Posts by Blake St. Claire

Storage Fees

It may be his, but it's been sitting on my property. If he wants it he'll have to pay the storage fees.

Sun was a database firm?

... quit Oracle-owned Sun, where - prior to Larry Ellison's acquisition of the database firm ...

They did "own" MySQL, but I don't think that made them a database firm.

@Vladimir Plouzhnikov, Re: I never understood

> Why won't somebody just teach these people to boil their water before they drink it?

Boil it? In a desert? Oh right, by burning wood from the tree.

That tree sure looks a lot like a Baobab -- Mother Nature's other miracle tree.

so first you have to learn how to type?

No, I want to think whole words.

With no headset.

And egg in my beer.

Send them back to the drawing board.

fixed width font?

Hmmm.

Pick rich formatting, select "Courier New".

Et voila.

What exactly is the problem?

Warp -- emphasis on the warp -- drive

Here I was thinking that a warp drive worked by warping space around you so you can cross from point A to point B, bypassing all the Space, and everything in it, between those two points.

I'm no physicist, so I don't know why you might run into hopping across warped space using a fictional warp drive, but I hope this wasn't Edelstein's PhD dissertation.

No arrest for criminal negligence?

Seems like the dopes who couldn't adequately secure their system ought to bear some of the blame.

It would be interesting to know just how well protected it was. (I bet it wasn't protected at all.)

@Sarah Bee

> Please try and keep the hatred/enormous sweeping statements to a minimum.

Ha ha. El Reg posts an article with a headline like this one and you want "nice" comments only?

Perhaps you ought to moderate some of your own headlines!

Re: anti-intellectual

> It's because it was repurposed as an insult.

I call bullshit on that. Who exactly repurposed it?

I'm old enough to remember when it was commonly used -- usually benignly. Like a lot of words, if you put the right inflection on it, it can become an insult. Kaffir, in southern Africa, is, or was, one such word. Prawns. Blacks. Pakis. Women. Men. You get the idea. Enough people of color decided it was offensive, let it be known, and the rest of us, being the sensitive, politically correct people that we are, fell in line.

And honestly, it's been repurposed again. Now it's a backhanded term of endearment, if you can call it that, as long as it's only used between people of color. Mayer's mistake was probably in thinking that he had some cred that would let him get away with using it.

Control the Internet?

Not with the iPad, I'm reasonably certain.

How do I know? My wife, who loves her shiny 24" iMac, hates the name. If she won't buy one because of the name---

And I've already got a Macbook Air that, as far as I'm concerned, has a lot more going for it than the iPad in nearly the same form factor. I just don't see the point of the iPad frankly.

So who is left to buy them? Die hard fanbois? Once they've all bought theirs, then who? A bit like all the yuppies in the early 80s who bought all those fugly Saab 99/900s, and once everyone who wanted one bought one, they never sold another.

Just calling a spade a spade.

Apple Comcputers vs. Apple Records? That was a trademark issue, and at least at the time -- as has already been noted -- Apple Computers didn't sell music. Did they promise that they never would?

Google's "Don't be evil" IS a load of crap. They proved that themselves when they censored results in China and handed over IP addresses to authorities.

Stevo calling "load of crap" might be the pot calling the kettle black. It's also calling a spade a spade.

Steve/Apple afraid of Google? No more so than any business is, or ought to be, afraid of their competitors.

Registered Trademark?

> but it is difficult to say for sure". ®

Or did you mean ©

@copsewood

Could we get this straight, once and for all.

The Mac OS X kernel is Mach. The userland is a mix of the various BSD userlands.

Linux code in the OS X kernel? Not bloody likely. Can you say GPL?

Please hand in your Geek card at the kiosk on your way out.

@Sarah Bee, Re: RE: D'oh

> Of course it's not by design - at least not all the time. ...

(Where do "Reply to this post" submissions go? To the author, or into a black hole? Or is it just that the Moderatrix didn't find any redeeming value the first time I submitted this comment? But considering the quality of some of the other posts in this thread I'm surprised mine didn't pass muster.)

Anyway--- Amused to see an admission that it's not always unintentional. I've been wondering for some time about all the women I encounter working behind high counters, wearing a low cut blouse and push up bra, who always seem to find a reason to lean forward. E.g. to write a note or dial the phone on the low desk behind the counter.

Not that I'm complaining or anything.

millions selling super sized sandbags?

Where do I sign up for that sweet deal.

I can make chicken wire and fabric bags all day long too.

Why only petrol/gasoline?

You lot over there get diesel motors in every other car Honda sells.

Over here we can get a Civic that runs on CNG.

Why can't we get hybrids that run on CNG and/or diesel.

@AndrueC, Re: Shed the what now?

| If by some chance you happen to be talking about some ancient measurement of weight (and the

| American version of it at that)

American bashing? So tacky.

Our pounds weigh as much as your pounds. You aren't, by any chance, thinking of our gallons vs. your gallons are you?