Posts by James O'Brien

Love it

BEST. TITLE. EVER!!! Also loved the by-l.....oh shineys

THATS ALOT OF DIGITS!!!!!

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Has to be said

Kittens or it didnt happen :P

Yes I said that and I like cats.

@Michael Dell

"But as a replacement machine for an experienced user, it's not what we'd recommend. It's not a good experience, and we don't see users very happy with those."

No shit asshat. We all know this but its great for the basics. No one ever expected to play a game on it....I hope

@Barracoder

More pointedly to this phrase

"Or did your correspondence decide, as seems much more likely, to just begin talking directly out of his arse?"

Or more so this word

"his"

Methinks Kelly is a she boss. Though I will agree with you on that one. I think this fine young lady might be getting kickbacks under the table to talk up OpenOffice :P

OO is crap in a business environment when its dominated by office. Great any other time though.

@@first ac retard

Or should I say The First Cowardly Cultist of Jobs?

See the thing here is yes there are a lot of bugs, but the problem your failing to recognize is that Apple is always about it just works (except when it doesn’t or was this the almighty disc cleanup feature?) , therefore his comment was not out of line. Anytime there is an article about an OS (and I will say I'm no saint here) there is always fanboism to no end in the comments. Personally I try to bash all of them equally.

What makes this bug even worse is the fact its not easily reproduced, and its a rather bad one to have floating around in the open. How long till haXors figure out how to reproduce it and have some fun with the Apple crowd? Not everyone backs up and although Macs are in a lot of ways superior to Windows I cant recall the last time I logged into an account on Windows and had all my data deleted on me. And how many people who own Macs got them just because they heard how good they were and don’t know the first thing about using a computer short of surfing pr0n, checking email and playing games on Pogo?

Think about that anyway back to the regularly scheduled flames and I reiterate what I said in an earlier post.

Need more Disc space? There’s an app for that!!

Fools. . .

Hmmm good argument

"If you're offloading data like that, essentially that would mean you would have to have a second data center with the same infrastructure somewhere else," he says. "And while each one can be energy efficient, you now need two of them. So the net is actually energy inefficient. You need a lot more infrastructure."

Will say this is actually a good argument for the efficiency crowd. Not to mention the cost of multiple data centers. Also the question being raised about the links being cut. What happens then? Does Google mysteriously load shed to the cloud? Oh wait. . .FAIL

Great concepts on both ends but in all honesty I think M$ is actually onto something here

@Brutus and adiegoguy

Brutus:

As for our larcenous nature I present you evidence item 1) Your cell phone I nicked off you at the gas station. Oops I just put it in the bin :)

As for you adiegoguy:

Why do I detect a load of BS in your statement? Dont get me wrong, locking the item in the bin just makes sense. As for the fair market value who decides that you or the company? Fair market value can be anything you want it to be. As for the biometrics you have a mule do it for you. Boom done, and not everyone has a drivers license. Nor does it have to be legit.

Need more disc space?

There an app for that!

@Sounds OK!

Really? Ads everywhere? I havent seen any subtle ones and I play alot of games. The ones I do see are from sponsors of the game and tbh I really dont give a damn if they are there or not. So long as they dont crash the game or have adverts in between levels Im cool with it.

@Mac Phreak

Why doesnt that comment surprise me coming from you?

I have a WinMo Tilt and HAD an iPhone 3G the only gripe I have with it is crap preformance when told to do something. Other then that I have never had to reboot it (unlike the iPhone) or restore it (unlike the iPhone).

Shame really

Seeing as Nvidia has better preforming products then the crap Intel puts out to compete and the sheit that AMD call hardware. Though what I cant gather is this, is it just the chipsets or the GPUs on hold as well?

@Wolf207

I nominate Wolf207 for the FotW. I know im taking liberty on a few of the rules here but I think it qualifies because of how ill conceived his post was.

On a side note though lets all run around in mass hysteria now. THE SKY IS FALLING THE SKY IS FALLING!!!!!111one

/coat please

@Test Man

Im guessing your new. Welcome to the club now grab another 12 beers before you try to read any of AMFM posts. Cheerio

HERE YE HERE YE!!!

"GGF, the troubled Swedish firm aiming to buy BitTorrent tracker the Pirate Bay, has admitted the deal may be crocked."

The pope is catholic, bears DO shit in the woods and beer is good.

How is it that they didn't just say "Hey...we fucked up" from the get go?

@Psystar

Ohhhh good catch. When said that way it is an interesting little tidbit and does beg to be answered. Of Course Im sure that Apple will change their software so you have to pay a monthly $15 just to keep using it, this was they can keep the license.

@Grease Monkey

"True, but it's still a damn sight better than AVG and MSE."

WTH are you smoking??

McAfee (and Norton to be fair) are about the WORST AV packages now a days. Neither of them could catch an elephant and a marching band coming into the system, let alone a virus that has been around for years. Been there, seen it happen on a daily basis. The only reasons people even use McAfee or Norton today and it either came preinstalled (60 day trial woohoo) or because they remember the good old days when they were the shit. And dont even get me started on the slowdowns and crashing caused by them.

I got out of working on cars and ditched all my tools but you sir certainly sound like one.

Heh memories

Still working help desk (for home users) and I remember 2 things that really stand out:

1) Customer was being a complete cockbite and screaming, yelling cursing me out that it was all my fault that his machine wouldnt work because he decided to surf to porn site and get himself the computer aids) so in the middle of me saying something to him i hung up on myself. I wasnt about to call him back so after 10 mintues he called back himself and started appologizing to me and said his cell must have dropped the call :)

2) This lady shouldnt have owned a computer. Going to skip the majority and get right to the good part.

Me: Press and hold the power button until the machine turns off.

Her: Press and hold it?

Me: Yes, press and hold it until the BSOD you have goes away.

Her: But that will turn the machine off!

Me: Yes I know that. That is what we want to do.

Her: But it will turn the machine off!!!

(repeat those last couple lines a few times me getting more and more frustrated each time)

Me: MA'AM YOU NEED TO PRESS AND HOLD THE DAMN BUTTON BECAUSE YOUR MACHINE ISNT RESPONDING I KNOW THAT IT WILL TURN OFF WE WANT THIS TO HAPPEN. IT IS A GOOD THING!!!!

Her: Oh ok......I held the button and the machine turned off.....

Me: ..........Thank god.........

Yep I want out of the job.....people at work wonder why I hit their nuckles with a ball peen hammer when they do a Killroy over the cubicle wall.....

@Jimmy Floyd

Classic. Though if you added a few more companies names together in there you could have a better business model :)

Where to start?

"Microsoft’s Windows core OS division boss M3 Sweatt blogged about the “Signature Edition” on Friday and provided a few pictures too.

"The goodies are actually very nice, especially the Windows 7 tote bags, perfect for the Cayman Islands for the beach!

For the beach? Seriously? What a twat, the only people going to the beach at the Cayman Islands are the execs over there as they laugh all the way totheir off shore bank.

Also included were Windows 7 branded napkins,

So you can blow your nose on Win7

a puzzle pack; the pieces come together to form a wallpaper image from Windows 7,” he said.

Are the puzzle pieces made out of the install disc?

“There was also a pack of Windows 7 playing cards,

Imagine play poker with the boys friday night and pulling these out...youll be the talk of the town.

a colour poster and of course the piece de resistance, a FULL copy of Windows 7 Ultimate Edition (Steve Ballmer Signature Edition). What I was not expecting though was the Anytime Upgrade to Ultimate Signature 64 bit edition. A nice bonus!""

Really?? A FULL!!! copy? Was that some sort of bonus as opposed to half a copy? Maybe they are shelling out so we get the whole install disc as opposed to half of it? What a twat.

Need to shoot a gun?

There an app for that!

WTF?

"That deal sees $150,000 handed over, to be divided between Gawronski (whose counsel's share will go to charity) and another defendant."

So this idiot gets a wad of cash (as for his lawyers share going to charity im guessing its the charity for the lawyers retirement fund) for being a moron? I seem to recall that Amazon offered another copy of the book after all this started to those who were affected so why couldnt he just take that and tell it to use his notes there? I seem to remember hearing you can do something like that with the device. And I cannot see how the page numbers would be that far off, if at all, of the first copy.

@Lockwood

"The other funny thing will be seeing kids on gaming forums when they get upset:

OMG!™ NO FAIR U CHEATED!™!™!™!™!™1111!™!™1111oneoneone"

ROFL cheers!™

@About Time

"Rather than being left to replace a 32 bit OS with 64 at the time of upgrade, (which requires additional cost for new windows licence,) it is much better to have the right software to begin with."

Heh in some ways this is why I hate OEM installs. If people just bought the software outright from a store, for example, you get both 32 and 64 bit in the package for Vista and it will be the same for Win7. Screw OEMs and only giving 32 *OR* 64 bit options.

I LOVE IT

"(Linux folks may skip directly to the user comment section from this point to input snark)."

Austin you are the MAN for putting that in an article. Best Line of the Year AFAIAC.

Nice

Been using Newegg since pretty much day one and have to say Ive been happy with their service ever since. Never had a bad experience with them and they are always quick to RMA something if its in their warranty and hell even something that isnt if its only a week or so over sometimes. Hope they keep growing

@INFLATACOCK

ROFL

I owe you a beer for that term....and ROTM was great as well but you owe me a keyboard.

@An aging Twiggy facially scrubbed in an Olay ad

JESUS CHRIST what the hell did they use to airbrush that visage? A damn trowel? Holy hell seriously I think airbrushing *IN MODERATION* is fine but FFS not to THAT extent.

On a side I like Kiera's jubs just the way they are.

To quote Leary, "Little plum sized boobs? LOVE EM"

HAHAHAHAHAHA

I love the first image.

Services typically not used:

Automatic updates and BITS

LOVE IT!!!

Whats sad though is for normal users they don't ever update the system anyway. I love how many systems I see on a daily basis that have XP Home/Pro without even SP1.

@Tom 11

You moron!

I have to agree with the AC above me on this one. If I sat there and posted CC data from the business I work at online I would DAMN well expect to catch more then a little heat from that. On the other hand if I post how me and my girl had the freakiest sexy in the kitchen the other night and it involved a bottle of vodka, a candle, furry handcuffs and a gimp mask, then should I expect my employer will punish me over something DONE ON MY OWN TIME!!??

Anytime and employer has the ability to say what you can and cant do, short of NDAs and confidential information and such, your running the risk of said employer making a change to their 'guidelines' so that you cant be in the NRA, or a Democrat, or gay, or using a computer at home unless we allow it and still work at that job. Think about that would ya?

OH, BTW is "Colonel" not "colnel". . .moron

@Well blow me

Sorry but your not my type :P

I know I'm going to catch heat for this probably but since when is Google a phone company?

Personally I think ATT is trying to make a case for itself in the public eye about this whole thing over Google Voice. Hell even my parents (about as technology competent as a flea, and even then I think I saw the flea on farcebook) believe that ATT had a hand in Apples rejection of the app. Besides isnt ATT one of the main players AGAINST netneut?

@Whatever were/are they thinking?

Heh nice post....it made sense the first time through :)

@Hugh Jorgen

Only a phonebook? Im partial to the rubber hose and barbed wire approach myself.

@Field Marshal Von Krakenfart

"Up until 1997 Netscape had over 70% of the browser market."

"SO by 1991/2 MickySoft had over 90% of the browser market."

Umm you do realize IE didnt EXIST in 1992 right? Get the facts straight please.

A title is required. The title is a lie.

"The officer added: "We were very impressed with the workmanship so we congratulated him and then we confiscated the machine."

That is classic.

Plod 1 Thats an awesome idea but we have to 'confiscate' it.

Later that night at the impound lot:

Plod 2: WOOOOOOHooooooooo damn this thing is fun.

Plod 1: Need another beer?

PH not available?????

Thats because she was too busy holding the gun.

Apple a monopoly?

Say it aint so. Im glad to see some things starting to go against crApple. Want to see them branded a monopoly just like M$ so we can have choice finally on what OS to run on what hardware.

Whats firewire?

" Other now-widespread technologies have been conceived at One Infinite Loop then gone on to become industry standards. Think FireWire"

When I think about Firewire I don't get a whole lot. Problem with that statement is this, Firewire was a good idea yes. It was faster then USB but trouble was Apple kept it internal for far too long and when they finally released it it was too late because USB had already taken over the majority of the market. Not to mention even Apple are not putting Firewire on their latest laptops. Lets face it, Firewire is dead and more so now that USB3 is out. Certain cameras have it yet and some (YES SOME) external drives. When I went looking for one with it at the local store (needed it right now) I couldn't find one to save my life.

I will agree with Gordon Ross though to some extent. It was supposed to have replaced all that BUT trouble is I couldnt see USB powering HDMI monitor or even VGA. Can't see it being able to sustain the required bandwidth for those. As for the RS232 and PS/2 ports I havent seen RS232 on a board in years and PS/2 is still nice to have atleast one of those available incase you find USB wont work for some reason in BIOS or Setups. Seen it on Dells usually I end up swearing alot because some of their machines dont have a PS/2 and it was needed to install the OS. Go figure.

Firewire is dead let it rest in peace.

@sigxcpu

"that will give ~39 million LOC average per project. Do you know ANY OS/commercial project that has 39 million LOC?"

Umm Vista?

@The Dorset Rambler

Hell I do that all the time, hard to type with both hands when you have a beer in your other hand

:)

Must remember

To send an MMS to a buddy of mine who has an iJesusphone with my Tilt asking how it feels to be part of the cool kids now. :)

Say what?????

How the hell can Google claim that if they scan a book the author has no electronic copyright? Seriously? How the hell can this kind of logic be uttered let alone though? Im going to go beat my head against a wall now because then, MAYBE, I'll be able to understand that logic.

About this whole issue

I use FF, IE 8, Safari (sparingly...never if I can) and Chrome.

I like both FF and IE (not to sure how I would like Ribbon on FF though). Firefox at work because its stable (most of the time and a hell of alot faster then IE) but I use IE at home because I realy dont give a shit about browsers at home. It does the job and I can see the porn...er...websites I want to :)

As for IE being insecure I agree but at the same time in over 2.5 years with no AV or Firewall (PC sits in DMZ) of any type I have yet to get a virus. Weeeeeee

Has to be said

Wont somebody think of the emus?

ROFL

"Coincidentally that is exactly how much Ellison spends on scented candles to keep his fleet of fighter aircraft smelling fragrant."

Good one John

How long until the battery goes nova?

On someones head that would be quite a sight :)

I just love

How he sits on his high horse and says that M$ did this to install fear, doubt and uncertainty in the community. Personally I think they did it because they got top dollar and could have cared less about the OIN because they would probably cry about the price being too much. "We would have offered top dollar" my ass.

Ok this woudl be nice but

How long until Rambus get it made a standard and then sue whoever uses it because they didnt get a license for the patent usage?

@amanfromMars 1

*blink* that actually made sense....you feeling ok?

Secondly I still want to know how you lost the first AMFM handle?

Nice

So how long until we get shoddy firmware that bricks the drive?

A week? OK