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So the Samsung being from the same 'family' is really the 'bastard' child of the iPad.
That is a put down if ever there was one, I thought we had moved on from this.
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Love to borrow a friends phone and send a few donations, oooh it will be a plague for life.
Imagine, borrow a phone, send donations to the Lib/Dems here in the UK, unauthorised of course, when the phonen owner complains and asks for his/her money back,
"no you can't have it back, we took the payment in good faith so.... Stuff you!"
Gmail, owned by Google and by definition so is your account.
Google decide on a whim, no more account, you lose and lose everything on there.
Thunderbird, it's all on your computer, it's all yours and so long as you back up it will always be yours.
After some of the fiascos with the cloud and hosting on someone else's servers, I'd rather have control over my own data.
Except for Apples retina displays on their devices what has anyone produced that is actually new.
Computers maybe getting lighter and faster but program's have not needed to catch up to it.
Why bother changing unless you computer has died or you can buy one and off set it against tax every three years. I have a Dell 1645 XPS which is just coming up to three years old and is as good as new!
Is this a surprise? There maybe many many bankers on the verge of being held at HM's pleasure.
Damn I forgot, the Governments all endorsed it, until it went wrong.
Now in the UK be have a Parlimentary investigation into the banks led by chancers, spivs and expenses cheats. Will we really get an honest answer?
Is this surface something tangible or is it a virtual surface.
This may come back to haunt him, such a late arrival to the surface that they may find it hard to make inroads to an already established genre. It will have to be very very special and have an impact like the first tablet had.
This of course is doubtful.
This was no mistake, this was too big to be a mistake.
This was a 'lets wait and see' strategy, see how the plebs take it.
There's a lot of this going on, remember Google and their data collection service, or Apples harvester do data.
Invariably if or when they are caught out they cry ' it must be a bug '
There's no excuses for this.
A five minute advert for a three minute brows.
We will end up with the same thingntheynhave in the US on television, you will wonder when the adverts start and the program finishes.
Also like most adverts on the web we eventually become blind to them and subconsciously ignore them. I can't see this as a long term business proposition.
Personally I'd pay to be advert free.
Sadly it looks like the legal system over there will make the crime fit the punishment rather than the punishment fit the crime.
I just think that when they need to change the law to make an example of someone it smacks of the kind of regimes that we already hate, Iran, China, Burma, Ethiopia, North Korea, Bahrain etc.
Retrospective punishment is just as bad. The law is there so use it but don't abuse it to fit.
The use of Blackberrys In other Forces failed to make any impact and failed to make the beat bobby more efficient in his work. It became a vanity project that failed in the execution.
Now another force, not having learnt the lesson wants to spend extra on tablets, the outcome will of course be the same. It actually reduced efficiency before and it will again.
Chief Constables always think that technology is the be all and end all, yet I'd rather have a policeman who turns up. Now he will be weighed down by a flaming tablet. That will certainly slow him down in sprint to catch a fleet of foot offender. Another half kilo hanging from his belt.
I can only conclude that watching a film on a Blackberry, while sitting in a lay by waiting for a speeder caused complaints about the quality of the screen. Now of course they are demanding retina screens for better viewing. In the older days they used to catch criminals pretty regularly and even turned up to crime scenes. Now they tend to take their time, turn up days later or ask that you come in to report the crime.
Now I know the reason why, they are all playing on their mobile phones or new tablets and the fact that what they have to carry is so heavy they only swan around in cars.
The more features and the bigger a tv is the less it is used as a tv. If I bought a monster all singing and dancing tv, I'd never get the opportunity to watch it. Hence my basic flat screen 32" Sony keeps the wailing masses away and allows me to watch Great Railway Journeys in peace and without disturbance.