Actually, going for a cheaper rate is a smart move. A lot of companies block outgoing calls to >=£1/minute numbers, but something in the region of 10p/minute could slip through those filters....that allows him to get - and make money from - calls that he might not get if he'd gone for a more expensive line. And yes, I agree - epic win

FTFY

The 4th one reminds me of something from a Red Hot Chilli Peppers video

where are the new products now? where is the innovation now? where is the creative vision now?

Apple seems to be more about the rumours and the stories about their products nowadays, more so than being about their product innovations. Makes me think of 'C' list celebrities, who are really famous for being famous rather than for anything substantive that they might actually do

Seeing as the link given isn't working, there's a bit more detail at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/01/16/developer_oursources_job_china/

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I'm in England, and English is the only language I speak fluently. I know a smattering of French, Arabic and German, all of which occasionally come in handy as sometimes work with people for whom one of those languages in their mother tongue.

Every so often I think "it'd be worth me learning to speak better French", but then a few months later projects/priorities change and I find myself thinking the same about Arabic, or whatever. If I was working on projects for customers in Spain or Mexico, I'd be thinking about learning Spanish.

I don't think there's a definitive answer to this. I have found though that even knowing how to greet someone in their own language can do a lot to endear you to them, as it shows you're making some sort of effort

Also, I often find, because the English are notoriously bad at learning other languages, that foreigners will naturally converse with me in English. In any context, it's really good to be aware of any cultural-specific things which you need to be aware of (e.g. certain hand-gestures considered commonplace in one culture are offensive in others, which pocket you place a business card in is really important in Japan, etc)

You make it sound like the fact that the computer had no security on it makes it OK to access it. Fundamentally, accessing the computer was wrong - maybe an embarrassment for the computer owner, but unauthorised access is unauthorised access, You could extend that logic to say it's OK to mug little old ladies because they're defence-less and open to attack. A crime is a crime is a crime, regardless of how hard to have to work to perpetrate it.

Yesterday I had someone posting some defamatory stuff on a Facebook page that I set up for an app that I develop/distribute. I tried posting a reasonable, level-headed comment in response and got an even harsher reply from him. After a laughably small amount of detective work I managed to get the guy's phone number so I called him to ask him to explain himself. There was an amazing change in attitude when he realised he was speaking to the same guy he'd been bad-mouthing online just a few minutes earlier.

How long before Apple start making trousers with pockets just the right size to hold an iDevice? iPants anyone?

BTW....first post! woot!! etc....

Just heard an interview with the council on BBC Radio 4, and it sounds like they've reversed the decision.

"Two thirds of the world's population, 4 billion people, use cell phones today, and all of them have access to SMS" Are they really all using the GSM standard, which provides SMS? I thought that in some developing countries, there were still analogue (i.e. pre-GSM) networks in use?

I stand corrected....shows you how much attention I've been paying to WinPhone (I wonder why that is)

Video chat is indeed a useful feature....unless you have a Nokia Lumia Windows phone, which lacks a front-facing camera