Posts by aurizon

RIM's BlackBerry PlayBook rooted

As usual - braindead

The shining wits at RIM, stuck their heads in the sand for five years as the Evil Empire (Apple) gathered strength as RIM fell to pieces until RIM is an afterthought in the USA Canada and lives on expiring contracts. I have friend who bought an iPhone and iPad and kept their fading blackberries - all the while transferring contacts. These contracts will be allowed to lapse, unrenewed, and RIM subscriber base will go into free fall. The apparent respite of sales in other countries will suffer the same fate as the USA/Canada - but far more rapidly with the dual assault by Android and Apple.

Why does RIM cling to this stupidity? Ossified management that grew as a one trick cowboy and now "Ringling Brothers" three rings will decimate them in 2012. They have no escape, none at all.

Apple applies to patent a SIM you can't remove

several SIM cards

There is no reason that they can not make smaller SIM cards and then have a multiplicity of sockets in the phone. When you wish to can use one or the other SIM card. This is a lot like the olr radios that had crystals.

Of course, crystals were made obsolete by synthesizers that could have any frequency. Similarly, a phone can be made like a chameleon - you add the SIM data as needed, with the security you wish, with the agreement of the operator's network

Bill Gates strangled Microsoft's 'tablet for creatives'

Gates was no visionary

He was a one trick cowboy on a monopoly ride that continues to this day. He lacked vision completely. That said, he presided over a long running and profitable monopoly. What else has he done? Killed off competing browsers via his monopoly power, not by being better. Killed off word perfect the same way.

It is no wonder he was so blind he was unable to see the huge potential in the Courier. I do not feel it is too late at all, it can still get traction.

Bill.

4G auctions - illegal and immoral?

Why not roads and sidewalks?

The whole concept of spectrum auction is a badly flawed way to tax us all. They all bid the spectrum to a high value, and they then proceed to beat it out of our hides. This is such a good method that we should apply it to roads and sidewalks. Sell them all, but make sure that there are at least 4 buyers of the local roads and sidewalks. That way they can compete. It might be cheaper to jump your back fence and gain access to your back neighbours lower prices roads and sidewalk. Bear in mind, roads and sidewalks will have 2 fees each, one to cross and one to travel along, and there will also be roam fees, requiring all people, children, moggies and doggies to wear transponders to allocate costs. To make it easy, they will send you a bill each month. If you do not pay, you are forbidden to travel, unless someone carries you on his back....

Sound silly? That is what we have now with telecoms.

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Go Daddy to sell .xxx domains

If they are going to sell .xxx

Possibly they should call them ho-daddy...

Endeavour 'nauts in epic ISS spacewalk

Captive bolts

It seems to me that clips or captive bolts should be used - harder to lose

Merkel rips into Google Books

Merkel backs establishment

Obviously the publishers and authors are deeply conflicted here. The publishers will get all the $$ and the authors none(save for those rare self published books).

I am sure all authors want this google books initiative, and would be willing to agree to a fair 50:50 split of this royalty money. As you know, the vast majority of all books are now out of print,("OOP") and those authors and publishers will reap an equal benefit under the google books plan if 50:50 split is agreed to. Possibly the books that are not OOP can give a higher % to publishers, as they are already paying a royalty to the authors. Some volume linked scale?

This concept is the true solution. Remember, publishers also hate libraries, does Merkel hate libraries? She needs a brain transplant to heed the voice of the people.