Classic pump 'n' dump
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Posts by Nev
290 posts • joined Thursday 25th January 2007 11:17 GMT
Prophetic..?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xut__-uXG8U
Posted in Orange pulls out of women's Fiction
"As opposed to being awarded to a novel from a female bovine author?"
I'd pay to read that!
Re: A survey
Not many at HMRC is would seem, as they are hoping to send a few of their employees back to school:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/consumertips/tax/9172401/HMRC-sends-tax-inspectors-back-to-college.html
Posted in Sony's customisable Xperia U hits retail
End of the road...
...for me and Sony phones.
Been with them ever since the K750i.
Was that really 7 years ago..... [sigh]
After the Xperia Pro Mini I'll have to look elsewhere.
Re: Idiot
"What is the problem? Jeeezuz. Daily Mail reading Brits."
Exactly.
This kind of non-story is there to sell newspapers, froth-up the natives and divert attention from real issues/problems.
Re: @ Shardik
Exactly.
With the ultra-low offers from the likes of Free and Prixtel the major players have (after first crying foul and trying to generate FUD/bad publicity) all now massively lowered their prices and are even offering all-you-can-eat international call from your mobile to try and compete.
Are we listening to the views of the scumbag who was in charge of the Sun's coverage of Hillsborough now???!
(Views regurgitated not that long ago by Jeremy *unt.)
Re: wow, I've got one!
There are a few devices out there that won't charge from a standard USB charger.
(Be it a 12V car or 230V mains one.)
My old TomTom (Go910) has that problem. As does the Asus Transformer.
You need a USB charger rated at at least 2A. (Most are not.)
Posted in LinkedIn buys SlideShare
Pfft...
$118.75m ?
Obviously LinkedIn has no idea how to negotiate these kind of buy-out deals.
Otherwise they'd have paid $1BILLION.
Posted in Facebook lowballs on initial IPO price
Dotcom Bubble Burst V2.0
Watch as the execs from this company (that produces squat) and their bank chums cream fantastical amounts of cash whilst dragging down the NASDAQ and plunging the world into (yet) another financial catastrophe.
At least it won't be just a pink piece of folded card* with a photo stuck on it...
... as they have in Gemalto's home country of France.
*Think 1940s style identity card.
Re: Double standards
"Tax Evasion = Illegal."
Just get your head or corp tax affairs to have lunch with the head of HMRC and the evasion/avoidance point becomes moot.
Re: Look ...
"It's tailored for mass market reading, and is very popular on building sites."
Apart from Merseyside ones.
Posted in Spam Text Revenge
Anti SPAM SMS software
SFR in France now provides anti-SPAM SMS software:
http://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.sfr.android.sfrantispam
Re: Huh?
By "better marketing" do you mean pR0n industry adoption?
"I know 3 people with 3GSs"
Oh, the shame! they must get awful looks from all the '4/'4S owners!
I've got a V1.0 iPod Touch and after paying for the firmware upgrades (twice)
Apple then dropped support for it within 2 years.
Jeremy Hunt
JIm Naughtie got it right on R4's Today Programme....
Posted in Google Currents
Bloat
Large app,
Appears to caches editions to internal memory, not SD card.
Uninstalled.
Re: Isn't this
Peston's not going to say bad things about his best buddie Will Lewis' employer.
Space Invaders on a Commodore PET...
Now that was addictive!
Home computing evolution for me:
PET->VIC-20->C64->Epson PX-8->Psion Series5->Sharp Zaurus
And nothing but Suns at work.
Never touched a Mac. Was forced onto PCs at work circa 2000.
But I just spent all weekend playing Diablo3 beta on my MacbookAir ...
Well done, you!
No one is asking Vodafone to pay more tax than they legally need to...
... just the tax that they owe.
Shady lunchtime gentlemens' agreements with ex-colleagues are not the way HMRC heads should be looking after the UK tax affairs.
Killer device
Asus just don't get the credit they deserve for championing this killer format of device.
Still very please with my TF101 after a year.
Who needs a tablet and a laptop when you can have both?!
Good update support too, so far.
Analyst
(noun) Someone who makes large amounts of money talking shit.
Posted in Boffins tout solar efficiency boost
Check the Graph in the Abstract...
It seems to suggest an increases in efficiency of upto 2%.
Given the already appalling efficiency of such PV devices, that's not really much of an improvement.
Copying something belonging to Apple?
I feel a lawsuit brewing.....
Re: Why not a 68K board with a basic DAC and a basic ADC ?
Because building wire-wrap 68000 systems would be BEng level stuff?
(Well it was back-in-the-day...)
The Man ...
... who really brought computing to the masses.
Not even a mention on the BBC news website.
I probably wouldn't be sat here typing this if it weren't for the PET, VIC20 & C64.
Posted in Renault Twizy budget e-car
It's not a car...
It's not classed as a car in France.
It's a four wheeled scooter. (That doesn't even need a licence to drive it on the roads in it's 5HP version.)
Might do well running on all that super-clean nuclear/hydro generated electricity.
Market success will depends on the cost of the all important battery leasing deal.
Re-education camps...?
It's Year Zero time!
Sue, Grabbit & Runne...
If NDS are so sure of their squeeky-cleanness, they should take the BBC to court.....
News Corps...
... track record in illegal activity (illegal cross subsidy of media, broadcasting "to" the UK without a licence, hacking/cracking competitor's video encryption, phone monitoring, corrupt payments etc speaks for itself.
It's old news and nothing has/will be done about it anyway.
Only works for spherical horses moving in a vacuum.
Excellent
No need to pay for a lengthy/expensive extradition process when the Corrupt Foreign Practices Act proceedings start over there!
Bluetooth works fine for handsfree in cars...
The real reason you see people holding their phones whilst driving is because they are arseholes.
(With little regard for the law or other road users that they may collide with.)
Or perhaps they frittered their company car allowance on other more vital options like an AMG, S-Line or M-Sport styling pack.
Stop: Because they may even miss seeing that if they're texting too.
Forget this part...
It's bad, but illicit payments to foreign (for the US) officials (The Met) coupled with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Acts applied to NewsCorp honchos in the US has WAY more possible infotainment value!
Brits Abroad...
They just don't get that they aren't at home in "Hobbiton" any more and have to comply with local laws and customs.
Just like the ones who are surprised when arrested and thrown in jail for ****ing on a beach in Dubai.
Funny how the UK can't even manage to deport people even if they mean it when making threats against the country.
Posted in Ten... IPTV set-top boxes
VPN or Proxy?
Any of these boxes support VPN or Proxy use directly?
Darwinism
Isn't natural selection great!?
Posted in French get unlimited mobile for €20
Maybe you're paying the...
... non-resident-coming-over-here-inflating-our-house-prices rate?
33 Hour Lunch Break..!?
Don't be silly. No one in France takes a 3 hour lunch break.
We wouldn't have enough time in the day to plan our 48 days of holiday if we did that!
Posted in The Commodore 64 is 30
"and I don't even recall reading about the C=64 at the time"
Not only were there specific Commodore mags but also C64 specific titles too.
Many a day spent typing in programs from the backs of such magazines.
You must have been looking at shelves in your local WH Smiths other than the ones with the computer magazines on them....
Posted in The Commodore 64 is 30
"No, don't argue with me. "
I'll bow to your parochial, UK-centric world viewpoint then.
PV: Red Herring Technology
Yet more bogus eco-technology.
PV is an expensive, energy and resource intensive technology to manufacture.
It is a very inefficient way to generate electricity and all the inflated generation figures are
based on panels installed in the California desert that track the sun.
Panels (in there limited lifespan) are unlikely to generate as much energy as was used to manufacture and install them. Especially fixed, dirty ones installed on non-optimally placed roofs.
The biggest part of the con is that generating companies will just gouge customers to pay these absurdly high feed-in tariff.
Start with the simple stuff: insulation and double-glazing.
Posted in The Commodore 64 is 30
Ahh, Good ol' C64...
The model that did more than any to bring computers into the reach of normal folk.
Just look at the price differentials!
Memories of games by the cassette-box full and my 'O' Level Computer Science project, including linked lists and some natty 6510/6502 assembly language routines.....
Posted in Nissan Leaf battery powered electric car
Plug-in electric cars in countries....
...where >65% of electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels ....?
Illogical ecology.
Will they ever learn...?
This just in: More money to be spunked away on late-delivered, non-functioning, over-priced pie-in-the-sky government IT system.
FPCA
Hopefully there are some 5-year jail terms waiting for some NI corp bosse in the US is the prosecution goes all the way.
Bonus!
Opinion
David McLeman
My 25 years of comical IT buzzwords
Tim Worstall
Time to take a sniff at the coffee, perhaps
Chris Mellor
Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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