Posts by Graham Lockley

I'm struggling to see the advantage of Uber over just phoning a local, trusted taxi company that wont track me or serve adverts ?

Swede/Turnip is only fit for animal feed, other than that I'll have a crack at it :)

>I love dub reggae and have never heard of Rupie Edwards

That makes me feel so old.

Not a Dub afficianado but Ire was one of those records when you knew you were hearing something new.

EE = Orange

Orange = the most devious lying bunch of highwaymen/women ever to pollute the face of the earth.

I was unfortunately borged into this cesspit when they 'merged' with T-mobile. Only a few months to go and I can be rid of this vile company.

'with Zep it's only the first six that are worth listening too anyway'

In my humble opinion the best of Zep is the space between the tracks

Oh is Groupon still going ? Thought they died a while back when the market for fish pedicures and eyelash extensions dried up.

>It's the music you love most and the music you're going to love

Without 'proper' radio how do i know what I'm going to love ? Tune-In and its ilk allows me to dive into almost any kind of music depending on my mood. The important thing is that I'm going to hear an awful lot of artists that I would never come across if I allowed iRadio to 'learn' my tastes. I want to be challenged by music, I dont want the ' If you liked that you will like this' type of handholding that systems like this do.

>He credited Jobs with being a marketing genius for creating demand and maximizing profit. He noted that Jobs typically (like Sony with the Wii) held back production to create demand and desirability for the product.

Umm I think you may want to edit that bit to include Nintendo, just a thought.

I Hear...

...they are now checking their veggie burgers for traces of Uniquorn.

"This was and still is a devastating storm with a serious impact on our nation's communications infrastructure,"

Facebook was down !

Didn't some bright spark politico suggest using FB for national warnings ?

Shoot the lawyers, growth industry if ever I saw one.

>Mind you, I was apparently the greater fool back in the early 80s when a mate had three of these for sale,

I don't doubt that there are an awful lot of people who think the same thing every time something (relatively) mundane goes for silly money. I play bass and have the same feeling when a Burns Bison or Framus sell for 1000% more that what I sold em for 30 + years ago. Figuring out what is worth keeping and what is tat is a skill way beyond me.

As has been said

£230 to make the bloody thing usable ?????No EVF-no sale as far as I'm concerned

How sad

Yet another of my heroes (Wallace and Grommit this time) have feet of clay !

Errrr

I'll get me coat

>Blair asserted that you needed "the wisdom of the oldies" to put the technology itself in context

I suppose that at 55 I'm still not old enough to realise that state censorship is a bad thing then. Can't wait to grow up.....

>You know, if they gave me sixty minutes a month, sixty texts a month and ten gig of data, I'd be happy as larry.

I was about to leave T-mob (on contract) because of their merger with that bunch of thieves known as Orange. Got passed to retentions (what a surprise) and ended up with a sim-only deal of 100 mins and 100 texts and 'unlimited' data for £5.50 a month. Ok so the data (in theory) is 2gb but in practice I have bust that at times and not seen any penalties.

>the earth is only 10,000 years old!

>Ha ha. Creationist muppets, keep wetting your beds

Ah but the ID'ers will simply place it in The Grand Scheme of Things (TM) and point out that it shows some supranatural force intervened to evolve it into a lump of dog shit. That crafty Sky Fairy is a devious bugger doncha know.

@Marketing Hack

I upvoted you once for the first post, I think you are being greedy expecting the duplicate to get anything :)

Anyways, if the BejasusPhone diagnoses you it will also be able to (miraculously) cure you, as eny fule no.

Whats a candy bar ? Isn't it something our merkin chooms eat ?

It's Orange so it will be stuffed full of crap and worth about a quarter of what you actually end up paying for it. Oh and you better hope it doesn't pack up after 6 months coz you will end up paying to get it fixed.

Groupon is a fail waiting to happen.They produce nothing and add no value, make no money and only serve to worsen the lot of the poor traders who sign up. This is a long term business plan ?

Dotcom bubble burst just waiting to happen.

My (brief) encounter with one of these left me quite impressed. There has been little mention in the comments about the wedge shape yet this was the first thing I found impressive. It felt right in both landscape and portrait modes. I agree with Chris 171, £299 and it will wipe out both Android and IOS competitors. Now all I need to figure out is why I need one when my EEEpc does all the portable browsing I want (much better than any tablet), my SGS2 does for my ultra portable needs and my pc does for my grunt computing needs. Guess I'm not in the market for iPad2 either then :)

Tis a nice bit of kit tho, maybe given time I could justify getting one.

>They need more training and need to know more about how it works

I suspect they mostly know how it works, figuring out if a law has been broken and gathering relevant evidence takes a lot longer.

As pointed out above, put up the pennies or STFU.

And Yet....

My experience of HTC phones has been 100 % positive (and I've had a few). Well made and reliable would be my description.

Never had to use their repair service coz I've never had a broken one so I can't comment on that, commiserations if it is pants.

>Satellite operators did raise some concerns about the unlicensed use of 3.4-3.8GHs,

Why didnt you just say Sky ?

>The Big Bang Theory is still going strong.

Probably something to do with it actually being funny...

Shows how tastes differ, I tried hard to like TBBT but found it dull and predictable, OTOH a mate raves about it constantly. IT Crowd was far funnier and closer to reality (I know these guys) but I'm glad they didnt do the USA thing and pull in a team of writers. Sometimes less is more, Shameless springs to mind here, it should never have been dragged out beyond 4 series. Try watching 'Early Doors', a show that only ran for two series and is a jewel that leaves you wanting more.