* Posts by tmTM

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Apple shoots for Premier League soccer streaming rights

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Not more set top boxes

I really do not want anything more hanging off my TV, moreover I really don't want to have a box from every sodding tech giant out there just so I can keep watching everything I am at the moment.

PayPal dispute ends in 'violin destruction'

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My thoughts

Entirely.

Unless the buyer, or paypal rep was an antique violin expert I don't think either of them are in a position to comment on it's authenticity.

Moreover now it's been destroyed no-one is able to verify it, I smell a juicy lawsuit on the horizon.

Nokia Ace to launch from $100m mountain of ad cash

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About Time?

There's barely been a peep about Nokia and WinMo in mainstream media.

If it wasn't for tech news sites covering every mistake Nokia have made recently I doubt anyone would know about their new phones.

HTC Sensation XL

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Why

The processor change from the dual-core unit to an overclocked single core unit from 2010??

Anonymous hunts neo-Nazis with WikiLeaks-style site

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Court action against annonomous site operators

That will be interesting.

LCD cartel case claims seven more scalps

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Who see's this money then?

Will any be given to consumers who've been forced to pay over the odds?

Doubt it

AMD claims 'world's fastest GPU' title

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But will they ship it?

Going by their current production mess, I'm going to say no.

Ofcom maps out what 'psychics' are allowed to do on TV

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Flimflam artists

Are similar tough rules going to be put on wonga.com, we buy any car and the mirriad of cash for gold and cash for crash companies???

As they to prey on the vulnerable, desperate (and stupid)???

Channel 5 snubs Freeview HD again

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Most Sensible thing

I've heard all day.

I can see we will end up with BBC1 HD +1 at this rate.

AMD speed-bumps, unlocks chips for desktop, notebook

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FAIL

Another Irate waiter

I've been trying to get hold of an A8 chip for a good month now, most places don't expect another shipment till the new year.

Trinity production is 'scheduled' to start end of March - but I doubt that given AMD's current form.

from what I've heard it'll be FM1 socket, not FM2 so will be backward compatible.

Blame lies with Global Foundries who can't make the chip well enough and in decent quantities.

Should have gone to TMSC.

Fail, because that's what AMD's production has been recently.

Nissan Leaf battery powered electric car

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Really?

The equivalent train journey to my work is 2x the price in fuel (nearly 3x with the bus journey from station to work).

I'd love to travel to work on the train tbh, just can't justify the extra cost.

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How much?

Town car - Peugeot 107, Citroen C1, Toyota Aygo - £6,000 (approx) Small nippy town car, pleasant to drive, easy to park, economical and no issues with DPF or DMF messing up like a diesel would.

Small eco car - Fiesta, Polo, Ibiza etc - (£11,000-13,000ish) Diesel engine models give ace mpg, fairly spacious for a small car. good for short to medium distance journalese.

Nissan Leaf, 30,000 - small range, astronomical depreciation, totally unknown reliability or longentivity.

Who'd be so stupid to buy one of these things when the price and downsides are so high?

BT, Scotland Yard form copper theft crackdown supersquad

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Stiffer Sentances

For all involved, of course the problem will be rampant if the only punishment is a slap on the wrist.

Prison time for thieves and large fines for the metal yards that deal with them.

EMC hikes drive prices, blames Thai flood tragedy

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Just wait

Till EMC get into the gold business.

Euro cops cuff 112 in paedophile network raids

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Optional

Both my next door neighbours have been arrested as part of the European-wide raids against online paedophiles.

F**k knows where I'm going to get my free wi-fi now.

Cops seek clues to $1.7m tablet snatch

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Trollface

Only way

RIM were ever going to shift them.

HP must be kicking themselves to have not thought of this ruse.

Jedi light-sabre beats Taser in Oregon parking-lot fracas

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What

No pepper spray??

Feds charge eight former Siemens officials with bribery

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and

The same company that will be making our trains, pushing a UK business to the wall.

of course we have our past government to thank for that fiasco.

2011's Best... Hi-Fi and AV Kit

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Marrantz

What the hell is that doing in there?? No mention of the Onkyo TX-NR609??

As for the Samsung system, have you not had a chance to test the LG system, £100 and quite alot better.

Prada and LG peg up third fashion phone

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Skinned OS?

That one will be copied, re-packed and available to all phones who want it before the Prada phone is even launched.

As for the case, that just looks cheap and nasty - I doubt anyone will want to copy that.

2011's Best... HD TVs

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Toshiba

You seem to have confused the inferior VL series telly with the far superior UL series.

Android malware victims offered free WinPhones by MS

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So

Will Google or someone be offering free phones to WP8 users everytime they're hit with a security bug?

I doubt anyone has deep enough pockets for that.

Nokia exec: Young fashonistas 'fed up' with iPhone

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"The market is saturated"

What was also missed out was:

"We are a company with a damaged reputation from many recent poor phones trying to release a new product into a saturated market. We'll be totally fine."

WP8 may be very good, and the new Nokia is pretty decent, but they've still got a mountain to climb to make a success of it.

Windows Phones message hub hit by killer SMS

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Great

Now your phone can pick up as many annoying bugs, viruses and spyware related problems as your computer can,

I can see why iphone users switch to using macs after trying out ios

Asus Tegra 3, Android 4 tablet priced up for Brits

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How much

Will the new ipad cost then?

Thats always been a good yardstick to compare other tablets against (as in don't go near this price, people won't pay it)

I won't be shelling out £551 for a tablet, I won't consider paying over £300 for an android tablet, regardless of how good the spec is.

Floods? What floods? Seagate to open new Thai disk fab

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Hey

"Hey, Hey you hindsight......f**k you buddy"

-Seagate, 2011.

iPad 3 out in March/April say part maker moles

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More Mole Stories

The usual boring rumours persist.

Perhaps when the next ipad is released and it turns out to be circular with a 3D screen people will start to ignore the rumours and just wait for the official word.

2011's Best... Smartphones

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Galaxy S II??

No mention of the Samsung that pretty much ruled the roost for most of 2011??

With the eventual ICS update there will be little to choose between it and the Galaxy Nexus.

Iran displays video footage of captured US spy drone

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Paris Hilton

Me either

Considering the American's went to great lengths to destroy a chopper in the Osama raid, you'd of thought they'd fit unmanned drones with a similar system.

Perhaps they have and are waiting for the Iranians to transport it to one of their secret underground nuclear weapons facilities.

Paris, because Americans can't think that far ahead.

Red Cross: 600m videogamers may be war criminals

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Tea-Bagging

What is the Red Cross's stance on this?? is it contrary to IHL??

2011's Best... Premium Tablets

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Samsung and Sony price

What are they thinking, exactly the same price as an ipad two, but running the inferior Tegra2 chipset.

I can understand the lawsuits now, Samsung are being sued for the downright cheek to compare the 10.1 to the ipad2.

Android, BlackBerry phone owners favour Apple tablet

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Truth right there

it's pretty much a given that the ipad is the best tablet, the OS is silky smooth and hardware-wise the ipad 2 is much faster than the current Tegra2 Android tablets.

So why would anyone want to pay even close to ipad money for an Android tablet?

Judge Dredd vs Zombies

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top-ups?

How can they justify selling top-ups at upto £20??

I've found this with other games, do they really think people will pay more than the price of a computer game for top-ups for a small mobile game?

Asda knocks 20 quid off Kobo WiFi

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Worth Mentioning

Wh-Smith now have the wifi on at £69.99 and the touch at £99.99.

On sale now, so no need to rush to Asda on Friday.

2011's Best... Cars

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So

You're all for public transport then :-p

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FAIL

Nissan Leaf

A car almost entirely designed for London?

It can't go any great distance and the price is eye-watering that no-one else in the country would even consider one.

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Cruise Control

I find cruise control almost useless unless passing through average speed cameras or on an empty motorway.

Other motorists speeding up, slowing down and cutting you up means you can hardly ever cruise at a steady speed.

Unless you're one of those cretins that sits at 60mph in the middle lane of the motorway?

Nokia to sell off luxury phone brand

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Profit Estimated

The profit was estimated at 2-300m, the amount of truth in that will become evident when whatever sucker buys the brand and released real figures after their first year in charge.

I'm willing to bet someone has massaged the figures.

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A whole lot of lol

There are few things to keep us happy these days, but knowing the obscenely rich were walking around with phones so poor I wouldn't give one to my grandfather was certainly one of them.

Mythbusters cannonball ‘myth-fires’

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Awesome shot

'In through the front door, out through the back'

Then totalled a mini-van 1km away.

I'd love to see these people play pool.

Criminal Records Bureau checks to go online

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Can you check yourself?

Just Interested really.

Retailer reveals Nokia Lumia 710 UK debut date

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Just in time

For everyone to have zero funds.

Sure people will be out sale shopping, but precious few will be looking to buy new gadgets. They'll be out gobbling up discounted wares, then spend the next month or two recovering from the spending spree from the last couple of months.

US military pays SETI to check Kepler-22b for aliens

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Goverment Funded?

So if SETI do discover life, will it be enthusiastically reported, or will the US government get first choice on information release??

The Conspiracy theorists will have a field day.

Acer releases second-gen Android tablet

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Thanks

But I'll wait a few weeks until the Tegra 3 tablets are released.

Me thinks Acer were a little late to the show with this one, it will very quickly become old hat.

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Alot

The current Tegra 2 tablets are pretty limited, high def video for example only works if it's mp4.

Graphics heavy stuff can be slow, so certain games are already abit sluggish.

Man's phone burns, toasts trouser region

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Nope

Looks nothing like the SII I have in front of me.

My battery appears different as well.

Navy pays 2x purchase price to keep warship docked for 5 years

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These days

There's no need for a fleet of ships to protect ourselves from the French/Spanish navy.

The French capitulate at anyone with a stern gaze and the Spanish can't afford to put a canoe to sea these days.

China gets 64 quid Android 4.0 tablet

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I can't remember

Stating it will have a resistive screen and rubbish processor, I do remember commenting similar tablets do.

In fact all I did was comment on the lack of information contained within the article, for example they make thier own chip, is it a worthy competitor to similar single core 1Ghz chips, or a complete load of rubbish?

The price seems attractive, is that the sale price in native China or will that be the price punters in Blighty will pay??

Kindle Fire to consume half of Android tablet biz

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Maybe not?

It is a current gen tablet at a very decent price. Next year it will be a generation behind, and it's only 7 inch.

Other manufacturers will have alot more to offer with their new tablets, it's anyone's game.

Price looks to be the best weapon to win this war.

LG chisels wedge-shaped Ultrabook

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Absolutly

Who's going to spend over 1K on an LG airbook ripoff?

If they can't make it cheaper than the real deal, they shouldn't bother.

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