Posts by The Original Ash

Resolution

320x480 screen, just so you know. Seems reasonable for the price.

Wow, a crippled Manila UI

I've used WinMobile 6.5 and Manila 2.1 and Sense 2.5 (the HTC interfaces) on my Touch Diamond 2 for two months, and not used the stylus for anything except working with some custom applications (developed for non-touch versions of WinMobile).

Hell, you can CLEARLY see on the first page that there aren't 6 favourites in the contact screen, but 9 at least. You can see the three just above the Manila Tab strip; It scrolls when you slide your thumb / finger up the screen, and in fact holds 15 favourite contacts.

The Programs tab differs from the Start menu in that, again, it offers many Favourite applications at locations you choose instead of all applications in one long menu.

The WinMobile alarm interface you have a screen shot of I've not seen since ordering the phone; Manila comes with a custom app which controls the time, alarm sound, day of the week to set the alarm for, a description, all from a thumb-friendly interface.

The only let down I can think of is the screen; 320x240 is rubbish. Still, there are QVGA resolution cooked ROMs at [shamelessplug] forums.xda-developers.com [/shamelessplug] or there will be *very* soon...

I've said this before, I'll say it again...

Referendum, referendum, referendum...

No OCZ drives?

My OCZ ATV 4GB is fast and sturdy; Been around the washing machine more times than I care to remember.

Surely, that's...

full-figured disclosure.

Aaaand the Netscape website...

... Encourages you to download Firefox!

http://browser.netscape.com/

Best to play dead

When faced with bears^H^H^H^H^H Apple Employees.

@Big-nosed Pengie

Your analogy is FUD. Shut up.

Microsoft Windows is at fault because xp issues "admin by default" user accounts, up until Windows Vista.

The rest is user error. Idiot computer users who download and install patches regularly, who download and run "superscreensaverboobies.exe" from an anonymous email, or who suffer drive-by attacks from poorly configured browsers (My pr0n won't load! I need unsigned ActiveX and Javascript to run it! AMAGAD OPEN OPEN OPEN!). Note that it could be IE, Firefox, Opera; They'll all do it if told to by the USER.

Your analogy is not accurate. What it should be is:

Motor car X is the most popular model on the market. Everyone can get it, it's easy to refuel, service, and comfortable to drive. It almost drives itself. The trouble is people take this for granted, and let it run away sometimes, causing accidents. It also has an idiots guide to tuning the engine, meaning folks who know about it can get the best performance, but idiots who use it end up wrecking the engine and costing themselves lots of money. Because there are more on the road of this model, there are more accidents. It's a direct correlation. These cars are also have an automated tool to bypass the immobiliser, but this is broken every month or so (Every second tuesday, actually) which means the bad guys need to update too.

Motor car Y is a kit car. It comes in a default configuration which runs 99% of the time, but it starts with a rattle that the owner doesn't like. He also notices that the headlights, indicators, and rear wiper don't work immediately. There is no idiot guide to maintenance; He has to ask other owners. These owners reply with "OMGLULZ U R N00BX0rZ GO BACK TO CAR X, TARD!" and shun him. He is left to read documents written by people who more than likely have qualifications in automotive maintenance. He has difficulty understanding it, and gives up. Car X was so much easier to drive.

Get it?

Are they sure...

... That the game players were just used to being more engaged, and considered the "game" provided by the researchers to be BORING?!

Correlation!=causation.

Science fail.

Right...

So naturist websites are hosting illegal photos, and colonies are groups of perverts.

They might be looked upon a little oddly in winter, but I can't see the logic myself...

Which is exactly why...

... I went with Windows Mobile.

DRM is for suckers.

Define "moving"

Motorised wheelchairs "move" but I wouldn't necessarily consider shooting one of those with a high-powered energy weapon particularly useful.

Come back when it can remove ( or at least warp beyond the possibility of firing) the barrel from a M1 Abrams at 20km in less than 3 seconds. Then I'll be impressed.

@AC (Anonymous Coward)

Fully chilled, I hope.

Oh wow...

The only thing I remember about the most recent Family Guy episode was how many rape, disability, racist, and sexist jokes their were.

Microsoft Windows 7: Simple, for all the family. As long as they're homosexual paraplegics falling down stairs while engaging in forced sex.

@Charles Manning

Anybody who's used computers for more than 60 seconds, and has an ounce of common sense.

I typically put the common sense quota of most lusers at around the same sort of scale as the LHC is attempting to observe.

Fanboi fail. Always backup.

*Shifty eyes*

<_< >_> <_<

IT'S A TRAP!

Yeah, or...

Take some photos of your own, determine the value with some google-fu, and earn non store dependent vouchers by posting it on eBay.

The only devices this will see are non-working models over 3 years old.

Business model fail.

Twitter has some useful applications

You can use it to find out when your favourite musician uses the bathroom, what colour his / her wee was, and if they used soap when washing their hands.

I don't see the appeal...

I'm @AC (Re: Please Arrest Me)

Oh no! I read a comment written by a person who posted on the same website as someone who went to school with someone who now works for the PLO!

OH CRAP! I FORGOT TO POST ANONYMOUSLY! *Cowers in terror*

Oh no! I said terror!

Agh! I did it again!

Waaa! I selected the grenade icon!

Fine!

I'll buy AMD / ATI for my next upgrade. This, and the crippling of PhysX processing off-GPU (more a principle thing for me) has put me off nVidia. I'm due for an upgrade, too...

I, for one, welcome my new AMD processor and graphics card combination!

Carver

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KhABgoss0M

A year ago, has seating for two.

New product I'm launching

It's called iCare, and I don't.

Seriously, Why The Face?!

@AC (First post)

Woo wooo! Here comes the troll train!

MS succeeded because it marketed itself well and it had vendor support. Mac is making headway, but their hardware is priced outside of mainstream purchasing. Linux is still eating the scraps because it's too damn hard to get working properly in the first place. If Linux could get itself as easy to configure as Windows (I.E. It does it for you!) it'd be mainstream overnight.

By appealing to the nerds / enterprise, Linux fails to deliver to the consumer.

Keepass

One password for the program, no issue with other passwords being lost. Backup the database, and no reason for insecure / reused passwords anywhere.

http://www.keepass.info

Wow...

This is such a heartwarming story!

Thanks for making me smile :)

Next generation collider

Compact Linear Incidence Targeted Object Reduction Investigation Site.

Male staff may require a map to find it.

How about something useful?

Like proportional representation, like a real democracy.

How to guarantee a document is leaked:

Give it a security clearance level.

1.21jiggawatts!

Give me one of these energy beams, man! I want to be Doc Manhattan!

Heh

My phone was unlocked as soon as I was sure it ran fine (one full battery charge, one full discharge with normal use).

In fact, I might get myself a dual-sim package so I can get 3 data on PAYG for cheaper than Orange bundles.

Needless to say I didn't get an iPhone.

Really?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/10/01/**baby_q**/

That's just wrong...

Title

Can it handle more than 200 messages stored before it grinds to a halt?

I don't need an answer. My E51 was enough of a reminder to put me off Nokia. Was a fantastic phone apart from that, though.

Awesome!

"the jury 'lacked a grasp of the issues before it and reached a finding without a legally sufficient basis'."

So, Gary McKinnon will be found not guilty too, then.

What, they still have these?

They had these when I was at school.

A decade ago.

Translation software helps learning a second language

Translation software can easily translate most words into their foreign equivalent, but they are still appalling at grammar.

My German teacher actively encouraged the use of translation software for homework assignments, as not only did it make "cheating" by using these facilities pointless and impossible (easy to spot several identical works), but it got us to re-read the entire piece and correct the grammar. It saved us time looking up every single word we didn't know in the dictionary, and it improved our reading skills.

People who don't have one, want one?

I had the option of "having one" and didn't.

Perhaps if you asked outside of coffee shops and university Art departments...

@AC

So stick to your guns and walk out before April 2011. If one won't give, neither should the other.

Too many folk roll (bend) over and take whatever scraps are thrown to them, and big companies take advantage of it. It's about time the "sheeple" (popular phrase which I detest) put their necks on the line and risked something in order to get the idea that big companies can hose everyone around them to keep their CEO's bonuses.

I'm bordering on turning this into a political rant, so I'll stop here.