Posts by TeeCee

Re: AnonyTurk or TurkSec or LulzTurk?

.....or just the young turks of Anonymous.....?

Re: Possessive

It's a bit simpler than that, it's "Domino's" as in "Domino's Pizza" (i.e. the fact that they have something, in this case pizzas, is intentionally implicit in the name).

Thus "Domino's" as the name and "I ate a Domino's pizza last night...<etc>" are both correct.

Re: Space tatters

There's one for sale down the road.

Well, it's got spaceship milage on it.........

Re: even better!

Cool!

I recently bought my little daughter one of their graphics tablet thingies to draw her Manga artwork with. I've been marvelling at it ever since it turned up. I was wondering if it was all done with enslaved imps, but I guess there had to be a simple scientific explanation.

Wavee penny, movee mousey. Look no touchee. Nothing up sleevies. Ooooooo......

Re: "...If Coca-Cola do buy '.coke',"

I believe a consortium of loosely-affiliated Latin American businesses have already bid more for that one than Coca-Cola can afford......

@Erik Borgo

Unfortunately, "PC's becoming a sunset industry" only exists in the minds of the more loony industry analysts and the dreams of the tablet pushers.

Hint: Your job may be possible to do using only one 10" screen and a "point and peck" onscreen touch keyboard taking up a third of it, but mine definately isn't.

As I said elsewhere, last time round it was thin clients that were supposed to do for the PC. At least that one made some sort of sense, even if it didn't happen. Anyone betting the farm on tablets displacing PCs should be top of any 419ers list of gullible targets.

Dent the sales of low-end laptops? Yes. Increase the number of suited idiots going; "Looky. I haz iPad!!11!!" in meetings? Yes. Displace laptops entirely in the consumer space? Possibly. Change the world? No.

@hpwb

You mean like the prepared supply dumps used by Robert Falcon Scott during his trek to the South Pole?

As I recall that didn't go well for him.....

Re: Who?

No surname? Isn't she Beyonce Z (nee Knowles)? Or are she and Mr Z not married[1]?

Gosh I am so ashamed I know that. I'll be opening a tw@ter account if this sort of thing continues.....

[1] Although you have to say that "Little Bastard Z" does sound like a shoo-in as a rap star, so they could be doing it a favour if so.....

@Noons

Oh come on! You should know by now that there's already a unix command for absofuckinglutely everything. You just need to look it up:

jobs [-lnp] [job]...

List information about each given job, or all active jobs if job is not specified. With -l, list process IDs in addition to the normal information. With -n, display only jobs that have stopped or exited since last notified. With -p, list only the process group. See the "Jobs" subsection for a description of the format of job.

Re: Where is...

Have you *seen* how adding this to a page fucks up page load times while Google get around to serving it?

Presumably El Reg are waiting for G+ performance to increase dramatically and get to at least "piss-poor" before implementing it.

Re: snafu is now a word

Maybe we need an RFC system for words to avoid these misunderstandings.

Re: Spot on!

It all depends.

When was the last time you saw someone looking at laptops in store and choosing the more expensive one of the same spec "because it's got an Intel processor inside it"?

AMD may just be taking the attitude that the PIB consumer market is small beer, their sales targets are the OEMs and spunking money on lavish consumer advertising is a waste of cash. Particularly while the only real consumer selling point they can make is; "an AMD equipped machine is quite likely to be a little bit cheaper".

Having said that, what they really should be doing is advertising their graphics side more aggressively. That's a place where consumer adverts might do some good, if they can convince people that having a machine with an AMD GPU is a Really Good Thing. There they can pick up sales, even if the consumer's already been brainwashed by the Intel advert juggernaut. It might also sell a few Fusion APU machines to CPU-agnostic customers too.

Re: "...you'll find at least a gram of blow."

Not all of 'em. Newtons contain smack and acid left over from the design conferences....

Re: IBM Telepad

As that's a considerable number of years before there was a Thinkpad, it's probably more accurate to say that the Thinkpad badge is in the classic Telepad font and at 45 degrees!!!

Re: but...

Try it. See if anyone else complains......

Mine's the one with the piece of crumpled paper, headed "Risk Analysis" and with the words "Shit Happens" written on it in crayon, in the pocket.

Re: Missing the point guys..

Key assumptions:

1) There will be a successor phone.

2) It will be one you want.

3) It will work with the same unit rather than requiring the Atrix PhoneDock 2.

Any less than 3/3 and 300 quid disappears off round the U-bend. Given the usual love that hardware types have for their users prolonging the life of kit rather than buying new, I reckon that buying 300 quid's worth of lottery tickets is less likely to lose you money.

@LuMan

Mustnotfeedthetrollmustnotfeedthetrollmustnotfeedthetrollmustnotfeedthetroll....

Oh hell.

Ah, so *you're* one of the people who makes up this mysterious test screening audience used by Hollywood then?

"proper ending"?

<HEAD EXPLODES>

Re: Just gimme the forms!

Which is *exactly* what I did last time as you already can download the forms.

Then I had to send the ruddy things to an outsourced operation in Paris. Accompanied by another form with *all* my Credit card details and paying half-as-much-again as the domestic service for the privilege. Then a courier service for return charged at rates that, being in the business, I know damned well are entirely fictitious. This I will not miss.

I also will not miss paying the highest permissible premium rate under local legislation for a phone call to call their help line, only to have to enter CC details on connection so the thieving fuckers can charge 2EUR per bloody minute on top of that! This is probably illegal and definately breaks the spirit, if not the letter of the law.

If it puts their current subcontractors handling expat passports out of business and gets all their useless, thieving, incompetant staff sacked[1], it's worth whatever it costs.

What would be an acceptable alternative would be to reverse the NuLabour policy behind this and revert back to having these processed at the various country embassies. That used to work very well.

[1] Especially in a time of recession and high unemployment. Icing on the cake that.

Re: Looting

I heard that one retailer going in to clean up the mess found that they had more HP tablets in stock than they started with...