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It's official: Steelie Neelie is a triple-triple-TRIPLE win digital woman

Friday 4th October 2013 10:17 GMT greensun

5-year-old boys are worse at reading than 5-year-old girls.

If these stupid sexists in Brussels ( and everywhere ) want to make us all equal then they should start by ensuring that 5-year-old boys are not falling behind girls and educating them properly would increase our GDP by the equivalent of 6.7 Icelands, according to my own ScienceFreeBullshitGenerator.

Men and women are different. Forcing people into jobs they don't want is bad for us. Denying jobs to people because they have a penis is disgusting.

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Samsung stakes claim to smartwatch market with Galaxy Gear

Thursday 5th September 2013 09:08 GMT greensun

Re: So utterly pointless

I have just started a Kickstarter project for a "Dumb Term Watch"

;-)

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Thursday 5th September 2013 08:43 GMT greensun

Re: Nope

On that note, well, not the last one but the previous one: How much energy does a wound watch spring store, compared to a watch battery ? I Googled a bit, with no luck.

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Boffin's claim: I have found how to get girls into tech

Thursday 27th June 2013 08:08 GMT greensun

Re: Big deal, I can get tech into girls ..

The next thing you know, you'll be reporting us for finding the word "dongle" funny. Oh, hang on...

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Bjarne Again: Hallelujah for C++

Wednesday 19th June 2013 10:23 GMT greensun

Re: Any programming language is a tool

Programming languages ( anything ) should be as complicated as they needs to be to do the job, but no more.

Does anyone here really think C++ is that ?!

C++ is stuff grafted onto stuff grafted onto stuff grafted onto stuff grafted onto C, with each grafting adding complications solely to desperately try and retain backward-compatibility.

Because C++ is the result of that, it is a bloody mess.

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Magpie Apple plunders the competition for cosmetics, as egos run wild

Wednesday 12th June 2013 13:24 GMT greensun

Re: Whats funny about this...

1. By "opacity" I think you mean "transparency" ?

2. You are merely pointing out that Apple copyied things before they copied the things the article points out they are now copying.

Wiki: "[Hypercard] was initially released in August 1987, with the understanding that Atkinson would give HyperCard to Apple only if they promised to release it for free on all Macs."

3. You "would sell body parts for the new Mac Pro" and, funnily enough, you will have a desk covered in computer parts when you try and add anything to it.

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Cold, dead hands of Steve Jobs slip from iPhones: The Cult of Ive is upon us

Wednesday 12th June 2013 13:08 GMT greensun

Except it's not that simple.

If Apple succeeds with its closed systems and patent wars, innovators will suffer. I assume many people commenting are ( wannabe ) innovators themselves ( I know I am ), hence the schadenfreude when Apple's evil ways turn to shit amd true innovation triumphs.

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Android is a mess and needs sprucing up, admits chief

Wednesday 15th May 2013 09:22 GMT greensun

Indeed. It's a way of making money for Google. They're a for-profit company so if they can collect data with Google+ and make money from that, they will. If they can make money from the social network part of it, they will. If they can sell third-world kidneys to fat Russians with it, they will.

The statement ( and most of the article ) was stupid, possibly just trolling, have a nuke.

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Mystery Sony big-screen ereader to sport E Ink bender

Wednesday 15th May 2013 08:44 GMT greensun

Re: A4

Sony = Memory Stick = Avoid.

Shame, it looks like what I want too.

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Gates and Allen reshoot historic 1981 Microsoft photo

Friday 5th April 2013 08:50 GMT greensun

"both participants look considerably more stylish than they did 32 years ago."

Styles were different 32 years ago.

Paris, cos she's always fashionable.

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Boffins implant almost-cellphone in the BRAIN

Wednesday 6th March 2013 10:01 GMT greensun

Animal torture for fun and profit :-(

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Samsung Wallet slavishly copies inspired by Apple Passbook

Thursday 28th February 2013 10:24 GMT greensun

Not just Samsung

Oh noes, EVERYONE is copying Apple's ticket idea ! :

https://www.google.com/search?q=tickets+icon&hl=en&safe=off&tbm=isch

Seriuosly, does Apple pay people to write this stuff ?

A Linux penguin, cos Apple stole BSD.

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LG acquires webOS from HP – but not for mobile kit

Tuesday 26th February 2013 08:48 GMT greensun

Re: Good luck to LG

Your main point is utter garbage - "This OS is rubbish because my browser crashed" ?! "Badly supported" maybe, "Shambolically developed" maybe.

Your last two paras are "correct" and "probably correct" though.

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Earth-sized planet found at Alpha Centauri B

Wednesday 17th October 2012 08:56 GMT greensun

150 million meters per hour is pretty good for a tank.

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NASA releases stunning image of our universe's distant past

Wednesday 26th September 2012 07:39 GMT greensun

Re: Great image, but

The people voting this down need to go and have a good think.

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New guide: Bake your own Raspberry Pi Lego-crust cluster

Thursday 13th September 2012 10:24 GMT greensun

Re: Well, crap!

Would it have been too much for the "Journalist" to ask Professor Cox for this figure ?

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Boffins zapped '2,000 bugs' from Curiosity's 2 MILLION lines of code

Wednesday 22nd August 2012 11:58 GMT greensun

Re: WTF?

The know it wasn't confusion about units.

The genius author made that up, maybe to appeal to Dail Mail readers who want to tut about what's wrong with the world, whatever the facts

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beagle_2

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Windows 8: Microsoft's tablet-desktop still painful to swallow

Tuesday 21st August 2012 08:13 GMT greensun

PDF thumbnails do not work out of the box in Windows 7 and the add-ons to enable it don't work in Windows 7 64 bit, or Windows 8:

http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=35505

PDF is a very popular, open format, MS's operating systems should be able to support it out of the box and it is pathetic that they cannot.

Folder size is not available in an Explorer column, hasn't been since the hack for XP that enabled it was broken by Vista.

And you agree that device management is a mess.

So I can't see how you make that "most of that is there in Win7" ?

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Thursday 16th August 2012 10:44 GMT greensun

The problem is, every time they bring out a a new OS, they don't fix stuff that was wrong or missing in the previous versions, they just put a new front end on and say it's faster.

It is 2012, Windows is 27 years old but it can't do PDF thumbnails, Explorer can't show you the size of a directory and device management is a mess. For example.

That is, frankly, pathetic.

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Gov: We want cheap police tablets and by God we'll get them

Thursday 19th July 2012 08:42 GMT greensun

Re: "We want cheap tablets"

<cough>bullshit</cough>

They can buy standard ruggedized android tablets, with standard software for a reasonable price.

Or they can be ripped off by a reseller, knock 18 million quid off the bill, and STILL get ripped off.

Which path do you think they are taking ?

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Thursday 19th July 2012 08:40 GMT greensun

That video was funny and topical when I first saw it 30 years ago.

But now it demonstrates nothing other than (y)our age.

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Thursday 19th July 2012 08:38 GMT greensun

Re: give them google nexus 7s?

Just 1K ?

You 'avin a laugh ?

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ICANN anoints new internet kingpin

Monday 25th June 2012 08:32 GMT greensun

Chehade used to work with Atallah.

Is just one of those coincidences or is ICANN all about who you know, not what ?

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Sir Isaac Newton's life rendered as KML

Monday 26th March 2012 08:33 GMT greensun

if they makes these for severl contemporenous people then cross reference them, we see who did meet ( and we already know about ) and, more interestingly, who might have met but that we weren't aware of.

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