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    randomenigma

    @gogogo maybe because it's only 50% bigger, not 150% bigger?

    Posted in: McDonald's Japan to sell premium burgers for first time

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    randomenigma

    Having a start button is one thing, but does it bring up the start menu? I've been hearing that it does the same thing as pressing the Windows key, which if true, makes it pretty pointless.

    Posted in: Cherished 'Start' button returning to Windows software

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    randomenigma

    @bannedacctsam - the first mobile phone with a capacitive touchscreen. I had a touchscreen phone by Sony Ericsson which existed before that one, and the first one was supposedly IBM's Simon PDA.

    Posted in: Apple chief sees computers on wrists - not in glasses

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    randomenigma

    when will they come out with a version for people that already wear glasses?

    Early reviews suggest that you can either replace the lenses or remove the computer part of it and mount it on existing frames.

    Posted in: Google's wearable Glass gadget: cool or creepy?

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    randomenigma

    It might not be the best idea to go on and use this ID number as the actual ID number for other things as there are privacy concerns with doing that. Just let it replace the name so that it solves only the problem you brought it in to solve.

    Posted in: All Japanese citizens to be issued ID number

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    randomenigma

    The entirety of Japan being an hour ahead of Sydney is weird. Japan is basically directly north, so the latest zone they should be using is UTC+10...

    As far as computers go, people who mess around with time zones often forget that computers maintain a full history of all these changes. Even if you abolished daylight savings in every country right now, computers still have to know what the rules were in the past, otherwise past dates and times will display incorrectly. And of course if you bump Japan two hours forwards this year, computers will still have to handle it as UTC+9 for past dates. It might highlight a bunch of applications which were naïvely thinking that the time zone offset for a city is a constant thing (I know that a lot of forum software makes this mistake.)

    Posted in: Gov't considers setting clock ahead by two hours

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    The diet drinks don't appear to be making me eat more, so I call bullshit on that claim.

    Posted in: Coke takes anti-obesity campaign global

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    The change which annoys me is that menus now fly out to the left of where I click the mouse.

    I realise that they probably did this for tablet users who are using a pen or a finger, so the menu flying out to the right would usually be covered by your hand. But it does this even on computers which don't have any touch devices and it isn't even consistent between all applications on the computer. So I've completely lost the ability to predict where a menu will be when right-clicking now.

    Posted in: Microsoft touching up Windows 8 to address gripes

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    randomenigma

    My history of Google+:

    I was one of the idiots clamouring for the service in the early days and happily used it alongside Twitter for about a week.

    A week in, I noticed that nobody else was actually posting things on there, just copying the things they had already posted on Twitter anyway.

    A few more weeks in, Google banned my account because they didn't think my name looked like a "real name", whatever that is. Presumably they kicked off a large number of authors and actors at around the same time, leaving the site devoid of anyone who was actually interesting to follow.

    So I happily lived without it for 2 years.

    About a month ago, I was just visiting YouTube to watch some videos, when suddenly, Google pop up a dialog saying "hey man, I notice you're using your real name on Google and your alias on YouTube - do you want to: (1) use your real name on both, or (2) use your alias on both?" I chose (2) and as a side-effect, they created yet another Google+ account for me.

    So essentially, just because Google+ had an increase in users doesn't mean people are joining the service voluntarily. A lot of us were forced there by a misleading dialog box on YouTube. This also makes it very easy to explain why it looks like people aren't posting there much. It's because we don't f***ing care.

    Posted in: Google Plus racks up followers, but not all are devoted

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    randomenigma

    had a lot of spunk

    I see what you did thar.

    Posted in: School flasher identified by semen left at scene

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    randomenigma

    Microsoft could reimplement the entire Windows API on top of Linux and write a portable executable loader. Then everything would just work and they would never have to put any more work into the operating system ever again. Might have to do some interesting hacks to put back drive letters, assuming that anyone wants those (I certainly don't.)

    Posted in: PC sales plunge as Windows 8 flops

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    randomenigma

    A 13 hour day, coupled with bringing work into the home environment? No thanks.

    Posted in: Kirin implements ‘work at home’ system

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    randomenigma

    Listening to streaming music is fine, but it's going to be tough for them as there are plenty of free places I can listen to the music I want.

    That said though, for music I actually want, I buy physical CDs still.

    Posted in: Big Tech tests the waters of the music stream

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    randomenigma

    What's he talking about? Multi-tasking has been possible on the iPhone for a while now.

    Not really. You can switch between apps but only one app can be running at a time still.

    Posted in: BlackBerry CEO says iPhone is outdated

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    randomenigma

    Negi on a pizza works fine.

    Posted in: Domino’s Pizza launches fleet of special Hatsune Miku delivery bikes

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    randomenigma

    I don't spend tens of thousands of yen every day grocery shopping...

    Posted in: Tokyo hotel shrinks in new-style urban demolition

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    randomenigma

    Groinal unit when?

    Posted in: Head spa massage unit makes you look like Robocop

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    randomenigma

    @JeffLee You say these things as if they are good things.

    Posted in: Google challenges Apple with high-end laptop

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    randomenigma

    Dutchduck, you're supposed to use multiplication for that, not addition. Time to go back to school?

    Posted in: Smoking out tobacco: The rise of the e-cig

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    randomenigma

    A bunch of people are calling him famous, but the first I heard of him was in these news articles. So if they were trying to make him famous by arresting him, I guess they succeeded. Now demand for his stuff will be even greater.

    Posted in: Fashionistas defend 'obscene' photographer Leslie Kee

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