Posts by John Ruddy

No surprise that Worst all is being highly selective here.

The Nobel Prize committee is not endorsing this particular research as "right" in the same way it does for other disciplines. After all, a couple of years ago something that is essentially the opposite of this also received the prize.

The Nobel prize for economics is about recognising research that is worthy, not what is right.

Any concrete figures on how much Virgin Media pays Virgin Group for the use of the "brand"? I was told it was 10% of revenue, making a nifty little £100m tax-free earner for Beardie.

If I was Liberty the first thing I would do is change the name (get away from all that bad publicity) and operate under the name Liberty ("Liberty gives you unlimited broadband" etc - the marketing opportunities are endless), and save a shed load of cash with which I can invest in the company.

I'm surprised there hasnt been any coverage on the Reg about the 8.9" Kindle Fire HD now being available in the UK...

I'm not sure how accurate the outdoor sensor can be, if you have to keep it in a shed (or worse a greenhouse????) to keep it dry? What its actually doing is recording the temperature and humidity in the shed or in the greenhouse - not outdoors.

Plus, surely the point of any of these home weather stations is to provide a forecast? It should be relatively easy to see from a a drop in pressure and an increase in humidity that its likely to rain etc...

Can we hear more about France Telecom's attempt to get a mobile phone to fly a 747?

So let me get this right... a study funded my the mobile operators finds that mobile operators dont need to spend lots of money of fixing things, because slightly fewer than expected people were affected in a very limited trial in one area only?

So thats OK then.

Not really news - someone I know had their card cloned by a device attached to a petrol pump - you know the sort which suggest you pay at the pump instead of going into the shop.

Doctor Who

Of course it looks like a well funded episode of Doctor Who - it was in the last Tom Baker story, Logopolis!

Is it possible that some of these DYKs are simply because people want to piss Jimmy Wales off?

Unmanned?

Why is the first flight of this thing around the Moon unmanned?

Remember Apollo 8? The first test flight out of LEO, and they had three guys in there!!

Their retentions department have been working overtime too. Every day for the last month, their Indian call centre has been calling home in order to speak to me about signing up for a new 24 month contract. However, every day my wife has told them that I am at work, could they call back later. No, they say, we need to speak to the account holder.... and then call back at the same time next day.

Surprisingly, since the weekend the broadband has been shit, offline for several hours at a time etc. They've stopped calling.

I'm off to BT or Plusnet....anyone...

What if its a hoax

Standard Government response in a time of crisis

Say that nothing is going to happen;

Say something maybe going to happen, but we should do nothing about it;

Say maybe we should do something about it, but there is nothing we can do;

Say maybe there was something we could have done, but it is too late now.

I leave the reader to estimate which stage we are at now.

Boring

Lets face it, theres a reason why sub-orbital has been abandoned for four decades - its Boring! You're only up there for a few minutes, and its only really useful as a way of testing kit before subesquent use in LEO.

I suspect the delays n Virgin Galatactic are either only to get more publicity for their over-priced hop in a souped up vomit comet or because, like most Virgin projects, its not working properly.

Now if it was 250k for a ticket to an orbital flight....

What if its a hoax

And we created a better world all for nothing?

Surely this could be replicated across the school estate and will save a lot of money?

Thats strange, because they had some really good deals, on some really good laptops. I bought one for my wife, and for the £400 it cost, it fairly zings along.

I am surprised to hear that he was married and had children - I guess I always pictured him as a loner, fighting against the world of Microsoft.

My condolences go to his family, 56 is not an age to die, especially not in this day and age.

Even better value

Orange have dropped the price of the Monte Carlo to £119 yesterday. You have to buy a £10 top up to go with it, but its really great value at that price.

Stamp Act

So instead of introducing the Stamp act, Britain should have just required writers to use their real name?

Cancel the lot

Is this part of a strategy? Is HP going to announce the cancellation of all of its product lines in an effort to get folk to buy them?

Disney

You've forgotten to mention that he is the largest shareholder in Disney Corp...