Posts by kissingthecarpet

So

Steve Jobs is the pope then...

I hope the analogy with Catholic priests stops there - I'm sure Apple don't want to limit their OS to over-18s only to avoid any unpleasantness.

Speed psychosis

which you're likely to have after 3 days, is indistinguishable from schizophrenia. If you're psychotic, anything goes, up to & including goat rape & murder. Especially if you're unaware of the possibility - after all its "just speed" - & so is crystal meth.

This isn't a criticism of taking loads of drugs though - there's nowt wrong with that

Think that

might have been Chevy Chase's joke from the 70's - very funny gag.

Golgafrincham

You bet, if Earth was Golgafrincham, a lot of Facebook/Twitter/other "Social" media sites employees would be on the "evacuation" ship.

Greenpeace are political activists of course, they always have been from the start. Pointing fingers at things they are against is what they do. Inventing improvements to renewables isn't. Apparently IBM et al have done some good things, therefore they are above criticism, seems to be the thrust of your argument

How does

it beg any questions?

http://begthequestion.info/

very droll

However, OP's point still stands - that IE is effectively part of one OS alone, whereas the others are all cross-platform stand-alone browsers. Even if IE10 is the best browser ever, no-one is about to use a different OS just for that. With the others, you don't have to - so a *Huge* minus for IE, then.

I could be wrong, of course - maybe I'll soon be typing "apt-get install IE10-non-free" ......or not

Totally agree with this

Exactly. It's a *bonus*. He's not saying they'll get a wage cut or be sacked. Unlike a lot of other vital workers who NEVER EVER get bonuses, but of course they all work in the public sector, so they're all "back room" scum anyway(copyright E.Pickles). Oh poor,poor Google staff, it must be hell working there - probably hundreds of times worse than working in a care home for minimum wage, wiping old men's arses.

No it isn't

They're real people who've written a real paper - follow the link in the article.

Shh..

Don't say that - they might hear you...

Good one from the Reg - topical AFs always best. In other news, Steve Ballmer & Richard Stallman are in love and are getting married in June.

More like

A single point of fail.

On the subject of AV

According to Baroness Warsi, the BNP are really keen on AV because it will increase their vote.

Except the BNP are campaigning *against* AV. so either they're really stupid. Or she is.

Or both.

Ha Ha - So Do I

Muphry's law strikes again - you know I was *sure* it had 2 n's then I made the mistake of googling it & unfortunately saw something like this headline

http://www.birminghammail.net/birmingham-sport/aston-villa-fc/aston-villa-news/2011/03/26/ashley-young-has-fond-memories-of-the-millenium-stadium-97319-28405915/

so I thought I must be wrong. I can be really anal about spelling but this just goes to show that there's no limit to human arrogance & stupidity

Great Nick...

Who remembers DF's now, eh? Fond memories

Paris probably likes a prescription pill or two as well...

Hawaii Five-Fail

The very idea of a remake is appalling anyway. What next, a revival of Quincy, or God forbid Ironside? They should leave these shit old shows in the ironic grave they inhabit.

There's also a word-for-word remake of the Jack Warner flick "The Blue Lamp" on the way except it's set in LA & the Jack Warner role is portrayed by 50Cent.

No-one, but no-one ever,ever says or will ever say "Lets Bing it" IRL unless it comes to mean something like "Let's label it as a bit shit & a second-rate also-ran"

Nanageddon

http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=nanageddon+the+mighty+boosh&aq=3

Very funny - the Shaman's council deserve their own series

That's not always true

Some cancers are caused by specific things - e.g. Asbestos & mesothelioma, or AIDS-related herpes & Karposi's sarcoma. Best not bandy statements like "You fail" around eh?

Because they are all

Arts graduates. To a man. They are either scared of Maths & Science or deep down, have some kind of magical view of reality. A few attempt to understand, but the prevalence of terms like "nerd", "geek" or "anorak" in journalism make it clear that scientists etc. are "the other". It's come to the point where people will wear a "nerd" or "geek" (originally a carnival freak show performer who bit the heads off live chickens) label with pride, a bit like the appropriation of the word "queer" by gay men.

They just don't understand or care that what they're doing is the same as having a discussion where one side says "2+2=4" & the other side says "2+2 = unicorn shit or whatever I say it is" and treating them as equally valid POV.

Education,Education,Education.....

It's not patents in general that are wrong

It's just software patents - they are a very silly idea, like patenting a type of film or book plot.

Not too bright

If he didn't know / research what would happen when he copied stuff like that & whether he should use a live CD etc, he was asking to get caught. Who knows what they might be logging?. If he couldn't stop being logged he could have tried to infect someone else's machine on the network with appropriate malware so that his dodgy ftp or copying would be lumped in with the rest of the security fiasco if anyone even noticed it, for example.

Just copying it & doing some inadequate heavy-handed deletion seems dumb.

Alternatively he was grassed up by the start-up

He was the driver

So he didn't actually strangle anyone. It can be a major error, being a driver on a robbery. I know someone who drove on a robbery. During the robbery, one of the robbers shot an off-duty "have-a-go" copper dead. They all got 25+ years, including the driver, who was also considered guilty of murder, even though he wasn't armed & didn't get out of the car.

If you're going to commit crime, fraud is definitely the way to go. If you do it right, you may not even be committing a criminal offence, for vastly greater returns...

Video shops lost out to DVD sales long before downloading

That is all.

I don't believe you

Trolling / shilling / astroturfing - it's all the same in the end.

If you're going to boycott Apple

FFS don't buy MS instead - everything you don't like about Apple is true, in spades, of MS. Everything you like(d) about Apple is NOT present in MS's offerings.

Think seriously about a FLOSS solution - reasons you may have had in the past for not considering FLOSS may well now be solved or irrelevant.

Ah, but....

Linus gave the world Linux. In fact what about poor old Stallman - I'd love to see him in the House of Lords as a Baron or maybe an Earl.

In fact, joking aside, the existence of Free(in both senses) software must be fairly useful to a lot of less wealthy parts of the planet.

Funnily enough

They were originally made from mutton - which makes far more sense than beef.

http://www.cornishpasties.org.uk/origins/pasty-3-historical/pasty-Barriball-1746.htm