fantastic that the so called piracy bills have been withdrawn. however, these anti-democracy supporters are still in the shadows so lets be alert...
Please God no; teach them anything you like - thinking rationally, the uses and misuses of data, what data is and what it's not - but leave the...
@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...
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The N71 is a flip-phone !
This comment headline says it all, and now so does the story headline!
Cheers for that
Interesting that this combines a full functioning touchscreen with Qwerty in a single device. Suggests Nokia believe you need both so suit all users rather than pure Touchscreen (ie. iPhone) or offering two separate devices - 1 with qwerty, 1 with touch (ie. Bold and Storm) - speaking to business users I have found many find touchscreen only devices to be unworkable for sending longer emails, writing docs, etc... - hence why the qwerty remains resolutely popular with business users outside the design / media environment where the iphone seems ubiquitous.
Also interesting that this is spec-ed and priced as a full on mobile computer rather than smartphone (phone must be increasingly a four letter word around Nokia...). This begs another question...
Would business users rather carry a smartphone backed up by a netbook rather than trust an all in one mobile computer?
Well I can definitely say that an all-in-one would not suit me. You end up with a poor compromise. It's not quite powerful enough compared to a laptop/web book and not as compact or have the battery stamina of a more basic phone.
I know have a smartfone full laptop combo which works for me. The smartphone is capable of email and basic web browsing but if I want to do something more serious I'd only get frustrated with a web-book so use a full laptop which enables me to do my designer/development work.
Unfortunately my current smartphone is an iPhone which has become incredibly frustrating to use so as soon as the 18month contract is up I'll be shopping around.