* Posts by g e

3255 publicly visible posts • joined 16 Jul 2007

Massive strike at Foxconn's iPhone 5 factory

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Holmes

Re: Shamsung got it right...

And they still work, however you hold them...

Great maps, too.

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Facepalm

Re: detail work at sub-millimeter accuracy

Maybe it's not the customers. Perhaps Apple are Engineering Them The Wrong Way (tm) (patent pending)

Experts troll 'biggest security mag in the world' with DICKish submission

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Joke

Not forgetting

Completely Uniform Network Topology

Terabit Wan Access Technology

Wide Area Network Knowledge Enterprise Resource System

Secure Haptic Interface Touchscreens

for a few ;o)

New study: 'Fraud behind two-thirds of pulled medical papers'

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Holmes

Re: Climate change

My thoughts exactly... the funding's hard to get cos the Warmists are so darn good at shilling for the pork so they can fund shilling for pork for a while longer.

US court lifts ban on Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1

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Re: Apple have already won

Really?

Surely the reason people would buy a Galaxy or other droid tab is exactly because they DONT want apple - in my case I'd just buy nothing if what I wanted were unavailable. If you're OCD enough to have to buy something regardless of whether it's what you want or not then actually, apple is the perfect place for you to be.

EU, US edge closer to mega-transatlantic patent system

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Holmes

The best?

Well. Least shit, anyway.

Tim Cook: 'So sorry for Apple's crap maps app - try Bing or Nokia'

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Facepalm

Re: Apple has peaked

Because, if the professional guessers, whose job it is to be far more right than wrong day-to-day, were wrong using their normally-pretty-accurate methodologies, well, that would mean your iThing no longer has the cachet that made you buy it.

Which is a bit like your house losing value after you bought it. Perhaps more like buying Levi jeans cos the advert was shiny and made you feel like you'd be dead cool wearing them only to find out the following week that everyone was now buying Diesel or Soviet. The perpetual peril of style over substance.

The cachet of your status symbol may decrease as well as increase...

US said to designate Assange 'enemy' of the state

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FAIL

The Middle Ages Called

They'd like their bullshit political philosophies back

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Holmes

Re: @John 104

Presumably by being anti US foreign policy... makes you a traitor and entitles your god-damned pinko-commie subversive shit-hole of a third-world nation to be nuked back into the stoneage. There's freedom in them thar nukuler bombs, yeehaw.

Or suchlike.

New Zealand Prime Minister apologizes for Dotcom spying

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Holmes

Quality riposte from KDC

Boot firmly in PM's jacksie. Like him or not you'd do the same given that opportunity on your plate :o)

American Dancing Bear ... conjures a perfect PT Barnum characature of the US Governance

Portugal’s prosecutor punts P2P case

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Go

"I think the prosecutors just found a way to adapt the law to their interest"

Boot, meet Other Foot

That's Karma for ya.

Japanese boffins unfurl banner above newly-discovered Element 113

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Nipponite

I thank you

(Or Nipponium if it has to be -ium on the end)

iPhone 5 'jailbroken' ... before most fanbois even have it

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Holmes

Maybe they can get Google Maps back on it now

That is all.

Apple begs ex-Google bods to fix crap maps app

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Facepalm

It's not stealing unless a physical item is involved

Tell it to the MAFIAA and chums, then.

LONDON iPHONE 5 MADNESS: 'You must be CRAZY to buy Apple'

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Holmes

El Reg gave the V5 phone 90%

Which seemed a bit odd to me as that's extremely high for anything and we already know it's really a bit of an iphone 4s+ spec-wise. Syndicated from a fansite review perhaps?

Snazzy new hardware with less functional software, Shakespeare's Birthplace has been eradicated among other places, apparently, in the new ios6 craps maps

Fans rap Apple's 'crap' Map app

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Facepalm

Just another

#HateFest #FootBullet from you-know-who

International Trade Commission heeds Moto, targets Apple

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Re: Hence

Only cos they can see they're plainly in the wrong even to the most patriotic of juries

Report: Microsoft to cop it from Brussels in Browser Choice affair

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Re: MS and not Apple......

Maybe on mobile stuff the app store is a way around that, and you don't have to buy an iThing, you could have Sammy, LG, SONY, etc ?

iPhone 5 sleuth work points to $199 component costs

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Facepalm

Multiply by 1.6

Simples.

Means that $170 for 48GB was wrong though, That's £170 = $272.

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Gimp

170 dollars for 48GB

Is that actually dearer than a PAYG mobile data tariff per GB?

Even slimmer PS3 out next week

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Re: Keen to use it as a media player

Bitstreaming? From the DLNA machine you mean? Might check MediaTomb's capability there, then.

Mind you I've just plonked OpenElec XBMC onto a Raspberry Pi so don't really use the PS3 for that any more ;o)

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Facepalm

Keen to use it as a media player

Well. Apart from that Cinavia thing which hobbles it for playing back your own DVD/BD rips, of course, via a DLNA server...

I was going to add more but my typing got muted after 20 mins had elaps.......

NASA working on faster-than-light drive capable of WARP TEN

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WTF?

And the gamma ray mega radiation kill thing?

When it decelerates? Or was that a different FTL mechanism that caused that?

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Re: Warp is not a linear scale

I thought Warp10 was transwarp or is that when you turn it up to 11 ?

Ballmer: Win8 'certainly surpasses' Win95 in importance

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Unhappy

Wow MS and Apple really are chummy these days

Watch out for monopolistic activities taking place near you soon

iPhone 5 has 'laser keyboard, holographic images'

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Joke

Re: Sadly though

They have their own theme tune, though...

Dumb, dumb-dumb dumb DUUMMMMMB

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Pint

Re: How many americans

Popcorn icon still needed!

Pint instead

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Holmes

He's right, it is the best Apple phone thing everrrrrr

Just not the best phone thing everrrrrr

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Re: Another surprise feature

You must work in marketing or something...

Twitter to UK.gov: Web super-snoop law will trample twits' rights

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Holmes

If they have non-UK servers though...

Then they're exempt from having to store data, surely (under UK law, at least).

The handlers of any data from UK until the point it exits the UK would be caught of course but that wouldn't be Twaddler's problem, presumably?

Stick your server in Eire or somewhere like everyone else.

Sony snoozes over substandard PS Plus service

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Fine in the UK

And even broken it'd still be better value than XBOX Live Gold which I discontinued.

Maybe they have a dicky server in a particular region or something.

Google defends drowning Acer's newborn Alibaba Linux mobe

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Meh

Perhaps

Alibaba were going to be saying something that implied it was Android when it was really only mostly Android and not running an official version which would be passing off as Android when it wasn't really?

Who knows, there doesn't really seem to be enough information to say, not that it'll stop some demographics having a go ;o)

Key evidence in Assange case dissolves

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Holmes

Re: Very strange

It probably wasn't the Swedes that faked it, the USA probably handed them the damned thing and said here's your proof to go with the victim we provided earlier.

Apple threatens to ruin peace worldwide with voice-controlled iMacs

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Facepalm

Errrr Dragon Dictate, Naturally Speaking, etc?

Like Geoff above, this was one of the first things that came to mind.

At least it'll be easy to invalidate, I guess, let apple waste the money ramming it through USPTO

Error found in climate modelling: Too many droughts predicted

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Joke

Cue the ranters

A prize for the first one to post that Lewis Page is a crazy denialist.

The prize? Your own sense of smug self-satisfaction.

You do know that Lewis personally pays all these scientists to 'discover' this stuff in his endless quest against Warmists, right?

Congress report warns: drones will track faces from the sky

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Holmes

From the sky...

Right, what's it going to do, shout 'Hey! Up here!" in Farsi to get targets to look up ?

People do look broadly the same with a scarf/balaclava wrapped round their head, too.

Pasty munchers scoff at £300m council deal with comms kingpins

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Unhappy

Re: Almost right

Mind you 1,000 less jobs in the public sector is also £35M less tax burden on the Council/State with public sector wages being a tax revenue burden rather than a tax revenue source.

Someone somewhere does know, though, that they're giving the bullet to a lot of people in an area that's not blessed with shitloads of technical jobs, all the same, while painting it as positive to people who don't know how this stuff works under the PR veneer :o/

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Joke

It's think it's very refreshing

To know that somewhere in the UK there's someone thinking as far ahead as sixty years in their budget. Most of the time you're lucky to get sixty seconds. Coincidentally does their IT planning bod have a name like 'Nostradamus' ?

*cough*

Cash-strapped Sharp puts HQ, factories in hock

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Facepalm

Not that I'm the type to say told-you-so

Which I totally am...

But perhaps my prediction from earlier in the year that apple's nose-spite-face hatred litigation with, competitors will bite it in the arse is on schedule.

So. Now. If this plays out as it looks like it could, will apple end up having to buy Sharp (or fund Hon Hai's acquisition) because they're too proud to go cap-in-hand back to Samsung who seem to be the only innovator company who can provide the technology, quality and quantity, assuming they're tooled (and maybe licensed if they didn't invent it) to make sensor-in-pixel panels.

#FootBullet

Hold the chips: Apple axes Samsung RAM order for iPhone 5

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Samsung must have enough memory patents

That a portion of that money spent elsewhere still comes back to them, anyway, through licensing

Climate denier bloggers sniff out new conspiracy

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FAIL

Climate science is 'accepted science' now?

If it were the discipline of chemistry it would still be trying to transmute lead into gold, it's got a long way to go to be 'accepted' in the same sense as modern day accepted sciences like physics-ology, chemistry-ology, etc. Climatology is still in its infancy.

As a 'science' a lot of its raison d'etre is to find the flaws within itself, not promulgate itself as the ultimate truth or find interpretations of results to support political agendas.

Google snags patent on price discrimination

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Thumb Up

Re: Use a bot?

Or the fact you arrived at the store from a pricebot should indicate you're not an easy sell and warrant a lower price automagically :o)

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Facepalm

Re: That is why we use a clean browser for purchases

Except you'll have logged into Google Wallet or whatever to pay thus accessing a bunch of historical data you don't have the ability to delete...

Apple eyes $$$ iDevice adapter bonanza

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Cheap

I'd have expected £15 at least based. Not that I need one.

'Natural health' website apparently hacked by sinister forces

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Re: Couple daft things about the "organic" label.

Sell it as 'Completely Natural' then - cook up your own thing.

'Completely Natural(tm) Fresh Strawberries'

We grow our strawberries using Organic methods with no pesticides...

Not saying you're organic, just natural and using similar methodology. When supermarkets call Salmon 'Loch Kiel Salmon' and there is no such Loch in existence, as 'Loch Kiel Salmon' is a brand name, not a geographic description of origin, I'm fairly sure you can use such grey marketing to be honest instead and get round paying the tithe while getting your message across

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Holmes

Actually organic stuff does have an advantage

If often tastes better than the vat-grown muto-crap that comes out of most supermarkets.

At least, if the fruit & herbs that come out of our garden is anything to go on...

Mind you if you're on a health-kick you probably don't care about what your food tastes like as you're busy avoiding stuff like butter, cream and bacon sarnies.

Apple urged to defy China's one child policy

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Childcatcher

Keep a generation gap

Try wearing a cap - The Specials AKA

Not forgetting that the chav generation cycle is about 14 years, too.

You'll be on a list 3 hrs after you start downloading from pirates - study

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Re: BitTorrent = Honeytrap

Unless you set uploads to 0 bytes/sec of course.

Apple hoards LTE patents to deflect Samsung attack

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Holmes

What it presumably shows

Is that apple know Samsung (in this case) have grounds to sue them and are expecting it. Presumably for not stumping up IP cash. Again.

'Nutjob' serves half-baked Raspberry PI scam

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FAIL

Hahahah. Dick.

Cos everyone can tell that someone with an IM name like 'Steve' is Jewish. What a cocksmoker.

If he'd maybe been called Isaac_Goldstein1845 then yeah...