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  1. Re:Wonders will never cease! on Major ISPs Challenge UK's Digital Economy Act · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I just contact their twitter team @BTCare. They deal with any problems in minutes, and for the three problems I have had in the last month, they called me within 10 minutes, called the following morning to ask if it has been fixed. I once moaned on Twitter that I wanted to leave BT Broadband, they called me and gave me a mac code.

  2. Re:Google and Apple on Apple Implements the CalDAV Standard For MobileMe · · Score: 1

    Of which, both iPhone and Android both use CalDAV for Google services. They are not "pitted against each other" in any way when it comes to calendar services.

  3. Re:Does it matter? on Apple Implements the CalDAV Standard For MobileMe · · Score: 2, Informative

    Google supports CalDAV which they give away for free.

    Exchange support on Google accounts, Dropbox and Wordpress makes MobileMe worthless, unless you want to find your lost iPhone.

  4. Re:Outside, leave the laptop at home on Hands-on With Pixel Qi Screens In Full Sunlight · · Score: 1

    Rover is/was a car manufacturer.

  5. Re:Outside, leave the laptop at home on Hands-on With Pixel Qi Screens In Full Sunlight · · Score: 1

    Why did you have to trail behind the car, why not just sit in the passenger seats?

  6. Re:Next please! on Proximity Sensor Presents Latest iPhone 4 Issue · · Score: 1

    Just to break it to the Android crowd, how many Android devices are still stuck with version 1.6, and the manufacturer have not yet upgraded or will not upgrade to 2.1/2.2. A lot.

    HTC are pretty good at making sure your 9-12 month phone is already outdated, by saying they are not going to release any new OS versions above 1.6 for their models that were released last year.

  7. Re:Nice to have them with 13.1 14-15 and 17" scree on Surveying the Challenges of Linux On Cortex A9-Based Laptops · · Score: 1

    I thought the same when I had an Acorn A4 back in 1994. Please bring a 15 inch model. Never happened.

  8. Re:Lesser names? on Surveying the Challenges of Linux On Cortex A9-Based Laptops · · Score: 1

    You beat me to it. I hope the submitter has learnt something new.

  9. Re:Unreadable. Sometimes un-accessible. on Surveying the Challenges of Linux On Cortex A9-Based Laptops · · Score: 1

    ARMs used to power the London stock exchange.

  10. Re:Well... on NASA Tests Hardware, Software On Armadillo Rocket · · Score: 1

    You should have posted the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THNPmhBl-8I

  11. Re:We have to! on World Cup Prediction Failures · · Score: 4, Interesting
  12. Re:O: on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 1

    MacBooks have multi-touch the same as the MacBook Pro.

    http://www.apple.com/macbook/features.html#trackpad

  13. Re:O: on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Or three finger swipe on a Mac.

  14. Re:Uhhhh on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Depends on what they want to test. Here is a list so far: https://testpilot.mozillalabs.com/testcases/

  15. Re:Uhhhh on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 5, Informative

    Just using Mozilla Test Piliot add-on.

  16. Why it was made big on The 'Back' Button the Most Clicked Firefox Icon · · Score: 4, Informative

    Old news. This is why they made it bigger in 3.0.

  17. Re:IBM tells Microsoft... on IBM Makes Firefox Its Corporate Browser · · Score: 1

    What's Mac's share? 10%?

    More like 6.4%.

    Lenovo got 8.8%. I had never heard of Lenovo until now.

    Having a quick look at the Lenovo web site, they have the same computers as IBM branded machines we have here in the UK. I guess they use the IBM branding instead of Lenovo here.

  18. Re:This is the great thing about Android. on Qualcomm Makes Open-Source 3D Snapdragon Driver · · Score: 2, Funny

    Fresh Off the Slave Ship?

  19. Re:Driving after watching 3D TV on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 1

    Yeah, 3 people in 2 get these headaches.

    You wanted a number.

  20. Re:Driving after watching 3D TV on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 2, Informative

    Oh, and "3D TVs" are not 3D, they are stereoscopic TVs.

    R2D2 has a 3D TV with his hologram projector. That for a 3D TV is what we all aspire to. :)

  21. Driving after watching 3D TV on 3D Displays May Be Hazardous To Young Children · · Score: 4, Informative

    I went to a talk last week given by BBC R&D with the Institute of Engineering and Technology and the Royal Television Society. The problem with children was raised, however research that is currently being conducted and is finding that children adapt better than adults. We will have to wait until they are finished and peer reviewed however.

    What is more worrying is driving a car after watching 3D TV. You eyes focus on a 40 inch screen 3-4m away, however you brain thinks you are looking in the distance because the image is converging at a different point (not 3m away). This isn't really a problem in the cinema as the distance to the screen is far greater, as at 50 feet your eyes are focused at almost infinity. Stepping out of the living room and in to a car can easily have an effect on judgement of distance, and give you headaches.

    Headaches, incidentally, is a problem with all consumer home 3D TVs. They will give the vast majority of people a headache after 10 minutes. That's a fact!

  22. Re:Or how about... on YouTube Gets a Vuvuzela Button (Seriously) · · Score: 1
  23. Re:UI Lag on Firefox 3.6.4 Released With Out-of-Process Plugins · · Score: 1

    https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Goals/2010Q1/IO_Reduction

    Seems they have been fixing your lag issues.

  24. Re:Sometimes we do send data like that on Google Wave Out of Beta · · Score: 1

    I have a photographer friend that attaches CF cards to homing pigeons. Way quicker to send via broadband or 3G, even if the pigeons have to fly a couple of hundred miles.

    A double backup is made on a RAID hard drives first, though.

  25. Re:The first planned spam... on HP and Yahoo To Spam Your Printer · · Score: 1

    Hell yeah, my LaserJet 4L is still going today. Date of manufacture on the back is February 1992.