Posts by EddieD

Ah, the good old Scots diet

Fried food with fat :)

That looks a pretty fine sarny to me.

On the same A90, but a bit further north, near Stracathro, is the last real transport café I know - as a hitchhiker in the late 70s and early 80s I ate many a robust meal in such place - you can pick up a full cooked breakfast that would make a heart surgeon gibber for just a few pounds - and bacon butties that Frank Lloyd Wright would have been proud to design.

Anyways, I think I'll have to have a quick sortie Dundeewards, just to try the behemoth. At last, a genuine reason to visit Dundee. Who'd a thunk it?

Not so silly on bigger tabs

You can have two folk interacting.

I forget what the limit is on Microsoft's Surface 2, sorry Samsung SUR40, about 50 or so...

Wait for the 920

There was a post here recently that linked an engadget page on the low-light capabilities of modern phones - a 920, i5, SGSIII, PV808, and in many respects the 920 beat the 808.

It seems Nokia have kept their edge in imaging - whilst not cutting edge, my Lumia 800 gives pretty good images in trying circumstances.

Mmm...

My phone contract expires in July 2013.

Nice.

And they won't come back.

My phone now accounts for about half of my web use, my humongous desktop now resigned to being a games machine. I was going to use it as a file server, but a cheap and cheerful Synology NAS box now does that rôle - for half the juice.

My next machine was going to be either a laptop or HTPC, but I'm thinking that a tablet may be enough.

Since I work in computer support I've got mixed emotions - okay, I'm going to be on the dole, but on the upside, I'll get to make the niggly, whiny, insistent calls and demand an immediate answer to a problem that hasn't bothered me for two weeks but must be FIXED NOW!

Anyone looking for a cleaner or similar?

Interesting

I've been looking for something to occupy the long, dark winter nights; I may have to check this out.

Played to death

I loved this game...simple, yet utterly absorbing...

Shift in demographic.

RIM use to dominate business use - this has now been superceded by iPhone, and others, but mainly iPhone. However, Blackberry is becoming the toy of choice for the youth generation - if my brothers' offspring are any judge: 4 teenagers, 4 Blackberries. The messaging service seems to have them hooked - and if I had any friends myself, I'd probably agree.

I doubt whether RIM can regain traction in the business sector - certainly not in the short term.

Changing the focus to the youth market may not be as lucrative, but it could give them a breathing space.

Or, as often happens when companies try to re-focus their strategy, it could be the final sayonara...

Virginmedia has routing problem...

In other news, water is wet...

1st rule of social networking

Anything you post may become part of the public domain.

That is all.

Horse trading..

In Germany Microsoft have injuctions pending from Google regarding the h.264 standard...can anyone else see mutual cross licensing here?

I think the 2000teens will be remembered as the decade of litigation instead of innovation

Nicked from the BBC website...

"Spending a fortune on your legal team and peanuts on R&D doesn't seem to be a clever business plan"

Hell fire!

You have the same "comfy seat" that I was issued with for my office.

I thought I was the only poor sod to have it inflicted on them

Not too surprising

We have an O/S tuned to optimally use the specific chipset, versus an o/s that is written for a broad spectrum of hardware, and the optimised version turns out to be faster.

My Lumia 800 appears to be very sprightly, inspite of the somewhat lackluster processor - it's heavily optimised.

iPhones /always/ appear snappy - Apple are good optimisers.

Mmmm.

Certainly premium pricing...

Love it!

Strain a few drops, chill it and see how it complements a wee dram.

But did you know, that the sun crosses the yardarm typically at 11am? Sometimes before.

Cheers!

Can I get one without the telly bits?

A 50" 4K screen, at least 1x Display Port, and 3 other digital video ports, and I'll be very happy.

Hopefully, I'll be spared...

I get my bacon (and pork and beef and lamb and buffalo) from a wee (okay, not so wee) farm about 20 miles from my house, where all the animals get to frolic and gambol as god intented, till they're slaughtered, and chopped up and eviscerated and sliced and grilled and stuffed between two slices of bread...

It actually costs very little more than most supermarkets...other than the bike ride (or other transport of your choice) to get it.

Support your local farmers...it's surprisingly economical.

The clouds part...

1.1% of Apple's user base is quite a lot of folk.

I rely on Redmond's idiot-tax outfit and I lost my SkyDrive service for a few hours a couple of weeks back - these things happen. It's a "free" service, we're not paying (up-front) for the massive redundancy that industry requires, so every now and again we'll be cut off. I just don't rely on such things.

Who backsup the backups...

Good to see.

I've always liked viewsonic - my 5 or more year old 20" panel has performed impeccably since I got it.

Nice to see they're trying out new ideas.

Hmmm..

Both people affected are reported to be hopping mad....

Not necessarily a good thing.

Bob Monkhouse's widow allowed him to be used in a post mortem advert, which is really rather good...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xiGNvXbofwY

I can understand his viewpoint, but maybe a blanket ban is a little extreme

Blizzard and password security

I don't think that they should be mentioned in the same breath, ever since I spotted that the passwords were case independent - ABC123 was the same as abc123...

It may have changed now, I haven't played WoW or similar for about 3 years, but it shows a less than stringent attitude to account security

Erm

The /top/ Macbooks feature a 2.9GHz I7, most don't.

They're shite.

I've tried to read one, but I gave up after 30 pages. The prose is drivel, the characters thin, the sex boring.

I'm all for getting folk to read, but the success of tripe like this makes me wonder about the benefits of teaching reading.

It's not only the interface..

He's worried about the Store - at the moment, you buy games through their app. Windows 8 brings in a store like the App Store to Windows - are all online sales for software going to be pushed through that, as Microsoft increasingly apes Apple? If so, what's their cut going to be? At the moment, there's no cut for Microsoft, and in the foreseeable future this will continue, but, as the article points out, Microsoft are starting to wield Cupertino-esque control freakery, and so in the future, it cannot be ruled out that the Store will be the way for software to go on to the machine, and that will have a negative impact on their bottom line.