Umm.
I got accused elseforum of being a luddite for suggesting that "not wearing google glass while driving" was a sensible precaution.
I don't fancy your chances much with this idea! But yet, mysteriously, no such charge has been raised...
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I've used them at UK and Netherlands airports without much difficulty or much delay. The ones at Stanstead seemed never to find my face unless I crouched down by 5 inches, and the ones at Birmingham I have to stand closer than they suggest, but that apart it all seems to work.
I had a quick look when all the hoopla started. Dear glod, what a collection of vacuous, hedonistic, WAGgish, TOWIE--inspired overpriced tat. I'd not pay 10% of the groupon price to have some witless girl cut me toenails or some hooray chinless drive me round snetterton. The idea that people pay the alleged full price for any of these foolish pursuits leaves me with my jaw on the ground.
Anyone attracted to that sort of selfish twodge deserves all the spam they get, I reckon.
I did give them an email address. It was someone I don't like.
Well, they aren't going to Flog anything to me, as long as they inisist it MUST have W8 on it. If ever there was an opportunity to make money from thier flirtations with Ubuntu, this was it, but all they are offering is one miserable 'developers' workstation.
Blinkered, narrow minded, idiots. Or completely enthralled to the evil empire.
Buggerm, in either case.
As I recall it, the BBC had just such a proposal which was stamped on by either competition or regulatory authorities. Project Kangaroo, I think.
Ah yes, http://www.competition-commission.org.uk/assets/competitioncommission/docs/pdf/non-inquiry/press_rel/2009/feb/pdf/05-09
Given that $MEGACORP have yet to migrate me to W7, and that at home I am entirely Apple/Linux, this remains a source of amusement rather than personal pain. But I am running low on popcorn!
At least it should provide Mickysoft with a defence next time the EU competition commissioner comes to call. "People have to go to 3rd parties to make our stuff work. How can that be abuse of a monopoly?"
1. How difficult is a linux install? Can you access the bootloader/bios-thing?
2. Is there any internal access? Can we even think about an SSD upgrade?
3. Is the displayport bidirectional? can it be used as a display on other products?
4. Is the SD socket full depth, or does the card stick out?
Yes, but that was before the mobile data bubble. Motodrama were only offering phones[1], at the same cost per call as Inmarsat. I had a long row with them saying that they needed to be cheaper than mobile, and the cellular networks would never get into rural 3rd world, leaving them a massive market place. The network foundered in the same way that the HP slatey thing did. By trying to muscle into an established business, not breaking that business to smithereens.
In the end I took my 30-ship-1200-passenger deal to Inmarsat. The earth terminals were cheaper.
[1] and 9600 baud modem ports
With the cash Apple have they could build their own Low Earth Orbit satellite network and cut out the cellphone and wifi suppliers with a unique, apple-only always-on netwwork.
I suspect the RF budget would bugger the battery life on the fondle slabs, but hey. it would be cool to have a spacephone!
Family tracker
Elderly person walkie-talkie mode (private chat, private VOIP, always on)
Children's internet monitoring - a list of pages visited from some other computer updating on your phone in the background. An alert if they visit somewhere non-whitelisted they have never been before
Family recepies - collaborative recipie book built up by members of a small family network.
I've just realised I've invented 'facebook for families'. How about a private FB/twitter/IRC/chat network?
Oh, that would be Mike Corley, of that ilk.
search the gurgle gropes usenet archive for "mindcontrol" or search wikiLies for his name and you will find out more than you ever wanted to know. They even wrote an opera about him.
Puzzling me, at any rate.
I thought the whole point of using Linux was to re-purpose existing code, but this reads as though that is not happening. A Browser with only rendering & navigation sounds like it is being written from the ground up. Why? There are dozens of browsers for Linux. The TV image was announced last year. Has nothing liftable emerged from that.
I can sort of see the idea of using dead icons as placeholders, but there are all those desktop widgets that could be under them for now.
This sounds like something announced off the fag packet, not off a running prototype. I really, really, want it to be fantastic, but in 6 months? Scared now.
That's right. I've had the same non-smart phone for 6 years now. I don't need a smartphone, I've got a laptop. I don't want a smart phone, I don't want to be answering emails in my own time.
It's like electric cookers. Once every bugger has got one, you only have a replacement market.