Posts by TIMMEH 26 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jun 2010
Looking through news from the last couple of days, I have read one speculative opinion piece after another. It seems journalism these days largely consists of sitting in an office checking Twitter while waiting for your Private Investigator chum to access someone's voicemail.
Hats off to Sky for having some actual, well, coverage, in their coverage.
My Market just updated to the new one and Google Maps has started downloading, without me telling it to either I'm sure.
I had a 'manual update' notice on an app the other day, I think this happens when the required permissions for an app change, forcing you to go through the updated list of access permissions before the update is downloaded.
I bet a lot of those people moaned and signed boycotts against Modern Warfare 2, then bought it. They'll probably buy the Black Ops DLC
They'll be there at the launch of the next Call of Duty.
These folks don't seem to understand that once Activision, like any company, has your money, they don't much care what you think.
The number of apps available is pretty meaningless considering the huge amount of trash on the Android Market (as I'm sure is the case on the other platforms). Do people really base their decision on how many apps are available, or the presence of good quality apps and/or recognisable brand names on a given platform?
"Our thoughts are with Mr Kendall's family and we hope that the outcome of the trial has gone some way to alleviating their sense of loss"
If I was Mr Kendall's family I would be extremely unhappy that the man who killed him because he was playing poker and surfing for kiddie porn has been handed a 5 year sentence.
What a disgrace.
More of the same long loading times, more of the same stilted, rubbish controls, more of the same crap survivor AI.
There's nothing unfair about it. I enjoyed the first game a great deal but I won't be buying the second. From what I've seen the new developers have simply taken the same game, warts and all, and placed it a new location. New weapons? Big deal, how about some improvements to fundamental game mechanics that were flawed in the first game.
Personally I find the layout to be rather cluttered and it leaves something to be desired aesthetically, although that could be due to having to use ie6. I've heard plenty of complaining from staff about not being able to find things too.
I'll concede there are worse examples out there but I just don't like it, so there.
I don't know about a single website, but I think that there desperately needs to be greater uniformity to the websites we have. There are thousands of sites out there, all with wildly different layouts and content, of variable (and questionable) quality.
I think a lot of people perceive the NHS as a single organisation and as such, there should be a basic template that all these websites follow. There should also be a list of information that the site is required to display, whatever else they want to put on there.
The photo switch was a joke on the part of someone at the Beeb who reads The Reg. Given the amount of business the two companies do, the original image likely cost nothing or next to nothing. The rubbish quality was probably intentional too.
I think some people need to lighten up!
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