Posts by skuzzzy

MeowMeowBeenz

Life imitating art disturbingly closely - one of the great Community episodes where the college implodes into a caste based society based on Beenz through a beta tested app.

Fives have lives.

Fours have chores.

Threes have fleas.

Twos have blues and Ones don't get a rhyme, because they're garbage.

Nokia always had several in-house projects competing at any time - when WP became their main OS, all the other projects were shelved and many of the people let go. By the sound of it, many redunancy packages allowed a lot of the ex-employees to have continued work on lots of these projects and taken the knowledge gained from Nokia with them. Basically, if Nokia were to rehire them (assuming there are some who don't wish a slow and painful death on Nokia) they could pick and choose the interesting new projects along with the people. The added bonus being they didn't need to pay for all the intervening R&D.

"But I'm an optimistic guy. Anywhere we have low market share, I see an upside down chair opportunity."

- Maybe what he actually meant?

battery life

My Z10 currently gets zapped if I leave the browser open or some apps in the background, the 2880mah battery sounds suitably beefy and wish the Z10 had more juice/slightly more optimised software (battery life seems to vary wildly between good and bad depending on which software version is installed)

burning boat

I like the analogy made on the ctrl-alt-del webcomic:

http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20130703

Warning, contains some language.

Nokia's internal politics always played different teams against each other. So imagine cutting each team loose with a chunk of money (they gave nice severance packages to the ex employees by the sound of it) then Nokia aren't paying for the OS R&D, possibly hardware in places too. Give all these a single entity to hate/motivate them (Elop) then buy back what works afterwards as a 'Plan B' without the R&D overheads?

Also, Symbian as a dead OS still getting updates makes it an almost current option? Though would need adapting to current hardware.

Nice ideas but highly unlikely.

I have one of these gathering dust in a drawer somewhere, I never learned to program it unfortunately.

It has some very useful features though and a wireless connection (not standard bluetooth, but useable with heart rate monitors, light switches etc) and with decent battery too.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/04/05/chronos_ez430/

I remember lycos because of the media player associated with it - there were some interesting plugins; the visualisation down the rabbit hole being my favourite.

Also, I still type babelfish.altavista.com and get redirected to yahoo's translator because I never saw another memorable translator URL

The hideousness of them all

When will they stop making DAB radios so damned ugly? Some of the Roberts ones are nice but I don't own much other glossy vaneered furiture

So, Windows Phone 7 & 7.5 have always and always will run Windows 8 style apps?

Colourful - check. Square corners - check. Suitable for use by children - check.

Introducing:

Windows Lego Edition

added bonus; all the earlier 'Bricked' comments are still applicable

They can find you via your router's MAC address - don't know how often it's updated though.

http://www.samy.pl/mapxss/

an electron starts bouncing up and down, next electron says:

don't get too excited or you'll end up in a state