Posts by James 51

I still remember being excited by some of the experimental UIs a university professor showed us almost twenty years ago. Some of the things have come to pass such as searching for files instead of the more tradional nested folders but the majority of it still sits in text books. This padding was suppose to have disappeared a long time ago.

I feel sorry for the floor staff who are getting axed but it feels like the management at crapita are doing something to be seen to be doing something. If the actually delivered products on time and to spec I can't help but wonder if this would be necessary.

+1 for micro sd, - 1 for non removable battery but with a modest chit set and decent battery that isn't a huge issue. Still, my S6 was £10 more. If you wait a year last year's flagship phones slip into the mid market in terms of price but are still (generally) excellent phones.

Wouldn't BB10 tick all those boxes as well? They're looking to license the OS as well.

Will be interesting to see this running on the fair phone as well.

I doubt it is a punishment as such, more like an opportunity to gouge with a reasonable sounding excuse to hide behind. I know prices jumped a lot around Dublin when the euro was introduced as vendors of all stripes took advantage of confusion about the new exchange rate to rip people off.

The UK government has expressed a strong desire to curtail the freedom of movement of workers.

FTFY.

The pebble steel is a great smart watch. It's good at notifications, five day battery and doesn't have any bloat to get in the way. I imagine fitbit will raid the patent portfolio , kill th watch off but hope they prove prove wrong.

The stylus was one of the most compelling features of the note 7. As it is, a refurbished note 4 would be my phablet of choice.

Perhaps if there is a cyanogenmod for it.

"[We've heard] vague terminology," said Mark Littlewood, Director General at the Institute of Economic Affairs. "The talk about a horizontal industrial strategy [is to] my mind just economic policy. My horizontal industrial strategy is to slash tax and remove a lot of the regulatory burden on businesses."

Shall we rename the Institute of Economic Affairs to 'I want to eat your cake and have mine too'?

I remember reading a comment on another story about AI. Short version: In the eighties the US fed high quality photos of their kit and grainy photos of Russian kit into a system. Pretty soon the error rate was near zero percent. Of course what it learnt was the difference between high quality and low quality photos, not the characteristics of different machine.