Posts by JDX

re:And they should be forbidden from having any more children.

In America. people often invent new names or have odd ones. It's not as unusual as it would be here.

re:No FLAC, no deal.

Yes, you definitely need lossless compression for listening to music on your phone on the train through £10 ear-phones.

I bet he doesn't even know what it is, just heard other pretentious people talking about it and thought he'd jump on the bandwagon.

Loss leader irrelevant

Since only a minority will do this... and the publicity Amazon get from techies liking Fire could be valuable... most won't know _why_ techies like it, only that they do.

re:2 year battery lifespan?

They're making an example, not claiming that's how long it lasts.

For goodness' sake

I'm sure Steve/Apple have dozens of ideas every year which they chat about, maybe do a bit of early thinking, and then ditch as bad. They'd admit they were bad ideas themselves... brainstorming sessions, idle fantasies, stuff that seemed great after a few glasses of wine...

"Why not do it for real"

You could also enlist in the army and get paid to do it for real, rather than playing COD:MW3. Oddly, most people don't want to.

I'm a Christian

I'm not offended, but I am confused what the point of it was. Also, poking fun is fine - but are they allowed - even in a joke ad - to say they discriminate against a religious group? Religious organisations have to get special dispensation from the normal law, if they want to require employees share their beliefs.

If you want yank-friendly brits...

What about Eddie Izzard? He's also a loon.

re:Is Siri that good?

Yes and no. It's hugely impressive compared to what you might be expecting from past voice-recognition systems. But it's still just a gimmick in the real world.

re:They've never said it was an online streaming service.

Apple might not have, but the article did. In the second sentence.

re:old school programmers

People were saying the same thing a decade ago, and probably a decade before that... "wasting cycles" because the Pentium is so fast.

@DangerousQ

Now go back and read what the article was ABOUT.

Motorola ARE owned by Google now

So you'd hope it would be different this time!

Looks lovely, but darn expensive.

resolution

Precisely what are you going to do with you 1800 pixels?

@Tony

Balls :(

Apps for WP7

You don't need lots of users. With the app-store so empty, you can get a huge proportion of a few sales rather than the opposite on Android/iOS, and still do OK.

Apple forums indicate not *quite* the small percentage that one or two here are suggesting

There are now millions of devices running iOS5. What % of users reported an error?

Oh - is this a 4S issue only, or 4 and 3GS too?

Studio audience

I'm sure that was something that was missed on the last Dave Special.

What about Holly?

40D

Um, aren't C4 in the midst of a big advertising campaign about how you can access it on the iPhone? Or is that only for non-iOS devices?

@Colin Millar

Ah, calling Apple users idiots is the new "M$", for the fine honed sense of humour.

Video out?

It strikes me an HDMI out would let this actually compete as a 'real' console. Now mobile devices are getting close to the power of a console, it's an interesting thought anyway.

Also - is touch-screen really all that, or is it just the current must-have gimmick?

@Andrew...

You're preaching to the avowed atheists here, as the saying doesn't go. You can tell them till you're blue in the face (like your Lumia) and they'll still say it's crap.

re:we all know that fossil fuels will run out

Good luck charging your car when that happens.

The USA is responsible for Mexico now?

Grim story.

@Dave 126

A signal indicator is pretty meaningless anyway. They said it on QI so it must be true.

The enraged ... Silva then struck his wife

Should that read 'engorged'?

re:Hollywood giving up on blu-ray??

You realise the article was about CDs, not every kind of round shiny disc?

I'm not a fanboi but normally I don't have any problem with companies expecting you to upgrade to the new model. But claiming Siri is PART OF the 4S when it's actually part of the OS, and deliberately turning it off on older hardware, is massively cynical.

The general public don't realise this of course, but if it does become public knowledge - and it's non-technical enough it could well do - some sort of uproar seems possible. The public like paying for shiny new handsets, but not being duped when the old one is perfectly fine to begin with.

owns neither an email address nor a computer

I find that quite an impressive feat actually.

Dirty tactics?

Simply trying to kill off the competition to Android? Does anyone know if that raises legal flags or is it a fair business tactic?

@Danny 5

You're not a fanboy if one hardware failure puts you off entirely.

re:And what percentage....

90-99% I would suggest.

In civilised nations...

... you don't simply kill people for breaking the law. It's not RoboCop.

re:Funny how this 'isn't that big of a deal' when it's Apple

Um. Apple make basically 2 tablets. v1 & v2. Some things only run on v2. There are dozens of Android tablets with different hardware, and half a dozen different versions of Android, plus vendor-specific overlays.

PLEASE tell me you don't genuinely think Apple tablets are as fragmented as Android?