Posts by Simon Noble

How Apple beat IBM in Steve Jobs' first retail war

history re written

As usual it seems that every one is intent on ignoring the fact that The Commodore 64 was a technically better computer than the 2c, and was out selling IBM and Apple at the time, why pay $700 for a PC Jr when the C64 was under $200. its odd how Computer history seems to have been re written by the Apple boys...

Music industry cooks UK government's piracy stats

UK Pirate Party member ship 7 million & counting?

So according to the recording industry there are potentially 7 million votes for a UK Pirate Party? I'd say a minority like that would have some clout.

Home Secretary goes crazy on drugs... policy

Mass protest

Here in Christchurch NZ, there is a yearly gathering in the city center, people just turn up and smoke to promote decriminalisation. how about 100000 people out side #10 all smoking. it would be so easy to crash the justice system.

Comcast mulls overage fees for bandwidth lovers

250GB!!?

Here in New Zealand I have a 10GB cap and get charged $2.95 per GB if I go over. I'd give my left one for that much...