Posts by Desktop Mobile 44 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Feb 2010
"A lack of sunshine and living "in a confined space" has given Assange a chronic lung infection, apparently."
They got Lead/Arsenic in their paint over at 3 Hans Crescent London as Her Majesty seem to have plenty of people in confined spaces receiving limited sunlight who do not get Lung Infections.
The only resident I heard who suffered from these symptoms in a confined place was Napoleon & he had access to plenty of Sunlight etc on Saint Helena.
Send in the crack Painting & Decorating "Assangination" Squad
Here on dear old El Reg we look at the detail & even slug that out in the comments most consumers will just look at the headline features & the price.
IF they are right and the popular press is not too negative it will sell and sell well.
Nice & shining and yes it does Facebook & text...
@Peter Storm
" Or it could be a quality issue- http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20121897-37/iphone-4s-users-seeing-yellowish-screen-tint/ Wouldn't surprise me. Everything Samsung I've ever owned has been shit quality."
Thank God I found you & your incisive reviews!
I now don't have to read "Which" & the other review websites that test against various complicated & longwinded criteria as I now only have to read your brief reviews that get the heart of the matter. I can sense a TV spin-off!
See 1 Ferrari people do look at the Novelty & say Wow
See 1000 Ferrari's and the novelty aspect fast disappears and you fast become one of the crowd.
Put my iPhone down recently at a fiends & had to check which was mine as there were mostly fruity products.
My Galaxy S2 always has had more requests to be checked out though and the 2 are VERY similar hence the court cases.
Intriguing as to why such a discrepancy in the satisfaction for products so similar. Maybe those marketing guys do earn their corn?
@ David Simpson 1 17:52
How can you say "only people stuck in the last decade are those that run Windows on any of their hardware" and truly mean it?
OK you have your preference but can't always express it.
My Nephew wanted a new laptop for college and wanted a Fruity branded product but it was out of his price bracket so he bought a laptop running windows.
I doubt he is stuck the last decade for many reasons but 2 that spring to mind are 1) he is very computer literate & 2) that would make him less than 13
Disclosure: I run various OS including windows & have an iPhone
2hrs? WTF I was trying to login to download bills last night & got the helpful maintenance message.
It is so regular that either they do their maintenance to suit themselves rather than paying punters who due to paperless billing need to access their website or they just default to Vodafone.co.uk/maintenance in times of crisis.
Incidentally when they stop your account due to high usage which is when I travel abroad despite me notifying them they also block access to their website which they don't seem to think is a problem either.
Hmm maybe O2 business department may be getting a call...
All corporate entities reap what they sow here.
i.e. They set up looping customer management systems that make it impossible for anyone to communicate effectively with them. You know premium rate number that ask you press one of a hundred options and then put you on hold for for 17 minutes (or 15 hours in OZ) whilst telling you how important your call is to them...
Then they say they have no record of the call when someone rings them to say the building is on fire.
I'll get my coat as it is never going to change in fact corporate amnesia will probably become a science
Top Trolling Mate!
Hold I know how this works I now mention Apple market share... Exploits written when greater market share... Oh and mention cost plus the word fanbois a few times & sheep
Linux not affected, & free plus only used by clever people... sorry nerds
How am I doing (new this troll like activity)?
**Oh hell I am I supposed to be an anonymous coward**
I must be the only rat joining the sinking ship judging by the comments above as I have just moved back from chrome to FF. I just got sick of the way it seemed to randomly log me out of accounts, add-ons disappearing ... just a general feeling of lack of control
Yes FF uses fair amount of memory but I added up all the memory the various chrome processes uses and for me there wasn't that much in it.
Mine's the one with the MGB keys in the pocket.. obviously
I can guess Steve' Face timing the board now!
Based upon the Theory people only spend time writing malware for an Os with enough market share to make it worth while just treble the price!
Returns will increase even though market share fall (some people like designers with buy a mac whatever the cost) and the malware problem will go away as the "developers" concentrate on erm... Windows
I use O2 & had an issue with the router syncing but no actual internet. Whilst talking to the helpful level 2 engineer I asked him why my wi-fi had just changed from channel 1 to 7 and he said he changed it as 7 was a better channel. I was gob-smacked!
Having said that SKY freely admitted to being able to browse inside my router albeit I noticed I had to allow the router to respond to ping first.
We don't want to be told how bad our streets & schools are in the name of choice just for the government of the day attempt to make them all pretty much equal in terms of quality & safety (towards the top end of the quality scale that is).
For them to print tables & point the finger and Heads of School / Police etc is just passing the buck.
Plus unless you have the cash to move area or school there is no choice just a depressing feeling of impotence for those who have to put up with the status quo
Just take responsibility & do something about it
You are technically right of course but no PLC would in reality be wound up that easily.
Much more likely the Judge would order a Bailiff to arrive at the company's premises and seize good to the value that are owed.
Next time you see burly men handing over paperwork in Sainbury's & walking out with loads of beer that is probably what is happening
I can't say I use Internet Explorer but I do wish then well in building a secure and standard conforming browser.
That may sound bonkers but I do remember IE in late '96 or early '97 stomping all over my preferred choice of Netscape Navigator and so I guess that if there is the will there is the way.
Don't get me wrong there is not a hope in hell I will use their browser unless hell freezes over but I do hope they build a product that will be as good as the rest in terms of security, privacy and conformity to standards.
For the majority of the general public who nip out to buy a PC/Laptop from their local store Apple Macintosh etc is just too expensive for the box they want to use for email/shopping and not the same as the box little Johnny use at school.
Most of the users of this site of course make choices based on different criteria...
Re standards I know that IE is all does not adhere but Windows will do pretty much anything you want without much effort where the machines from Cupertino are not always so obliging.
As a Vodafone customer I find their network robust with good coverage in the most bizarely unexpected of places where mu chums with other quality networks struggle, Vodafone has made an exception with Lichfield for some reason where they seem to have forgotten to allow for coverage.
However do seem to have forgotten there is more to their business that an audio network and struggle with the associated technology.
Their website is laughable, the "my account section" specialises in 3 clicks where one would do and hides important info in obscure places. In fact the website is a trip back to early business type sites.
Their billing has been so poor that a random number generator may be more accurate.
That is only two and I am stopping now before I go into full rant but can they not employ someone who understand these other aspects of their business and improve upon them?
"It picks up loads of crapware too - mostly sent by my windows using friends"
Of course they would come from your windows using friends as probability alone dictates that with windows market share the majority of your friends will use windows.
Buying a Mac will not increase there IT literacy or IQ, as & when Macs get to 50% market share of the domestic market I guess 50% of your email with the usual unfunny and bandwidth wasting dross will come from a machine built by an Appleonian.
So there you have it.
A publicly listed company that has to act in the best interest of it share holders by law has found to be doing just that.
I am not a Google fan just never bought into the Don't be evil or we are not Microsoft as it always seemed to me.
Microsoft=Google=Apple=(Insert name of large multi national here)
Hi had a 5160, received a warning on boot due to over heating. Phoned Dell India call centre who told me to run the diagnostic disc fully.
I protested and she said it was a Bios error not a cooling error.
Upon returning to my office after a meeting I noticed the diag disc had stopped running, the fan was silent and then that the laptop was dead and there was a strong smell of smoke.
I rang Dell and they made me hold for ages and then agreed to replace the laptop with a new different model which arrived 5 days later.
They obviously required the old machine back.
I have never bought Dell since.
The Register 
Biting the hand that feeds IT
Copyright. All rights reserved © 1998–2024
