Posts by IDK

Apple threatens Palm chomp

Re: Patent 20070146337

So, the fact that I've been able to do that for years and my apps on my T|X (at the moment), the C505 before it and the C3 (I think) prior to that mean that this is new innovation from Apple... I wonder if Palm have an old patent floating around (or one of the app developers) that happily pre-date this by around 10 years.

WRT #20080094370, I guess different gestures used in the media players I have installed have to be removed now as well?

Here's hoping that, between Palm and all their app developers, they go after Apple for patent infringement or get some of theirs thrown out for prior art...

Bloody patent trolls!

Wii 2.1 sound system

@Andy, Adam et al

Why bother? Why not? Do you have a 5.1/7.1 setup in your bedroom as well as the lounge? And same in the study? Not everyone has _all_ their consoles in the living area hooked up to their stereo.

Sergey Brin: 'Microhoo! makes me nervous'

@BitTwister

> Or more pedantically - surely "Pedant's Dictionary"?

Surely the grammatically correct version would be "Pedants' Dictionary"?

The 'blem wit' error messages

IBM software

Still see on the rare occasions out of Tivoli products (with no return or error codes)...

"Something has gone wrong"

"An error has occurred"

Always useful when trying to see what's happened.

Boffins slashed in big-science budget blunder bloodbath

@Bill Coleman; OT reply

OK, so you 'believe' in our impact, being the cause of global warming. So, based on that, where are all the archaeological finds of power stations and the like that were responsible for the warming of the planet after the last ice age? Or were the mammoths even more flatulent that cattle, and it was all the methane?

Campaign to name US street after Douglas Adams

@ "One Film?" , "Corrections"

I think you'll find there were two games... the text-based HHG2G, then a wonderfully immersive experience on the Starship Titanic

'Beer Hunter' lifts 40,000 pints of Guinness

If tehy had friends os...

... maybe they were planning a party, with the food coming from here Downunder?

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/bacon-bandits-ham-it-up-for-christmas/2007/12/03/1196530510392.html

Cops pull plugs on TV-links, claim 'facilitation of infringement'

Law infringement?

"We don't have a simple offence of facilitating infringement in the UK"

"People are quite willingly trying to circumvent the law."

So... people are willingly trying to circumvent something for which there is no simple offence? Or, to put it another way, they're trying not to break laws that don't exist? Sounds like doublespeak to me...

Aussie gov anti-porn filter 'useless', says teen

@Jeremy

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"child safety campaigners are using the news to insist that ISPs do compulsory content filtering" - surely there is laws against anything illegal already so where does free speech and freedom of expression come into this?

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Hate to point it out, but that's not entirely the case; as it stands at the moment, freedom of expression and free speech are being cracked down on rather hard. As we don't have anything explicitly in place in our constitution relating to free speech, it's a moot point (there's already outcry about that coupled with the filtering).

Unfortunately here (Aus) it's the same issue as everywhere else; the 'me' generation only looking out for themselves and not prepared to take the responsibility of their actions however many years ago and expect the govt. to protect them (and their offspring) from the dangers of the rest of the world, as well as protect them from their own stupidity.