* Posts by tony

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Remastered 4K, 3D Titanic steams towards cinemas

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A Title

As if millions of habs suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced...

Whitehall to puff punters: 'Hide your fags'

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#UKUncut

Is it just ex-smokers or all non smoker who're classed as a tax avoiders?

Steelseries World of Warcraft mouse and keyboard

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Happy

A Title.

Me too.

Apple $10k winner hangs up on 'prank caller'

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A title

I could quite easily spend $10,000 on films & music over a few years

Apple's Jobs stand-in touts iPad's enterprise reach

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JaitcH

Funny that, my made up company did made up research on three different sized screens and my imaginary results fitted my preconceptions as to what size screen was best as well...

Weird huh

Wireless HD video sticks demoed

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usb power,

Looks like it plugs into a hdmi slot and then uses a cable to a usb port for power.

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Want.

Think it could be great. No matter how many connectors a tv has you're always one short so why not have wireless? Bung the tech into the tv and only have a power cable to worry about ruining a rooms aesthetics.

Steve Jobs gets Obama love

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Joke

hmmmm.

Wonder if 'bama could get a white iPhone, or is that a can of worms?

National Identity Card holding chumps have buyer's remorse

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Joke

passport costs,

Now the cost of passport can sink back to it's normal level now it's not subsidising the cost of the ID card.

Queen set to outlaw ID cards today

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@Chris Dupont

Maybe he is naive, but their argument is to drop the road tax and charge a general consumption tax to replace it so recording car details wouldn't be needed for that. (Car details would probably need to be recorded for prosecution but thats a different argument).

Why would their be only privately owned news interests if the tv licence was abolished and the bbc took it's money from the general consumption tax?

Also depending on how it's done it could possibly rebalance things fairly. But the problem with using 'fairness' as an argument everybody has a differing viewpoint on whats fair.

Can't see it ever happening though, but probably could do with some consideration without the typical dailymail knee jerk reaction to change.

It also reminds me of a report from 1996 ish where they looked at removing all taxes except a flat income tax (above a higher zero rate band) and a consumption tax. Whether it would have worked without all the nice things politicians like to meddle with to alter behaviour is another thing entirely....

Google Chrome OS mauled by Richard Stallman

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Different user

Googles cloud thingie is for a different class of user to Mr Stallman. Its for the casual user who doesn't understand that backups are a good thing for keeping their digital photographs safe etc. For example I know someone who had been safely backing up 100's of photographs onto a 16mb memory card. It's amazing how much space you get if you copy a shortcut rather than the actual photographs.....

If someone were designing the next greatest text editor, i'd guess they'd be a little more competent and have backups.

Yes they may be a dumb user, but most people are dumb users in one field or another. Me i'm crap at surgery although I can put a plaster on.

Txt tax would wipe out half UK deficit, claims union baron

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Deficit budget

You could argue that a deficit budget or two makes sense over an entire economic cycle. But seeing as Brown managed to abolish economic cycles (something Milliband still believes to be true), it is slightly strange.

Apple iPhone 4 vs... the rest

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lol,

If Apple manages to get somebody so worked up it must be doing something right.

Fanboi primer: How to move your iTunes from PC to Mac

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50,000 songs,

Welcome to the world of random playlists, with a few choice selections you can't travel without.

It's a nice feeling when some old Gem you've forgotten about turns up

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Happy

similar experience, similar time.

Did the same around 3 years ago, worked fine and just as easy only thing it didn't do was play counts and last played. But found an automator script which set them whole thing took me about 10 minutes + time it took to move 1tb odd of music and video.

Brits say 'no, no, no' to 3D TV

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3d

Saw a demo of a 3d tv in London the other day, quite impressed really felt like I was in the middle of it. You felt the crowds cheering and crying almost like you could be swept up with the momentum of the event.

And, officer, thats how I ended up on the roof of Tory HQ

Startup promises money for fanbois

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a title,

long story short(ish)

Buying some passion fruits (iirc) noticed when checkout lady processed them she first put through an ugli fruit then a passion fruit. I tried to tell her but she kept 'correcting' me saying they were passion fruits not ugli fruits. Gave up and figured that I may as well buy an ugli fruit so on my way out decided to collect one seeing as I'd already paid for one (and Tesco make enough without charging for phantom items)

Hostile attitude from security guard met uncooperative attitude from myself. Laughing at him whilst he shouted at me that I'd paid for the ugli fruit probably didn't help. But the manager was very nice about it.

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Yes I have,

In tescos.

Told the security guard to f* off then went to customer services with the photo evidence that they had overcharged me.

I seem to always have trouble in Tescos, they've also tried to arrest me for buying an ugli fruit once.

Just because somebody is wearing a hat for a job it doesn't make them superior to you.

Dell takes aim at Apple with upmarket pledge

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Unhappy

shovelware

If they ditched putting so much trial ware on the machine if may do something to improve their image. Parents recently brought a midrange home dell and asked for help moving their stuff across. Just turning the machine on was an annoyance as 4 or 5 apps all wanted details to enable a 'trial period', putting a cd in brought up 3 applications thinking it was for them.

Microsoft Xbox 360 250GB

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scratching problem

Probably a bit silly not fixing that when you're expecting the userbase to dance around like loons infront of the telly when the xbox-wii update emerges

Cloud music: Apple set to clean up

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Happy

set

Are the people who moaned about digital download drm the same people who don't moan about spotify drm?

Consumer Reports: 'We were wrong about the iPhone 4'

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Happy

a title,

Maybe next time the prototype phones won't go wrapped up in fancy cases so much?

Was very keen to get a 4g, but will wait until this is resolved. Also wondering whether they're working on a fix going by the continued delay of the white phones?

Blizzard exposes real names on WoW forums

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Happy

eh?

a)Hello Domino's Pizza, can i take your order?

c)Hi can i order 10 large Hawaiian pizzas and 10 bottles of coke please <huh, huh>

a)Yes, anything else?

c)No.

a)And the delivery address

c)Jason Smith, Wow forums, the Internet

anyhow, think its a bit of a dumbass idea, much like ploughing on the internet is to start with.

vote with your wallet if you don't like it

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WTF?

eh

People are forced to participate in the forum if they want to play warcraft?

What will happen is a few user created forums will start up and eventually these will whittle down to the core of the users who wish to stay anonymous

Yeah it'll probably won't be as good as before, but thats life in general.

London hospital hosted grumble flick shoot

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A Title,

I bet Mr Jackie (with a q) Smith has seen it

Budget to cost over a million jobs: Official

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yes it was...

..especially if you count politicians as public sector

If you have a deficit when the economy is at it's peak you're going to have big problems when it goes down, whatever triggers the downturn.

So Labour creating a vast army of public sector workers / more than likely to be labour voters, whilst not being able to afford to pay is the heart of the issue.

Put simply, if you earn £1000 a month and spend ~£950 every month apart from at Christmas where you spend £1500 you've got a cyclical deficit. If you decide to employ a cleaner and gardener for £200 a month meaning you spend £1150 every month apart from Christmas where you spend £1700. Sooner or later the bank manager is going to have a chat about your spending.

Not that I blame the workers, its the politicians who created the environment where money was sucked out of the real economy to create this situation. With any luck the decent public sector workers will either retain work or find a new job.

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A Title,

Don't you mean Budgets expected to create 1.2 million jobs then?

1.2 private sector tax positive jobs as well for the double win

Seems like the Liberal Torycrats have made a great start at handling labours dire handling of the economy.

Jobs tells iPhone users to get a grip

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not apples fault

blame the designers!

i'm off to church on sunday to have a word about fingers being stuck in the wrong place

ToryDems add up bill for Labour's ID scheme

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Cost,

I'm wondering when the cost of the passport is going to shrink?

My guess is never, or a bit later

Apple's iOS 4 beams into unprepared world

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@Ralphe Neill

Is it really that important to you if somebody doesn't know or isn't bothered who invented something?

And you don't have to buy into the hype

Steve Jobs unveils iPhone 4

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Last time i checked,

My media library was a couple of terabytes last time I checked, manage perfectly well on my 16gb phone. Have a core music selection and then a random playlist which shuffles music in or out.

Doubt a 3 or 4tb portable device would be cost effective and fit in the pocket as easily

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Welcome...

Derek Zoolander

Prisoner of iTunes - the iPad file transfer horror

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Me

Funnily enough decided to get pages and numbers over the weekend and thought the file transfer seemed awkward and was looking for, in my mind, obvious link to mobileme.

Steam rushes from Valve onto Macs

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FAIL

a title,

Tried it last night, and noticed your bootnote was incorrect, looks like you download a 'downloader' which then gets the full install for you.

But anyhow, it started up downloaded the 33meg app and then said you need to be on the internet to download, it then promptly shutdown. Restarted it and it downloaded the 33megs again, and this time it started only to crash a few moments later.

Third time lucky it started up, connected to my account from a few years back listed my few purchases, told me nothing but portal was compatible, which it downloaded. Before crashing.

And the last time it started it hangs at the 33meg download

Lost interest now.

Fat cat fanbois' obscene dream bling

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a title,

Not really my market, but why do these 'ultra limited editions' always look like a child has got carried away with swarovski crystals and a bedazzler?

And does gluing diamonds to a laptop add value to the laptop or does gluing a laptop to diamonds take away value from the diamonds?

Newtonian Rock shop leaks iPad prices

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a title,

saw a 16gb in a Berkeley Square for a 'premium' price of £900...

Then again if Jobs keeps his volcano base erupting to stop the grey imports, it may seem cheap in a few weeks

Apple uncloaks deep details of its 11 iPad apps

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yes it is,...

...it's just not for you.

But well done sending a post from the year 1980, hopefully this reply will reach you somehow, you'll find that masses have access to computers well before the millennium.

Anyhow watch out for a company called microsoft, yahoo and finally google. If you follow those when the iPad is finally launched in your 'timezone' you'll think ~$700 is a rounding error.

Darling confirms telephone line tax

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a title,

So when are the country folk going to pay a tax to provide clean air and greater open space for the city dwellers?

You pays your money and take your choice.

Google ratchets interweb 3D on Windows

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a title

i remember when people moaned about 'downloading' gifs etc for a webpage...

Apple's iPad - fat iPhone without the phone

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A Title

Not overwhelmed, but will probably impulse buy a wi-fi model at sometime and leave it in the lounge (maybe as digital photo frame) and to grab when I want to look up something on imdb whilst watching the telly. ~$700 to stop firing up the laptop....

But paying for another dataplan is not my cup of tea, especially when it could be quite easily tethered to another 3g device

Can anyone explain the chunnel fiasco?

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FAIL

Public Inquiry...

Can we also have public inquires into the general shitness of uk rail where delays and inept excuses are standard operating procedure?

Astronomers spy 32 new exoplanets

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Happy

Ding Dong,

Have you been saved? are you ready for the rapture?

O2 finds new way to bind iPhone users

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Coat

nah,

I reckon its more likely the first option, O2 want to force people to sign up for a new contract before other operators come online.

Hopefully they'll have a decent no phone deal to tide people over until the new phone comes out in the summer

I've been with o2's (previous incarnations) since 97 and felt their service was good and they weren't out to swindle every possible penny from the customer

Now i feel the opposite

O2 could impose out-of-contract iPhone lock-in

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Happy

a title,

I bet o2 are happy they created 18 month contracts rather than 12, seeing as a lot of people will be coming out of the o2 contract just as other providers come online, rather than being locked in for 6 more months.

Google Maps Monopoly board folds under server strain

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'reset the servers'

Why? having a bandwidth issues is as good a way of any as limiting demand, all that would happen if its reset is 'somebody else' would get the streets you'd want...

Toshiba tight-lipped on Blu-ray player plan

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FAIL

Kiosk downloads...

..the inconvenience of waiting in line at a store with the poor quality of downloaded HD...

Not really a winning scenario.

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FAIL

And just to add to the fail...

How much does a blank disc cost? couple of quid? how much does a ~50gb sd card cost? considerably more. Yes sd cost has come down over the last few years but I can't see the cost dropping below the price of optical

Microsoft stores to get in Apple's face this autumn

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@bob

My 'hard to beat shopping experience' doesn't include jostling for space with students etc updating facebook

Users claim iPhone 3.0 GPS mis-map mishaps

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Paris Hilton

@fractured cell,

Not everybody carries around a handbag to carry all those extra devices.

Be careful your makeup doesn't get in the lens

Masked passwords must go

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hmm

Can't say i agree with he password masking, what i disagree with is the undue complexity some site owners go to restrict access

username, johnsmith nice and easy start

password, 10 characters mixture of cases with at least 2 numbers & 2 symbols

kaptcha, refresh, refresh, is that lik kats?

no

username, johnsmith is now taken, johnsmith2

password

kaptcha

wait for email verification

finally i've got in to harry potter fans forums, now i can write the 'meto' post

could understand it for online banking etc but for a trashy web forum, get realistic

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