Posts by Steve Foster

"readers will be shocked to find that only the Scots rated price as more important"

Shocked????? Surely that's the understatement of the millennium!

Potential uses in "ordinary" electrics?

If this stuff is much finer than copper wires, what might that mean for motors, and electromagnets (and other "mundane" electrical based stuff)? Could it mean maglev technology (for example) suddenly becomes viable without requiring room temperature superconductors?

Kill Bill

Not really fussed about e-readers or e-ink, but congrats on the Tarantino reference, even if I haven't quite worked out the connection with the article.

Typical!

Finally, a PC manufacturer gets a sensible resolution in a device, and promptly (mostly) stuffs up the rest of it...

Sounds like...

...we need to downgrade these as choices, and pick something else that's is less of a problem.

Meh

Does anyone actually care what some minor non-celebrity thinks?

D'oh moment

as Hands realises that next week is Christmas, and that opportunites between now and December 31st for employees to participate in required training schemes are non-existent.

Internet Payback?

Take photos only of stuff no-one would want to use? Oh wait, that's what Instagram users already do...

"out of the house"

"In fact, Brits like to shop online so much, they can't even stop themselves when they're out of the house. Over a fifth of UK smartphone users use their mobes to visit retailers online, the highest amount in Europe."

I suspect this would mostly be price checking while in the shops (ie making sure Currys et al aren't ripping us off as badly as they used to).

PS spend 1 hour in the naughty corner for lazily using "mobes".

Fair Do's

That's a pretty impressive effort (even allowing for the minor gripes that have already been posted). Bonus points for neatly integrating the optical drive tray into the "fascia".

Nice (ish) Phone...

...shame about the price. £150 isn't budget - it surely needs to be sub-£100.

Not exactly much he could do...

The wider economic environment, coupled with the enormous amounts of money pissed up against the wall by Brown & co, mean that we don't exactly have a lot of room for manoeuvre.

Now why did reading that list make me think of this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vc3U1X7co

Hmmm

"Australia's Federal Police (AFP) has triumphantly announced it has brought a gang of Romanian credit card fraudsters to heel, but not before they purloined half a million credit card numbers from small Australian retailers."

Why are the AFP purloining credit card numbers from small Australian retailers? Are they not getting by on the proceeds from selling impounded drugs?

Dear Japan

You missed a trick - how about combining this with "growing beef"...

Be careful what you wish for!

Next thing you know, the Companies House online service gets migrated into the Government Gateway...

No jokes yet??!?!?!

A Scottish solder in full dress uniform marches into a chemist's. Very carefully he opens his sporran and pulls out a neatly folded cotton bandanna. He unfolds that, to reveal a smaller silk square handkerchief, which he also unfolds, to reveal a condom. The condom has a number of patches on it. The chemist holds it up and eyes it critically.

"How much to repair it?" the Scot asks the chemist.

"Six pence," replies the chemist.

"How much for a new one?"

"Ten pence," replies the chemist.

The Scot painstakingly folds the condom into the silk square handkerchief and the cotton bandanna, replaces it carefully in his sporran and marches out of the door, shoulders back and kilt swinging. A moment or two later the chemist hears a great shout outside, shortly followed by an even greater shout. The Scottish soldier marches back into the chemists and addresses the proprietor, this time with a grin on his face.

"The regiment has taken a vote," he announces. "We'll have a new one."