Posts by JP Strauss

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Wut?

Patnet lawyers?

I'd pay big money to watch patent lawyers try to persaude North Korea to allow their heads and bodies to catch the same flight home.

Why pick a fight with the South Koreans?

...When it would have been much more entertaining for everyone if they picked a fight with their Northern neighbours.

Enjoyed most of it

then the natives went all gaya-f@g and I almost threw up. I swear I almost got up and left when they started dancing around the giant tree. Otherwise, I quite enjoyed it (must admit that it was my first 3D movie).

Open up a dimensional rift?

I just hope that whoever survives the resonance cascade will at least have a crowbar and an HEV-mach 1 suit handy, otherwise the inhabitants of Xen will enslave us all.

Playground antics

This is like finding an empty swing on the playground and claiming you have struck a blow for socialism.

Freudian slip

I read Tyne and Wear as "Wear and Tear".

never would have thought...

... that I'd live to see something this awesome come out of South Africa.

VB100 standard?

I always thought the VB100 standard was a program longer than 100 lines written in VB that would compile.

And me?

I think I'll just wait for the free pirate copies to show up. ('tis a joke, gov'ner)

a title

I work in the multi-channel publishing business and I can tell you from first-hand experience that discrepancies that arise between MSOffice products and OO0, especially those in their XML-based files (.docx, .xlsx, etc) are usually because MSOffice is more fault tolerant than OOo. Whether this is good or bad is up for debate. Personally, I think that working around bugs you have introduced on the first place is EXTREMELY bad practice. A simple example would be MSWord disregarding its own Schema rules when you decide get creative with the layout. OOo Writer then has to try and make sense of something that is not defined in the .docx XSD, and therefore cannot address satisfactorily because it would mean having to deviate from the "standard" yourself.

@adrian sietsma

Are you SURE you want to label the 914 as a sports car?

Comedy gold

Bravo!

A case could be made...

... for the supplied illustration that if if you selected option (4), you would also be correct, seeing as if you tug too hard on the highlighted appendage, your kidneys are pulled down into this area.

haha

HTML kicks C++'s ass.

I'm getting sick of the MS/everyone else debate

Why don't we just all whip out our penises (penii?) and see who the real men are once and for all?

I will be one of the first...

...to delve into the internals of this system and replace the WAV file with one containing expletives. The one with the organic hemp C-precompiler woven into the lining.

Pandas aren't all that intelligent...

... just last week I saw one investing a large sum of money in General Motors stock.

@Luis Ogando

"Does copying any type of media actually constitute violence?"

only if you use shoddy equipment.

@Dan Paul

[Just watch "Ironman" for an example of what defense contractors are all about.]

With such a firm grasp of reality, it is only natural that you would vote for Obama.

Who's going to supply the electricity then?

'nuf said.

RE: IT angle

The man had a Stiffy. Old tech, but still. Shame if it was only 3.5"

@Richard Drysdall

"I don't expect that Internet Explorer Mobile has any significant market share, but unlike it's desktop equivalent, there's simply no upgrade path available."

Opera or Opera Mini are great browsers for mobile phones. So will Minimo be when it finally gets unleashed on the world.

"Unfair business practice"...

... is kinda like when the guy in the cubicle next to your's lets out a silent one just as you have a yawn.

Fire Icon because, well you'd have had to be in the army to appreciate this one.

It's their own fault

Microsoft's #1 problem IMHO is that their operating systems are too user friendly. This is certainly good for sales, but sucks when it comes to security. This is unfortunately necessary because your grandma hasn't the slightest idea what the difference between an OLEDB connection and a recycle bin is. So now they have to find increasingly more intricate ways of keeping script kiddies out of her email, while at the same time allowing her to delete her [win32] folder, if she wishes.

Maybe they should try to imitate Ubuntu a bit more in this regard: you get to do almost anything you want in the realm of casual users, but things you aren't supposed to touch is hidden behind a root password.

I just hope...

...that they don't serve asparagus or beetroot on the ISS. Although mix-a-drink should be compulsory.

ESP?

As in [E]vil [S]inister [P]lot?