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Listed below are comments made by djmikeyc between Monday, 23rd February 2009 and Friday, 21st August 2009.

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Read the manual? Never! 11:37am on 21 Aug 2009 I suppose with a car you can easily work out where 99% of the stuff you need is; it's the same in pretty much every car - turn the wheel to turn, push the right pedal to go faster. But the reason we don't need a manual is not just because it's intuitive, it's because it's so standardised that everyone knows it! It's becoming the same with computers; whatever anyone may say, every GUI I've used in the past decade is pretty much the same - point here, click there. Is that obvious to someone who has never used a computer before? Does it matter?

In the car example, a manual's quite useful if you realise you have no idea where the spare wheel is or you need to open the bonnet. Having said that, perhaps these are examples of poor user interface - why do I have to find a bolt in my boot and unscrew it to release the spare wheel? How counter-intuitive is that?
The watchphone: Gadget or gimmick? 12:28pm on 20 Aug 2009 But surely your camera man friend will have to have a bluetooth headset as well as a phone to make the thing usable for private conversations, thus negating the whole less-gadgets-to-carry thing?
Green shoots and leaves 08:13am on 20 Aug 2009 There'll be less cars about in August 'cos everyone's on holiday and the schools are off...
Is Italy better than Britain? 10:57am on 17 Jul 2009 ""The Italians are just upset that they don't have an empire that covers a large proportion of the known world any more."

LOL! Pot calling kettle black again, although it's true that the English language has been spectacularly successful in the way it has spread around the world. "

Yes! This is called irony.
Is Italy better than Britain? 2:26pm on 15 Jul 2009 The Italians are just upset that they don't have an empire that covers a large proportion of the known world any more.
Twitter tests users with changes 12:31pm on 15 May 2009 Twitter is inane and a waste of time, whereas all the nice essays written here by the above commenters are hugely important and certainly worth reading!
Newsbeat and Susan Boyle 12:13pm on 21 Apr 2009 Ho-hum.
I'm happy for everyone to know I'm a bit fat; I'm not so happy for everyone to refer to me as 'Fat djmikeyc' as if my weight is a defining characteristic.
that's a lame analogy, but I think you get what I'm saying.
My YouTube shame - part two 11:17am on 15 Apr 2009 "#9 You are right that the museum cant confiscate your photos, but I am pretty sure they can take action if you publish those photos on the internet."

Can they if you haven't taken any pictures of copyrighted material?
My YouTube shame - part two 10:52am on 15 Apr 2009 I don't think it can be illegal to upload or have a personally recorded clip of a football match on Youtube. Surely the TV deal has to do with rights to film the matches... so it's up to the stadium to not let people film the matches.

e.g most museums say "no photography" but they can't confiscate my photos once I'm at home.
Equivalence in death 10:59am on 23 Feb 2009 Sirius: Enrichment of drug dealers is of course a side-effect of it being illegal, and nothing to do with it's inherant risk, so it's not relevant to this debate.

Also, you can find a "positive" in anything; and, actually "enjoying it" is a pretty major positive as well - assuming it doesn't become an addiction, people being happy is a good thing for society.

I'm not convinced the government should classify the legality of things based on how "beneficial" they are, anyway. It should be on how dangerous they are.

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