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Date: 2011-02-01 06:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 11:21 am (UTC)I've not been that bothered about the tablet market up until now, mostly due to cost and waiting to see if the market would just die out as a novelty that no-one actually had a use for, but at that price it's almost tempting.
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Date: 2011-02-01 11:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 11:29 am (UTC)They did a blind study a few years ago testing the paternity of children whose parents were in the process of divorce and about 25 percent of the kids didn't have a genetic match to their "father."
Another study showed that in cases where men were questioning or unsure if they were the father (which would be the case in buying these kits) the rate of nonpaternity was close to 30 percent.
Overall in the Western world the assumption is that roughly 10 percent of kids were not fathered by the man the woman claims was the father.
For odd reasons this number is considerably higher in certain parts of the the UK and the US and considerably lower in Scandinavian countries.
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Date: 2011-02-01 02:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 04:34 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 04:35 pm (UTC)And, less face it, if your marriage was in great shape you wouldn't be buying an over the counter paternity test, would you?
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Date: 2011-02-01 04:46 pm (UTC)Will there be child support claims made against biological fathers from those who turn out to be social ones?
Could we subsequently see DNA tests on aborted foetuses / foetii (?) to see who was indeed the father?
Do you [Bart] have a blog where you post about porn business / website stuff BTW? The comments you have made around your work are fascinating from a sociological and philosophical perspective IMO.
After all, in Plato's Republic children wouldn't know or care who their parents were.
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Date: 2011-02-01 07:05 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-01 11:32 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 11:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 11:55 am (UTC)She wants to be able to go into a meeting and pull up the relevant documents (from email, or desktop shortcut?) without having to print them out. She saw someone else doing that and was jealous.
70-year-olds these days, eh!
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Date: 2011-02-01 12:29 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-02-01 12:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 02:58 pm (UTC)My main worry is that this is the _first_ Android tablet I've seen that looks worthwhile. I'd expect things to improve significantly over the next six months, so I'd be wary of buying anything before then.
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:48 pm (UTC)Thanks, sorry for the third degree!
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Date: 2011-02-01 10:54 pm (UTC)And no worries - I like this kind of thing!
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Date: 2011-02-02 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 12:31 pm (UTC)If they go offline, truly offline, then the payment processors will begin to fall over within a day or two. I mean, who uses X.25 any more?
At which point, Egypt's financial infrastructure goes tits-up, and if they didn't have a revolution before that point ...
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Date: 2011-02-01 12:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 01:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 03:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 04:56 pm (UTC)ObMubarak: "I'll just get me coat ..."
(If the head of state is singlehandedly responsible for the national credit rating tanking, he's not long for the presidential palace.)
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 02:56 pm (UTC)If the 10.1 is stable, then that's really, in my experience, a first :-)
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:03 pm (UTC)If you get a chance to play with a 101 let us know what you think!
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:47 pm (UTC)I might even be tempted into learning how to program on the Android platform if there is a useful device available. I don't see Windows-based tablets taking off due to all forms of Windows being so damn power-hungry - but ya never know....
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 03:47 pm (UTC)http://colorlessrevolution.blogspot.com/
It was set up by a friend of mine (who studied at Edinburgh for a semester or so while I was there, a fellow gamer) who was in Egypt when things kicked off and wanted to share a few thoughts he scribbled while incommunicado. He's a very clever man and a very good writer.
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Date: 2011-02-01 03:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 04:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-01 05:30 pm (UTC)Very very interesting to see--those stats saying "Blackberry in trouble as market share tanks" are utterly at if the reality is "Blackberry up 36% but overall size of market up 88%".
Reading through reviews of various products, and most on, for example, the N8, are rather grudging, but Jennie and I both read one which was complainign about various things going "but we like that feature".
Apparently both Virgin and T-Mobile are shipping more Desires than anything else, but also getting a much higher proportion of returns than they normally get. Those stats from call centre staff so may or may not be accurate.
Jennie's N8 arrived yesterday and her Desire got posted back. I want an N8 already, it's really good. Very few things about the Desire impressed me enough to want it.
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:39 pm (UTC)I'm not likely to go back to Nokia unless they massively overhaul their interface and get a lot more developers on board.
Meantime, I'm very happy with my Desire, although I now seem to have replaced all of the interface except for the Dialer (and am tempted to change that too, I keep playing around with alternatives). The sheer fact that I can do so makes it for me (although there are a lot of other things I like too).
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Date: 2011-02-01 05:53 pm (UTC)Ultimately, a phone has to suit you and your purposes--Android I can see is good, but for use primarily as a phone, not good enough. Yet.
I suspect this may partially be due to different phone use cultures in the US compared to the UK/EU--we use SMS more from what I understand, and don't pay to receive them (I mean, really, WTF?).
But Jennie's Desire not loading all her contacts to Google like it said it would, then rebooting and deleting all the data, really was bad--she had her karate club AGM last night, but couldn't actually ask anyone for a lift there as she's not seen any of them to get phone numbers back as she's still not allowed to actually do karate yet. If a phone can't be trusted to keep the phone numbers it's had uploaded to it, it's not a functional mobile phone, even if it's an unusual glitch, it's wrong.
I really hope they continue to improve, and especially get the 'phone' aspects fixed. I also suspect I'll stick to Nokia for a bit, but continuing to have multiple choices is good.
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Date: 2011-02-01 10:53 pm (UTC)Works for me just fine for SMS though - I'm curious what problem you/she had?
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Date: 2011-02-01 11:01 pm (UTC)One of the numbers was wrong. It kept retrying to send, was unable to send, and then reattempted it. We couldn't find the outbox, couldn't tell it to stop sending, and eventually just turned it off then put it on silent.
Nokia and Sony phones I've had always ask to retry if there's a problem number. Whether it was a one off or similar, it was still daft. And sure, finding the outbox is something you know how to do or not, but Nokia's have a logo shortcut whent here's something in there in the status area.
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Date: 2011-02-02 08:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-02-02 12:25 am (UTC)no subject
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