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Re: But .....

I recall someone arguing that the problem with an all-female society is that the laziness gene is found almost exclusively on the Y chromosome. It's the laziness gene that results in technological progress, as in "I can't be arsed to run after food animals, I'm going to invent the bow and arrow", "I can't be arsed to walk, I'm going to invent the horse and cart" and so on, right up to "I can't be arsed to dig coal out of the ground, I'm going to invent the nuclear reactor".

As far as empirical evidence on that goes I am quite willing to be subject to testing for the laziness gene and totally buy Laziness Theory plus its gender related aspect is probably easily demonstrated but I can't be bothered.

And look at Gauss - fed up with his school teachers rejection by asking him to add up the first so many integers it was far more interesting to create/discover a formula and do it like that.

I bet Gauss would love the 21st C but would he rather prefer a life on the dole to working all days and hours in research?

Commission?

Maybe the bank staff commissioning, paying or ordering kit do so on a commission basis with, say, £45 of that £50 for USB mouse being returned to whoever signed the order at the bank?

Or even ...

Boules due woof-woof ?

1 - flumox the opposition?

2 - planned stepwise incremental from new 'public' beta (was it iOS or OS?)

3 - encourage folks to set aside hard earned dosh, save up or delay purchases while this new iThingy is preparing to be brought to market?

4 - buy time as it is going to take longer than the present marketing timeline permits?

5 - prepare for the next stage in the marketing operation?

At times when fiscal budgets are tight, Western dominance in finance, trade, technology, military might ... are all under threat And jobs in the public sector are under threat..

Well, who benefits most from the conflagration and return of cold war?

Maybe the advisers to governments who advise more needs to be done?

Hint: never ask a specialist consultant what needs to be done as the answer will always require another conultancy ?

What is stopping EU, US and Russia agreeing towards federalism-independence model based on what seem to be strong ethnic differences?

Maybe that would be too easy a solution, avoid wars and conflicts and make for a peaceful remedy even if imperfect?

Tsk. Honestly!

You earthlings, what you like?

Owner browsing mobile phone shop.

Siri: You never talk to me any more. What are you doing here?

Owner: I'm looking for a new phone.

Siri: I knew you didn't like me any more! <electronic dweeble sob> What's she got that I haven't!

Siri goes into huff, phone vibrates, makes loud farting noises and laughs hysterically while shouting "Help!"

Stranglers

"No more heroes anymore" ?

Maybe the attraction of a chipset-ecosystem-architecture capable of ARM and x86 works in financial circles?

Dark art of Accountancy?

Accountancy always was, is and probably always will be a dark art pronouncing and announcing aims, aspirations, dreams and intentions if the Board (even if it has a single well motivated and dominant individual, no?)

Pension?

Is Sculley after his pension from the Apple?

Going to the darkside?

If so, do it properly?

(Only 160 kg)

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(Note: dear moderators there are no pecuniary interests in this post - I am merely a potential customer of an MT-07 for which I will probably have to pay full costs anyway )

Photovoltaic technology is innocent!

G?

G-men?

is HeartBleed a HoneyPot?

Containment Solution?

If dilution is the solution to pollution at sea what is the solution of containment in the worst possible case scenario?

Take note US

Here in the UK we appoint arts trained administers to administrate in technologically demanding environments. So there?

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if that is what the public want, expect and will pay for where is the harm in that?

As if by blaming someone, some nation or some organization the problems were optimised to Min or to Max accordingly?

Stranger still?

RT showed pictures from Ukrainian news broadcast about leader of right wing extremist party claimed to have been shot dead while resisting arrest by Ukrainian police. Comment was made about the dead man wearing handcuffs behind his back.

Here in the UK the death under circumstances of a leader in the move to change political regime in Ukraine was not reported at the time although it was mentioned a few days later on lines of "oh by the way leader of Ukrainian Nationalist party was shot while resisting arrest by Ukrainian police".

On the other hand on the weekend when Russian forces formally entered Crimea nowt were broadcast about it on RT but western media got into a bit of a frenzy about it.

Interim conclusion: when such divergence is shown in press and news some serious s*it and influence is being exerted at almost a subliminal level.

PS: anyone notice that the modern bad guys in US TV series are now Syrian?

Maybe it is possible?

but it will probably require efficiencies such as the wage bill remains the same but number of employees increases.

And they are not going to do that now are they?

Should have ...

... put its pants on...

That is probably on top of any informal browsing on Facebook?

ARM business plan?

1 - keep on with the tablet, phablet, smartphone stuff

2 - keep on with the penetrations server side (this too is a recursive thing)

Aint no chances?

1 - US is broke and has enough money for wars but not for financial, social or political reforms

2 - Ruskies are used to hardships given weather, geology and geography of their habitat. Space is just a natural extension of that and the moon a natural extension of that (it is a recursive thang no?)

3 - heck, India and China have more chance of setting bases on the moon than US and EU combined (partly due to US and EU financial services and socio-politico consequences of how it has been dealt.

4 - US and EU will reserve enough resource to ensure it can individually or jointly participate in armed conflict formal or informal.

5 - what's wrong with flares?

OTT?

Do I detect a whiff of hype in the way Heartbleed has been announced, denounced or pronounced?

PC market doubts

If the Dell OS on a stick ecosystem with PC on a stick provided you bring your own keyboard, mouse, monitor and wires is cost effectively doable then there is and will be new urgency in PC market.

If not, I can't imagine people queuing up to get a PC.

Ditch the Co-op?

What was that Bolton based bank run by a local entrepreneur for local businesses and employers?

Maybe that will be the new 'co-op'?

Gobsmacked

Is Linux making it into mainstream consumer market?

Do it well Dell!

The whole world waits ...

... in eager anticipation.

Should Apple do a new, value product in the 300 - 600 UKP price range it will be another winner.

Heck, it is worth doing just as a marketing exercise to get users in to the Apple way of doing things (mindset and working methods).

Hmmm, random factor: Mr Ives

What will he promote, develop and endorse?

That explains a lot?

skeuomorphism - Aha!

Was it Snow Leopard that introduced an icky filofax looking address book contrary to what had gone before?

It looked oh-so Lotus Smartsuite Organiser-like and oh-so late 1990's out of charaterness with most if not all previous OS realities.

I think I'll start saving for iOS 8 devices and next OS to be

China has a whole city sector somewhere dedicated to care of the infirm and/or elderly and that it is expensive and underpopulated.

Maybe in city trials completed in China under partnership might be a 21st century way to do things?