* Posts by Justin

18 publicly visible posts • joined 29 Jul 2007

Sergey Brin descends from Mount Sinai with Android API

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@OffBeatMammal

An Open Source IDE perhaps? Rather than the bloaty, expensive Visual Studio

HBOS could shift 2,000 IT jobs to India

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@Joe K

They are probably part of the same executive team that have virtually sunk the bank with a poorly executed business plan no surprise they're continuing in that vein.

SkypeOut goes mobile, Skype goes beta

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Its not GSM

Three uses a 3G hence the name - the calls hope over the CDMA portion of the network. Three doesn't really have GSM unless you roam...

Acorn alumni to toast tech pioneer's 30th anniversary

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Dates seem a bit out...

You've listed supply problems for Christmas 2003, I guess its true as the Electron has been out of production for a very long time - I think you meant 1983.

I had an Electron as my first computer in 1985 - I fully agree the Acorn thing created a very high number of IT professionals. I have been in industry since I was 18 and am only 32 now. Very grateful to Acorn and my parents for the Electron - even if I only I did a small amount of BASIC programming on it.

I also remember using them at my school computer club when I was just 8 years old, those were the days, CTRL-BREAK to boot if I remember correctly.

Vendor touts PC's Mac OS X compatibility

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ha ha

Steve Jobs is going to know how IBM felt in the early 80s when PC Clones began emulating the BIOS and started running DOS etc. I am sure plenty of people remember PCs being marketed as 'IBM PC Compatible' compatibility is now just accepted. Wonder when we'll see 'Apple Compatibile'?

I am sure Jobs and Co will question the logic of moving to x86...

Vodafone presents punter with £500k phone bill

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@Rob

T-Mobile and Vodafone use the same billing vendor! There may be something in it :P Posting anon as used to work for said billing vendor, and yes they are hopeless.

DreamWorks switches to Intel for stereoscopic 3-D high

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RE: So now...

Fully agreed David, the storyline is far more important than the animation and technology. They would have better off employing better script writers. Can't think of one Dreamworks film that has truly bested any of the Pixar offerings.

Vodafone prevails in £2bn UK tax spat

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@Steven

Most of our rights were given up by the last government under the Maastricht treaty which makes the Lisbon treaty look rather wet. That was pretty much the words of Ken Clark, as Matt says most ill informed Daily Bigot readers wouldn't know that.

'HD TV gas' 17,000 times worse for planet than CO2, claims boffin

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Is the backlight part of the problem?

I assume that the backlight being fluorescent is part of the cause of the high power consumption especially at larger screen sizes, I guess when scaling up LED based backlights becomes practical power consumption will go down and heat output too.

Land Warrior wearable war-smartphone survives Iraq baptism

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@Frank

Never let common sense prevail where there is a lucrative government contract involved!

Temp workers to get equal rights after 12 weeks

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@at last

Couldn't agree more, companies taking on poor souls at near minimum wage for what is essentially full time work over long periods with the ability to give someone the boot has gone on far too long. Dozens of factories of companies big and small have done this.

Hacker posts personal details of 6m Chileans

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What an a**e

Yes, good to prove the point that the system is insecure, but was it really necessary to put 6 million records out in the public domain? Couldn't the individual have put the details of a handful of ministers and public servants who were responsible out there instead? It would have made the point without potentially subjecting 6 million people to id fraud and myriad of the other crime.

Sky plays the victim over Ofcom pay TV rights probe

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End Exclusivity

Those who've said end exclusive rights, all I can say is here, here. That is the only way to make the market truly competitive and drive up the quality of the presentation. Sky's Pundits really aren't that much better than Setanta's, Jamie Redknapp, FFS, get a suit that actually fits you. The most important to me is the commentary, I use the pre, half and post match times to refill my beer.

I have watched the ESPN presentation in asia, it suffices, after all its the football you're interested in not the endless drivel and speculation around it.

Price cut fails to push Xbox 360 past PS3 in UK

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@Mark

Fully agree, everyone I know who has a Wii only wheels out when friends are round. Playing ordinary games sucks on it. I have a family member and 3 friends who have them. Its lots of fun playing some kind of multi-player game, however normal games just suck on it, controls are too awkward. Most of them, with one exception either sold their Wii's or bought a 360 to play normal games. Also a lot of people who own Wii's aren't the typical game playing crowd which might go someway toward explaining its popularity.

I have a 360, would have bought a PS3 if it hadn't been delayed so long, unlikely to buy one now as have invested too much in the 360.

Apple sued over iPhone caller ID

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@Dave

Dave, you're correct when discussing patents in the rest of the world, however in the US you can patent a method, e.g. a way of doing things. Though this does allow you to patent software, which in some cases is fair if you've come up with something bloody clever than ought to be able to patent it, this is more difficult in Europe (I know this through a friends experience of trying to patent clever piece of software he's written).

This is partly why the US Patent System is open to so much abuse, you don't have to prove your idea, just simply describe it, it is daft. What is in this patent is essentially a method for identifying a caller using a contact database on the phone.

However it probably is a frivolous patent as I expect you could argue that CTI type systems may have already had a similar feature in call centres, I am not going to bother to find out that's Apple's Job :P

SanDisk prices up 32GB SDHC memory card

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Doesn't explain over inflated SSD HD prices

If these things RRP at around £180, why are 64GB SSD HDU selling for £600 -£800 i.e. 3-4 times the price. I realize there are differences in the technologies however are they 3-4 times more expensive to produce?

PH angle, because she's also a bit overpriced and overrated.

100Mbit/s sewer broadband rollout coming your way

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Customer Service Calls

'My shitty pipe isn't working'

/Coat

BBC iPlayer launches, but with limited viewer reach

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Future XBOX 360 tie in?

Microsoft must be rubbing their hands with glee, in theory the XBOX 360 system (as long as it doesn't cook itself before hand) will be able to talk to this stuff. DRM is utterly daft,when you have FTA, hard disk recorders and torrents.

For those that are concerned about not being able to download when working away, use the corporate VPN to connect back to your UK office. The VPN will likely proxy your connection and you *should* appear to be in the UK to their flimsy IP address checking system. It works for me when I want to browse iTunes as a US user.