Sigh. These kinds of roundups are completely pointless.
There are probably hundreds of thousands or more different points in the UK that you could run these tests from and get different results. If the reviewer had come to my house, in Berkshire, they would have found that they couldn't even get a Three signal, unless they put the dongle by the window upstairs. At which time they would have found very poor speeds and dropouts.
But they'd have found O2 fast and reliable on 3G. Vodafone would have been a close second, with Orange relegated to 2G connections.
YMMV.
Or rather, your mileage WILL vary. Unless you happen to live within a few doors of me. And that's the point - the service you receive can vary metre by metre, and it only matters what the service is like in place(s) you want to use it.
So, sorry, but useless review. Unless the point of it was to troll for "my networks better than your network" arguements.
...for Apple to keep the non-retina resolution for this iPad Mini / iPod Touch-XL or whatever it is, if indeed it "is" at all. The pixel density will rise as the screen shrinks for the same number of pixels, so the display will of course look crisper and more retina-y anyway, and it should keep the cost under control, which I doubt would be possible on a 2048x1536, 7-8" screen.
Agreed, that was the negative that stood out for me in the review too.
Sure, the picture quality is going to be a little ropey, and the sound too - what would people expect from a low budget decades old film?
But why the restrictive DRM? You know that it's going to be available online immediately someone get a hold of the disc, so why punish only the people who legitimately purchase the disc fair and square?
Do Sony really think that this is the way to shore up their share price? Surely they should be looking to ways to engage their customers rather than new ways to alienate them.
"The VoIP network is frustrating India's intelligence community, the report says, because it means they can no longer trace theg roup's members as it is far to spy on than email or commercial VoIP services."
XBL usually has more retards on it too. I think that's because it is paid for. You get kids thinking they're entitled to do what they want because they're paying for it.
Actually, despite the use of the word "retard" here, I think this is a good point - I have both the 360 and the PS3, and no longer subscribe to Live Gold because of this point. If I want to play online, that's what I want to do, I don't want to spend my time hearing racist, mysoginistic, homophobic kids mouthing off constantly.
They're not replying to him - they're responding to the "Anonymous Coward" who said "In shock news... not everything is for your amusement. As new discoveries are made, evolutionists are surprised. Creationists... not so much. Plenty of natural selection, not much evolution."
"At around £4 for 16, the price per cup is a good deal cheaper than Nespresso"
Hmmm... That's 25p a disc.
Nespresso capsules are mostly 29p (some are 30p or 33p for the specialist ones). And there's a choice of 16 different ones, plus flavoured ones around Christmas and a couple of special editions through the year. And you have the option of buying refillable capsules, or of course third party ones like from the Ethical Coffee company.
Yes, you can make tea in the Tassimo, but, it's tea brewed in under 30 seconds, with a vague plasticky overtaste. Not good, and definitely not proper tea. And of course the barcode system on the Tassimo units is patented, so you can't get third party capsules.
Seems to me that a Nespresso machine might have been a better choice for the article at least. I own both, the Tassimo doesn't even get plugged in any more.
While I agree with the sentiment a little (this doesn't feel as well researched as some Reg articles)...:
"PS3-Xbox 360 (Why blu-ray when you can have 1080p digital media?)"
...I think this point was answered in the article, and it's not hard to understand that the PS3 gives you the BluRay facility (which many of us use) along with the 1080 digital media option.
The Xbox360 does give you the 1080 digital media option of course, but there's no way to deny it's limited compared to the PS3 *if* you're interested in an HD movie player and like to buy your content on disc or in the very highest quality (I don't want to download 20-40GB movies each time even if that were a legal option).
Judging by the comments sections on here every time there's an iOS, Android, or BB story, I think you're underestimating the size of the potential maket for your app.
It's been my experience that it's not the "IT Admins team" that decides on the hardware or software to deploy, and if it were, they wouldn't be deploying Dell or Blackberry.
Really? Seems a little excessive. If you were talking about ZyXEL, or Belkin, or something like that I might think you had a point, but I think it's perhaps stretching the Apple-bashing a little far.
...use something like "Geotag photos" http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geotag-photos-pro/id355503746?mt=8 which tracks you on your phone, keeping a GPS track of you, and has an associated desktop app which merges the data in to your pictures.
I've used it a lot, and it works just fine, and lets me choose the camera I want rather than being restricted to only those with built in GPS.
And before anyone ignites, I'm sure there's something similar out there for Android and Windows Phone. Just I have an iPhone, hence why I know an iPhone app for it.
I doubt it's anything to do with looking to place blame in a scapegoat sense.
But it only makes sense for the family, and for all of us in the future (I would prefer that an ambulance make it to my daughters heart attack in, say, 10 minutes rather than 13 after all) to see whether things could be improved for the future.
There's no sense in just shrugging your shoulders and saying "oh well" if you have the chance of making things better in the future.
I'd also question how much sympathy you actually have with your "all due sympathy" when you're saying "Life sucks, and sometimes you get dealt crap" - doesn't sound too sympathetic to me.
I think that the point he was making was more that it appears it's not going to be an app that you can either continue to use after the beta as a properly released piece of software for free, or as a purchase from the app store.
It's not like Apple can claim that it's like Siri in that it "needs" specific hardware to run, so it'll be interesting to see how they justify a forced OS upgrade for what is in effect just an IM app. I suspect that they won't and you'll be able to buy iMessage in the app store for Snow Leopard and Lion for $5.
Wonder if Trillian will include support for it somehow. They did for other plaforms way back when, before they were officially opened up to third party clients.
There's no SLA or Service Guarantee for SMS, and in my 15+ years of using SMS as a service (yes, I was one of Orange's first subscribers) I've had plenty of SMSs not arrive, but you just shrug your shoulders and move on. Or have a hissy fit at the provider, get told "tough luck, those are the terms" and then shrug your shoulders and move on. Not saying that that's something I might have done in the past of course....
It's the same with all similar communications; email, BBM, MMS, letter post etc etc etc - anything you send isn't absolutely guaranteed to arrive. If it's a vital communication, you just have to call them and speak to them; that way, you know the message is received and understood.
"they charged £7.99 on iTunes and £7.49 on Amazon - both higher than the £7.32 average CD cost in 2010"
I'm not advocating piracy (and can't we get a better name for it than that - it's not the same as real piracy in any way) of course, but I frequently go on to iTunes looking to buy a CD, often not a new release, and find it for x amount. If I then look for an actual physical CD, I can often find it on Amazon or any number of other outlets (even high street ones) for less than x, including shipping. Often for half of x as I did recently for an (out of embarassment) unnamed 70s/80s "best of" CD..
In what world is it worth paying double for music that is of technically lower audio quality with no physical backup?
Yes, I could burn the AACs to a CD, but then that costs me more to make the backup. And yes, I know that the iTunes 256kbps AACs sound fine, and I can't actually tell the difference between them and CD-ripped WAVs, but what happens in 10 years time when we all decide a new audio format is needed, and we have to transcode? I'd rather have the CD and re-rip than have to transocde, so for me, the digital download content has LESS value than the physical product.
You can repeat this exercise with movie content, eg: Harry Potter 7 part 2:
£10 to download on iTunes or
£14 for 3D BluRay, (seperate) 2D BluRay, DVD copy, *and* a digital copy from iTunes
Seriously, what is better value there? I don't think it's the iTunes route.
Seems to me that the legal methods would get more traction if they actually looked at the real value of the offering. It's less than a physical equivalent, and it costs them a lot less than a physical equivalent, and so they should sell it for less than the physical equivalent.
I'm not saying it has no value - I don't think many (sane) people would argue that, but really, it's not worth MORE than it was when it was a "real" thing.
I'm assuming you're being genuine and not trolling...
...so I'll bite.
No, it's not fragmentation, IMO - so long as the screen res remains the same, it's fine, so if we have one screen res for iPhone 4, 4S, (hypothetical) 5, which are all exactly 2x that of the iPhone 3G and 3GS and then one screen res for the iPad 1, 2, (hypothetical) 2Nano (this 7" one) plus exactly 2x that for the iPad 3 then really it's all the same as it is now.
All the iPhones have one screen type, and all the iPads have another, the only change being the long anticipated, expected, and planned for addition of the iPad 3's retina display. Not fragmented at all, as they have built in the ability to handle the 2x resolutions in to the OS quite neatly.
For every one of those bikers you see doing something like that (and bear in mind you saw him at one point in his life - it's possible it was the first and only time he'd done something silly) there are hundreds and thousands of us who ride sensibly all our lives.
One tosser shouldn't mean that you have no sympathy (or regard) for the rest of us, who are sideswiped by cars or for who cars pull out right in front of us, leaving us no time to stop. It happens very regularly. Why do you think there are almost continuous motorbike awareness campaigns on?
Should we as bikers have ZERO sympathy for a car driver who gets crushed by a lorry? Perhaps because we see idiots in BMWs and Audis overtaking at 100mph on the inside lane of the motorway? Because that's where your logic leads.
...on Virgin Media cable, though it started on Sunday for me, so not sure that it's the same problem. As with you, the VM service status site is telling me all is fine in my area. As usual.
"get a solid-state drive for your system instead - a good one, mind, not just any bunch of crap chips from a fresh-out-of-the-box SSD that runs out of oomph as soon as every cell is written"
...see, that's the problem, for me at least.
There are so many failures and probelms with chipsets and the underlying flash memory itself (though it seems more to do with chipsets right now) that I have absolutely no idea which type to buy for the best. If they were hard disk prices, I'd be happy to take a flier and just buy with my gut, but they're not, and so what I am waiting for is for someone respected (do you hear me, Reg, I mean you - yes you are respected by many of us!) to do a round up on the current state of the art and tell us the truth about what chipsets and vendors to buy and which to avoid.
...but it's available through iOS in another way (the Find my iPhone system can remotely wipe an iOS device, or just put up messages on its screen etc, along with geo-locating it, so you can decide if you've truly lost it, or if it's at your moms or work or whatever).
Don't know about Android, but I'd assume there was something out there that could make this possible - it's a standard need after all.
...use the original film and clean it up nicely to HD, and remake the visual effects properly in HD, then assuming they don't charge $100+ a series, these might be a nice purchase.
It's not like that any more - not been for a while actually - the current SonicStage (I use v4.3 and an MZ-RH1) doesn't do the check-in and check-out stuff, and allows you to, for example, record something on your MD recorder to disc in Linear PCM and then pull it off the MD recorder directly as a WAV using the USB connection. All very civilised now.
But I don't think anyone would argue that Sony have made DRM mistakes in the past, not even Sony... And if they do, they deserve a slap.
On the Apple / Thunderbolt front, they're not trying to make things less compatible I don't think - you can actually just use the the Thunderbolt port as a DisplayPort if you want to with your existing display; Thunderbolt is just a single connector for DisplayPort and PCI Express really, which does make it ideal for what they've done with this screen and it being a break-out for peripherals too.
Awesome - thanks for that. When I trialled it (some time ago) it wasn't like this, or at least, I don't remember it being like this. I'll give it another go.
Anyone know of an app that does the same thing for music at the moment?
I'd love to be mistaken, but I'm afraid that I think it's you that is, sorry.
How does the app "find" the server running on PC when you're out and about?
With Simplify you ran a server on your PC, so you're streaming direct from your PC to the app, but in order for the app and the server program to be able to find one another, they used the Simplify central servers; that's why you have to log in to the same account on the PC server and the mobile app.
Once the central servers disappear, the PC server and app are useless because they have no way to find each other - the mobile app has no setting to specify an IP of the PC server for example.
From my trial of Air Sharing it seems to be the same, and so seems to have the same reliance on the central service that could be terminated at any time.
To be sure, it makes it easier for non-techies to set up, but that's not what I want; I would prefer some reliability this time.
...is a similar server/application that doesn't require the use of intermediate servers, ideally based on UPnP or DNLA.
I'm technical enough that I can open a port in my firewall, and point the app at my public IP (or in my case an FQDN as I have Virgin Media, so no static IP for me) so that I can stream directly from my PC, and then it wouldn't matter if AirVideo pulled their service, rendering the app useless.
This is what happened with Simplify (which I had paid for, and worked great, until they went away, rendering it useless).
I don't know about Pandora specifically, but with other radio apps, the idea is that you let the app know your location so that it can offer you local radio stations.
No, the solution to the problem that you believe is there is to get better employees.
That way, your decent employees (the vast majority) aren't unfairly punished if they make a genuine mistake or are robbed, and your bad employees (the ones you assert don't take enough care of company kit) are no longer employees. After all, if they don't care enough about company property to bother looking after it, they probably don't care about their job or the company overall so better to get rid of them.
...mine is still working, so still in its "lifetime" and I paid the £200 lifetime subscription. I don't actually want a refund, I just want the EPG to keep on working, that's all.
But some of us don't want nor need Virgin service, even if we're part of the 60% of the population that can get it.
I was very happy with FreeSat and my TiVo S1 and although it's worked for many years, so what; if TiVo didn't want to sell lifetime subscriptions, they didn't have to! They even went to great pains to define "lifetime" as the lifetime of the TiVo recorder. Mine's still going strong, why shouln't I expect them to continue the EPG as "promised"?
I will not be paying for Virgin, let alone an extra fee to use the TiVo functionality.
They actually were careful to define "lifetime"...
...as the lifetime of the TiVo hardware for which the subscription was purchased. So, if you sold your TiVo, the service went with it, and if the TiVo recorder failed outside of the hardware warranty period, you had to get it repaired, or buy a new TiVo recorder and subscription.
So, since my TiVo recorder with lifetime subscription is still working fine, why shouldn't I expect the service to continue too?
Of course, I don't expect them to still be serving the EPG service in 2035 when a grand total of seven UK series 1 TiVos are still working or suchlike, but, I do expect them to compensate any user whom they are breaking their contract for.
Aside from your opening asertion that "9/11 was caused" by anything to do with the American attitude to flying (which is an amazing comment) you make a good arguement, but are argueing it from the wrong "end".
It's *right* that you *shouldn't* need ID to board a plane (you don't in order to board a train or tube train or bus or concert venue, all of which have as many or more people in/at them than a plane that you could kill if you chose to) because it's *not* the ID that protects other passengers against actions you might take.
If there are credible threats against aircraft, then the government should take reasonable and effective steps to stop the threat (some screening, though not the security theatre we have today, will need to be performed for example).
What's not right is the requirement to show ID when buying alcohol or renting DVDs; *that* is the silly thing!
Perhaps I'm naive, but why would any company want to publish who its got in line for any sort of promotion in the future?
Either you piss off people who aren't named who thought they should be, or, your competitors get a list of people to try to poach because you find them so valuable, or, more likely, both.
Kind of also feels a little ghoulish when talking about potential Apple CEOs waiting-in-the-wings, almost like people are hovvering over Steve Jobs' death bed or something. Just a little distasteful...
...if playing the movie back through the HDMI port also switches off that 10" screen all all it's power guzzling backlighting.
I think the big question is going to be: how much? If it's half the price of the iPad, it's a serious contender (despite the name). If it's $50 less than the iPad, not so much.
TVs use a different delivery method for the 3D effect than at the cinema. Most all TVs use shuttered LCD glasses which will definitely work on your eyes, and will almost certainly not give you a headache. At the cinema, it's completely different with two simultaneously projected images at different light polarisations, with glasses that imperfectly filter one polarisation out for each eye.
Go to a "proper" TV shop (I'm not talking Dixons) if you have one, and take a look at the 3D TVs, it's really good these days.
That's not to say that I disagree with the survey findings - I suspect that they're accurate, and people in thie economic climate aren't thinking to replace their new HDTVs in the next 12 months. I do think people will probably buy a 3DTV next time they buy an HDTV though.
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YMMV
Sigh. These kinds of roundups are completely pointless.
There are probably hundreds of thousands or more different points in the UK that you could run these tests from and get different results. If the reviewer had come to my house, in Berkshire, they would have found that they couldn't even get a Three signal, unless they put the dongle by the window upstairs. At which time they would have found very poor speeds and dropouts.
But they'd have found O2 fast and reliable on 3G. Vodafone would have been a close second, with Orange relegated to 2G connections.
YMMV.
Or rather, your mileage WILL vary. Unless you happen to live within a few doors of me. And that's the point - the service you receive can vary metre by metre, and it only matters what the service is like in place(s) you want to use it.
So, sorry, but useless review. Unless the point of it was to troll for "my networks better than your network" arguements.
It would seem far more sensible...
...for Apple to keep the non-retina resolution for this iPad Mini / iPod Touch-XL or whatever it is, if indeed it "is" at all. The pixel density will rise as the screen shrinks for the same number of pixels, so the display will of course look crisper and more retina-y anyway, and it should keep the cost under control, which I doubt would be possible on a 2048x1536, 7-8" screen.
Re: One thing I don't understand...
Agreed, that was the negative that stood out for me in the review too.
Sure, the picture quality is going to be a little ropey, and the sound too - what would people expect from a low budget decades old film?
But why the restrictive DRM? You know that it's going to be available online immediately someone get a hold of the disc, so why punish only the people who legitimately purchase the disc fair and square?
Do Sony really think that this is the way to shore up their share price? Surely they should be looking to ways to engage their customers rather than new ways to alienate them.
You what??
"The VoIP network is frustrating India's intelligence community, the report says, because it means they can no longer trace theg roup's members as it is far to spy on than email or commercial VoIP services."
What's a roup? I'm guessing you mean group.
"it is far to spy on" - what does this mean?
Re: Not surprised really
@toadwarrior
XBL usually has more retards on it too. I think that's because it is paid for. You get kids thinking they're entitled to do what they want because they're paying for it.
Actually, despite the use of the word "retard" here, I think this is a good point - I have both the 360 and the PS3, and no longer subscribe to Live Gold because of this point. If I want to play online, that's what I want to do, I don't want to spend my time hearing racist, mysoginistic, homophobic kids mouthing off constantly.
Re: Now, that's strange
@ Anonymous Coward 15
They're not replying to him - they're responding to the "Anonymous Coward" who said "In shock news... not everything is for your amusement. As new discoveries are made, evolutionists are surprised. Creationists... not so much. Plenty of natural selection, not much evolution."
Tassimo / Nespresso
"At around £4 for 16, the price per cup is a good deal cheaper than Nespresso"
Hmmm... That's 25p a disc.
Nespresso capsules are mostly 29p (some are 30p or 33p for the specialist ones). And there's a choice of 16 different ones, plus flavoured ones around Christmas and a couple of special editions through the year. And you have the option of buying refillable capsules, or of course third party ones like from the Ethical Coffee company.
Yes, you can make tea in the Tassimo, but, it's tea brewed in under 30 seconds, with a vague plasticky overtaste. Not good, and definitely not proper tea. And of course the barcode system on the Tassimo units is patented, so you can't get third party capsules.
Seems to me that a Nespresso machine might have been a better choice for the article at least. I own both, the Tassimo doesn't even get plugged in any more.
While I agree with the sentiment a little (this doesn't feel as well researched as some Reg articles)...:
"PS3-Xbox 360 (Why blu-ray when you can have 1080p digital media?)"
...I think this point was answered in the article, and it's not hard to understand that the PS3 gives you the BluRay facility (which many of us use) along with the 1080 digital media option.
The Xbox360 does give you the 1080 digital media option of course, but there's no way to deny it's limited compared to the PS3 *if* you're interested in an HD movie player and like to buy your content on disc or in the very highest quality (I don't want to download 20-40GB movies each time even if that were a legal option).
Re: Time to write a fanboi/fandroid app
Judging by the comments sections on here every time there's an iOS, Android, or BB story, I think you're underestimating the size of the potential maket for your app.
Re: Show me the money
@Sean Timarco Baggaley
It's been my experience that it's not the "IT Admins team" that decides on the hardware or software to deploy, and if it were, they wouldn't be deploying Dell or Blackberry.
"Foxconn rebrander"
Really? Seems a little excessive. If you were talking about ZyXEL, or Belkin, or something like that I might think you had a point, but I think it's perhaps stretching the Apple-bashing a little far.
Re: Who's asking?
Read the linked article, that tells you.
http://www.wtop.com/?nid=628&sid=2793651
Only US agencies / companies, from what I see, but its a US article of course.
I know what you're saying, and agree with the principle, but...
...4+ year old 3GS? It was released in June 2009, 2 years and 9 months ago.
Re: Just curious.
Cool, thanks!
Just curious.
What is it that he's covering up with his hand each time he opens the Cydia store?
Re: Or, for a camera without built in GPS...
Update: same application available for Android.
Or, for a camera without built in GPS...
...use something like "Geotag photos" http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/geotag-photos-pro/id355503746?mt=8 which tracks you on your phone, keeping a GPS track of you, and has an associated desktop app which merges the data in to your pictures.
I've used it a lot, and it works just fine, and lets me choose the camera I want rather than being restricted to only those with built in GPS.
And before anyone ignites, I'm sure there's something similar out there for Android and Windows Phone. Just I have an iPhone, hence why I know an iPhone app for it.
Re: With all due sympathy.
I doubt it's anything to do with looking to place blame in a scapegoat sense.
But it only makes sense for the family, and for all of us in the future (I would prefer that an ambulance make it to my daughters heart attack in, say, 10 minutes rather than 13 after all) to see whether things could be improved for the future.
There's no sense in just shrugging your shoulders and saying "oh well" if you have the chance of making things better in the future.
I'd also question how much sympathy you actually have with your "all due sympathy" when you're saying "Life sucks, and sometimes you get dealt crap" - doesn't sound too sympathetic to me.
Re: What??
I think that the point he was making was more that it appears it's not going to be an app that you can either continue to use after the beta as a properly released piece of software for free, or as a purchase from the app store.
It's not like Apple can claim that it's like Siri in that it "needs" specific hardware to run, so it'll be interesting to see how they justify a forced OS upgrade for what is in effect just an IM app. I suspect that they won't and you'll be able to buy iMessage in the app store for Snow Leopard and Lion for $5.
Wonder if Trillian will include support for it somehow. They did for other plaforms way back when, before they were officially opened up to third party clients.
SMS is the same.
There's no SLA or Service Guarantee for SMS, and in my 15+ years of using SMS as a service (yes, I was one of Orange's first subscribers) I've had plenty of SMSs not arrive, but you just shrug your shoulders and move on. Or have a hissy fit at the provider, get told "tough luck, those are the terms" and then shrug your shoulders and move on. Not saying that that's something I might have done in the past of course....
It's the same with all similar communications; email, BBM, MMS, letter post etc etc etc - anything you send isn't absolutely guaranteed to arrive. If it's a vital communication, you just have to call them and speak to them; that way, you know the message is received and understood.
See, this is my annoyance...
"they charged £7.99 on iTunes and £7.49 on Amazon - both higher than the £7.32 average CD cost in 2010"
I'm not advocating piracy (and can't we get a better name for it than that - it's not the same as real piracy in any way) of course, but I frequently go on to iTunes looking to buy a CD, often not a new release, and find it for x amount. If I then look for an actual physical CD, I can often find it on Amazon or any number of other outlets (even high street ones) for less than x, including shipping. Often for half of x as I did recently for an (out of embarassment) unnamed 70s/80s "best of" CD..
In what world is it worth paying double for music that is of technically lower audio quality with no physical backup?
Yes, I could burn the AACs to a CD, but then that costs me more to make the backup. And yes, I know that the iTunes 256kbps AACs sound fine, and I can't actually tell the difference between them and CD-ripped WAVs, but what happens in 10 years time when we all decide a new audio format is needed, and we have to transcode? I'd rather have the CD and re-rip than have to transocde, so for me, the digital download content has LESS value than the physical product.
You can repeat this exercise with movie content, eg: Harry Potter 7 part 2:
£10 to download on iTunes or
£14 for 3D BluRay, (seperate) 2D BluRay, DVD copy, *and* a digital copy from iTunes
Seriously, what is better value there? I don't think it's the iTunes route.
Seems to me that the legal methods would get more traction if they actually looked at the real value of the offering. It's less than a physical equivalent, and it costs them a lot less than a physical equivalent, and so they should sell it for less than the physical equivalent.
I'm not saying it has no value - I don't think many (sane) people would argue that, but really, it's not worth MORE than it was when it was a "real" thing.
I'm assuming you're being genuine and not trolling...
...so I'll bite.
No, it's not fragmentation, IMO - so long as the screen res remains the same, it's fine, so if we have one screen res for iPhone 4, 4S, (hypothetical) 5, which are all exactly 2x that of the iPhone 3G and 3GS and then one screen res for the iPad 1, 2, (hypothetical) 2Nano (this 7" one) plus exactly 2x that for the iPad 3 then really it's all the same as it is now.
All the iPhones have one screen type, and all the iPads have another, the only change being the long anticipated, expected, and planned for addition of the iPad 3's retina display. Not fragmented at all, as they have built in the ability to handle the 2x resolutions in to the OS quite neatly.
@ Simon Neill
No, no, no, no, no.
No.
For every one of those bikers you see doing something like that (and bear in mind you saw him at one point in his life - it's possible it was the first and only time he'd done something silly) there are hundreds and thousands of us who ride sensibly all our lives.
One tosser shouldn't mean that you have no sympathy (or regard) for the rest of us, who are sideswiped by cars or for who cars pull out right in front of us, leaving us no time to stop. It happens very regularly. Why do you think there are almost continuous motorbike awareness campaigns on?
Should we as bikers have ZERO sympathy for a car driver who gets crushed by a lorry? Perhaps because we see idiots in BMWs and Audis overtaking at 100mph on the inside lane of the motorway? Because that's where your logic leads.
no, no speed limiation
it's a power limitation that you have when you're 17 and over, and on a learners licence, which is 125cc and a power output of 11 kW or less.
+1 here...
...on Virgin Media cable, though it started on Sunday for me, so not sure that it's the same problem. As with you, the VM service status site is telling me all is fine in my area. As usual.
That's the problem
"get a solid-state drive for your system instead - a good one, mind, not just any bunch of crap chips from a fresh-out-of-the-box SSD that runs out of oomph as soon as every cell is written"
...see, that's the problem, for me at least.
There are so many failures and probelms with chipsets and the underlying flash memory itself (though it seems more to do with chipsets right now) that I have absolutely no idea which type to buy for the best. If they were hard disk prices, I'd be happy to take a flier and just buy with my gut, but they're not, and so what I am waiting for is for someone respected (do you hear me, Reg, I mean you - yes you are respected by many of us!) to do a round up on the current state of the art and tell us the truth about what chipsets and vendors to buy and which to avoid.
@ CD001
You're kidding / trolling right?
Because if not, what did you think the European Elections were for?
Not any more
"PC Free" is one of the big deals with iOS 5.
No...
...but it's available through iOS in another way (the Find my iPhone system can remotely wipe an iOS device, or just put up messages on its screen etc, along with geo-locating it, so you can decide if you've truly lost it, or if it's at your moms or work or whatever).
Don't know about Android, but I'd assume there was something out there that could make this possible - it's a standard need after all.
Just one thing.
Box cutter? We used a hole punch ;-)
If they really do...
...use the original film and clean it up nicely to HD, and remake the visual effects properly in HD, then assuming they don't charge $100+ a series, these might be a nice purchase.
@AC 20:24GMT
It's not like that any more - not been for a while actually - the current SonicStage (I use v4.3 and an MZ-RH1) doesn't do the check-in and check-out stuff, and allows you to, for example, record something on your MD recorder to disc in Linear PCM and then pull it off the MD recorder directly as a WAV using the USB connection. All very civilised now.
But I don't think anyone would argue that Sony have made DRM mistakes in the past, not even Sony... And if they do, they deserve a slap.
On the Apple / Thunderbolt front, they're not trying to make things less compatible I don't think - you can actually just use the the Thunderbolt port as a DisplayPort if you want to with your existing display; Thunderbolt is just a single connector for DisplayPort and PCI Express really, which does make it ideal for what they've done with this screen and it being a break-out for peripherals too.
Inconsistent
Seems inconsistent. Quick look through my wish list reveals that:
The Elements, for example, went from £7.99 to £9.99.
iMovie went from £2.99 to £2.99... no hike there at all, wonder why.
There are other examples too - some things are the same price and some things have jumped up.
iPod Touch
when they say 3G, they're talking about the third-generation iPod touch, not the iPhone 3G.
HTH,
Paw.
@ Annihilator
Awesome - thanks for that. When I trialled it (some time ago) it wasn't like this, or at least, I don't remember it being like this. I'll give it another go.
Anyone know of an app that does the same thing for music at the moment?
Really?
I'd love to be mistaken, but I'm afraid that I think it's you that is, sorry.
How does the app "find" the server running on PC when you're out and about?
With Simplify you ran a server on your PC, so you're streaming direct from your PC to the app, but in order for the app and the server program to be able to find one another, they used the Simplify central servers; that's why you have to log in to the same account on the PC server and the mobile app.
Once the central servers disappear, the PC server and app are useless because they have no way to find each other - the mobile app has no setting to specify an IP of the PC server for example.
From my trial of Air Sharing it seems to be the same, and so seems to have the same reliance on the central service that could be terminated at any time.
To be sure, it makes it easier for non-techies to set up, but that's not what I want; I would prefer some reliability this time.
What I'd be more interested in...
...is a similar server/application that doesn't require the use of intermediate servers, ideally based on UPnP or DNLA.
I'm technical enough that I can open a port in my firewall, and point the app at my public IP (or in my case an FQDN as I have Virgin Media, so no static IP for me) so that I can stream directly from my PC, and then it wouldn't matter if AirVideo pulled their service, rendering the app useless.
This is what happened with Simplify (which I had paid for, and worked great, until they went away, rendering it useless).
@ Mark 65
I don't know about Pandora specifically, but with other radio apps, the idea is that you let the app know your location so that it can offer you local radio stations.
@ Obviously!
No, the solution to the problem that you believe is there is to get better employees.
That way, your decent employees (the vast majority) aren't unfairly punished if they make a genuine mistake or are robbed, and your bad employees (the ones you assert don't take enough care of company kit) are no longer employees. After all, if they don't care enough about company property to bother looking after it, they probably don't care about their job or the company overall so better to get rid of them.
Take a look at the Honda Civic Hybrid 2...
...http://www.thedailygreen.com/cm/thedailygreen/images/GA/Honda-Civic-Hybrid-lg.jpg
It just looks like a nomal saloon. Partly because, I believe, it just uses the same chassis as the saloon non-hybrid Civic from Canada and America.
yes, lifetime of the TiVo box
...mine is still working, so still in its "lifetime" and I paid the £200 lifetime subscription. I don't actually want a refund, I just want the EPG to keep on working, that's all.
Bully for you.
But some of us don't want nor need Virgin service, even if we're part of the 60% of the population that can get it.
I was very happy with FreeSat and my TiVo S1 and although it's worked for many years, so what; if TiVo didn't want to sell lifetime subscriptions, they didn't have to! They even went to great pains to define "lifetime" as the lifetime of the TiVo recorder. Mine's still going strong, why shouln't I expect them to continue the EPG as "promised"?
I will not be paying for Virgin, let alone an extra fee to use the TiVo functionality.
Because TiVo does so much more than a PVR does
The basic guide on Teletext just doesn't cut it. TiVo doesn't have a digital TV tuner in it to get the guide from DVB.
They actually were careful to define "lifetime"...
...as the lifetime of the TiVo hardware for which the subscription was purchased. So, if you sold your TiVo, the service went with it, and if the TiVo recorder failed outside of the hardware warranty period, you had to get it repaired, or buy a new TiVo recorder and subscription.
So, since my TiVo recorder with lifetime subscription is still working fine, why shouldn't I expect the service to continue too?
Of course, I don't expect them to still be serving the EPG service in 2035 when a grand total of seven UK series 1 TiVos are still working or suchlike, but, I do expect them to compensate any user whom they are breaking their contract for.
...well, you *can* polish a turd...
...but all you end up with is a shiny turd.
Wrong way round
Aside from your opening asertion that "9/11 was caused" by anything to do with the American attitude to flying (which is an amazing comment) you make a good arguement, but are argueing it from the wrong "end".
It's *right* that you *shouldn't* need ID to board a plane (you don't in order to board a train or tube train or bus or concert venue, all of which have as many or more people in/at them than a plane that you could kill if you chose to) because it's *not* the ID that protects other passengers against actions you might take.
If there are credible threats against aircraft, then the government should take reasonable and effective steps to stop the threat (some screening, though not the security theatre we have today, will need to be performed for example).
What's not right is the requirement to show ID when buying alcohol or renting DVDs; *that* is the silly thing!
Thanks for that
Thanks for your thoughts - it's always good to hear peoples real views out loud. I won't be watching it.
Doesn't make any sense
Perhaps I'm naive, but why would any company want to publish who its got in line for any sort of promotion in the future?
Either you piss off people who aren't named who thought they should be, or, your competitors get a list of people to try to poach because you find them so valuable, or, more likely, both.
Kind of also feels a little ghoulish when talking about potential Apple CEOs waiting-in-the-wings, almost like people are hovvering over Steve Jobs' death bed or something. Just a little distasteful...
I'd say less...
...if playing the movie back through the HDMI port also switches off that 10" screen all all it's power guzzling backlighting.
I think the big question is going to be: how much? If it's half the price of the iPad, it's a serious contender (despite the name). If it's $50 less than the iPad, not so much.
"different sort" of 3D
TVs use a different delivery method for the 3D effect than at the cinema. Most all TVs use shuttered LCD glasses which will definitely work on your eyes, and will almost certainly not give you a headache. At the cinema, it's completely different with two simultaneously projected images at different light polarisations, with glasses that imperfectly filter one polarisation out for each eye.
Go to a "proper" TV shop (I'm not talking Dixons) if you have one, and take a look at the 3D TVs, it's really good these days.
That's not to say that I disagree with the survey findings - I suspect that they're accurate, and people in thie economic climate aren't thinking to replace their new HDTVs in the next 12 months. I do think people will probably buy a 3DTV next time they buy an HDTV though.
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