Posts by ad47uk

since I am not interested in streaming I will be staying with Lovefilm, Broadband in this country is too flaky for streaming

new debit card

is not NFC, yeah, so I am safe for another 3 years.

I am never going to use NFC, on a card or phone, too unsecure for me. Cash first or chip and pin if i really have to on my debit card. If my debit card comes with NFC next year which i doubt, I will get it disabled

more expensive?

First utility do smart meters, their smart meter tarrif is more expensive than their normal tarrif, so do that mean prices will go up even more once these new meters are installed?

thankfully I am not with British gas and my supplier have no plans at the moment to install these spy meters.

another reason to stay with windows 7

i hate the ribbon, total useless waste of space, why change something that works fine? If Ms stick this ribbon system into windows 8 then it will be a good reason to stay clear and stay with windows 7.

um, nope

I am so glad I am not the only person that got no interest in this, thankfully my bank have not started to give the cards out around here.

i know you can change or suppose to be able to change the amount of times it can be used without a pin, so if I am forced to have one it will be set to zero.

i DON'T THINK SO

Well not for a fair few years. i do a fair bit of video editing, how am I goiong to work on Hi-Def video clips if they are stored on the cloud and how long will it take to upload a 2gb or more clip onto the cloud at my 3megabits connection speed?

Spinning disk drives are coming to the end now, but again it will be a good 2 to 3 years before they vanish, because solid state drives are still expensive and still too low a capacity

there are also people who will never trust the cloud be it Icloud or another other with their data.

Maybe in the next 10 years or so, people may start using services like Icloud more, I use drop box for some stuff, but only stuff that is not that important.

lack of choice again

Here we go again, lack of choice, I not that fond of seagate and Weston digital is not that great,. also with less competition prices will rise. so we are going to be in the same boat as we are with graphic chips, only two Nvidia and AMD/ATI.

Never rely on the cloud, it is fine for small amount of data, but without super fast internet connections, it is useless for larger amounts and then what about security?

Google getting my bank details, no way

There is no way on this earth that I am going to give Google my bank details for any of their product.

more google spying

it is bad enough to have google trying to find out what you are doing on your computer, but at least we can stop them on the computer.

i think even if it comes to the u.k, i will leave well alone

ATI is well known

ATi is well known, anyone I talk to who is into computer hardware know that there is Nvidia and ATi. It will be a shame to see the ATI name go.

Hardware wise ATi is great, but their driver let them down, building a new computer at the end of the year, deciding weather to stay with Nvidia, which have been rock steady, or go for ATi/AMD Graphics card.

I will go for another AMD CPU, I hate Intel, but not sure about their video cards, because of their drivers./

I will stay as I am

i don't have these problems, I got a simple phone that allows me to make and receive calls,, send and receive text, the only branding Vodofone got on it is their name on the front and that is because it is their brand of phone.

£10 a month gives me 300mins and unlimited text, no hassle about Vodafone updating the phone and putting anything on there I don't want, as it can't be updated.

All these smart phones are just more hassle

Mozilla have lost the plot

I think Mozilla have lost the plot these days, even the new beta version 4 is no better. It is a shame as I started to use Netscape and then changed to Firefox when Netscape was dropped. I now using Iron, which is a chrome clone, but without the Google spying bits, much faster than Firefox in start up and displaying pages.

Add ons are not as good, but I found some that does what I want.

Sorry Mozilla, but your browsers are now history on my computers, in fact I had Opera, safari, Firefox 3.6 and 4on my computer as well as Internet Exploder and I have now just got one browser installed and that is Iron.

Ok I know that Internet Exploder is still there and it is hidden.

But this is Google

this will not be good, great it may speed up the net, but if Google jhave anything to do with it they will be able to spy on what ever website you visit.

at least the moment I can stop cokies , web bugs and other ways of spying, but if Google does this, how will we stop[ them?

Be just like Phorm that wanted to grab our traffic in the U.K

Google have got too big and too much in peoples face.

Add ons or lack of them is the problem

I use delicious and also roboform, both of with I would be lst without, nothing like it with Chrome.

The other problem that puts me off chrome is that it is Google, it spies on you and also it got Google Gears, something which I keep well clear off.

Google is just a bit to much in your life these days.

not secure

I have never used Ebay, I seen the problems people have and i don't trust Paypal, If Paypal was the only way to pay then I would just not bother simple as that

as long as you sign up for another 12 months

Yep, Bt will boost your speed or try anyway, but you have to sign up for another 12 months. I think I will leave well alone.

Only 7 months left until the end of my contract, I am not willing to sacrifice my freedom for something that may or may not give me faster speeds./

why the Fuss?

If you don't like verion 3 or above, then stay with version 2. I am using 2..0.0.17 and it does what I want. I tried version 3 and did not like it.

As for going back to IE, anyone who does that must be mad, far more more security problems than FF ever have.

Never used it

I have never used Ebay or paypal and don't attend to. I wonder how long it will be before they do the same in the uk, stopping people using Cheques. I know less people are using them and a lot of stores will not accept them anymore, but then Stores don't have their own payment system, well most don't anyway,.

Ebay have got too big, but then it is like a lot of American internet companies, it gets too big and think they can take over the world.

ok for me

I been with lovefilm for a while now, when Sainsburys decided to drop their rental service, it was run by lovefilm anyway.

I have had no problems if any disks was faulty they would send another one right away. I did have the 3 disks at a time option, but now dropped it to 1 disk at once and 2 disks per month, not because lovefilm is not good, but because I need to cut down on my spending.

not possible to compare

How can anyone compare MS office with openoffice.org? they are not in the same market. For 99% of home users openoffice.org is more than ample. MS office tries too hard, I remember when a word processor was a word processor and that was it. If you want to do newsletters then you used a Desktop publishing software.

I got office 2007, but only because a mate had a spare license. I would otherwise use Openoffice.org.

oh dear

As a mobile phone operator I like O2, I really do, been with them since BT cellnet days, but it would be nice if they concentrated more on making a better phone signal that bothering with rubbish like IPTV.