what's so great?

we used to do team meetings (rest of team is mostly in US) via skype and a google-docs presentation.

Now we have OCS, and sharepoint for the agenda. And it falls over all the time. And the "shared" document has to be checked out and back in.

Sucks.

Maybe it's the administrator who didn't set it up well but hey, google/skype always worked.

But at least OCS costs money so it must be good.

wrong metric

"number of partners" is a bad metric. I (have a company WinMobile device, that should score negative in sexiness) have only a small number of partners on the scale of the plots (2 in fact).

But i get laid lots. Why waste time flashing your sexy smartphone around in the search of new partners? Why waste time playing with a smartphone's touchscreen where you could be playing with your partner's touch-sensitive areas?

not an example of best practise

HP and IBM probably quoted twice the price because they didn't want their reputation tarnished by an airline that shuts down its website for hours of "planned maintenance" while operating a stiff price penalty for not checking in on-line.

off to dixons, gullible

All the early adopters have to dump their 1-year old super-duper HDTV sets and get a 3D one.

Glad we don't have a telly at all.

Ok, mine's the one with a pile of reminder letters from TV-Licensing in the pocket.

Pod

is Jobs going to allow me selling organic peas (in pods!) from my garden on iTunes? no? Ahh, they don't do groceries (yet). But Surely that's a whole new can of Apple-store-police-worms waiting to be opened. Oh, and we grow apples as well, shock horror.

cheaper than recall

is a free roll of duct tape for every customer!

commended

thanks to the reviewer for doing actual sceen shots. They give a good impression of the capabilities (or lack thereof) of the screen. Could do that as a rule for revieewing handhelds, please? Same with printers, btw, post some close-ups of the output.

paper Aeroplane

"We don’t know where in the world the plane will land, but it would be nice to send a message to whoever finds it."

hope it doesn't fly all the way to Singapore, or you might earn yourself a hefty littering charge.

pV=nRT

for those who remember the above equation: are you sure that you can take temperature into account properly? Can be really low up there or rather high if you get a bit of sunlight.

Anyway, what'as wrong with a membrane-type manometer? Engineers have optimised devices for the application 200 years ago. A sliding design is obviously plagued by stiction(*) problems and so, said engineering forefathers used a rotating design. You amateur approach to this buys you no geek points.

I'm really interested in the actual craft! When are we being treated to drafts of the paper Aeroplane, please?

P.S. Yes I'm taking this way to seriously: but we all want to see this thing work.

P.P.S Paris icon because <insert pressure-related sexual double-entendre here>

(*) that word rolls off the tounge quite easily if you've heard it before

ENF database a secret?

if someone had the data they could tamper with a tampered audio clip to match a specific point in time!

Also, I could modify a recorder and wobble the quartz a bit with a 50Hz signal not derived from the mains, and add "plausible deniability".

Stephen Fry..

A) Stephen Fry endorses the FSF

B) Stephen Fry endorses an Apple product

No wonder he's bipolar.

Sorry Steve (as in Fry not Jobs) but I know you appreciate a joke.

philosophical question

will the youtube kitten video still be rubbish when nobody watches it because the display is rolled up in someone's pocket?

chip design by apple

includes polka-dots. how charming!

Who'd have thunk it, cutesy looks is not what we expect from the typically uber-cool cupertino industruial design.

But then they've hidden them away pretty well under those ram chips, maybe with a guilty look on their faces.

diamonds

this would appeal to its target audience even more if they were certified conflict diamonds from the Congo with actual blood sticking to them.

Why doesn't someone build a touchscreen device with a sapphire screen: my watch is still beautifully scratch-free (well apart from the steel case) after years of abuse, and a phone that you could treat similarly with impunity would go down a treat. Maybe it'd be much more expensive because you'd have to _develop_ someting rather than just embellish an existing product by dipping it in glue and then rolling it in a plateful of diamonds, like for a fish fillet with egg and breadcrumbs.

facebook saves lives

it's official. I hope this sort of thing becomes more common. But alas - information tech works for the hawks more often than for doves.

Peace, sisters and brothers.

he's getting on a bit

he simply can't take it any more like he used to. Happens to lots of people... most of us just quit smoking dope or cut the dose.

beer icon because... same happened with booze too, in my experience. Makes getting pissed cheap!

1/2.3-inch

Why this new interest in fractions with decimal fractions in the denominator? What's wrong with saying 11mm?

poisoned

no they had to hire and train more staff at the manufacturing plant.

The old lot snuffed it after someone spilled a bucket of cleaning fluid.

Skull & Swords Icon because there is no Skull & Crossbones one

convince the inland revenue first

smoking is not a good thing to do for anyone we know and love to do, or anyone (so we learn from TFA) to do in our vicinity.

But everyone else: yeah, bring it on. The IRS is the real "grim reaper" with the 'baccy: they bring in £10 billion p.a, and the NHS pays out only £5 bn for smoke-related illnesses. So everyone's a winner other than those cigarette-suckers! That's the cynical reason why smoking isn't banned.

OK, I'll get my coat, mine's the one with the pack of L&B, thanks.

lost the plot

the reason why many people don't mind google's ads too much is that they are

a) not too intrusive

b) frequently RELEVANT.

Yes i may not want a pizza right at the minute my brand XXXX smartphone tells me there's an ace pizzeria nearby, but i'm more likely to want that than an ad for a pizzeria 25 miles away.

Get a grip, greedmongers.

fair use?

Is a musical quote plaguarism? So they did quote, so maybe they should pay up in a world where copyright is perversely long (death plus 70 anyone?) but no way is "40% - 60%" justified by using the one phrase in the flute solo.

Seems copyright "growth" outstrips the passage of time these days, so things will never go out of copyright. Just like i can expect the pension age to grow faster than my actual age from now on, so that I may never reach pension age.

Nice song BTW.

better solution

For us geeks would be if the little "signal" logo on the mobile screen would change from $ to $$ to $$$$$$$$$$$$ as the cell gets more congested and the data packets get more expensive.

This would allow me to pay top dollar regardless of price if i really need it (or to pissed to notice), or opt to not surf it it gets costly when it's not so important.

You can have my idea for free, vodafone. Just send me a 1000$ pre-paid SIM sometime in return for the favour, thanks. Ah yes, and throw in a nice Android handset please.

quick, quick

better go download my copy now.

Then wait a while, ear to the ground, if i hear about any actual trojans, and get hold of actual W7 installation media. Then, finally, replace the rarely-used and malware-infested WinXP partition that i have around just to run Sibelius. Suck on that Steve Ballmer.

want one for granny

in law's old 900MHz Athlon is about to give up the ghost... but this one has the "windows tax" slapped on. I need one with Xubuntu, old people don't like to see unfamiliar software suddenly

pity the hard-working reg testers

> As the days passed and familiarity grew

I bet it was hard work watching the telly for 3 days solid to generate the data for this report.

I gather you used the manufacturer's photos or took yours at the beginning not after putting cig-marks in the touchpad by mistaking it for the ashtray.