Should have...
... reviewed the model sitting on the chair, she looks a lot more interesting :)
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... pissing humbug, people like selfridges are part of the reason xmas is such a flippin pain in the arse for some of us, I don't want to hear about it until November at least (see I went for a compromise and said November, personally I'd like the retail religious festival of crap banned).
... she's been fighting this battle which has lasted a few years now. When something like this consumes your life you'll have nothing better to do than to read up on the rules of the game that your playing.
If it was my son, I could probably imagine I'd be going for my bar exam right now (the law type, not the alcohol type, done that one already).
"Be sad in peace, and don't have cow-orkers giggling at you." I can't believe how many people seem so insecure that they are in a virtual meltdown because someone might find out they play WoW in their own time, I don't give a monkeys who at work knows I play WoW, granted I won't go around shouting about it but I won't deny it either. If an employer finds out what you post in a forum, what are they going to do about, it bears no resemblence to your performance at work (well it shouldn't, if it does that your hangup), they can't sack you a tribunal will see them roast for that.
Time people gre some balls and learnt how to be a bit more confident in life.
"Personally I hope that players do leave WoW in their droves: I have the feeling it may have had it's day." Sounds like a bit of EVE fanbois-ism, have you seen the subscriber figures for this game, last time I looked it was at about 11m and that didn't include the China servers. Blizzard makes millions a month of this game and they are now rolling out new content through expansions on an 18month basis, if anything they have the MMORPG formula sewn-up from a mass market perspective.
Facebook has had similiar problems but people keep subscribing and Facebook keeps tweaking, this is all a storm in a tea cup (mostly by a bunch of teenagers no doubt that think they have a right to slag people off from behind a fake persona).
P.S. and yes my name is Rob
... but didn't some guy in Germany about 5yrs or more invent a water mist system that didn't exactly the same thing? I think he had even developed it as far as being interactive with 'hot zones' to touch and change the display. In fact I'm pretty sure I read it on the Reg as well.
El Reg how good is your archive, does it go back that far?
... a Fail cause your expecting WMP to find codecs itself, that's the one thing it is crap at. Bypass all that and just install a codec pack with every common codec known to man and WMP will quite happily play anything you want reliably (well it has done in my experience).
"The vast majority of porn studios sided with HD-DVD due to cheaper production costs." That's a format war, I'd say the HD to 3D route is a tech level/upgrade issue. Either way the porn industry wouldn't care which format was finally settled on, they were just interested in getting better quality video of plumbers servicing bored housewifes whose names could have been cindy or debbie, which required a bigger disc than a DVD.
I just don't get how the industry sees 3D as being even remotely profitable, the amount they must of spent on R&D over the years coupled with manufacturing costs vs units sold, now throw into the mix the uptake of HD. Surely HD should be a warning sign of the overall customer apathy about this sort of TV tech, it still hasn't reached market saturation in terms of how many people have HD TV's let alone how many people have taken up a HD subscription with say someone like Sky.
I think the industry is overstating the consumer 'want' for this technology. If they want people to buy into it en-masse they should perhaps employ Apple's marketing dept they are great at selling mediocre tech at ridiculous prices.
.... are the main advantages of Andriod over iOS4.
Saturation is always a battle that once it's won usually helps to dominate the overall competition war. As mentioned by some comments, Andriod on the face of it could be an inferior platform but if it saturates the market with so many different devices and price points against the 1 model that Apple are offering at a fixed price globally than Andriod will surely come out top. The quality of the product vs the superioty of another won't help as the VHS vs Betamax battle proved.
Apples best move at the moment would be a recall, they can afford it and they could do it well enough that they would not only reinforce those customer loyalties that were waning but maybe even pull in some more customers out of respect for the move. I think the atenna problem is a severe chink the armour that is Apple's roadmap to success and market domination.
Personally I prefer Andriod, due to price points and choice.
Yup, thought of those, generally annoying if you want to pick up speech cause it's easy to defeat lip readers. Also the changing of locations helps get round the fact that the agency doing the surveillance would need the inside track on where the next meet location would be to give themselves time to hide the cameras in the first place.
... my Win7 64bit has been rock solid, far superior to when I was running Vista on it and I dive in and out of photoshop, premiere, aftereffects and various others of a similiar ilke.
Was it a clean install or an upgrade? I've always been an advocate of a clean install.
"Consider this - do you think HTC would have such devices or that Android would exist (at least in its current form) without the iPhone?"
... just being pedantic really, but in short yes, HTC was well on it's way down this road before the iPhone was released. HTC Sense was being developed at the same time that Apple's iPhone was, I think it was released just a mere few weeks before the iPhone went on general sale (although that was along time ago so I might be wrong).
N.B. Not a major fanboi for any OS just trying to sift the facts out of the huge proportion of bullshit that flys around nowadays.
... in a public open space like a beach is more or less declaring to the world that your not bothered if perfect strangers see your bits, although I agree with the point about an ad campaign as permission should definately be sought for an image that is the sole focus of generating a revenue.