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How does watching movies on a laptop rather than a TV create "Time. I have time. Lots of it". I think he's missing the part in his life where you can own something without having t…

Slightly puzzled how this is a surprise. I've been amazed that they've managed to sell hardware without any of their own support for some time. Nobody else gets away with it unless…

Pretty sure Google have already announced they'll release an iOS version of maps. That said it can't come soon enough. I've no idea how they've defined POIs on Apple's maps but the…

I'm not sure why this is any sort of surprise. Ever since Kickstarter began there have been lots of great ideas, lots of awful ideas. Some of the great ideas have been clearly way …

He's not a UK citizen so that's not it. The Australians aren't calling for his extradition or arrest so that's not it either. It could just be that he had bail terms set and broke …

It doesn't matter whether in other places it's not illegal; it isn't legal where he did it. Ignorance of the law is no excuse either so what you have is a rape suspect fleeing. It'…

It's also a different thing. He's also wanted in the UK for breaching his bail conditions. So he not only has the extradition hanging over him but he's broken the law in the UK now…

Obviously he has every right to be paranoid about the US trying to extradite him but you have to wonder how far he's willing to go on this. I think the Assange story long ago eclip…

Lots of sales organisations do this but clearly for them, the volume of sales and customer churn are quantifiable. Quite how you rank 10 engineers in a non-emotional way is a bit o…

Just wondering; how does this differ from products like StopTheHacker and SiteLock (amongst others)? I mean, the idea is a solid one, but there's a few players in this arena alread…

From the article - "The outage underscores the vulnerabilities of depending on the public cloud versus using your own data centers." No it doesn't. It underscores the vulnerabiliti…

I think in half the places I've worked I'd be drunk all the time and the CEOs would be bankrupt. It would definitely focus the mind of people who book in meetings that they really …

I have to agree and it happens in all areas but actually in a slightly different form usually. To take the analogy from the post, you start walking 20 miles a day and then someone …

The problem doesn't just exist with small companies and startups. I've worked with C-level people from established companies who are no more self-aware; they feel the job title mak…

It may be they had a legitimate reason to do this (perhaps some suspicious outgoing volume, reports of abuse etc) but whether they'll ever admit this is the case is unknown. I work…

I've recently taken over responsibility for reorganising a support team and one thing that's clearly not fit is the phone system. It's decent for a normal office but doesn't have t…

"Cool" is undefinable and you also need to consider one thing. Look a the number of cool people you've known who are unsuccessful because they view being cool as a priority rather …

If you use it they have the latest version but clearly aren't updating the homepage. Also, it's Windows browsers which is not quite as much use as it might be

The issue with these postcode databases is that once they're released to a customer there's no real way of tracking if they get reused elsewhere. The contract I had with the Royal …

Do we even have the names of companies that have done it or is it just one or two and the rest is just urban whispers making it sound like everyone does it? I have, and will contin…

I was told a long time ago that if the journalist/publication IS the story, something has gone wrong (excluding genuinely serious news like NewsCorp or the journos killed in Syria)…

Now if only they wouldn't call it the Pirate Party, it might actually attract more mainstream attention. Self-marginalising your political ethos because of the name seems remarkabl…

I need a fairly simple purchase order system for tracking and approving our own outgoing expenses at work. Too much is just "happening" on its own but we don't need a big system to…

Essentially, you can "sell" rights to negotiate with you exclusively. It's often used so that the seller can focus on a single party but gets a reasonable payoff if the sale doesn'…

Well that's the problem everyone has with competitor acquisition; how much of it is a business info harvest and how much is real. How about sitting down with them to talk, getting …