Whoever thought security through proximity was a good idea.

Is a fucking Idiot

Antenna slightly more directional than intended, that's a payment

Wave your wallet within a few inches of the till while trying to pay cash, that's a payment

Walk past some nefarious type with a modified card machine in his pocket, thats a payment.

I think I may start marketing faraday cages for your pockets, it's the only way to ensure these convenient payment methods don't get a bit too convenient .

Remember when regular old 2D printers were just shitty tractor fed automated typewriters, and laser printers were horrendously expensive mutilated photocopiers, certainly only useful for a few niche low quality bulk record keeping tasks......

Today I was looking at a 64'' 6 ink wideformat inkjet capable of knocking out a dozen square meters of photo quality print an hour, for pennies a meter, and cutting it all out for me. How times have changed.

selling data retail?

Was that ever a good idea? because frankly it seems bloody stupid now.

This noise again

Every time I hear an industrialist bitching about a lack of engineers I automatically assume its just setting up a smokescreen for imminent demands for public cash and /or moving a large fraction of their operations abroad.

I've got a fair bit of respect for Mr Dyson so I'm going to take what hes saying in good faith, but as someone who spent his late teens / early twenties desperately trying to get some sort of engineering apprenticeship, and has since given up and taken an MEng with the OU I can tell you all that your average "there's no engineers" complaint is coming from someone who is doing absolutely fuck all to rectify the problem.

A typical argument will go thus:

"Bawww, there is no one with $skillset that we depend on for our business, someone fix this"

"Why don't you take on some apprentices then and train them to be exactly what you need?"

"Fuck that, kids are idiots, we don't want kids scruffying up or lovely factory floors"

or alternatively

"Bawww, we need $highlyspecializedgraduate but no one is training for that anymore!!!!"

"What are you paying, I may be interested in re-training?"

"£18K / year"

Fuck them basically, unless every one of your engineers has a pimple faced 17 year old permanently welded to his hip then you have absolutely no right to complain about a lake of people with the skills you need.

End of cycle.

That's all.

All the big budget AAA money will be getting sunk into next gen projects, the used market has become homogenised and most gamers will have 95% of whatever games they care to own from the last 5 years, along with a backlog of half a dozen they haven't even got round to playing yet.

A nice fat hardware refresh and some half decent early releases and the money will be flowing through the tills like water again.

in the spirit of LOHAN..

I think we need a new backronym for Ofcom, one that reflects their status as entirely beholden to the mobile industry. may I suggest:

office for commercial oligarchy management.

kinda sounds like

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_loop

Or at least a babby version of.

Thumbs up to musk, it's a shame you need to be a billionaire to get any sort of visionary engineering done nowadays.

G.I.N.G.E.R.

G.p.s. Inferred Navigation for Geo Egress Rockety

I used to think dyson was a prick...

He sold overpriced bright plastic tat, was far too patent happy and often succumbed to not-invented-here syndrome (basically the steve jobs of domestic appliances)

Then I brought one for my mother.

They are simply objectively better machines, the amount of thought put into the ergonomics of every little feature is palpable, they are bag-less and have washable filters, they clean better and pretty much anything you could conceivably break is user replaceable. The guy is trying to sell you not only a vac for life, but the best vac he can possibly build. You could use the thing every day for a year and still find some new ingenious little feature that makes you stop and marvel at how much effort has gone into the device.

I've tended towards thinking that the people who complain loudly that theirs exploded after 2 weeks when they tried to suck up a single mote of dust (of which there seem to be no shortage) are the engineering equivalent of people who stick there PC out on the kerb the first time windows fails to boot, having spent the last 6 months installing every dodgy browser toolbar and search assistant they could get their hands on.

As public sector contracts are in no way a hotbed of corruption....

"companies will not be considered for future public sector contracts when they come up for tender because of their poor performance on past and existing government deals."

So does that mean capita are barred for life?

Hold this whitespace nonsense

OFCOM still have to address the issue of powerline networking wiping out WHOLE FUCKING BANDS.

I wish they would stop sitting in the corner with their thumb up their collective arse giggle at the prospect of a fat spectrum auction paycheck and get around to doing the job they were created for, and that my taxes pay for them to do.

Exercise in pointlessness

So long as you need to be able to plug cables into these things then making them arbitrarily thin is just an exercise in extracting cash from wankers. The T.V. in the article is only "kinda 4mm thick" in that all the gubbins has been shoehorned into the decidedly ticker than 4mm base.

Call me back when you can stick them up with wallpaper paste.

Also, white as a 4th sub pixel, wouldn't yellow have been a better option?

They should offer free entry....

and get the kids to mail in a licensing fee every time they draw a picture of W&G.

In related news

UK extraditions to the US up 500%, cameron to sign new treaty where "not buying enough Disney DVD's despite having kids" and "knowing about computers and stuff" deemed reasonable grounds for expedited deportation to the states.

DIY filter kits...

Because average Jo office worker is going to have no trouble what so ever terminating coax.

"The crystals are only stable under cold conditions and actually melt at room temperature"

So it isn't ice-9 then?

My only disapointment

Is that we didn't manage to fund this within the first 24 hours.

Never has a bigger fuck you been articulated towards EA and Activision than tens-of-thousands of gamers proudly throwing their money at the promise of a game free from the interference of them and their ilk.

Guess what

I fucking told you so.

Pay cheap Chinese shit rates, get cheap Chinese shit.

Firstly they couldn't source a suitable xtal (probably one of the most commodity-ised components going) and now they've been caught out swapping what I'm sure they assumed were generic RJ45 sockets for the ones they were told to use. Next we'll find out they thought the vias were ventilation holes and didn't bother to plate them.

I think the training manual for "cutting edge" Chinese assembly lines can be summed up as "the hot stick melts the shiny stuff, now work faster!"

RS and Farnell?

So I'M guessing the $25 price point is a no-go then.

The marketing department definition of "Unlimited"

The one that means "limited, in-fact we publish a specific limit"

The only thing worse than broadband marketing is these mobile phone offers where you need a PHD to understand the pricing structure (and when you do, you inevitably find out your paying 60p / min for calls despite them tripling your credit and giving you 1000 free texts if you top up £7.45 when Jupiter is at perihelion) and lo-and-behold it's largely the same crowd that are offering you these "deals" as are trying to sell you "unlimited*" broadband

*Unlimited in terms of ACK packets send between 1:00 and 1:15 on wednesdays

Where

Is my fucking MKV support!!!!

For a console that integrates so nicely into a decent home cinema system this is a massive oversight (or rather apathy on sony's part) I was going to buy my parents a PS3 for xmas but got them a NAS media box instead for just this reason, so I can confirm that it's cost them at least 1 sale.

Will they actually be making any?

or have they just dropped $35M on patents because their existing portfolio has had some rather large holes poked in it recently.

There really needs to be some sort of limitations on damages to non-practicing entities.

So...

If it stick a pair of hobby servos in a football and cover it in silicone sealant do I get a research grant too?

I honestly think the rotating straw was a better idea, and that's saying a lot considering how hilariously bad it was. This is what happens when you let design students attempt something best left to (lonely) engineers.