* Posts by MrIan

5 publicly visible posts • joined 1 Oct 2012

Forklift fondleslab 'fellas flee with vast haul of iPad Minis at JFK

MrIan
Gimp

Re: Now, they just need to find...

check out the wacom cintiq 24HD - not exactly as portable as a tablet, and you'll need a desk to put it on, but it is a thing of beauty. oh, and you'll need a PC close by. and before you ask it's about £2k.

MrIan

Re: "Put the minis in the bag, and nobody gets hurt"

don't think the MAC addresses would be much use, there's the whole single subnet thing. As for the app store, they're probably already blocked on there by serial number - and when an attempt is made to connect to the store the public IPs should be logged, noted and passed along to the ISP to get the account holders info.

'I'm a PIRATE' confessions spew from OED iPhone dictionary

MrIan
Unhappy

Re: OK. Cross OED of my shopping list.

yeah - i did re-read, but only after I posted... my bad.

MrIan
FAIL

Re: OK. Cross OED of my shopping list.

AddyNuf - if you're going to go after someone for their spelling/grammar - you might wish to read and re-read what they have written. The only "of" in the OC is grammatically and logically sound. You should have aimed at the OC's use of an apostrophe in a possessive "its."

Euro bigwig turns heat on 'unacceptable' Apple warranties

MrIan
Stop

not just apple

I've had several convos in the past with companies that seem to think the Sale Of Goods Act and the Supply of Goods are Services Act don't apply to them. No 1 year is not enough. Even if it's 2nd hand equipment, if you're a company selling it you cannot shirk your legal obligation to warranty everything you sell for a nicely worded "reasonable length of time." (Courts in England/Wales that's 6 years max, Scotland it's 5).

As a consumer North of the Rio Tweed I'm also sick of seeing "all disputes will be under jurisdiction of English courts"... no they effin won't, see the above noted laws - that contract clause in your T&Cs is entirely invalid - so stop wasting bits on the internet by putting it in there. There are only a limit number of 1s and 0s available on the internets, please stop needlessly wasting them.

I advise everyone to download a copy of each of these laws and read them - especially if you work in retail. I keep a copy on my phone for reference and I'm not opposed to quoting the law to dumb PC World managers.