Posts by TimBiller

South Koreans clone sniffer dog

@ Lee T

"only the PEOPLE were replicants, the animals are merely artificial. /pedant"

There, fixed that for you ...

Tim

Western Digital uncages ferocious VelociRaptor data hunting drive

Velociraptor

Um, perhaps it's just me, but that Velociraptor has more than a hint of "The Graham Nortons" about it ...

<goes to get coat>

Tim

Data pimping: surveillance expert raises illegal wiretap worries

RIPA

I imagine that the Government (who would doubtless benefit from a tap into this data stream) would simply change the law to suit themselves, as happens every time HRMC lose a court case.

Tim

Apple unearths Time Capsule

@ andy - careful when mentioning Apple's US pricing

You'll get reamed by lots of "smart" people who'll lecture you about VAT and import duty ad nauseum infinitum who clearly have nothing better to do with their online time ...

Tim

16GB iPhone to launch today

@Jeff Clarke

"You also forget that you earn in £'s which means, currently, you earn 2x the amount an american does. Hence you can afford twice as much/pay twice as much."

Troll. <plonk>

And to everyone else who responded, thanks for almost all your comments.

It's still cheaper there, mumble mumble...

Apple have got some nerve

iPhone 16GB -

Apple Store US - $499

Apple Store UK - not yet visible as of 13:47 on 05/02/08 but predicted to be £329.

One trip to XE.com and we see the following:

$499.00 USD = £253.828 GBP. That's some import duty!

The same applies to the new 32GB iTouch too.

Rip-off Britain indeed.

Mojo-free Jobs delivers Macworld goods

Movie rentals outside the USA ...

... are still not available.

I upgraded to iTunes 7.6 (Windoze) last night and the UK Music Store still only has the same limited list of TV shows to choose from.

There are no indications on apple.com about when this might change. Disappointing.

Tim

Apple's Leopard leaps into action

@Sean

Because, as has been mentioned, then nobody would pay AAT (Apple Added Tax) for a Mac and more importantly, Apple would have a complete support meltdown, trying to support Leopard on hundreds of thousands of hardware permutations worldwide, instead of just one hardware platform with small variations between them.

Tim

eBay employee 'torpedos' fraud trial

@Neil

Hmm. I just looked in my passport and the full name is

"The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"

Great Britain is Scotland, Wales and England. NI is, well, NI. Add all four together and you get the UK. So the OP was correct, Exeter and Belfast ARE in the UK.

/pedant

Tim.

The iPhone arrives, but is O2 being taken for a ride?

@Nokia has lost the plot

Wow, where to start.

The answerphone icon bug is trivial to resolve, as a visit to any forum or Google would prove.

I'm on Orange too and I resolved (again, somewhat trivially) the VOIP issue by de-branding the phone (again, forums and Google) and I use Truphone extensively.

WiFi works faultlessly at home on WPA2, and everywhere else I have tried it.

I'll grant battery life can be an issue, but the mains charger is very small and portable and I can also charge the phone via USB with an adaptor, so it's no real hardship.

The screen might be small, but a little extra effort is all that is needed for effective use of the browser.

I just sent a text to a contact, and it took 5 clicks to get to the text-entry point, so where the other 11 come from is a mystery?

Thanks for listening. I now return you to the previous whining.