Posts by David 66

Wot no Boffinry?

What are "researchers", and what is this "research" they supposedly do?

just want to say I consider my Lumia 735...

both the cheapest and the best smartphone I've had. Microsoft and Nokia outdid everybody with WinPhone 8.1. 10% share of a very large pie is a lot of phones. And developer support is on the up and up.

Making it support Android out of the box does seem to send a counter-productive message. I miss two things from Android: my savings bank account app and my credit card account app - and I keep my Android phone going without a SIM just to run those apps. My current account has a Winphone app.

Their name is mud

Who the fuck is giving them money? Atos, disgraced by its disgusting treatment of our sick and disabled in the benefits entitlement tests, lost that contract. Why are they still here? Why does it sound like they have more contracts? Take a contract out on them, shirley?

I don't understand

the animation lacks any context for me to understand what's occurring. It's appears to be a near-white-noise triptych and some stuff along the top that you'd want to crop.

Festive season?

Don't go there. Do you mean XMAS? Yule would be cool, of course

Subtitle made me laugh from my belly

"the incredible tale of a scientist with an open mind and feelings"

Mobile? Really?

Most things prefixed with 'mobile' are too large to fit in a pocket. In fact, they're too large to carry. And they often have their own propulsion systems.

Mobile HQ - check

Mobile Dentist -check

Mobile Library -check

Mobile Hospital -cehck

Mobile phone -ORLY?

There's a word for things you can carry. Carryable. But no, I mean 'portable'.

Bananagate - oh my!

Seriously, though - I do not believe these iPhoners are using their front pockets. Nobody except me does that. Fact.

I use my front pocket for phones. Trying to get other people to follow suit (e.g. when they've cracked their phone screen (again)) is IMPOSSIBLE.

If they are using their front pockets, someone sitting on their lap is going to apply enough force to bend the 6+

Nice article - thanks

Precisely what I wanted to know about glass and the 'in use' photos completed the picture. I look forward to being able to sleep at night with that out of the way.

a) Being told I can't watch it by the police is pathetic and erodes the respect I have for the boys n girls in blue. The crime is the murder, not the insensitive sharing of a video of the murder.

b) I will not watch a video of someone being tortured/killed. For me, it's a respect thing. By watching it, I'm collaborating in the dehumanisation of the victim and fulfilling the murderers' wishes. If that's hard to get your head round, say it's a video of someone you know being raped. How could you watch that? How could you share it?

Imho, the only valid/moral reason to submit to watching this grotesque stuff is if you're in the business of taking names and doling out smackdown justice.

It's personal

The companies doing this are doing it to your dear old mum and your friends and neighbours - people you care about and can't be there to protect. These companies are conning your granny and your kids and your spouse. They're wheedling and tricking and they don't ever stop, even when the computer can't cope any more and then there's the pain of fixing or the expense of replacing the computer.

Who would do that?

discredited

When Foxconn suicides was the News, they had 1,000,000 employees. With that many employees, I calculated that their HR department would be statistically likely to be handling suicide instances ALL THE TIME. If they weren't, then that'd be the anomaly.

So long ago, I can't remember the numbers.

This is why

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/11/23/mozilla_2012_annual_report/

Just heard the news

Suddenly cured of my desire for Oculus Rift.

Minecraft is a spinoff from a better game: Wurm

title says it all.

uhh.

03:20 UTC.... it was 0920 local... That's a good few timezones out

ECHELON

The only thing in Oz the Yanks would be concerned about. Good ol' NSA keepin' it real

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECHELON

Is the Galaxy Tab still being offered for sale? it must be 2yrs old by now

so which banks? who should be (re)checking statements? I am too lazy to search. Or check.

Gutted that new Chrome on my transformer prime android doesn't work properly. Keep having to bin it and open original browser

students or pupils?

You're confusing me with the blurring of boundaries.

So what is it?

I'm confused. How is this demonstrating spooky entanglement when they're connected by optical fibre?

funny thing happened on the way home

I had to drive home on my familiar route 2hrs in the dark, and just to be different, I put my smartphone's satnav on just to keep me entertained.

I missed my junction.

both balloons bursting?

That'll only happen if one balloon by itself is unable to continue to climb after the first balloon bursts.

"In sentencing, Judge Alistair McCreath told Mangham his actions were anything but far from harmless"

That's a relief! I thought there'd been some harm.

So...

Where do I buy this stuff from?

Fire off our landfill rubbish to MArs with these worms and let them create a biosphere. Something like that. Job done.

price :'(

The price un-excites me. I was excited but now I'm cured. Especially with the the Transformer 2 arriving presently with quadcore. This thing was more or less ready at the other end of the year; it's not cutting edge anymore so the price is wrong. I mean, my phone is faster.

I'm a Valve/Steam customer and tbh I don't know if I have a card registered or not. Someone mentioned PayPal - I probably pay with that.

My problem is that I've been googling for a few minutes without turning up any Valve or Steam sites for me to login to. I'd be embarrassed if I wasn't fine blaming Google's ranking engine.

It's hard to complain on Facebook because you first have to "Like" the company you despise. It's the same with getting in touch with politicians that way.