April 2010
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“Fixed: Starcraft® 2: Wings of Liberty beta on ATI Radeon™ 5800 products running...”
– From the release notes of ATI’s newest Catalyst drivers. What sort of world do we live in where a bug in your graphics card driver can result in your units falling off a cliff in a computer game?!
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Microsoft's wonder-tablet, the Courier, is dead →
From the looked-too-good-to-be-true, was-too-good-to-be-true Department of Schadenfreude.
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“Of course, Canada is in the US…”
– Danielle reveals the true face of expansionist, imperialist America.
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HP acquires Palm OS
Ah, of course! Because the way to beat Usain Bolt is to take the fourth and fifth placed guys and tie their legs together.
(paraphrasing Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame)
I kid, I kid. This could work out great for both firms, and I hope that it does.
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I'm visiting the US
dig-the-cat:
penllawen:
My UK provider, O2, could sell a visiting American a SIM card loaded with £10 of call time, 300 SMS messages, and a month of “un”limited data for… £10.
Wait, for an AT&T locked iPhone? Why did no one mention this? Is it because of that “locked” part? :(
Oh. Sorry. Didn’t mean to get your hopes up; as you’ve guessed that would only work if your...
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I'm visiting the US
…and I have an unlocked 3G iPhone. So the easy answer is to buy a prepaid SIM card with data service, right?
Except T-mobile don’t have one (no mention of data here) and AT&T want $20 for 100Mb of data usage (I can’t deeplink to their session-drive site). This is shit. My UK provider, O2, could sell a visiting American a SIM card loaded with £10 of call time, 300 SMS...
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Marco.org: Speculation →
This is why I think part of Android’s popularity in the U.S. is only a temporary bubble that Apple can choose to burst whenever they’re willing and able to launch a Verizon iPhone.
I think it’s about able rather than willing. I’ve seen a lot of US bloggers (not you, Marco!) who suggest it’s simple intransigence on the part of Apple that keeps the iPhone as an AT&T...
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“The volcanic ash cloud is a classic case study [in risk management]. Were the...”
– From a superb essay from Julian Baggini for the BBC on the tricky nature of government’s risk assesments.
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I can't believe fuckyeahhipstamatic doesn't exist
Correction! Didn’t exist.
I’ve added a number of (carefully cited and linked) reblogs to its queue if you would like to follow it (hint hint). I’ve set the post rate at three posts a day for now. Is that too high?
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I'm getting an iPad
But I cannot decide: 16Gb or 64Gb? I’ll be using the storage mostly for:
a few films to keep on hand for odd moments when travelling
an archive of photos (my photo archive is about 30Gb in RAW and growing fast; I’d like to put it all in there as downsized JPGs)
some music (my music library is around 40Gb (in lossless) but will probably live mainly on my iPhone)
But then I ask...
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also, where do I find a powder blue tuxedo?
essdogg:
xntrek:
which popular media informs me is the official uniform of a prom.
Powder-blue tuxedo, you say?
COMETH THE HOUR, COMETH THE MAN.
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Perfect Stillness →
rawnsley:
The earth is spinning on its axis, and around the sun, and around the center of the galaxy, but Alex Ignatiev calculated that at two particular places on the earth, twice a year, and for a fraction of a second, all these accelerations cancel out.
I propose an expedition to these locations to find out what it feels like to stand completely still.
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On the British General Election
Would any of my foreign readers like to read a précis on the current state of British politics, why this might be a particularly exciting time for us, and what the hell that whole #blamenickclegg thing is about?
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Current status.
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The Register: Google seeks $1bn flight search... →
For a living, I write… flight search engines. So soon, potentially, my product competes directly with Google. Ah well, it was a fun ride.
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Daring Fireball: Why 960 × 640 →
essdogg:
My point is that you can reduce virtually any multi-purpose device that Apple, or anyone else for that matter, makes and say that there’s something else that does it better. Creating documents? The iPad totally doesn’t stand up to a laptop. Listening to music? The iPad can’t beat its own cousin, the iPod. And so on.
I don’t disagree! I think consumers are absolutely happy having...
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Daring Fireball: Why 960 × 640 →
marco:
But I’m still puzzled about the 960 × 640 move, if it’s real. The iPhone is already the highest-DPI display that Apple sells, and to double its resolution is very expensive: the panel costs more, it’s likely to use more power, it places higher demand on the CPU for rendering, it needs much more memory for frame buffers and textures, and it incurs big costs on developers and Apple’s...
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It's Daily Mail critique day!
I know it looks like I have some sort of huge grudge against them, but really, it’s not that. They’re just a pack of dismal fuckwits.
(more Daily Mail content)
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Kill or Cure? →
whileyouweregone:
Much has been made of the Daily Mail’s ongoing quest to classify everything in the world as either curing or causing cancer, and now the results of this fascinating project are available for us all.
(hat tip: Sam)
Outstanding!
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The Daily Mail: "[the Met Office] used... →
Me: “the Daily Mail journalists use stupidity, not intelligence, to process the concept of forecasting”.
Regarding the iPhone Gizmodo article, I made a... →
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“So the net result of this 68-page report, with all of its tables and detailed...”
– Glyn Moody for Computerworld UK investigates a report from the International Chamber of Commerce, Building a Digital Economy. Figures for “earnings lost due to piracy” taken from this report were used to underpin and bolster the government’s arguments for passing the controversial...
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“Make no mistake, if the Liberal Democrats actually won the election – or held...”
– David Yelland, for the Guardian. You should click through and read the whole thing; I can’t do it justice in a short quote.
This is shaping up to be a very, very interesting election for the UK; the best chance we’ve ever had to move from a two-party to a three-party state, if the polls...
“We always come to this pub for Christmas Eve, and they never have enough staff,...”
– My good friend and business genius Toby during a recent evening at crap pub The Crow’s Nest in Cwmbran.
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