Posts by Allthegoodhandlesaretaken

MacBook Pro petition begs Apple for total recall of krap keyboards

Re: I'm disappointed.....

They would be but they havent got a working keyboard at the moment..

Brazil says it has bagged Royal Navy flagship HMS Ocean for £84m

Re: Whats in a name - I prefer the Banksian naming convention

My vote would be for another "HMS Devastation", You know the ship on the front of the England's Glory matches (that are made in Sweden....)

Crossroads preps pesky product portfolio selloff

Hows their Motel in Brum going?

Is Benny still employed?

Remember when SimCity ABSOLUTELY HAD to be online? Not any more – fancy that!

So as this is EA whats the betting you will need to buy the new addon pack (if you can call new graphics for the buildings an addon) to get offline mode enabled....

Apple handed victory in Samsung text-selection patent case

Re: Bullet proof, but not B.S. proof.

It appears that certain people have gotten so used to Apples Marketing that you've forgotton a lot of what was on the Iphone was released before. I suggest that you have a look at the later HP IPAQ phones.... (thats a Q at the end not a D, Apple even managed to nearly copy the name..... ).

If you replace everything you said about the iphone with "IPAQ" you would be quite correct... HP sold a smart phone that could do everything the Iphone could do years earlier....(Phone,gps, apps, internet, email, video camera, play movies and music, crap app you needed to use to sync with your pc) If I could be bothered to get mine from the attic to check I think it even could detect if headphones were plugged in or if it needed to use the internal speaker... Oh unlike the Iphone they could also play flash stuff and had a port of firefox (as well as using it as a tv remote) . The app store was a bit rubbish for it though.... oh wait doesnt apple have a app store as well.

Mine even had *wait for it* "rounded corners", which is why I've never understood why Prior art wasnt used when defending against apple, as the Iphone does look an lot like a updated copy of it. (mind you so do most *modern* phones, Android included)

Got a BMW? Thicko thieves can EASILY NICK IT with $30 box

Hmm no fix for a few weeks (checks dates) ah yes its Oktoberfest in Munich isnt it...

Im guessing no fix till they can sober up the engineers.....

Apple to Google Maps: ‘Get lost’

Re: Cool project

As this is crowd sourced, perhaps elreg could run a competition to see if anyone could get Apples HQ renamed something less then appropriate on the maps.

Think of the fun that would result when the first Apple exec finds his press released photos were tagged as taken in Hell/Hull, Google Towers or Sinclair Research...

Sony asks for 1.6m LCD TVs to be returned

first the batterys and now the tvs....

Im thinking someone in whaever country now does product design for sony mis-understood when the boss said all their products should be red hot.

New Apple move against Galaxy Tab on Euro front

iAnyone else think that Ipod sounds awfully like IPAQ

(For you young uns) dispite the "I" prefix it was released by compaq about a year before Apple released their first "I" item if memory serves me...

Wonder why Samsung havent just gone for prior art, Im sure my old one had rounded edges.... also had wifi and the ability to surf the web and was touch screen....

They even managed to put a workable phone in some versions. (I'll let you decide which im talking about ;) )

Prime Minister recalls holidaying MPs after London riots

I wonder how much the cuts in police budgets are effecting what they do...

While I think we would all like the thieving skumbags to policed using the method shown in the "Camberwick Green" opening of Life on mars by Gene Hunt (search utube) If I knew I was one of the police who might be unemployed due to Gov. Cuts in police numbers in a few months, I certainly wouldn’t want to risk getting injured for life by fighting these rioters and cant blame them from standing back when out numbered.

Also just wondering if anyone found any bargain “slightly smoke damaged” electrical goods from north London on ebay yet?