* Posts by David Simpson 1

319 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009

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Opera feted for playing chicken with Steve Jobs

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And the award goes to ... the person with connections in the EU.

I'm sure the EU making noise about investigating the iPhone had nothing to do with it, Jobs even backed down on some of his more extreme plans for developers and what tools they could use.

Opera may have faced them down but it was the shadow of a large EU fine that really had them running scared.

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Chinese whispers

Crap rendering ? you know it's compressed don't you ? Oh no how could you, you don't own an iPhone but some of your "friends" do. thanks for the 3rd hand "knowledge"

Clive Sinclair unveils 'X-1' battery pedalo bubble-bike

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FAIL!

Exactly the same problem as the C5, not something I would want to be in on a rainy day in heavy traffic, it's just missing a little red flag for the back.

Sony soars, sinks, soars on Apple buyout rumor

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Jobs Horns

buy bye

Cut out the middle man and buy Foxconn.

Google releases stable version of Chrome 7

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Paranoid Fail

Paranoid much ? If you did a little research (or had a little knowledge) you would know Chrome updates to a new stable release every 6 weeks, with any new product Google releases they slow the releases once they catch up with the competition.

Why would Safari contain Google code ? Both based on WebKit but not on each other.

Fail indeed sir.

Android rebellion: How to tame your stupid smartphone

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Facts or wild speculation ?

So any chance of listing:

*Which phones suffer from the problems

*What firmware version they are running

*How many actual people are having these problems

That would maybe be a few too many facts for this author, such as the fact that Android has supported bluetooth keyboards since the Dell Streak launched. D'oh!

Apple buys out $1bn data center squatters

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Jobs Horns

Look up how many

One data center does not a Google make.

Steve Jobs carried 'ninja throwing stars' in hand luggage

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Ninja for Dummies

"If the enemy can find and confiscate your throwing stars then you blew it "

- Ninja for Dummies

Your genes determine whether you will respond to surveys

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Alien

WONSTO

I for one would like to welcome our new survey taking overlords.

Microsoft ID guru slams 'duplicitous' Apple

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iTards

It's obviously because like most iTards he has no idea what a MAC address actually is.

Vodafone issues real Froyo update for HTC Desire

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optimistic

Next month ? They said Q4 and that is for unbranded phones..

First SMS Trojan for Android is in the wild

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Nice link

Shame it has not launched yet !

Channel 4 4OD to hit PS3

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native

You can already access YouTube on the PS3 which has the full stock of 4OD, nice to have a native app though.

Ballmer's 'lost generation' note finds resonance

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Jobs Horns

It's all in the price.

Students who have to buy their own laptops buy PCs whereas students whose parents are buying buy Macs.

I'd be very surprised with the recent economic cuts most businesses have taken, if any employer outside of design or publishing buys their workers Macs.

Sophos downplays Android malware threat

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Super User

The short answer is it stands for Super User and can only be accomplished with a rooted Android phone.

His point is even on a rooted phone when a program tries to execute SU it has to ask for permission.

Futurologist defends 'malevolent dust' warning

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Oh Dear!

It's funny how nobody listens to the mentally ill people shouting this nonsense in the street, yet big corporations pay this idiot to day dream what we should all be scared of tomorrow.

His smart dust won't work because my future air con will have genetically enhanced beetles that eat dust then automatically wrap and post their crap back to this guy.

UK.gov pledges licence fee 'rethink' over heavy catch-up use

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Unhappy

For just £2 a month.

I think taking it from tax is a bad idea, this makes it much too close to the government.

Add a tax to broadband, I be happy to add, say £2 a month to my broadband package if it went straight to the BBC, the make the best TV generally and their web presence is great.

Turn off Eastenders and other big star driven nonsense (golden handcuffs etc.)

If you make programs to compete with commercial television then by proxy you are commercial without the income.

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confuddlement.

Your video has a tuner which receives a live TV stream and records it to tape.

It's the receiving of the live TV stream which you pay the fee for so videos classify and PCs don't, unless you watch the live stream from iPlayer etc.

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noooooooooooooo

I'm already sick of "ticking this box some how proves you're over 18" I really have no interest in putting in a PIN every time.

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Nope

It wouldn't since all the computers in the house use on internet connection and one IP.

Acer Aspire 1825PT 11.6in touchscreen notebook

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Flawed Graphs

Your performance graphs make no sense ! Give us the actual CPUs each of the notebooks use not just the speed, the yellow bar which is "1.6GHz" is obviously an Atom but I have no idea if the other CPUs are Core2, Celeron or Penium Dual Core !

Apple MacBook mid-2010

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More Expensive ?

"It’s expensive, but I don’t care: if you want cheap, go buy a tombstone."

Typical rabid iTard, Really let down by this review, for instance does the new thicker shell stop the cracking that has plagued my old white Macbook (I'm on the 3rd top case in 2 years)

Will Apple collect and return under their warranty yet ?

I got pretty cheesed off having to drive 16 miles outside of Edinburgh (nearest Apple store is Glasgow) to leave my Macbook in for repair then drive back a week later to collect. Even my old £300 HP (never again) was collected from my door and repaired within 3 working days.

These are all the sticky little questions most Apple fans can't answer in a review because they are selling you the same cult like lifestyle they enjoy.

It's expensive alright and since I can buy an Asus laptop with Core i3, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD and a 2 year collect and return warranty @ £450 I would say this Macbook is DOUBLE the cost of a normal PC not just more expensive.

HTC Wildfire Android smartphone

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Flash that firmware.

That phone is older than the Hero (my phone) which is pretty old in the world of smartphones.

You could install a debranded ROM to activate all your features and remove all the Orange crap or go the whole hog with rooting and a custom ROM.

Check out XDA the great thing about HTC smartphones is just how much customization can be done.

iPad 'cannibalised' Q2 netbook sales

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Utter balls.

Funny how they link this to the iPad and not to the load of new thin, cheap and light ULV laptops around.

They have stolen sales from Netbooks because they use actual working CPUs like Celeron or Pentium dual core ULV, which even running at 1.2GHz are twice as fast as an Atom.

They start at around £350 too so make a much better buy than a Netbook or an iPad

iPhone customers lay into Apple after iOS 4.0.1 update fails to install

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Jobs Horns

Oh Apple what wonderful support.

Any more LOLs from this iPhone and I'm going to wet myself !

Digital ad portrayed Catholic Queen as 'flesh-eating zombie'

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IT Angle

ASA - shut it down

I love the people who reported it because it "might" scare children.

Most children spend their weekends shooting zombies in games and are generally not as easily scared as most parents.

Consumer Reports: 'We were wrong about the iPhone 4'

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Durex

In Australia they call sticky tape Durex !

Microsoft seeks patent on ebook page flip

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joke

Heres what you can do if you own a laptop/tablet/phone with a touchscreen.

Go to Issuu dot com and open a magazine to read and WOW you can turn pages !

A lot of online magazines like Monkey use Ceros which also lets you turn pages.

What a joke

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Ummm you need a look at the setting page......

You can change the settings in any PDF reader to browse your documents different ways like side by side.

Microsoft patches Freetard-by-design bug

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FAIL

Andrew says freetard in his sleep....

So sharing my WMP library over MY network to other computers I own makes me a freetard ?

I think you need a new buzz word sir ......

Nine Inch Nails guy scores Facebook movie... bitch!

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How now ?

Moooooooo!

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NIN NI NO NUM

Sorry Mr. Tasteless but the album you're missing is called The Fragile, by far and away his best work up there with Pretty Hate Machine, have you listened to his latest "How to Destroy Angels" it's a free download and also rather tasty.

Fail is in the eye of the failure.

Big EU imports of Sahara sun-power coming soon?

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With who's £$ ?

Maybe you can also find someone to pay for them, most solar panels barely pay back their cost over their operational lifetime which is why you want them at the equator.

Find us a cheap solar panel and we can all tile our roofs with them.

Osborne hands out tax cuts - for companies

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you missed it....

No-one needs to work out a VAT cost that has already been added !

It's the (ex VAT) prices that will be easy to work out (£100 ex VAT) mean £120 ! Well Done.

Google gives its Voice to all Americans

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RTFA

They are two different services, READ THE ARTICLE !

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Please please give us a UK date

Please bring this service to the UK, no more paying for 0845 forwarding when I'm out of town !

The emailed voice mail is also very useful.

Windows 7 Backup gets users' backs up

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WTF?

900 Gigs ?

Anyone using Windows backup to save 900 GB of data needs their head read.

It's a consumer product and a compression based backup will crawl with that amount of data, just make disk images or get a RAID set up if your 900GB of files are so important.

Personally I've always used Acronis, I use it for customer backups and while there may be faster products out there Acronis is rock solid for reliability.

Nobody trusts anything - shock poll

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Alert

required

I don't trust this story something fishy is going on here !

Bloody George's Budget: How bad is it really?

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Issuu

An IT news site hasn't heard of Issuu ?

Oh Dear.....

Middle-aged sex is crap: Official

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It's always all downhill when you're going down a hill....

So they measured how people contextualise sexual encounters and gave us some random statistics describing how people felt about their bodies at the exact time they were ticking the box.

So much of this can be culturally biased, Why does anyone pay for this sudo scientific nonsense?

Google claims Wi-Fi slurp legal in the US

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Flame

Would you leave your door open then cry when you got burgled ?

Anyone who has private data on unencrypted wireless networks should have no come back, it is a public network, no ISPs send out unsecured routers, if you don't have it set up properly then tough luck.

Your insurance company won't pay out a claim if you left your doors unlocked and open.

Google wasn't trying to steal data they were just using AP names to create non-GPS maps.

This is a storm over nothing while Phorm was barely even heard of across national news networks.

'Toothed' condom hits rapists where it hurts

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Silly to get into and arms race.

This is stupid, the rapist is being given a reason to beat/maim/kill their victim and their are other places they could rape.

Interesting to see if after a couple of years of these being available whether or not anal rapes increase.

Nice idea but is every woman supposed to insert these every day of their lives ? talk about scare mongering.

Primate-phobic Brit attacked by crab-eating Macaques

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Spider Island

I'm not keen on spiders and having a functioning brain I realise a holiday to Spider Island would certainly not help my fear.

Tame chimps like most animals can go very crazy being raised indoors by humans, and since a monkey is something most people rarely meet why on earth was she trying to cure her phobia ?

IT ISN'T A PHOBIA IF A MAD CHIMP USED TO ATTACK YOU ALL THE TIME ! She should have just tried hosting a tea party.

Google risks OEM wrath for unified Android UI plan

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No-one said this was a being forced on OEMs !

Google's Android team said they wanted to give OEMs a reason not to customize, this is not a new law for Android, Google can't legally stop people from customizing and changing Android.

They will never force OEMs into anything they don't have the power to, just read the licence conditions for Android anyone can do whatever and they don't even have to share their changes.

Personally I'm looking forward to what the new UI/UE guy from Palm can accomplish WebOS is spoiled by poor Palm hardware but it certainly looks good.

Mozilla's next Thunderbird gives Gmailers hope

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Old news

Personally I don't understand why anyone uses a mail client anymore. I use Gmail and before that both Hotmail and Yahoo, web mail is great since I don't have to back it up and I can access it (and all my archived mail) anywhere.

What exactly is the point of Thunderbird or Outlook again ?

Microsoft picks over Google's Windows exit strategy

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Grenade

Fail!

Mass noun in Latin

Virus comes to English from Latin. The Latin word vīrus (the ī indicates a long i) means "poison; venom", denoting the venom of a snake. This Latin word is probably related to the Greek ἰός (ios) meaning "venom" or "rust" and the Sanskrit word visham meaning "toxic, poison".[2]

Since vīrus in antiquity denoted something uncountable, it was a mass noun. Mass nouns — such as air, rice, and helpfulness in English — pluralize only under special circumstances, hence the non-existence of plural forms in the texts.[3]

It is unclear how a plural might have been formed under Latin grammar if the word had acquired a meaning requiring a plural form. In Latin vīrus is generally regarded as a neuter of the second declension, but neuter second declension nouns ending in -us (rather than -um) are so rare that there are no recorded plurals. Neuter nouns of other declensions always end in -a (in the nominative, accusative and vocative), but even if we were to apply this rule to vīrus, it would be conjecture to guess whether this should give us vīra, vīrua, or something else. There simply is no known plural for this word in Classical Latin.

In Neo-Latin, a plural form is necessary, in order to express the modern concept of ‘viruses’. Dictionaries such as Whitaker's Words therefore treat it as a second-declension noun with the following fairly ordinary forms:

singular plural

nominative vīrus vīra

vocative vīrus/vīre vīra

accusative vīrus vīra

genitive vīrī vīrōrum

dative vīrō vīrīs

ablative vīrō vīrīs

Inevitable Mac OS X 10.6.4 update problems surface

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Sinking Ship of OS X

A little quote from one Jonathan Ive

" I told Steve we have to include the mac and he told me that the mac platform is a sinking ship and iOS is future"

How many more updates will we get before Apple weld the doors shut ?

Fanbois howl over 'hang a lot' Safari 5

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These poor iTards can't see the wood for the trees

"It's better than no Safari at all".

Nope because then you'll be using a good browser like Chrome, Firefox or Opera.

ID cards poster girl laments her £30

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Ha Ha

I wished she'd paid more just so we could all have a bigger laugh.

I also hope she reads this IDIOT ! You don't understand how hackable a central database is then shut up.

Apple kills 'Get a Mac' ad campaign

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Smugness is old news Apple !

The funny thing is the get a Mac ads were supposed to take the piss out of Windows PCs and as anyone knows if someone calls you names to take the piss revel in them !

Microsoft took the Apple ads and made very funny I'm a PC ads, pretty sad Apple, can we have new Apple ads without the smug please ?

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