Posts by Shagbag
658 posts • joined Monday 10th March 2008 14:53 GMT
Thank you for pointing that out. I hadn't realised that this is what was going on. Perhaps you could help me further by letting me know if the Sun is going to set tonight and rise tomorrow?
You can email me: "pointlessPosts@statingTheMindNumbinglyObvious.com"
Re: Talk about not getting things right...
@messele:
Thanks for the post.
I have to admit I enjoy reading these "King Canute"-type posts.
P.S. I haven't down voted you because your post made me giggle.
Re: Contempt yet?
Possibly.
If you read the Court Of Appeal decision, at paragraphs 81-84:
"...[the publicity order] is not to punish the party concerned for its behavoir. Nor is it to make it grovel - simply to lose face. The test is whether there is a need to dispel commercial uncertainty... Apple itself must (having created the confusion) make the position clear: that it acknowledges that the court has decided that these Samsung products do not infringe its registered design. The acknowledgement must come from the horse's mouth. Nothing short of that will be sure to do the job completely."
Given Apple's continued childish behaviour towards the Court, I can't help but think the Court may decide to put Apple "on the naughty step" and require it to post the notice 'above the fold' so to speak.
I hope that happens.
Re: 50 quid cashback at Comet
Comet are offering £50 cash back after you purchase one of these.
Not really. I just thought I'd throw it in to highlight the riskiness of 'cash-back' schemes.
Posted in KDE 'annoys the hell of' Linus Torvalds
Opinions are like...
If ever there was an example of the cliche, the media's love affair with Linus Torvalds exemplifies it. Here we have yet another quote which is merely the personal view of one man.
Yes, opinions are like assholes. Yes, everyone has got an asshole.
Why not quote these facts instead?
Job creation
With the Australian economy about to tank, I cannot help but think this is a simple job-creation exercise by the unpopular encumbant Government (are Governments ever popular?) to sure up the voters. I fail to see how any perceived 'benefit' will outweight the inqury's cost and am left feeling it is a gross misuse of public funds that typifies the maxim "the public get the politicians they deserve".
With such a blatant raid on the public purse, I cannot help but think "has Australia ever really left its Convict past?"
With commodity prices falling, China cutting back on orders for raw materials and an overblown property bubble about to burst (or has it started alread - Banksia?) I worry for my Australia colleagues as they are about to enter the abyss that will be their worst recession on record.
There's two sides to every story.
We've heard Tim Cock's. Now let's hear Forstall's.
just where is all Vodas profits going?
to its shareholders.
Re: Failure of understanding
Agreed. Then they'll start marketing the 500MB as "massive" download allowance like O2 et. al. do with 3G.
Re: 400 quid?
Me too. Buy the Nexus 4 and blow the money saved on Chaz and Dave LPs.
You can take apart a piece of shit...
...but it's still a piece of shit.
"Ancient Alien Ghost Mysteries of the Paranormal"
That's my favourite show.
I had a Lumia 800
I tried WinPho 7 and I kinda liked it - until I tried to use it as a temporary storage device. It was shit. Then they announced WinPho8 won't be compatible with WinPho7 handsets. I felt violated.
If someone wants to give me a WinPho8 I'll gladly test it out. But there's no way I'm going to stump up my own £££s to buy one. Once bitten...
Not a patch on my wife in the morning
Her guts would give that a run for its money.
Samsung more successful than Apple? Apple throwing it's toys out of the pram in the UK Court
OMG. Just what is going on in Cupertino?
I bet Steve Jobs is spinning in his grave over where his company is being taken.
Re: Say what you want about Dyson
...mine hasn't.
While the 'cyclone' tech stuff still works, it's the other non-design stuff (hose, wheels, etc.) that continues to split, fall-off, break, etc.
I've been through two Dyson vacuum cleaners and I'm still not convinced of the £££ premium they cost. Bosch currently make better value gear.
the BBC had a story on it on their homepage...
...after Microsoft gave the BBC Journo's Surface Tablets. To keep.
This is industry standard. Remember the 'Celebrity' 'Changing Rooms' of the 2000s? The one where the 'Celebrity' got a free new kitchen/bathroom/whatever they wanted just so long as they lent their 'celebrity' to the camera crew?
It's the same at the BBC. People are people. You scratch their back, they'll scratch yours. BBC journo's are no different (apart from a shared predisposition to voting Labour).
Apple dumping on their fans. Again.
£100 more expensive than its nearest rival and no GPS.
It won't stop the 'fruity' fanbois from buying it though. Idiots.
Ouch!
AsApple wanted the war and I dare say they're going to lose it. LMAO. Britain, Germany, Netherlands.... and then there's the US Appeal Case.
Samsung can't lose. They have a fast turnaround-to-market model. As reported elsewhere, they've already re-coded TouchWiz so it no longer infringes on the Patents Apple claims it did. And what's Apple done? Release an iPhone 4S with a big screen and a failed Map app and now a non-retina display iPad Mini. Jesus-H-Christ. So much for any claim to 'innovation'. Since Steve Jobs died Apple has been on a slippery slope. They've reached the top (in stock market capitalisation) and so it's all down-hill from here....
Repeat Offender
They just don't get it in Redmond. They're a repeat offender. Hit 'em with the full 10% of revenue fine. They deserve it. Arrogant shits.
AMD has a Loser !
Couldn't resist.
Re: Appleology
"... like our iMaps product."
That would be bad grammar. The adverb is 'differently'.
Re: Awesome
Das ist gut yah, fantastisch!
the FT index broke the 6000 "barrier"
This is no criticism of the OP but the analogy is inappropriate.
Having working in finance for 20+ years I can safely say that psychological support/resistance levels/barriers are confined to the realms of the imagination and the financial press. They are not taken seriously by practitioners in the financial markets and those who speak of them show their lack of understanding about financial markets work.
Fat land monster should STFU
He may be technically brilliant, but it was Steve Jobs that made Apple what it is today. SW is an attention seeking Asperger.
Tomfoolery
This highlights the pointlessness of Apple and Microsoft's War on Android.
Samsung has such a rapid delivery channel that it can re-design/push updates that obviates any claims filed by Apple/Microsoft.
The key is giving consumers what they want. And they want Android.
Well Done Those People - WTF??
"...supported with AUD$20 million of Western Australian government funding.... the organisations are reportedly considering expansion of the plant up to as much as 40 megawatts."
I'm not surprised given the WA Taxpayer is footing the bill for it.
Re: Having your cake and eating it.
I was in Australia around a year ago, just after they'd had the worst flooding on record. It devastated their agricultural crops and resulting in the price of bananas rocketing to £15 per kilo. After a cursory analysis it was apparent the high price had very little to do with the floods and very much to do their their backwards protectionist policies dressed up under the guise of 'quarantine' policy.
£15 a kilo for bananas that I could get in Tesco for less than £1 a kilo imported from Costa Rica. But no matter where you went the Aussies wouldn't have a bar of it and kept on blaming the floods for the high prices.
LMAO? I wet my pants at their stupidity.
Posted in iPad Mini pics spied on Twitter
I am, like all other fruity fanbois...
...creaming in my jeans.
I've drained my spuds many times over the prospect of being able to spend £££s on yet another brushed aluminium (aluminum?) product to rub against my bell-end.
Re: Lesson learned perhaps too late
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Re: Lesson learned perhaps too late
I took one look at the length of your post and said to myself: BORING.
Re: Wise advice from my gran
She was talking about your bell-end.
Insurance
Is insurance available for this type of thing?
Re: except
I've got an iPhone 5. I'm such a cool guy. Look, see how my Maps don't work and my Photos are crap.
they need a savior
Apart from the fact that he spelt the word wrongly, who is this guy to tell me what I "need" and don't "need"? What an arrogant seman stain. And that goes for all happy-clappy Christians. Practice your religion but keep your views to yourself. As to the Catholics: you've forgone any right to the debate since you harboured all of those Paedos and put a Nazi in charge.
This guy needs to go. The next thing you know he'll be preaching hate against all non-believers. Just like Abu Hamza but with both hands.
Re: with Availability on the 25th
I dare say only MS Marketing Execs, Press 'Freeloaders' and Florian Mueller will be at that party.
Re: "LOL"? Seriously?
Yeah, but he has a point.
Re: Not buying it
With the likes of Google's Nexus 7 and Amazon's Kindle Fire already in this market segment, Apple cannot afford to alienate themselves with too big a premium for their product. The result is, as you point out, the iPad Mini will cannibalise sales of the iPad 3 and potentially reduce overall margin. The problem is that Apple are in desperate need of a 'new' product. The iPhone and iPad are no longer the cash cows they once were and the market has finally caught up with them. With the Board's attention seemingly being averted from innovation and focussed towards monetising their patent portfolio, a low(er) margin iPad Mini has the potential to further dampen Apple's share price and will be seen as a risky move by anal-ists.
Amazon will be forking out... more than double the average rate... in the city
That suggests to me there's a tax-arbitrage in the deal somewhere. With Amazon supposedly paying considerably "over the odds" for this real estate, I suspect the IRS is getting the shaft. With no mercy.
Vertical Bacon Sandwich
Rotate it 90 degrees and the A90 Behemoth looks very much like a VBS (Vertical Bacon Sandwich).
But "the Classic Jumbo" really takes the cake as the one that resembles most a VBS. At least the ones you see on the internet.
"Motorola won a ban on Xboxes that ended up blocked by a US court"
This FUD.
A US Court has no jurisdiction in Germany. Just like a German Court cannot impose an "EU-Wide" ban.
I don't know where these "journalists" went to school but it wouldn't surprise me if their lecturer was #1 irrelevance Florian Mueller.
"in order to secure a win against Apple's new iPhone"
WTF is the author drinking?
The new iPhone in pants and "the fruity firm"'s (geez I'm beginning to hate that) next quarterly turnover figures will bare that out.
"Mozilla says Microsoft won't give it access to the APIs it needs on the ARM-based OS. As such, it says it has no plans to build a browser for that platform."
Microsoft needs to be very careful about this. They're already bracing themselves for what the EU Commission is going to do to them over their recent failure to honour their agreement on Browser Choice. If what Mozilla says is true, then I can imagine the EU Commission will come down on them like a shower of shit. It will be the biggest dump they've ever taken on Microsoft. Even bigger than the one Apple did to its userbase when it shat on them with iMaps.
ShootMe
There was an app in Andoird Marketplace called 'ShootMe' that used to take a screenshot of your mobile device when you shook it. I can't remember when 'Marketplace' switched over to 'Google Play' but I remember using ShootMe on a rooted HTC Wildfire/Buzz.
"although Microsoft will release an upgrade to make Phone 7 handsets look like Phone 8 system"
Lipstick on a pig.
Re: Too Late...
Apple already had this technology in the iPhone 4 and they used it to point the antenna towards the palm of your hand.
Nokia is where it's at?
Where's that? Wait. Let me just fire up my iOS6 iMaps....
...it's pointing me to the shitter. Should I be concerned?
