Posts by Tom 35

It's too late for me.

I have an iPod touch 2g, and wanted something bigger. iPad is too big to carry around, but since that idiot Jobs kept saying crap about sharpening fingers I started looking at other tablets, went for a Nexus 7 and I'm happy with that.

Where's mine

That's the price per month with a 3 year contract here ('upto' 60 cable). It's cheaper then my basic ADSL connection.

Re: Actually

"Bullshit. Press and hold the Sleep/Wake button and the Home button until the Apple logo appears, signifying that the device is booting. It's the same as taking the battery out."

No it's not Bullshit. My ipod touch locked up so bad that rebooting / power down didn't help, it just crashed again before it finished booting. I had to connect it to my computer and then turn it on to recover, and I found the instructions on Apples web site.

And from the sales staff where I work (80% have iphones) I don't think most iphone users even know that they can turn them off.

Re: Compression - audio processing for beginners

Your on about the wrong type of compression when talking about DAB. DAB is MP2 and will sound like crap even with the best amp and speakers (digital audio has come a long way since 1995). It's only really useful on a radio with small cheap speakers where you can't tell if it's crap.But it works fine for NEWS/Talk radio, or in a noisy car.

DAB+ is AAC and much better quality given the same bandwidth (iPod level) but the only way they would ever be able to switch over is to require all DAB radios sold also support DAB+ so people don't have to buy new radios... Again.

Re: Prior art

Yes, but Apple have the patent for Gravity on a mobile device. Completely different, prior art is invalid.

Re: Thinking of defecting

For some reason I first read that as...

Thinking of defecating...

Re: Film Studios

The Film Studios (and Andrew Orlowski) will say, see it works! Lets make everyone use the automatic censor bots. A few faults positives is a small price to pay (since they pay nothing) to protect jobs, and creators bla bla bla...

They will just look at you funny if you say this is a bad thing.

Re: Mac OS9 --> OSX

I would say that Windows 7 is more of an incremental release, I sometimes call it Vista that works.

Windows 8 adds the not-Metro interface to try and cross promote their tablet things, and don't include anyway to turn it off. That is a much bigger change then Vista -> Win7.

Re: Apply this logic to cars

Yes there were lots of patents for cars, with real blue prints and models.

They didn't have Apple style crap patents like...

Padded seats in a mobile device.

Re: Comparison

Going half way can work. In Canada the Olympics were on CBC, that has a mix of government funding and ads. The coverage was well done with a wide range of sports covered.

The last few years it's been CTV and it's been crap. They only show the "popular" sports, or ones that a Canadian might win. They don't cut show like "so you think you can dance" as it's all about the money for them.

The CBC can do a better job because they don't have to make a profit and receive public funding to show programs that are of interest to the public even if they are not of interest to the advertisers.

Re: Would have been interested

Still not available in Canada (amazon.ca will not even sell me an MP3). I already have Nexus 7 so not much chance of me buying a fire if they ever release it in Canada. It might be nice to have another option for apps, but I'm not going to get too upset over it.

Re: Litigation

They copied the business model, not the phone.

Not that Apple are beyond going after some dead obvious thing, but I don't think they would try it on Microsoft.

Re: Very good article

True, but I think this is an exception. I can't see it working for Gold as an example since everything can be done very low tech, so there is not a choke point for industry to control. Of course the law will not help for the same reasons.

Re: frank ly

What a joke. Was it created by the same people who created payday loans or something? Sounds like one of the scams to rip off poor people who need a credit card, but the banks will not give them one.

Re: Unfortunately...

They want you to build one thing. It's more of a model kit then a construction set.

Re: He would

I wonder how many kids went on to Science, or Engineering because of what they witnessed that day on fuzzy black and white TV.

Re: The jury was right, the law was wrong.

So, they were just following orders?

If the judge told you to jump off a bridge would you?

Re: sign the code?

"Well firstly, if someone has to register and pay to get their malware signed, and typically you would expect a company to be doing this, then that is already a step toward catching people."

The fake AV guys already have credit card processing, toll free phone numbers, websites, shell companies. A key is hardly a big deal.

"you are arguing in favour of a system whereby no cry is raised at a real wolf"

No I'm not, that's what MSE is for. It will say This is a Wolf.

This stupid system will not say This is a Wolf, it will say this might be a Wolf, the same thing it said with all the existing software you bought for your old computer and are now installing on your new Win8 box.

Oh, wait, that's the world we live in....

Not if it had been AT&T instead of BT.

don't understand just how much effort...

And don't forget the giant circle jerk. There is always a large dose of "the emperor's new clothes" in new corporate logo press releases.

Re: As stated previously

Rogers in Canada block VPN... you have to pay extra "because it's more valuable data" even on a business internet stick plan.

If they can get away with charging extra for something they will.

I like something a little more subtle... " Rhymes with Duck"

Re: New Strategy

Outsource the Indian staff to... um... Vietnam. Give the CEO a bigger bonus.

Re: Dunno -- there's a point

So lets try USB on an iPhone... oh look you can't do it at all, you have to use iTunes, or a cloudy service. Dropbox is quite easy to use to move a file. No USB mode for iPod touch or iPhone.

And with my Nexus 7 I just plug it in, Unlock the screen, and it shows up in Explorer and I can copy what ever I want on or off. Developer options are off.

Add the esFile Explorer app and I can do it over wifi to a network share, Dropbox available here too.

What do they do

Go up to people at bus stops with a knife and demand they hand over all their apps?

Re: Foundering?

Or worse for Facebook. They use it to keep in touch with family, but turn off everything, disable apps/games and use an ad blocker.

Re: Google does pay people to write pro-Google stuff

You quote some one saying Google doesn't pay anyone off to write dirt, then provide links that say someone writes nice things about Google.

Don't see anything about paying for people to write dirt.

Of course you don't have to pay people to write dirt about Oracle, I'm sure you could find hundreds who will do it for free!

Re: Looks like the naysayers were right.

For casual gamers a cheap app works fine, requires no internet connection (works on the subway) and you don't have to worry about a server outage.

How would Angry Birds be better if it was Cloudy?

Re: It's like watching someone play Battleships

You forgot to add that you can move your ships, or add more ships during the game. Oh and you can lie and say miss when they hit you.

Re: Eh

Facebook paid a pile of cash for the other guys, that's plan one shot to hell. Now they have to find another sucker with too much money to buy them.