I wish people would stop calling it "crippled bluetooth". It's not crippled at all - it's simply that they haven't chosen to support bluetooth keyboards. Nothing is disabled, turned off, removed, commented out, locked etc and therefore it is not "crippled" as it was never there in the first place. I've not seen bluetooth keyboard in ANY other phone I've ever owned, so it's not like this issue is particular to the iPhone. Bluetooth keyboard support is still pretty rare and I've only come across it on someone else's Windows smartphone.
No. Where on earth did you read that? Google has no ability to track your activity once you're on the destination site. The process isn't sophisticated at all - if you click on an ad, the advertiser pays and google gets their money. The revenue is totally fixed. Sounds to me like you've never even used AdSense, let alone read up on how it works.
I think it's pretty obvious that I meant it messes up the web stats of the websites you're visiting, not of your own websites. Which if you don't own any websites, you probably don't care. But you will care when you realise how slow it's making your Internet connection as it goes off and downloads the first page of every site that linked to from the page you're currently looking at, just in case you click it. That uses a LOT of extra bandwidth and seriously slows down your browsing experience.
I wish people wouldn't imply that upgrading hard disks is "proper computer engineering". The status of an "engineer" has already been degraded as it is by people referring to photocopier repair bods as "engineers" even though they have no engineering qualifications at all.
It's an expression, which occurs on over a million pages in Google. But you're right... I only used it because I've heard it so many times and I've never actually realised that it doesn't make sense:)
Disable the HTTP scanning module (which is recommended anyway on webservers). I think it hooks into the TCP stack it so it can scan things which will never be written to disk as they enter your PC - eg javascript files used by webpages etc. You don't really need that module for it to work effectively though.
I HATE the fact that AVG incorporates something called LinkScanner which scans websites you've not even visited yet for potential threats. The side effects of this are that it messes up your web stats and causes fake 'clicks' on pay per click adverts! This practice should be illegal in my opinion. On one particular day, I noticed that AVG LinkScanner was causing 96% of the traffic to my webserver but I had no way of blocking it as it uses a standard user-agent string. AVG have apparently partially removed this feature now thankfully, but I still wouldn't touch their product with a barge-pole. The only thing in their favour, is that when I rang them up to tell them about the linkscanner problem, a human answered straight away and they seemed genuinely concerned and were quite proactive at trying to help me alleviate the symptoms on my webserver.
Someone also brought me a computer to fix which had 8 separate pieces of spyware and two viruses on it. The computer was running AVG Free Edition 8.0 and was fully up to date. With this experience, I don't need a review and pretty pictures to tell me AVG is shit thanks...
Well done... you've switched from the 2nd worst anti virus scanner, to possibly the WORST antivirus scanner. I just hope to God it isn't the free version which is worse than useless. AVG has the worst detection rate of any AV product.
Why don't people read reviews before buying software? I won't post any links to specific reviews, because someone will say I've cherry picked the source of the review, so just google it. I think you'll find that AVG (especially the free edition) usually comes LAST and things like NOD32 and Kapersky usually come out top (of these two, I personally prefer NOD32 as it seems to have an extremely low impact on system performance).
You must be using Norton/Symantec. Try using a GOOD virus scanner like NOD32 (about the most lightweight one on the market, but also has the highest detection rate) and disabling things like Office Fast Start (and similar).
I *think* you type rm '*'...but I'm not really a Linux user so don't try that in case it backfires! I guess it would be safer to rename to something else, THEN delete it.
I'm going to try a blank installation this week and see what happens. Perhaps its the way I use it... Which would be odd as unlike many people, I only ever have 4-5 tabs open. Not the 50 or so people are mentioning elsewhere on this page.
This reminds me of when people used to create a file called * in your home directory at university (which annoyingly under linux, is possible). The amount of people that would be annoyed by it's presence and would inevitable type "rm -rf *" to get rid of it, and delete their entire home directory.
I don't really care about the speed. It's already fast enough. I just wish they'd sort out the RAM consumption issue and all the memory leaks. My firefox process is currently using 1.1GB of RAM and I have to restart it about twice a day just to free up some RAM. I've only got about 4 extensions installed and I've tried disabling each of them in turn to ensure the problem didn't lie in an extension.
Given the fact that the size of games (and movies for that matter) is increasing far quicker than people's broadband speeds are, I'd say physical media are going to be around for quite some time. Some PS3 games are absolutely enormous. Far bigger than you could ever download (20-30GB!). Even the ancient Half-Life 2 is about 3GB I think, or 4-5GB by the time you've got all the extension packs that come with the boxed copies in the stores.
Nope... discs are going anytime soon. However don't think that means I don't think downloadable games aren't going to take off in a big way:- Some of the best games are downloadable (World of Goo on the Wii and PC for instance).
> That means IE gets the degraded shitty experience > whilst any standards compliant browser gets something approximating what the developer intended.
What are you talking about? IE8 is just as standards compliant as any other browser. It passes most of the significant web rendering tests (including Acid2).
IE8 is so much better than IE7 that I fear that once it is released, there will be a big slowdown in the number of users that actively seek out alternative browsers such as Firefox and Chrome.
Don't get me wrong... I prefer Firefox to IE, but my point is, if I'd been given IE8 in the first place, then I probably wouldn't have bothered to even LOOK for Firefox or Chrome. I won't switch back to IE, but similarly, I can't say I'd got to as much effort to put Firefox on other computers I use if they've already got IE8 installed. It's a good browser.
My phone ALREADY lasts way longer than a week. Does that mean this battery is no better than existing ones? Or that someone has messed up the summary? I don't get what the advantage is of a battery that can only power a phone for a week.
Seriously, all the comments are really low numbers today? Is it a national hol in the USA or something? There are only a few dozen comments for each article and usually there are a couple of hundred by this time of day.
£35 per month is very "shabby". For £17.50 you can get a truely unlimited ASDL2+ connection from BE. Why pay double? Be Internet are also very highly rated and almost on par with Zen in terms of support and customer service.
Why do people insist on benchmarking and comparing BETA web browsers against IE7 - released in 2006? It would be far fairer to compare it to IE8 which is at a similar stage of development to Safari 4 or Chrome and WAY faster than IE7.
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> ... a keyboard?
Yes! I've always wanted my iPhone to be bigger! Perhaps if they add a keyboard to the iPhone they could call it, a netbook!
I wish people would stop calling it "crippled bluetooth". It's not crippled at all - it's simply that they haven't chosen to support bluetooth keyboards. Nothing is disabled, turned off, removed, commented out, locked etc and therefore it is not "crippled" as it was never there in the first place. I've not seen bluetooth keyboard in ANY other phone I've ever owned, so it's not like this issue is particular to the iPhone. Bluetooth keyboard support is still pretty rare and I've only come across it on someone else's Windows smartphone.
The people are ALREADY all over the world. What on earth is the point of routing them through Tor?
Er no! Pay per click is the standard and nearly all ads are pay per click. Moved away to what? What's the alternative?
No. Where on earth did you read that? Google has no ability to track your activity once you're on the destination site. The process isn't sophisticated at all - if you click on an ad, the advertiser pays and google gets their money. The revenue is totally fixed. Sounds to me like you've never even used AdSense, let alone read up on how it works.
But you *DO* have to restart your browser after flushing the OS cache. Firefox and IE both cache DNS results. Try it.
I think it's pretty obvious that I meant it messes up the web stats of the websites you're visiting, not of your own websites. Which if you don't own any websites, you probably don't care. But you will care when you realise how slow it's making your Internet connection as it goes off and downloads the first page of every site that linked to from the page you're currently looking at, just in case you click it. That uses a LOT of extra bandwidth and seriously slows down your browsing experience.
I wish people wouldn't imply that upgrading hard disks is "proper computer engineering". The status of an "engineer" has already been degraded as it is by people referring to photocopier repair bods as "engineers" even though they have no engineering qualifications at all.
It's an expression, which occurs on over a million pages in Google. But you're right... I only used it because I've heard it so many times and I've never actually realised that it doesn't make sense :)
Disable the HTTP scanning module (which is recommended anyway on webservers). I think it hooks into the TCP stack it so it can scan things which will never be written to disk as they enter your PC - eg javascript files used by webpages etc. You don't really need that module for it to work effectively though.
> Can you post a link to back up your argument?
Yes, but I won't for the reason I already said.
I HATE the fact that AVG incorporates something called LinkScanner which scans websites you've not even visited yet for potential threats. The side effects of this are that it messes up your web stats and causes fake 'clicks' on pay per click adverts! This practice should be illegal in my opinion. On one particular day, I noticed that AVG LinkScanner was causing 96% of the traffic to my webserver but I had no way of blocking it as it uses a standard user-agent string. AVG have apparently partially removed this feature now thankfully, but I still wouldn't touch their product with a barge-pole. The only thing in their favour, is that when I rang them up to tell them about the linkscanner problem, a human answered straight away and they seemed genuinely concerned and were quite proactive at trying to help me alleviate the symptoms on my webserver.
Someone also brought me a computer to fix which had 8 separate pieces of spyware and two viruses on it. The computer was running AVG Free Edition 8.0 and was fully up to date. With this experience, I don't need a review and pretty pictures to tell me AVG is shit thanks...
Well done... you've switched from the 2nd worst anti virus scanner, to possibly the WORST antivirus scanner. I just hope to God it isn't the free version which is worse than useless. AVG has the worst detection rate of any AV product.
Why don't people read reviews before buying software? I won't post any links to specific reviews, because someone will say I've cherry picked the source of the review, so just google it. I think you'll find that AVG (especially the free edition) usually comes LAST and things like NOD32 and Kapersky usually come out top (of these two, I personally prefer NOD32 as it seems to have an extremely low impact on system performance).
You must be using Norton/Symantec. Try using a GOOD virus scanner like NOD32 (about the most lightweight one on the market, but also has the highest detection rate) and disabling things like Office Fast Start (and similar).
I *think* you type rm '*' ...but I'm not really a Linux user so don't try that in case it backfires! I guess it would be safer to rename to something else, THEN delete it.
I'm going to try a blank installation this week and see what happens. Perhaps its the way I use it... Which would be odd as unlike many people, I only ever have 4-5 tabs open. Not the 50 or so people are mentioning elsewhere on this page.
This reminds me of when people used to create a file called * in your home directory at university (which annoyingly under linux, is possible). The amount of people that would be annoyed by it's presence and would inevitable type "rm -rf *" to get rid of it, and delete their entire home directory.
> You must be doing something wrong (seriously)
If "by doing something wrong" you mean "you're a web developer" then you're probably right - I am. :)
I don't really care about the speed. It's already fast enough. I just wish they'd sort out the RAM consumption issue and all the memory leaks. My firefox process is currently using 1.1GB of RAM and I have to restart it about twice a day just to free up some RAM. I've only got about 4 extensions installed and I've tried disabling each of them in turn to ensure the problem didn't lie in an extension.
Given the fact that the size of games (and movies for that matter) is increasing far quicker than people's broadband speeds are, I'd say physical media are going to be around for quite some time. Some PS3 games are absolutely enormous. Far bigger than you could ever download (20-30GB!). Even the ancient Half-Life 2 is about 3GB I think, or 4-5GB by the time you've got all the extension packs that come with the boxed copies in the stores.
Nope... discs are going anytime soon. However don't think that means I don't think downloadable games aren't going to take off in a big way:- Some of the best games are downloadable (World of Goo on the Wii and PC for instance).
Yes it can... What an idiot - no wonder you posted as AC.
> That means IE gets the degraded shitty experience
> whilst any standards compliant browser gets something approximating what the developer intended.
What are you talking about? IE8 is just as standards compliant as any other browser. It passes most of the significant web rendering tests (including Acid2).
IE8 is so much better than IE7 that I fear that once it is released, there will be a big slowdown in the number of users that actively seek out alternative browsers such as Firefox and Chrome.
Don't get me wrong... I prefer Firefox to IE, but my point is, if I'd been given IE8 in the first place, then I probably wouldn't have bothered to even LOOK for Firefox or Chrome. I won't switch back to IE, but similarly, I can't say I'd got to as much effort to put Firefox on other computers I use if they've already got IE8 installed. It's a good browser.
My phone ALREADY lasts way longer than a week. Does that mean this battery is no better than existing ones? Or that someone has messed up the summary? I don't get what the advantage is of a battery that can only power a phone for a week.
Seriously, all the comments are really low numbers today? Is it a national hol in the USA or something? There are only a few dozen comments for each article and usually there are a couple of hundred by this time of day.
£35 per month is very "shabby". For £17.50 you can get a truely unlimited ASDL2+ connection from BE. Why pay double? Be Internet are also very highly rated and almost on par with Zen in terms of support and customer service.
Why do people insist on benchmarking and comparing BETA web browsers against IE7 - released in 2006? It would be far fairer to compare it to IE8 which is at a similar stage of development to Safari 4 or Chrome and WAY faster than IE7.