Posts by LaeMing

Re: @STB

Yes, the 'text books' were written when it was a single-tasking OS with a 12-inch 512x320 screen. And for that scenario (or similar) the concepts they espouse are very valid. Today, not so much.

Re: BLOATWARE?

Heck! MS-Windows would welcome it with open arms as one of the family.

Nah

You just need something to get chocolata smears off gorilla glass.

If his audience where he made the quoted comparison was mostly Australian...

...we understood him perfectly well.

The rest of the world is too insignificant to cater to anyway.

Re: Ubuntu but not Debian

Debian/Testing has had a 3.x kernel for some months now. Presently 3.2.17, so Unstable has certainly had it longer than that.

Re: Poor guy - the bleeding edge of British Law...

Surely reading the context of his twitter post would tell you if he was trying to be a comedian or a terrorist.

The trick would be...

...to somehow convince the industrial-military complex that space is a bigger cash-cow than selling weapons too ludicrously powerful to seriously consider using. They did manage exactly that for a while in the 70's I believe, but lost inertia.

Re: Wrong idea, wrong place

"Someone will no doubt now suggest it would be OK if they were electric cars..."

See a few posts above (though I'm pretty confident they were taking the Mick.)

Won't somebody think of the ... advertisers.

Yes, how many advertisers will be happy paying for clicks that are so obviously solicited and hence not revenue-gentrating? If I was an advertiser, I'd be pulling out immediately!

Do a bonnet-roll.

That pun...

...had quite a sting in its tail.

.. Grab my coat too while you are there :-P

Re: If the public were allowed in...

Egads! you are right.

And here was I foolishly waiting for the Ori to come out of it.

Yeah, but police come down hard on the practice.

Eat batteries, and they will charge you.

While the kids they catch eating fireworks get let off.

@AC 14:08

That is the first pitch that ever even made me take a modicum of notice!

Oh, come on!

It's Australia! The gimboids in charge are only just getting their heads around the 'moving pictures' thing.

Do they still do those adds...

...with cars driving around and around and up and down and turning left and right around some sort of infinite multi-storey carpark?

It was almost enough to make me get religeon just on the off-chance that Hell existed and was just like that!

Re: Upvoted

Yes, I don't think BDG555 could make it any more obvious that those posts are not serious.

Because everyone would be rooting for the snakes?

Re: Go TPllc

I honestly don't require, or even expect altruism. Holding the board highly accountable is good for the shareholders bottom line. And that is how it was supposed to be, not the 1%er welfare slush-fund that big corporate has turned it into.

Re: like?

The open drivers used to be a load of old.... But I had to install them last week in desperation and was (very much to my surprise) extremely impressed with them. I'd recomend everyone at least give them a go again if they haven't in the past year-or-so. Not /quite/ as fast as fglrx, but plenty close enough for my needs and WAY more stable!

Re: What a coincidence

I was thinking that myself! Death, zombies and surviving the end of things are probably on the Sensis people's minds a lot at present.

Re: sounds like someone is in dire need of a girlfriend

Your cliche is older than 8" floppy drives.

Re: Root Canal

And there is my friend who's wisdom tooth had formed essentially a fish-hook shape deep into her jaw bone.

Re: Where's the brakes.

You reverse the polarity! :-D

The biggese give-away is the fact that the grill in the bottom glows. That is what people expect from sci-fi, but not how most things work.

Re: Apply the same rules

And sued for mis-paid salary.