klang" on the iPlayer.

ho ho

Have introduced Chrome Frame into Microsoft Explorer, they obviously want to rub NaCl into the wound.

Partly true

Actually there is a village, where an aquaintance of mine lives here in the south of Sweden, where about 38% of the population are lesbian.

The village only has 8 houses though, and 3 lesbians.

Poppycock

@Duhh..., your argument about RM having to pay the costs to administrate the Post Code database doesn't hold water.

The whole database is there to make the postal service more efficient and thereby reduce operational costs for RM.

If the post code database doesn't pay for itself through operational efficiencies, then there is no point in it.

In Sweden too

Even here in Sweden, using Google's swedish page, there's the same notice translated into Swedish about the US DMCA complaint.

This look like the US has made Google impose a worldwide ban.

Changes coming?

I can see that "Do no evil" changing to "Do less evil than others".

This won't be the last change, of course.

I wonder

Having seen her photo, I wonder...

...is that her natural hair colour :)

Ångermanland

Ångermanland in swedish translates to "regret man land".

He certainly regretted going there.

Too good to be true?

It seems to me that Tim is talking about his Semantic Web blueprint, which aims to open raw data to internet access.

If Tim gets a chance to implement the Semantic Web on government data, it will likely kickstart a global data revolution second only to the original Word Wide Web.

That's a big if, of course.

Lomborg

I checked out the Lomborg case on wikipedia. His book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, was found to be full of errors by the Danish Committee on Scientific Dishonesty. The ruling was later overturned by a higher body, on the basis that the book wasn't a scientific publication anyway.

Lomborg has quite a lot of influence, even though as a political scientist he doesn't know shit about climate change.

No shortcut-shortcut

There's still no keyboard shortcut to get to the bookmark list.

That makes Chrome a no-go as far as I'm concerned.

Ah!

but, you see, now you can do it on an iPhone!

And, as the Reg well knows, when an iPhone can do something other phones have been doing for years, it is BIG NEWS!

I heard that MMS is coming to iPhone! I can hardly contain myself.

Ho ho

That indian farmer coming out with the management bullshit-speak and lifestyle garbage was funny.

Having said that, great idea Nokia.

Shame on everybody involved

Shame on the bloke who filed this shameful patent.

Shame on the patent office for accepting it.

Shame on HP for not contesting it.