nonimaus

Some of the greatest joys come from seemingly pointless objects with no real purpose.

That’s fair enough; I took it for granted that yours was an assumption without any real world evidence.

I can still understand the reactionary attitude of those 95%, because that’s part of a wider problem about a lack of knowledge about privacy online. It’s a fundamental human trait to fear things that we don’t understand to “protect” ourselves in the short term.

The technology for sharing information is moving along at such a rapid pace that I’m not surprised it’s taking people time to quite grasp what the implications are and aren’t of their information being shared online. Perhaps some of these people will back down eventually, but for now…what’s the German phrase for ‘sticking your head in the sand’?

The reality is, is that you’ll never know the motivation of those 224,000+ households in wanting their properties removed from the Streetside service.

Whether you assume that their concerns are borne of what you perceive as their ignorance or not, they still have a right to make a choice concerning the public display of something that’s feels personal to them. What’s the point of wanting to see data democratised, but being suprised when people make a choice to opt out?

“Beat this, Van Halen!”

In terms of the sophistication of the terrorist attacks of 70’s, 80’s and part of the 90’s in the UK, they were way more primitive than what we see today. The idea of getting a telephone warning about a potential attack almost seems ridiculous compared to the seemingly spontaneous destruction carried out by the 7/7 attackers.

These kind of wide ranging powers might not have been in use back then, but you can bet that had the government had the technology to carry out mass surveillance as easily as today, they would have used it.

I just assumed you had a lisp….

Honestly, I don’t know how you manage Photoshop and video editing on a trackpad; I find the whole process so labourious that way. Surely most “serious” users are going to get themselves a decent wireless mouse?

It’s a budget phone; significant hardware trade offs are part of the deal in getting a phone for a rock bottom price.

The word ‘diaspora’ isn’t exactly a maddeningly difficult one to say nor so rarely used as to be irrelevant in today’s society. It might lack the marketing punch of a two syllable word like ‘facebook’ or ‘ipod’ but it’s still a good descriptive term.

Perhaps I’ve been more used to hearing it because I’m the child of immigrants in the country i live in and I’ve just grown up hearing that describe the rest of the loosely collected bunch of people around me. It just makes sense to me with that context in my life.

The word ‘diaspora’ isn’t exactly a maddeningly difficult one to say nor so rarely used as to be irrelevant in today’s society. It might lack the marketing punch of a two syllable word like ‘facebook’ or ‘ipod’ but it’s still a good descriptive term.

Perhaps I’ve been more used to hearing it because I’m the child of immigrants in the country i live in and I’ve just grown up hearing that describe the rest of the loosely collected bunch of people around me. It just makes sense to me with that context in my life.

I don’t think that the uncensored version of people that appears on sites like 4chan is any more a true representation. It’s a hyperreal, caricature of people that can only exist in an artificial world where people don’t have to worry about the any kind of tangible consequences to their actions.

Well it’s a name that’s more relevant to the idea of connecting people seperated by geography, so it makes more sense than ‘Facebook’ which is a bit more of a stretch to interpret.

Oh…that’s where Samsung got their inspiration from for the Galaxy SIII.

It’s happened once or twice, but thankfully I’ve never fallen asleep long enough to end up outside Zone 6.

Also, I think half of your problem could be alleiviated if you invest in clothing that has pockets you can button/zip up.

Just out of curiosity, are you one of those guys that gets so completely wasted that not only do you fall asleep on an express train and end up shivering on a cold, dark and empty platform somewhere like Havant at 2am, but also that the station guard who comes by at 5am now knows you on a first name basis?

I think it’s time you learned to train your alcohol fuzzed brain to do the ‘drunken self pat down’ for your phone, wallet and keys every half an hour or so when you’re pissed. No cheap phone or handy app can ever substitute the power of drunken panic/paranoia.

It probably is him…take a look at this heartfelt love song by Paul to his Gamecube.

Sony Ericsson did this back in early 2010 with their Xperia Pureness. I don’t think it sold very well and the usefulness of a transparent screen was a bit limited.

“Why shouldn’t you be sacked?” Because that’s not a productive way to do business; people mess up every single day to varying degrees. If your employee messes up once, thats a mistake to learn from for them and the entire organisation; past errors and future risk assessment are how company policies are made more robust. If your employee has a consistent record of making errors, then yes, they probably need to go.

There are more…I don’t know if you saw them at the time:

Well, for starters it doesn’t help that before we saw the Lumia 800, some of the early conept renders for a Nokia WP7 device looked very much like the HTC One X and One S. Also, whilst Nokia isn’t the only manufacturer out there taking Windows Phone seriously, most of what we’ve seen from the competition so far hasn’t been that inspiring, save for the HTC Radar.

The first round of WP7 handsets were mostly uninspired, black corporate looking slabs, and there wasn’t a great deal to make one phone stand out above the next. There was no element of playfulness in the design to match the bright and bold aesthetic of the OS. I can understand the hesitation of Samsung and LG back in 2009/10 to throw excessive amounts of R&D at designing a phone running an untested OS, but they could still have gone down the Lumia 710 route of cheap, cheerful and playful in the same vein as some of their early Android handsets. You don’t need an expensively crafted chassis to stand out, all you need is the ingenuity to create something eye-catching.

I’ve been thinking about picking one up as a curiosity piece, and I’m not really that concerned about apps, other than getting Nokia maps and transport…most of what I do on phones is via mobile versions of sites.

Anyway, how is the N9 in day to day use? Is it snappy enough when browsing? Does it work as a mass storage device if you plug it into your PC, or are you forced into using specific software to sync things? Most importantly what’s the sound quality like on the music player and is that software any good?

Go to your profile and ‘Manage my posts’.

The hardware has little, if anything to do with Windows as an OS; with Wintel laptops you’re buying into a massively cut throat business in which profits are hard to come by because expectations are that if you opt for Windows, you can get a computer for £500 or under.

Apple are fortunate enough to control the end to end experience, and as such can afford to push the envelope with the hardware and get people to pay the premium, because for 99% of consumers there is no other choice that they’re aware of if they want OSX, and the Apple brand as a whole is synonymous with a ‘better’ experience. It doesn’t matter whether that’s accurate 100% of the time; it’s what’s stuck in the heads of enough people to matter.

People consistently forget or ignore that when the hardware for Wintel laptops matches the premium feel of a Macbook, they just don’t sell well. Demand for well put together, solid feeling Windows laptops are a niche demand compared to the volume sales that can be acheived with budget laptops.

This is only going to echo other’s sentiments, but I really think that trying to track down the owner is the best, primary course of action. You have the SIM card, and perhaps even numbers stored on it, so if there are, try contacting anything listed as ‘Home’ or anything that looks like a relative’s number.

It must feel like an absolute bonanza finding something like this just lying around, and the temptation to go all ’finder’s keepers’ is massive, but you don’t know the circumstances of how the phone came to end up in the dirt. It could just be carlessness or the result of a botched mugging, but either way you’d really make someone’s day by returning it.

Open source is a great notion, but what does that even really mean to the average, non-tech head consumer after they’ve come to a hypothetical point where they’re feeling screwed over by the majors?