* Posts by James 51

3426 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Jun 2009

RIM, Samsung thrash Apple in UK fondleslab sales growth

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Playbook

Got a 64Gb Playbook bundled with my phone. Only complaint so far is that the video player doesn't handle multiple language tracks and subtitles. Otherwise very happy with it.

Shock ZOMBIE attack could kill off Nokia's 3G phones

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Devil

As an ex-Nokia fanboi I was tempted to put some crack in here about does Nokia still make phones but seriously, when is crap like this just going to lie down and die?

Apple iPad fondlers are about to enter a THIRD DIMENSION

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If they have developed a new type of sensor or a novel configuration ok, but they are trying to patient processing power and storage?

Solar, wind, landfill to make cheapest power by 2030

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With that much sunshine and coastline, the economics for renewables in Australia are probably very different than for most of the EU.

@John Smith 19. In the EU at least the French will be able to sell all their nuke generated electricity to everyone.

Netflix punters told of privacy change, get 3 months to object

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$9 million seems pretty cheap to close this down but then I remembered what's happened to companies in the UK that have pulled similar stunts.

UK's thirst for energy falls, yet prices rise: Now why is that?

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Re: Time to invest in micro generation then?

If that happens there has to come a point were the micro generation technology becomes cheaper (even via a loan) than continuing to pay for fossil fuels.

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Time to invest in micro generation then?

Wonder how long it wil before all new houses have combi-boilers with solar electric/water heaters, ground source heat pumps etc etc.

O2 dropped the ball in Olympic cycle race Twitter fiasco

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Re: Not Their Fault

You were probably right the first time.

Apple blacklisted by Chinese consumer watchdog

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Re: No refurb parts on repairs?

Forces them to manufacture more.

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Re: Short termism?

Might the alternative be to not buy a mac next time?

SAP, Huawei, sign mutual assistance pact

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Every time I hear about skills shortages in IT in UK with unemployment this high I think what employers are really complaining about is not having a vast oversupply of labour they can use and abuse as they please. I think the same reasoning is being applied here but then aren't China suppose to be supplying more university graduates than anyone one else soon?

Why one storage admin fears Justin Bieber

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Students aren't always as IT savy as you might think. Some thought that by closing the browser I wouldn't be able to tell which naughty sites that had been trying to access.

Has Nokia bottomed out? El Reg drills into the detail

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If the pureview was available on contract I would have jumped on it.

IBM plans to axe staff in UK, Ireland despite hefty profits

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FAIL

"but bosses appear to desire increased productivity and improved profit margins"

There's a difference between cutting costs and increasing productivity. Smells like some manager wants to hit a target so they get a bigger bonus.

Java won the smartphone wars (and nobody noticed)

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Qt

Is battery life the reason RIM told everyone they were going to have to rewrite all heir apps in Qt come BB10? Nokia were pushing Qt too before they jumped the shark.

Yes, you can be sacked for making dodgy Facebook posts

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Big Brother

Might need to look a little deeper

What you'll probably find is that someone wanted to give him the boot but needed to cover themselves legally. Simplest way to do that is to go onto facebook and look through their posts or better yet, hire some firm to do that for you. Find something that can be twisted to suit your purpose, ignore context and blow it out of all proportion. I have seen more than one firm use this tactic to avoid making people redundant.

Google makes money on Nexus 7... just

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Re: woo

(Obviously, most of the previous 7 inchers were too little for too much money, and were a bit "meh

Having had a playbook for a little while now I wouldn't classify it as meh. Expensive when first launched but a bargin now.

RIM: Maybe we can't flog BlackBerrys, but would you like a jet?

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Re: One Aircaft Is Too Many

Just got a 9320 and it's a decent phone with an acceptable range of apps. Got a playbook with it was well, that is a quality piece of kit.

Ex-Nokia staffers team up to revive MeeGo

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Best of luck to them.

Did your iPhone 'just stop working' - or did you drop it in your BEER?

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Re: Have the patient office been dunked in beer?

Their modification of the implementation seems like an obivous anti-tampering mechanism i.e. put in multiple sensors that are hard to reach.

How long before we start hearing stories about how sweat or a mild drizzle sets these off? The iPhone 5 won't be safe come the the Scottish summer.

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Re: Have the patient office been dunked in beer?

That should have been patent office but the typo might be a little more accurate.

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Have the patient office been dunked in beer?

This was in my N73.

Sussex bobbies get undisclosed tablets in networked-copper trials

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The playbook built with security in mind from the beginning, it's low weight and acceptable battery life plus being less deseriable and significantly cheaper than most other tablets means that it would be a logical choice.

Of course you need the infrastructure to support them (which includes training), the tablets alone won't make a big differece

Apple patent may foretell an end to iPhone autocorrect Tourette's

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Re: Sigh. something else to be turned off.

Is you name Linus Torvalds by any chance?

Microsoft's offices gutted in Athens arson attack

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FAIL

I understand the (emotive) logic of attacking organisations you blame for the state your country is in, but other than as a general symbol of a capitalist system, why attack Microsoft?

Nokia details 808 Pureview release

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Re: But it's not really 41MP is it!

I thought the point was the extra pixels went into making a good 5mp image rather than taking photos in 37mp?

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i just ordered a new blackberry (N900 is starting to show its age), wonder if this going going to be picked up by the networks or not.

Japanese boffins plumb darknet for cyber attack alerts

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Re: Get me Mamoru Oshii on the phone!

that's the first thing I thought of as well when I saw it.

Gov mulls ban on wallet-draining charges for card payments

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FAIL

The only difference is going to be that there will be the surcharge and then the difference will be made up by a booking fee or something similar that you must pay to get what you want. This won't even slow down the low grade scamming that goes on.

US culture to spread worldwide by means of Kindle, not iPad

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This is why it has to be amazon

"Amazon will be required to monitor the devices, reporting back on everything that has been read "

Until I read that I thought there are a number of wi-fi enabled e-readers that could do the job (unless they specifically wanted 3G). It's spying on the readers that Amazon does better than anyone else.

Apple 15in MacBook Pro with Retina Display

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which seems like a lot for a relatively modest upgrade, but that's SSD pricing for you.

which seems like a lot for a relatively modest upgrade, but that's Apple pricing for you.

There you go, fixed that for you.

Vodafone's small, controversial tax bill validated by UK.gov

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Funny thing that, you don't hear the Tories saying they can't afford to keep child benefits or pay public sector workers because big 'job creators' are doding tax. If I tried to do the same thing I'd probably end up in jail.

Carphone Warehouse clings to buoyant fondleslab, avoids submerging

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Another true story

Two weeks ago when into several different CW and P4U and asked if they would be stocking the new Nokia Pureview. Every time they'd ask another salesperson and then the manager who would ask me what it was. They then checked their website and told me that they didn't have it (eventually after apologising several times about how slow their computer was in accessing the internet).

One time I went into a 3 shop and started looking at the N8 and the E7. Sales person came over and told me I didn't want one of those, the iphone 4s was just in and much better and refused to answer any of my questions about the Nokias. Didn't waste any more of my time. Suspect that's true of sales people in general (pushing customers towards products that get them the most commission/meet target) rather than being a problem with one particular shop or network.

Foundering Nokia pushes 10,000 bods, 3 veeps overboard

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No chance that Elop is one of those 10,000? Where's all this M$ cash he was suppose to be bringing in?

Apple's Retina Macs: A little too elite?

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FAIL

Surely you can just open the case and put in a bigger SSD or HDD yourself?

Microsoft 'mulled Nokia buyout, ran away screaming'

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(the demand for Symbian in the past 12 months speaks for itself)

If you break a horse's legs then it's not going to get very far. The pureview is the most interesting phone Nokia have released since the N9.

CERN confirms neutrinos don't break light speed

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Science works, who'd of thunk it

If I remember correctly the head of the lab had to resign over this. Not because he'd done anything wrong but because of all the media hype surrouding it. Pity. I'd've liked to have seen more comments supprting the work of the scientists than rehashing an old, sterile arguement.

AMD palms PCs with LiveBox miniature desktop

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Next generation of nettop?

Looks good.

US Navy uncloaks stealthy underwater solar cells

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Re: Hmmm....

When sensors that can run for months or even years without having to be refueled or have their batteries replaced, there could be a swarm of sensors in pirate infested waters letting you know where your ships should be headed.

Microsoft expands Xbox extras

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I want to be able to store MP3/MP4 files I have generated on the Xbox HDD. Have they got round to that?

Toshiba widens Ultrabook range

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Am I the only one who read U840 as UB40? It looks like a netbook though hopefully it's a bit faster than one.

Nokia adds touch to budget blowers

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Re: No UK availability for Asha 305?

It is difficult to get your hands on dual sim phones in the UK but there's a lot that have popped up on amazon uk recently.

Sharp to show OLED 'retina' display for laptops

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It's nice to see someone pushing laptop screens in the right direction.

Sony PlayStation 4 will not be download only

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It would mean that all the games for the PS3/Xbox 360 wouldn't work on it (unless you bought them again as download).

EE splurges £50m on OS-specific experts

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what about symbian?

see title

Hands on with Nokia's 808 41Mp camphone

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Re: Luck?

I like the resistive screen. It helps to make it feel more like a internet tablet than a phone (which it is really). While it could to with a slighter faster CPU and more RAM it can still do things that I haven't seen any other phone can match. Plus there's a fairly active developer community still plugging away. Even if I am able to get my hands on a pureview I will still keep it as a portable media centre and for internet access.

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I have seen the lumia 800 for £15 a month with £100 headphones thrown in. There were weren't that many minutes and a low data limit but had unlimited texts. Still, waiting for that pureview to come in before I make up my mind.

Ten... Star Wars videogame classics

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Knights of the old republic is fantastic. It wasn't till mass effect that I played a game that came close.

As amazing as x-wing was, tie fighter was the better game.

Toshiba America says no to new netbooks

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When ultrabooks are the same price as netbooks I'll consider buying one.