Utterly pointless rebranding.
Posts by Mike Brown
594 publicly visible posts • joined 24 May 2007
Axe falls on Directgov as GOV.UK launches
Microsoft Surface: Designed to win, priced to fail
Retailer leaks iPad Mini price list starting at £200
This is obvious.....
They will drop the iPad 2, and possibly cut the price of the new iPad to the old iPad 2 price. Then the name of the new iPad makes sence; you have the iPad and the mini iPad. That also makes sure that the price points arent too far away from each other, that they canabilise each others sales.
Microsoft Surface ad targets preppy, Glee-watching youngsters
Jaws restored Blu-ray disc set review
Is lightspeed really a limit?
Re: Relativity, causality, FTL: Choose two
It depends if time and speed really are linked as we currantly think. To our currant knowledge causality breaks if we acheve FTL, what happens if our currant knowledge is wrong?
So yes your right, but hopefully your also wrong. But you might be right and wrong at the same time...or yesterday.
Apple to spice up Blighty iPads with 4G
Don't panic, but UK faces BLACKOUTS BY 2015
Re: maybe for england....
1. whats your issue here? so we need to apply. great. fill in a few forms, get a doctor to sign our photo, jobs done!
2. What debt? That money was paid to the UK government, who then paid it to UK companies. Certainly not from the BofE to Scottish companies. Scotland dosent actually owe anything, the UK does. Im sure we can throw a few scraps to the UK tho. Times are tough after all.
3. Its not up to the BofE. If a small village in Africa decided to start using sterling as there main currancy, there is nothing the BofE could do.
Scotland has more than enough clout to stand on our own. You can keep your broken Britain.
Re: maybe for england....
I face nothing. Scotland can be independent. We have the resources, the skill and courage to do so. Once we have independence if the people choose to have someone else rather than Salmond then fair enough. But to dismiss the whole notion of self governence based your dislike for Salmond is niave and short sighted.
Man charged over alleged April Jones Facebook trolling
im in 2 minds about this.
On one hand its facebook. Its not real. Its just a social network. I could write that i enjoy dressing up in my wifes underpants, and eating cacti. But that dosent mean its true. Or relevent. Or anything
On the other hand, people seem to think facebook is real. And that posts actually mean something, and have substance. Which i find quite strange.
Momentum builds for iPad Mini launch
Cash in the asset: Nokia may flog global headquarters in Espoo
who will buy it?
Nokia clearly are in a bit of a pickle. So any potential buyer has to run the risk of there new tenants not being there long term. If Nokia cease, or do get Microsoft'ed, where are they going to find a new tennent that requires a global HQ in finland? I reckon this drops potential buyers to almost nil.
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TalkTalk's YouView box gets Ab Fab reception
Steve Jobs backs Amazon from beyond grave in Apple trademark row
New I-hate-my-neighbour stickers to protect Brits' packages
Re: What to do?
ensure your sticker says "please deliver to (which ever neigbour isnt a nutter) not (which ever neighbour is a nutter), not that i think he is a psychopath or anything, definiitly not. Its just that i think he is quite busy, what with smearing his walls with feaces, and boiling what i assume is the other neigbours cats bones.
Rumour: Asus rejects $99 Nexus 7... rumour
really?
el reg is now resorting to reporting what one person has said on the internet? I suppose it gives you a lot of scope to report almost anyhting. I look foward to more stories based on what one perosn has said:
Smoking causes green horns to sprout from heads
The queen is in fact a man
Donkeys used to have an advanced civilistation that was destroyed in an interglatic war
Whales enjoy wii games
Apple plan to start a fruit and veg store
Cant wait to be honest.
RIM shares bounce on BlackBerry 10 optimism
Xbox Live gamers blown offline by 'Virgin Media routing balls-up'
China plots 2017 mission to plan MOON COLONY
Even slimmer PS3 out next week
HTC hawks fresh WinPho smartphones
NASA working on faster-than-light drive capable of WARP TEN
Windows 8: Never mind Office, it's for GAMING
throw money at it!
no it really isnt. MS spent billions buying market share. Fair enough the xbox is now not so failure prone, but it should never have been in the 1st place. Some of the best marketing and spin MS has ever done was convince people to stick with xbox throught the rrod phase, im still amazed people kept buying them!
Apple iPhone 5 hands-on review
Ten digital radios to suit all budgets
Dredd movie review
i guessed as much from the trailer
as soon as i seen the trialer i was disapointed. it looks too real. dredd is ment to be OTT.
The stallone version may have been rubbish, but it got the look right. this clearly is an action movie, with dredd thrown in.
bit of a shame really. dredd could be a good film
Photos of 'iPad mini' body stir rumor pot
Windows Phone 8: Microsoft quite literally can't lose
If this future comes to pass, it wont be like that. Google dont make hardware. They simply give out software to hardware manufactuers. Its not a monopoly in the truest sence. Android manufactuers make radically different phones from each other. Compare the HTC Chacha to the Samsung Galaxy Note. Both android, both google, but massivly different phones. As long as android phones are made by differing companies, the consumer cant loose.
Re: Ballmer
agreed. if win 8 in all its forms isnt a success, balmer has to walk. if he is pushed or jumps is another question tho.
microsoft will be in for the long haul. win 8 can tank, and it wont effect MS too much. They are hoping that eventually the seeds laid by 8 will flourish, look at the xbox, when the whole company is behind somthing it usually works, eventually. On the flip side look at zune, it wasnt really pushed to a massive degree, and has now all but died. But if it is a long slog, balmer wont be there to see it.
Nokia's WinPho 8 double date announced
to all those that are asking about my reasons
i think you have misread my post. im happy beacuse its almost over. Nokia are dead, they just dont know it yet. The sooner the pain stops, and the body is buried, the better.
and if anyone does read this, yes, ive replied to posts over a week old on a topical news website. i realise the chances of anyone of the above accusers reading it are nil.
Sony slims down 3D headset, cooks up eye candy
Groupon loses second top sales bod in a week
Sony pushes patent for interactive TV ads
China could penetrate US with new huge missile
Everything Everywhere to be Nothing Nowhere in rebrand
Apple, Samsung brass hats' patent spat chitchat falls flat
Optical Express 'ruined my life' gripe site lives on
Apple's lone wolf approach to security will bite it in the rear
YouTube video has NOT killed radio's star
radio sucks
most analog radio stations are aweful. just churning out the same tinny pop crap.
DAB is a little better: planet rock, and somtimes kerrang! are worth listening too.
what amazes me about radio is that we have 60-80 years worth of music to play, and they all seem to play the same tracks. tracks released in the last 1-2 years. there are billions of tracks out there to play.