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Posts by The Brave Sir Robin
105 publicly visible posts • joined 31 Aug 2010
YES! It's the TARDIS PC!
Windows 8: At least it's better than ‘not very good’
Friday 14th December 2012 13:06 GMT
Re: Have they ...
Of course not! You're not supposed to use a mouse you silly person. You're supposed to use a touch screen for everything.
Wonder if the EULA for Windows 8 includes a cop-out absolving Microsoft from responsibility for the neck and shoulder strains people will suffer when they spend all day reaching out to touch their screens. Or indeed for the responsibility for the eye strains caused by people spending all day looking at their monitor screens through the inevitable layer of awful, greasy, finger smears. Yuk !
Won't somebody think of the children who will grow up looking all lop sided like Quasimodo from using touch screen interfaces on laptops and desktops ?
Motörheadphönes Motörizer rock 'phones review
Android seven-inchers swipe rug from under Apple
Wednesday 28th November 2012 20:32 GMT
Re: More fake numbers by Google....
Does that mean that the ASUS EEE Pad Transformer TF101 that I've been using for the last 18 months is also crap ? Why did nobody tell me ? I'm going to have to bin it straight away and buy an iPad 4 if its the only one worth buying. I can't wait to enjoy the benefits of using the not at all bloated, slow and poorly designed iTunes on my PC with my new fruity piece of genius. It'll be so satisfying to penetrate its Appley case with my fully loaded SD cards of musical pleasure. Oh how could I have been so completely wrong in my choice of tablety goodness.
Apple, Spotify, Amazon: All your Cloud are belong to us, says firm
Microsoft-Netflix bid rumours feast on froth – and logic
Thank Freeview for UK 4G by mid-2013 - NOT the iPhone 5 nor EE
Ten movies inspired by video games
Microsoft dumps Metro from Windows 8
Gabe Newell: Windows 8 is a 'catastrophe' for PC biz
Windows 8 'bad' for desktop users - Gartner's one-word review
Monday 23rd July 2012 21:06 GMT
Re: Fixed with a fracking start icon
So the correct solution is as implemented in 3rd party utilities like Actual Multiple Monitors or Ultramon where you get a task bar and Start button on every monitor rather than having to hover over specific pixels in either corner. The main problem. This would have been much more sensible that the context breaking major distraction that is Metro on the desktop.
Gamers bereft as Xbox Live takes a dive
I need to multitask, but Windows 8's Metro won't let me
Hit upgrade on Symantec Backup Exec, and unleash Hell
Google planning to brand and sell Android tablets
GiffGaff gaffe charity spaff to quell miffed riffraff
So, what IS the worst film ever made?
French get unlimited mobile for €20
Doctor Who girl Amy Pond axed in 'heartbreaking' exit
James Bond savages the Kardashians
iPhone 4S is for failures who work in coffee shops - Samsung
Thursday 24th November 2011 21:00 GMT
Having owned a BMW...
...and being a current owner of 2 Skodas I can safely say that the Skodas are better built, more reliable, cheaper to run, and generally better cars than my BMW was. They may not be quite so much fun but they do their work-a-day jobs much better.
In this respect your analogy is quite good. BMWs = iphones = expensive fun toys. Skodas=Androids=Useful tools that get the job done affordably and reliably.
Bill Gates drops $1m on laser-based malaria fighter
Sunday 6th November 2011 20:50 GMT 
Typical...
First there was Mosquito.NET which is now now longer a supported technology and will be replaced with Mosquito Laserlight. How about Mosquito Homosexually Transforming Mosquito Liquid version 5 to turn all mosquitoes gay so they don't breed. Yes, I'd say HTML 5 is the way of the future.
Brits forced to join waiting list for iPhone 4S
This Dianamania is a slur on Jobs
Ten reasons why you shouldn't buy an iPhone 5
Samsung-Apple patent lawsuit tally hits 21, and counting
Gartner: Apple rivals can't touch iPad
Thursday 22nd September 2011 16:17 GMT
Oh dear
“So far, Android’s appeal in the tablet market has been constrained by high prices, weak user interface and limited tablet applications,” Milanesi said.
I must have been mistaken in my belief that my ASUS EEE Pad Transformer was comparatively low priced, with an excellent user interface, loads of expansion potential and a perfectly acceptable number of very useful and entertaining applications that do everything I want.
I'd better throw it away immediately and buy a iFad so I can have an expensive device, limited multitasking, no expansion, no keyboard and access to a massive number of applications, of which 5% are any good and which are available just the same on Android.
Schoolkids learn coding at GCSE level in curriculum trial
Sunday 18th September 2011 11:39 GMT
Golly
I remember doing CESIL for 'O'-level computer science on a PDP-11 at the local FE college. We had to catch the bus from school to go to the college for lessons as we only had 2 BBC Micros, a Spectrum and a 380Z at school. I also remember writing a stock control system in BASIC for my 'O'-level too. Lots of fun using a line editor on a VT-52 terminal.
Sunday 18th September 2011 11:39 GMT
Or could it be because the Government of whatever colour is full of useless arty-farty muppets who're only interested in furthering their own advancement by the production of much hot air and interfering in the name of 'change' whether that 'change' is needed or not. Either that or interfering based on the back-handers of interested third parties with their own agenda.
Got a non-iPad tablet? Weirdo
Tuesday 13th September 2011 13:47 GMT
Its the...
...EEE Pad Transformer and keyboard for me. Great for note taking in meetings (thanks to really good keyboard and extra battery life) and also brill for music, audio books, watching tv shows, internet radio, games, social networking, reading news, podcasts, entertaining children on holiday, impulse web surfing, mailing and not being an Apple product.
Wouldn't have one instead of a proper computer but they're a great, if expensive, addition to one's gadget arsenal if you're already computered up.
Galaxy Tab remains illegal in Germany
Virgin Media preps firmware update for glitchy SuperHub
London rioters should 'loose all benefits'
Wednesday 10th August 2011 21:13 GMT 
Why not...
send them all the Australia to the Outback. Put them in a very large electric fenced enclosure and make them eat rice and beans all the time. Each day one of them gets picked to do nasty challenges such as eating bugs and finding stars at the bottom of barrels of rats and stuff. If they do well, they get food for the rest. They could show this on TV with a couple of chaps ,maybe from the North East of England as presenters. Each week, the viewing public could vote to release the most repentant.
We could call this TV program "I'm a Thug, Get Me Out of Here!". I'd watch it.
It's official: Journos are dumb as a bag of IE users
Thursday 4th August 2011 08:36 GMT
We never get accurate news
TV, newspapers, radio, the Internet ; they're all just channels for miss-information to distract us from what's really going on. Namely the slow and inexorable take-over of the world by the Lizard People!
Mark my words. We'll all soon be speaking in hisses and eating rodents and insects. Ignore the warnings of David Icke at your peril!
'Missing heat': Is global warmth vanishing into space?
Higgs Boson hiding place narrows
HP's fondle-slab dilemma: What to do when you're No 2
Thursday 28th July 2011 17:25 GMT
Having owned a BMW...
I can safely say that both of my current cars, both of which are Skodas (BMW 325i replaced by a Fabia and and an Octavia for financial and practical reasons) , are so much better quality than it was. More reliable, cheaper to run and insure. They just work, and work well whereas I had many issues with the BMW.
However, it does have to be said that the BMW 325i was a whole lot of fun to drive.
Would I buy a BMW again? I doubt it. Another Skoda ? Oh yes. Make mine a vRS please.
Microsoft rolls out One Big Windows strategy
Dropbox security fubar infuriates customers
Tuesday 21st June 2011 20:14 GMT
I dropped Dropbox...
a few weeks ago when I discovered that they had changed "can't access user data" to "not permitted to access user data".
I went to Wuala which uses client side encryption. Not quite a classy on the client software user interface but it works, is cheaper and I'm much more comfortable about its security.
Sinclair ZX81: 30 years old
WebGL: Interwebs 3D tech emerges from puberty
Friday 4th March 2011 10:18 GMT 
It's been years....
...since I last encountered a Windows PC without OpenGL drivers automatically included with their graphics drivers. Good job really since my company sells software which relies heavily on OpenGL graphics. We've not had problems with missing OpenGL drivers since the Windows 9x and NT 4 days.
Microsoft finally says adios to Autorun
Thursday 10th February 2011 09:56 GMT
Users should bloody well learn to use a computer
If someone buys a computer without knowing how to use/run Explorer and about the file system then they should buy a book to learn from or go on a computing for beginners course. If they can't be bothered to learn then "though shit".
After years of receiving support calls from friends and family I've finally got to the point where if I say "Open Explorer and navigate to your CD drive or D:\ or whatever" and they ask how then I've just started telling them to buy "book x" from Amazon, read it and get back to me.
Perhaps disabling autorun will force people to expend some effort to learn how to use their machines properly.
Halfords.com crashes off the internet
Tablets to eclipse e-book readers
Wednesday 19th January 2011 09:14 GMT
Showing my age
but I used to love the amber CRT VT100 terminals I used to use back in the late 80's. Ah those were the days, programming in C using nothing but the command line and good old vi editor.
Back on topic though, I've been reading electronically for a while now, using my Dell Axim pocket PC, my ASUS EEE PC and my HTC Desire to read. However, since I got my Kindle for Xmas, I've not looked back. I won't go back to reading novels on a backlit screen again. The Kindle screen is so restful and I can still use it at night due to the clever case I bought with a retractable LED light on in. Kindle is definitely the way to go for people like me with poor ageing eyes.
Beastly Android will batter Apple's iOS beauty
Wednesday 5th January 2011 09:54 GMT 
I think you read too much into it
Nearly every end user I know who bought an Android phone (including me) did so due to price.
Apple are taking the proverbial with its pricing. Let me see: I can pay £30pcm for a 2 yr iPhone contract along with another £200 for the phone or £25pcm for a 2 yr contract along with an HTC Desire for free along with all its advantages such as flash, memory cards, replaceable battery etc. The phone may not be as easy to use as an iPhone but it's not that much harder.
To me, and a lot of people, that's a no-brainer.
Amazon: 'iPad LCD tablets no threat to Kindle'
Tuesday 28th December 2010 15:55 GMT
Buy can buy a case with a fold out light
I have my new kindle in a special leather case with integrated fold out white LED light to use in low light. Light is powered by the kindle, doesn't use much power and makes the kindle very readable in total darkness. Together they make the perfect reading combination. I'm very pleased with my new Xmas toy.
Asus Eee PC 1015PEM
Wednesday 15th December 2010 16:56 GMT 
Netbooks jumped the shark...
...after the EEE PC 901. I have one of these and I love it. SSD, came with Linux, fairly good battery life, 9" screen, white keyboard which can be seen in low light using light from the screen. The 9" screen makes it nice and small and usable more or less anywhere.
I dread the day when it dies as there is no current equivalent replacement for it. No a tablet is NOT a suitable alternative.
The 901 is about the most useful and best gadget I've ever owed. I wish they'd go back to the original netbook concept.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
