Posts by kissingthecarpet

Achilles heel

That is all

I expect

Darth Vader didn't have one either.

Rubbish

Your comments are not even true. A decent CS grad will have spent most of their time learning to program, or learning about the algorithms behind the code. Are you trying to claim that most programmers are not CS grads? The course you're describing sounds like some dodgy post-grad "How to be an IT manager" crap or something.....

2 Things

One - What do you mean by the "begging question" - are you one of those half-literate types who think "begs the question" means "ask the question" ?

Two - Re: "Too right" etc - I refer you to Pastor Martin Niemöller's famous quotation . Google it if you've never heard of him.

Can't remember that last time

I saw "peddling" spelt correctly on the net - its always "pedaling" as in bike. I feel it shows the user of the word isn't sure about the meaning of it.

Thank you

for not writing "begs the question" as so many would have(and do)

Nobody suggested that

in the article -did they? . Before you read between the lines, read the lines :-)

Grow some balls

At least use a nick, AC (note the last word of your adopted name)

Big PR Win

Surely the PR must be almost worth the money, & after all they did get On2 for the cash, not just 1 codec. Also Google make so much money already they don't have to make a cash profit on everything they do. There are other ways to run a business than Ballmer's

Took me a while

to work out what "tackers" were. Must try harder (C-)

What makes you think

he'll get any money? Don't be daft. He'll be lucky not to get his house raided & his computers nicked

Its obvious

that the public's political views are far more diverse than they were in say, the 50's/60's, when Labour v Tory really meant something, the Unions were large & powerful & the Tories were people like Home the Skullman. Proportional voting of one form or another is the only way to re-engage with politics. Many smaller parties deserve some seats, and the big two need their wings clipped. For all the Tories supposed hatred of big govt. they still like the idea of "strong" govt. which is exacly the same in reality. Consensus needs to be forced upon the political class, as the only way they'll ever get anything done. Also a multitude of views would break down media influence, as politics would become more about issues, than tribal support.

The problem now is that the public don't fit into a handy box. Most people are a mixture of left & right wing.views. New Tory have tried to come off fiscally conservative & socially liberal, no doubt a popular stance - but they're not really - Back To Basics, here we come (again) - in fact I fear that for many people, the Tories will actually be a distillation of the worst of New Labour & Old Tory. Ugh!

Just shows how software patents

are just a way for lawyers to buy Ferraris. Only in America.....

The price paid for 3G was

100% insane. AFAIK there was no minimum bid (though I know next to nothing about the process), I just can't understand why they all bid so much.

I haven't seen one of his posts for ages

There's a sad wannabe who calls himself aManFromMars1 who posts sometimes, but I ain't seen the real thing for months now. If I'm wrong & that's really him, then he's gone way downhill

Isn't BT's crap infrastructure

the fault of old Thatchler. I was under the impression that BT offered to fibre the whole of the UK in exchange for a monopoly for a few years, but she told them No. Throughout the Tory 80's & 90's they were too interested in making a quick buck, instead of investment in infrastructure.

(Icon = Tebbit)

Even if

they won't remove it, they surely could suspend it or similar. The whole OOXML affair has to be one of the most pathetically obvious MS dodgy schemes they've ever hatched. The mob who run the Office business unit are still on the EEE's * it appears

* Embrace, Extend, Extinguish

and don't forget

the guy who says he's using the private browsing feature to buy his wife a present - yeah,right.

Although maybe his wife likes the same porn or sex toys as he does - although looking at him, he's probably into something scary.... like something unspeakable involving Steve Ballmer and a chair

Broken?

a) Do you really expect all journos at a news outlet to have a unified line? I don't want or expect that to happen

b) Don't misuse the word "schizophrenia" again. It doesn't mean "split personality", its a horrible, debilitating mental illness, that's about as funny as carcinoma of the brain, i.e not very

Shibboleths?

I do not think the word means what you think it means(look it up), and why did you spell existent correctly & then apologise & misspell it.

Actually, I'm a Grammar Revolutionary Communist - we're always having streetfights with the Grammar Nazis

Wouldn't it be funny if

someone shot your Mum & Dad in the face... Oh it wouldn't? I thought you like jokes about killing innocent people

Crack more like

or maybe they've damaged their Shatner's Bassoon from taking too much clarkie cat