Posts by TeeCee 9436 publicly visible posts • joined 5 Oct 2007
I'd say that they deserve each other, but that just seems so inadequate to express the level of serendipity involved here.
Bill gets a load of sheep to follow him so he can work on his messiah complex and Twitter get fuck all apart from some free publicity, reinforcing the validity of their business model. A marriage made in heaven.
So, lets put together a few things it's The Year Of and it's going to be Tablets running Linux* as used by a ten foot tall, blue version of David Cameron.
Okay, right. Can we go back to the Top Ten Whatevers Of The Last Decade articles now please?
*Sorry Steve, it's The Year Of Linux you know. Close, but no cigar.
While I welcome that interesting comment from the spokesman for the government of the People's Republic of China, I'd like to point out that in most of the rest of the world we recognise the difference between the governments of the PRC and Taiwan (Democratic Republic of China).
"...if they were to switch to a non-Windows platform...."
So when asked to consider the possibility of making a switch, those that would consider the Mac a candidate if they were to take the plunge have gone up from 27 to 32%. Since we're talking about going non-Windows, which is/are the non-Windows desktop OS(s) that have had 5% of their potential takeup go all wobbly on them?
Likewise, of the Windows shops polled what percentage were actively evaluating this option (i.e. what percentage of the total does the Mac stand a chance of picking up 32% of)?
It *does* need to be able to fold without damage.
Otherwise coming back to it and finding that where it says: "e-Reader. Do not fold" on the case, some wag's written "Oh yes it do" underneath could seriously try your sense of humour.
Bound to happen. Small child, curious smug sod at the next desk, demo to pissed-up mates in pub, all equally fatal.
I've no idea about the collective noun, but I do know that the place you rent them from is called an "arsehattery".
I was in a park in a major european city not too long back, where they had a fenced-off bit in which they rented out segways. In there were some tourists being kitted out with helmets and gingerly getting the hang of it. One of my mates waved in the general direction and observed: "Look at that arsehattery". The name stuck.
I reckon that a camel is a horse designed by a committee in much the same way as a segway is a quadbike designed by a soulless git.
"...in both English and Turkish...."
How nice of them to translate for us and I wonder why they didn't also include their native Arabic? Unless of course they're not actually Palestinians at all, but just some sad little bunch of wankers hijacking someone else's cause to make it seem as if their pastime of figuratively spraying tags on the walls of the internet is something other than petty vandalism.
I was wondering when that little problem was going to rear its ugly head in the dash for smart metering. We all know how much fun it is pushing patches to a few hundred PCs, now imagine this in some utilities firm in a few years' time:
"We've got a patch for that critical bug that's being exploited in our smartmeters."
"Great. About time too. Now roll that to all of the 870 different product versions we have across all of our several hundred million subscribers ASAP would you?"
"But it does come with a hefty price tag."
So, any better reasons? You know, like one that at least has an apparent positive effect on the product delivered?
If there are indeed lowered costs in here as a result of the use of open source, all that's done is fatten Philips' profit margins and pardon me for not giving a rat's arse about their shareholder value.
Actually, given that Ultimate costs only a tenner more than Pro in the wacky world of Se7en, I'm wondering WTF Pro is for? That's the sort of additional cost, taken as a percentage of the price, that I'll take on the offchance that I might possibly find a use for one of the features one day.
The thing that miffs me most about Se7en versions is that only the retail ones come in both 32 and 64 bit with the one license. Since I'm looking to go 64 but want the option to fall back if necessary, it means that for the first time in years I'm going to have to lash out on a retail copy rather than an OEM one. Damn.
Bin Laden sporting a beard with a length of less than "the width of the prophet's fist"?
That's slightly less likely than him walking into the nearest US embassy and giving himself up, all the while apologising profusely for his misguided actions as a result of his having found salvation in Christ.
I wondered that too. The implication there is that the purpose of screwing around with the pensions is to make the existing package less attractive, encouraging staff to leave. The correct term for this would be "Constructive dismissal" and, if this were so, IBM would be in deep shit.
'Leccy motors need cooling too you know, also the airco will need a condenser. The whole lot probably doesn't need to be *that* big, but I suspect that preserving the corporate nose design dictates the size.
I'm more interested in the return of the Austin Allegro steering wheel. I wonder if it'll be greeted with something other than howls of derision this time round?
Sort of handily reinforcing my point really.
You can already do this sort of thing without paying the gotomypc tax, as can I (WinMo to PC here). Since this service is aimed fairly and squarely at lusers who'll be after WP, Spreadsheets etc. *and* they use the "where's the keyboard" tagline in their own ads.....
Oh, you actually *have* an iPhone? Paying over the odds for a bundled service aimed at technical illiterates won't faze you then.
The bit about promising your postal vote will get it removed for illegal vote-trading*.
They won't have to take it down for speaking the Great Truth That Must Go Unsaid.
*Let's just hope for the sake of the prankster that Inspector Knacker sees the funny side or he could be getting his collar felt real soon now.
"...a Belgian, Frank De Winne, became ISS commander in 2009...."
Bugger. A famous Belgian who isn't fictional? That's that pub game off the menu then.
Note for those who've not done this: This one's played when everyone's already well shitfaced and starts with someone asking: "Name a famous Belgian?". The game proceeds, after about five minutes of head-scratching, with someone saying "Hercule Poirot?" (sometimes "TinTin") and being forced to buy a round of drinks for being silly. The game ends about 20 minutes after someone says "Jean-Claude Van Damme"* when nobody can think of another one.
Yes, it is just a way of getting some pissed-up smartarse to buy a round of drinks. It's Friday. I make no apologies.
*Saying "Eddy Merckx" is considered bad form and marks you as a cycling enthusiast. Anyone using this is asked to remove themselves to the Snug Bar where the trainspotters hang out.
I finally understand! Any good comedian needs a good straight man.
All they need to do is post an ad: "Wanted. Solid, sensible executive type to say boring, sensible things while the CEO makes bad jokes and hams it up for laughs. Must be able to keep a straight face when covered in custard. MBA preferred.".
Quite obviously the inclement weather is interfering with stock deliveries to local retailers, causing a massive shortage of "My Little Pony" products in the local Toy Shops.
Distraught little girls are resorting to the next best thing to ease their withdrawal symptoms. They'll be painting the buggers pink and stencilling glittery stars on them next, mark my words.
That would handily explain why in recent years' new car reliability stats from warranty claims, German cars are looking terribly shabby.
Latest one was on the subject of 4x4s where the bottom three were (from the bottom) the Audi A6 Allroad, the VW Toureg and the BMW X5. All handily beaten by the legendary Chrysler reliability of the Jeep Cherokee and there ain't much more FAIL to be had than that.
Some years back I used to do multidrop deliveries in a variety of things, including the ubiquitous Transit.
The attitude to maintenance where I worked was to do the minimum required servicing and change the odd tyre. Then once a year they'd take 'em in for an MOT, each vehicle would invariably fail and that would tell 'em what else needed doing urgently*. Since the Transit is damned nearly unbreakable, presumably those stats merely indicate that this is still common practice in the cheapskate world of commercial vehicle fleet ownership.
It's difficult to describe something that can take on a brick wall and win as a "death trap", but I believe that's the correct term.
*Usually exactly what the driver had been telling them for quite some time anyway.
The spreadsheet has four additional columns: "Body and structure", "Brakes", "Driver's view of the road" and "Fuel and exhaust".
Alfa and Renault brakes seem a tad worrisome and Renault drivers also seem to be more at risk than most of not seeing what's going on in front of them. This last, coupled with the aforementioned fact that they probably can't stop when they do belatedly notice imminent pear-shapedness, explains a great deal.
Apparently Rover Metros rust a lot. There are no figures for bearshit location associated with this.
Still looking through this, but the highlight so far has to be "1900" as the year of first use for one in the Ford Fiesta section. It passed too, giving a 100% success rate for Victorian Fiestas. It's been downhill since then.
"reaching out to American kids as early as middle school, somehow getting them hooked......."
There's a time honoured method that just needs a little updating.
Old way: Shady bloke wearing a long mac hangs around schools going "Psst, wanna try some crack?"
New way: Shady bloke wearing a lab coat hangs around schools going: "Psst, wanna free trial WoW subscription?"
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