Posts by GBL Initialiser

Re: Research is needed

"Presumably if somewhere could be found that had mountains, hot sunny beaches and taste-free whiskey (with an e) it would lead to such managerial brilliance that all worlds problems could be solved"

solved outsourced.

"The resulting device, which bloggers have decided is called "EOS""

It doesn't really matter. Nokia isn't doing it.

I hover dangerously close to sounding like a Microsoft fanboy at times but not even I can stand Bing. I gave it a fair shot but as I had to repeat most searches on Google I decided that there aren't enough hours in the day.

Re: "Thinner and lighter"

"Us the back button to exit all your applications as it will close them. Then the battery should easily last 2 days....quick battery use is almost always rogue apps."

Yeah, tried most things. I managed to squeeze out a bit more life by changing some settings and I always close apps anyway. I haven't yet seen anywhere near two days though and using the GPS & maps a few times means you hadn't better use it for much else.

Could result in some amusing deliveries to their tax offices.

Re: "People familiar with the matter...."

I generally read it as "This is where we got the info from, you're a big boy who can make up your own mind so we decided to tell you about it rather than pretend nobody said anything."

We are consistently inconsistent with regard to this particular issue. Honour is satisfied.

It's one small step for man, one giant leap for targeted advertising ;-)

(El Reg mobile app can't do icons so just pretend the troll face is to the left.)

Too busy reading El Reg?

A joke where?

http://www.thinkgeek.com/product/8cdd/

It doesn't say he publically stated it. Could just be worded badly. Maybe it was something said before under an Internet handle and they just matched it up with a person.

As it says, details are sketchy.

Re: Yup, right..

I'm using IE10 at the moment, I quite like it but I use various operating systems so ideally I would like to move to Firefox. I have encountered a few issues connected to its lack of a process-per-tab feature though which is the only thing currently holding me back.

Surprising as the WP8 App is great. It even provides an easy way to open a particular article or comments section in the browser if you need a feature the app doesn't support.

Been that way on SAS for at least 4 and a half years.

It would have been if it worked in all browsers. Those needing multiple browser support usually went for JavaScript.

@solidsoup

I think I need to change my handle. Fully it's a Terry Pratchett/Discworld reference to Hex but folk keep using just the 'GBL' part which makes me sound overly proud of my manhood.

Re: Oh, great…

Don't worry, brother will have their own set of problems when Google starts telling you that you should try these other printers and/or ink suppliers ;)

Re: Advert auto playing annoying fanfare sound

There is also a banner version of the advert that takes you to the same URL and seems to play the audio automatically too, can't be 100% sure as both the original and the banner showed up at the same time.

URL of the banner advert is http://www.aldaniti.net:8080/imagenes/creatividades/20130228112334.swf

Any update on this annoyance?

Well this is about Office 365 which can't be easily pirated.

Because some people don't need a local mail client and don't want bloat if all they need is RSS feed reading.

Re: More adverts, everywhere.

@Fatman

Anyone who has been around here for any length of time knows to pay sod all attention to down votes anyway. More often than not they are the result of either saying something mean that could hurt the feelings of a famboy's chosen company or the amount of inconvenient truth in a comment.