Posts by Paul M 1

Re: Does it depend on .....

If you listen to the man himself it's probably closer to Lee-nux but being completely ignorant of Finnish I can make no further comment!

Re: So..

The trouble is that people here talk of DAB being poor when really it's the implementation that is causing the problems. I used to use a Robi DAB radio, about 4 cm long that got its power from my iPhone. Worked brilliantly and power drain not too onerous but could be better. So to fix DAB I think we need:

- Increase the power levels so they're not an order of magnitude below the FM broadcasts. It's a SFN right? What's the problem?!?

- Switch to DAB+

- Remove whichever law it is that says all DAB/+ radios have to be mono and look like they're from the 60's

- Give us a decent selection of portable/personal radios at reasonable prices

- Build DAB/+ receivers into mobile phones. Apparently the Korean version of my Galaxy Note has DAB built-in? Why not the UK version FFS?

- Do whatever it takes to get prices down to reasonable levels. If I can get a cheap MP3 player free with my daily paper I don't see why a personal DAB radio needs to cost upwards of £40

My understanding is that DAB+ uses some form of AAC. Surely the power drain should be little more than that required to play my stored music?

These things are not insurmountable and considering the amount of money spent so far on DAB I cannot understand why they don't want to see it through to something that will actually work. Bear in mind most radio is listened to on the move so Internet radio is not a credible substitute.

Re: Missing the point?

Blimey the-it-slayer, you'd better tell me what colour car I should buy as well as what type of toppings on my pizza since you clearly have all the answers.

Re: Most of the problems with Surface

Such as? And please don't say "Office" - I refuse to believe that there is a great, untapped horde who would have bought a tablet if only it would run all their Excel macros.

Don't get me wrong, buying something simply because it's not Apple has its justification but other than the SD and USB slots you're still getting the control-freakery and lock-in.

So "does a couple of things the iPad doesn't" maybe.

Re: eh?

If it isn't intended to compete with the Kindle(s), what *is* it designed to compete with? The only other big seller is Apple.

Re: Overall agreement

Is that 2 USB connectors to try to draw additional power? If so then surely that only works if you've got 2 separate USB controllers?

Best get a drive that can run off 500 mA then if that's the case.

Re: Huh?

Can't believe I'm even responding but here you go..

Irony: an expression in which the intended meaning is different to and often the opposite of the literal meaning.

So although he *said* 1959 he didn't really *mean* 1959. Sorry if I offended you there but since your other posts display a stoic dedication to the literal word it seems unlikely that you truly do understand irony.

To some extent I agree with you

The interesting and witty posts are, as you say becoming something of a rarity. But from my own observations I don't usually see that pattern of down-voting (like it even matters). Any reasoned or supported statement or opinion is generally accepted. Of course there are always knobs on all sides who'll down-vote facts they don't like.

But I think the typical fAndroid is more a reaction against the emergence of the fanbois. You must surely concede that the media give Apple a disproportionate amount of coverage, much of it highly uncritical. And I can't recall the last time there were people queueing overnight for a new Android phone. In fact I recall complaining that this very site barely mentioned the official announcement of Ice Cream Sandwich and what it offered for several days whereas every rumour of a leak for Apple gets a dedicated story.

So that's my opinion. Sad to see the quality of comments drop but it's a reaction to the lowering of jouralism standards.

Re: Good.

And that's exactly what the Note is. It's not just a capacitive stylus - it is an active Wacom-style pen. The screen contains an active matrix that provides power to the pen when brought near, hence the point of putting the button on it.

Also, bring the pen close to the screen and you get a small cross-hair just below the tip so you can see exactly where you're going to make contact - very useful.

You'd be amazed how many uses you can find for it when you realise how easy and effective it is - I sometimes take a screenshot of a crossword or sudoku puzzle and then fill it in by pen as if it were a newspaper because I prefer that experience.

All of this on a Galaxy Note of course so as long as they 've got the palm-rejection bit working it should be even better on the 10.1.

Will I get one? No - I hate 16:9 on a tablet - Android manufacturers, please don't force me down the Apple route!!

Re: What?

Sorry but I'm a bit confused now. Are you saying that calling the French dirty is not "clearly a joke" - presumably on the basis that you think they are dirty?

Re: Antitrust

Thanks - that's really helpful info. Additionally, at least in the EU you can't use a monopoly in one market to try to create one in another market so that may be relevant here too but IA most certainly NAL.

Re: "4G" is a term defined by the ITU.

" Didn't ANY of you bother reading the article?"

One could ask you the same question. According to the article, NO - the new iPad *can't* connect to 4G networks IN AUSTRALIA!!

Re: Why... do I need an SD card slot

...when I can simply pay an extra £100 to get another 16GB fixed into my phone?

Re: Re: Ah but can it answer the following?

DeeZed-Jay, I'm trying very hard to read your reply as some form of subtle irony but like those old Magic Eye 3d pictures I'm strugging to sufficiently defocus my brain...

P800/900

Been a while but I'm pretty sure the keypad was detachable

Really was years ahead of its time.

Not a graphic designer...

but it seems obvious to me that the single line icons at the bottom represent the "physical" buttons at the bottom of other Android phones.

similarly the 2.5 D icons are the quick launch ones that are so popular these days. The top section is your "desktop" area so why not make it 3D-like?

Not so much confused - just representing different functional areas in different ways to show the separation. Surely that's what good graphics design is about?

Indeed

drtom, Tetractys, anamik, sykottik and no doubt others all felt the need to register (and all within 30 minutes of each other!) to tell everyone that they either now won't be buying a kindle Fire presumably on the basis of this one article, or are returning the Kindle Fire they've already bought.

Do astroturfers really have such little respect for us now that they don't even put in the basic effort anymore?

For example, ASCII is a code but not a cipher.

Many would argue that the biggest selling point is that it's not an Apple product...

And the lack of SD expansion is only disappointing to Android users. Apple and WinPho fans take it for granted.

... unless you use sizeof(destination) or equivalent for your value of n.

Yes yes yes

Although mine was a P900 I agree wholeheartedly. Brilliant phone - large screen, and you could do everything one-handed... in fact, one-thumbed with the genius 5-way thumb wheel.

I couldn't believe they dropped that with the P990 and never looked at SE again....

Re. App

Truly revisionist stuff this...

In the early 80's when people asked me *exactly* what I did I always started with an explanation that computers ran both System software and Application software and that I was involved in the former. Of course by "computer" I was referring to the IBM mainframes which had been doing just that for more than 20 years previously.

So no - Application software or "application" is a very old name. Either *you're* too young to realise this or you're too old and yor memory has failed I'm afraid.

@Just Thinking

Q.E.D.

I dunno though. I'd say AMD and Microsoft have been pretty chummy ever since Windows for AMD64 came out giving the final node of respectability to AMD's 64 bit architecture over Itanium.

Plus I'm quite certain Intel already work with both Apple and MS to optimise each of their OSes.

I should have mentioned that one of the gaps is waiting for the 8.9 inch model which I've not yet seen in Currys née Dixons.

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Non sequiturs aside, are you really saying that these phone vendors would therefore be better off paying Microsoft for the whole system as that's pretty much the only licensable alternative.

Or buy WebOS I suppose....

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Tracking is a non-issue since the police just get the info direct from the telcos anyway without a middleman.

But regarding aerial issues ... as happy(-ish) as I am with my iPhone 4, I don't get as strong or reliable a signal as my wife's Nokia 5800 does in the same location.

Annecdotal of course but, to use the vernacular, just sayin'.

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Lack of Apple provenance aside....

Why does anybody care about HD on a 9 inch screen? I can understand the desire to support DVB-T2 for the day when (if?) we start getting SD channels using it to improve bandwidth use (a la DAB+) but that seems a very long time away to me right now.