Posts by Rich of Observationz
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Cancelling the world cup would just about leave us level.
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If a farm goes bust because the farmers leveraged himself up the wazoo, it's still a farm and can keep on growing and selling stuff, albeit with a different owner. Surely
We're really talking about welfare for National voters here, aren't we. -
ISTR that in return for the guarantee scheme, finance companies were supposed to adopt full banking levels of compliance. This doesn't seem to have happened.
Really, the previous government should have shut down the secondary finance sector years ago. It was obvious that failure was only a matter of time
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Receivership.
Thank fuck. I thought we were being lined up to gift several hundred dollars a head to farmers, property spivs and an overseas billionaire.
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It is of course possible for anyone to set up a *market* for Android apps, so those criticisms may be addressed by a competitor (Amazon?) entering the industry?
Anyway, don't *all* business ventures make less money then their owners hoped?
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I guess one can always avoid ios products.
But would people be as relaxed if Microsoft were to lock down windows? Technically it wouldn't be hard - installing an unsigned exe is already a warning, they would just need to promote that to an error.
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Can we sell Timaru to the Chinese to get our billion dollars back?
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any interesting Android app
developers in NZI have an app due for release by end of year. I think it will attract some attention, but NZ
isn't the target market due to the small number of extant handsets. -
Microwave hacks, in order of try-at-homeness:
- measure the power output by heating a known volume of water
and calculating from the temperature rise- place matchheads wrapped in silver foil inside and make micro ball lightning
- remove personal information stored on chipped passports and the like
- defeat the door circuits and build an aluminium foil waveguide to heat stuff from a distance.
(posted from my firewalled work desktop, tethered to an Android).
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Maybe obvious useful functionality (PXTs, projector support, front-facing cameras) get left out so they can be added later as a marketing tactic?