Posts by Andy Fletcher 407 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Jun 2007
...I'd be mad. And possibly dead.
But the 49999 people who got "lucky" wouldn't know or care about it. Of COURSE Lenovo have done a cost/benefit analysis. Put it another way, by your reasoning we would reduce speed limits to zero to avoid traffic deaths. We don't. And as horrible as this sounds, we make an economic decision as a society as to how many deaths are acceptable in terms of the benefits of moving people and produce efficiently.
they could enable some privacy for the WHOIS records on .co.uk domains. Just like the rest of the world does.
Quite why the hell they think that anyone and everyone worldwide has the right to know where I live just because I'm a UK resident who owns a .co.uk has always baffled me. It's not like the authorities couldn't get the info if they needed it from the registrar.
Is it really surprising that if hundreds of people make different predictions one of them turns out to be right? And if 10 years is the blink of an eye (no argument there) 30 years isn't?
Of course, many scaremongers have (very wisely) chosen to make predictions they won't be alive to see happen (or not). Lovelock must be kicking himself.
Nice, you've worked in the channel presumably? Or rather presumably not. There's quite a bit more to it than just "middlemen". Distributors make it possible for smaller tech suppliers to get their products into this country - giving us consumers more choice. That's not even really the primary function - distributors are the creditors for independant retailers, most of which couldn't operate without them. To sum that up, without disties prices would be higher, not lower as the overall effect (were they removed) would be to drastically reduce competition.
It hasn't actually been shown to be all that useful. Our dinosaurs never bothered with it and their time on the planet eclipses ours into insignificance. I can buy that life may be inevitable given the right mix of elements and conditions, but I don't buy that intelligence is an inevitable byproduct. There's just so little intelligence around as it is.
Each "knows" what the other is doing, instantaneously. Confusion is to be expected. No-one understands quantum tunnelling but everyone Reg reader faithfully trusts data read from a CD/DVD disc to be accurate. What I'm saying is, you're meant to be confused, just like me. That's the magic.
Vodafone manage to pay no corporation tax. Not sure why Sony can't work that shit out for themselves. Also, I like how most of the comments are whinging about drops in product quality from Sony over the years. I'm afraid if you equate product quality with profitability you haven't understood 21st century economics.
Google could quite easily honor trademark owners requests to not allow competitors to bid on trademarked names they don't own. They used to do this, but then decided to open the floodgates and ignore trademarks.
Put that another way, Google don't need to do the policing work, trademark owners would do it for them.
Hang on. I know the Chandrasekhar limit applies to white dwarfs, but didn't know it automatically meant the things would blow up if it got exceeded. Don't some of them collapse to form neutron stars? And if that is the case, isn't it more likely for one that only just exceeded the limit to collapse, whereas two colliding and exceeding the limit by a huge margin in a tiny amount of time more likely to blow up?
Didn't Brain Cox reckon in his last program that global investment in fusion technology amounted to a (paltry) $1billion.
Somehow, billions spent on climate research and horseshit like windpower to combat other billions spent on (currently) economically viable fossil fuel energy production is the way we've decided to go. Who the hell is in charge here. Feels like no-one.
Sure - not everyone has fast enough broadband. But MS know a huge percentage of their userbase (I would be amazed if it was less than 98%) do. You simply don't add a large expense to the cost of your hardware that 100% of your users have to pay for simply to pander to 2% of them. It's harsh, but that's how it is. Whether I agree with it or not, we're about to witness the death of physical media sales, and the second hand games market.
MS knows full well they dropped a clanger making the XBox360 with a DVD drive, whereas Sony added BluRay. That's why Sony were able to get exclusives because no gamer can be bothered with 6 discs.
I'm not sure why anyone would be surprised that discs will disappear altogether pretty soon. It's an outdated way to distribute digital media and has been for a long time now. No-one noticed how aggressively Amazon is pursuing digital content distribution online? They aren't stupid. Retailers selling physical media should have woken up to this 5 years ago. They're screwed.
Vodafone were able to pass the buck to Apple? When Vodafone is the publisher? So.....I can post what the hell I want on the web and if anyone questions the content I can refer them to the source of the material. That's one helluva loophole for anyone wanting to post hate, porn or whatever right there. Just when I thought a had a tenuous grip on liability law I read something like this.
Although agreeing that the climate is going to change in the future doesn't sound particularly Earth shattering news to me. It hasn't ever managed to stay the same for long. I notice, for instance, the temperature has changed today compared to yesterday. I don't have a $2.4 billion budget either, just a window.
Wow. Three people who seriously believe an iPad is "worth" £300 when a host of competitors somehow manage to make similar products and sell them for less than £100. I'll let you in on the secret - any product is only worth what a customer is willing to pay for it. Also thanks for letting me know you can buy an iPad outside the US. I had no idea.
...that's not really how it works now is it? The basic premise has to be that the users encourage new users. It's not really a "social network" if the recruitment is done by the company that owns it.
I'm trying since I closed my FB account, but it's hard as hell to convince even tech types who have a G account already to use it. And yes, I feel slightly dirty doing marketing for Google but my dislike of Facebook overcomes that.
Irrelevant? How much do you think David Prowse, Anthony Daniels & Kenny Baker made out of being in Star Wars. Not much. And they just got paid for their work - no ongoing gravy train for them. The whole system is a mess, and wages are disproportional. And therin lies the problem - usually supply and demand dictate pricing. Crap like SOPA is simply an industry trying to protect itself from natural market forces.
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