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103 posts • joined Wednesday 17th June 2009 09:44 GMT

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bex

hardly wort a review

Just a slight boost from the one I bought earlier this year, Waste of the internet

bex

question

How small must your penis be to need a 64 inch tv to compensate.

bex

following ie 9

internet explorer has this feature, I assume Mozilla thought now thats a good idea. They need the feature that ie 9 has that any addon that slows the startup by more than 0.2 of a second throws up a dialogue asking if you want to disable it.

bex

software patents my arse

I am all fot copyright of software code but vague software patents, bin the lot of them.

bex

trackpad

I wish htc would start putting optical trackpads back on their phones

bex

safari

Having a windows pc being used to firefox and coming to the Mac there is something less than satisfying about safari, so it never gets used on my machine.

Because of firefox's erratic memory use on os x I mostly use chrome

bex

virus

I can.t remember the last time I saw an actual virus on a windows machine just malware

bex
Go

the difference being

I am not defending this (if its true) and it was just a matter of time before this happened but the difference between OSX and windows is on osx you must provide a password to instal stuff on windows maybe depending on how its set up.

bex

won't happen

the screen would be expensive

if the 3ds is anything to go by it would kill the battery life (tone of the ipads strongest points)

who the hell wants it

bex

has this fad not dead yet!

If you want 3d drama go to the theatre and watch a play. 3d tvs are a pointless piece of fluff

bex

inconcistancy

how can it be legal to jailbreak an iphone but not a ps3?

bex

follow the ie road

so they are doing this not because that functionality is part of internet explorer 9 but because a good idea?

bex

copying ie

ie9 does this and checks for stuff that slows down startup

bex

spaces

am I the only mac user how never uses spaces?

bex

yes but no but yes

smacks of the apple grip of death videos to show other phones have problems with antenna's too

bex

this is not new

I have seen this sort of thing for years , its hardly new

bex

not had a problem her

I have updated over 20 pcs mixed 32/64 bit only problem one of them had to install a fix for something missing before the service pack would take. This report smacks of the so called kinect problem the bbc reported that was nothing

bex

yes but no but yes

Apple laptops are mindwateringly expensive but so well built they don't have a competitor at this level. only 2 usb ports on a supposedly desktop replacement though?

bex

pro 13

I have the cheaper £1000 i5 and compared to my old white macbook its much better. In normal use its whisper quiet and hardly gets warm at all. In my use the battery probably will do 5 hours whilst not earth shattering is pretty decent.

bex

sky

the new Samsung box is much better than the old V+ box and the picture seems better.

One thing to note with sky is the picture quality on the none HD channels sometimes is so bad its unwatchable, not a problem you have on virgin

bex

Apple will be taken down

Once the regulators get their teeth into this the shit will fry. If microsoft have to be forced to play fair so will Apple

bex

it's all in the interpretation

looking at those charts what I see as andriod gaining and ios loosing share

bex

we are a country of prudes

If a women of her own choice and of a legal age "sell's her favours" , I can't for one see the problem. Its her body not the states. The so called moral aspects of the oldest profession should have been left back with the Victorians.

Bring prostitution out in the open with checks to make sure the ladies are doing it of their own choice and leave it at that.

bex

bull

the bbc article is speculative crap with no basis in fact. If it was true it would be all over the place, the only articles in the internet about this link to the bbc one. I call poor reporting techniques, the bbc seem to have a spate of these recently, probably one shoddy reporter.

bex

iphone

Like the article says unless you put it in a protective gase tje iphone 4 is an accident waiting to happen. One thing that put me off about the iphone is the contracts are expensive at least £10 a month more than one with other phones

bex

not sales

sony have shipped 4.1 move controllers to retail, how many have been sold, that's another story.

bex

so

we are admitting now that the Ipad is a big assed ipod touch are we ?

bex

insecure by design

I wish I could go time travel back to 93 and show Bill what a fuck up the design of windows is before everybody started to get used to how windows works to install stuff. Microsoft need to enforce password for install like most other OS's. I do home support for PC’s and regardless of what Virus software is on the PC stuff is getting through. So MSE as good as anything else, at least it won’t bog you down. That said I am mostly installing Avast at the moment

bex

If your user interface is complex or less than very good it may be rejected."

thats Itunes down the pan then

bex

true

After using windows explorer for years using finder can be very frustrating true. The lack of send to email at this late stage is baffling.

bex

some truth here

The only real advantage is the magsafe connector. The video thing is more Adobes fault than Apple's but I will agree with you most videos on the web play poorly on a mac. though I personally have had no problem with my battery which still manages 92% capacity after 35 months

bex
Jobs Horns

touch screen, no thanks

I honestly can't see the point of touch screen computers apart from the obvious point of sale type. I can see the use of touch for phones and tablet devices but for full blown computers a mouse is better. if the imac had proper Stylus control for graphic use it would be a killer but can't see it really,

bex

depends what you want from a phone

I don't give a toss about facebook updates can live without instant twitter feed and all the other social network garbage so probably not the phone for me

bex

if you want ebooks get a kindle

I set a new Sony reader up for a customer and it was a nightmare on her sluggish laptop. As someone else has stated using the waterstone site is fiddly, and thats being kind. You have to install the sony itunes lookie likie and some adobe thing to get the books registered to the device. With kindle buy the books on any web browser and they appear on the device

bex

you pays your money

as froyo allows wifi tethering and this is usually a paid for feature this is understandable. I got impatient with t-mobile (UK) and put the generic 2.2 firmware in my desire, the result of this is my phone will provide wifi tethering which I don't actually pay for, which is nice. These non-stories are a bit dumb, most people never mess with the phones firmware, so this will have no effect, for those that do I am sure there will be a way round it eventually.

bex

keep of the gin judge

If you are going to be silly you might as well go the whole way. Sir you owe facebook a qwazilian dollers.

bex

nope

this is an old chestnut, Microsoft sold the Apple shares years ago

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market value , my arse

How much a share is worth in real terms has nothing to do with the profitability of the company. This is a bit of a non story , Apple make a good profit but there are many companies including Microsoft who make much more. What this story says is apple is over subscribed because its sexy

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well done that man

a overt father ted reference is always welcome

bex
Happy

engrish please !

I assume that English in not your native tongue, if it is ,no thanks I just want a burger not a full meal. To you point about the price of Apple hardware fair comment.

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broken, scrap it!

The whole patent system is broken and needs sorting out. When you can secure a patent for a vague idea without (at that time) being able to demonstrate it in fact is utter bullshit.

bex

a bit harsh

you have to award peoples hard work and endeavour or nothing will progress but the patent process is broken with companies getting awarded patents on the flimsiest premise

bex

Linux

way to go shoehorning a linux rant into this report, how sad

bex

Fine but slight issues

SAying the magsafe plug is indestructible is just incorrect I am on my third the socket though is a work of genius. 2 GB is just not enough if you want to do anything more than one tab browsing

bex
Jobs Horns

iphoney

the only person I know with an Iphone hates it and can't wait for the contract to end. A direct quote from him "as a gadget its OK as a phone its crap"

bex

sync

I have a customer who can't for the life of him get his iphone to sync ootlook, it just does not work. I for one use google calendar so the desire will probably be my phone come August

bex
Gates Halo

MICROSOFTS Fault ?

Windows is insecure by design but with Vista/7 the malware infections have got easier to get rid of as they usually run now at the top level.. Windows is the OS of choice for the vast majority of computer users many of them who's computer knowledge is minimal so this sort of infection is inevitable and gets me quite a lot of work.

bex
Jobs Horns

i just don't want to be ripped of

they could sell them at $300 and still make a profit. As any application you put on it is more profit for apple they are treating people like monkeys.

http://www.broadbandgenie.co.uk/news/100212/apple-ipad-16gb-costs-%C2%A3160-in-parts

bex

observations

Macbooks have to only power connector on laptops that can't be damaged by rough handling, sure the power connector it self can go (i am on my third) but its far cheaper than taking your laptop to have the power socket changed.

Macbooks that said are really mean on supplied ports and why can't we have a usb on the right to plug a mouse into.

I love my macbook and use it every day but I still think the UI on vista or windows 7 is better, there are just stupid little things that annoy me.

bex

Worse sights in the world

Talking to army guys the redesigned SA80 is well received easy to fire and does not take your shoulder off. The SLR is too long and the normal sight's totally crap. That said it could take your leg off at half a mile

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