Comment This is stale news (Score 1) 285
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Submission + - UK finally Gets First 4G Network - EE (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "The UK has finally got its first 4G network, provided by EE, a new brand from Everything Everywhere, the company formed by the merger of T-Mobile and Orange in the UK. The network will cover 20 million people (about a third of the UK population) in 16 cities by the end of 2012, but right now only engineers are on the network. It will support phones including the expected iP{hone 5, and the Nokia Lumia 920."
Submission + - More Firefox OS Screen Shots - And A Video (techweekeurope.co.uk)
judgecorp writes: "Mozilla's fledgling mobile operating system is coming into view with some more screenshots and a video. The OS runs apps written in HTML5, which Mozilla says will make it a winner with developers."
Submission + - 13 years old hacker Esteban is announced developer of the month! ..and the Cinna (worldofgnome.org)
Rzarector writes: "Some great news come from Mint camp this month. First, Mint has been ranked “Best Distro 2012 by Linux Format! Then, Mint is proud to have in his side one of the most talented hackers, the just 13 years old Esteban -esteban1uy- who was announced as the developer of the month (in Mint).
Finally, Cinnamon towards version 1.6 is doing great and I think it is the perfect solution for the people that like a more traditional (than GS) environment yet modern and fancy."
Finally, Cinnamon towards version 1.6 is doing great and I think it is the perfect solution for the people that like a more traditional (than GS) environment yet modern and fancy."
Comment Each person has a right to be successful apart (Score 1) 395
from bankers
Comment Don't trust the Attorney General (Cricket) (Score 1) 148
Aussies are pretty smart and something will change if they get upset.
Solve it by a game of cricket
Comment Mint and Fresh (Score 1) 1
Nothing more needs to said good news!
Comment The truth is extradion just like Assange Wikileaks (Score 1) 126
I could have broken this story; before it was issued and I do not need to read the article as the person gets deported to Sweden and then onto the USA.
Russia Today was first out of the blocks with this! Danke Timothy and others this story is informative and some people might hate the truth but the story is exactly what it is!
Submission + - Fiber optic "magic carpet" network could help predict injuries (networkworld.com) 1
coondoggie writes: "Scientists have demonstrated a fiber optic-based "magic carpet" that can detect when someone has fallen and could be used to help predict health problems that lead to other accidents in the future. Scientists at the University of Manchester in the UK last week showed their magic carpet made of plastic optical fibers, that bend when anyone treads on it and relay the activity to a computer which in turn can map, in real-time, their walking patterns."
Comment I said dont mess with the Chinese (Score 0) 282
someone got bumped!
I mentioned do not mess with the Chinese... In the Apple versus Samsung lawsuit. I mentioned that this would only go one way.
The Chinese are starting to "Turn the Screw". you will see the shit hit the fan over the next 6 months and Apple will lose a user base. Anon are pretty funny with their stunts and it is not as if I am part of "Cult of the Dead Cow" Mo0o00o0o0o0
Comment Please do not be offended! (Score 1) 191
The USA offered 4 Billion in food aid to North Korea to quit a nuclear program many times and the politicians never intended to follow through "A spineless obligation" they would have just sent over contaminated food anyway to kill the part of the population.
Iran have the right to Nuclear Power and are actually extremely well managed. They actually have a right to defend themselves against malware and people in North Korea and Iran are awesome coders.It is all war threats and UK are complicit in this issue.
As many people on
I am not connected to any terrorism group blah blah but I am a true hacker who prefers not to put technology in the hands of dangerous people as Sir Arthur C Clarke said don't do it, when I was at his place in Cinnamon Gardens Sri Lanka as some of his inventions were used for all the wrong reasons.
He was a friend of Einstein and so is Sir Patrick Moore who is a wonderful chap
Can you see where this is leading? and his other quote was "“The moral think I would wish to say is very simple: love is wise – hatred is foolish.
In this world, which is getting more and more closely interconnected, we have to learn to tolerate each other; we have to learn to put up with the fact that some people say things that we don’t like.
We can only live together in that way, if we are to live together and not die together. We must learn the kind of charity and the kind of tolerance which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet.”
(Bertrand Russell quote from a televised interview in 1958 at the age of 86)".
Comment Linus has a right to say what he likes (Score 1) 616
Some people have been highly critical of him, but he is only "Protesting about things that are NOT quite right" All he wants is for things to be fair and he does read comments on
I feel it is slightly unjust that when he makes a point about Gnome but some do not like it. He has a valid and sane point of view. Linus has given an awful lot to the open source community and he deserves respect. He is not just a programmer, but an engineer and he has empathy.
Comment Re:TFA missing some crucial ingredients (Score 1) 288
From TFA:
'Like Walter White, it [Apple] has mixed the proper elements at just the right amounts to create highly pure, addictive products. The products have been made within secretive working conditions. The skill employed to design and manufacture them tends to make what competitors put out seem like cheaper, cloudier, less effective imitations.'
I am no Apple fanbois, but I had spent past few decades in the tech field
What TFA has forgotten to list are the following:
I. Vision
Almost everyone in the Silicon Valley, since the 1980's, have gone through similar experiences, and have used similar gadgets.
What Steve Jobs got, which others unfortunately didn't have, is a vision.
From hardware (Mac to NeXT to iBook to iPhone / iPad), to software (MacOS to OS X to iOS), Mr. Jobs opted for his own path
That takes vision.
II. Attention to detail
We can't deny that the one thing that makes Apple different from the rest of the crowd is their attention to detail.
From the way MacIntosh can create smooth curvy fonts to the "feel" of the original iPhone when it first came out (as versus the offering from the rest of the cellphone industry), Mr. Jobs had taken great pain in making sure that the products that have the "Bitten Apple" mark on it come with as few bugs as possible
As I said, I am no Apple fanbois, and I do not own any Apple product
Brother you are 31337. I do not own anything by Apple either especially after doing some dev work for them many moons ago, I swear they stole *nix and I threatened them with PC DOS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_PC_DOS so therefore I had better shut up before Microsoft sue Google who are suing Samsung and the RIAA or MPAA are suing someone else!
Comment Re:We are already messed up (Score 1) 553
Good reply and I see you are quite well informed. We have to eventually go back to a gold or silver standard. Maybe you could submit a news story on this including going back to a barter system?
I barter all the time with friends and family even though I could pay for some work to be done; but the value of work I give in exchange is fair and you get a little bit more satisfaction from that instead of currency changing hands. just an idea!
Comment Dont mess with the Chinese! (Score 1) 553
Apple are idiots and they have just not thought about the ramifications.
The USA owes China over a Trillion in federal bonds which is $1,000,000,000,000 by USA standards or UK $1,000,000,000,000,000,000 to bail out the banking crisis and also fund the Iraq War. if you are stuck with getting your mind around the numbers this helps http://www.jimloy.com/math/billion.htm
If China calls in that debt and demands it in GOLD as they can do legally you will see a serious crisis and the currently economies around the world will seem like a Holiday (Vacation) and people will be fighting for food and you will not give a damn about your computer Apple/Mobile/Cellphone/Facebook/Twitter or
I think they should ask for maybe a quarter of it back just to get the ball rolling and see what happens as an experiment.
