'He told the Home Affairs Committee: âoeI have young people who I mentor and I see them go up and buy the games and it saddens me that they are being able to have such a negative impact."'
I assume he is ignoring the fact that young kids shouldn't be able to LEGALLY buy these 'violent' games anyway.
The main issue is that the ratings tell us NOTHING about the actual figures, for all we know, boot times for instance could have been within 0.5 secs of each other, so the fact SP3 came off worse doesn't tell us by how much - it could only been 0.1% difference for all we know.
So does mine, but I don't have a data tariff, so I try to keep any data usage to a minimum. On the other hand it costs me nothing to receive an MMS and its free to send one within my allowance.
The issue isn't so much phones not being able to support email, but the data costs and anyway I'd block attachments for the same reasons above.
The other issue is that unless you have push email setup (which drains my battery and not every provider supports it anyway) I wouldn't check my email often enough to make it worthwhile.
Lastly, you assume everyone has en email account setup on their phone already, most people don't, where as nearly everyone WILL have MMS setup automatically as it just uses the standard settings from when the phone is first setup by the network.
You are assuming that EVERYONE has easy to access email on their phone, which simply isn't the case. Smartphones still hold a significantly smaller proportion of the market compared to any other phone type.
In addition depending on your tariff, MMS could be cheaper than sending an email due to inclusive messages given to you by the network for your contract.
So why would I want MMS?, because then I can send a picture message to someone who DOESN'T have a smartphone and who DOESN"T have a data tariff.
That's all very well, EXCEPT people DO PAY for Gmail.
There are lots of corporate/paid accounts who WERE paying for it, and have an SLA (service level agreement) with Google, and they were just as affected as everyone else.
This is more an IMAP/POP public service announcement than a Thunderbird one.
You could just have easily have used Outlook Express/Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail or even Opera for it. I'm ignoring the full versio of Outlook of course as it's not free like the others.
To add to your obvious MS bias, you CAN access hotmail outside of Outlook Express as Thunderbird can just as eaily be used with the easy to install webmail/hotmail combo addons for it. Not to mention Outlook and Windows Live Mail as well.
For most people they will either want Home Premium or Pro. That's it.
One of those version's won't even be sold in most parts of the world and the starter will just be used on netbooks or something.
You people make such a big fuss over nothing. In reality there are really ONLY 3 versions most people will want. Premium, Pro and Enterprise/Ultimate (the only difference is th
There are plenty of data tariffs from most of the networks now that give you 1GB/month for free which is generally more than enough for most on a mobile.
T-mobile for instance do it for like £5/month (and it's even free on some tariffs) which works out at £0.005/MB ish. Then of course there's the iPhone on O2.
Also you don't need to spend more to use 3G services, you are vastly ill-informed, either that or simply have no clue.
So though there certainly are tariffs which might cost £4/MB, you'd have to be an idiot to use them.
The main issue of video calling is that it's still a novelty, its like having your phone on handsfree whenever you use it.
You have to have it loud enough to hear the person on the other end (as the mic is gonna be further from both the caller and the receiver's mouth and ears) and it means everyone else around you will also be able to hear whatever the other person says too.
It's not very discreet and impossible to make it so, which is probably why it has never really caught on that much.
You have a point, accept one rather big problem...
...Other 3G phones have had forward facing cameras for YEARS!
This is not new, I really fail to see how this is anything innovative. (e.g. my Sony Ericsson W850i is 2 and a half years old now and has always been able to do this).
You ignore the fact that Solar requires massive amounts of land area in addition to erm... lots of Sun...to be affective which is great if you have that, but in more densely populated countries which also have crap weather (e.g. the UK), well then Solar simply isn't an option.
That's not true, systems will still get access to the "recommended" updates as well if Auto-Update is set. I don't understand it myself as the same updates can't be accessed without validating, but they appear fine if you have it set to automatic (and don't use the windows update website).
There is a downside to using Be*, and it's that the Speedtouch routers they give you are pretty crap, and have a habit of overheating and requiring reseting, this may be causing some of your problems.
I've not had any experience with the very latest v7, but i know for sure the v5 and v6 routers have numerous problems with buggy firmware and overheating.
Except on their middle tariff at peak times, it's not a "certain number of gigabytes", it's 1.2GB !!
That's it, 1.2GB !! They then throttle you for 5 hours (and if you happen to hit the limit just before the peak time is over), you'll still get throttled for the full 5 hours.
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It was pretty obvious last week, and anyone with common sense would see it wasn't DRM in the first place, it was just BB being sensational.
or even where he says this:
'He told the Home Affairs Committee: âoeI have young people who I mentor and I see them go up and buy the games and it saddens me that they are being able to have such a negative impact."'
I assume he is ignoring the fact that young kids shouldn't be able to LEGALLY buy these 'violent' games anyway.
What a complete and uninformed idiot.
The main issue is that the ratings tell us NOTHING about the actual figures, for all we know, boot times for instance could have been within 0.5 secs of each other, so the fact SP3 came off worse doesn't tell us by how much - it could only been 0.1% difference for all we know.
Well in that case you can call Win XP, Win 2000 SP5 (because XP is pretty much 2000 under the hood) and re-skinned.
Imagine.. you lose your internet connection (for whatever reason)...
So does mine, but I don't have a data tariff, so I try to keep any data usage to a minimum. On the other hand it costs me nothing to receive an MMS and its free to send one within my allowance.
The issue isn't so much phones not being able to support email, but the data costs and anyway I'd block attachments for the same reasons above.
The other issue is that unless you have push email setup (which drains my battery and not every provider supports it anyway) I wouldn't check my email often enough to make it worthwhile.
Lastly, you assume everyone has en email account setup on their phone already, most people don't, where as nearly everyone WILL have MMS setup automatically as it just uses the standard settings from when the phone is first setup by the network.
You are assuming that EVERYONE has easy to access email on their phone, which simply isn't the case. Smartphones still hold a significantly smaller proportion of the market compared to any other phone type.
In addition depending on your tariff, MMS could be cheaper than sending an email due to inclusive messages given to you by the network for your contract.
So why would I want MMS?, because then I can send a picture message to someone who DOESN'T have a smartphone and who DOESN"T have a data tariff.
But you wouldn't get access to an enterprise version as a student, the MSDNA would probably only give you the standard version.
Except Gmail is NOT free if you are a PAID user and they were just as affected as everyone else.
That's all very well, EXCEPT people DO PAY for Gmail.
There are lots of corporate/paid accounts who WERE paying for it, and have an SLA (service level agreement) with Google, and they were just as affected as everyone else.
This is more an IMAP/POP public service announcement than a Thunderbird one.
You could just have easily have used Outlook Express/Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail or even Opera for it. I'm ignoring the full versio of Outlook of course as it's not free like the others.
To add to your obvious MS bias, you CAN access hotmail outside of Outlook Express as Thunderbird can just as eaily be used with the easy to install webmail/hotmail combo addons for it. Not to mention Outlook and Windows Live Mail as well.
Have you never heard the saying, "It's not what you know, but who you know"?
There's your answer.
You do realise right that London has night buses as well?
For most people they will either want Home Premium or Pro. That's it.
One of those version's won't even be sold in most parts of the world and the starter will just be used on netbooks or something.
You people make such a big fuss over nothing. In reality there are really ONLY 3 versions most people will want. Premium, Pro and Enterprise/Ultimate (the only difference is th
I'm Not sure where you get £4/MB from...
There are plenty of data tariffs from most of the networks now that give you 1GB/month for free which is generally more than enough for most on a mobile.
T-mobile for instance do it for like £5/month (and it's even free on some tariffs) which works out at £0.005/MB ish. Then of course there's the iPhone on O2.
Also you don't need to spend more to use 3G services, you are vastly ill-informed, either that or simply have no clue.
So though there certainly are tariffs which might cost £4/MB, you'd have to be an idiot to use them.
The main issue of video calling is that it's still a novelty, its like having your phone on handsfree whenever you use it.
You have to have it loud enough to hear the person on the other end (as the mic is gonna be further from both the caller and the receiver's mouth and ears) and it means everyone else around you will also be able to hear whatever the other person says too.
It's not very discreet and impossible to make it so, which is probably why it has never really caught on that much.
In addition to nearly every other 3G phone on the market which are nearly all able to do video conferencing.
You have a point, accept one rather big problem...
This is not new, I really fail to see how this is anything innovative. (e.g. my Sony Ericsson W850i is 2 and a half years old now and has always been able to do this).
You ignore the fact that Solar requires massive amounts of land area in addition to erm... lots of Sun ...to be affective which is great if you have that, but in more densely populated countries which also have crap weather (e.g. the UK), well then Solar simply isn't an option.
What about a Homer Simpson style electric hammer?
.... that The Transformers got it.
That's not true, systems will still get access to the "recommended" updates as well if Auto-Update is set. I don't understand it myself as the same updates can't be accessed without validating, but they appear fine if you have it set to automatic (and don't use the windows update website).
Don't forget about the fact that it's not really Football (seeing as you hold it with your hands most of the time).
There is a downside to using Be*, and it's that the Speedtouch routers they give you are pretty crap, and have a habit of overheating and requiring reseting, this may be causing some of your problems.
I've not had any experience with the very latest v7, but i know for sure the v5 and v6 routers have numerous problems with buggy firmware and overheating.
Except on their middle tariff at peak times, it's not a "certain number of gigabytes", it's 1.2GB !!
That's it, 1.2GB !! They then throttle you for 5 hours (and if you happen to hit the limit just before the peak time is over), you'll still get throttled for the full 5 hours.