Posts by Cheesenough

It's not very shiny - is it?

I would have expected a new geegaw from Apple to exude the cool, sleek, shiny design ethos - but that looks like its covered in the sort of netting laundry tablet bags are made of.

What if Huawei builds an American factory?

Is there anything to stop Huawei building a US warehouse and employing a few dozen 'muricans to screw the boxes together. GE Appliances for instance are owned by a Chinese parent company and churn out fridges "Produced in USA" (i.e. screwed together from components sourced from Mexico and China) http://www.goedekers.com/blog/ge-appliances-made/

OK, fridges are less sensitive to arguments about the security of national infrastructure, but I'm not sure that politicians think that far ahead when the promise of a new factory and jobs for Americans in their state are on the line.

Not great value

$299 for a bundle which includes the phone and a portable charger brick - probably to make up for the rather limited 2610 mAh the phone has is all a bit meh. Especially when you consider that an LG G4, a Huawei Honor 7 and Moto X Play are all options at that price.

Admittedly none has Blackberry's secret sauce in them, but the added security that BB bestows on this device is pretty much unproven.

Now this makes sense

https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=8228EA9C20F71DDA&id=8228EA9C20F71DDA%21831879&parId=8228EA9C20F71DDA%21107&o=OneUp

Will the Czechs change their name to Czechians?

Australia -> Australian

Austria -> Austrian

Liberia-> Liberian

Bolivia -> Bolivian

Czechia -> Czech?

Windows Mobile surprising...nah! Symbian is surprising.

There's some 5% of Symbian devs out there, that will be doing more Symbian development?

Jonny Bong

Is Jonny at all related to Shoreditch Steve Bong?

Altruistic Lawyer

Lawyer reported as saying,

"First and foremost, we have to find out how this happened and prevent it from happening ever again," he said. "That's the whole goal here. Is the product safe?"

Yes, and the best way of achieving that goal is for Apple to award my client thousands of dollars in compensation so that he can pay for the legal advice.

Ten pound note of pressure

Is this the birth of a new unit of pressure?

... "the same amount of pressure as a ten pound note exerts on a table surface"

so £1million is equivalent to 1 bar

Why no picture of the real thing?

The picture is obviously of a mock up of the rover - the wheels appear to be attached to a shape cut out of a sheet of black plastic and the communications dish looks a little shonky. I would have thought that if they're planning to launch this next month, they would be well along with the construction of the real thing by now.

Is this whole project really just a publicity stunt for boosting Chinese national pride?

My dream is to see human beings and robots live together as friends...

...and as such I can't let my friends leave the ISS for their own good.

Miserable Git

I hope he has to drive 30 miles to the next town to buy his milk.

Is there a way out of the store?

There is no mention of how you exit the store - does the entrance serve as an exit as well or are the thousands of Apple fanbois trapped in the hole living off iPad packaging?