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Comment Shame (Score 1) 120

A shame this, as a lot of the earlier reviews of the SED technology picture quality had it just about equalling CRT, but it was firmly beating Plasma, and obviously LCD was a distant 4th.

Oh well, maybe OLED can be ramped up in size and down in cost, as that doesn't do too bad in the PQ stakes.

Comment Good Thing (Score 1) 184

tbh I think this is a good thing. Meamo died because there was just 3 devices that ever used it, so all the promise it had as an OS were stunted. With this descision MeeGo will *have* to evolve and at least keep up with Android and iOS.

Nokia have always had a problem with their ranges, they produce so many models that whats supposed to be high-end has less features than the middle phone of the other range...see the N and E ranges for quite a few examples of this.
This will give the ranges a consistent and global difference.

Having said all that, Symbian S60 and ^3 still has (and had for a while) features that other phones are only just getting!

Comment Send one about the techical nightmare too... (Score 1) 340

Concerns about privacy they'll have by the dozen...maybe someone should also point out what a technological clusterf**k this would be.

They can't even convert a PDF to an easily accessible HTML page. How the hell would the they manage with the massive amount of raw data from Google, Bing, Yahoo, Ask, (do they even know how many search engines there are?) How would you deal with the false positives alone?

This is just as moronic as the UK government thinking its easy to just 'store' all comms for 3 months, in case the police needed it.

What they should be doing is making sure that the reporting methods are easy and universal accross the EU, that every EU memeber has the wording in its laws to take down host sites and to work with non-EU states to make sure that international sites can also be taken down quickly.

Then it can move to the much much harder issue of properly defining child porn, and making that standard. None of this wishwashy crap that would make Donald Duck illegal because he's got no pants on! Or locking up grandparents from taking photo's of their children.

No need to waste billions of our money on some half-assed badly implemented privacy invasion.

Comment Not Broken, Changing (Score 2, Insightful) 220

It's not online privacy that's broken. All that's changing is people's awareness (or more importantly lack of) of what privacy means in the digital connected world.

Street view is a good example, no one bothered to drive around the world taking 360 pictures of everything and logging the gps coords, so before Google did it, that information just wasn't accessible but more importantly it wasn't private either. By making it easily accesible to all, made people jump to outragous claims of privacy invasions. But afaik there isn't a single country where the roads aren't owned by the 'public'. So everyone has the right to go down a street and 'look' and so the drunks, cats in windows and people leaving sex stores with Black Mamba dongs where doing so in public and could have been seen by anybody. Just because Google 'looked' and stored what they saw, doesn't change this fact. If you don't want Google or anybody else to see what your doing, don't do it in a public or publicly visible space. You've never had the right to stop people looking through your windows, but you do have the right to block those windows, that's your choice.

The wifi mac/ssid issue is similar, you are publicly broadcasting those bits of information, anybody can retrieve them from the 'public' electromagnetic waves and store it. You decided to make those bits of data public when you chose to use WiFi tech, the fact you (and a lot of others) don't understand or care how WiFi works is irrelevant. Again you have the choice not to use WiFi.

Similar with FaceBook, you are choosing to publish information to a third-party. At the end of day it doesn't matter what privacy you thought you'd agreed to when you hit 'submit'. You've choosen to make it less private.

I think it boils down to: "People are slowly realising just because no-one gathered or analysed the information before, doesn't make that information private."

Comment Re:This Is Just One Reason ... (Score 1) 93

Sorry, but Open != Detailed Documentation any more than Closed does. See Mark Russinovich's blog for way too much detail about the Windows kernel and ecosystem.
I'd also argue the MSDN site is far more comprehensive and easy to use (if they'd stop pratting about with the colours and layout every other week) than any single source of linux docs (if there even is one)
MS do seem to realise that you can't write docs assuming the reader knows what the doc is about, unlike most OSS documentation that assumes way to much knowledge.

These IBM pages are very useful and a commendable activity and a good read for any one interested in *nix, or operating systems. But these are the exception rather than the general rule.

Comment Re:Keep up the pressure (Score 1) 143

Urm why block it? If its illegal, then get a court order and take it down. Arrest those responsible etc etc.
If its not illegal then it must be legal and then also be fine for public consumption.

But as people have pointed out numerous times, the governments don't want to block illegal content, they want to control access to legal content.

The UK had a similar responce after a large pedophilla case, I thought at the time I don't want you to block it, I want you to delete the content then find the scum and hang'em. In fact pedophilla is one of the few types of content that has fairly consistent global laws, and should be easy to prosecute for.

Comment OTT (Score 1) 1019

It does seem a rather ott response from the boss.
Our's tried a similar thing, but was slightly more reasonable and said one ear only...ie so you could still respond. luckily that seems to have been dropped now.

I would suggest you find out if there is an underlying reason, maybe he's had complaints of people ignoring the phones or something.

Comment Produce Actual Content (Score 1) 290

As many have already said, AP and Reuters provide the source of the news, and far far to many 'newspapers' just republish it.

People like content, which Murdoch seems to forget about his own site, WSJ was good and people pay for it because it was more than just AP reprints, it was decent articles...similar to the BBC they tend to start with a summary and then add value by adding more detail.

It's like the difference between Engadget and AnandTech, Engadget will tell you Intel have launched i7 and some bullet points. Anandtech will have a 10 page analysis. I read both, but would only ever consider paying for Anandtech, knowing that I could get the same info as the Engadget from hundreds of other sites.

Newspapers need to reposition themselves, either go back to geographical seperation, or hirer proper journalists that can write proper stories, there will be less news per paper, but should better information, that I can't get elsewhere.

Comment Re:My Dragon Age Review (Score 1) 452

I do agree with the looting, you kill some badass baddy and get a single healing potion. Where did their armour and weapon go? Doesn't always have to be special, just represent what they were holding.

I also think its been dumbed down a bit, possibly for the console generation (or console tech limitations). Very simple stats and skill trees, no mage loosing powers in armour stuff, no needing to learn spells or stupid identify crap.

But I also played it for 23 hours over the release weekend...so maybe that's more telling:)

Comment Re:squeezebox family (Score 1) 438

Easily the best cost ratio for a multiroom. Esp now that you've got more client devices to pick from. So your main room can have a high end Transporter, your bedroom can have the new radio, the kitchen the boombox, or you can get the touch if you've already got speakers in the room. The Duet also provides a housewide wifi remote for easy browsing.

All devices can sync to each other, or in any combination of devices. Software is powerful and can be run from a large number of NAS devices, so you don't even need your main PC on.

Comment Re:Litigated before (Score 1) 865

Well I'd hope that any half IT literate lawyer would look at the following:

...you are granted a limited non-exclusive license to install, use and run one (1) copy of the Apple Software...

And argue that 'use and run' is impossible without 'copying' it to memory, and so Apple couldn't have classed a memory copy as a unauthorised copy when they wrote the EULA. Otherwise their EULA would have specifically stated 2 copies!

Comment Pen? (Score 1) 823

Pen and Paper? seems best.

But to stay relevant:

A scanner? a handheld one would probly do.

A A6 graphics tablet?

Or the expensive option, one of those digital pens? that stores your scribbles in the memory for transfering later?

Comment Re:Most important thing in my book (Score 1) 244

Cept when Data Protection laws/policy are properly enforced!

Just had these come from high ups through to our dev team, they say 'no prod data in test', however they offer no alternatives or budget to overcome the massive limitation they've just placed upon us.
So in order to keep functioning the rules will be the subject a few poor jokes, and then ignored.

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