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Posts by Richard 120
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Is iFlorist the greatest website in the universe, ever?
Monday 29th March 2010 13:31 GMT
So...
Do you think it's an internal thing or perhaps (and here's a good business idea for the unscrupulous) it could be a third party set-up where there is financial remuneration for a quantity of positive reviews.
Of course if you wanted to deliver a good service then you might want to consider maybe not ALWAYS giving a 5 star rating, throw in a few 4 stars, maybe even a 3. Even better, maybe consider actually writing something that could have been written by a genuine individual. Rather than things like "GRATEST STORE EVER!" when referring to a purveyor of flowers. I mean let's be honest, it's a flower shop, it's not going to be the greatest store ever, it's just going to sell you flowers, it's not likely to source you a new kitchen, the needle for the 20 year old record player you've been searching for for the last 15 years as well as the latest game for wii.
LHC particle-punisher in record 7 TeV hypercollisions
Are you a 'supertasker'? Probably not
Getting drunk the night before has no effect on exam results
Heathrow security man cops perv scanner eyeful
US couple jailed for TV shoplifting brag
Pirate Party UK launches manifesto
Tuesday 23rd March 2010 16:27 GMT
Ok
You have a very narrow view of software and hardware.
People are still using proprietary hardware running DOS and other OS's which don't have GUI's.
Hardware can be made to last a lot longer than you think, your world view seems to be very small, don't try to fit everything into it.
That is why you are using the geek icon incorrectly. I do not think you know what a legacy system is.
Tuesday 23rd March 2010 10:43 GMT
No it isn't
Outdated software still does what it did when you bought it. If it had a purpose when it was purchased then it can continue to fill that purpose.
It's software, not hardware, it doesn't change it's behaviour over time, it doesn't break down, it has no moving parts.
You use the geek icon unwisely.
Register.com argues it can't be sued for negligence
Tuesday 23rd March 2010 11:29 GMT
No
It's not flawed, it is semantics. It plays a big part in law. It's not even my argument, I just looked up the definition.
I think that might be the point of the article, specifically that Register.com could get the law suit dismissed on a legal technicality of a dubious nature.
Hence they may win the legal argument but lose the trust of their customers.
Law sucks really, it's not 0's and 1's
Tuesday 23rd March 2010 10:41 GMT
Not from what I can gather
The difference is a critical one from what I can gather the difference is that with GROSS negligence something gets buggered up by someone who is aware of the consequences and they conciously make the decision to bugger something up.
Normal negligence is when someone just buggers up because they don't know what they're doing, like pressing the wrong button, the one that launches the nukes.
Sky gets Five HD
Wednesday 17th March 2010 13:27 GMT
Think so
It's a dish, it uses the same sort of LNB as other dishes (dual, quad or oct depends on what your old occupant had in terms of decoding equipment) point it at your sattelite, hook up the coax to your media PC with a DVB-S2 card (and maybe a smart card reader for those pay channels ;-) and Bob's your mothers brother.
Not done it myself, spent a while contemplating it, but decided to save my time and just get sky.
Top exorcist says Satan at work in Vatican
Hull Daily Mail pulls porncoder comments
Only Apple can get away with App Stores
Tuesday 16th February 2010 23:13 GMT
I reckon it'll end badly
If Apple become the only game in town they'll go the same way with the App store and OS that MS did. They'll be the new target of choice. Diversity keeps the industry going, if MS OS were not so prevalent there wouldn't be anywhere near the quantity of viruses for it, hence more people turning to other OS's.
Apple become the dominant force in mobile phones, they become the target.
We'll see how they do.
US sorority girls in booze-fuelled orgy of violence
Putting an iPad through the Motions
Tuesday 16th February 2010 23:12 GMT
Clearly.
Did I say that your TiBook was a toy?
Apple are good at making toys.
I consider the iPhone a toy. I anticipate the iPad being a toy. Target markets are different, people buying iPhones couldn't give a stuff if they last longer than the life of their contract, they'll just get a new one.
Your example isn't a particularly good one though, what you've described is not work as far as I'm concerned. Professional graphic design can be making a poster for someone who gives you a tenner for doing it. BFHD. 3D modelling and video editing also pretty much fall into the hobby category and there are any number of devices suitable for the job. Something used by someone in a job doesn't tend to get treated in the same way as something owned by that same person. There's a lot less respect for the value of an item you work with than one you own.
In hospitals they won't own the device so it's going to need to be robust, and not break if a little bit of vomit, blood or any kind of bodily fluid spills on it.
Tuesday 16th February 2010 23:12 GMT
What?!?
You mean you didn't want to pay for an Apple to get "the Apple experience"?
Where everything just works straight out of the box, is less customisable, ties you to numerous other services you may not want to use, restricts you from services you do want to use.
It looks pretty though.
Honestly, I can't understand your attitude, you must be some kind of apple hater, listen to the fanbois, they know what they're talking about. The apple experience is the only experience you'll ever need.
Monday 15th February 2010 12:52 GMT 
Toymaker
They're not in the same market which is why they're happy about the iPad, that's basically what I got from that article.
I can see his point, Apple are basically good at making toys, they won't last forever and you probably wouldn't want them to.
I would be concerned if they started to use the apple toys in places like hospitals and construction sites, in particular the former. I doubt they will though, in most cases it's probably been suggested by some fanboi to a manager who is basically clueless.
World of Google zombies mistake news story for Facebook
iPhone must-have crowd inflates UK gadget insurance claims
Red Dwarf's Kryten exposes iPhone number
Friday 12th February 2010 14:35 GMT
Scrapheap Challenge
He does that too, and probably other things. People (not like us) have this wierd celebrity worship thing going on. I don't really get it, but they do, and they would phone the number for similar unknown (to me) reasons.
The only celebrity worth worshipping is the Moderatrix.
Researchers rip iPad apart to reveal Apple's profits
Jedi chapter seeks leader after master resigns
Tuesday 9th February 2010 15:04 GMT
Religion
It can't be that much worse than some of the crap other religions come out with, and they've served their purpose as far as I'm concerned.
My life has been enhanced by their very existence because this story and the associated comments have raised a smile as a result of all the scorn heaped upon them by heathen reg readers.
You can't ask much more than that from a religion.
French poised to seize Port of Dover
iPhone App Store bars mention of Google Android
Saturday 6th February 2010 20:42 GMT
why?
Why do you think they'd reject it?
If something's nominated for an award then it's worth advertising the fact.
Let's take a game for example, it gets a nomination or an award in a trade publication. They include that fact on the box, do other trade publications stop reviewing the game?
This is typical of Apple though, more anticompetitive than any other company I can think of, except maybe one.
MS hits Office 2010 upgrade program button prematurely
Sci-fi and fantasy authors wade into Amazon spat
Police have more than 10,000 ANPR cameras
Michigan man in DIY rocket sled explosion
Council saves quarter mil' from mobile bill
Tuesday 2nd February 2010 21:16 GMT
It's not just local Gov
I've seen it plenty in Central Gov too, the cheapest pretty much invariably is NOT the best.
It's never about the best, it's about how much money is going to be left over.
More money left over means the management can award themselves big bonuses, then bugger off to another project/job while the original one collapses in the shitheap it always does.
Call me a cynic, but the cheapest offer always wins govt. business, it's never been any other way. How else do you explain the existence of Crapita, how do these companies continue to win business regardless of their history of failure?
The people making the decisions always have the fallback to say "look they said they could do the job for £x, how was I to know it would overrun for x months and cost £y?" it's that deniability they're looking for, they can't justify picking a more expensive quote (unless of course the quote is coming from a family member)
Avatar attracts nine Oscar nods
Tuesday 2nd February 2010 21:16 GMT
Still not seen it
I guess it's an advantage to having young kids, not having to be completely dissapointed by invariably over hyped rubbish, not that it necessarily is of course.
I don't get to go to the cinema any more you see, and I don't have time to trawl for torrents (more time looking for content than using the content)
I'll wait for the DVD/Bluray or sky box office release and THEN I'll be disappointed, but by then the hype will have died down and I wont be as disappointed.
Spiderman Beetleman wall-crawl glove/boot tech invented
Tuesday 2nd February 2010 21:16 GMT
LoL
Nice idea, I can see it now, a new service -
Irritated by people climbing your building?
Human flies getting you down?
Harold Lloyd stuck to the outside of your clock face?
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ID minister promises virtual immortality for all Britons
What do you call the iPad in Arabic?
French mock British G-spot probe
Friday 29th January 2010 14:01 GMT
"It cannot be reduced to a yes or no or an on or off."
I thought that was the point of it though, that a G-spot was a location that when stimulated results in intense sexual pleasure (or orgasm)?
If it moves around or can't be found then by definition it does not exist (for the individual concerned)
iPad vs e-book readers: price matters
Friday 29th January 2010 16:48 GMT
Not sure about this
But I reckon it'll just get scratched, isn't that the apple way?
Bring out something shiny and new, then decrease manufacturing standards gradually as the price decreases increasing profits, simultaneously creating a demand for a newer model.
I'll stick with books and a laptop for now
Remote tribe discovered worshipping iPad
Greenock pensioners cuffed for Tesco 'sex romp'
Aussie man convicted for Simpsons smut
Thursday 28th January 2010 12:32 GMT
Hmm
How contrary, the other day I was praising the Aussie attitude to the bloke who put the sexist advert on that jobsite, now today I think they're being slightly mental.
I don't see how different this cartoon porn is to kids drawing cocks on the walls of the school toilets as tradition defines is required. I'm not sure how much I'd understand even if it was an accurate representation (of children) that it constitutes a criminal offence, I'd have thought that the point was that no harm came to anyone or is likely to come to anyone as a result of the images existing.
Huffington Post retweets all of Twitter
Swan couple in surprise divorce
Chinese Avatards scale Hallelujah Mountain
Oz eyes Chinese cane toad market
Free postcoders bang on Ordnance Survey door
Monday 25th January 2010 22:42 GMT
Nationalise
Not only do the competitors get the last mile at below cost RM also deal with returns for free.
So, let's say a company called shittylink decided to collect a whole bunch of mail (the easy and profitable part) they then take the post to RM, who sort it and deliver it (the last mile) if the mail is marked undeliverable by the occupant and put back into a post box then it gets picked up sorted and returned not to shittylink, but the actual sender. In any normal B2B relationship the stuff would be dumped back on to shittylink as (in my opinion they are) the sender of the mail.
There would at least be some recompense for this sort of thing occurring.
I don't really understand where things which are national services get privatised in order to compete, I've not seen it work for anything.
Since British Telecom went has service improved? Not as far as I can tell, the service it once supplied has developed a new Delhi accent.
Same for electricity, gas and railways.
I suppose the counter argument could be the NHS, but I think that there's a certain amount of movement towards privatisation which has buggered that up too, people can choose which hospital they want to be treated at etc. The whole NHS database setup is likely to be a sweetener paid for by taxpayers companies wouldn't have to come along and do any administration work they could just charge for healthcare and make profits, ultimately "competition" in these sorts of things is an illusion, profits go up as a result of standards decreasing. For some reason there HAS to be constant growth of profits, the profits don't have to be consistent, they have to grow, otherwise you're losing money apparently, I never understood the maths there.
Competition on the railways? I know I won't travel from Cambridge to London to go to work, instead I'll go on a different network... doesn't really work.
Competition for RM? Nope, no such thing.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
