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Comment Re:What percentage use FB again? (Score 1) 292

Saying that divorces are linked to Facebook is like saying car purchases are linked to internet usage.

Quite. One in five divorces cite Farcebook because one in ten people worldwide (~600 million) use Facebook, which is probably more like one in six/seven in the USA; the chances are very high that if one half of a couple uses FB then so does the other...

Comment Re:Not sure if this is the same sort of thing... (Score 1) 64

http://www.powervation.com/

This company has a power control chip which has firmware which you can tailor to the hardware it is attached too. And its available to buy right now.

The reminds me of the Transmeta Crusoe processor designs, which automatically shifted gears, moving the clock speeds up and down as more or less workload was put through the CPU.

Comment Re:Funny Story about Grim Natwick (Score 2) 249

For decades, Grim blamed himself for World War II. If he'd let Adolf win the scholarship, that guy might have just gone on to become some nameless painter doing still-lifes, instead of becoming the most infamous name in all of history.

I can't believe you've manage to Godwin a discussion about Betty Boop and Copyright... O_o

Comment Re:sanity ? (Score 1) 249

Sanity in copyright law? Gosh, you look different. Haven't seen you for years. How's life? Must be horrible, you look like an abuse victim. You sure you're not taking drugs?

They call me Toot now. Sometimes I cut myself to relieve the pain...

Isn't your real name Christopher Tolkein?

Comment Re:Who is laughing now? (Score 1) 205

It seems to me they decided that the user has too much freedom with Maemo and MeeGo, so they instead picked WP7 so the consumer remains a consumer where they can be forced upon, app stores and such.

I really hope that Nokia continue to work to Marmo/MeeGo in the background as a more long-term proposition. To but all of their Smartphone-shaped eggs in the WP7 basket would be folly, IMHO. Other manufacturers such as Samsung are offering at least two OSes - they are shipping handsets running Android and Bada OS. HTC's handsets will ship with virtually any OS at all. Sony Ericsson have toyed with Windows Mobile, but mostly use Symbian, but I think they are going to go much more with Android now.

Comment Re:Wow (Score 1) 580

There really is no excuse for this at all. We're all entitled to a fair trial and the best legal defense available to us. This signifies that Paypal doesn't support the constitution or the rule of law. Shameful.

Looks like PayPal have had a missive change of heart and reinstated fully.

Courage to Resist's PayPal account now says "Your Account Access is Back in Regular Standing. Thank you for taking the steps to return your account to regular standing..." What, you mean complain loudly and publicly about what a bunch of idiots PayPal are on your own website, resulting in multiple other PayPal customers contacting them and signing an online petition to get the account reinstated properly?

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