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11 publicly visible posts • joined 13 Mar 2011

Apple design don Jony Ive: Build-your-own phone is BOLLOCKS

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One size fits all, fits nobody

It's just a transfer of power and responsibility from the manufacturer to the customer. People choose an iPhone because they don't want to make a decision.

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We've made a profit, shouts Azzurri Comms. Yeah, 'made' is right

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Azzurrwho? Isn't this sort of financial prestidigitation ubiquitous? It doesn't quite rank with the Enrons of this world.

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Car? Check. Driver? Nope. OK, let's go, says British govt

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Re: It's not just the last mile...

Testify on that. South Bucks public transport is atrocious. Marlow to Reading (15 miles) takes at least an hour, either by bus or by rail. Instead, people clog up the roads with endless jams for hours. One advantage these cars have over most of the local traffic is they're about 1/4 the size of the average vehicle here.

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Post-PC world? POST-MAC WORLD more like

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Err, I think it's pretty much comparable, actually.

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Study finds online commentards easily duped, manipulated

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Cuts both ways

It can work the other way. I find myself regularly visiting the Daily Mail and downvoting the top posts, and upvoting the bottom posts. We make our own entertainment here in the home counties.

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Review: Britain's 4G smartphones

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Use case?

I'm still at a loss for a use case when I seem to get ~9Mbit on 3G.

I guess... for gaming, or swapping large multimedia files - postproduction maybe? Keeping Debian distributions up to date?

Can't think of many other applications.I can stream HD-quality Netflix films on my Three account, and there's no official fair usage cap.

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Swiss photographer sues Apple for pilfering her eyeball

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For some reason this sentence in the story on the zebra picture stands out:

"The picture shows how the strong herd instinct protects each individual against predators."

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Why British TV drama is crap – and why this matters to tech firms

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Re: British TV drama is NOT crap

Hustle, Spooks, tripe, yes... Red Dwarf still produced but well past its prime.

Life on Mars was indeed fantastic, but I also found A2A quite enjoyable. I also defy anyone to impugn Agatha Christie...

And yes, modern Doctor Who is a self-parodying, CGI heavy, cynical shadow of its former, viewer-imagination-employing self. I'd rather have solid acting and wobbly sets than vice versa.

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Pinterest valued at $1.5 BILLION, bags $100m in funding

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Re: 80% of Pinterest users are women ^1

Surely there must be some overlap between the men who make up the 20% of the Pinterest user demographic and those who make up the 99% of the Reg user demographic?

If not, perhaps someone would care to bridge the divide?

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Dim Brits think TARDIS IS REAL

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Logical fallacies

Assuming that time travel is impossible now, doesn't automatically necessitate that it won't be possible to travel backwards in time from some point in the far future to a point in nearer future. Or that we might be able to travel into the future only, at some speed faster than 60 seconds per minute.

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Politically motivated exploits target activists on Google

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Cart before the horse

"The unidentified attackers are wielding a serious vulnerability in the way Windows parses webpages containing MIME-formatted content. "

Windows, or IE?

Even if this is a vulnerability in a supporting service or library, I doubt this would affect Chrome/Firefox users.

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