
I could have told them what would happen with a good degree of certainty and saved them a lot of money.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:05, Reply)

A...errr....friend....wants to try it.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:11, Reply)

I wondered about the space station and wanking. Do they have wank rules...maybe a special wank sock designed by NASA.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:25, Reply)

And then opened the airlock on wednesday morning to suck the spunk-filled atmosphere out.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:29, Reply)

2 weeks worth out the hatch that was.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:40, Reply)

( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 22:49, Reply)

*use headphones*
Sorry for spunking two links in quick succession....but this is too cool to wait for the usual refractory period.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 19:21, Reply)

but I will wait till people have listened themselves!
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 19:26, Reply)

Variant on a classic video experiment (and from which the title of a book on perception)
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 19:52, Reply)

but then again my earphones are crap ones from poundland.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 19:54, Reply)

( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:18, Reply)

There was a video version of this done a few years ago where you had to count how times a ball was thrown.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:49, Reply)

( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 19:10, Reply)

still seems like a good likeness from what i have seen of gingers
ginger hair? check
freckles ? check
full pouting lips? check
mental head case ? fucking run away
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:45, Reply)

You massive fucking hairist
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 21:10, Reply)

my mum died from hairistitust
dear god the memorys the horible memorys, you have no idea of what it like to see your mum die from tangled curls and frizzy ends
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 21:28, Reply)

Was the name of my Uncle who molested my repeatedly as a child.
£23,800 worth of therapy over the course of three years to bury that memory is now completely fucking wasted.
You utter shit!
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 21:35, Reply)

Looks like Scarlett Johansson.
I wanked.
( , Mon 27 Aug 2012, 13:20, Reply)

good tune too, thought it was Ian brown.
At least you didn't ask me to adopt one.
I hate that, they never send you the bloody animal, just a cuddly toy.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 19:16, Reply)

And then when you go to Africa the bastards won't even let you ride it.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 19:29, Reply)

amazing bass player from the senseless things and all round nice bloke
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:43, Reply)

its all made in photoshop and aftereffects, taken about 3months of my spare time, taking pictures of trees, phone boxes, different textures and scanning from a really old animal book
si
( , Sun 26 Aug 2012, 11:42, Reply)

Really wish I'd seen this as a kid - very well done animation on things like music, the golden rectangle and shape and space in mathematics. Non-patronising and I learnt a few tips on playing billiards too. Edit - was posted last year but worth a punt
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 17:33, Reply)

Just 'cos you say it with about eight, you scouse troll.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:14, Reply)

TED talk about apple and patent infringement, skip to 5 minutes just for the apple bashing, but it is all worth a watch.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 17:08, Reply)

There is a soulless cunt on b3ta , www.b3ta.com/questions/strangejobs/post16092 see.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 17:30, Reply)

( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 16:55, Reply)

Did seem a little like hard work, especially when his bread supply was nearly halved :)
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 17:56, Reply)

edit :
to catch a cat
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 18:49, Reply)

Loads of cartoon strips etc too, should keep you busy :)
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 15:50, Reply)

With no idea how old I was, watching round the bend and the sketch of "Wee-Man" came on which was he-man in big y-fronts and i upon seeing this image i laughed and laughed and noticed that I'd done some wee myself (ironically I now notice).
This man made my first laugh-wee
Edit - And every episode is on there! if you were in my presence you would get a kiss!
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 16:20, Reply)

i remember with no idea how old I was, watching round the bend and the sketch of "Wee-Man" came on which was he-man in big y-fronts and i upon seeing this image i
This man made
Edit - And every episode is on there! if you were in my presence you would
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 16:30, Reply)

I've been looking for videos of Round the Bend for ages.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:32, Reply)

how long should I boil my cordless screwdriver?
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 14:01, Reply)

Prof Klaus Heissler reviews yet more modern song lyrics
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 12:26, Reply)

Now, I do absolutely love this song. I'm not sure I love it this much though.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 11:05, Reply)

from the recent Harry Hill mockumentary on Channel 4
(click on the link instead of the embedded whatever to jump to 4m5s)
warning: contains Harry Hill (for those that don't like Harry Hill)
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:40, Reply)

Jerry was the puppeteer behind the Count and Gobo Fraggle :(
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:25, Reply)

youtu.be/TKeG2fgqxqs
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 16:17, Reply)

Samsung less so
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 8:25, Reply)

"All I know is that Apple products work. We got our first Apple 13 years ago to do Computer Graphics and Art. Only an Apple did what we needed. PC's, though cheaper, were good at typing and children's games. The other reason was reliability. You plugged it in and it worked. PC's can do many things now but for graphics, photos, art and printing especially newspapers you have to have an Apple."
I know what he means, i had to buy 5 pc's until i got lucky and got one that actually worked when i plugged it in. What an idiot.
I use macs, it's the only thing i can use for making music, that's the only reason i use them, i've never taken any of them to a coffee shop.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 8:52, Reply)

I'm not sure about reliability rates either. I have friends with macs who have complained about various issues, failures (not as easy to get into and repair or replace either). I do all my web and graphics work on PC's and find no issues either. I just don't get why they think macs are better. I put them at a level pegging with PC's just more expensive. It's an opinion btw. I have used macs at school, but that was over 16 years ago now, well before the modern mac rounded corners boom...
I can also plug it in and it works.
EDIT: by idiotic comments I meant Tonys, not yours Bready. *hugs*
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 9:05, Reply)

I just couldn't be bothered arsing around trying to increase the mega-ramage and jpegs on my pc to bring it up to speed so that i could look at gifs. I opted instead to get a mac, i can now run two gifs at once and it has loads of gigi-bits and other cool stuff.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 9:12, Reply)

( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:11, Reply)

I have far less hassle with Macs. In fact, I am going out to buy another one today. £2000 of goodness.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:35, Reply)

M'lord the defendants have clearly stolen my clients design for a laptop as theirs also has a folding screen that closes over a keyboard.
Back in the early 2000s all phones looked the same, all flatscreen tv's are large rectangles on stands. It really doesn't make sense to me that apple can have exclusive rights to a rectangular touch screen device.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 9:00, Reply)

Untill the iPhone came out... That's just te truth
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:55, Reply)

Nokia were showing full touch screen prototypes way before the iPhone.
I had a Sony P800 which was a touch screen and very similar (once the optional folding keypad was removed).
If you want to make a touch screen phone and use the frontal area economically while making it easy to hold in your hand and keep in your pocket, there are not many options. They didn't come up with a radical solution - it was just the obvious one that everyone else had already figured out.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 11:39, Reply)

cdn-static.zdnet.com/i/product/10/09/6915/tmobile-mda-compact_i1.jpg?hash=Zwt5LmqzZG&upscale=1
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 17:06, Reply)

Apple can kiss my arse if they think I'm buying another of their products though. I cannot forgive them for the absolute dog's breakfast they made of my 1st gen iPod Touch. They took a device that "just worked" fresh from the box and through several "updates" turned it into a slow, buggy piece of crap.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 9:10, Reply)

Was sent back for repair about 6 times until it was left to rot on the counter side after the final fail.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 9:16, Reply)

...will be asking themselves how the cunting fuck did they deliberate on a reported 700 questions in 22 hours.
We had four questions and it took us over 15 hours.
You could cynically suspect that they were so bored with the whole thing, they decided to just wrap it up ASAP and favour the American company.
Also, it only takes one persuasive person on a jury to swing people to a way of thinking once they are in that room.
I imagine this will be appealed pretty hard.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:17, Reply)

for trials such as this to not be conducted by a jury of laymen for reasons very much like this.
A case solely about patents and IP could be heard by a jury of patent attorneys etc. The cost to be funded by the court until judgement at which point it would likely be a small drop in the ocean compared to the total legal bill at that point for most companies.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 11:04, Reply)

This. I was on jury duty regarding a complex fraud case. Suddenly everyone was a legal expert.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 23:41, Reply)

personally I don't see the iPhone as being all that innovative all them pocket sized electronics had been heading on a path of convergence for years. Between the PSP (zomg has a rectangular screen and a circular button with a square on it, looks like a stolen apple design to me), NGague, various palm PDAs, MP3 players, cellphones, it was about damn time someone put all that stuff in one device, seriously I'm lazy and only want one thing in my pocket. tbh I haven't really even kept up with pocket sized electronics in years, so maybe I'll go buy a smartphone or something sometime soon.
the rounded rectangle is just such a basic geometric shape I might as well try to trademark a common word and sue everyone that uses it. I was thinking of the word the™ now whenever you say the™ send me .01 currency units!
and most of the other patents seem to be small software features that in no way should be patentable. can apple demand people remove sliding glass doors as they slide and grant access to a building? and my first cell phone had a lock that required you to press 1 2 3, more or less the exact same gesture (yea okay slide to unlock wasn't in this trial but I'm bitter about it).
Bounce back, okay kinda a nice feature but can easily work around it, then again how much is that really worth?
touch to zoom to text, it just seems logical that if I'm looking at a large web page on a small screen that I would want to zoom, if we look at the adobe pdf reader I have select, zoom, and the hand tool. with a touch screen the hand tool can just be a gesture, so might as well put zoom on the one touch. although if that is specifically designed to look at the text then that should be easy to dodge.
maybe it is all just that simple because it is 2012 and not 2007 and apple didn't "invent" it all yet
that said multi touch does seem to be a newish thing and I'd say is worth protecting.
maybe something else, no one seems to have a nice and easy chart saying what won/lost
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:24, Reply)

image that shows most of the stuff involved
si.wsj.net/public/resources/images/OB-UH759_APPLEV_G_20120825011630.jpg
design: yea they did a pretty exact copy, probably shouldn't be able to patent the rounded rectangle but should be able to come up with a slightly different design.
rounded square icons on the interface: errm isn't that more or less the same with every graphical OS out there now?
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:57, Reply)

That image does not show a fair split of patents - it seems Apple have patented the 'it does X when I poke it like Y' and Samsung have patented the important stuff - managing battery, prioritising data, multi-tasking etc.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 11:09, Reply)

Samsung has tried its hardest to make its product look like apple products I guess this means they succeeded
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 10:36, Reply)

Best phone I've ever had. Plus you can do what you want on it and not have to use crappy Itunes (ie. you are treated like a responsible adult and not a retarded child).
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 12:13, Reply)

what's so great about it? I feel a bit disappointed overall.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 12:33, Reply)

Camera is awesome, screen is awesome, apps are awesome. Plus you can configure everything. I love it. What don't you like??
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 14:26, Reply)

I'm looking for an galaxy fondle thingy now... i don't need one, i don't really want one... but i'm bloody well getting one just so I can be a ruddy rebel... i might even buy an ipad (sencond hand) then film myself doing a shit on it... and then return it to apple, then sue them for not preventing such things from happening... the cunts !
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 12:14, Reply)

It's a white box with curved corners with buttons that light up when you press them.
I imagine that the Apple bailiffs are on their way round to remove it.
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 13:04, Reply)

m feeling all left out I don't think I've owned anything samsung or apple..there maybe a few samsung parts in something i owned but that's it
smart phones are gay - best i ever had was spvc500, some htc thing back in yonder years, never had a smart phone since.. i don't need interwebs or emails until i get home.. people have to wait for me to reply.
I don't like osx or apple devices they would just break under my hands plus i don't own a fixie bike.. hahaha..used to use macs in the studios pro tools runs exactly the same on windows or osx..hated it when apple bought logic and turned it apple only.. bunch of numpties
Strangley enough it was an american court that awarded an american company such a big amount.. i wonder how the korean apple samsung case will go?
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 15:31, Reply)

and the brainless fanbois who have given them the power to swagger around like cunts
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 20:12, Reply)

The BBC have posted it in this weeks "In Pictures". He's well chuffed.
Have a link to his Flickr original too.
flic.kr/p/cUR1jG
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 1:12, Reply)

The Vikings were out in force for sure
www.flickr.com/photos/szmytke/7811568352/
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 23:21, Reply)

Omg. I've never met a b3tan local to me. Aberdeen is the closest.
( , Sun 26 Aug 2012, 16:53, Reply)

"Good your grace, an' I had room for such a thundergust within mine ancient bowels,"
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 0:08, Reply)

"By this time the beverage began to work to some purpose, and the poor
squire discharged so swiftly and copiously at both ends that neither
the rush mat on which he had thrown himself nor the blanket with which
he covered himself were fit for anything afterwards."
( , Sat 25 Aug 2012, 14:24, Reply)
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