Posts by Gordon 10 4013 publicly visible posts • joined 22 Jun 2009
Tell me how many millions of Tablets we are talking about. As long as Apple is creaming off the lions share of the profits in a growing market (and there is $600Bn worth of reasons that say we should assume so) - do you think they care?
Especially since their Market share can fall - and their actual salescan keep increasing for a good while yet..
The CIO/CTO is an endangered species but nothing to do with BYOD. Its more to do with the CFO realising that up to 25% (or more) of a companies expenses are IT, and the corresponding desire to control those expenses (and the budget) that goes with it. Cue a decade of embarrising data leakage and high profile technical failures until they realise why they need an IT SME at Cxx level.
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Actually the solution is not to attempt to remove the human and compassionate aspects of the law in a knee jerk reaction to daily fail pedo hysteria.
Cases like this are exactly why judges should be permitted to use their judgement. A very poorly written law.
Bryn
I don't know if you are a cretin or deliberately bring obtuse. There is so much wrong with your post it beggars belief.
Firstly sky don't own any satellites they rent transponder space on them.
Sky don't own either the dishes or the installers.
So taking those away and the moronic hash tags it leaves your post pretty redundant.
hmmmm
just as good = inferior display - what planet are you on?
Think what you meant to say was for your particular use case you were only willing to part with £500 (btw was that real retail - a quick google suggests the online price of the current version is closer to £650).
So in short your comment should read" I have no need for the features the air has over my tosh - therefore I question the value of the Air for my own little world but I fully understand that others need to have a better screen or different OS validates their desire to pay more".
Agree with me or just having a thinly veiled dig at Apple for no real reason?
Surely without a way to protect your investment in Amazon ebooks its missing a trick? A fairly major one if you have a significant investment in Kindle coded eBooks?
No Im not talking about offline conversion via Calibre. Im talking about something seamless that happens on the device that consumers not geeks can use. Just like when I swap between the same kindle ebook on my iPhone and iPad.
Other than that they look like great piece of kit - especially if they are rootable to jellybean.
And why are you so fundamentally insecure that you felt the need to spout it to the world?
Im a Apple Fan - and love their tech - as a combination of form and function I find it hard to beat for my particular uses.
Whilst I read the Reg Apple stories with amusement and occasional disbelief Im not so attached to *any* piece of tech that I would find the need to broadcast a defense of it to the entire interwebs.
dont know if this is true or not as I got it second hand but its a great story anyways.
Apparently before the first atom bomb test Oppenheimer and the gang had a betting pool going on the effects. It was evenly split between those that believed the test would ignite the atmosphere and extinguish all life as we know it and those that thought it wouldnt.
Probably not true but conjours up a great mental image of boffins sweating bullets...
The scenario's are not the same.
This was an independent judiciary deciding that in the interests of a fair extradition hearing this evidence needs to be disclosed.
May is not the judiciary - she is part of the legislative arm of the government - multiple members of the judiciary have ruled there is no basis for McKinnon's or Assanges extraditions not going ahead and now its in the hands of May to basically decide on a whim.
Are you aware faggot is also a tasty tasty meat/offal based dish in the uk made approriately enough by a company called Brains (other faggot producers exist)?
Thought not - and equally irrelevant to the matter at hand.
http://www.google.co.uk/url?q=http://www.shitefood.co.uk/2012/01/mr-brains-pork-faggots/&sa=U&ei=1p0jUNi0MsTQsgbtoICoCw&ved=0CBoQFjAB&usg=AFQjCNHqnDBS3mdOnwwC0qzFsetB7MZ90Q
Not sure I like those scientists temporising over the limits of these new/improved sources of sequestration.
If they don't understand what they are how can they begin to know wether they are limited and to what timescale that limit works on. If that timescale is small yup we're in doodoo for this particular feedback mechanism only. If that timescale is geologically long then we are in clover. Repeat for the limits of each known or unknown sequestration mechanism.
1) We are, as a species, dead. The environment is so loopy that we can't grow enough food and die off. On the scale of "Bad things" that's up around eleventy-billion. It's really is not good.
Oh really? How exactly? Or are you making a wild overstatement? If only 10% of the worlds population lives near enough to sea level to be killed by a 10 METER rise (disclaimer wikipedia) then the other 90% are all right. Lets be pessimistic and suggest extreme weather pattersn and their impacts will kill another 40%.
Will it be a global disaster - on the individual level absolutely - will it be the end of our species - NO!
You do realise the the human race has be brought to the brink faster before than any climate change can possibly act - and survived - See black death, flu pandemics etc. Yet Im willing to be we are spending a fraction of the money on pandemic research that we are spending on climate change and its various costs.
Lets just keep some perspective eh?
Was it not obvious to G4S that the requirements of maintaining continual security for 2 months of Games are completely different from getting a few staff for a gig or a festival over 1-3 days?
With their stupid model they would need between 12k-15k of people on their books and still could not be guaranteed 100% cover.
I presume they were aiming to profit by paying day rates rather than 2 month contracts.
Some good points.
What is it about cable tv operators that leads them to take on huge levels of debt? It's not as if they are a real utility.
Is there any cable co in the Europe actually expanding their use base by cabling up new areas or are they all owned by VC's whose only skill is convincing banks to help them start leveraged buyouts?
So Apple dont make good enterprise apps. Dont think we can argue with that.
Newsflash Matt this does not equal iPad is no good for enterprise. There are plenty good enterprise apps for the iPad from Third Parties that let the ipad do well in its niche which is BYOD, Note taking, and very basic office functionality.
iPad as a desktop/laptop replacement - errr Matt nobody sane said it was (not even Apple). Whether the surface is it will take 2-3 years to find out.
In short more inconsistent Matt Asay rambling.
Seriously do you even try to write a coherent article any more?
The point wasnt that it was one Company (Visa) its was *ALL* of them.
At the very least thats Cartel behaviour.
Off all the shenanigans around Wikileaks and Asshat (most of which I have mixed feelings about) - this is the one incontrovertible wrong that was done. It was Censorship by economic means with no due process.
I had one or two of them. From Tandy I recall.
Basically you had components with terminals ending in springs, and shitloads of wires you used to connect them up by pushing between the spring coils.
They were great fun until you dislodged a wire and couldnt remember where it came from.
Typical politico's whats needed to kick start any UK based spacesport is a lack of regulation not more of it.
Take an out of the way part of the country - say Wales or Norfolk. Designate 20 sq miles as prime spaceport land. Repeal the health and safety legislation in the spaceport. Repeal any VAT, Income or Import duties on space based activties located there - and watch the companies flood in. Offer relocation incentives and employment quotas for the local slackjaws.
Best of all - since there is virtually no space industry in the uk apart from Surrey Satelites investment would flood in and again since there are vritually no players in this space already no Tax income is lost.
Are you for real? There has been more change in screen technology in the last 15 years as in the previous 50. Given that most of the manufacturing processes are now fairly closely related to chip making techniques there is no reason to suppose we won't be seeing a "moores law" of TV for the foreseeable future.
except for one key point. Regardless of whether we are in the real world or on the internet one thing still applies - Due Process.
In the Dotcom case due process is being used to punish a suspect - which is pitchfork and torches justice.
In the Assange case he is wiggling like a worm on a hook trying to avoid it.
So in reality the cases are at the opposite ends of the spectrum.
Do you have any grasp of reality?
There is a huge difference between us believing that atrocities being committed and email evidence that backs it up.
Just surmise a second that there is an email from Al-Assad ordering massacres - if you dont think thats important you are a muppet.
Not that I think there is - but Im sure there will be plenty of circumstancial evidence for when his Hague trial starts in 2020.
You are partially wrong and partially right. In a infinite universe ootentially anything can happen. In chemical reactions for any given combination of conditions there are a finite set of results and even less that would lead to life as we understand it. A great example is increased solar and cosmic radiation than we get tends to smash and damage the complex molecules that lead to life. Is life still possible under these conditions? Possibly but unlikely.
Therefore on that basis we more accurately say that based on our current understanding of chemistry the changes of life arising are slim.
I dont think its arrogance - just more like forgetfulness and failure to state things in terms of probabilities.
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