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Hey, you know why it's called the iPhone X? When you see Apple's repair bill, your response will be X-rated

Saturday 28th October 2017 08:41 GMT plasmoid

Re: Apple Care +

Applecare seems quite, umm, restrictive itself as you still have to pay a $29 excess on top of your warranty for the repair. Warranty seems the wrong word, insurance seems more fitting.

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Nokia's comeback is on: The flagship 8 emerges

Thursday 17th August 2017 18:24 GMT plasmoid

Re: No wireless charging? No sale.

Disappointed to read on a supposed tech site that you didn't make the obvious suggestion of making your own PVR using an old computer and mythtv. You can then watch anything you like anywhere on your network as long as you've got a raspberry pi or something similar. I first did it over 10 years ago (sans pi, clearly) and I'm no tech expert.

Why give money for Murdoch for something as easy as that?

(I know you can't record Sky programmes, but you can't do that with a VHS very easily)

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Turing, Hauser, Sinclair – haunt computing's Cambridge A-team stamping ground

Tuesday 22nd November 2016 20:36 GMT plasmoid

Don't bother getting the bus to Coldham's lane, it's not that far and it'll be quicker if you walk, honestly. You could always hire a bike and follow the river most of the way and think of Newton in Quicksilver going to Stourbridge Common as you do.

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SpaceX is go for US military GPS sat launch, smashes ULA monopoly

Friday 29th April 2016 09:03 GMT plasmoid

Why didn't NASA do themselves?

Is this another example of why outsourcing to the private sector isn't a bright idea? It would make more sense to do this in-house and profit from your own learning, rather than overpaying for old tech.

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