Re: The bank could close for a month and I'd be OK.
You'd be ok for only as long as you had a gun, ammunition, food and water....
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Apart from lowering the faff factor versus cables, there's also a few reasons why this is better than a Smart Tv
1) Trying to enter text on a TV remote - not fun!
2) Crippled Youtube on Smart TVs - search results don't give anything like the same results as on my phone or tablet.
The ratio for posted online complaints is probably even higher than 5%. The complainers are more likely to post a review compared to the 95% of happy/satisfied/meh customers.
Businesses should have the right to respond, but judging the tone of that response would be a challenge for some small business owners....
Typical management/politician type answer that tells you more by it's omissions than what it contains.
"Well I have no evidence of that." <translation> I have been told by underlings but haven't seen the documentation myself
"The IT centre - our main centre, we’re standing outside here in Edinburgh, [is] nothing to do with overseas. " <translation>The mainframe is here, I'm not saying where the sys admins are
Our UK backbone has seen substantial investment." <translation> We have upgraded hardware and software, I'm not saying where the sys admins are.
If Google plus want to differentiate itself, perhaps it can implement aliases.
They understand that people have different circles of friends with differing levels of access.
OK , fine +1 to Google Plus compared to Facebooks boolean default stalker heaven.
But it's strange that they don't seem to understand that people may wish to show a different name online in different situations.
If the alias is linked to the "Real Name" they still get the precious precious data that they need.
Perhaps twitter can give the option of adding the username as a watermark when uploading a pic.
Most online viewers wouldn't care about seeing a watermark but it would obviously not be broadcast or print quality and so if the meedja wanted the original they'd have to get in touch with the creator.
Such a simple solution that it's probably already patented in the U.S. by Apple...
Went to buy a cycle helmet from Halfords but in the queue I quickly scanned the barcode to check online prices and saw it was 30% cheaper on the Halfords site.
Asked to buy it at that price but shop staff wouldn't budge so stepped out the queue and ordered it online through my phone to pick up at that store.
2 mins later the shop guy pops over to tell me that my order has come through and I can now "pick up" my order - which I was still holding - and pay at the reduced price.
Apple can charge what they like in their store - accepted.
The major issue is that Apple are trying to fix prices OUTSIDE their store by stating that prices in the safe and secure Apple garden must be the same as on the big bad internet.
Surely, that is indefensible for even the most blinkered iStroturfer?
If you want to buy from the quick and easy Apple method *you*, the end user should pay the 30% Apple tax and genuflect in their direction for saving you from the "stress" of buying direct.
Seems like an Elopian move.
If Kindle is forced off iOS, it may hurt Apple more than Amazon.
Of the few iPad users I know all mention Kindle as a key part of their use of the device.
Wonder if iBooks has to pay this 30% tax also? If not then the lawyers could be busy.
Contract finishes at month end but I'm not renewing due to the crass, schoolteacherish bollix of "If you want to download, stream and watch video clips, save that stuff for your home broadband."
emm, how about just giving me the data and I'll decide how I want to use it?
I'd had T-mobile's version of the Hero for the past week and I haven't really came across much lag except for a noticable half second when flipping the orientation from portrait to landscape or vice versa.
One of the first things I did though was download a task manager from the Android market to let me easily clear "closed" programs that were still using the CPU. It's amazing the number of programs that stay running even after being "closed" don't know if this is a Sense UI thing or an Andriod thing.
Coming from an N95, the phone is fantastic but the camera is rubbish and lack of a flash really is a pain.
Was this a field test of Google Rez (beta)?
The streetview car (equipped with Google Rez), drives past the roadkill which is drawn towards the car and restored to life.
The catch is that google then get the right to run ads direct in the brain of the restored life-form.
All hail google, what can't they do?