Posts by Tom 35

Do not want chip on an SD

"but not using microSD – which is a shame as it is probably the additional case/antenna that put them off, rather than the cards themselves."

Or they bought a phone with an SD slot so they could use it for storage, not a Visa chip.

BS

"Providing American businesses with incentives to invest at home"

No it will provide MORE incentive to invest outside so you can get more tax free profit.

"Do you want to drink pee?" he asked bluntly.

I'll take a bit of pee over dead bird tea.

They need this

So they can compete with Flash ads on other systems...

I'm calling from Microsoft network support...

me- Why are you telling me about your dick?

them- What? Long silence followed by click.

So they took away the Analog TV

Setup new digital TV, then give mobile phones spectrum that will interfere with it.

Is there any one at the wheel?

Danger ahead

The term "hacking tools" needs to be well defined (it will not be I expect). You would not want to ban hammers or baseball bats just because they can and have been used as weapons. The same can be said of some computer tools, they can be used by both white and black hats.

Except

"Physical goods have the problem of portability and distributability"

If your talking about "content" there is an artificial problem created by the content companies. I can buy a book, CD or DVD from amazon Japan and they will ship it to me in Canada (and I have). But I can't buy an MP3 from Amazon US. I'm sure the icloud is the same, it would only sync stuff that's available from itunes Canada. I'd be SOL for most of the import CDs I own (if I had a newer idevice then my 2G ipod touch).

add tags of their friends in photos: something that'sndone more than 100 million times a day

And about 99 million of them are people tagging their "friends" names to "other" things like the back end of a horse for example.

Fooled the news

It was reported on the radio Tuesday morning, followed by a retraction a few hours later.

Do the world a favour and piss off

"governments are the only legitimate representatives"

Governments? I only remember voting for one, and even then they seem to be more interested in representing corporations then me. Are we to remove everything someone dose not like?

Ipod too

The zoom and pan is much better then before.

Silly Apple... Opera contains adult content... bla bla bla.

Marketing...

http://dilbert.com/fast/2011-05-10/

governments should lobby retailers to sell low-cost software...

How about the BSA members produce some low-cost software that is worth buying, how is this the "govenments" job?

Not my fault!

Up next...

The devil made me do it.

The dog ate my rule book, and I think the cat is up to something too.

Buying 3D

I expect 90% of the people who do buy a 3D TV will only be doing so because it came "free" with the model they wanted. 9% will be gamers. Almost no one is going to go out and buy a new TV just to have 3D TV.

Why?

"Also, if Microsoft's "exorbitant licensing fees" have a "highly detrimental anticompetitive effect" on the market, as Barnes & Noble asserts, why are HTC and Amazon – which, as reported in their filing, have licensing agreements with Microsoft – doing so well in their respective smartphone and e-reader markets?"

You already answered your own question.

"These types of disputes tend to be settled in corporate conference rooms, with chunks of change changing hands."

The first few get it cheap, then they use the list of people who paid as proof that their claim must be good so you better pay too.

So they need magic

"The US Government said that it was up to the private sector to develop technologies that make online identities secure and easy to use, safeguard transactions, and protect anonymity"

So they are in effect going to put out a saucer of milk, and check in the morning to see if the elves have put together a system for them.

What's with the home screen colours?

It looks like an old CGA monitor.

Acceptable!

"Adverts misleadingly imply that it is acceptable to copy music from discs and tapes on to the machine."

I would say that it is perfectly acceptable to just about everyone except record company execs.

It might break a stupid uninforcable law but that's a different story.

I remember when we had double DST

It was before outlook so I don't remember it being that big a deal but I expect it would break lots of stuff if they tried that now.

OLDS

They want news!

Earth quake? Na, they just had one someplace not long ago, and there have been lots of them anyway, boaring.

Tsunami? Didn't we just beat that one to death? Only 20k dead Zzzzzzz

Reactor melt down? This is only the third problem that people know about, and the last one was a big deal... lets big this up, it's real NEWS. It will sell lots of ads, it could be the best thing since the TEA PARTY!

3rd party

It's one thing to look at the stuff you posted on FB and use if for stuff you don't want.

The real problem is that they take the stuff from your store points card, online tracking cookies, and data from all kinds of other sources and cross reference it.

Data that you provided to allow someone to provide a service is being used for something else without your ok. Your data is treated as a product that is owned by someone else.

charge current?

Will you have to plug it into a 15amp 220 outlet to charge it? Will the power brick be bigger then the laptop?

Putting advertisers at risk

"The ABA has warned media buyers and advertisers to be aware of these issues and look for the ABA green tick"

So it's just an ad for their service. Zzzzzz

Green tick? So they are a bunch of blood sucking insects?

No, blame Sony

I remember spending hours making my own tapes from LPs and later CDs to play on my first walkman... A few tapes were full albums but most were my own mix and match.

I still buy a few CDs but they get ripped the second they get home, then sit on the shelf as a backup.