Posts by Nick G

"There is also a risk that some of the big players will simply shift their operations out of the UK altogether and run them entirely from a "tax friendly" location."

That old chestnut...

It's basically not true. If Starbucks leave the country, are people going to suddenly stop buying coffee? Nope - the gap in the market will be filled by somebody else. And they'll probably pay their taxes...

Re: And in another survey

At that age they pretty much want anything they see...

Mine wants a Wii and a Nintendo DS and a Xbox and a phone and a chemistry set and a dog and a lizard and a TV and a Keyboard and a guitar and keyboards and a....

All paid for by somebody else of course.

He'll make a briiliant MP when he grows up

Re: Disappointed...?

Oh... you're all such Riff Raff...

Re: iTV

They'll have to change it for the US too, as ITV have an active presence in the US making programmes for the US networks.

They're also in Australia, France, Germany & Sweden. That's some fairly hefty markets where 'ITV' is already taken...

Re: What he said

"It didn't merely 'just scrape' previously seen elements, it carefully combined and polished them"

So...

It's the Apple of games then?

Re: why does this island have a web page

"Would you prefer a Facebook page with bryophytes bragging about the success of their colony and insulting low income lichens?"

More likely to be endless pictures of Cats & dinners...

Re: ^^^ That ^^^

And, of course, we all know that judges are the arbiters of cool...

Re: Crossed lines?

A shock that Crapita are still using outmoded technology? You must not have worked for them...

on the subject of Funnel Web Anti-Venom

Don't panic Mr Mainwaring:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-09-02/anti-venom-shortage-sparks-call-to-catch-deadly-spider/4239024

'Copter because it sorrt of looks like a spider...

"Look up the samsung Tocco , looked nothing like the iPhone yet was full touchscreen and had its own style of icons, totally dropped in favour of the Galaxy ripoff."

I'm looking at mine right now & it's rectangular with rounded edges...

Re: What I don't get

"Wouldn't it be faster, and make more sense to confirm the patents are valid first?"

Well...yes, but that would derail the legal gravy train...

Re: Oh Danny Boy(le)

Did you even read all of that article?

The very last paragraph states:

"All of the reports above are extremely detailed and extensive, with data covering a wide range of diseases and health issues, in which the UK's performance is variable – from very good to very bad. Focusing solely on the negative outcomes may therefore be a bit of a selective analysis."

Re: Baffled now.

I scan read the article & didn't see a single mention of cakes - what's going on?

Re: Re: No reference to Flash Gordon???

Mongo only pawn in game of life...

Re: Re: Duh!

According to the SOCA image on that article the music files were STOLEN from the artists. I, for one, hope that if anything by Justin Bieber et al is included that the rozzers do the decent thing & burn them so we don't have to hear them again...

"The fact that some accepted a termination of employment with a months pay as severance is probably better than they would have been offered say 2 years ago"

I may have misunderstood something, but I thought the protest was because the Management reneged on the severance pay after workers had resigned...

Yep

You obviously did...

Hmm

maybe the Scalextric route?

Yes indeedy do...

"Just superb. A bunch of tech journos and backroom geeks put a paper aeroplane into space. That's an outstanding achievement, and all the better for being almost entirely pointless; it's great to do something this significant just for the fun of it."

Hear! Hear!

a single random tape...

If it's anything like our backup system, you'd be lucky if it's just one. I restored an Excel spreadsheet last week that had, for reasons best known to our backup solution, been saved across five LTO-2 tapes...