* Posts by Chad H.

2434 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jan 2007

Dear Google and Facebook: You don't want Skype

Chad H.
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Google

Given that Google seems to be the only company that can make the "Underpants Gnome" strategy work: (1: Invent a cool site thats free to access, 2: ?????? 3: Profit) I think they're the only company that could possibly make a company who's user base is only there for free phone calls work.

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Well

For the same reason they bought You Tube when they had Google Video.

Anyone else remember Google Video? No? Its still around I think.

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Joke

Social media

Social Media will die as soon as all you drones realise that 90% of you are boring.

Sony implicates Anonymous in PlayStation Network hack

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WTF?

Oh look, its the next Boogeyman of the week.

Give me a break.

If anonymous had hacked Sony, they'd take credit for it publicly! They're in it for the Lulz remember, and there's no lulz if noone knows it was you.

Are Anonymous the new Boogeyman of the week? What else can we blame on them?

Goodyear blimps to be replaced by German Zeppelins

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Joke

So if they only sell one a year...

Its a goodyear!

Woz snubs Paul Allen, praises pea soup

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If we were ment to be Vegetarian

There'd be no pigs. Its that simple really.

Vatican blogger meeting says no to copyright, yes to lifting content

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@ Krusty

Yeah, I know for it to be theft you have to intend to permentently deprive the owner of property (which Copyright Infringement doesnt seem to because the IP holder still has the IP), but I couldn't resist making the same moral equivalence argument as our corporate and political overlords.

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Hmmm

Well I suppose the Book of Mormon could be claimed to be a dirivative work, but Return of the Jedi... I err mean Xenu?

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So...

Thou Shall not steal... Unless you're giving free publicity to the original owner?

Brilliant. I'm going to go and snag me a Popemobile.... Its okay as long as I paint the Vatican website on the sides....

Revealed: Secret security plan should Kate leave Wills at the altar

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My goodness

They really do think of everything don't they.

Sky in surprise duct-and-pole-sharing trial with BT

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@ Joe

Sky payed for the ball (and their content), that's why they decide who gets to play with it. Why should sky assist their competitors?

VM et al are welcome to setup their own channels and buy their own content, but they dont seem to want to, hence the sale of living to sky.

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Well...

A good deal of the sky platform isn't owned by sky - hence why the same satelite and same unecypted channels are used through Freesat and Sky.

Nintendo blames puzzled public for 3DS sales shortfall

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WTF?

Speaking as someone on the fence about buying one...

I don't believe that phones offer the same deep gaming experience as a DS/PSP/3DS, so that's not the issue.

When it comes to the 3DS I see lots of marketing where people are talking about the 3D effects; but that's all they do, talk about it.

I want to see the effects before I buy, and I'm yet to find a retailer with a demonstration unit. 2D photos and video obviously won't do it justice. As such I find myself unable to buy one.

China sets out space-station plan, asks public to name it

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Joke

Given that this is a Chineese station

I guess calling it "Steven Colbert" is out of the question?

(How about a el reg contest to name the thing?)

PlayBook won't play nice with BlackBerries on AT&T

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@ Ian

Still doesn't explain why software needs to be installed on the phone - add BES support to the playbook. No more or less painful than setting up the next blackberry.

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WTF?

Why does this need software on the blackberry?

One would have thought the easier solution would be to add contacts and calendar sync to BIS and sync both from there...

Kindle beats Apple's closed book on choice

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@ Getter

Your last paragraph just destroyed any gain you made in the previous paragraphs. Those things can have their causation proved by scientific tests. Oh look, each time I have a circle the radius and Circumfrence remain in the same proportion.

You can say I'm being anal all I like - the author has made an assertation he claims to have proven, but hasn't.

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Again

You're just suggesting a link. The claim was that its sync and ability to use on multiple devices that pushes more kindle sales, not a larger range or any of the other advantanges that kindle has over iPhone.

If a high powered Red car, and a Cheap red car are both more popular than a green car thats expensive and underpowered, is it because red cars are superior>

If you want to prove a link, you need more than sales figures. Show me a survey of Kindle users who say that its the ability to use on multiple devices thats the key factor in buying their books, and then I'll believe it. Until then, its an unproven hypothesis.

Chad H.

Causation?

It's sometimes said that people won't pay for sync, and that they don't value choice. Kindle's ebook sales compared to Apple's iBook sales suggests otherwise. Syncing across different devices matters. Choice matters. The proof is in the sales figures.

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See this rock? It keeps away bears! Well when was the last time YOU saw a bear? The proof is in the bear attack figures.

You need to prove causation if you want to do more than suggest a link.

Bradley Manning to be moved to new military prison

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Hmm

I don't recall seeing any condemnation at all...

As for this bit:

including a range of qualified mental, emotional and physical health professionals.

Is the CO required to listen to them, as the last did not.

Pope says gravity proves technology can't supplant God

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FAIL

@ veskebjorn

Issac Newton also spent a fair bit of his time trying to turn lead into gold. let me know how that works out for you.

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@ Copsewood

Ah, the old "But the other boy did it too" argument. What a sure way to reclaim the moral high ground.

Oh Wait.

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Joke

Noah

Isn't the story of Noah interesting...

Let's pretend for a moment the bible is literally true, and the story of Noah happened the way the bible says (and wasn't ripped off from a Persian story).

God gets annoyed, and drowns everyone but one family and a boat load of animals.

God realises his mistake and creates the rainbow as recompense.

If god is all knowing, god would have known beforehand he'd regret it; genocide is a bad act; ergo god is either not all knowing, or not good.

If god is all powerful, he could undo the mistake, ctrl-z, do a superman reverse spin trick; god did not even though he acknowledged the mistake; ergo god is not all powerful, or not good.

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No

No I am god.

No wait, I'm spartacus. Sorry, I always get those two muddled up.

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@ Ru/Paul Murphy

But its not Gravity... Its inteligent falling!

The Boogey-God wants it all to go down, so it does. And behold the Miracale of God, Harold by thy name.

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@ Bristol

So those closest to gods... Use a mac?

SCHEITERN: Scientologists want to friend schoolkids on Facebook

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@ Anon

Ask a christian priest what he believes, and he'll hand you the bible.

Ask a Immam what he belives, and he'll hand you the Quaran

Ask a Scientology representative what they believe, and they'll not tell you anything until you pony up thousands of currency units.

Free Libyana: Gadaffi networkjacker speaks!

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Is it murder

When you're acting to defend another?

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Funny

NATO seem to be doing a lot to avoid civilian casualties...

Whats' Gaddafi doing? Oh yeah, thats right, Disipearing women who go to reporters with stories of soldiers raping them.

Are you sure you want to defend this guy? Really?

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Dave

Really?

You're going to make the air terrorist example in favour of leaving gaddafi there?

Really? For Gaddafi?

Sounds like no change either way then.

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Well

The Rebels also don't want Gaddafi... Does anyone with a surname thats not gaddafi want him?

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Really?

Really Dave?

You really want to argue Gaddafi has the moral High ground on International law?

Lockerbie?

Targeting of Civilians?

as for International law... Chap VII, Article 42:

"Should the Security Council consider that measures provided for in Article 41 would be inadequate or have proved to be inadequate, it may take such action by air, sea, or land forces as may be necessary to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such action may include demonstrations, blockade, and other operations by air, sea, or land forces of Members of the United Nations."

Its legal, get over it. Its time for the libyan people, not the Gaddafi family, to have their way.

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Interesting Moral question Dave

I guess the other part of the question is "Is it okay to steal from a theif"

The victim company has Gaddaffi pawprints all over it. The network wouldnt exist except for business practices that are unnaceptable here in the west and is probably build on funds misapropriated from the libyan people in the first place.

Fujitsu £2bn broadband project throttled at both ends

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Joke

Perfect.

Mark, your area sounds perfect for a RFC_1149 venture. All we need to do is ask the government for some money, and get the.... Errr... Equipment. Can't be that hard.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RFC_1149

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Allow me to take the DeLorean for a spin

This won't happen.

UK Gvt will say "Thats almost the whole pot, no way too expensive"

Fujitsu will say fine and go away.

Also seems a bit dubious - if BT isn't targeting these areas, can they really be profitable?

What will we do with 600MHz?

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Channel M

Hasn't closed, but did scale back operations to no new conemt; however GMG is promising a bug relaunch.

UK gov 'draws US attention' to Bradley Manning concerns

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FAIL

@ laird

It's the psychologists JOB to determine if he's a suicide risk. The brig authorities are supposed to act on that advice.

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@ f111f

Yet it seems each psychologist that's looked at him has come to the same Conclusion - not a suicide risk. Yet the folks running the brig have decided to use their non-professional judgement rather than the professionals.

It's an abuse of process, pure and simple.

Civil servants just can't keep a grip on their BlackBerrys

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Sure

We'll just have to give all those macs a MobileMe subscription, then we'll have a nice photo of you to give the recovery team.

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You're presuming

Such things are stolen, not merely misplaced.

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Dead Vulture

Mountains from anthills.

Cost of blackberry 9300 - 179.99 (O2 PAYG)

Cost of insurance - 7.50 (O2 pay monthly)

Annual insurance 12 x 7.50 - 90.

Implied probability of losing a blackberry - 50%.

Unless El reg is telling us there are only 20 blackberries in the DFT then this appears to be article appears to be completely worthless - let's just build some hype about everyone's favourite boogeyman, the civil service and imply that some tiny statistic is a huge issue.

Even if half of the money made in insurance is profit, then this amount of loss is nothing.

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@ obviously

Obviously you didn't read this bit: ...includes both Department owned assets and staff personal property".

This still seems a smaller loss rate than the general population.

FCC forces data roaming on US wireless giants

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Troll

Oh look

It's someone using the scary "S" word to try and convince us he's right. Let's all listen and do what he says.

Judge flips $625.5m Apple patent payout

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Err

Mirror Worlds may have painted an appealing picture for the jury,...

But Apple are more Appealing?

Wannabe baby-kisser lies on political honesty phone-in

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Joke

Lib dem, conservative..,

What's the difference now anyways?

Dig deep! Radio asks taxpayers for blank cheque

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At least one of then got it right.

Dab isn't a result, it's the way you get the result. I bought a DAB radio 5 years ago to listen to the world service, and spent hours trying to find the exact spot in the room the signal was good enough to be listensble...but once I had it, I listened.

If DAB wants to seriously win, content is king. Offer new channels with content you can't get elsewhere, high bandwidth orchestra quality stuff, low bandwidth for talks- not just more of the same but not as good.

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Hybrid radio

The hybrid radio as described sounds pointless... If I've got Internet radio, then I don't need FM or DAB.

Seems the solution is mobile "broadband", have the networks' license rewritten to allow free data usage for what we now call radio stations. More choice, if done by 3G should have plenty of bandwidth and the choice of every station in the world....

Who am I kidding... That would be too simple.

iPhone morphs into pinball machine

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So...

Where are the bridge dwelling goat botherers? Aren't they supposed to make a quip involving apple and the 30% take they'll be missing?

Vodafone grabs £7bn, leaves France

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Joke

Run Away!

Did the French have to taunt them a second time?

Season of TV shows blown out of cloud... for good

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Stop

We need a Nelson icon!

Ha-Ha!