@illiad
But buying the phone won't mean you don't need a house any more, surely? It's not an alternative, it's an extra.
Posts by Robert E A Harvey
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Samsung Galaxy S III: A Swiss army knife of wireless tech
US, Euro e-car makers back 'standard' AC/DC jack
Dell sneaks out Ivy Bridge special edition Inspirons
NHS trust goes 100% over IT budget in patient records rollout cockup
Nokia's 41Mp cameraphone shoots towards retail
UK plc 'needs a chief engineer' - also a chief social scientist
Sony outs its first Ultrabook
LG: We're not walking away from Windows Phone
Microsoft hikes volume prices by more than a third
Dell XPS 13 Ultrabook
Swedish men ordered to present cervices in database flub
Quantum cruncher beats today's computers by 1080
Nikon recalls camera batteries
Hanging's too good for 'em - so what do you suggest?
Apple sued for every touchscreen device by Flatworld prof
Tuesday 24th April 2012 01:04 GMT
Re: Apple bitten.
but why wait until now? I'm using an 8 year old Draenetz power analyser with a touch screen. Did he sue them 8 years ago? or the Estate Agents who 15 years ago had touch sensitive overlays on shop windows with a 'puter screen indoors to let you browse the houses available?
If I was to award him damages I would want him to show he has taken every step to protect his patent ever since it was granted, not wait for a fine crop of cherries to pick.
Metallic Glass iPhone 5 to battle pottery Samsung Galaxy S3
Great HR mistakes of our time - Aviva fires 1300 by email
Sunday 22nd April 2012 18:52 GMT
Re: Face to face
I've twice had to lay off my entire staff, and always told them face to face, even when it meant driving round the country at my own expense to do so.
In one job it was obvious we were being shut down, and the boss asked me how to do it. I replied "Whenever I have had to write a list of names I have always put my own at the top", explaining that you need to be able to look people in the face when sending them home. "Jah" he said, "Dat is gud advice". He went and wrote a list and put my name at the top.
Ten... Satnavs to suit all budgets
Intel to ship 30 MILLION Ultrabooks in 2012 - report
'Perfect storm' drives electronics stores to EXTINCTION
Friday 20th April 2012 07:01 GMT
Re: A shame in one sense
There is a tiny little mobile phone shop in our tiny little town where I can by a USB cable for under 2quid on a sunday or a microSD card for online prices.
We have a 2-man computer shop that repairs old base stations and will sell you a hard disk for the same price as amazon if challenged. You want a 700 quid i7 with a terrabyte disk and stupid amount of ram? be ready for you tomorrow morning sir. and, no, you don't have to have it with Windows.
They had 70 quid android tablets in the window 2 years ago.
Friday 20th April 2012 06:52 GMT
Re: @Alan Firminger: There's truth in both camps
There is a little local hi-fi shop in Stamford that is run by a handful of blokes who know exactly what they are talking about. They will show you all sorts of entertainment stuff working together in the shop, deliver it to yer house and connect it all up - including taking a brick cutter to the wall, burying the cables, and skimming and painting the wall afterwards.
If something doesn't work, they make it work. If a customer says "it doesn't work" their first assumption is that the customer is right, not an idiot. If something stops working they are usually there within the hour, and will only charge you for new parts, not their time.
They sold the first Plasma TV I ever saw, routinely install DLNA systems, and will sell you a linux micropowered server instead of leaving a PC on all day. Their first love is hifi, not 7.1, and certainly not oxygen-free cables with arrows on the side. Go in for a DAB radio and they will try to persuade you to stick to FM unless it is clear there are stations you know you want.
They have been in business more than 30 years and I expect them to be there in 30 years time.
Curry and Dixon both moved out of the high street in recent years. There is one of the megashedds on a nearby estate, but I don't know which one as I have never been in it, and judging by the car park no-one else has either. When we had the snow that end stayed unsullied till the thaw.
Barclaycard slaps pay-by-bonk plasters on mobes
Hands on with the Nikon D3200 DSLR
Punters want BBC iPlayer in TVs, not 3D
Swiss, German physicists split the electron
Windows 8 diet exposes Microsoft's weak ARM
Wednesday 18th April 2012 16:50 GMT
Can I offer...
... this:
http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/business/all-three-versions-will-be-shit,-promise-microsoft-201204185136/
"...One major development is the absence of the 'Start' button, which was removed on the grounds it gave people the impression that something may actually happen...."
Toshiba Regza 46YL863 46in Smart TV
Ten... Bedroom Gadget Treats
Boeing plans super-secure Android smartphone for top echelons
Nokia drops Lumia 900 price to $0 in response to bug outrage
Wednesday 11th April 2012 20:17 GMT
The real point
How do you miss a bug as big as that?
Not testing? or maybe they have a fleet of internal malcontents who would not bother doing anything about it if they did find out?
Either way, it is a management failure.
And yes, the response is uncharacteristically swift - but that should not engender praise: it is exactly the sort of response one ought to be able to expect.
How can you omit freefall?
Windows XP support ends two years from now
Eight... Rugged Cameras
Gorging Dell crams Canadian legacy-app rebore outfit into cakehole
HTC sues fans for premature unboxing
Monday 2nd April 2012 18:00 GMT 
Ye glods and green things!
It's only a phone, lads, only a phone.
Why are the children so excited about filming it coming out of its box?
And why the blue blistering barnacled blazes are HTC getting so bent out of shape. They make hundreds of phones. If they hadn't said we would not have know n it was not last years!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
