Posts by Nextweek

Pamela Anderson gets her kit off for Nokia

Easy

Meatloaf -> Especially from the film Fightclub (boobs bigger than Pammy)

Godly Aussie MP accused of being online 'smut' junkie

Tax payers money

Clearly you missed the important point. This was on his works computer. A tax payers computer. Are you happy that tax money is going to pay for someone to sit and view porn?

Booze makes you clever, having none makes you stupid

Thank you

Some sound scientific words, I would also like to see a link to the data from which the conclusions were drawn.

Or is that too much to ask in this Internet age?

Leicester City councillors eye up iPad to save £90k a year

Re: How Many Pages

The print cost is more than that. You have to factor in:

The person that is printing it off,

The person that is filling the printer with toner and paper,

The person that is photocopying them,

The person that is servicing the photocopier,

The receptionist that is letting the photocopier service man in,

The security guard that is monitoring the reception,

The manager to authorise all the spending,

The quality assurance group that checks the staff are making efficiency savings,

The base cost of a printer,

Of course what they should have done was simply said they were looking at ecological concerns and moving towards a paperless office.

BT strike ballot halted over possible 'technical breaches'

Compound interest

Not really, the 0.06% advantage is nothing. I would do better with 5% now and invest that in a high interest (0.5%) bank account and end up better off over the long run.

Don't underestimate compound interest.

Microsoft defends death of free video in IE 9

Re: Why?

As a software developer myself I understand why you might think that using the OS multimedia framework would be a good idea. However if you were Mozilla, creating a cross-platform multimedia application. How could you best ensure that Firefox can play videos?

A Windows patch to fix a vulnerability could break your video playback and the end user is just going to see that Firefox does not work any more.

Also that framework (DirectX / Gstreamer / QuickTime) is actually a moving target, you'd have to have 3 experts creating and maintaining a cross-platform translation layer for all versions of your application.

Its a balance between stability and features, ideally everything would be from the underlying platform but for stability you bring it into your application and under your control.

AMD set to release low-cost six-core Phenom IIs

AM2+ compatability

Short answer: no you cannot. You'll need a new motherboard.

Y2.01K hits Garmin satnav

Out of guarantee

Your only going to get about 6 months guarantee under current legislation.

I see reviews of this device from 2003 so getting 7 years out of a product these days is not bad.

If you don't like the throw away society we have then write a letter to an MP or something. Expecting a manufacturer to do something is just wishful thinking really.

Brain-jacking fungus turns living victims into 'zombies'

I call fake

Why is the logical conclusion that the fungus is controlling the ants?

More logical is that an ant knows that it is ill and does not want others to become ill so moves as far away as it can. Then funds a safe place under a leaf.

Sounds more logical than a fungus controlling brain function. However its probably more news worthy when presented this way.

Firefox 3.7 swivels glassy eye

Bad User Interface Design

Think about it from a brains perspective. It now has to work harder to recognise a button because the colours behind it might be different based on what is currently behind it. Humans are great at recognising colours but not if they keep changing.

Its like the ribbon bar in Office 2007. It lowers the learning curve by showing you everything but your eye's have to scan further because of the large icons.

For those that use computers every day this just quickens the pace at which we get eye strain.

MPs decry lack of honeybee action

Subsidy

How many bee hives could you buy with £500,000 per year?

Surely by offering free bee hives to people you would increase the number of bee keepers who would help with monitoring?