@Jack,
> Works really well for thieves....
Nice attempt to deflect the argument by tossing in a point that's totally irrelevant, even it were...
Make that 13 people now - I got refused today at Manchester airport.
I thought I was up to date on this legislation - I knew of the EU ruling from...
Don't forget to check out apps like GoodReader or SlideShark either, they're indispensible for people on the go in presentation situations. Best...
Well it seems there is something a number of us agree on. Why is the Ubuntu Unity launcher so ugly?
I thought perhaps it was something to do with...
Duplicate comments are not made intentionally. Its very good to know that now you are keeping check on this problem because sometimes a commenter...
"the very significant number of users" and "many (most) of us" - you have no evidence for these statements. It is a fact that most users are saying...
Another grammar faux pas is the improper use of "you". When sitting down down in a restaurant, for example, I get cringe when the waitress...
And NOW, folks, for Canonical's next trick...
Kubuntu is late.
Here's a pencil. Draw your own conclusions.
cf.:...
@kevinmchapman. The discussion here reflects the very significant number of users who really do like the traditional menu system and who wish to...
Er, no... It is an efficient means of finding the application/file/setting you need in one place. The icons are a simply a fallback for when you...
Isn't the provision of a text based search an admission by the developers that the mass of icons approach does not work? I don't need to use a...
"Unity and GNOME 3 both abandon the old text-based cascading menus in favour of a graphical icon-driven system."
Point truly missed. Both use a...
whs001 - Thank you, I'm glad you liked the article.
I absolutely agree with you on your first point. I should perhaps have made it clearer that...
If we allow corporate interest to dictate the way our government circumvents due process against foreign entities then we should accept the same...
I totally dislike pirating of works, I fear that artists will be deterred from creating works if they think that they are going to get ripped off....
How dare film makers, artists or anybody that invests in creativity stop us pirating their works for free. I want to be able to walk into my local...
@GrueMaster. I prefer horses for courses rather than one size fits all. I, and I suspect most other computer users, do not really wish to have...
The product that scares me every time I have to use it is the Office 2007 version of Excel.
The first bug that I found was applying the median...
Nice review and very informative. One thing I'd like to add (in reply to whs001's 1st question), the main reason to have the same interface from...
I'be been using Mint 12 since the RC came out, and I am far more happy with the Cinnamon, the Mate, and, yes (with extensions), theGnome 3...
Talkback
Please tell me that the UK didn't figure this out just recently! There's little difference with getting 'a great offer' by phone or regular mail only to find out later that you're paying ten times as much as need be if you cared to look into matters a bit more overall and detail specific. Another way is to simply "cut down to the bare essentials", "leave out all of the gadgets" and "be suspecious about free offers that normally cost quite a bit".
On the other hand, this might provide an answer as to why so many (IT) projects end up half-way with great budget overruns. If you only take into account what you're being told before you sign the contract (without reading it and fully understanding it) it's more then likely that you'll run into some "unforseen events" later on. After all, you're dealing with commercial chaps here and they'll take whatever you'll allow them to. If not now then later.
By the way, if you think GPRS ratings are crazy. Wait until you find out what they have in mind for UMTS and future follow-ups!
Their is another rip to look at here, I was in a country that didnt have GPRS and my phone automatically backed off to the backup wap number which is a normal telephone number , when this is dialed you get billed by the minute rather than the megabyte and is far more costly. As operators supply phones in this configuration they should make customers aware that their phone and their ability to judge costs will behave in this fashion.
The costs of roaming are nothing short of the biggest rip-off of all time, even more so when companies that are owned by a single entity like Orange and France Telecom and Vodafone and Telecel, and charge each country operation as if they are not related in any way, just to wring as much money out of their customers as they can. Equally, there is no uniformity of Services pricing across their operations so again there is absolutely zero benefit to their Network customers.
To beat them at their own game, buy a local pre-pay SIM when abroad and link your handset to the Internet and download all your data by the sync'n'go method because it costs very little to get your emails this way.
Wireless WIMAX is likely to solve most of this problem in the medium term.
OK. Enough is enough. If you are fed up with being charged outrageous prices of Voice calls and Data Transmissions over a GSM Network.
Just Google: Mazingo+ICED. Here is the solution to high 'roaming' costs and to receiving Data Downloads ....worldwide. Try doing so on a GSM network !!
If you spend more than $500 per month on Roaming just one month's ectra expenditure buys the Cell Phone and your communications bills will never exceed $80 per month going forward.
Arthur B.,
I got so annoyed at the way we are treated by all Mobile Network Operators, I decided to do something about it on behalf of all of us that 'Roam' a great deal.
The result is our Mazingo ICED SIP based Dual WiFi / GSM Cell phone and which uses Linux as the underlying Operating System.
In addition, I added all the bells and whistles we need to have access to, including a web browser, bluetooth and PDA functionalities.
ICED is truly a breakthrough technology and becaused it uses The Internet to deliver VOIP and major Data Downloads worldwide, transmission costs are kept to an absolute minimum.
If you are interested in it's specification, just registeryour interest on www,mazingo.tv. The Cellphones will be available at end of August.