UK terror threat now ‘critical’
This is a deeply pathetic situation, and via sensationalist, dim-witted news coverage of yesterday’s and today’s events – particularly by the BBC – we know just how easy it is for a couple of idiots with a poorly conceived terror plot and a few cans of petrol to grind parts of our nation to a halt and have the government notch up the threat level.
A faster network and choice over carriers; this would be a much better deal than the US version.
Tell Steve Jobs: Unlock the iPhone!
The iPhone is revolutionary in terms of its user interface, but no amount UI innovation can make up for the fact you’re chained to a particular carrier. If the UK version offers me the freedom to choose which carrier to go with, only then would I consider buying one.
What follows is a revised comment I recently made on Reddit:
It’s strange that
when Jeff Han
demonstrated his Multi-touch technology in 2006, everyone said how
pioneering it was, and now that Microsoft are releasing similar
technology, called Surface, people seem to be ridiculing it as a
‘big-ass table’.
To me this satirical ad smacks of hypocrisy by someone who – I suspect
- would be first in the queue if Apple released something similar.
Of course there are applications for this type of interface, as Jeff
Han demonstrated in 2006. In fact, I’m puzzled by the connection
between Han’s product and Surface, and after digging around the Web I
haven’t come up with a conclusive link between the technologies.
I do know that Microsoft have a really bad image problem and they are
desperate to be seen as innovators like Apple. Could it be that MS
have licensed this technology from Jeff Han, with a deal that allows
MS to state that they are the innovators?