Posts by James 51

Print your own electronics. Combined with 3D printing... the future is go!

The US media have US blinkers on too. I remember all the coverage about how Nokia was a failure because it couldn't crack the US market but it one of the biggest phone manufactures in the world and dominated lots of other markets. Go figure.

Ctrl + O and then navigate to the local file.

Much are the lawers going to get when they launch the eyepad?

Maemo is one of the best mobile OS I have used and it's what, four years old now? Running on modern hardware, it would be quite a contender.

It's a pity he's fallen on hard times. He deserves to be paid for his inventions. Not sure how lone/small groups of inventors could be protected but given we're suppose to be a knowledge based economy you'd think the goverment would have gotten its act together by now.

If the patient was helping him expose the problem but not party to him going too far, why was he fined?

Games Workshop just tried to pull a similar stunt with the words Space Marine. This is as bad if not worse than patient trolling.

It's easy to see how big centres like place located in places with cheap/green energy could take the place of everyone having their own big iron (as long as the whole process is secure).

This could be part of the ultrabook spec or micro PCs. Big problem when you decide you want more stoarge space or RAM though.

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"Balch believes that STEC has been mismanaged, is spending too much money on research and development and should return cash to the shareholders."

How many stories like this have there been in the news over the last few weeks? Seems like someone is going round saying oh, there's a cash rich company. Buys a few shares then try and wrestle control of the company away and open the swag sack. At this rate, they'll have lots of cash but no companies to invest in cause they'll killed them all off.

won't work on the playbook or BB10 though.

Some of the comments on the BBC are just comical. My favourite was for scientists to stop wasting money and put it into benefits.

Want, but more realisticly it will the be BB10 version of the 9320.

Given how willing they have been to dodge taxes, not that great an arguement.

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Qualstar said it had $19.6 million of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities at the end of the quarter. For Bronson and BKF to bid $3.5 million and get influence on that looks a good deal

So he's buying $19,000,000 with less than $4,000,000. Nice work if you can get it. Where's that carpet bagger icon I asked for?

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Net income for the full year hit £2.8bn compared with £75.9m in 2011, while total revenue in 2012 grew 2.7 per cent to £4.1bn.

Is that right?

So Dell is the new Nokia.

I am guessing that all that work with the linux developer ultrabook is going to go right out the window. Along with getting a Dell machine without paying the Windows tax at any point in the future.

Buy the Acer, stick your favourite flavour of linux on; job's a good 'un.

Let's face it, chromebooks are netbooks without the windows tax.

I hate sites like games workshop that won't let you view them unless you let cookies on your page. There's simply no need unless you're placing an order or logging in.

One thing holding back the sales of ereaders is their relability and pace of development. I got a Sony ereader three years ago. I have replaced my phone and computer since then but I still have the ereader. There is no compeling features in another ereader that would prompt me to buy a new one. It would take colour eink and epub3 with audio support to do that.

I think the biggest problem RT has is that it is the word Windows in front of it. People think it is a laptop with a detachable keyboard and then the reality hits them.

A much better approach than trying to throw him in jail.

Both netflix and lovefilm require silverlight so no linux watching (moonlight lacks the required DRM module). Neither streams natively to playbook either (if Amazon can create the app for the kindle fire to do it they can recompile it for the playbook too).

If they wait a few months Nokia might (sadly) be going for a song.

It started working for them when they relaxed their direct control and created special economic zones for business to work in. Imagine what would happen in the US government ordered all the companies in silicon valley to merge to create a new IBM or Oracle? When the UK government picked British Leyland as a winner to back it didn’t result in a British domination of the car market. I am not saying that any state can't play a role in the market, far from it but it is impossible to guarantee success, even for a state as rich and powerful as the Chinese one. I suspect the move is being prompted by some manufactures moving to places that are even cheaper than China to operate it in (now that wages are starting to rise a little bit and pollution is becoming to serious to ignore). They are trying to move up the food chain which is highly desirable from their point of view but you can’t just order companies that may have very little to offer each other to merge and create something new and successful. The internal Chinese market would probably be enough to keep the new companies going but internationally there’s already protectionism/security concerns being thrown in the face of Chinese firms. New state generated entities would face even greater problems.