Posts by Robbie Simpson

Kodak EasyShare Z915

Not worth it ?

This doesn't seem a very good buy to me.

My FujiFilm S8000 has a 18x optical zoom and an electronic viewfinder. Sure, it's only 8mp and the pictures are probably even noisier than these, but it only cost me £125 six months ago.

Finland fingerprints all Finns and foreigns

Legality ?

Surely this will be ruled illegal by the European courts at the first opportunity ?

US to postpone analog TV death

Across the pond

And here in the UK we are expected to pay for our own boxes when each region goes to digital TV...

UK.gov prepares for filesharing fracas

Not just music

Surely the majority of P2P traffic is no longer music-based - video and software are just as widely shared and have much larger file sizes. It is simply that FACT and BSA don't have the right lobbyists ?

Apple to push Nokia into smartphone second place

Foolish...

They say that Apple is more focused on smartphones than Nokia, cleverly forgetting the iPod, Xserve, AppleTV and that promising new machine, the Mackintosh.

Google picks up third spot in spam-friendly shame list

Really...

E-mail is an internet service, and Google provides it...

Wireless-power pioneers band together

Old news

Inductive mice have been around for a couple of years, but they've yet to convince me to stop just using rechargeable batteries...

Apple files 3D-interface patent

Prior art...

This seems to be very much like 3DNA, which I played with several years ago and seems to have died in 2004. It was fun to use for a little while, but it certainly did not improve my productivity...

Entire class fails IT exam by submitting in Word format

Very fond of the web at Edexcel...

Note that they aren't actually any text formats on Edexecel lists, with the nearest thing being html.

So there are no accepted formats designed for print display.

Microsoft preps IE 8 for the web-challenged

Microsoft...

So how come Firefox, Opera et all can correctly render pages designed for old versions of IE, but the new version cannot ?

Banks to share data on promiscuity

Title

Aren't there any Data Protection laws against sharing personal financial data between different companies ?

Gary Glitter expelled from GCSE paper

And in other news...

Presumably all films by Roman Polanski must be off the Media Studies list as well ?

What's the cost of global warming?

Space-based solution

Why not simply chuck up some form of solar shade and vary the temperature when we feel like it ?

Scientists study near-death sensations

Do the dead see CERN ?

From the picture it looks like the LHC could well be a near death experience...