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Japanese fanboi first in queue for, er, iPhone 6
A Japanese man who appears to be a rather overzealous Apple fanboi has started queuing for the iPhone 6, even though it hasn't been announced yet. Tokyo-based blogger Yoppy, who describes his outing in his blog as "iPhone cosplay" – apparently decided that Wednesday was the right time to dress up as an iPhone and wait outside …
I'll have a go at translation
"I'm the world's fastest queuer for the iPhone 6, and I've got email in English from Brazilian and UK news sites. Wish me luck as I have to reply..."
It's all a bit slangy, so no wonder Google Translate falls down.
And can I suggest an NSFW tag on his Twitter feed as he is now showing his chocolate willy there.
Re: I'll have a go at translation
And on the translation front ,9.75million yen is aprox £58,000. So the number it cost the airline isn't nearly as bad as it sounds.
@Ken Y-N Re: I'll have a go at translation
It's a chocolate 'Yule log' and the filling is leaking out. Some people ......
"It's a chocolate 'Yule log' and the filling is leaking out"
That's what they all say when they're in the dock!
Re: I'll have a go at translation
IPhone 6 - Translation - an amazing mobile phone completely made of glass with an edge to edge screen and invisible virtual curved corners.
Patented of course.
Re: I'll have a go at translation
Chocolate willy - melts in the mouth, not in the hand!
This is a whole new kind of retard
For which a word has not yet been invented.
Satirical Personificiation
I presume that this is some kind of satirical personificiation of Apple's ultimate consumers.
Here's looking forward to the "forthcoming" iPhone 1242 ( only a few hickups to resolve and it will be on the production line).
His stunt has worked though, he has managed to make the headlines of El Reg.
Re: Satirical Personificiation
"... he has managed to make the headlines of El Reg."
- not much of a high bar.
IT angle - helps
fanboi bashing - getting warmer
NSFW - bingo!
The iPhone 6 is yet another style-over-function exercise from crApple. Android will wipe the floor with it, technically, while kool-aid sipping fanbois will flock to it and send Apple's stock ever higher. Er.. something about needing to upgrade itunes..... er.....
Anyway, you get the idea. Everbody pile into the comments and get this flamewar over with, then when iPhone 6 is finally announced we can just link back to this article and save ourselves some time.
You could save yourself more time by not replying but something about the iPhone bothers you enough you just had to. I'm guessing you've never even tried one, probably can't affair to e judging by the childish dig at Apple in your post.
probably can't affair to e judging by the childish dig at Apple in your post.
I know the iPhone's glass keyboard isn't the best for typing on, but that was pretty atrocious even for typed-on-the-bus-on-the-way-to-work hurriedness. You should check that the autocorrect is actually correcting your typing and not making it worse, as autocorrect tends to do. A lot.
You might also want to read that guy's post again and examine it for humour content. Or his posting history, where not two days ago he's slagging off his own HTC droid-thing for a shit update that b0rked it.
Now me on the other hand, I can't resist a dig at Apple, or at anybody who thinks that the sun shines out of Zombie Jobs' arse.
Webster Freaky is back?
"I'm guessing you've never even tried one, probably can't affair to e judging by the childish dig at Apple in your post."
Haham typical rabid fanboi. One *hint* of an attack and you lose your heads. Read his post again. He wasn't criticising the iphone, he was critiscising the iphone criticisers, so mouthing off at him is a bit oof an own goal don't cha' think?
Hey 'Zack', the 90s called and they want their Apple puns back
Re: erm
The 90's can drop dead, I have been making the crApple pun since the 80's.
I dislike Apple
and make no bones about it. They have, so far, been the embodiment of everything wrong with technology.
But you're clearly a bloody idiot. The iPhone 6 hasn't been announced yet. Once there are solid rumours you might be able to slag it off. But now? Utterly pointless- even I wouldn't do it.
Apple just bought Primesense, the company behind the Kinect. It would be pretty trivial to add that technology to a modern smartphone- and bingo, you've got a camera that takes /3D/ images. A phone that can use a pair of microphones to determine where you are in relation to it.
I've no real idea what you could do with it, and only circumstantial evidence suggesting that they'd want to move into this space. But if they do it opens up avenues currently unavailable to the mobile phone world. And think of the ancillary services. Suddenly 3D printing would become the darling of the twitterati. The ultimate in Narcissism- take a Selfie and you can get your own face (or other body part) rendered in plastic. What iPhone wielding media luvvie could ask for more? It'd become cool and- thanks to economies of scale- more affordable almost overnight.
And that's just one of their acquisitions. Just think what the genuinely innovative companies they've bought over will be able to turn out for them. And then think that Google, Samsung, etc have been acquiring new companies left, right and center too. What could they release next (if the accountants don't get all risk averse)?
tl;dr Don't slag off someone until you know they deserve it. Then rip them to shreds and stick to facts. Keeps any flame wars short :)
Re: I dislike Apple
"tl;dr Don't slag off someone until you know they deserve it. Then rip them to shreds and stick to facts. Keeps any flame wars short :)"
Pro-tip: Read posts carefully before replying, and also read replies to them before replying yourself!
Re: I dislike Apple
They have, so far, been the embodiment of everything wrong with technology.
That bit is wrong, Apple have done something technologically that EVERYONE else failed at, something quite amazing, something even us non Apple fans can recognise as being one hell of an achievement, they created a (normal) user friendly unix based UI which actually works and is liked.
...do they keep coming out with a new version so frequently? Haven't they got it right yet? Are they so crap they need people to move to new model before the old one gives in? Is each new model an excuse for protecting another 150 patents? Or are they taking the piss and milking the fanbois?
Re: Why...
I was glancing at peoples screens this morning on the tram ride to work. I would estimate that about 80% were playing games......( Android and Apple grouped together here).
Therefore the majority were simply using their device as a means of relieving boredom. Since any of the current middle of the road, even some lower end phones are capable of providing the power/hardware required to play these games, the purchasing of latest and greatest iPhone, S4 etc can have no real objective other than as a status symbol or as a sheepishly consumeristic must have.
It is the personification of consumerism and both apple and Samsung are loving it..
Re: Why...
A new model every year is frequent? yet on Android a new model every 6 months is seen as fine?
"A new model every year is frequent? yet on Android a new model every 6 months is seen as fine?"
Honestly? You really made that comment? Do you not know the difference?
The obvious flies over your head.
Ask siri why. You can't work it out!
scary, very very scary. Lets hope you don't have any responsibility for spending public money, or even a broom.
Re: O M F G!
"A new model every year is frequent? yet on Android a new model every 6 months is seen as fine?"
No - it isn't. I bought my S3 mini a couple of months after it came out... and a couple of months later the S4 was announced and it was already obsolete - so much so Samsung didn't bother going beyond the Jelly Bean 4.1.2 it shipped with, and even CyanogenMod couldn't be bothered with an official release for it (it's now happily running an unofficial CM KitKat 4.4.2 port).
A right royal pain in the arse if you ask me
This is old news...
I'm the first in the queue for iPhone 7.
Re: This is old news...
Can I be the first one for the one with an "S" at the end? as in Iphone7S. I am already getting a hard-on and a wet dream at the thought.
Coming to the story, this Jap chap is just an App. chap dickhead.
Nuff said.
Re: This is old news...
I'll wait for the iPhone 7GTI.
Re: This is old news...
I'm looking forward to the iPhone 8. I hear you can side load windows on it.
Re: This is old news...
Can I be first in the queue to buy it on ebay for a ridiculous mark-up?
Failing that, can I be first in the queue to slag off the idiots who buy them on ebay for a ridiculous mark-up?
Re: This is old news...
Too late
... sent from my iPhone 8 ...
Re: This is old news...
"I'm looking forward to the iPhone 8. I hear you can side load windows on it."
Wow iPhone would at least regain some cred then!
Whats that, iPhone has tweenty feature set? I don't believe you.
Re: This is old news...
I'm in the queue for the one with 11 digits, got to be better, it's got one more number.
Re: This is old news...
...with go faster stripes
"... lots of young people with too much time on their hands will queue up and wait for one."
And money. Don't forget too much money!
"I'm in the line for world's fastest iPhone 6. it's hectic... since English email arrived from Brazil and UK news sites. I'm gonna reply to it!"
from Japan
If he was a REAL devotee he'd be queuing for the iPhone7S.
Obviously the Chinese are decades behind the rest of the world.
iPhone6! They don't know that iPhone is dead.
They want the symbol. Shame that symbol is now of sad sap. It isn't 2007 anymore!
Your reading comprehension, and geography skills, are sorely lacking, if you can somehow confuse Japanese for Chinese.
It's a phone...
...that will act and *inherently* do for you what your last three have. I don't understand launch-day spaff overloads. Am I missing something? (genuinely)
Next: A iPhone to alleviate White Guilt. It should sell.
It's like a Presidential Election where quite a few "people" are spazzing out as the next Big Honcho is acceding to the Throne of Pretense whereby He is supposed to Make Everything Better, then makes is consistently worse.
In other words, no.
Yeah but.....
has it got Flappy Bird on it?
Re: Yeah but.....
No, but the iUsers are all fappy over their iShiney.
I'd be more willing to fall for this obvious hoax if the iPhone cosplayer was also cross-dressed as an schoolgirl in obscenely undersized clothing.
Will the next iPhone even be the iPhone 6? The latest iPad is the iPad air rather than the iPad 5, so if there is a significant change to the size or form factor of the iPhone, it may get a similar new name. Alternatively, if it is just an minor incremental release, then it might be the iPhone 5Sx or something like that.
Noting that, I'd like to suggest they take a bit more time developing it, you know to make sure it doesn't randomly drop words out of every fucking call you make, and call it the "iPhone whichWorks".
Attention whore
Got what he wanted. Not much of a life.
Another iPhone Queue
It was inevitable.
"(Please be aware that Yoppy's Twitter feed is NSFW – backroom gremlins)"
Backroom gremlins? Is that a euphemism, or does my dirty mind need a good scrubbing again?
I had a look at his twitter account and yeah, definitely Japan.
Tim Cook...is one DILF over and over and over!
I imagine he's excited about his next annoucement.
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text: Wolf Blitzer Appears To Admit He Smokes Pot At Soul Train Awards Print article Send a Tip by Larry O'Connor 2 Dec 2013 post a comment In what has become a bizarre tradition, CNN's Wolf Blitzer appeared on the Soul Train Music Awards Sunday night. While reading awkwardly from the tele-prompter, Blitzer confessed he liked to dance the "Dougie" and sing Chaka Khan in the shower. He then said, "I like to get 'turked up.'" According to the Urban Dictionary, "Turked Up" has 2 meanings that would apply to Blitzer's usage. One involves a sexual act. We doubt Blitzer was referring to that definition. The other is pretty clear and seems to be the applicable meaning: Turked: To be high as a kite. Past tense of to Turk, which means to smoke weed. Turkey is slang for weed in some Midwestern States. Further reinforcing the pot-smoking definition as Blitzer's intended meaning is the second part of his confession: "He couldn't be here tonight, but I hear Dr. Oz likes to get 'turked up' too." Dr. Oz has been a leading proponent of the legalization and use of medical marijuana. It's now up to CNN to explain the remarks and they have one of three options: The dean of their anchor team was joking or lying when he said he liked to get stoned and was really just pandering to the Soul Train audience. Blitzer had no idea what he was talking about and just read what they told him to read. Yes, Blitzer does, in fact, like to get "turked up." In fact, he usually is "turked up" when he's reporting from The Situation Room, that's why he sounds so bumbling and out of it all the time.


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Google's JavaScript assassin: Web languages are harder than VMs
Twice as fast?
Speed obviously isn't the selling point for this: twice as fast means about one generation of mobile phones and that in a small part of user experience. Offloading stuff to hardware via, say WebGL or CSS, brings a lot more. It's far from perfect but the slow and steady development and adoption of HTML 5 (including CSS and JS) is gradually moving things along.
What ereader decline? Kobo pumps up the volumes despite grim forecasts
Re: I'm one of that 12mil
Can't comment on the Android App but I think the article is mainly about the Kobo hardware. I think it's only exists to demonstrate that you can use the books you buy on any of your devices which is an important factor for many. On my Samsung Tab I have Aldiko for books and have not had any problems with it.
Re: Just a consumer.
@ Joe
I understand where you're coming from with reference to large PDFs. The Sony's do a damn good job at reflowing PDFs to fit but at the end of the day there are times when you need the format which is why I was prepared to sell a kidney when PlasticLogic announced the Que. Unfortunately, they never delivered but they have demonstrated the potential of this kind of display technology.
Now, back to books. One of the reasons for me to have an e-reader and/or tablet is access to technical documentation when on the road. Fortunately, an increasing number of my stuff exists as Epub as, Sphinx be thanked, pretty usable on whichever device. When it comes to books, I've never read a Mills & Boon but I guess they're no worse that what I do like to read, and having a degree in the subject I like to fancy that I know what I'm talking about.
It doesn't really matter what you read. What does matter is how you read and the Kobo's are remarkably good - I used to have a Sony and I know a few people with Kindles so I can compare. All the new devices are remarkably similar when it comes to the hardware: hi-res, hi-contrast e-ink pearl screens, diffused lighting, size and weight. The new screens are very crisp, not that 800 x 600 was ever bad really but I now get approximately equivalent line lengths as you find in Penguin paperbacks. The lighting makes a huge difference even indoors as just switching it on a bit increases contrast and legibility. Page refreshing is now pleasantly fast. I was used to the hardware buttons for page for and back on the Sony and thought I'd miss them on the Kobo but as you just need to nudge the screen it's not proving to be a problem and means little or now smudging, or as in the case of swiping, scratching.
But the software also matters. Sony is the dogs bollocks when it comes to PDFs, no arguments there. But Kobo lets you adjust line height which is very important when it comes to readability. The built-in shops all feel a bit weird and constraining but the Kobo shop is not geographically restricted - important to me as an ex-pat as I know a few Jormans who've had to register with US addresses just so they could buy books and keep them on their devices. With the Kobo you just change languages and get more books offered in that language. Sync seems to work okay though side-loading books seems to need a one-time authorisation by Adobe. The Glo is pretty light and will fit in a jacket pocket, which is good in summer when I'm feeling a bit Bohemian as Proust and Joyce certainly don't fit!
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Re: the tin foil hat wearer in me is deeply troubled
@Mike Browne
Think of the benefits that the revolutionairies you mentioned would have found from having facebook.
I suggest you look up "samizdat".
Of course, one interesting conclusion that could be drawn from your suggestion is that revolutions are more likely now that the Nathan Barley's of the world have access to such great technologies. Should we all now flock to the Sugar Ape banner? What are our demands? Smoked salmon lattes? Geek pie hair cuts for all? Easy to see the powers that be tremble before massed ranks of people playing muff, cock, bumhole!
Re: the tin foil hat wearer in me is deeply troubled
Its much harder to organise a revelotion (sic) when forced to use word of mouth
You reckon? Robespierre, Washington, Lenin et al. wouldn't have succeeded without Twitter and Facebook?
Effective revolutions always need their own independent channels of communication.
Though I like what you did there, the proposed change seems perfectly reasonable to me. I assume the offence of "common abuse" still exists but there is still a huge difference between calling someone a huge dickwad in a moment of high emotion and publishing it in whatever form.
I've no time for the Tories but Mrs May was one of the first to put her finger in the wound of the "nasty party" only to have her speech as party chairman oveshadowed in press reports by the shoes she was wearing. This change okay, some of the other stuff her department is cooking up certainly isn't.
Re: It leaves the definition of "grossly offensive" up to police officers (and judges)
Yes, that sentence is a load of bollocks, isn't it? Fortunately, the police do not have the power to interpret the law but judges quite sensibly do.
Top Brit Penguins spurn London Stock Exchange for NYSE
Re: Penguins?
@Miek, yes we know that. We just don't see the connection with Alfresco's CMS. Is it, for example, a Linux distro?
Lynch mob of bankers say they'll stump up cash to take Dell private
Re: What about QE??
Spot on! This, and similar schemes, are a direct consequence of the cheap money policies pursued by central banks over the last couple of years. It's supposed to lead to more responsible lending except that it isn't: small companies are being frozen out by the banks. Given that Dell has around $ 2 bn in cash there's a 10 % instant return just begging to be had.
Live blog: Facebook's 'screw you' to Google revealed at last
Re: Unlike...
It is all a bit surreal, isn't it. Kind of hard to remember that this not in Zuck's dad's garage but in the offices of a company that went public for $ 100 bn. And, as I know that both your banks and mine sunk money into that IPO I'm not feeling particularly superior.
Red or blue ones?
Sheffield ISP: You don't need a whole IPv4 address to yourself, right?
Re: I dont really understand
Is yours the donkey jacket? Close the door on the way out, ta.
Re: Volunteering for the unknown
Makes you wonder doesn't it? Here my ISP already takes care of the IPv4 / IPv6 handling and servers are also increasingly ambidextrous:
$ host h-online.com
h-online.com has address 18.104.22.168
h-online.com has IPv6 address 2a02:2e0:3fe:100::8
h-online.com mail is handled by 10 relay.heise.de
Meanwhile in steam-powered old England:
$ host theregister.co.uk
theregister.co.uk has address 220.127.116.11
theregister.co.uk mail is handled by 10 aspmx2.googlemail.com.
theregister.co.uk mail is handled by 10 aspmx4.googlemail.com.
theregister.co.uk mail is handled by 1 aspmx.l.google.com.
theregister.co.uk mail is handled by 10 aspmx5.googlemail.com.
theregister.co.uk mail is handled by 5 alt2.aspmx.l.google.com.
theregister.co.uk mail is handled by 10 aspmx3.googlemail.com.
theregister.co.uk mail is handled by 5 alt1.aspmx.l.google.com.
Given the apparent cluelessness of ISPs and technical publications is it time we thought of jumping ship?
Hooking offshore wind farms into UK grid will HIKE bills, MPs warn
Re: Let the madness begin!!!
FWIW, while I agree with the sentiment, this is not a get-rich-quick scheme. Infrastructure has infamously long payback times which is why it is traditionally built and paid for by the state with all the attendant risks and problems that brings with it (Berlin's airport is the current poster child cockup). So, to encourage investment in long term projects governments have hit upon guaranteeing rates of return. There is likely to be more of this for two reasons: the state can't afford to pay for new projects directly; fiscal repression and money printing have driven down returns on government bonds so much that investors, particularly insurance and pension companies, are looking for alternative long-term investments with similarly guaranteed yields. Handled properly such schemes can work out quite well: pension funds are keener on stable cashflow in the future than unrealistic yields; the surcharge of involving the private sector can be offset against the cost of funding to the taxpayer.
That's the theory. Financing energy, especially renewables, in the UK remains extremely badly thought out which is deterring the necessary investment and likely to lead to ever more hair-brained schemes to get the private sector involved the prospect of a real shortfall of generating capacity gets closer.
Here in Germany we've got similar pressures. Leccy is up to € 0.25 / kWh which is quite a bit more than the UK, I believe. The price is increasingly driven by the surcharge for funding the ever-expanding renewables - this is politically driven but also popular, unfortunately exacerbated by exemptions awarded to industry. The power companies have also successfully lobbied for the costs of connecting the offshore parks to the grid to be underwritten by the state. This, only a couple of years after signing contracts to do same without guarantees. This is somewhat understandable as some of the costs are unknown unknowns - it's never been done before. Still, it is never good for governments to guarantee the absolute profits on such endeavours.
Satnav blunder sends Belgian granny 1,450km to Croatia
Obligatory slight of Belgium
Driving tests weren't made compulsory until some point in the 1970s so it's quite likely the driver never had to take one to get her licence.
Also, having been to Brussel Noord I can understand her desire to avoid it. Not at bad as Brussel Zuid but certainly up there on the list of "100 Train Stations You Don't Want to Visit"!
Microsoft flings out emergency patch for Iatest gaping IE hole
Re: Neatly attacks the corporate/government assets
To be fair I think that most corporates have already migrated or are in the process of migrating to Windows 7 but depending on when they got the system images this still means IE 8 in many cases. Moving to IE 9 is as much trouble as installing Firefox LTS which is why an increasing number of corporates are doing the latter. Individuals seem to be going for Chrome.
I'd be interested to know how your 24 % breaks down. My 30 % is about evenly split between IE 8 and IE 9 with IE 7, 6 and 10 fighting it out for the wooden spoon. As IE 10 is still Windows 8 only this is hardly surprising but yet another obstacle that MS has unnecessarily put in its path.
Re: Yet another Microsoft Security FAIL.
All browsers have vulnerabilities and all vulnerabilities can be used to compromise systems. However, at least other browsers can be reliably uninstalled from a machine.
And that is becoming Microsoft's albatross. Even people I know who like Internet Explorer are getting annoyed that their perfectly usable XP machines are vulnerable like this.
Corporate policy is currently an absolute ban on Internet Explorer for internet surfing (lots of intranet stuff is, of course, IE only). Microsoft is going to continue to haemorrhage market share as a result of this and encourage suits to use their I-Pads even more: IE dropped around 20 % last year and Safari gained 10 %. Getting those users back is going to be difficult.
IBM tops chart for churning out patents for the 20TH TIME
One of the reasons for such high-growth by some of the companies mentioned was the sale or Nortel's patent collection.
I like the double irony "patenting the idea of better processing of patent applications". Doubly impressive coming from a yank, a race infamous for its innate irony defect!
Hellish XML demon exorcised from Windows, IE bug stays
Re: Why did my XP Pro box crash 5 TIMES.....
Why not use it? It's still officially supported my Microsoft until next year.
'Leccy-starved Reg hack: 'How I survive on 1.5kW'
Pity you're not in France
EDF has finally started installing huge solar arrays and shiny new connection box free for all and sundry as long as you sign up to giving them the power for say twenty years. I would have thought that the Spanish companies would have started something similar as they have even more incentive to change both generation and usage: electricity is still heavily subsidised and struggles to meet the rising peak demands in summer. Nice way of boosting rural economies with all the manual labour involved.
Nuisance calls DOUBLE, Ofcom vows to hunt down offenders
Re: Whats good for the goose..
Both the US and the UK are pursuing Swiss banks with a fair degree of success over assisting tax evaders. It's perfectly easy to apply sanctions to non-domiciled companies via their agents such as banks or credit card companies - viz. fines on HSBC for money-laundering for the Mexican mafia.
While VoIP may make tracking the individual perpetrators a bit more difficult, it is perfectly possible to threaten providers with loss of peering rights (the ability to pass calls into a network) if it takes no action against abusers on its network. This is the same principle when dealing with spam floods - servers, data centres or even whole networks can get blacklisted.
OfCom does need to act faster and impose bigger fines to deter offenders. In Germany, the number of nuisance calls more than halved after fines were significantly increased. But this requires OfCom to act in the interest of consumers which, as others have pointed out, it rarely does.
FAVI smacks your dumb TV with £30 Android SmartStick
I think I'm going to have to go with something similar (to homeplug) for my Philips TV because cabling the things is a nightmare. I wanted to use WiFi for streaming but unfortunately Philips provided pants drivers for their own WiFi dongle so the connection breaks reliably after about 20 minutes watching films or a couple of hours listening to music. Philips say it's the access point but the same dongle connected to a Philips Blu-Ray player doesn't have any problems. Several firmware updates have failed to solve the problem but removed useful features like the ability to delete channels, because this is apparently "patented". It's failures like this which prevent TV makers from moving up the value chain.
Security bods rip off Microsoft's 'sticking plaster' IE bug fix
Re: IE truly sucks
@JDX - it's not the man hours or money spent but Microsoft's thoroughly flawed approach to welding particular versions of a browser to particular versions of its operating system.
Windows XP is supported until 2014 and ssers have a right to expect MS to provide the promised support which they have already paid for. Plenty of people are still using it, partly because their hardware cannot run a more recent version - there are plenty of machines out there with only 512 MB. Fortunately, most such users know someone who has installed a more recent browser than IE 8, which is as good as it gets on Windows XP. They are screwed, however, when they come across the many sites that insist on Internet Explorer, which still happens on many sites in many countries.
But, it's not just "sitck in the mud" home users, some of the worst offenders are big corporates with fat MS licences. One of my customers is currently not intending to move from IE 8 on Windows 7 until IE 10 becomes available, presumed to be at some point in 2014. The most recent problems with IE - the main company website didn't work properly due to restrictions imposed by the last major flaw - have forced a more aggressive rollout of Firefox now that LTS versions are available.
And I know from a friend of mine who's machine was hacked last month in a drive-by from a website using the stipulated browser (IE 8) of his international company. He was forced to use FF on his wife's machine while the IT department tried to fix his.
MS still offers companies something with the degree of control of centralised settings management but the lead over other browsers, Firefox in Europe, Chrome in the US and Safari everywhere is evaporating: down from approx. 40 % in Q2 2012 to less than 30 % by the end of Q4.
Mega-res telly demand to boom, say ball-gazers
Re: are these...
Having done all the work of putting the extra pixels for 1080p in 3D, changing the screens for 4k isn't too much of a challenge and Blu-Ray upscales reasonably well.
I don't see a new media format being used for this - it looks like an excellent opportunity for premium broadband for the usual suspects: cable operators and content providers (Utlraviolet), as people get used to streaming as opposed to physical media.
Need to do some back of the envelope calculations but a lot of people probably already have sufficient bandwidth for receiving, thought you'd probably want to have a fairly generous buffer to be sure. Serving the stuff might be another matter but content providers have a considerable interest in recovering business already lost to Netflix/Lovefilm etc.
Ofcom looks at contract opt-outs as users rage over price hikes
Re: New customers have choice
The trouble is that the networks have very little pricing power with respect to new customers, because there is a lot of competition and a customer can almost always get a cheaper deal somewhere else.
That is known as a market and they still have a great deal of pricing power as the various infrastructure deals, etc. have illustrated. Any company that offers a contract that will lose it money over time deserves to go out of business. As Mr Orlowski pointed out several years ago, companies that continue to emphasis selling phones over services are giving away much of their bargaining power. MVNOs with little or no shop-space selling phones should actually be in a very strong position for discerning customers.
although a network is free to increase the price for customers who are out of contract
er, you have a contract as long as you are still paying. Almost all such contracts have an automatic renewal clause that is triggered unless either party cancels the contract before a specified date.
So, no sympathy for operators unable to do their sums.
Re: Inflation red herring
Indeed! A remarkably sloppy piece from Mr Ray who normally is bang on the money on the telcos. Obviously a bit to close to his sources on this.
Inflation - in whatever measure RPI, CPI, etc. - is only relevant to policy or contracts that stipulate it. They only justification for increasing charges during a contract are costs imposed by statute such as, say an increase in VAT. Otherwise, inflation is a business-specific charge and not a problem for telecommunications. Contract costs come from the amortisation of existing equipment and licences, maintenance of equipment and staff.
In a functioning market competitive pressure should prevent all operators from raising prices together. If operators are free to raise prices but consumers are not free to refuse such increases then the market is not functioning properly and Ofcom as regulator should step in and either reverse the increases or allow customers to leave. As the handsets are the sole property of the phone companies until they are paid off, Ofcom could help by making this clear in contracts so that the loan part of the contract can be maintained.
Brits are so outraged by Amazon, they voted it TOP for shopping
Bricks and mortar still seem to have some additional flexibility: HMV stores have some nice deals on box sets that I can't find online. That's handy for an ex-pat like me stocking up while I'm over.
Amazon has been very successful in getting itself mentioned as the website for online shopping. The media are just lazy in quoting prices from it as opposed to other services. In Germany I think most consumer electronics bought online come from specialist shops with better service and lower prices.
Kickstarted mobe charger 'kicked to death by Apple'
Re: Licensing terms
A fundamental principle of the patent system is that patents are granted on the basis that they can be licensed by anyone, ie. non-discriminatory - the inventor gets protection in return for his willingness to share his invention. AFAIK the lightning connector is designed to work with Thunderbolt which is a standard co-developed by Apple and Intel. But this is actually more about customer rights - the right to buy peripherals and services from alternative suppliers. This is essential to prevent the creation of monopolies.
Re: Licensing terms - tried that
Interesting anecdote about how far Apple can now reach into the Chinese market.
Licensing terms
The iPhone maker is legally free to restrict licensing as it sees fit
I'm not so sure about that. Sounds extremely anti-competitive and similar to the position on I-Tunes music that was struck down in court. Licences should be available to all who can pay the (FRAND?) fee and possibly meet quality standards, a perfectly reasonable condition that can be part of the licence.
This will probably take another ex-territorial manufacturer to develop and release the product and fight Apple in the courts. The developers should probably give someone in Shenzen a call and launch the product.
What Compsci textbooks don't tell you: Real world code sucks
Poor examples of bad code
IIRC APL made extensive use of mathematical symbols which made a good choice for implementing algebra. This is a niche area and requires excellent maths skills but that does not in itself make it a bad programming language. Database work would benefit significantly from set algebra literals.
Similar with Haskell which, while I don't really like the syntax, is extremely well-suited to certain problem domains and as a purely functional language does this with a lot fewer compromises than trying to do the same in a general purpose language.
Far better is to write code that is self documenting.
Even better is to write tests for that code.
Windows Vista woes killed MS Pinball
Re: AAAAAAAHAHAHA@E Haines
They should have done due diligence on any code they buy and ship to customers. If it wasn't properly documented then WTF might have been going on inside it?
What on earth does the legal process of due diligence have to do with assessing the quality of source code? If lawyers were involved then might explain the fiasco as they might have been satisfied by reams of documentation. Documentation of how code works, as opposed to how to use it, is almost inevitably a kind of obfuscation. Tests are much more important and the degree of test coverage can be measured empirically and if you have high test coverage then you can survive architecture changes. I can imagine that MS was not that keen on software tests when they did XP but would have hoped they would picked up by Vista.
Outlook 2013 spurns your old Word and Excel documents
Re: ReadMe.txt
You can't really be angry from Langley if you bother to actually read something! This is insufferable!Something must be done! It's those… up to their usual tricks, etc.
The article is badly written and does not provide context and examples of what is meant: you cannot import things like contact details from .xls, .doc, etc. That really isn't a big deal: csv, which is a far greater data exchange format than either is still supported for those times when you do need to import a load of addresses, something that I imagine few users have ever done.
I am not a fan on MS Office and personally think the Outlook is a fairly poor mail program - Mr Orlowski gave a thoughtful analysis of the decline in good mail programs a few years ago which is worth searching for - and the awful ribbon interface has been sent to try us but I don't have too many problems with OOXML as it leads to considerably more compact files than what went before. That said I hate XML with a passion and those who defend its openness as somehow magical even more; they should actually read the source of some of these files sometime to realise that without documentation all file formats are abominable. The only saving grace for XML is the number of libraries that facilitate reading and writing it.
Samsung, LG 'lose confidence' in OLED TV tech
Wait and see
Existing OLED production techniques do not scale very well but, I suspect that it's not just the potential cost that is responsible for any delay - Sony is after all pushing an outrageously expensive screen - but a combination of two things: very high demand for screens for phones, so much so for Samsung that they probably have no spare capacity for anything bigger than the Note II; perfecting Dupont's printing technique. Once they can shift from the not just tricky vacuum-based production to printing then size is no longer an issue.
Regarding OLED vs LCD uHD, this is a red herring as there is little or no uHD content but the fabs can tool up for TVs with similar kit for the very high resolution phone and tablet screens they are producing. Tests conducted by Heise at IFA indicated there is a marked preference for OLED over LCD-uHD which is not surprising when you know a little how the eye works. As people will pay a small premium for uHD it is an interesting differentiator for manufacturers in what is a cuthroat market with the only profits to be found in the higher end and ginormous devices.
Re: Yawn.
That's true for much consumer electronics. Oh, except for the word "consumer".
GlobalFoundries CEO: Europe must 'wake up' and help industry
Hey brother, can you spare me a subsidy?
This is Global Foundries that was spun out of AMD because it was losing money, that closed factories in German once the subsidies ran out and is now largely owned by a sovereign wealth fund.
Chips are high volume, low margin products. Not the sort of thing that Europe excels at. We're better at designing the chips or making the machines to make and test them - frickin' lasers. Of course, we could go the way of the Japanese and continue to funnel billions and billions into factories with a lifetime of five years that never turn a profit.
In a mobile data eating contest, Brits would win - Ofcom
Could we have the source for this so we can look at the figures in detail as I doubt some of the figures. The last time I compared the UK was not very competitive for either fixed-line or mobile internet.
Here's the view from Germany:
I've got 50 MB/s broadband, TV and flatrate phone for € 35 a month. A mobile contract for phone with 500 MB data is around € 20. Around £ 500 a year. You have to be a mug to pay significantly more than that - LTE would only add around £ 100 to it but you could start looking at dropping the fixed-line services with that. And if they put the prices up I won't be buying, plenty of other things in life I'd rather spend my money on.
Revealed: The Brit-built GRAVITY-powered light that costs $5
Re: Nice idea but sack the sub-editor
Well, you can make biokerosene, which is what Andrew was driving at.
"Biokerosene"? In the third world? If they have got the process to do that in the wild then they don't need lamps like that. Kerosene from biomass is generally associated with greenwashing/tax efficient strategies from the aviation industry. It's plain and simple paraffin for that lovely, sooty flame.
Nice idea but sack the sub-editor
could save people relying on biomass fuels such as kerosene, which are bad for one's health
er, since when has kerosene been considered biomass? Anyway, it isn't directly bad for one's health, neither is the dung that is burn for heat and light. The problems start with the soot caused by burning them inefficiently in enclosed spaces.
Solar for lights isn't that expensive and there are several projects which are installing low-cost solar generators, which make a great deal of sense in much of the third world. Given Andrew's generally sceptical views on climate change the article is slightly ironic as people like Amory Lovins have been banging on about giving cheap, reliable and low power renewable technology for the third world for, er, decades.
Still, it's a good project and I hope it does well.
Another Apple maps desert death trap down under
Obvious solution
Is for all those penpushers in the various Australian state governments to buy something fruity and start fixing things - either by providing detailed and accurate information to Apple who have unfortunately been provided with substandard material by devious and unscrupulous companies, or by relocating towns and geographical features to match maps. Apple is just the victim.
I guess it's lucky (for Apple) that unlimited liability doesn't seem to apply in Australia.
Linux kernel dumps 386 chip support
Re: The joys of open software
@deluded wanker
XP is only still around because companies refused to buy Windows Vista. Neither of them will run on a 386. I can't remember when Microsoft dropped support for the 386 but it could have been as far back as Windows 95. More recently you can pity those poor fools who have bought Windows Mobile or Windows Phone devices only to see support for them dropped after about 12 months, Microsoft's approach to drivers was laughable for years - basically anything was possible and this was a major source of problems for many because buggy hardware would rely on fixes in untested drivers.
There are lots of things to criticise about Linux and its development but this isn't one of them. Anyway if you want to keep your old 386s running up to date unix just switch to NetBSD!
Intel launches Atom S Series at servers
Re: the customer is always wrong
Price comparisons are going to be interesting and possibly decisive for this. A year from now it might well be possible to get the equivalent of 100 ARMs (in all kinds of SoC and multichip designs) for the price of one of those Atoms and they will each be nearly as good at running Apache/nginx as the Atom and you get a free rain forest with the energy saved on the total system and you can rent the space you save in the data centre to the immigration department.
Sheryl Sandberg offloads $41.5m in Facebook shares in just 6 weeks
Re: Wait, wut?
If you'd bought at the lowest point you could still have made a mint.
That is always the case with shares. The key being knowing when bottom has been reached. But that isn't applicable Mrs Sandberg and not really to Facebook's IPO which was very close to a "pump and dump" scheme: lots of shares were sold at inflated price.
Re: Get out while the gettings good
It's a tax-efficient divestment. She still holds lots and lots of shares. This allows bonuses to paid in stock rather than income, which given the considerable discrepancy in US tax between capital gains (selling vested stock previously awarded is taxed at a whopping 15%) and income tax makes (could be > 30%) more sense for both company and director.
Apple's iOS 6 maps STILL muddle Mildura
Re: How many RPM
Yes, it's the sort of SNAFU that car manufacturers dread and why the spend millions or even beellions on recall actions when faults turn up. I can't remember what it was for but Audi fucked up big time in America and had to wait over ten years to recover market share and Opel in Germany still hasn't really recovered from the consequences of overly zealous cost-cutting at the cost of quality in the 1990s.
One of the functions of competition is to keep companies on their toes by providing customers with ready alternatives should standards slip. But we all know how Apple stands on competition and letting customers decide for themselves. Still, as it is positioning itself more as a maker of lifestyle accessories Apple, like LVMH is possibly somewhat more insulated from the market in that sense but only as long as it can continue to make shiny-shinies that please the eye.
Patrick Moore: Lived with cats, accompanied Einstein on the piano
Re: Good job he wasn't a diplomat
Shush Charlie, we all know it's bad taste to suggest the deceased are anything other than perfect!
Yeah, I forgot that I was posting on the Daily Mail forum.
Re: Good job he wasn't a diplomat
His politics were pretty objectionable. I agree that he did an awful lot for astronomy in Britain and was not afraid to send himself up but his politics should have remained private.
Eulogies are better when they are properly critical.
RIM is really in trouble when even Windows Phone 8 looks great
I smell bias
It appears RIM has a long way to go to turn around the oil tanker - just look how long it's taken Nokia to get to the bottom of the curve - so let's hope (for RIM's sake) that BB10 offers some inspiration for the world at large to remain with the BlackBerry brand.
The comparison is flawed: Nokia had two viable OSes which it burned in favour of Microsoft's promises; BlackBerry knew that BB OS needed replacing. By offering full-backwards compatibility BB 10 offers a bridge for customers who have considerable investments in the infrastructure. They still have to deliver but, while it was not commercially successful, the PlayBook was an excellent technology showcase. QNX should provide the underpinnings for a parsimonious but responsive OS, which along with BlackBerry's tradition for well designed and engineered hardware should provide some differentiation.
As others have pointed out, BlackBerry remains remarkably popular around the world, cf. the new Nigerian film "BlackBerry Babes".
WP8 on the other hand still looks like it is going nowhere fast on phones. If companies are prepared to change IT policies then they might as well go with Android or IOS, which managers already have than something Microsoft is vaguely promising to offer in future releases.
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Son of god, Hangman's pawn.
Control our lives
With fairtytales and shallow lies.
You say we'll burn in hell.
Spiteful preacher, I know you well.
Desperation breathes and follows you home,
Look around, you're not alone.
One life and one chance, the world in front of me.
Intelligent design, sending shivers down my spine.
Cells mutate and divide,
what a sadistic intention.
No light, no dark. No up's, no downs.
I'll find peace, buried in the ground.
The lights go out, the fuse has blown,
No heaven or hell to bring me home.
Another division to tear us apart.
Try fill that hole inside your heart.
Sun of god, sun in the sky.
If you could speak, I'm sure you'd say:
"There's more to me than meets the eye."
Let me say my decency comes from inside.
Just human heart, a decent mind,
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Mattson's Steak House is a Steak restaurant. It is located at 8150 S Cicero Ave in Burbank, IL 60459.
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Mattson's Steak House in Burbank, IL is on a quest to leave you feeling satisfied, full, and anxious to return for more. This western steak house and saloon takes you back to old time western fare with fabulous offerings that just aren't found nowadays. The casual-family dining experience also makes it great for any day of the week and for any occasion.
Mattson's Steak House in Illinois was designed with its customers in mind. There was emphasis placed on the food of course but there was just as much focus placed on the experience so that you'll want to come back time and time again. It's important to note that the restaurant is cafeteria style, so reservations aren't possible. There is a full service bar so you can choose any specialty drink to pair with your meal.
Burbank is found within Cook County and is found on the southwest border of Chicago. It's fairly large population makes this bustling and busy city. Besides its dining options Burbank is also known for its golf courses, theatre, festivals and events, the home of the American Music Institute, horseback riding, and plenty of other attractions and activities. Nearby hotels include the Best Western Inn & Suites Midway Airport, and the Hilton Chicago/Oak Lawn hotel.
If you plan on visiting Mattson's Steak House there are a number of promotions worth checking out. Monday is kids eat free all day long when dining in, Tuesday offers all day 25 cent chopped steak (you will need to purchase the salad bar), Wednesday is BBQ night after 5PM where you buy one BBQ entree and get a second at 50% off, and Thursday is all day senior citizen day where they are given 10% off. Keep in mind that all dinners include a number of extras so arrive with a big appetite. Included in your dinner is rice or potato, Texas toast, the soup/salad/sundae bar, and the hot food bar. Keep in mind this is a great stop for the whole family with a special kids meal menu also available. Even the desserts are special as they are all made fresh daily.
Mattson's Steak House likes to reward its return customers by allowing you to become part of the Rewards Club. Each time you use your VIP reward card you'll get points that can be spent at the restaurant. The restaurant is located at 8150 S. Cicero, Burbank, IL.
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Not every customer must have higher reliability, but manufacturers are demanding it. We can't afford to gold-plate the power system with completely redundant capacity, so we need another way to get power online for customers inside an outage area. With distribution automation, the utility can back-feed power up a feeder and get power to a priority customer from a different substation. Based on geography and load, there may not be enough power available. But if you have some customers with interruptible contracts, you can borrow their capacity. Alternatively, you can use distributed generation to pick up that load, or you can grey-out only a portion of the load-with grid-friendly appliances-to make room for those paying for top-quality service.
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FORT WORTH — Its mid-afternoon, and there is evidence that what began as a rainy week will end sunny and warm good news for drivers, fans and anyone else connected to NASCAR racing.As the clouds part for a blast of afternoon sun and brisk wind, a Learjet belonging to famed driver Dale Earnhardt Jr. glides out of the sky and lands at Alliance Airport in north Fort Worth, just five miles south of Texas Motor Speedway.While the speedway is humming with anticipation of the upcoming events, including Sundays AAA Texas 500, for the moment all the real buzz is at the airport.For officials at Alliance Airport, which was built in 1989 as part of Hillwoods AllianceTexas development, this is a time to roll out the red carpet for drivers, their families and crew and major race sponsors.Earnhardts jet is easy to spot because it features his racing teams JR Motorsports logo. As the aircraft taxis to its parking spot on the Alliance Airport ramp, a white Chevy Suburban quickly pulls right up to the plane and whisks away the small travel party and presumably the planes namesake driver.Not long afterward, a smaller Beechcraft owned by driver Clint Bowyer arrives and he, too, is met by a car.During busy race weeks, arrivals and departures are about double the traffic of a normal week, officials said. The drivers are arriving not only for the Sunday race, but also Fridays Winstar World Casino 350 and Saturdays OReilly Auto Parts Challenge.The activity will reach its height on Sunday night, at the conclusion of the last competition when roughly 100 to 120 NASCAR-related aircraft will attempt to fly out of north Fort Worth in a departure window of about two to three hours.If youre not a winner, everybody else wants to leave immediately after the race, said Thomas Harris, Alliance air/aviation services president. But there is organization to the chaos.Down to a routineFor a bunch of folks who make a living swappin paint on the race track, when NASCAR drivers and their travel crews arrive in town for a big race weekend their entrance is orderly, efficient and some might say lavish. For that, they depend upon not only the staff at Alliance Airport, but also the Federal Aviation Administration and a myriad of companies with close ties to racing. For example, Alliances FAA air traffic manager, Marty Skinner, oversees a system in which aircraft are allowed to take off in staggered fashion one right after the other -using both runways. Its a routine thats normally not needed at Alliance, which on a typical day handles jets from corporations such as FedEx and Fort Worth-based BNSF, as well as military aircraft and numerous helicopter activities.The routine has gotten better with each race since the speedway opened in 1997, said Skinner, who observes the flurry of activity from inside the golf-tee-shaped Alliance control tower. Although there are as many people using the airport as ever, there are fewer aircraft than a decade ago, because many teams share travel expenses by splitting the cost of larger planes.For example, on Thursday a 737 carrying several dozen members of multiple racing teams arrived at Alliance. A short time later, the 737 took off presumably to go back to the East Coast for another load of passengers.Also, Skinner said, to improve departures on Sunday night FAA employees will staff a table in the Alliance terminal, and meet face-to-face with pilots so departure clearances can be pre-arranged. That system reduces the amount of radio chatter needed as pilots are taxiing out. On a normal weekday, Alliance will experience about 474 to 650 arrivals and departures, Skinner said. But on days when NASCAR is in town, there will be at least 1,000 plane movements.In the early 2000s we had delays of 30 minutes to an hour, but the last four or five races we havent had any delays, Skinner said.Months of preparationAbout 600 rental cars will be needed at the airport for the weekend, Harris said. On Thursday, employees for Avis, Hertz and Enterprise staffed tables in the airports corporate headquarters, quickly handing car keys to people from Richard Childress Racing, Hendrick Motorsports and other big names as they arrived. Outside, at least 100 rental cars were double-parked on the roads leading to Alliances fixed-route operations center.For those who would rather take a break or conduct a bit of business on the airport ramp, without going into the lobby, Goodyear maintains a VIP trailer, complete with a conference room, big-screen television and representatives ready to bend a racing teams ear about their tires and other products.Alliance officials spend months preparing for NASCAR weekends.Alliance Airport and its proximity to Texas Motor Speedway is a tremendous asset for all the drivers, teams and race officials arriving for our race weekends, said Mike Zizzo, speedway spokesman. The convenience is greatly appreciated by them all, especially since the NASCAR teams are traveling across the country for 38 race weekends a year, and Alliance does a great job with accommodating them during what is probably one of their busiest weekends of the year.The flurry of activity will continue until Sunday night, when the racing teams make one final push not to capture the checkered flag, but simply to obtain departure clearance from the FAA and get out of town.To watch the departure after a race of 80 to 100 airplanes in an hour and a half, at night, is quite a sight, said Christopher Ash, Alliance manager of airport operations.
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Around HereMonday, March 26, 2012
Things have been busy as usual. Had a few shoots for The Everygirl, did some minor redecorating, and Alaina & I photographed each other for Jess LC . Yes. You read that correctly. More on that next week. Met a friend for dinner and drinks at Japonais, I'm halfway through book 2 of The Hunger Games, worked out, relaxed, and joined Alaina, Lauren, and Jess for dinner and drinks & enjoyed the return of Mad Men.
If you aren't following us on instagram, here's a look at what's been going on.You can follow me on instagram, too.
Brilliant suggestion, Alaina! Thank you!
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I was thinking the same thing as the previous commenter... love the iPhone case.ReplyDelete
I like the restyled bedside table too.
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sounds like a busy and wonderful weekend! i love that last photo of you! that pink top is adorable.ReplyDelete
Haha, hate to be repetitive, but I love your iphone case as well--so cute!:)ReplyDelete
Love the Jess LC necklace and bracelet!ReplyDelete
Love your Jess LC necklace and bracelet! What fun pieces they are! Sounds like you guys are having so much fun with The Everygirl!ReplyDelete
Love your decorating skills. I re-styled my dresser and nightstand using ideas from your apartment. Great job - you have a beautiful space.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing these Jess LC pieces, I can't wait to reveal the images coming up!!ReplyDelete
Also, if you don't mind, I'd love to put your instagram pics on Jess LC : )
Love that anorak! Isn't Ali Ro the best? I can't wait to hear more about the Jess LC shoot. :)ReplyDelete
Love everything about these photos, but especially your striped Toms and the gorgeous Jess LC jewels! Oh, and your home certainly has me envious!ReplyDelete
I never would have thought to remove the dust jackets for a new look!ReplyDelete
Love Japonais! Every time I'm in Chicago I go there. Weird for a California girl to head inland for sushi, but the space is stunning.ReplyDelete
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fabulous bar setup! i think these should be mandatory in all places of residence :) xReplyDelete
Very pretty pictures. I am so glad that you got on the train this weekend, it all part of being in Chicago. I remember how afraid I was the first time I got to ride it.ReplyDelete
You road the train alone? Who are you and what have you done with my friend? So proud. :)ReplyDelete
beautiful images... love all those spring blooms!ReplyDelete
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i love all these photos of your home - and those trader joes flowers - must get this weekend!! and of course im proud of you taking the train :)ReplyDelete
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Accident occurred Monday, October 12, 1998 in SORSTUKKEN, Norway
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On October 12, 1998, about 0025 greenwich mean time, a Cessna 402, Danish registration OYBHE, was destroyed while it descended and impacted terrain while on approach to the Stord Airport (SRP), Sorstukken, Norway. The pilot and eight passengers were fatally injured. Visual meteorological conditions prevailed and an instrument flight rules flight plan had been filed for the flight that departed Alborg, Denmark, destined for SRP.
According to the airplane's airframe and engine manufacturers, while on approach witnesses observed the airplane pitch up slightly, roll to the right and then descend rapidly. The airplane impacted rocky uneven terrain about 600 feet from the approach end of runway 33. The airplane was consumed by a post crash fire.
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