Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 06:28 AM EST |
BBC I
recall that there have been a number of allegations of gangsterism etc in the
past, but am not sure if they involved him or maybe an employee. Unfortunately,
the latest news has taken over the first few pages at least that Google throws
up, so it is hard to find much about previous events. Maybe someone can remember
some details? [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: tiger99 on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 06:49 AM EST |
BBC When will they
ever learn the first rule of marketing: TIMING IS ALL-IMPORTANT (or words
to that effect)? The made teh same error with phones (notably the Kin, about
2000 sold out of a likely production batch of 100k or more), tablets, search
(the fact that Bing is a VERY POOR substitute for Google did not help).... Far
too late into social networking to ever make it pay, so this will likely be yet
another loss-maker. Long may they continue along those lines, which lead
eventually to Chapter 7. The sooner, the better..... [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 06:57 AM EST |
There's a new Community website for creators called Hacker Union.
Looks
interesting.
Hacker Union
Dot Org
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: cricketjeff on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 07:05 AM EST |
According to New Scientist's rarely unamusing Feedback column there is a new service available in Canada
that's sure to excite Apple's lawyers.
Fascinating faecal facts
WHILE we're on
the subject of faeces, Michael Holroyd sends us a scan of an advertisement he
saw in The Equity newspaper in Shawville, Quebec, Canada. It's for a portable
toilet rental service, and although it's not a new Apple product, it's called -
get ready to groan here - "I-Pood".
--- There is nothing in life that
doesn't look better after a good cup of tea. [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 10:59 AM EST |
linky
[Separate issue: Given how misguided
the whole design of Windows 8 seems to be, why have tech journalists given it
basically positive reviews? My theory is that journalists love anything new,
different, and complicated. Windows 8 is all of those things.]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 02:30 PM EST |
The researchers studied every homicide that occurred in the city of
Newark, N.J., over a period of a quarter century, from January 1982 to September
2007. In all, Newark had seen 2,366 murders in that period, a rate of homicide
some three times as high as that of the general U.S. population.
The
researchers tracked down the time and location of every single murder. They
plugged the data into a software program that has previously been used to track
infectious diseases: When you put in the geographical location and the time of
infection of each victim of the infectious disease, the program creates a model
that shows how the epidemic is spreading — and where it might go
next.
Shankar Vedantam, NPR[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 03:21 PM EST |
The Guardian quotes Tim Cook from a
NBC video
where he promises to shift production of some Macs back to USA. Since
last week's story on some new iMacs bearing the label Assembled
in
USA,
9-5 Mac claims to have traced two of these
back to Fremont CA.
Other sources relate that the D2 serial number prefix indicates the
computers came from one of Apple's refurbishment facitilities, but
they were
sold as new.
Bloomberg also reports that Foxconn
is planning to expand its operations in the US as customers request more of
their products be Made in U.S.A.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 03:41 PM EST |
Been a rough day. Couldn't concentrate enough to write, so I went surfing
for information. What do you know, even Cracked is useful
sometimes!
The Sneaky Lie Your Apple
Devices Are Telling
You
Mind you I'm not complaining about Apple doing this. Heck,
I've done stuff
to hide load times too, and didn't do as good a job at it. I'm
just amused.
Waynehttp://madhatter.ca
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, December 06 2012 @ 08:01 PM EST |
http://i.imgur.com/1EGjb.jpg [ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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