Posts by bobbles31

Apple MacBook Pro 17in 2011

Erm

You say that its performanve is amazing compared to other laptops then list it with a bunch of other machines that make it look decidedly average. I took a quick look at the acer and can get it from tesco for under 900 quid. Being as i use my 17" pavillion as a replacement desktop that i can take with me to clients i could buy the acer and an apple 27" cinema display. That way i get huge screen silly resolution kick ass performance usb3.0 and change left over to buy a moch choca pony and trapacino instead of peripherals to make my mac talk to run of the mill components.

Hell i could even buy 2x 27" dell screens instead and have one at home and leave one on client site.

Apple pictures iOS on your wall

World of difference

There is a world of difference.

Unfortunately apple will patent this and then sue anyone that does anything even remotely similar. Cutting innovation off at the pass.

Truck nuts swing onto US freedom of speech agenda

You dont have a right to get through life unoffended.

The weird part about your objection is that it is you that is sexualising am image that is intended as a show of masculinity.

It is you that is projecting a distasteful understanding onto a simply juvenile gesture.

Personally i think it is you who should be censored or grow up and teach your kids about how life works rather than trying to hide them from it.

Nintendo cuts cost of 3DS by a third

Yes I love how some people try to rewrite history....

Fortunately, these days we have the Internet that we can refer to as a kind of long term memory store...

http://www.forbes.com/2007/08/01/sony-games-innovation-lead-cz_cc_0802christensen.html

A sony exec quote from the article:

"The controller is innovative, but the Wii is basically a repurposed GameCube. If you’ve built your console on an innovative controller, you have to ask yourself, Is that long term?”

(That sounds like exec speak for stupid and gimmick to me)

News International grabs SunOnSunday.co.uk domain

Listening in is controlled by the recipients choice....

One action is someone making their private information public, the other is a violation under several parts of legislation from the computer misuse act to the RIPA.

The irony is that if we could get case law where RIPA is used to prosecute a private company, (even though the CPS it didn't cover private companies when the company involved was BT) then maybe we can finally get some justice for the Phorm intercepts.

erm...

"politicians who discracefully just fall over themselves to do the publics bidding"

isn't this what politicians should do? Or would you rather that they cow tailed to media magnates?

I love the manouvering that even the Reg is missing.

Just why are the politicians normally so in lurve with Murdoch suddenly becoming all vitriolic and demanding that with great vengeance and furious anger that News International be referred to the Competition Commission. Could it be that because with the lessening of Market share caused by the demise of NotW the competition commission will have no choice but to report that News International taking full control of BSkyB does not represent a monopoly of the media organisations in the UK and as such should be allowed to go ahead.

But what of the "fit and proper" test. Well that test is conducted by OfCom who are only being asked to comment but not to report. This couldn't be playing out any more predictably if it were an episode of Yes Minister.

All politicians get to be outraged, all government agencies get to say the right thing officially without any of it mattering a jot, and Rupert Murdoch gets what he wanted all along.

If he is really lucky BSkyBs share price will plummet so far that he can even lower his offer to buy from 700p per share to 600p per share and offset the cost of losing News of the World. Then reclaim that share by starting the Sunday version of the Sun.

You have to hand it to Murdoch, he knows how to play the game.

He even managed to get everyone reporting his arrival like the second coming in the press last night giving the public impression that he was out of the country and is therefore as clean as a whistle. I mean, how could he have known what was going on...he wasn't even there.

UK will obey Euro unisex-insurance rules from 2013

Past performance is no guarantee of blah blah blah

Let me take a stab at that for you....

(TotalCostOfClaims per year / Total Number of Policies) * 2 = universalPremiumForAll

hows that for a means of calculating a premium, all policies equally cover all accidents. Double it to give the insurers a 50% margin from which they can take their costs and there you go.

Australia is a good example of how it should work

Because of the addition of 3rd party insurance with the registration the percentage of uninsured drivers is considerably less meaning you have true insurance. Everyone pays for the few unfortunates.

Google bypasses admin controls with latest Chrome IE

In fact a good lawyer may argue

that google are gaining access to systems that they are not authorised to access putting them in breach of the Computer Misuse Act here in the UK.

That puppy can carry a prison term.

Spielberg flung Fox from Transformers 3

I couldn't face the second one...

I only watched the first one all the way through just so that I could say with certainly that it really was crop.

As the credits rolled you can point to each individuals name and say that he/she did a rubbish job.

Sorry to all you Transformers fans out there, the cartoon was/still is awesome. This trilogy of shit to cash in on a much loved franchise only serves as a kind of tax on stupidity.

Amused

The irony in the people who want us to be serious about hitler and what he did not wanting us to think or say subversive things is a humor all it's own.

Got a website? Pay attention, Cookie Law will come

To be fair

It was up to the site owner to use Analytics so why shouldn't it be up to them to explain the cookie.

To say that they don't is a bit like saying that a site that provides a Direct Debit form shouldn't contain details of the DD guarantee. Even though it isn't their guarantee.

Does a flash motor make a man more desirable?

You need to watch Idiocracy

possibly one of the most ironically funny movies ever made.

and possibly one of the worst movies ever made too.

The honda Jazz

has a list of awards longer than your arm....it's not a proper Porsche either.

Sorry, but you just sound bitter.

(Mine's the one with the keys for a Jazz in the pocket)

Hollywood to 'retell' Carrie

Title 1

And dont forget added marketing and promotion to ensure that enough suckers show up on opening weekend before anyone realises its complete shite!

Title2

just pointless killing off of characters for no discernible reason. Depressing rather than anything else.

Isnt that the definition of horror?

'Upgraded' Apple iMacs lock out hard drive replacement

Why do some people think?

That techies are the only people that buy computers. I have 3 siblings and both parents all have hd pcs and now have laptops. Only i have ever upgraded any machine and only my own machine. On that small sample 1 in 6 people actually have the technical ability and motivation to upgrade.

Maybe and this is a wild guess, apple have figured out that by making machines for the 5out of6 people they can stop worrying so much about upgradeability and instead focus on things that people really want like small quiet stylish pcs.

Fanboy disclosure statement:

I own

1 x ubuntu pc

2 x win pc

1 x imac(whisper quiet due to lack of upgrade)

1x win laptop

1 x iphone

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

You owe me a keyboard!

Of course the official plan is to offer her a denim jacket and a five minute head start.

Whatever you do Kate, dont use the tube!

Erm

Is it Friday already?

Cops refuse to say if they secretly snarf cellphone data

Lord

I want them to respect the law same as everybody else.

Nissan Leaf electric car

Your mate by the way....

Is also paying for servicing plus repairs and replacements, clutches at 100k miles, don't get me started on Dual Mass Flywheels, Batteries, brakes, spark plugs, cam belts and exhaust pipes, to name a few that are found on a petrol/diesel and not on a leccy tech.

Suddenly that £165 per month cost for a battery doesn't look so disproportionate, no doubt the city will come up with insurance schemes to replace them when they fail at a mere £35 per month.

Moving to Windows 7: Is it worth it?

You mean aside from...

The need to refine and improve an underlying architecture and then make software that utilises said architecture.

By that rationale, a modern Sat Nav should be engineered to work on a 60's era car (one with a Dynamo and not an Alternator). The point is it won't because cars don't have dynamos any more and engineering a modern device to work on a legacy architecture is just fallacy.

EA dubs Nintendo Wii a 'legacy platform'

sorry you mistyped something there let me correct if for you.....

could this be sour grapes that EA have failed to produce a decent Wii game yet

should read

could this be sour grapes that EA have failed to produce a decent game yet

there, now its accurate.

Bad Belgian busted by kinky iTunes openness

Technically.....

You are running foul of the Computer Misuse Act. It is against the law to access a resource that you are unauthorised to access. Even if you have a valid username/password or the resource is unprotected you are still in breach of the law.

If you were unlucky enough to accidentally stumble across sensitive information and the owner discovered your intrusion you would be liable.

I guess in these cases the law picks who it wants to prosecute the most.

Feeling heat from Macs, Microsoft sells PCs sans crapware

Apple

Thats not a title, that's a comment!

'Self-incriminators' may be forced to tell the court what they know

Brilliant

It took 100's/1000's of years of fighting and bloodshed, millions of lives lost to get to a society where the individual has rights that protect him/her from the state and guarantees fairness for all and we (no doubt through bribery...ahem...lobbying) start picking it apart to stop someone copying a VHS version of Top Gun!

Way to go!

Looks like I picked the wrong week to give up stealing trade secrets.

The Node Ahead: JavaScript leaps from browser into future

Off Topic

One of my favourite quotes is (and I can't remember who said it)

"Giving Multi-threading to VB programmers is like giving Razor Blades to babies.....of course C++ programmers are not better, they are just more used to blood."

My 2 cents

Horses for courses pick the language that is right for your circumstances, and develop for today, you could invest millions pre-empting being the next Facebook, but you will never ship before the money runs out. If it turns out that you are going to be as big as Facebook , the Markets will have realised also and money will not be a problem.

Facebook may well have run into the "Limits of PHP" but they were only able to do that because PHP was there to allow them to develop quickly.

Judge guts suit against Sony for killing Linux in PS3

I suppose

When that group of people are members of the press that you are expecting to relay that information to the public then yes, the presentation would be classed as part of advertising and marketing.

There is enough uncertainty in that statement though to have lawyers funding the economy for the next 50 years while only costing Sony money that they could have spent on games and infrastructure.

Canon EOS 60D DSLR

Sounds all very whizzy but....

I would save the money and spend it on Lenses instead, I have a 400d and a 50d. The 50d body makes the 400d feel like a fisher price camera and it was well worth the money.

I think that it says something that they have compromised professional requirements (fps) for consumer requirements (in camera effects) and as such will not be upgrading. I was hoping that the full frame sensors such as the 5d Mk II would be starting to filter down into the lower cameras but hey ho.

Personally, though no one looking to buy a camera is going to listen, if I were in the market for a DSLR I would buy an older model and instead spend a bucket load on courses and days out to take pictures.

Financial vice tightens on Wikileaks, hacktivistas retaliate

Let's be fair

Paypal finding an excuse to stop paying out funds to someone (whilst still no doubt collecting them) is hardly news. It happens all the time, apparently its not theft, it is good security practise.

ASSANGE ARRESTED in London - in court later today

Totally agree....

he should get a fair investigation trial and judgement just as he deserves. I am sure that he will get the proper process just as Doctor David Kelly would have done.

Google ends 'do be evil, if you want a top ranking' policy

To be fair....

this is the philosophy used by most/all legitimate businesses too. Banks in the UK for example treat their customers like shit happily taking money from peoples accounts as if it is their own and yet people still have bank accounts and worse still, refuse to switch bank accounts to a less shitty provider. And don't get me started on the big retailers who provide shitty service selling what they have not what you want and STILL people buy from them. I'm looking at you particularly Dixons/DSG/Whatever the hell you are calling yourself at the moment, but pretty much any of the high street names and most of the back street ones behave this way.

WikiLeaks ousted from Amazon US

The big DA had it straight....

"Home of the Xaxisian Giant Robot ship from the novel So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish, Xaxis is at war when Ford Prefect suggests that Bournemouth may be nicer. It is a democracy where the humanoid majority are ruled by a lizard elite. Although the humanoids hate the lizards, they won't vote against them, in case the wrong lizard gets in."

Life imitating art, or a journalistic view of our society?

Actually I think he is pretty smart...

he is playing the US politicos at their own game. Politicians make a living out of twisting and spinning a situation to their own ends and what we are seeing is that they don't like it up 'em.

Renta-spook: GCHQ commercialisation 'is a live issue'

Typical Politicians

"for instance, Cheltenham were to supply a service to the private sector how that might be funded and what the finaincial relationship might be,"

erm....supplier customer relationship where it is funded by the customer for a profit.

oh sorry, you work on the "We pay for everything using tax payer money that the poor taxpayer thought they were handing over to pay for schools and stuff."

Interpol issues arrest notice for Wikileaks' Julian Assange

I find your faith....

in a free and fair judiciary disturbing.

Europe opens full probe into Google

they don't....

but they do have a right not to have their position lowered because they are in a business that the search engine are also breaking into. That is an abuse of a monopoly by Google, not a breach of the companies right to appear at the top or the bottom of the listings.

US cable giant Comcast accused of internet video 'toll booth'

It doesn't matter who requested it....

The fact that someone over there asked for it is not rellaven. To use the Mail Ordering piece, Consumer pays Trader for goods + packaging and postage.

Trader instructs UPS to deliver the goods.

UPS pays toll fees to cover the cost of the road.

Consumer doesn't care about UPS or the toll roads. Trader doesn't care about the toll roads only that the goods get there.

UPS doesn't care what's in the package.

Net Neutrality comes into play where UPS and the Toll road people look in the package and vary their price based on the content.

Although, to take the analogy a little further, UPS may be interested in the contents of the package when the Consumer is a power station and the Goods being delivered are a 500 Mega Watt generator. The standard UPS van is not going to cut it and they need a specialist haulier and the Toll Road people need to make special provision (including inconveniencing their existing customers) in order to carry the special load.

At the minute, HD movies are still equivalent to the Generator, they are huge!

Axl Rose sues Activision

Whats the matter?

Is slash getting way more pussy than you? Suck my fucking dick, get in the ring mother fucker I'll kick your bitchin little ass.....

Oh you want to do the lawyer thing, how rock and roll.

Google accused of hard-coding own links in search

This is exactly the point though

the fact that that algorithm is used is a monopoly. Google purports to be a search engine to find the best page for the query entered, this algorithm effectively first checks the results to find a Google service that is relevant and gives that the coveted top spot, then displays the results below the google service.

The point is that their are companies that supply finance information services but they are never going to get the top spot because Google themselves have a competing service and they will always put that first. If you allow it for Finance results where does it stop? If google setup a bank should the term "Current Account" return google banking in the top spot? If they decide to sell books (rather than just copy them) should Google Books appear top when you search for Harry Potter? That's anti-competitive ergo illegal.

Prosecutors prep decision on BT-Phorm case

and we all know

how accurate home office advice is....

oh wait, no we don't because the FOI requests keep getting refused.

New pocket-sized smartbomb - just for killer robots

I guess it all sarteted when....

they started advertising jobs as drone pilots to civillains. No basic training needed just a desire to kill people.

Ms. Gates: 'Bill does not use a Mac'

I am pretty sure....

that bullying is probably something that the Gates kids don't worry about on a daily basis.

Facebook comes down hard on Faceporn

This is like

That other story with the guy losing the ryanairarerubbish url or whatever it was.

How many of these urls can we find to force facebook to registering them if only to stop other people registering them.

FaceSlap

FaceCrap

FaceAss

FaceCock

Cameron cocks up UK's defences - and betrays Afghan troops

Can I....

nominate Lewis for rant post of the week?

Actually, yes I am

At this particular point I prefer cuts to borrowing and hoping to lose the next election.

Osborne details painful cuts for UK

You joke....

but I think that is brilliant.

If you think about it, we force students who ultimately benefit society to pay for their services and let crooks who hinder society get their services for free.

....or am I?

Apple in 873-page legal claim to word 'Pod'

Only in this to the letter legal lawyer filled world...

would someone with a straight face try to draw a distinction between music publishing and iTunes. iTunes "Publishes" music on the Internet. Ergo, Apple used their company name to publish music. iTunes would not have taken off, Apple's iTunes was always going to take off.

Police spent tens of thousands on failed BitTorrent probe

The word....

Jason Stathom on a billboard are a fairly clear indicator of a weekend spent somewhere other than a cinema.