Posts by armyknife

Yet some manufacturers get it right.

I had to recover/repair a Philips '4gb' MP4 player, I formatted it via a PC and found the memory to be 4.3gb , when repaired and the firmware re-installed it reported an expect 4,000,000,000+ bytes according to windows file manager.

So the manufacturer had included an additional 300mb you'd never normally see or hear about to contain the operating system.

“ Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence

I want zero voice interaction with dumb objects/corporations.

Conspicuous consumption FTW.

Why not just up the price on the next model to that of a small family car and see if it sticks?

Where's the Harm.

I must remember to post my bank details and current balance on the outside of my letterbox tomorrow morning.

Best smartphone this season?

There is another choice, no smartphone at all.

Something to play with from your pocket.

Two hundred pounds cheaper, therefore the 600 quid phone must be a bargain. :hmm:

The Dead Hand of Bureaucracy?

See title.

Absence is a feature?

Chalk up another one to feature phones.

Bee the Change in the Wold.

And do humans similarly scale in their collective decisions?

Brexit, Trump, etc? :chin scratch:

Doesn't Really Put it in Context

The Tsar bomber doesn't put that figure of 3 megatons into context, a better yardstick would be to say that power would put it in the upper bracket of nuclear warheads currently deployed on modern ICBMs.

Why Isn't There Better Internet In Morgues.

See title.

Science Working.

See headline.

Well done to the scientists for find this.

Pig Ignorant

It's as if the expression was tailor made for him.

Now I know.

Thanks for the explanation, I've never know what that icon/tile does on various phones and computers I've owned.

Recipe for disaster?

The new style apple turnover mainly features BS with a sprinkling of Orwellian double speak.

Damn,

A great writer and a decent man, he said to me his favourite work was the Helliconia trilogy; I shall re-read it as a mark of remembrance.

From the Sublime to the Ridiculous

His science as compared to Trump's latest tweets.

Maybe the demonstrators would have been better off with a slew of differently branded feature phones instead?

I have to admit, I struggled to get to the end of the article. :-(

Their Reputation Precedes Them

My own and others experiences with them, have led me to conclude they're a bunch of shitsters.

Floyd said it.

How much TV can a person watch in a lifetime?

Hello Nokia

Welcome back Nokia.

Perhaps Psion will now get it's act together? ;-)

Keep the OS(EPOC undated a bit), the keyboard and AA batteries, everything else is negotiable.

First World Problem?

See title.

Pretentious Marketing department.

Received this somewhat pretentious marketing email from them within the last hour.

And when you try to unsubscribe, the page generated is a 404 error message.

I think I'm justified in calling them knob-heads

"Hey Customer,

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Sed varius, leo a ullamcorper feugiat, ante purus sodales justo, a faucibus libero lacus a est. Aenean at mollis ipsum. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Sed varius, leo a ullamcorper feugiat, ante purus sodales justo, a faucibus libero lacus a est.

Cheers,

Team Vivaldi "

Article More Opaque than Venusian Atmosphere

There I said it.

Error in news item.

" Winchester Crown Court " should of course be written " Winchester Crown Court, England " ;-)

How much will the market bear?

Or a tax on stupidity.

Cloud Cuckoo Land ?

See Title.

Thanks for the reminder to Uninstall it.

Thanks for the prompt, that got me around to un-installing it.

Bizarrely after doing that I now have 8mb less on my C drive than before, so off I got manually hunting for all of its components and dettritous left on my system. Shows you what a crap piece of software/adware spotify free edition is.

What a colossal waste of money.

Jobs for the Boys and Girls.

So are the three employees paid minimum wage, just the national average or maybe just a little bit more?

Well informed people?

Better to roll-out smart consumers, but that would require some investment in education and an interest in understanding things by the customer.

How dare these patient trolls interfere with the Apple creative process.

Old ways?

In retrospect there were certain advantages to countries formally declaring war on each other and then fighting to a non-total victory or negotiated peace treaty.

If the Shoe Fits.

Does form follow function?

If so in this case, then bit by bit the Stasi is being reborn.

Alternatively ....

Just press play?

Maybe they should sanction the developers, say an initial 13 weeks wages for this first failure.

Leasons from the Past?

They seize ships in ports when the owners can't pay fees and taxes; why don't we shoot down or intercept these drones until Amazon starts paying UK taxes?

Frenzied 'investors', hmm we really do have a mature system of capitalism.

Why sell the most profitable part of the business?

It's The Natural Order of Things.

Lord Hague says 'Shut up and do what you're told'

It's what lords do, they lord over us.

What a shit company.

Titles are for toffs

This is shoddily written, please rewrite.

Titles are for toffs

Damn, and there I was hoping the acquisition was the other way around. :-(