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Comment Re:Notify CTO, CFO & CEO offices (Score 1) 230

The best approach is to call them. However most people don't feel comfortable doing this.

If you pick up the phone and call their head offices number (as opposed to customer support number) and ask for the CEO you will almost always get put through to them. You may hit a voicemail system after that but because most people won't actually call someone they voicemails are usually listened to. Keep it polite, and to the point and you will be surprised as to how quickly they will act.

Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 235

The Lg G3 is a brilliant phone and while it is a large screen it doesn't actually feel like that big of a phone. I am still running the lg g2, but the wife got the g3 and never looked back.

Only think I would change is I wouldn't have the crazy high resolution screen. I believe that it eats way more power than it is worth and a 1920x1080 screen would have been a better choice. At that resolution and small size its hard to tell the difference.

Comment Re:can't wait to see it work on fox news web site (Score 4, Interesting) 375

The stomach ulcer thing was two Australia scientists, Barry Marshall and Robin Warren. They claimed, in 1982, that stomach ulcers were caused by H. Pylori but because that bacteria was common in the intestinal tract already the idea was shot down as incorrect. They spent 2 years trying to infect piglets with it then gave up and Barry drank a full petrie dish of the cultured bacteria. He suffered symptoms within 3 days, and had significant ulcers and gastritis after a week.

As a result of this test and the observed symptoms the medical community accepted their findings. They were awarded a nobel prize, in '96 I think.

Comment Unlikely to make a big difference (Score 3, Interesting) 56

It will just change some of the risk profiles taken on by the trolls. In the end they are staffed by lawyers where as their targets have to retain a lawyer, so their targets have to fund their defence right from the beginning and hope to win to get their money back. What you will see is an increase in out of court settlements ie. we will stop litigating you if you agree to settle this now for no money out of court. This would be very very tempting option if you saw the likely hood of thousands and thousands of dollars of legal costs ahead.

Comment Re:Ummm - Use a commercial pasta machine.... (Score 1) 91

Maybe - but the TFA talked about things like stadiums where it is all about volume.

My experience of commercial kitchens has all been about doing your preparation early so you do as little cooking as possible at service time. So that means at 2 in the afternoon the junior chefs are doing one identical thing after another, be it making the pasta, or some fancy crystallised rose petals.

Comment Re:Razer Forge TV (Score 1) 199

I've used it fine for quite some time now. But the games I tend to play aren't too twitch intensive so perhaps that is why. I'm not using wireless either and have a managed switch that I put some tweaks into for steam.

I don;t notice the input lag even when playing fps games. But that could just be me getting old.

Comment Re:Easy of porting over is the key (Score 2) 199

While Windows remains the dominant platform Valve will continue to see that as a risk. As you stated the decision with 8 to include an app store sparked the rush to develop steam for linux and steam os. However there is no guarantee that win 10 won't come with an app store either pre-installed or pushed. As such it remains a risk profile to Valve.

The only solution to this is to fragment the market enough that steam becomes the only cross platform option. My steam for linux gets updates almost weekly. I think it is far from abandoned.

Comment Re:New design (Score 1) 91

Hi Soulskill,

Not sure if it is intentional or not, but none of the buttons are visible unless I am mouse over - ie the preview, quote parent but most importantly the Post and Load All Comments button are only visible on mouse over. The text on the Post and Load all is only marginally lighter than the green of the banner so it is very hard to see.

System is Linux Mint 13 running Chrome - Version 38.0.2125.111

Comment Ummm - Use a commercial pasta machine.... (Score 1) 91

There is no way this would replace a commercial pasta maker in any kind of large scale restaurant.

For a start no one makes dough on a bench if you are making quantities of pasta. Either you buy the pasta in or you use a machine. You feed your mixer the ingredients and then collect the dough later. This goes double for you extruded pasta and your filled pasta. Have a look at a Raviolatrice. That is what you use if you are making large amounts of ravioli.

If you want large quantities of extruded pasta you would use something like a Bottene PM80 which will make 15kg of pasta an hour.

 

Submission + - Apple loses patent suit to the tune of $532 million (nytimes.com)

Harlequin80 writes: Apple has lost a patent law suit in the US District Court, Eastern District of Texas. Smartflash brought a suit against Apple in 2013 in relation to its payment system tied to the iTunes account. Smartflash appears to be a patent holding company with no actual products themselves.

from the article "SMARTFLASH said that the patents cover a portable data carrier for storing data and managing access to it through payment information rules."

Apple have indicated that they plan to appeal.

Comment Re:What? (Score 1) 78

This is standard practice though - apply pressure to an industry to publicly self regulate so that the government doesn't have to expend resources and political capital doing it.

We saw a similar thing with motorcycles when the zx-12 and hayabusa were released. Having top speeds over 300 and easily affordable caused bad press with people clamouring for the government to do something. In response the motorcycle manufacturers agreed to a 299km/h speed limit so they could show they were doing something and the government could say there is no a code of conduct.

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