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Posts by James 51
3426 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009
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Samsung Galaxy S4 Active: The mobe for CHUCK NORRIS TYPES
Vodafone and Verizon update relationship status: $130bn worth of complicated
Re: @James 51
It's not greed or envy, I don't like free loaders. The people are entitled to protection of course but vodafone has a history of not paying taxes:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/08/19/vodafone_ireland_tax_hmrc_settlement/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/14/uk_firm_subsidiaries_tax_havens/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/15/vodafone_tax/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/23/vodafone_tax/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/07/07/vodafone_uk_tax_bill_court_case/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/08/vodafone_tax_row/
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/04/01/vodafone_gets_visit/
By your logic no business should pay any tax ever and everything should fall upon the private individual but there is no way that we could ever support the level of services the state provides even if the tax rate on us was 100%. Companies need to pay their share and they are doing their dammest to dodge their responsibilities as 'citizens'. If a member of a golf club wanted to play but wouldn't pay their green fees, should the still be allowed out on the course?
Your nicked iPad now likelier than ever to show up in Mongolia
Xbox One launch date REVEALED - and it's on the 360's birthday
Microsoft buys Nokia's mobile business
Nokia were basically without a phone they could sell for over a year after Elop told the world our phones are crap, don't buy them and then took his sweet time in getting the new improved models out (I know it takes a while to develop a new range but why didn't he wait till he crossed that bridge before he burned it?). They could have started selling tin cans and string and their figures would have gotten a dead cat bounce.
Just because we're baised doesn't mean we were wrong. Nokia's biggest hope of selling high end smart phones at the moment is the 1020. The research needed to make that possible started what was it, six or seven years ago and first saw the light of day in the 808. It has the wow factor needed to shift expensive products in a competitive market place. Where is the next big innovation going to come from? You can't compete at the top end of the market without it and Nokia just don't have it any more and that's where most of the money is made. The slow pace of development for Windows 8 phones in general doesn't bode well.
BTW were did all those patients that Microsoft just licenced just come from?
Microsoft - do you really think you can take on Google with Nokia?
You must be croaking! Boffins reveal sound-gobbling frog's secret
Microsoft's Nokia plan: WHACK APPLE AND GOOGLE
Brit music body BPI lobbies hard for 'UK file-sharers database'
'World's worst director' plans Snowden-inspired movie comedy
UK gov dials 999 over Serco prison escort fraud claims
Boffin snatches control of colleague's body with remote control brain hat
Do not adjust your eyes: This Kobo ten-incher has a 2560 x 1600 resolution
Three axes data-roaming fees in SEVEN countries
BlackBerry in talks to spin off Messenger division
Snowden is great news for hybrid cloud says VMware
The title is too long.
"the US has been shown to be a jurisdiction in which supposedly private data can be accessed by the government"
That isn't the problem. Any responsible goverment would be looking into the activities of suspected criminals/terrorists etc etc. It's the scale and the level of justification for what they are doing is the problem.
Eggheads turn Motorola feature phone into CITYWIDE GSM jammer
Nokia's India threat letter: 'It's cheaper to make phones in China'
Re: But...
Perhaps but I am not sure that they will start spending less on fighting various insurgent groups, reduce their military presence on the border with Pakistan or tackle the corruption which is reportedly a problem there to plug the funding gaps in the programs that will be left behind.
The whole 'they have poor people but have a space programme too, bad kitty' arguement always annoys me. Poor farmers benefit from weather forecasts, flood alerts and remote communcations access as anyone else. BTW is the programme profitable? If it's bringing money in stopping the programme would be worse than useless.
'You've had your fun. Now we want the stuff back'
Ubuntu Edge Linux mobe: 'Made you look,' crows Shuttleworth
Nokia's PHAB-ULOUS comeback attempt: Huge WinPho 8 mobe rumoured
Who's Edward Snowden? Capita bungs its email into Microsoft's cloud
O2 tears wraps off £26-a-month mobe sport, music, games (and 4G)
Foxconn mulls solar panels, sticking Apple where sun doesn't shine
Samsung Mega 6.3: Enter the PHONDLESLAB
Tech war latest: Today's leather tools 'invented by NEANDERTHALS'
Deutsche Telekom launches 'NSA-busting' encrypted email service
Mobe-slurping Wi-Fi SPY BINS banned from London's streets
At least they'll have the mac address of the yoofs who through them through the windows of a McDonalds now.
On a less silly note, have they ever heard of the data protection act? Hear about google getting hauled over hot coals for slurping wi-fi data? Sooner or a business that does this is going to have to be given a massive fine, possibly shut down in order to make spying on the public like this stop.
China has another go at rare earth dominance
Mother of Chelyabinsk spotted
Students, rejoice ... and squint! Google rents out textbooks to mobes
Asus boss flushes down tabs, says 'Windows RT has not been successful'
Second LulzSec Sony website hacker starts a year in the cooler
Sources spill CEO Heins' beans: BlackBerry 'open' to going private
Apple: Of course we stalk your EVERY move. iOS 7 has a new map to prove it
I was going to make a joke here about how inaccurate apple maps are but on a more serious not every marketing perp on the planet needs to get it into their thick skull that tracking people like this is creepy and should be illegal. Knowing that I was being served up ads that had been selected for me using this kind of tracking would make me avoid the products they were flogging.
Vodafone flashes bulging package at Brits: New 4G service to rival EE, O2
Penguins, I give you: The SOLAR-POWERED Ubuntu laptop
Re: WANT!
I have an e-ink reader, I use it every day. However the lack of colour means it's not possible to tell if text has been highlighted with different colours if the text itself is in different colours and what those colours are. Diagrams can be confusing. A colour e-ink screen, even if it is slightly washed out would get round this but no one has brought that technology to market (in the UK at least) and would I imagine drive the cost of the unit up.
The refresh rate and ghosting would be a bigger issue if all you wanted it for was browsing the web and office work. Imagine typing away at sixty words a minute or scrolling through a long article.