Posts by paul 97

laughing all the way to the bank

I find it amazing that people pay Ms to play on other peoples consoles.

I'd easily vote for Xbox live if all the games had dedicated servers. But they don't, so what are you actually paying for?

Hackable

I want a kinnect - even tho I dont have an xbox (nor intend to get one due to xbox live).

Im sure there are a few people like me , not millions but several thousand.

apple will need to work hard

As advent (dixons) with their vega (£230) mean apple have some serious competition.

Web browsing better on the vega (due to flash) but fart sounding apps better on the iPad. (quantity)

Angry birds great on both , so its a draw there.

iTunes

The writer needs to emphasize the iPhones main problem - its constant desire to make love to iTunes.

A 'smart' phone isnt that clever when it needs a PC/Mac to operate every 5mins.

Going from an iPhone to an android it was great plugging my phone into ANY computer to copy files over. Updates done over the air and no stupid stupid locked to a single iTunes install. At least the app store for iPhone works over the air. Oh and bluetooth file transfer - very poor to omit. But as you know its Steves way or the highway.

silly fools

By 2018 or 2022 all the good players will not be playing in the WC.

Top Clubs pay their players tens of millions of pounds a year and do not want them getting injured on international duty - especially when they dont see much of the revenue generated once in a blue moon by the WC.

When the big European superleague break away happens it will be out of the control of FIFA / UEFA and run directly by the big clubs and media companies.

Sad for football - but good that it gets rid of Blatter and co. (Only to be replaced by someone else similar but probably more focused on $$ rather than sucking off putin).

Swings and Roundabouts

PS3 owner here. Game is fine. Odd slow down every few hours of game play when playing ground war - apart from that its totally fine.

Each console has its strengths and weaknesses.

I'd never get on with an xbox as I couldn't stand to PAY to play on another persons xbox. (no dedicated servers). Same as PSN - but at least its free!

Advent Vega

They've sold out of another batch. The advent vega team have a very active twitter feed.

I've managed to nab one for £230 - its a lovely bit of kit for that level of pounds. Dual core CPU , nvidia graphics , SD card slot , HDMI , USB.

Wife acceptance factor is high due to the superb web browser complete with flash (that the Tosh folio lacked at launch.)

As its not officially google sanctioned - there is no market app. This has already been overcome by the community. Not that its essential as I downloaded Angry Birds from the web and install is a one click process.

As word of mouth spreads and assuming they can keep up with demand - this could be the number one tablet PC for xmas.

No they are not.

The tech companies like tosh , samsung and others are looking at the market and seeing if anyone buys their existing and upcoming tablets.

iPad sales are very good.

Cheap decent tablets at 1/2 the price could explode.

Evidence - Advent Vega. £230 and better spec than ipad. Sold out within 2 hours.

'FEATURE'

iPhone - it cant make/receive calls and doesn't have an alarm clock that works - but dont worry theres an app that makes fart noises.

User Friendly Install

Desipte what the article says - the install process is very user friendly.

If your clever enough to know what a partition is - then you can easily set up multiples for you home folders.

And as with all ubuntu desktop installs - you can quite happily run firefox and surf the web while the system installs.

allofmp3.com

Then by that count - all my music is legal as I bought it from the russians believing it was legal.

One rule for murdoch and the rich , another for everyone else.....

orange

Anyone have any idea when orange will be updating their desires to 2.2?

[Im hoping that orange wont be as stupid as voda]

Why Pay

Most people who have Playstations also have computers and will use 4OD over the internet if there is a fee.

Sony do know how to screw things up - so it wouldn't surprise me if they are stupid enough to charge for it.

lost a customer

Im about to buy a desire for my little brother. I will knock voda of that list.

Now I bet if they tried to pull this shit in france or usa there would either be a national strike or some legal action.

PHONE != MAC OSX

The iPods, iPhones and iTampons run by the evil iTunes are a totally different section of the apple religion to MAC OSX.

Think CoE vs Rome or 'Freedom' vs 'Do what your told' or Cool (osx) vs not cool (iTampon)

Thankfully there has been no trouble between the two camps yet. We dont want a Northern Ireland of the Computing World.

Actually its a lot easier than that - its normal computing VS money making.

Vive la france

They dont take no sh*t and are immune to the apple reality distortion field!

jobs is scared.

very scared of android - otherwise why bring it up?

Also the mainstream press who used to do what they are told - are not his lap dogs anymore (as apple is no longer hip/cool). The extended coverage of the foxconn factory is an example of this.

apple marketing again

iPhone ahead of the combustion engine - no change if the survey was even slightly accurate.

Brits love their cars way more than any phone. (look at how we still all drive despite petrol being expensive as hell).

App

"For the most recent quarter Nokia announced $465 million profit, Apple announced $3.38 billion for the same period."

A lot of Nokias cash is spent on R&D

proper R&D that is - not nicking something and putting a flashy GUI on it for peanuts.

These innovations bring in cash over decades.

e.g. lots of 3G stuff that everyone bar apple licences - because they dont have to as they are super , gorgeous , amazing.

free advertising

Given the amount of 'Free' advertising by the brain washed press - its not surprising its sold 1m.

Steve Jobs could be president of USA without even breaking a sweat - hes that much of a star in the papers.

Journalist Dream Team

"It was a bug in 3 patches, not the RC, and the patches were actually rolled back to cure it before the article was published."

Bug fixed before the author had finished typing the article.

Your making murdochs propaganda machine look good.

good news.

No you can have something that looks like a jesus phone and doesn't need to make love to iTunes every 5 mins.

(I loved my iPhone but hated iTunes - why is it a 'smart' phone when you need to talk to a computer to put any music on it)

miss the point

Yes its sending data through googles cloud - but its open source so anyone could easily take the source and implement their own cloud - thereby not giving the data to google.

Most of googles services are this way (most , not all). Its only a matter of time before a more expensive version of google that has better privacy polices is on the way.

Google aim to be in front through being cheaper (free) and because they were first.

But they are very easy to bash , even though none of you care that much about your privacy just enough to rant and rave but not actually do anything. Ohh I've degoogled (but still use facebook) for example.

iHeaven

Just think I could control my iTV with my iControl sitting on my iSofa listening to my iAudio just no iPorn (unless its playboy).

@ryan

After breaking my iphone I opted for an android rather than get a new iphone was because of iTunes.

It is such a horrible bloated piece of control crap - why so may people adore the fruit company that came up with that mess I will never know.

Legal avenue

Any one know of any legal protection we as consumers can use to get a refund?

You cant sell something with feature X and Y and then remove one of them.

(X and Y being - PSN Online play and Other OS Install)

infomercial

but well , it answered some of my questions.

Regardless if its any better than the wii remote and/or natal ALL DEPENDS UPON GAMES.

The wii mote is great - but only for wii sport.

Metroid prime, mario galaxy were good games but didnt do anything special with the wii mote. The best game on the platform is mario kart that really didnt use much of the remote either.

if it works

Not for me - but could well be sucessful.

The ps3 is a ten year (at least) project for sony.

The ps2 that turned ten recently still has good games coming out for it. Unlike my original xbox that MS dropped like a bomb as soon as the 360 came out. Nintendo didnt really support the game cube for long either. Software sales (not consoles) are the things that make these companies money.

yeah right

"But Opera believes Apple will approve the app because it doesn't actually interpret code."

I hope they do let it in , but I would not bet my money on it. It may meet all the criteria - but apple dont like competition any more. Rather than get the company to innovate (apple of old) the new apple uses rules and legal measures to stay ahead.

* Duplicates existing functionality - nope as it compresses pages and therefore has a feature the default safari browser doesnt have.

* Interpets existing code - nope. All done on opera servers as the article mentions.

* doesnt let you get on your knees facing west and pray to S Jobs every hour - ahh this is what they will reject if for.

what if it was a playboy wi-finder

Where a lovely lady pops up when it finds a network.

Will Steve Jobs head explode with conflict of interest?

Chair

If he would sign a chair - I would buy it and sit on it. Software - no thanks. Stick to what your good at.

(MS dont make good software - but they are a very clever business)

EC2 Linux is great

To AC and John - about managing your own machine - thats exactly what I want. I need access to the OS. Load balancing is also available in many forms. Guess it depends upon your skill set. Any my licensing costs have been 0.

"Red Dog reportedly has built in virtualization and an incredibly high scalability to multiple cores compared to NT or Linux. "

Linux scales to thousands and thousands of cores. #1 super computer runs linux. 12,960 IBM PowerXCell 8i CPUs, 6,480 AMD Opteron dual-core processors