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i'm not saying your wrong. and i definitely agree this is aimed at average users. but it will put off a percentage of non average users. and those are often the users who recommend…

i'd rather a platform were i have to be careful to avoid malware rather than a platform were there is a single 'gateway' to what apps can be installed. how can that gateway ever be…

app development on symbian used to be a chaotic affair till nokia brought in signed apps. after that the apps started to dry up. it became a hurdle for lone developers that wasn't …

and ireland. and with all the companies from the usa here i suspect it'll be a popular purchase to save space in a bag. i know i want one or three.

i'm beginning to think that the biggest problem may now be legal. with a driver there is someone to get a signature/payment/paperwork whilest a driverless vehicle would need someth…

it's tyre in ireland.

if it was just a grudge match between tesla and edison i could respect edison a little more. it is possible to get so obsessed that he would have a blind spot and go out of his way…

the telegraph service western union turned down a chance to buy the patent for telephones as they thought it was merely a toy. it's still a custom in ireland to send telegrams for …

the metallic dust does cause short circuits. the office our pc was in was in an office built above the work floor and had very good ventelation but fine dust still made it up and o…

i wonder if the dust created by the bandsaw wouldn't make it difficult to replace it with a more modern system. we used to use standard office pcs to run a pos system for video sho…

i always regret that i didn't take my parents valve radio when the house was cleared and sold over a decade ago. it was bulky, inefficient but worked perfectly. had a lot of fond m…

so unless there has been a giant leap in a.i. we'll need a licence to access a site about scunthorpe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scunthorpe_problem

i hate unity. it's nothing but distracting eye candy. a non standard waste of resources. but i like ubuntu overall so at the mo i use xubuntu. suits all my needs without unity. but…

i'd rather pay an ubuntu tax than a microsoft tax so i really look forward to buying a new machine with the option of ubuntu even if it costs a little more. but my main concern wil…

in 2008 nokia was a far superior phone. in europe anyway. they really seem to have had no impact in the usa. my nokias back then had nice useable keyboards, decent cameras that sho…

massive solar eruptions capable of destroying humanity are covered in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunstorm_(novel) good book. i liked how the emergency services, military and pol…

i use llama on my android devices to turn on wifi only in places where it knows and turn it off else where. saves power too that way. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=…

didn't the soviets gain much of their information from american citizens? so i'm sure that many such agencies will simply recruit citizens from the country they wish to spy on. suc…

aertel is still going for the mo. and you can see the pages on the web. which is handy for when the web is on a go slow. http://www.aertel.ie/aertel/ tvs with teletext cost about £…

when it comes to surveillance the british have a history of intercepting communications. like intercepting most phone traffic from ireland using a legal loophole from 1985. http://…

i thought it was to buy nokias patents at a knock down price later.

perhaps a folding bike? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brompton_Bicycle not cheap but easily transportable indoors and out. you can store it by your desk in a bag. i see them all ov…

here in ireland most schools and libraries has an apple ii. but they were expensive fragile things that nobody understood or touched. when the c64 came out our school got 6 linked …

i bought a sony walkman radio in the early 80s. still have it, use it every day, use it in the bathroom where it is subject to hot and humid conditions. it's now over a quarter of …