Posts by Chris 3 601 publicly visible posts • joined 10 Jul 2009
Either there is an intrinsic problem with the device' s usability
or
O2 wants to slap on some god-awful O2 skin or other software cruft and is having trouble doing so for some reason.
It is left as an exercise for the reader to decide which is more likely.
Again, in what way is there a "mistake" that needs to be "admitted"? An unexpected and unusual dip in solar output in no way invalidates the information about MMWW. It may certainly change the impact and lead to new policies, but that's due to a new phenomenon occurring, not due to another phenomenon *not* occurring.
Ummm, I think human-mediated global warming is a real and serious threat. Why on earth would I scream "denier" at the author? This looks like a serious article, based on some serious announcements and data. Fascinating stuff.
It looks like you may be suffering from a touch of religious fervour yourself, however.
Yup, that's the problem. In fact, if I have 25,000 torrented Tunez, it's not even a question of a yearly fee. $25 will give me legitimate copies of all of those - I don't have to renew next year, I can opt out - retaining the legitimate copies, but loosing the wireless sync capabilities.
If you really use your machine only for programming and reading the Reg, not a lot. For one thing its only of use if you have more than one device. If you do then it claims to offer seamless sync of photos, music, calendars, email, iWork docs - oh and instapaper-esque reading lists.
So nothing for you, but then presumably most OS improvements don't offer you an awful lot.
"With iTunes 10.3, all items you purchase from the iTunes store to be automatically downloaded to your other Mac and iOS devices running the app."
I'm running iTunes 10.3 on a Mac and I've just tried grabbing the free single of the week and a free iBook. Neither have magically appeared on my iOS device, presumably because the functionality won't be baked in until iOS 5.
When Andrew writes: ""this means a significant chunk of human communication will be taken away from applications that use open standards, and drawn into a proprietary silo."
I think what will actually happen is that a significant chunk of human communication will be taken away from the not-so-open SMS.
I just hope that Apple will get around to integrating it nicely so that if the respondent is on iOS it goes via a free iMessage and if not, it goes as SMS. I also hope that there will be a iChat plugin in Lion that will allow interoperability with Macs and iMessages.
I was a little confused by the app compatibility issue. runs RIM's own OS but it runs Android apps, but only from RIMs store ... and there aren't many apps there yet.
So does it run standard Android apps, or do they need to be adapted in some way?
(Disclaimer: I'm an iPad 2 fanboi) But I suspect the battery life is going to be a bit of an issue for professional use. Is it coincidental that Job's stated (if not actual) reason to ban Flash is based around its power consumption.
Finally, while it would be nice to have Flash, I'm not sure that citing Flash support as giving you the Web as TB-L would want it is *quite* right. He's not a notable Flash proponent, from what I understand.
“It seems that many in the UK still regard technology as something to be played with, rather than something that is worth learning about."
Presenting these options as mutually exclusive seems way off beam to me.
I don't know about any other Reg readers, but I learned a tremendous amount by playing with technology, with tinkering.
Even today, when the SME I work for started considering a CRM, I downloaded SugarCRM Community edition, installed it and essentially played with it to see what it could do.
The line between learning and playing is a fine line indeed.
"On an iPod, without gsm/3g connectivity (there goes operator excuse), you can't even download freely available podcasts. Why? Think about it."
I've thought about and decided that since I *can* download free podcasts on my iPod using WiFi, you're just making stuff up.
Does your Nokia dumb phone accept over-the-air firmware upgrades then?
"Alexei Navalny, who operates the http://rospil.info RosPil whistle-blower Website in Russia, had complained on his blog that some financial contributors were receiving threatening telephone calls over their support for the site"
Is incorrect. You're either going to have to supply some evidence, or be quiet.
The thing about Tescos is - they seem to be pretty happy to be purveyors of handsets, minutes and kilobytes... a dumb carrier, in other words and they seem to do the basic stuff well and unobtrusively.
Many of the others seem desperate to climb the value chain, they don't want to be commoditised, they want you to buy into their special value-added services and bundled software platforms ... which are usually tiresome dreck.
Poor things.
It seems from other articles I've read that yes - it *is* the location of cell towers and WiFI hotspots that is recorded, *not* the location of the device.
And whether the data is held in an SQL database or not is immaterial to the question of whether it is a cache.
"Can I turn now to the problems you've had in terms of security and the various arguments you've had with the Indian government and a number of governments in the Middle East: Is that anywhere near being sorted out".
This is an open question that gives the respondent the chance to answer in any number of ways, including saying "let's be clear, the arguments we've had with various governments has been over our technology being *too* secure".
Instead he through his toys out of his pram. He handled it badly, the interview was fine.
I actually use a combination of Balsamiq for wireframes (use with Napkeet o turn your wireframes into clickable prototypes) and Omnigraffle for the creation of site map diagrams.
There also some nice Web-based tools like Mockingbird. I' avoid Visio though, at least for Wireframes. You might as well use Powerpoint.
I assume that you will get immediate benefit with base stations that need to communicate with multiple devices, so you will see the technology appear here first. That will improve speeds to all clients sharing the otherwise contended airspace.
Then, once you have that kind of base-station installed, you will see further benefit if you update your client hardware.
Great! I thought, I'll be able to run MS Project on my Mac.
I look up their app list:
MS Project 2010 - not tested
MS Project 2007 - Silver support.
OK, so it's buggy. "What exactly doesn't work?" I think. Bug list - empty, list of tickets, a few things pending. No description of what does and doesn't work.
"No thanks".
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