Re: Being British
I'm british. Done both. I regret nothing...
Posts by Chris Procter
27 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Apr 2008
Apple's iPhone bonk to 'Pay' app launches on Monday
The TARDIS through the ages
Microsoft, Nokia, HTC fight Apple's 'App store' trademark
Use of Weapons declared best sci-fi film never made
Wednesday 11th May 2011 11:39 GMT 
Iain M Banks FTW, not my favorite though
Personally after reading 'Consider phlebas' and 'The Player of games' (which is brilliant!!) I was underwhelmed by 'Use of Weapons'.
I'd love to see 'Consider Phlebas' as a large scale Galactica style TV series though, as I don't think a film could squeeze it in.
I've not been able to make a dent in any of the other Culture books, I really struggle with them after the first three...
IPCC report: Renewables can never meet energy demand
Tuesday 10th May 2011 13:23 GMT
Micro generation
Do you mean in the same way that computers continued to stay the preserve of large organisations and well off types because they are far to expensive!
You are clearly right, technologies don't get better or cheaper. Ever, proven fact!!
Oh wait....
http://www.tuaw.com/2011/05/09/ipad-2-would-have-bested-1990s-era-supercomputers/
Tuesday 10th May 2011 13:20 GMT
Yes, I did.
It was more interesting than the article itself.
In summary it said it's possible, but politically hard.
How that got turned into "it's possible, but we either have to kill loads of people or keep them poor" seems to be based upon the a figure not actually contained in the release.
Lewis takes the actual figure reported, and says "this can't be accurate" finds another figure that is nearly double the IPCC and uses that to proclaim doom!
Then somehow, after I get chided for supposedly not reading the release, other commenters somehow read the release as admitting it can't achieve the actual thing the first line of the release said it could.
I would have been more impressed if Lewis had said made greater play on the fact that this was merely a release, with no varifiable data to check against - instead if going into full blown attack mode when he had nothing.
This shows the level of unproffessionalism that gets called into play when this subject gets covered.
Save the planet: Stop the Greens
Wednesday 27th April 2011 13:03 GMT
Idiot greens
My sister-in-law is a climatologist who worked with greenpeace for a year. However, she's great.
I know people travel, go to massive gigs all over the country when it suits them, however make me out to be a bad guy for travelling 60 miles at weekends to visit the parents.
Apparently this would be acceptable if they were terminally ill, otherwise is plain evil and I should be destroyed.
Elon Musk's rocket booked by Google X-Prize moon robot
Official: PhD in 'Essential Oils' or 'Natural Toiletries' = 'a Scientist'
Mid-Atlantic Ocean temperatures peaked in 1998
Plasma space-drive aces efficiency numbers: Set for ISS in 2014
New iPod crew: 'Phoney, futuristic, retro, doomed'
Steve Jobs unveils iPhone 4
Monday 7th June 2010 21:40 GMT
Nokia N95?? Don't make me laugh!
Whilst I agree this should have been the spec of the phone 3 years ago, the N95 was a dogs dinner of pooh! The most evangelical iphone converts I know are all ex N95 owners!
I've been waiting for the phone to have this spec since I came very close to owning a Motorola A1000 back in 2005. Only 3's rubbish garden wall internet and the pain of owning another Motorola handset put me off.
Even that had a video calling that "You can switch to the front camera". Poor show apple!
Google tries to quietly trample on Apple's toes
NASA eyes asteroid, Moon and Venus
Police snapper silliness reaches new heights
iPhone upgrades - a one-way control-freak street
Friday 27th November 2009 10:37 GMT 
Trust is the issue, but not the way you think
I used to have a winmob device a few years ago, and it let me do pretty much anything I want. I hated it. I found I had little interest in the intricacies of the device and got rid of it in favour of a normal phone, a samsung d900. Bear in mind that whilst u claim no expertise, I work in IT so therefore have more knowledge most people I know.
The big success of the iPhone is that it has opened up the smartphone Market to people who have no real technical knowledge. The kind of people who are frightened of technology. The kind of person who scratches their head when you tell them they need to update their firmware. Tell them they can choose to remove that update and their eyes gloss over and they lose all interest. "Just make it work"
I accept that this is a ballache if a duff version of the OS comes out and you are stuck with it until a fix comes out, but if Apple keep dishing out unusable versions, then they have no in to blame but themselves if their figures go tits up.
Paris, because she just works
Biting the hand that feeds IT
