Re: Is this just an English thing ?
I hate to be pedantic (who am I kidding - I live for this shit), but the archaic equivalent of "your" is "thy", with "thine" being the archaic equivalent of "yours".
Posts by Scott Earle
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Wednesday 3rd December 2014 02:46 GMT
unsigned int, anybody?
Just over 2E09 is the maximum value that can be represented by a SIGNED 32-bit integer. Why would they not use an UNSIGNED integer (cos -1 views makes no sense, right?) and they could have delayed this by another couple of years, which would have given them plenty of time to increase it to a 64-bit unsigned integer instead.
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Thursday 6th November 2014 08:00 GMT
Gold-plated?
Why do you keep saying the Apple Edition Watch Edition (Edition) will be gold-plated? It has been stated by Apple that it will be made of gold. Just the raw materials for the case will cost several thousand dollars, so why try perpetuating the myth that it is going to be plated in 18k gold, when Tim Cook stood on stage and stated that their metallurgists have come up with a process to make the gold case harder?
Their own website states that the case is made from 18k gold: http://www.apple.com/watch/apple-watch-edition/
So please stop spreading the myth that it is gold plated. You've done it at least twice now.
Also - if you are going to compare the price against a Rolex, why pick a stainless steel one? They do make gold watches too, you know. Scared that people might see the $15,000 price tag of the Rolex and say "oh, that Apple watch might not actually be all that expensive when compared to other watches made of the same material, after all"?
(In other news: Apple has a team of metallurgists? That's pretty cool in itself)
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Friday 17th October 2014 07:03 GMT 
Also - Apple Watch Edition edition is gold plated?!?
Where on Earth do you get your information from?
The Edition edition (seriously?) is made OF GOLD. It's not gold plated. Apple's own website says as much. See here : https://www.apple.com/watch/apple-watch-edition/
Expect it to sell for at least ten times what you are guessing. Maybe twenty times.
I'm going to stop talking to you - you haven't done ANY checking of the 'facts' in this 'story'.
Friday 17th October 2014 06:57 GMT
Overgeneralisations much?
"China, and much of Asia, do not use letters; vowels and consonants"?
You do mean "China (and Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macau) and Japan", don't you?
The rest of Asia DOES use alphabets, or abugidas, or something that is consonant-vowel based. Even Korea (at least in the South - not sure about the North) uses an alphabet, even though it does not look like one to Western eyes. Also, India has LOADS of alphabets, and is almost as populous as China.
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I've often wondered
Why build such things in places like Hong Kong (which is just south of the Tropic of Cancer), when you probably don't need a great internet connection but heat is a problem?
I'd suggest Svalbard or Franz Josef Land. You aren't going to draw any attention to yourself out there, and can use satellite connections. Power might be more difficult, but you could use generators. It's not like the noise is going to disturb anyone.
Or at least somewhere where there is power but it's really cold, like Siberia, Alaska or Yorkshire (kidding!). Building something like that in a warm climate is insane.
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Prius attracts ridicule?
Here in Thailand, a Prius costs less than a Honda Accord, and so I don’t see the ridicule aspect of it myself. It’s a perfectly cromulent car, and gets a genuine 24km per litre on a long journey.
My wife wanted an Accord, but I made her get the Prius as it’s totally better value for money. She has since conceded that it’s a great car.
Of course I recently bought a 3.2L Ford Ranger for myself (which is even cheaper than the Prius), to offset the Prius’ reduction in CO2 emissions.
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So, just how do you say 'the mutt's nuts' in French?
Wednesday 23rd April 2014 06:24 GMT 
How about in Thai?
Thai doesn't have any possessives (or plurals, singulars, tenses, articles [definite or indefinite], or pretty much any grammar at all - making the language a tad tricky to learn!), and so the phrase would be ไข่หมา - literally meaning 'egg dog', but in this context would be "the eggs of [a/some/the] dog(s)".
Eggs are used to refer to the male gonads, presumably for their fragility?
Because of the tonal nature of the language, the pronunciation is a little tricky, but it would be "khai maa" with the first word said with a low tone, and the second with a rising tone.
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Lots of these 'smart' phones are just Chinese-manufactured crap
And yes, I know that the 'big boys' also manufacture all their stuff in China, but you know what I mean.
The market here in Thailand is full of the usual suspects (Apple, Samsung, HTC, LG, Asus, etc.), and then a few local brands whose main selling point is that the entire phone UI, the manual and the box are all in the Thai language - but then there is a mass of horrible super-cheap crap-phones and shit-tablets that cost a couple of thousand THB (say, 40 quid) and run some shonky version of Android that has been obsolete for at least a year with no prospect of ever being able to put a newer version on it.
Phones here are all sold without contracts, and so are sold SIM free. This means that the iPhone 5s starts at 23,900 THB (around 450 quid). So you can imagine that there is quite the market for the crap-phones ...
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Monday 18th February 2013 15:14 GMT 
Wish it was the same in Thailand
I took a 75% pay cut in the last year. It would be seriously nice if salaries here shot up too.
The problem with China is that I'm not sure I could learn to read and write, which would drive me batty. At least Thai has an alphabet (44 consonants and 32 vowels enough for you?), so you've got a chance.
That, and my wife is Thai.
Living here is WAY better than living in the UK, though (I've been here over 9 years already). Being an ex-pat is an interesting life, to be honest :)
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The Internet in Myanmar was always a bit shaky
The "government" always censored everything, and the only way to browse the web was to use a VPN. When I went there regularly in 2006/2007, I used to use Your Freedom (a tunnel service).
All web access had to go through "government" proxies, so the tunnel was the only way to go.
The biggest problems we had was actually with the power constantly going down. I can only hope that things have improved over the intervening years.
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Monday 11th February 2013 08:41 GMT
"Don't have these figures to hand"
This is absolutely correct. DO NOT believe a vendor that says they don't have these numbers. Of course they have the numbers.
If they say they don't have the numbers then they are OBVIOUSLY lying somewhere - because how can you claim to provide a certain measurable uptime figure, but not have the actual numbers to hand? It's ridiculous.
Vendors in "lying in order to win a sale" shocker ...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
