Wireless

They should force him to put Wireless Router in his house so they all can have free access to the Internet.

Network the village with Wireless.

Ads

And what about non-EU advertising companies. Will this ruling affect them?

The advertisers should be forced to use .ads domain so we can block them out in one go.

@Andrew Moore

Why not put pressure on the school to ban mobile phones from school as well?

There is no reason why a child needs to use a phone in school since most of their mates are there as well, especially an 8 yo.

An 8yo with a mobile phone will be a bigger target for theft.

What do you expect...

...with these postal strikes and also a large demand for the game?

After saying that Play.com did email me saying that they would try to get the game to me on launch date by using a courier.

And they lived up to their promise. A courier did deliver the game on launch day.

Also on a side note, I've very rarely have any problems with Play.com

Out of the number of years I've used them only 2 items have gone missing in the post which Play.com sent out a replacement with no hassle.

But it's just like any other company, a majority of people have no problems where as a handful have nothing but problems.

Looks like something...

...that should be in Viz.

@AC 15:31

They could impose rules that only Latin letters must be used for specific TLDs (.com, .co.uk) and all the dodgy characters restricted to the country's TLD.

ISO

Don't know why they are using .BOX

I can download Win7 from MSDN in ISO format.

Timebomb

Did one of the laid off staff insert a timebomb into the code?

Remote Support

Remote Support is one thing when you don't have to look the person in the eye and lie.

Local Support gives you the chance to roam the office building and become a Desk Rabbit (ref: The IT Crowd) when the cute blonde in finance has a problem ;)

@jon 72: Decimal Time

"At least nobody has suggested changing the world time to decimal.."

Let's see...

100 seconds = 1 minute Decitime

100 minutes = 1 hour Decitime

8.64 hours = 1 day Decitime

An 8 hour working day = 2.88 Decitime hour working day

All I can say is...

...buy shares in monitor cleaning products with all this touch screen teccy...

ASP.NET

It sounds like any application written using ASP.NET could be affected.

The application object could refer to the DLL created by ASP.NET to do background processing on the server.

"After launching the program object, the user is able to interact with the object as the invention provides for ongoing interprocess communication between the application object (program) and the browser program"

http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/7599985/fulltext.html

Russell T Davis

[The first, The Waters of Mars, also features Lindsay Duncan, and promises "thrills as well as chills* when the Tardis touches down on the Red Planet".

* Who fans may find the fact that Russell T Davies co-wrote the episode a chilling enough prospect.]

You mean there is a RTD storey that isnt in Cardiff??

@Lee Jackson 1

Labour should kicked out of Parliment altogether after the complete mess they have made.

Like the mess they made before pre-1979 but people forgot and voted them in again in 1997.

Calculator

Who cares if they want to change the way the calculator works, it's just a calculator.

It's not like stealing their code to put into another product, they just improving the damn thing...

They might finally get the answer to 42

Linux Desktop

One of the reasons that Linux hasn't made it to the desktop is commercial games.

If games companies don't start creating games for Linux then Linux will be stuck as a server OS.

Second Life

Don't know about Second Life but these people need to get a life.

99% Service?

If they guarantee a 99% service that means it should be up 361 days out of 365.

Video

I think they should show that video to learner drivers as part of the exam to pass their test.

I also think it would be a more effective TV advert but unfortunately people will complain it's too gory to show.

South Korean Telcos

Maybe South Korean Telcos should start providing Internet services to the West.

As long as they don't bring Phorm with them.

@Mandleson's not even elected

You will find quite a few of the Cabinet are not elected officals but Peers that Gordon Brown created and put into the cabinet to stop him getting knifed in the back by offically elected MPs.

Cloning

Wonder if this a prelude to creating cloning techniques to make a Ballmer "mini-me"

Banned Films

Banning a film just means that people will want to see it even more and most likely download it from Bit Torrent.

Delphi?

People still program in it?

Microsoft Tactics

Microsoft will follow the 3 E's

Embrace the new technology that is now out there. Usually try to buy the competition.

Extend the technology do something a bit more than what is available. if they couldn't buy out the competition.

Extinguish the competitors by out pricing them. If they can't be bought out.

Meanwhile Apple have moved on to the next big thing.

@It must be hard

"Not even start-fleet could manage it - only the Klingons and Romulans (who lent a copy in DS9)"

Not true, Starfleet was banned from developing cloaking technology by the Romulans in a treaty.

There is an episode of TNG where Starfleet developed a phased cloaking device which allowed the Enterprise to pass through solid matter even though the cloaking device mafunctioned on the Pegasus getting stuck in an asteroid in the first place.

This episode was also referenced in the final episode of Enterprise when Riker made a cameo on the show as running the NX-01 as a holodeck simulation.

@Prediction

"If they must go through with this, ditch Singer and get Sam Raimi. At least he knows how to rise above the source material, and has the balls to stick with a franchise even if it threatens to be running out of steam."

Sam Raimi has signed up to do the live action World of Warcraft film.

what the?!?!

They want to do a new version of the Battlestar movie???

The new series did that for them...

If they want to rehash something, do Buck Rogers.

@The Douros

"Never mind Microsoft... #

By The Douros Posted Thursday 13th August 2009 04:22 GMT

...just tell me if this is likely to impact OpenOffice at all."

This ruling in theory should affect all Office applications (Excel with xlsx, Powerpoint ppx, etc)

Also Open Office and any other application that reads and writes XML will be affected under this ruling.

x4o

I wonder if it's something to do with i4i's product x4o (XML for Office). http://www.i4i.com/x4o.htm

From the link above...

x4o is i4i's response to the overwhelming complexity of implementing an XML authoring solution. x4o comprises three modules:

x4o Author - a real-time XML (or SGML) authoring tool in Microsoft Word. With x4o Author, creating a document is as straightforward as selecting the appropriate template (any DTD or Schema & a stylesheet) and authoring as you would in Microsoft Word.

x4o Designer - an XML template design tool. If you don't use a custom or industry standard DTD, simply create one using the familiar Microsoft Word interface of x4o Designer and already learned Microsoft Word skills.

x4o CMS Connector - a CMS/DMS connector that makes check-in and check-out as simple as File Open and File Save.

Hitch Hiker's Guide

Does this mean that the mice have found the answer to Life, The Universe and Everything?

All together now....

Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee,

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!

Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?

Wheear 'as ta bin sin ah saw thee?

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at?!

Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane

Tha's been a cooartin' Mary Jane

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd

Tha's bahn t'catch thi deeath o'cowd

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then we shall ha' to bury thee

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then we shall ha' to bury thee

Then we shall ha' to bury thee

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then t'worms 'll cum and eat thee oop

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then t'worms 'll cum and eat thee oop

Then t'worms 'll cum and eat thee oop

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

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Then ducks 'll cum and eat oop t'worms

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then ducks 'll cum and eat oop t'worms

Then ducks 'll cum and eat oop t'worms

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

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Then we shall go an' ate oop ducks

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then we shall go an' ate oop ducks

Then we shall go an' ate oop ducks

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then we shall all 'ave etten thee

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

Then we shall all 'ave etten thee

Then we shall all 'ave etten thee

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

On Ilkla Moor baht 'at

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Offshore

Once India gets their ID cards up and running, Uk.Gov can offshore ours to them.

Call Centres

Any company that does business in the UK should have UK Call Centres and employ people that can understand and speak English properly.

1. More jobs for the UK

2. A happier customer. Talking to someone that can actual speak and understand English.

3. More tax revenue for the Government.

I think the Government should impliment an Offshore Tax against companies that offshore UK jobs to India. They are losing taxes because of this and we need these taxes to fill in the massive debt GB and NuLabour has put us in.

Gold Farmers

Does these mean there will be less Chinese Gold Farmers on WoW?

There is already guidelines

[she said: "There's a lot of guidelines protecting children from photos being taken on cameras in schools, nurseries and swimming pools, but none to say staff can't take camera phones to work."]

If there are already guidelines about cameras, doesn't cameras on mobile phones also fall under this rule?

RFID

You don't need ID cards.

All you need is RFID sub-dermal implants and a network of sensors to track your every movement.

New feature

Just tell the astronauts it's bling for the window and launch the shuttle.

@Lionel Baden

Ah... Worms... excellent game and if you're from Yorkshire you know the meaning of some of the stuff in the game...

Mike's Carpet Bombs.... Shops called Mike's Carpets selling, you guessed it, carpets :)

Now where did I put that Concrete Donkey...

Disc

Isnt it time we moved into solid state media than using things that spin around?

Web Servers

Most ISP don't allow you to run a web server (or any other server) from your home computer since the bandwidth will affect their networks.

AFAIK ISP's also do port scans to make sure you are not running a web server.