Posts by David Simpson 1 319 publicly visible posts • joined 15 Jun 2009
I'm sure the EU making noise about investigating the iPhone had nothing to do with it, Jobs even backed down on some of his more extreme plans for developers and what tools they could use.
Opera may have faced them down but it was the shadow of a large EU fine that really had them running scared.
Paranoid much ? If you did a little research (or had a little knowledge) you would know Chrome updates to a new stable release every 6 weeks, with any new product Google releases they slow the releases once they catch up with the competition.
Why would Safari contain Google code ? Both based on WebKit but not on each other.
Fail indeed sir.
So any chance of listing:
*Which phones suffer from the problems
*What firmware version they are running
*How many actual people are having these problems
That would maybe be a few too many facts for this author, such as the fact that Android has supported bluetooth keyboards since the Dell Streak launched. D'oh!
It's funny how nobody listens to the mentally ill people shouting this nonsense in the street, yet big corporations pay this idiot to day dream what we should all be scared of tomorrow.
His smart dust won't work because my future air con will have genetically enhanced beetles that eat dust then automatically wrap and post their crap back to this guy.
I think taking it from tax is a bad idea, this makes it much too close to the government.
Add a tax to broadband, I be happy to add, say £2 a month to my broadband package if it went straight to the BBC, the make the best TV generally and their web presence is great.
Turn off Eastenders and other big star driven nonsense (golden handcuffs etc.)
If you make programs to compete with commercial television then by proxy you are commercial without the income.
"It’s expensive, but I don’t care: if you want cheap, go buy a tombstone."
Typical rabid iTard, Really let down by this review, for instance does the new thicker shell stop the cracking that has plagued my old white Macbook (I'm on the 3rd top case in 2 years)
Will Apple collect and return under their warranty yet ?
I got pretty cheesed off having to drive 16 miles outside of Edinburgh (nearest Apple store is Glasgow) to leave my Macbook in for repair then drive back a week later to collect. Even my old £300 HP (never again) was collected from my door and repaired within 3 working days.
These are all the sticky little questions most Apple fans can't answer in a review because they are selling you the same cult like lifestyle they enjoy.
It's expensive alright and since I can buy an Asus laptop with Core i3, 4GB RAM, 320GB HDD and a 2 year collect and return warranty @ £450 I would say this Macbook is DOUBLE the cost of a normal PC not just more expensive.
That phone is older than the Hero (my phone) which is pretty old in the world of smartphones.
You could install a debranded ROM to activate all your features and remove all the Orange crap or go the whole hog with rooting and a custom ROM.
Check out XDA the great thing about HTC smartphones is just how much customization can be done.
Funny how they link this to the iPad and not to the load of new thin, cheap and light ULV laptops around.
They have stolen sales from Netbooks because they use actual working CPUs like Celeron or Pentium dual core ULV, which even running at 1.2GHz are twice as fast as an Atom.
They start at around £350 too so make a much better buy than a Netbook or an iPad
Anyone using Windows backup to save 900 GB of data needs their head read.
It's a consumer product and a compression based backup will crawl with that amount of data, just make disk images or get a RAID set up if your 900GB of files are so important.
Personally I've always used Acronis, I use it for customer backups and while there may be faster products out there Acronis is rock solid for reliability.
So they measured how people contextualise sexual encounters and gave us some random statistics describing how people felt about their bodies at the exact time they were ticking the box.
So much of this can be culturally biased, Why does anyone pay for this sudo scientific nonsense?
Anyone who has private data on unencrypted wireless networks should have no come back, it is a public network, no ISPs send out unsecured routers, if you don't have it set up properly then tough luck.
Your insurance company won't pay out a claim if you left your doors unlocked and open.
Google wasn't trying to steal data they were just using AP names to create non-GPS maps.
This is a storm over nothing while Phorm was barely even heard of across national news networks.
This is stupid, the rapist is being given a reason to beat/maim/kill their victim and their are other places they could rape.
Interesting to see if after a couple of years of these being available whether or not anal rapes increase.
Nice idea but is every woman supposed to insert these every day of their lives ? talk about scare mongering.
I'm not keen on spiders and having a functioning brain I realise a holiday to Spider Island would certainly not help my fear.
Tame chimps like most animals can go very crazy being raised indoors by humans, and since a monkey is something most people rarely meet why on earth was she trying to cure her phobia ?
IT ISN'T A PHOBIA IF A MAD CHIMP USED TO ATTACK YOU ALL THE TIME ! She should have just tried hosting a tea party.
Google's Android team said they wanted to give OEMs a reason not to customize, this is not a new law for Android, Google can't legally stop people from customizing and changing Android.
They will never force OEMs into anything they don't have the power to, just read the licence conditions for Android anyone can do whatever and they don't even have to share their changes.
Personally I'm looking forward to what the new UI/UE guy from Palm can accomplish WebOS is spoiled by poor Palm hardware but it certainly looks good.
Personally I don't understand why anyone uses a mail client anymore. I use Gmail and before that both Hotmail and Yahoo, web mail is great since I don't have to back it up and I can access it (and all my archived mail) anywhere.
What exactly is the point of Thunderbird or Outlook again ?
Mass noun in Latin
Virus comes to English from Latin. The Latin word vīrus (the ī indicates a long i) means "poison; venom", denoting the venom of a snake. This Latin word is probably related to the Greek ἰός (ios) meaning "venom" or "rust" and the Sanskrit word visham meaning "toxic, poison".[2]
Since vīrus in antiquity denoted something uncountable, it was a mass noun. Mass nouns — such as air, rice, and helpfulness in English — pluralize only under special circumstances, hence the non-existence of plural forms in the texts.[3]
It is unclear how a plural might have been formed under Latin grammar if the word had acquired a meaning requiring a plural form. In Latin vīrus is generally regarded as a neuter of the second declension, but neuter second declension nouns ending in -us (rather than -um) are so rare that there are no recorded plurals. Neuter nouns of other declensions always end in -a (in the nominative, accusative and vocative), but even if we were to apply this rule to vīrus, it would be conjecture to guess whether this should give us vīra, vīrua, or something else. There simply is no known plural for this word in Classical Latin.
In Neo-Latin, a plural form is necessary, in order to express the modern concept of ‘viruses’. Dictionaries such as Whitaker's Words therefore treat it as a second-declension noun with the following fairly ordinary forms:
singular plural
nominative vīrus vīra
vocative vīrus/vīre vīra
accusative vīrus vīra
genitive vīrī vīrōrum
dative vīrō vīrīs
ablative vīrō vīrīs
The funny thing is the get a Mac ads were supposed to take the piss out of Windows PCs and as anyone knows if someone calls you names to take the piss revel in them !
Microsoft took the Apple ads and made very funny I'm a PC ads, pretty sad Apple, can we have new Apple ads without the smug please ?
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