Re: Tea Debate

English Breakfast tea.

Stewed for a good amount of time, and either blue milk or at least green milk.

The red milk makes for vile tea.

Re: Frackin MORON JUDGE!

"Actually, he said it was 30x harder than plastic, not stronger, but never let the facts get in the way of a good rant, eh?"

Completely OT, but did he really say it to mean that?

Is that really a selling point unless you plan to use the thing to engrave something, or maybe as a drill bit?

Did he say where it appears on Mohs scale? Presumably around 6/7.

Just wondering what purpose a "harder" phone actually serves.

Presumably that you'll only be able to scratch it with harder materials.

That probably is it thinking about it, a typical marketing thing, say something which whilst accurate is going to be misinterpreted by pretty much everyone and isn't necessarily what a lot of people want.

Apple do marketing well.

I'd prefer durability to hardness, but it wouldn't be good marketing to say it's vastly less durable than this cheaper (albeit not as hard) plastic product.

Re: mighty rod

Think of it like this instead -

LOHAN will be sliding on and off a well lubricated mighty rod.

Re: Anders Breivik

Fuck, I've somehow ended up in the daily mail comments pages.

Re: What's [sic] with the sick sic?

Fuck me this is a good thread

how about a tablet with a usb keyboard/cover addon?

no problem with dodgy hinges being integral to the product, the hinge goes on the case it'll be cheaper and easier to replace, effectively a modular netbook with added benefit of touchscreen.

Re: $199 (£126)????

I was thinking the same thing, which will probably result in something similar to the samsung galaxy tab 2 7", the toshiba thrive 7 or the Acer iconia A100

Probably a tegra 250 with 1Gb RAM, 8Gb SSD, 1280 x 800 screen or thereabouts.

I look forward to it.

Is anything?

I'm not sure anything is really toddler proof from experience, I think the only way to keep these things safe is to keep them out of reach.

Entirely fictional Money

I'm fairly sure my brother-in-law Dave has downloaded about £2.4million worth of stuff that he wouldn't actually buy, in fact I'm fairly sure he only actually uses/watches about 1% of what he torrents.

I don't get it myself, I just don't have the time to look for stuff that I'm never going to use or watch just for the sake of downloading it.

Re: Shirley not

I'm not going to disagree, but I've only worked with 2 or 3 women who actually do anything related to IT, one's a great linux admin, one does a first rate job as a support analyst and one works leading our testing. The trouble is, they're the exception rather than the rule, all the other women I've worked with and known just don't want to get involved in the technical and it's far easier for them to get administrative jobs, or even easier sales & marketing.

I don't know whether that's as a result of the existing male dominance or whether it's as a result of female predisposition to those sorts of roles.

For the same reason I don't know whether little girls are predispositioned to like pink and hence there are vast numbers of pink products marketed to little girls, or do little girls like pink because everything marketed towards them is pink.

possibly

I'm not sure whether they were "made", perhaps a better term is "vomitted"

Re: Er, iPads?

Hey Micky (you're so fine), I understand that not all special needs kids are clumsy careless people. However some kids with violent behaviour disorders will not treat anything with respect, and you're proposing it's a better idea to give them a £400 iPad than to give them a ruggedized tablet.

I think it's a bad idea to give any kids that sort of equipment, whether they're in a wheelchair, on crutches, are in a coma or totally hyperactive.

I was a kid once too.

So no I'm not insinuating that ALL special needs kids are clumsy careless people, just that some of them aren't going to respect anything they're given.

You also seem to be suggesting that IT folks shouldn't have an opinion on what IT equipment should be used in a given situation.

You know that a lot of IT folks have experience of gathering a set of requirements and making a recommendation based on those requirements right? And that those IT folks will have a far broader knowledge of available technology than that of the average "skilled professional" (or case worker)

Re: Er, iPads?

Further to the other comment about "why iPads?", wouldn't kids in schools and in particular Special Needs kids actually be better off with something a bit more rugged? I'm pretty sure that nothing about the iPad is actually unique apart from maybe the price.

Also I'm not a huge fan of the whole locked in OS thing, in my opinion the Apple strategy is worse for the consumer than the whole MS strategy, at least when you bought a PC with a MS OS installed you could still get support for the hardware in the event you replace the OS.

Re: so it does install files?

That's what this version does.

What about the version that they haven't found yet, which just lives in RAM.

If it's pervasive enough then the botnet could just run in RAM.

And then when the JVM's die so too does that part of the botnet, so the body is dumped, no evidence.

Re: Yer a bit previous, lads

The date format is also entirely logical, or at least more logical than the US format.

Reading from left to right the magnitude of the figures increases, day, month, year.

What's the logic behind the random sequence in the US format?

A more useful format I find is usually the reverse : year, month, day.

Re: "Moot" means many things.

I'd go as far as to say that the OP is a moot point.

Re: Fascism

You keep using that word, I do not think it means what you think it means

They already are

But only if the "house" is outside America.

If it's inside America and pays it's taxes then it's fine.

They call it protectionism and they say that people shouldn't do it.

I'm guessing they mean that people outside of America shouldn't do it.

Re: Re: Re: Translation

@Alister, fix it by clicking on the upvote. I am led to understand that this cancels out aforementioned misclick

Re: I have not voted.

Aha, your pseudonym is revealed, Ned Flanders.

Re: imagine if they had been....

Asian,

We probably would not have heard about the story unless maybe we lived in Asia and they reported it in the Asian press, never having been there I assume they have newspapers and the like.

I'm not sure why you'd expect to hear about incidents involving Americans and Asians in the European press?

Similarly, I had a friend who mentioned that during the reporting of the Costa Concordia incident that the numbers breakdown mentioned Spanish, British, Italians etc. the rest of them were apparently Asian.

I would expect the Asian press to break it down similarly, so there were Chinese, Korean, Indian etc., the rest were from somewhere else.

I think you may be a British with Asian origins or an Asian living in Britain who's a bit disgruntled about the lack of Asian reporting, don't take it so personally, it's just a different part of the world.

The money is real

The money comes from the purchase of virtual items with real money.

Zynga is a top provider of freemium games. If you're not sure what freemium is then google will help.

I'm not entirely sure that their valuation is based entirely on genuine currency though.

Zynga valued at roughly $7bn, from what I can gather FB take a 30% cut (the Apple model) of transactions made on the site, so 30% of what Zynga makes is 12% of what FB makes.

If you go with the simplest of maths and use some poor logic still favouring facebook two and a half times the valuation of Zynga, roughly a fifth of the $100bn valuation.

I don't trade, but I have been on facebook and got bored of Zynga games so I find it interesting that they come up with these astronomical numbers.

I'm guessing the rest of the revenue comes from other freemium games, advertising and probably some "goodwill" which from what I can gather is a proper "virtual money"