Posts by James 51

Re: Agreed

Haven't had a problem with the usb in mine. Was always worried about that going.

Re: Agreed

Still have my n900 in the draw as a backup phone. Pity the keyboard is starting to go.

Re: Big

You could use a playbook and the bridge to get round that.

The email I got from them said it was a studio decision. Really annoyed me as I'd just bought a playbook and my laptop was lunix so couldn't watch it on either.

They don't support android because it would kill the only reason to buy a kindle fire and that's the lovefilm app.

Re: That windows tablet is a fully fledged PC in your hand.

Windows only drm is the main reason to use it over a playbook.

Almost certainly but the copy of windows is 32-bit. I read in a review for another tablet they're waiting for 64-bit drivers before releasing the 64-bit windows tablets (although that doesn't mean we'll necessary get the extra ram).

Re: "to use the Encore as PC you really need a good Bluetooth keyboard "

I forgot to add a full sized usb3 port to my list of things I'd like to see. This has a single micro usb port so you'd need some kind of adapter going to a hub.

Re: Not quite the same

There's a certain stigma to be being held under anti-terrorism legislation. Your name could appear on a number of certain registers and lists and without having a conviction you can find it difficult to do things like fly to the US, get certain jobs etc etc. I am not saying he should not have been detained, I am saying they should have used a more appropriate law under which to detain him.

As for the info being of use to terrorists, juding by what has been on the news it would be of indirect use e.g. look how bad our enemies are, come fight with us but not in directly planning attacks.

How many decades ago was that? The current goveremnt is cutting the number of people who work on flood prevention during a pretty bad flood. Something of that scale and ambition is completely beyond them (unless you can proves it meets the 8/1 rule of course).

Given that withouth the USA we'd have no deterrent I am not sure that they have that much to fear from us (watching the UK build the replacement for Trident alone would be funny (from a safe distance)). With them, it's more of an 'I'm a big boy too' kind of thing. Could easily subsitute that entry for France.

Re: Insurance nightmare / holy-grail (depending on your point of view)

If you dont' share the data you won't get insurance. It will be as simple as that.

Who are these companies customers though? The poeple who buy the cars or the people who buy the data about the people who buy their cars? There's a huge potential for conflict of interest.

Re: Not one thing or another

But the status symbol is less shiny if it's old and/or second hand.

Re: seems an odd thing to do

Could put a software switch in that limits these runs to iOS6 but then that would lessen their desirability as I am assuming there would be problems running the latest apps.

Re: Of course they are safe.

Radiation could have damaged the dna of the plants. Micro-gravity could have affected how they grow. There's a whole bunch of things to consider like how much water they need. How fertiliser affects growth rate etc etc.

Re: At last!

Prior art invalidates a patient. With the exception of opaque or transparent glass on command, I have seen every feature outlined in this patient in other products. I do wonder why you'd want to effectively turn your solar panel off but that's another question.

BTW, my response was in part to the tag line of the article which implies that Apple have patiented attaching solar panels to laptops. If they try to enforce this, a lot of companies are going to face never ending lawsuits:

http://inhabitat.com/samsungs-solar-powered-laptop-to-go-on-sale-in-us-in-july/

http://solaptop.com/en/

http://techcrunch.com/2011/06/04/first-solar-powered-laptop/

And then I got bored of trying to remember all the places I've seen this done before.

The reason to go for a 1020 is the camera. If you don't want to pay the premium for that, a 920 or 925 would probably do.

Re: Criminal intent

"United States coins or currency (or other monetary instruments the Secretary of the Treasury prescribes),"

Does bitcoin fit this description? If it does, does that mean that they can only charge him if one of the parties (okay and/or the servers hosting the transaction) was in the USA at the time?

If he was money laundering, by all means throw the book at him but it's a short step from not liking bad people to people we don't like being bad. If officals bend the law to achieve their ends, then merely being law abiding isn't enough to protect you anymore.

You're assuming that they have that, though with the NSA who can say what they have. Just reminds me a lot of the exective of a gambling company that was based in the UK, it's servers were in the UK and everything it was doing was legal in the UK but because a handful of people from Texas were able to use the site that executive was arrested when the plane he was on landed in the US.