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  1. Posted

    Has anyone else heard the new album yet? I managed to get a few listens to it today, not finding it too great so far and I'm a ma-ha-hooooosive U2 fan. Hopefully it will grow on me a a bit, liked it more the 2nd time through and even more the 3rd time.....
    Have you listened to Magnificent? I'm so in love with that guitar riff.

     

    It 'feels' better than How To Dismantle... ! Solid quality throughout, but except Magnificent and Get On Your Boots, nothing keeps sticking in my mind.

  2. Posted

    Oh god no.. When will it end.
    Guilty pleasure I guess. U2 got me into music with Vertigo :heh:

     

    But to be honest, it's easy to hate U2 because of Bono being such an incredible prick. Doesn't mean their music is bad though. The new album is pretty great.

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    Google doesn't track what you read in e-mail, and doesn't track your location. No-one at Google has access to this, and no advertiser partnering with Google has it either. It is encrypted so that it can only do automated context aware ads, that no other human can ever access this information besides you. Google has no interest in having this information anyway; as long as the ads are automated everybody is happy.

     

    If Google did do this, they would've been sued to oblivion already.

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    Starter is meant for people with extremely low spec machines in 3rd world countries. They're never going to be running more than 3 apps at once in the first place. Home Basic is for developing markets like China and Africa and it'll never reach here like Vista Home Basic did.
    Vista Starter was meant for that. But Microsoft is planning to use Windows 7 Starter on netbooks as well, which I think is a horrible choice. Even Vista can run more than three applications on a netbook.

  6. Posted

    It says it'll be "available in limited retail stores". To create a feeling of exclusivity for an animated wallpaper I guess...

     

    Also, I think Windows 7 Starter is really disrepectful to the consumer, crippling your OS to three open applications, and still have them pay for it...

     

    I'll probably be happy with Home Premium or Business.

  8. Posted

    It's pretty annoying Linux has meagre support as well. Although the open source implementation pleases the nerd community, the closed source versions of Flash and JavaFX are actually up snuff in capability with their Windows counterparts.

     

    It's surprising how influential Linux users are on the internet sometimes.

  9. Posted

    It's a mess with the internet now Adobe (Flash), Microsoft (Silverlight) and Sun (JavaFX) have something for rich internet content. Now you need a zillion plugins to surf around properly.

     

    To be honest Adobe needs to get their act together because apparently Silverlight and JavaFX are pretty capable packages. Silverlight will be included default in Windows 7 and is available on Mac and mobile devices, and JavaFX is included with Java (including the VMs on mobile phones), so the competition might get rough for them.

  11. Posted

    See I don't see it as the currency being dead just in need of a very big revival!
    I don't see the Titanic as being sunk, but just in need of a lot of duct tape! (Just kidding, it's not that bad).
    The problem with being the Euro is your choices about what you can do to help you economy are very much tied with the rest of the EU and limits how much you can manage things.
    The whole point of the Euro is greater financial stability. You don't need to manage stuff when things are going great, like in the rest of the EU :blank:
    This of course falls down if the euro gets stronger and the pound flounders, but I have little doubt the euro will soon drop we are seeing a domino effect across the world.
    I doubt the Euro will drop as much as the pound; its the currency of the most stable economies in the world combined. We might not have as much control over the currency, but that only means that you can't mess it up for others. Besides, there's a power shift - because of the weak US Dollar, the Euro is becoming more and more the preferred international coin.

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    It's somehow not working in Linux either anymore.

     

    Really weird, you'd think it's hardware, but it connects to other WLANs fine. It can't connect to the special security which I thought was only a different software implementation.

     

    And the WLAN hasn't changed either because my phone can still connect to it with similar settings (and all my flatmates still connect fine) :confused:

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    U2's new single was played for the first time this morning and is available to stream for free from their website!!!!

     

    http://goyb.u2.com/

     

    Not too sure what I think of it yet, need to listen to it a few times first.

    I really like the style sort of industrial, heavy but danceable (kind of like Pop again?). But the song itself doesn't really get to me so far.

  16. Posted

    Well, honestly it's a bad move to buy all your stuff from the iTunes store :heh:

     

    But yeah, I can't say. Regular iPods (not Touch and iPhone) are well supported for normal music, but DRM and Linux just don't mix. You could use a Live CD, virtual machine or Ubuntu Wubi (install in Windows) to test it.

     

    You have to pay for CrossOver Office though, unless you find it somewhere out on the street. Apparently they have music that downloads to an iPod out on the street as well ;)

     

    EDIT: It seems to have some reasonable success stories using Wine, which is freely available. iTunes Store is reported to work, but iPod sync not so much. You have to fiddle around quite a bit it seems though.

  18. Posted

    I don't think this is stupid. There's no good reason why IE and WMP aren't at least uninstallable (you can uninstall Safari in OS X for example). Microsoft has dominated the market with an inferior browser way too long, and with it, they're really stopping progress in web development.

     

    If they're forced to remove IE though, getting the user to install a web browser is a big challenge. Although you can install Firefox without opening IE, people aren't nerds like some on the Firefox fundamentalists of the web. Problem is, if the Windows installer lets you choose, it'll be confusing for users. Then, which browsers will they show? I assume Firefox, and Opera too because they filed the lawsuit, but Microsoft doesn't even fully support stuff like Silverlight on Opera (yet), and doesn't support ActiveX in any browser but IE. And then there's other browsers like Safari, Chrome, Konqueror... Not to mention all the slight varieties on IE and Firefox (like Flock)... There's probably going to be a list sorted by popularity or something.

  19. Posted

    When will it likely be out to buy? Summer?
    Microsoft says early next year, but rumour has it that they may go for the Christmas season. Steve Ballmer said the beta feels 'finished' to him, so development might actually be quicker than planned.

     

    To be honest, I don't mind Vista for some more time, if they make Windows 7 as good as possible. Don't know anyone who'd give anybody else an OS for Christmas anyway, but maybe that's me.

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    Actually

     

    It's been rumoured for a long time that his son doesn't actually have the disease reported, but that Travolta has been calling it that to cover for autism.

     

    Kawasaki's disease is kind of a mystery disease that does a lot of things, but it doesn't appear to cause seizures - it does a lot of things but doesn't seem to affect the brain. Autism does cause seizures.

     

    But, John Travolta has been denying his son has autism for years, because Travolta is a Scientologist, and Scientology doesn't believe in autism.

     

    Now I don't want to be a Wikipedia dr. House, but it seems that Scientology has caused a celebrity death again. And that John Travolta, though way more awesome than Tom Cruise, fails at life.

  24. Posted

    Its a bit annoying paying £545 for the computer which i will already be putting £200 towards and then paying another £90 for a graphics chip. Ill keep looking i think for a setup with a decent graphics card in it already :)
    You shouldn't if you don't miss games now. The first is actually a fantastic deal, and you can always upgrade your graphics card later if you need it. It's really easy to do.

  25. Posted

    Pyxis: seems you control issues. There's a basic lack of trust in the rest of the EU and 'the continent' in your reasoning - I get way too much such vibes from from the UK (and I find really disturbing at times).

     

    The euro is way too stable to ever go down the drain. The pound won't go quickly, but it's far more likely to ever devaluate. I find it quite arrogant to think you Brits are better off managing your own moneys, when you're clearly not.

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