Posts by Robert E A Harvey

Circle of time

Are they trying to re-invent Netscape?

Really?

Pinched, stolen? or just copied?

Permenantly deprived the owner, or just intruded into privacy?

Landlines

Really? Is our PM incapable of using landlines? Don't the secret service all around him have TETRA handsets?

Taboola

I have taboola blocked by ghostery, it seems to specialise in "how to get an ipad for $3.99" type scams

Clippings

I want a robot mower that can deal with the clippings.

Anyone who tells you that a mulching mower produces no mess obviously does not have dogs, and anyone who tells you a toy cutter like that has can mulch is having you on.

I hope

These are going to be methane powered.

So Hang on

... the most complex one so far (almost by definition) and probably the most expensive, is going to be built by 100,000 agricultural labourers dragged out of the fields at the very last minute? Doesn't bode well for reliablility that.

err

Are we going to get a Playmobil reconstruction?

What?

"when they land"?

Err - do they mean 'crash'?

Gas powered?

Where does the initial energy input come from?

Good stuff

I am quite impressed. It's good to see someone not following the herd, but actually thinking about what you can do with all the wizardry about.

I don't want one, of course, as it is a temple to consumerism by a tax-evading group of shits. But it is a clever temple to consumerism by a clever tax evading group of shits.

Escape

Surely the time honoured method is to dress up as a washer woman and walk out carrying a basket? As long as he remembers to wear big black boots and say "Lawks" a couple of times he'll be fine.

Oh

So something I don't want won't be available on something I don't have before it becomes available on something I have but don't use.

OK, then.

I don't care

I've never twatted nor facebukked anything that I didn't want people to know.

And I do support certain political viewpoints on there, and if MI* are collating my remarks about IDS and Blair and Gove and Microband, then there is some chance they may get to hear my views, if only as part of a bell curve. Good. 'cos they ain't listening any other way.

I wonder how many he owns?

I do hope this chap isn't just indulging in stock pumping, by predicting higher earnings using pure guesswork. I wonder how many he owns?

Starting?

> starting to baulk at “spending £500-plus of their own money on a device they will use for work”

I'm several decades ahead of that curve then.

Identification problem

"...allowing electric cars to drive in bus lanes.... California allows electric cars...car pool lanes,..."

Given how ordinary all cars look now, surely this would require all electric cars to have a BFO "E" stencilled on the bonnet in flourescent paint, so that the camera operators would know they are entitled?

Al of that.

I think that Dell rubbishing the idea of innovation is of a piece with Boeing giving up on innovation and all the other death-of-the-west retrenchment in businesses run by accountants and engineers . We desperately need innovation and R&D.

But I too have my doubts that HP will make a success of this. Their track record in recent decades is not encouraging.

Unpopular view

My view is that

* Snowden was, by simple definition, a traitor

* The world is better off for what he revealled

So he was a Traitor working for a corrupt regime. He decided he could not keep the secrets secret. That makes him a good man, but does not stop the unfortunate side effect of being traitorious toward a regime that neither he nor I respect.

Interesting

I wonder if the Ubuntu phone OS or Sailfish could also be ported to it?

pull out antenna

I want one, even if it doesn't do anything.

OK, that's exciting

I have no idea what I would do with it, but It is quite something.

NO chat for home users

I just tried to use the live chat thing on the Dell web site to ask them about the Ubuntu tablet, and it appears that for those of us in the UK live chat is only for businesses, not home users.

They don't want to talk to me? Fine. I'll go back to not talking to them.

Losing track

Is this the thing that used to be palm? or something to do with Nokia and Intel? I can't remember any of these things any more.

Does it make toast?

I want it to make toast. And possibly love.