The IT Crowd.

FriendFace. This is what I always think of when readong about Facebook.

Still glad I don't have an account.

Fine, but......

.... where does the money actually go ?

Tea.. !!

Betty's [only available in York, Harrogate, Northallerton or Ilkely] Earl Grey. Bags.

Black [no milk!]

No sugar.

1 minute in the mug and out.

Perfect.

So that's it.....

A search tool.

Really?

NOw, if it were a 'phone or an OS, that would be news, but more f%#^ing search, Nahhhhh

Oh, just remembered, I don't use Facebook so I don't even know why I'm reading this.......

Non Apple user.....

I may be a bit thick here, but as a non Apple user the simple question that I ask is, can't one just open a browser and go to Google Maps ?

What is all this bru-ha-ha about applications ?

P.

Linux....

Bloody glad I am linux desktop user......

That is really quite funny.......

Missing from the review.....

This is a review for a music player, yes?

There are few things missing that I would have hoped to read about. What is the audio quality like, with and without the supplied ear 'phones, through a decent speaker system, what are the codecs it supports, how to transfer content to/from the device, battery charge time and battery usage time.....

These are the things one needs to know, not lines of text about how thin it is........

IE10 Coming....

Really

Who gives a %&@~ .....

In princinple, what is the difference.....

.... between wi-fi and, say, FM / MW / LW radio ?

I was wondering about this before I put [virtual] pen to [online] paper, and can think of only range / power [wifi may be 'stronger'] and the two way nature of wifi, for the up link, down link side.

I found a UK version of the Americans page, and it's here : http://www.es-uk.info/index.asp I mention is because Dr Erica Mallery-Blythe is associated with both camps.

When one looks at the " Recognising ES and EHS" section, any sympathy I [I]may[i/] have had with these people just vanished: the list of symptoms could be caused by, a bottle of good wine, a bottle of bad wine, a looming deadline or, frankly, as Marvin would say, it's just life......

Na, tin foil fools.

A contented life.......

Oh I wish that my life was so content, balanced and in a state of equilibrium that I had time, energy and inclination to get so work worked up over so little.

Really, so what if there is a video? So what if it is critical ? This is the privilege of having an opinion: somebody somewhere will mock it. Remember all the kerfuffle about the "Life of Brian"? So much free advertising and publicity that Muggeridge must be turning in his grave now, assuming of course that he was right that there is an afterlife. Which there isn't. So he isn't.

Still, I am sure the train companies will love all that extra full fair revenue on a Sunday.....

Tui......

Tui is owned by DB Breweries, an NZ Brewer.

Which is in turn owned by Asia Pacific Breweries.

Which is [currently] a JV between Fraser and Neave and Heineken.

Sad how global brewing works these days.

Tax

""But as some have noted, the steep cost of the ebook shouldn't be blamed on Rowling: It's the taxman's fault in Brussels.""

Which is ironic really as Amazon is not registered in the UK, but in the tax haven in Luxembourg, which means it pays not Corporate tax in Blighty.

MS and not Apple......

Why are MS being hit in the browsers kerfuffle and not Apple?

I'm not an Apple anything user, so this is anecdotal, but my understanding is that Apple are even more restrictive about the software that is running on, say, an I-Pad or notebook etc, and yet seem to get away with it.

Why ............... ?

She is only a kid.

She is 27 and comes from the "it's not fair" generation.

She has a degree in Political Theory.

Malcolm Tucker: Oh, it's make-your-mind-up time, Ollie! I mean, what do you want to be? Do you want to be a prick that works here for a year, then goes away and joins a think-tank to write "oh, on one hand this and on the other hand that", or do you want to be a soldier?

She is Think Tank fodder.

I like the SIM....

..... simply because I can swap the SIM from device to device as and when I need.

SOC is not user friendly, despite what Apple may think.....

Rights ?

A user of social media has no more or no less rights than anybody else.

Just because one uses Twitter does not make one exempt from "the law".

If you c all somebody an arse to their face, you're likely to get a smack in the face. The same, metaphorically, applies on line.

Madness.....

How can MS patent something that has been in Star Trek, Star Wars, Red Dwarf and H2G2, to name a few ?

Can /I/ trawl SCI-FI novels and telly programmes and start a patent company ????????

Voda' data rates.....

Am I reading this correctly?

The Voda' tariff has 1GB data included, and 2gb in Wifi. Are they suggesting that they track wifi usage when not on their network?

Confused.....

Xenophobia......`

A colleague of mine accused me of xenophobia for having, what he calls "anti-chinese" views.

But, even if half the reports about H'wei and ZTE are true, then massive investment by them is the last thing we need.

Massive amount if immegration fraud when they bring in hundreds of Chinese works, on rotating visa's, theft of intellectual property and industrial espioanage. Is this not enough to be wary ?

I had no idea.....

.... there were so many luggage obsessed anally retentive people like me out there!

Power to you all!

I have a Samsonite which has trolley wheels/handle and rucksack traps, one main section and a slightly smaller front with another st the bottom [smokes in here!], two side panels, one netted for me wet brolley.

I can get one full size laptop in here, power cable/brick, 10m LAN cable, one book [[Pale Blue Dot right now] two mobiles, one mp3 player, various cables for the USB plug / charger and, when the need arises, a weeks worth of clothing.

All in. Together.

Oh, and an apple!

As if the UK needs advice from.....

.... a former banker who now lives on charity donations through his online story telling shit bazaar.

.....almost anything with Marmite.

Trin Tragula...

.... for that was his name......

Battery aside.....

.... I rather like it.

And one /could/ argue that, for a tenner a month, no cables or recharger to carry, for the mobile worker, it is worth it. And in 18 months, see what else is on the market.

@ Jonathanb

Agreed.

Essentially it is all Flextronics stuff, made in either Korea or the ol' PRC.

Sad really.

P.

Curious Logic

This is an interesting article loaded with emotive language [quotations] and some ambiguity.

The problem I have with the PI statement / demand / request is fairly simple to ask, much harder to answer. First of all, exactly /what is "UK-stamped surveillance tech", secondly, is the equipment the issue or two whom we see it, thirdly, do we ask for something back if a "regime" becomes despotic and finally, given that the UK Gov', and pretty much every other western Gov' uses "surveillance tech" will we stop selling this to ourselves and to other countries in the "civilised world", or is PI simply asserting an inverse racism: we are British therefore ok, but you are from a "foreign country so much be 'not' ok.".

Statements like PI seem, on the surface, very well intentioned, but do come across like a spoilt 12 year old brat, constantly shouting "it's not fair" when they see something they don't like.

It may not be a very palatable message, but we are NOT the moral arbitrators for the rest of the world and frankly, it is up to foreign Gov's how they maintain their own security; just as we argue when discussing our own.

Once you start determining what other people and other Gov's may or may not do with kit, you are, as Humphrey once stated, on a very slippery slope. Should Japan stop selling HiLux's just because these are used all over Africa as military vehicles? Do the worlds major Telco's stop selling their own Lawful Intercept solutions, and indeed any telecomm's equipment, do router vendors stop producing deep packet inspection equipment [hardware and software] and BP, Shell et stop selling oil, because this fuels the military ?

No, of course not, so why is this any different? It is just another tool in the box that can be used for "good and bad*".

* I'll let you decide who should decide what is good and bad.

Don't care.

Leave them to it.

At some point, they will decide things like sport, CERN, the BBC, music, cats falling off a piano on 'You Tube', the works of Desmond Morris, jelly and pictures of volcanoes are all morally dubious, so in the end, they block so much they'll cut themselves from the world wide web.

And then it is their loss. So leave them be. Let them be insular narrow minded bigots who want to control every aspect of everybody's life, all the way down to what sort of peccadilloes they should be thinking about, in the sanctity of their own imagination.

Shameful.

An Old Walkman

I know one person, just one, who owns a Sony Walkman MP3 player.

I've used it. It has one drawback, which is the limited 4gb memory.

But the sound quality is excellent. Just about the best I have heard.

If only Sony could get the marketing juju they had when they created the walkman brand, then Apple would be a dead duck. A music player for just playing music. EXACTLY what I am looking for.

The reason is.....

.... that the spelling and grammar on wiki-paedia is appalling. They do not even spell their own name correctly. And when one logs in and corrects the spelling and grammar, it is returned to it's incorrect former state.

No wonder it has reached status quo.