Posts by Ryan 7

Looks good!

Loving the "NO DODGY UI OVERLAYS!" message.

£700 for an iPad?

Even worse than I thought!

Aaaaaahahahahaaahaha

"This whole thing stinks of people not liking Forking. Forking is important and not a bad thing at all. From my perspective, forking is why the Linux kernel is as good as it is."

Everyone's phone has an 18× Digital Zoom

It's called Microsoft Paint.

Who wrote this?

A drunk five year old?

You guys need a more thorough copy-editor.

WM ships 90% of it's non-enterprise licenses on HTC silicon anyway.

Even the new Sonys are HTC designs. (Sonies? Sony's?)

And from Acer, Asus, Samsung, and Toshiba, I wouldn't expect any of them so stage a coup...

So if Google go HTC-only, it wouldn't be that different!

Even IF every pre-built box was available without Windows...

they wouldn't sell more than a few anyway!

It's Apple that are anti-competitive, with their iPod/iTunes lock-in, and their restriction on being able to run OS X on anything other than their hardware. Start with them!

Also, "Microsoft was not immediately available to comment on the threatened class-action lawsuit." - would they really say anything but "We can't comment on an ongoing case" anyway?

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Miles Bennett Dyson, director of Special Projects at Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, created a revolutionary type of microprocessor in 1994. Within three years Cyberdyne Systems became the largest supplier of military computer systems. All Stealth Bombers were upgraded with Cyberdyne Systems computers, becoming fully unmanned. Afterward, the Stealth Bombers flew with perfect operational records, and eventually the Skynet Funding Bill was passed. The system originally went online on August 4th 1997. Human decisions were removed from strategic defense. Skynet began to learn at a geometric rate. It originally became self-aware on August 29th 1997 2:14 am Eastern Time. In the ensuing panic and attempts to shut Skynet down, Skynet retaliated by firing American nuclear missiles at their target sites in Russia. Russia returned fire and three billion human lives ended in the nuclear holocaust.

They should stop inserting javascript into every page they serve,

AND stop cacheing low-res versions of every image.

We're not on GPRS anymore, Mr.-1990s-network! Total throughput has superceded client link speed as the priority for good user experience, and all your management kit can't hack it. Just push through unmodified data and you won't have to bother with constantly updating your kit to cope with more and more demand!

These stats are soooo sampling-biased it's a joke!

Of course the jesus Phone has a huge number of mobile web ad requests - it is far and above the most-promoted platform for mobile browsing!

It doesn't directly relate - hell, it doesn't even correlate - to the number of devices existing and/or in use.

Bloody PRS...

Money-grabbing b*****ds!

As a repair monkey at an indie shop

I have to agree that f***ing your machine with smoke is no different that f***ing your machine with a fall onto a concrete floor.

It's the customer that broke it, so they should pay to fix it!

And on the health risk point, I don't have a problem with doing that type of repair, but it is pretty horrible inside a smoker's machine. And it smells.

@MacroRodent & @Tom Chiverton 1

Moonlight is the non-MS open-source client for Silverlight

Are these the same Jewish Israelis...

who get so hot under the collar about Muslims trying to foist *their* religious beliefs on others?

@AC (2009-11-14 17:17)

Paint *is* useful, goddamnit!

@Paul Rogers

Athiest mate, not Anarchist.

X-D

Well they're clearly not using the latest software!

They should get that new Windows 7 and then try the download - it's much more stable!

FFS you retards!

It's millimetre waves, not X-rays!

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Electromagnetic-Spectrum.png

France says net access is a human right?

Unless you download torrents three times, of course!

Information

"it is expected that the 2068 encounter will diminish in probability as more information about Apophis is acquired"

Such as... whether or not it hits in 2036?

We already have medialess licence kits

for Office 2007... but as they cost nearly as much as a 3-license retail copy that needs the existing preinstalled copy to be uninstalled before use, they have been an inconvenient waste of time.

Pricing needs to be incentivisingly low for it to work...

@Your alien overlord

Ever heard of Thrust Reversers?

@shaunm

Absolutely right!

Whereas the process for Windows Mobile is so much better!

Step 1: Buy device

Step 2: Go to xda-developers

Damnit!

You just made me check the exchange rate!

Also @Uncle Slacky:

All the cool kids use !=

;¬)

Errrr...

What a load of bulls**t.

I've got all of those features (bar a compass) on my WM6.1 Touch Diamond 2. And there's no reason a compass couldn't be supported in WM6.1.

FREE STUFF!

WOO HOO!

@Chris Pearson

That's for the upgrade version. Full version doesn't have pricing yet.

MR SPLASHY PANTS

^ I demand this as an option

Oh FFS

What's next? Making Renault offer Vauxhall windscreens at the showrooms?

Let Microsoft offer whatever finished code they want! True competition will gain market share because people want it (ahem... Firefox... ahem), not because they are forced to invite the ugly kid to their party!

So pretty much

from:

Apollo.11.Moon.Landings.1969.CAM.NAsA

to:

Apollo.11.Moon.Landings.1969.TVRip.NAsA.REPACK

Please Seed!

As seen on:

Space Marines! In every film and FPS I've ever seen them in!

"Cryptographic researchers have uncovered a chink in the armour of the widely used AES algorithm."

That's an incredibly offensive way to describe a Chinese hacker...

Well... these three are already done by Windows Mobile:

# provide audio touchscreen feedback for either visually impaired users or those involved in don't-look-now activities such as driving;

# allow an electronic device to issue specific user-selectable commands in response to your fingerprints; and

# seamlessly and transparently switch phone calls on the fly between cellular and VoIP services.

Pah!

They had RFC's for Ethernet back in the 70's!