'bout time

Nice to see Mr Thomas getting back into the greater public eye. I remember the Comedy Product.. and watching him at stupid o'clock in the morning at the Reading festival. More power to this man's elbow.

It's already decided

Warren Ellis said it was going to be him yesterday..

'run like a separate company'

oh, like Openreach are a separate company then.

physical DRM

impliment copy protection on ALL THE THINGS now

<mines the one with the handheld version from ten years time in the pocket

justification

it's just a socialy 'acceptable' lever to allow them to deploy the hardware for the DPI so they can look at the things you do. it's a long road and these are just the first steps. good intentions etc..

and they'll probably use the chinese kit too.

/dails cynicsm down a couple of notches..

bubblespace

a bunch of VC cash because space is sexy and the internet is all mined out. Where's the ROI?

quick mis-read as

Mission to Pluto faces DEEP SPACE HUBRIS PERIL

not sure why that seems better..

unfortunate font

initialy read that as Get Gash...and that's a whole 'nutha App .

mine's the one set to vibrate in the pocket

waiting for

"HAVE YOU RECEIVED AN UNWANTED TEXT AS SPAM? YOU COULD WIN A MAHOOSIVE PAYOUT FROM THE ICO! JUST REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE AND WE'LL CONTACT YOU..." texts to happen.

mine's the one with the PAYG numbered mobe with a history from before the dished it out in the pocket..

also, but not only

the wholemeal barm with the side of caffieney goodness, modded with +1 tomato sauce.

Nobody tell Noel Fielding about this.

<sudo cockney accent> EELS!

nice article

. reminds me of vultures-gone-by

Paging Mark Thomas..

Same malarky as the Royal Ordnance and Hechler/Kock Transhippment-Two-Step, made much easier by the fact that you don't have a physical product. Arms Dealers gone virtual.

<<< well it's early, and i've only had one coffee..

looks

a bit like Karsa Orlong.

mildly off-topic..

but

http://arcticready.com/social/gallery

nah

I've never been to jupiter.. uranus, now..

i must have missed the IT angle

yet more mission creep into the realms of the daily fail..

got one of these

nice toy. used it for about a week when i got it with the xperia. it's in a box somewhere. it should have a speaker/mike combo built in, that would make it useful. yes the bt headset's an option but then you just look ike a tw@. i don't need the 'social connectivity' apps... and the battery life is abysmal, i barely got it off the charger before it would fail.. the connector's a bit odd too, seemed prone to not contacting fully..

but i can see the applications for iut, the runnig thing as sited above seems like a good use.

might dig it out again and have a mess around.. but only when i'm bored enough.

Stross +1

Charles Stross. excellent writer of many and varied styles. I know he's mentioned above but very worth the re-mention here. The Laundry books are lovely and there's a new one due shortly ( Apocalypse Codex) .. Halting State and Rule 34 are near-ish future stories with lots of good ideas tested to distruction.. the hard/mundane SF is clever and has lots of good world-building and doesn't patronise.

aside from that, and in the same mental company: Pratchet (yeh, i know discworld ain't sf.. but anyone with a brain will enjoy the City Watch stories..) Banks's Culture and other SF, Hamilton is a bit brain-on-the-shelf plot-wise.. but lovely graphics, William Gibson, Neil Stephenson, The Gap series by Stephen Donaldson ( not for the faint-of-mind, some adult topics.) ,

Steven Errikson's Malazan stuff.. again, couched in Fantasy terms.. but hella good and some clearly cyber-punky things via 'magic' and the best characterisation and word-smithery of the lot. and there's lots of it too.. :)

the gullible elephant in the room

see? there *are* ways to make money from FB.

mine's the one with the pre-packed administration and fsck-the-creditors kit in the pocket.

you are

charles stross in drag and i claim my 5 clams..

istr

there was a sitcom in which some long term spacers used some fruit flies they happenned to have as a component for another experiment and fermented them to make alcohol.. hijinks ensued etc..

always wondered how viable that would be..

Fermi

again. there's nothing much out there that cares enough to look at us or that has sent anything vaguely like a signal in any noticable wavelength in any of these hypothetical signal shells from these theoretical planets. ..

also, 'space is big, really really big..'

still, quite cool and it only took six years and a bugdet of some sort..

sorry, can't help the trollage, i know they probably contribute to the planet's over all quality of life .. but i can't help but feel they're all quite good at mostly contirbuting to their own quality of life first.. ..

phhhhooooohhhnnneesss

MUHSHT HAAAVE PHOOONES.. (head ticket and shuffle whilst droooling)

and rinse and repeat

mine's the long duster with the baseball bat and sawn-off in the pockets..

fondleslab firmware fail.

I purchased one of their 1000et android tablets. checked the site, there was an upgrade to 2.2 *without flash*. And they've done nothing to improve it since. No replies to support site requests or email.

i've looked for clone firmware updates.. like the ZT180 and there's nothing either.. and i've no idea how to sort that side of things myself.. wouldn't know where to begin.

-1NPS and quite unhappy with their support. or rather the lack of it.

packaging

anyone thought to look at what packaging they're ordering and in what sizes? if you're that desperate to know, look peripherally and you might find the shape in the negative space.. which is what this article is about.. and it's not rocket science to partner up with a tv-panel producer and fit the front with a nice simple cap touch fascia and a tiny interface box bonded to the main display and io ports. the pcb in an apple-tv is tiny and would fit inside any tv frame.. runs ios5-and-a-bit and sychs with all your other apple devices. If i was an apple-based-lifeform i'd be craving one also.. but i'm not.

now as to price, half your imortal soul? that'll do nicely..

witch hunt

They sure were selling a lot of papers to a lot of people.. That would imply some complicity.. I can't believe the people purchasing the chip-rags hadn't figured there had to be some underhand shenanigans fueling the daily dirt.. nobody cared then.. I'd be surprised if the people buying them now care either.