Posts by Pantera

Alaska Airlines' door-dropping flight was missing bolts

actually the options are

normal cabin with plug

extra seats with emergency exit

The Chinese are here: Xiaomi to bring phones to the UK next month

Re: Excellent phones

they have a range of android one phones so that helps

Samsung Galaxy Watch: A tough and classy activity tracker

well yeah but

all-conquering is a bit over the top, less than 1% of iphone users has a watch so its more the "able to move finger" in the country of the totally paralized

Amazon says Hachette should lower ebook prices, pay authors more

Re: and there is no secondary market – e-books cannot be resold as used books,

actually a dutch judge has just heared a case from the the copyright maffia v a new company that wants to sell second hand e books

the maffia lost, of at least did not win as the judge said that it is not clear if the rules for paper books are also valid for e books, so the company can go on with reselling

Hands on with the new Apple MacBook Air

useless

without a form of 3g (or 4g) integrated into the system

why would i buy a $1000 supermobile machine and be limited to wifi hotspots?

Navy Carriers: We want two or no votes for you, Tories

not realy

only the us has the toys to project real power, the russians might with a lot of time and ducttape but france/uk or europe don't could not do it in bosnia which is close

you need carriers, a large air transport force (big ones nog those small airbus ones) and de c3 incl satelites

Lite-on iHBS112 internal Blu-ray writer

why oh why

would you spend money on a bd diskburner a tb of br recordables (4speed not 12 speed) wil cost about 70$ and that is without taking into account the 10/15% loss as there is no way you going to get 25 gb on a disk

external hard disks are about the same price per gb.

FileMaker Pro squeezes onto an iPhone

why oh why

would we need a dedicated client if most modern databases can be accesed by webbrowsers?

Samsung HT-C6930 3D Blu-ray home cinema set

mkv

So did you check if the mkx was for real or just a gimmick, in the past systems have had less than complete support and samsung would not be the first to claim to be compatible while only playing 1 in 10

Russian spy ring bust uncovers tech toolkit

stupid spy did not notice google streetviewcar

""a commercially available tool that can detect the presence of wireless networks""

you would think the cameras and logo would warn them

Googlegate: Mapping a scandal of global proportions

except

that most of you activities on google are attached to a unique identifier, you could (and will) change ip but once it knows that [e-mail] is attached to that ip which at that time was given to an machine at 10 downing street you will never be unknown again. Yes you could wipe your pc go to a different location and get a new identifier but you 1 slip up and it is connected to you again

A multitasking iPad? Let's bin the netbook

the problem with the ipad is

that while it is not difficult to find reasons to buy one it is difficult to find a use for it.

It does a lot but nothing better.

Sure you can read books, so can a kindle (at a third of the weight with al lot more batterytime) sure you can do email, so can my iphone and if you have a lot of email i'd buy a blackberry or a proper laptop. Which is what i'd do if i had to do any serious work anyway.

my iphone does most things better than the ipad (except video ) and has one thing the ipad can't which is make phonecalls.

video? the screen had the wrong size and does not do hd, a 65 euro mobile dvd player works bettter.

games? have played some, can't say i liked touch for anything buy cardgames, so a psp of ds would work better.

given the options i's rather have one of those 4g htc phones, if they make a version with a keyboard perfect

Free Software Foundation urges Google to open On2 codec

that's really

really scary

to be honest i don't care if a codec is open or closed source, at least not as much as if it works well. MS , google apple are all companies, the difference is that ms and apple are more interested in how much money the can make me pay and that google is interested in my private information

i can control how much money i spend but less and less how private my privacy is

doubt

if that will be reason enough for people to change browsers.

besides, if google links youtube to chrome they would be in problems, os and browser or website (huge one) with browser.