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[personal profile] cheekbones3 2011-02-01 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
So, they're selling a couple of envelopes and swabs. I hate to see how much they're charging for this...

[identity profile] bracknellexile.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 11:21 am (UTC)(link)
I was just reading that Archos review. I think the most telling line is the last one: "...which makes it the only tablet now on sale that I would actually spend my own hard-earned on."

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.

[identity profile] bart-calendar.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 11:29 am (UTC)(link)
Boy is that 1 in 25 number optimistic. Every study I've ever read has shown "mistaken paternity" stats to be MUCH higher than that.

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.

[identity profile] ciphergoth.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
I know I shouldn't care, but it drives me mad that all the articles taking the piss out of homoeopathy get it wrong! A homeopathic bomb wouldn't be ludicrously diluted explosives - that would be a homeopathic bomb shelter!

[identity profile] lizzie-and-ari.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 11:55 am (UTC)(link)
Do you think the Android tablet is a good buy then? My mum turned round last week and asked for an ipad for her birthday (70th)! I told her how much they cost and she changed her mind. But I did tell her that I would investigate alternatives.

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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[identity profile] autopope.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 12:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The Egypt thing is interesting.

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 ...

[identity profile] channelpenguin.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 02:56 pm (UTC)(link)
I have the Archos 5 and it's....well that mix of awesome and annoying that Archos kit has always been (I've had a few of their products).

If the 10.1 is stable, then that's really, in my experience, a first :-)

[identity profile] marrog.livejournal.com 2011-02-01 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Thought you might be interested in linking to this:
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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[personal profile] matgb 2011-02-01 05:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Actual numbers on smartphone growth and number shipping. Nokia up 30% (which is phenomenal), RIM up 36% (which is even moreso), but Apple and Android both up massively, but from a smaller base.

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.

[identity profile] ipslore.livejournal.com 2011-02-02 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
My question is, as a patron of the Internet, will I have to do anything about IPv6? Update my browser, get a new modem, bitch at my ISP, anything like that?
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