Advertising in general is a waste of time. As you said, if I want a product I'll search around and word of mouth is more important to me than advertising.
I used to work for a now defunct crap computer maker (named after something that a clock helps you with) and we were once told their stats on adverts. It was £50 per customer footfall and another £150 per computer sale. That's a large chunk of the margin so it was no wonder we were pushed to sell the extended warranties. I guess they were making a loss on a base computer sale. Coupled with that, the computers sold were shite. Factory refurbed and refitted HDDs in new units. They were sold on the basis of advertising alone, while I knew full well where you could buy from a local supplier for the same money and actually get some decent kit.
Now to companies who famously don't advertise; Bentley and Rolls Royce. You heard of them?
If a product is good enough on terms of quality and price you'll have customers beating a path to your door. If your product is sub-standard, you need to advertise.
Of course none of the science can be directly attributed to a sky wizard but a lot of the great scientists have had religion and felt it was important to them.
Galileo - imprisoned for heresy by the Catholic Church
Newton - Christian(ish)
Darwin - Christian, clergy
Columbus (not a scientist I know) - Christian
As to the Arab world, al-Khwārizmī brought us the number 0 (by the grace of which computers work) and algebra.
To be fair, the news channels did a frankly shite job of reporting the news.
I was watching News 24 on Monday night and they had their chopper hover over the places that were on fire - where the rioting had been and was no more. I was getting better info from friends who live in London than the news was letting out.
Every time they interviewed a reporter it was by phone and the chopper was never overhead to show us what the ground situation was like.
He's right in that digital delivery is set to become the dominant model.
He's wrong in that it will be Apple taking the prize. The ifs and buts he uses are a faulty premise. "If Apple's growth continues in the way it is." No. It won't.
Can I play complex MMOs on an iPad? Even with the advent of streaming game services it'll be pretty difficult to play complex games with touch screen controls more suited to Angry Birds.
I personally predict that Steam will become the dominant delivery system, for consoles too. But that's just my opinion.
Gnome 3 provides 2 by default, in a vertical configuration.
Since it is so raw I haven't found the settings area to change this, but I did notice that as soon as I started working in the 2nd workspace it automatically added a 3rd empty one below it.
If not, a simple Linux install will give you access to PHP (via the command line - no need for a full webserver) which is a very forgiving and accessible language for new learners.
When you look at their systems they are all listed as without an OS and you choose to add any of the current flavour of MS builds, clearly listing the cost of the component.
Sadly, their laptops are still forced to have an OS.
Check your terms of service. T-Mobile bans VoIP on my £15/mo data contract, you have to pay £30/mo to get it. They still haven't been able to tell me why.
My 600Mhz netbook boots into Gnome with mobile broadband in under a minute already. This pisses on my 2.something dual core Windoze machine from a great height. Actual to browsing times on that box is greater than 5 mins.
I love their intellectual dishonesty too. Normally, when you drop a check box, the size of the box covers that of the label too. Clicking the label text will normally change the option.
To disable the Yahoo malware, you have to click the check box only. Clicking on the text has no effect.
Yep, because cyanogen and the other home cookers, they don't exist dude.
The Android community is so vibrant that the actual manufacturers are small noise. With Google recognizing this and supplying a simple command to unlock rather than trying to fight the community it just makes it easier to stay current.
I have a computer in my pocket, screw other phones
For everyone mentioning 'try before you buy', you are clearly idiots and don't know your own rights. When I bought my Nexus, I had 7 days to try before I bought. Read the T&C page on Google and you will find a clear and simple section about the EC and DSR. Now name me which physical store I could have gone to to get a 7 day trial model. (Mobile network signal guarantees notwithstanding.)
After a little clicking it appears that it is a Windoze malware.
I have no idea what this synch process is that is mentioned in the article, but I have never installed the official driver pack to see what it can do. All of my synch goes OTA to Google (soul: sold, yes).
What the author may be referring to is when the phone was hooked up over USB to use the SD card as mounted storage. Then it becomes the same as any USB flash device and has the same threats to Windoze.
My first guess is that the reason to go this way is that native code runs that much faster than the Java stuff. Good for games.
Google did say at the outset though that it was possible to run native code from day 1 (I now have g++ on my Ubuntu-under-Android build and can confirm it works) but that lack of access to the API would stuff you.
I'm only guessing that the new NDK does allow for some support from the SDK so that native apps can access graphics, sound and data as a bare minimum. If it's allowing graphics only then I can't see much future for these games.
When the G1 and Nexus are on charge (mains or USB) the second the battery is removed they die. Tested on both.
What you want is the hardware spec of the Nexus in a G1 chassis (with that lovely keyboard) and the fat back with an extended range 2200mAh battery. I can get 5 hours continuous* use out of the G1 with one of those in.
*Screen, radios, chip all running. Real use, not this 'standby time' that the vendors pull out of the backside of a unicorn.
So, this tweet will have been submitted to the court as evidence. Court records are in the public domain.
This should make the court guilty of posting "a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character" to the public domain.
But it's ok if they do it?
Also tweeted it myself. Not expecting to be arrested but it would show the insanity that this country has become if anything comes of it.
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Re: The (low) price of ad-free TV
Advertising in general is a waste of time. As you said, if I want a product I'll search around and word of mouth is more important to me than advertising.
I used to work for a now defunct crap computer maker (named after something that a clock helps you with) and we were once told their stats on adverts. It was £50 per customer footfall and another £150 per computer sale. That's a large chunk of the margin so it was no wonder we were pushed to sell the extended warranties. I guess they were making a loss on a base computer sale. Coupled with that, the computers sold were shite. Factory refurbed and refitted HDDs in new units. They were sold on the basis of advertising alone, while I knew full well where you could buy from a local supplier for the same money and actually get some decent kit.
Now to companies who famously don't advertise; Bentley and Rolls Royce. You heard of them?
If a product is good enough on terms of quality and price you'll have customers beating a path to your door. If your product is sub-standard, you need to advertise.
Re: This could bite them in the arse
Of course none of the science can be directly attributed to a sky wizard but a lot of the great scientists have had religion and felt it was important to them.
Galileo - imprisoned for heresy by the Catholic Church
Newton - Christian(ish)
Darwin - Christian, clergy
Columbus (not a scientist I know) - Christian
As to the Arab world, al-Khwārizmī brought us the number 0 (by the grace of which computers work) and algebra.
/not a god-botherer myself
Re: the twatters
They were fending off a massive DDOS attack and you were worried about a status page?
I'd rather they were putting in all their resource to fending off an attack.
/Happy UK2 customer for many years
//Other hosts are available
I've said it before and I'll say it again ...
Get your damn kids off my Internet.
A better solution would be to set up an alt DNS for the kiddies and just not list smut sites there.
This would make it easier to hunt the grooming paedos too, as their IPs will be connecting to both real and kids' DNS.
Not on mine
Nexus One with Cyanogen installed, no sign of this .apk file on my phone.
Browser with no JS support
Lynx.
Choppers?
To be fair, the news channels did a frankly shite job of reporting the news.
I was watching News 24 on Monday night and they had their chopper hover over the places that were on fire - where the rioting had been and was no more. I was getting better info from friends who live in London than the news was letting out.
Every time they interviewed a reporter it was by phone and the chopper was never overhead to show us what the ground situation was like.
He's right and he's wrong
He's right in that digital delivery is set to become the dominant model.
He's wrong in that it will be Apple taking the prize. The ifs and buts he uses are a faulty premise. "If Apple's growth continues in the way it is." No. It won't.
Can I play complex MMOs on an iPad? Even with the advent of streaming game services it'll be pretty difficult to play complex games with touch screen controls more suited to Angry Birds.
I personally predict that Steam will become the dominant delivery system, for consoles too. But that's just my opinion.
Please do something about this
Everyone who reads this and lives in the EU, please land email on your MEP's desk:
http://www.writetothem.com/
<3 SwiftKey
Best app I've ever paid for.
Works amazingly.
--sent from my Nexus One
Virtual desktops
Gnome 3 provides 2 by default, in a vertical configuration.
Since it is so raw I haven't found the settings area to change this, but I did notice that as soon as I started working in the 2nd workspace it automatically added a 3rd empty one below it.
QBasic?
Does this still ship with MS operating systems?
If not, a simple Linux install will give you access to PHP (via the command line - no need for a full webserver) which is a very forgiving and accessible language for new learners.
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El Reg, please please do a Playmobil enactment of this, to the tune of Yakkety Sax.
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Or just block iFrames in NoScript.
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Get the children off the adult internet. Easy.
OS-free computers
overclockers.co.uk
When you look at their systems they are all listed as without an OS and you choose to add any of the current flavour of MS builds, clearly listing the cost of the component.
Sadly, their laptops are still forced to have an OS.
Up to 5 devices?
Amateurs. I can connect unlimited* to my phone in tether mode.
*address space allowing.
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Needs permissions for -
Read messages - so it can read your inbox and train itself on the common sentence formations you use.
Network comms - to download the base language packs that contain the base sentence formations.
Phone state - no bloody idea, but a lot of apps ask for this in general.
Best 60p I've ever spent.
I'm confused
Why is 'bisexual' a banned word?
Customer satisfaction?
What Apple users want: Shiney and smug
What Apple users get: Shiney and smug
What Android users want: A damn powerful computer platform that can do everything their desktop can
What Android users get: Almost all of it
Customer satisfaction is an indication of expectations vs actuality. Since Apple users generally don't want to stretch their units, they are happy.
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Thanks for reminding me of this.
Tested it out on my 600Mhz netbook and with the game data directory farmed off onto the SD card it installs and runs fine.
Bad Bill, bad!
"Lord it over android users"?
You know full well we have full flash on android and I'm guessing the gnash build I have running under Ubuntu has more features than this iPhone hack.
Design be buggered, I'll keep my power and freedom thanks.
T-Mobile
Check your terms of service. T-Mobile bans VoIP on my £15/mo data contract, you have to pay £30/mo to get it. They still haven't been able to tell me why.
Linux
Nope. There are negotiations for android to re-enter the Linux fold.
Read the Reg more.
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Where exactly do these women think that their precious snowflakes came from anyway?
They're going to find that out one day.
The horror!
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I think everyone should just mess with the operators. Make the word 'PERV' in blu-tac and stick it to your chest with a bit of superglue.
Ad blocking is all well and ok
I'll need a NoScript replacement before I totally leave Firefox though.
Crossbow not needed
A can of spray varnish unloaded into the incoming air filters should do it.
Google bashers with short meories ITT
Lot of people here saying that Apple have never used their kill switch. They have.
Admittedly, on a misappropriated advance model and not a consumer owned device, but they have.
Also to note: Google here pulled 2 apps. The Apple kill switch use completely disabled the device.
For the really paranoid android users, go into the settings menu and have a look at the permission sets of some of the deep OS level apps.
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Excellent.
Now my NoScript will just prevent them from loading, speeding up my web even more.
Thanks Google.
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I notice that we're chasing to have the fastest network in Europe, not the world.
Worked on my boxes since day 1
... but I never save passwords down to a browser (who does?) and opening my tabs from home in a work environment is unthinkable.
Games
Please please tell me how to run all my games (and audible) under Linux and I'm sold. I have 1 win box left and it's for games.
When wanting to do work I switch to Linux and agree with the rest of your sentiment.
Faster?
He wants to make it _faster_?
My 600Mhz netbook boots into Gnome with mobile broadband in under a minute already. This pisses on my 2.something dual core Windoze machine from a great height. Actual to browsing times on that box is greater than 5 mins.
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"Something UI designers have known for a long time is that the simpler an interface looks, the faster it will seem,"
LittleFox FTW. I first got it for the small screen on the Netbook, it's on all my installs now. Clean and simple.
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They already know that. It's donkey midget porn, duh.
Espionage anyone?
Up next - autocomplete list poisoning attacks.
Scum
I love their intellectual dishonesty too. Normally, when you drop a check box, the size of the box covers that of the label too. Clicking the label text will normally change the option.
To disable the Yahoo malware, you have to click the check box only. Clicking on the text has no effect.
Fuck off CEOP
They are a bunch of concern trolls that exist only to push how much they are needed in the face of the public.
If they really wanted to protect kids then they would be pushing the message that kids need to be supervised on the net - you know, actual parenting.
Now, if only they would push to get the kids off of the real Internet and off our lawns I for one would be happy.
Makers?
Yep, because cyanogen and the other home cookers, they don't exist dude.
The Android community is so vibrant that the actual manufacturers are small noise. With Google recognizing this and supplying a simple command to unlock rather than trying to fight the community it just makes it easier to stay current.
Open vs closed culture? Viva home cooking.
RE: backup
Nandroid backup. The importance of this facility cannot be stressed enough. It's got me out of a couple of tight holes.
Of course, this requires an unlocked bootloader. If you don't have one of these, please buy an iPhone and stop reading El Reg.
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Surprised ES File Explorer didn't make your list. Internal management as well as SMB, FTP and Bluetooth.
Also:
ConnectBot - essential SSH and local terminal
NetCounter - tracks data usage
Parallel Kingdoms - great geo-location based game
Want
Number row _and_ arrow keys? Want!
I have a computer in my pocket, screw other phones
For everyone mentioning 'try before you buy', you are clearly idiots and don't know your own rights. When I bought my Nexus, I had 7 days to try before I bought. Read the T&C page on Google and you will find a clear and simple section about the EC and DSR. Now name me which physical store I could have gone to to get a 7 day trial model. (Mobile network signal guarantees notwithstanding.)
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"Google insists that its fiber networks are merely for "experimental" purposes and that it has no intention of competing with consumer ISPs."
I don't think that grinding them into dust and crapping on their remains counts as 'competition'.
The other side of the coin
Does this also mean that you can disinfect (or at least deactivate) a nasty infection just by screwing with its registration key?
If I change my motherboard, will I now have to phone up the botnet control to ask them to reactivate my install key?
I has a confused
After a little clicking it appears that it is a Windoze malware.
I have no idea what this synch process is that is mentioned in the article, but I have never installed the official driver pack to see what it can do. All of my synch goes OTA to Google (soul: sold, yes).
What the author may be referring to is when the phone was hooked up over USB to use the SD card as mounted storage. Then it becomes the same as any USB flash device and has the same threats to Windoze.
Guessing here
My first guess is that the reason to go this way is that native code runs that much faster than the Java stuff. Good for games.
Google did say at the outset though that it was possible to run native code from day 1 (I now have g++ on my Ubuntu-under-Android build and can confirm it works) but that lack of access to the API would stuff you.
I'm only guessing that the new NDK does allow for some support from the SDK so that native apps can access graphics, sound and data as a bare minimum. If it's allowing graphics only then I can't see much future for these games.
Not on HTC units
When the G1 and Nexus are on charge (mains or USB) the second the battery is removed they die. Tested on both.
What you want is the hardware spec of the Nexus in a G1 chassis (with that lovely keyboard) and the fat back with an extended range 2200mAh battery. I can get 5 hours continuous* use out of the G1 with one of those in.
*Screen, radios, chip all running. Real use, not this 'standby time' that the vendors pull out of the backside of a unicorn.
Public domain?
So, this tweet will have been submitted to the court as evidence. Court records are in the public domain.
This should make the court guilty of posting "a message that was grossly offensive or of an indecent, obscene or menacing character" to the public domain.
But it's ok if they do it?
Also tweeted it myself. Not expecting to be arrested but it would show the insanity that this country has become if anything comes of it.
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