* Posts by Wang N Staines

410 publicly visible posts • joined 21 Apr 2010

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Google who? Samsung announces its first developer conference

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Happy

Re: Why San Fran?

Why do banks go to London and not Liverpool?

SkyDrive on par with C: Drive in Windows 8.1

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Yeah metadata, perfect!

MS must be implementing NSA's requirements.

Apple patents touch display that KNOWS YOU by your fingers

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Re: Just another example

See fairy dust comment above.

Microsoft lathers up Windows 8.0 Surface RT for quick price shave

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£300 too much.

You can get a portable web browsing machine for around £50.

Outlook son of Hotmail goes titsup for many in the US and UK

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They had to patch the service to allow NSA to speed up emails extraction.

Analyst: Tests showing Intel smartphones beating ARM were rigged

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AnTuTu rigged the tests, wonder how much $$ were thrown their way?

Samsung takes mobile net traffic crown from Apple

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I have been enjoying my Samsung Chromebook of late ... fast & cheap for general browsing... not made full use of the Linux install yet.

Acer Iconia W3: The first 8-inch Windows 8 Pro tablet

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Got an ARM based Samsung Chromebook on sale last month for £129, installed Linux on it. What a brilliant little machine. If Acer/MS want to compete they may have to up the specs or lower the price.

The screen on this Acer not too impressive at all.

Judge nixes Microsoft SkyDrive name in BSkyB court ruling

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Trollface

She is a woman judge, forgive her for her confusion.

When to say those three little words: 'I am quitting'

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"wary of job-hoppers" ... I change my job every 2 years (max) to keep me from getting bored. I have never had any issues with getting a new job. Put in my notice, then I have 4 weeks to look for the next job. Easy!

Samsung wins Apple MacBook contract, starts spitting out PCIe SSDs

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Apple's divorce from Samsung is going well I see.

Apple said to be 'exploring' 5.7-inch iPhone

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Megaphone

Re: There's nothing wrong with copying

Nuke the effing software patent!!!!!

Study: US iPhone owners tend to be rich, educated, white

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It's nice to have options, isn't it?

Oh wait a minute, you don't have those options on the iPhones.

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lol

Every chav on my council estate got an iPhone.

Intel's plan for Haswell, Silvermont, Bay Trail: WORLD DOMINATION

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Thumb Down

Intel, the company with dodgy business practices, producing chips that are 2 years behind the curve.

Microsoft's Windows 8.1 secrets REVEALED ... sort of

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Trollface

Re: "You can even use more than two apps at once – three, to be precise."

They hard coded 3 into the loop.

Minty fresh Linux: Olivia hits the virtual shelves

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Re: What's an iOS style widget?

Did you not know that Apple invented everything?

;-)

Nokia shareholder tells CEO Elop he's going to hell

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Elop was a small fish that couldn't make it at MS and it was Nokia's fault for hiring such an idiot to run its operations.

Judge hands copyright troll an epic smack-down

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Only nerds would think that phrase originated from geeky movies.

Move over Radeon, GeForce – Intel has a new graphics brand: Iris

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Happy

If MS is not allowed to bundle IE with Windows then Intel shouldn't be allowed to bundle their graphics with the CPU.

;-)

Judge sets the date for Patent Smackdown 2: The Damages

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Re: Better settled in..

Tim knows bugger all about kung fu.

;-)

Microsoft hoists ZTE onto the Android patent bandwagon

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Not Android

These patents are not Android related. They are for accessories added to Android devices.

Apple fanbois' accidental bonking ruled too obvious by watchdog

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You can't win against Apple at the ITC.

More Brits ditch Apple tablets for Amazon, Google, Samsung kit

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Discounted

Lots of Android tablets were heavily discounted recently. You can pick up a Samsung refurbished tablet from Tesco for £122. See http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/white-7-samsung-galaxy-tab-2-from-tesco-outlet-seller-refurbished-including-delivery-1531040

How I nearly sold rocket windows to the crazy North Koreans

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Coat

Nothing new

Microsoft nearly sold a copy of Windows 8 in NK.

Review: Intel Next Unit of Computing barebones desktop PC

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FAIL

hahahahahahahaaaaa

Nice price, but they can keep it.

Knock £220 off it and we'll talk.

Steve Jobs to supervise iPhone 6 FROM BEYOND THE GRAVE

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sure sign

of things are not going well over the garden wall - the last PR stunt on the day of the launch of the S4 and this desperation of design by Steve crap are a sure sign of shit hitting the proverbial at Apple.

Texas judge sends Uniloc packing in Rackspace patent suit

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Re: Indemnification

Nobody has ever been taken to court for using vanilla android. Oracle tried with Google and failed.

Review: Lenovo ThinkPad Tablet 2

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It'll be still 6-12 months behind other tablets.

Furious Stephen Fry blasts 'evil' Reg and 'TW*T' Orlowski

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Re: At the danger of..

Make sure your biscuits are not too soggy.

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Bugger me, Fry's PR machine is at full speed with its down voting.

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Happy

There are a lot of 1 down votes ... is that you Stephen?

isoHunt loses appeal against search ban

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Happy

Mr Fung should move to the jungle of Vietnam, the American won't pursue him there.

Bitcoin prices spike on Euro woes

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Frying pan -> Fire

I would rather gamble my money on diversified shares portfolio than bitcoins.

First Samsung Galaxy S4 review leak: Stop FONDLING, start FINGERING

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Re: Appalling waste of resources

Why have 12 cylinders when you can have just 1?

Microsoft about-face: Office 2013 license IS transferable now

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Happy

Office 97 & XP

is the way to go.

Review: Toshiba Satellite U920T Ultrabook

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Happy

Scan for screen res in the article ... oh, it is crap. ignore rest of article. move on to comments.

Sony: Can't beat Apple and Samsung, so let's be the Other Guy

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I like Sony

Because they are the only company Apple copied/stole designs from ...

Samsung Wallet slavishly copies inspired by Apple Passbook

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Happy

I went into a bike shop the other day, 99% of them look 99% identical.

US company aims patent-gun at Australia’s e-health system

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I'm happy that this had happened to the Oz government. Maybe they will see some sense w.r.t to crap patents and reform the broken system.

Review: Dell XPS 10 Windows RT tablet and dock

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Spend half of that money on a Nexus 10 & the other half on i5 Inspiron laptop. Job done.

How to destroy a brand-new Samsung laptop: Boot Linux on it

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FAIL

SO who should I scream at when I bricked my phone trying to upgrade it using a ROM from XDA?

That's right, the bloody manufacturer for building a phone that I couldn't do to it as I wanted without bricking it.

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Stop

Were there any stickers on those machines with "Designed For Linux" on them?

Yeah, I put diesel in my petrol tank ... guess what?

Nokia turns a PROFIT. Sort of

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2 consecutive year losses ... a year after, sold assets and cut jobs - a miracle, it turns a profit with a massive cash injection from its backer. Apple and Samsung need to learn from Nokia.

Dead Steve Jobs' patent war threat to Palm over 'no-hire pact'

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Steve Jobs

One evil/vile mother f*cker!!!

Game over for Atari? One life left as biz files for bankruptcy protection

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1040ST FM

Yeah.

Microsoft to end Windows 8 discounts on January 31

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This is not a troll. My laptop is a Dell Inspiron, bought it 2 weeks ago ... my broadband is 100M with VM.

Starting any apps taking ages with the circular dots going round and round ... after a minute or so the app starts.

I had installed VS2012 ... starting it takes ages. However, once started then it's as responsive my Win7 laptop (2nd gen i5, 4GB RAM ... Lenovo).

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Unhappy

The Windows 8 that came with my laptop(i5 & 8GB RAM) is soooo slow.

A piece of shit that is Windows 8.

Another Apple retail chief crashes out the door

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Time to cash in those share options before they are worthless.

US patent office: Nice try Apple, but pinch-to-zoom is NOT a new invention

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Re: One does get the feeling that Apple's strategy is beginning to unravel.

Anyone told HTC they just paid for crap patents?

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