If it's as good as their watch it will be crap.
Posts by LarsG
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Samsung files patent for ear-mounted Google Glass competitor
Ex-Tony Blair adviser is new top boss at UK spy-hive GCHQ
Old Boys Network
If I remember correctly Kim Philby got his job on the say so of one of the top security Knobs because 'he knew his people'.
It just goes to show how ingrained this kind of thing is and how so many of the top jobs go to those in 'favour' 'friends' 'advisors' etc
They try and tell you this kind of thing doesn't happen but increasingly in the upper echelons this is being promoted. Jobs for the Boys, old school tie, friend of the family, mates....
To top it all they are trying to select Tony Blairs son to stand for a Labour safe seat in the next election.
Nepotism at its worst especially when you consider Kinnocks son has also got into the act.
They are all at it, establishment established practices.
Report: Apple seeking to raise iPhone 6 price by a HUNDRED BUCKS
A black box for your SUITCASE: Now your lost luggage can phone home – quite literally
Having been a victim
Having been a victim of lost luggage on a short break to Greece, my luggage holidayed somewhere in Spain for 5 days before being returned to me the day before my break ended, it would have made no difference to me knowing where my bag was. I still didn't have the bag.
On the plus side there was the compensation...... Paid for the holiday and a few new items of clothes.
Top Secret US payload launched into space successfully
Facebook: US feds probed over 18,700 accounts in six months
Sony battery recall as VAIO goes out with a bang, not a whimper
Reprieve for Weev: Court disowns AT&T hacker's conviction
Russian deputy PM: 'We are coming to the Moon FOREVER'
Forget the beach 'n' boardwalk, check out the Santa Cruz STEVE JOBS FOUNTAIN
Happy 40th Playmobil: Reg looks back at small, rude world of our favourite tiny toys
France bans managers from contacting workers outside business hours
Anyone remember that loss making French Tyre factory that had to close down due to lack of productivity.
Some American was asked to put it right and get the business into profitability.
The French Unions vetoed every idea he put forward.
Slightly longer working week? Non.
Cut back on breaks? Non.
Up productivity? Non.
Weekend working? Non.
Increase in shift hours? Non.
The average worker in the factory attended 5 days a week, 7 hours per day.
During each 7 hour working day he had 2x coffee breaks of 30 mins and a 2 hour lunch break.
Total productive time was less than 4 hours per day because another 20 minutes was wasted getting back from the breaks.
So the average 'working day' at the coal face so to speak was 3 hours 40 minutes or the equivalent to 18 hours and 20 minutes.
India second only to US in Google user data requests
Smartwatch sales off to a very slow start
One year on: diplomatic fail as Chinese APT gangs get back to work
Drone 'hacked' to take out triathlete
Why ever leave home? Amazon wants to turn your kitchen into a shop
Re: And people complain about the ... @JiatcH
I wouldn't worry about Amazon in the same light as the NSA or GCHQ.
When they send me 'recommendations' or what interests me they never get it right, most of the time they recommend what I have already purchased and at other time they come up with the most bizarre suggestions.
Amazon intel is severely lacking.
Too late, Blighty! Samsung boffins claim breakthrough graphene manufacturing success
Nokia: ALL our Windows Phone 8 Lumias will get a cool 8.1 boost
ICANN boss: 'Russia and China will NOT take over interwebs'
Putin and pals dump Apple's iPads for Samsung slabs... over security concerns
ISPs CAN be ordered to police pirates by blocking sites, says ECJ
Re: Next up..... Increase in big business profit
Increase in big business profit, increase in big business tax avoidance, decrease in the amount of tax big business pays.
I'd have no problem with this if Microsoft, Google, Apple and their ilk actually paid a fair amount of tax. They don't so why should I subsidise them?
AT&T and Netflix get into very public spat over net neutrality
Re: "Someone must pay a cost".
We all do, not only the fact that we pay for the service, but we have to put up with terms and conditions that we have no control or say over, we also have to put up with price rises without real consent (it's in the one sided terms and conditions) and to top it all, we never get the speeds or service we are promised.
It wouldn't be so bad, the fact that we pay, we don't mind paying, as customers that's what we are happy to do, but the least the ISPs could do is come good on the promises of speed and when we pay for unlimited it should be a proper definition of unlimited without any caveats.
Kim Dotcom extradition: Feds can keep evidence against Megaupload mastermind a surprise
Pressure
I think it looks as if some back handed deals are going on.... Also I always thought that the accused is allowed to see all the evidence against him or how else can he defend himself?
Isn't it funny that the US is screaming out against Putin and the Crimea when they can't even get their own house in order when it comes down to justice.
India's outsourcers look east with eyes on Asian tigers
Every little helps: Dirty MOLE BANDITS clean out Tesco ATM from BELOW
ROBO-SNOWDEN: Iraq, the internet – two places the US govt invaded that weren't a threat
Crap flap-app flap chap yaps: Yes, FLAPPY BIRD is comin' back
Say CHEESE: Samsung files patent for transparent camera
Monkey steals iPod touch, loses interest in minutes
Bing accused of out-censoring the Great Firewall
Star Wars movie to start shooting in UK this summer
WOW! Google invents the DIGITAL WATCH: What a time to be alive
The limiting factor of all these kind of watches is how long they last between charges. Unless they develop a battery technology that will make it last at least six months between charges I'll stick with my auto winder.
I'd just get annoyed having to charge it every day or every other day, weekly or even monthly.
Still the round one looks a little more stylish though.
8GB iPhone 5c is real, but no market-maker
French novel falls foul of Apple's breast inspectors
YOINK! Toyota reveals – then DENIES – Apple CarPlay by 2015
FANBOIS' EYES ONLY: United Airlines offers FREE MOVIES on iOS kit
Mozilla takes Windows 8-friendly Firefox out back ... two shots heard
iOS 8 screencaps leak: Text editor, dictaphone and 'tips' on the way
Report: Apple flushes 12.9-inch MaxiPad plan down the drain
Yes: You CAN use your phone as a satnav while driving – appeals court
Re: A test case perhaps?
Maybe the law should say 'using a device while being held in your hand'.
Firstly it would encompass a fair amount of deviant behaviour and secondly it would be less than distracting to remove it from your trousers, or pockets.
Why would you drive somewhere using a satnav, leaving the said device in you pocket?
Pakistan's YouTube ban may end after Google removes anti-Muslim vid
Japanese boffins build 'earring PC' for hands-free computing
Jobless mum claims Spanish councillor told her to 'go on the game'
Microsoft may slash price of Windows 8.1 on cheap 'slabs
Re: They might reduce the cost of the OS
They have to differentiate between a low cost and a high cost device, the only way they can do this is screen size and quality. While low cost hardware such as drives, processors, memory do pretty much everything you want, the difference between a poor screen and a good screen is not the cost the manufacturer buys it for but the mark up they can make from it.
Muslim clerics issue fatwa banning the devout from Mars One 'suicide' mission
I thought the Dark Ages and the Inquisition ended years ago.
Still it's not a surprise is it when it comes from people who believe women are worth less than men, where honour murders prevail and where education for women is frowned upon.
Thank goodness not all Muslims are the same and that many are more enlightened than this, but it will take a million years to change the mindset of the most hardened.
French youth faces court for illegal drone flight
How many mobile apps collect data on users? Oh ... nearly all of them
Re: Wrong expectations
Not about enforcement.
It's all about everyone involved in apps, from the developers through to the store that sells them working together to gradually erode our perception of privacy.
Little by little they push the boundaries of what is right and proper, hoping that the public either won't notice or will 'get used' to the little tweaks they make. Facebook is a prime example. There is a big difference in perspective of a radical overhaul where a company states 'we will harvest and then we will sell all of the data we hold on you' to inch by inch movements over a period of years like the erosion on a granite rock.
It is in all their interests not to make a fuss because it is all to their benefit. Don't look the gift horse in the mouth is the motto.
They give the perception of enforcement, but they don't actually enforce as it is not in their interest to do so.