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Comment Not a mobile phone... (Score 1) 685

When time travel eventually becomes possible, I'm quite sure we'll have progressed past hand-held mobile communicators of this sort (like we did a long time ago, and only use them now for convenience really), and any savvy time traveller would know not to use one in public anyway. So what has obviously happened here is that at some point in the future, there's some kind of Y2K type disaster waiting to happen and the only way they can avert it is to use a specific kind of technology only used in the original 1924 Siemens carbon amplifier. So the time traveller went back to 1928 (a few years after release so she could be sure there'd be sufficient availability), and wanted to test it to make sure it was working before bringing it back to the future. And that's when she was caught on film! In your face, time traveller!!

Comment Re:The people lose again (Score 1) 323

> If you don't like the return policy then don't buy the product. That's exactly what people are currently doing, hence declining sales and an influx of downloads. The suggestion that content should have a returns policy is precisely to counter this; to bring a better balance to the scenario, potentially increase sales, and allow consumers voting with their wallets to be heard.

Comment What about "macro" lenses? (Score 1) 476

This is no more misleading than lens makers' claims of "macro" functionality. A true macro lens is able to reproduce an image of the object at actual 1:1 scale onto the film or image sensor, but some professional "macro" lenses can only reproduce at a scale of 1:2 or less, and the "macro" mode on compact cameras is so laughably far from macro (typically around 1:64) that I'm honestly surprised there hasn't been a lawsuit over it.

Comment Bittorrent (Score 1) 628

How about a built in bittorrent client? It would save me several clicks at least if I could simply click on a bittorrent link on a webpage and have the browser download the torrented file(s) for me to the default location. It would also help establish bittorrent as a standard protocol for legitimate downloads and reduce XIAA lawsuits and campaigns trying to stigmatise it as an agent of communism.

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