Posts by James 51

A none of the above option would be nice. It's a pity single transferable vote didn't get through. It's a simple system, don't know why everyone on the TV said otherwise.

Add unlimited fines to the companies involved and you might start to get somewhere.

When people talking about old fashioned police work, I doubt that had phrenology in mind.

My desktop has a mouse, my laptop has a trackpad and my tablet and phone have touch screens. If you get a new mouse, try out a trackball or get a touch screen monitor it would change your profile.

Won't help spreadsheets or word processing much but think about OO code displayed in three dimentions. You could view the structure of the relationship and when you open up a class nested code could be indented in three dimentions. It would be tricky to get the GUI right but it has potential.

How would this interact with using bulbs to transmit data?

Any idea of their size? If they're Pluto sized or smaller then they'll be planatoids/dwarf planets.

Always thought a lot of this kind of speculation is stoked by people who sell reports or would make money in fees if it was even considered or went ahead.

It's also difficult to see samsung taking on BB10 on top of all the other OS they currently support.

Netflix famously tried this once. Researchers were able to determine the sexuality of a lady whom they were able to identify despite the data being 'anonymous'. Let's not forget this isn't to improve your health. It will be used to push up insurance premiums, deny people jobs (the building industry ran a black list for years based on willingness to stand up for your rights so it's easy to see that spreading. Hmmm he had cancer and it has a 20 percentage chance of coming back, let's got for the other guy). Targeted advertising to from companies that hide the full picture about their drugs or don't have to prove the help in the case of implants. There are scenarios were sharing the data done properly would be a good thing but this is nothing like one of those scenarios.

My post seems to have been eaten by gremlins so second time's a charm.

The problem with quoting spending by GDP without mentioning the absolute amount spent or average spending for patient/procedure is that a place that is twice as rich could spend half the amount of GDP on something but still be spending the same absolute amount. I doubt that Singapore is twice as rich as the UK but it would be interesting to have that information too.

Edit: If labour and drugs cost half the amount in Singapore that would account for a lot too.

And as someone else has touched upon, the smaller size of the system probably makes it easier to mange. It would be interesting to know what the writer thinks of the reorganisations of the NHS and the desired v actual impact.

Was going to ask why the iOS/Android focus when BlackBerry literally builds these features in as key selling point but I guess the weakness is convincing employees to pay and use the best tool for the job (combining work and personal phone on single device).

So, we’re going to have a space elevator within a decade then?

hmm use my personal phone for business because they're too cheap to provide me with one? In that case I have a lovely nokia 100. Email? umm sure, I've heard of it.

There has been this faux outrage since GTA 2. Doesn't seem to do the games sales any harm. Kids shouldn't be playing it any more than they should be watching an 18 movie.

It is anything more than a Pi in a big case?

The Pebble is certainly the only wearable I've considered and it works with Blackberry.

The sony e-ink screen watch looks interesting but seems to be a limited run experiment.