Neil Greatorex • User • The Register Forums

Facebook needs Opera - to rescue it from dependence on Apple

Monday 28th May 2012 21:31 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Opera - top dog. AC@17:17

5 downvotes? I can't understand the mentality of some people here, what on earth did he say that merits a single downvote, let alone 5?

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Monday 28th May 2012 21:25 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Goodbye Opera from my OS in that case

It would be an enormous wrench to stop using Opera, as it's been 13 years for me, but I will should FB buy them.

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Google to bring Raspberry Pi to Bash Street

Thursday 24th May 2012 15:31 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: 100 teachers over 3 years?

+1 internets.

You have to start somewhere.

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Pints under attack as Lord Howe demands metric-only UK

Wednesday 16th May 2012 18:42 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Try buying Pipe

Standard gauge is actually 4' 8½"

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Wednesday 16th May 2012 18:04 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Not preally

"most signs are replaced every 10-15 years"

Not on the A1 north of Peterborough..

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Samsung shows 'designed for humans' handset

Thursday 3rd May 2012 20:56 GMT Neil Greatorex

It's an oblique reference

to Siri not understanding real English.

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Boy wrecks £22k worth of MacBooks by weeing on them

Tuesday 1st May 2012 18:37 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Stupid question

Whoosh!

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Monday 30th April 2012 21:23 GMT Neil Greatorex

Stupid question

but how many pints/litres in a "Bunch" of water?

i could of just ignored there sloppiness but im loosing the will to live

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Monday 30th April 2012 21:16 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Now I know how old AC is

I'm astounded that nobody has mentioned that:

Police charged the (eleven [11] year old) boy with institutional vandalism and criminal mischief and are turning him over to the Cumberland County Juvenile Probation Department.

Eleven, yes 11, year old boy pushed through the septic justice (sic) system. FFS!

Really FFFingS!?

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Monday 30th April 2012 21:06 GMT Neil Greatorex

I regularly

Put my wireless keyboard in the dishwasher, batteries removed obviously. Once the cycle is complete; shake vigorously and place in airing cupboard, leave overnight +a working day; job's a good un! Sparkly keyboard -cat hair -beer -coffee -spittle (from the occasional FotW entry) &c.

Having previously worked in a hot desk environment using crufty, crusty, shitty, disgusting & hairy keyboards, I can say it's a pity their dishwasher was only used for crockery.

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Apple sued for every touchscreen device by Flatworld prof

Monday 23rd April 2012 22:36 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: RE: pedant alert

I live in the Fens & often stroll past scum covered water; I've yet to see a dwelling on the bottom.

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Monday 23rd April 2012 22:17 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Where do they find the cash?

Pedant alert:

Scum floats.

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Monday 23rd April 2012 21:52 GMT Neil Greatorex

Irony

May be a bit like steely, but those that live by the sword.....

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White House issues privacy warning on CISPA-style laws

Wednesday 18th April 2012 21:24 GMT Neil Greatorex

If

ISP/Google/Yahoo!/whoever, selected one of the 100 politicians who support this, at random, and publish _everything_ they have on that politician, this nonsense would be brought to a halt pretty sharpish.

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Dad sues Apple for pushing cash-draining 'free' games at kids

Tuesday 17th April 2012 20:19 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: I dont see anyone mentionng

"off of"

Stop it right now.

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Tuesday 17th April 2012 20:12 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Dangerous

"It's as if Apple cared more about cash"

No shit Sherlock, they've never cared about anything else, ever.

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Tuesday 17th April 2012 20:06 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: When will parents learn

"Arseholes with no boundaries"*

Why did that make me suddenly think of goatse <shudder>

*Note correct spelling.

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Quitting your job? Here's how not to do it

Thursday 29th March 2012 22:10 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Swearing at the boss.

Apropos nothing really: I worked weekends at a supermarket, in the 70's, for a chap who had a "Dymo'd" badge proclaiming him as "Rear Entrance Manager".

Oh, just remembered the apropos: DON'T FUCKING SHOUT. OK?

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Thursday 29th March 2012 22:04 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: ultimate way to quit your job

WTF are you talking about?

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Thursday 29th March 2012 21:55 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Be careful whose feet you step on, on your way to the top.

I recall one completely talentless, useless, full of piss-and-self-importance, clueless twat on the fast track, universally known as "Shit for brains" trampling on people to get to where filling in spreadsheets counts as work..

I'd better stop this here, as anyone who knows me (I don't hide behind ac or a silly alias) knows who I'm referring to, K? :-)

Beer, coz that's what I'm sampling now

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Nokia threatens to elbow Apple's rival nano-SIM off a cliff

Wednesday 28th March 2012 22:55 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Yet another reason

Try RTFuckingA before posting, sheesh.

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Big Media drags 142,000 through UK's courts in a year

Wednesday 21st March 2012 01:30 GMT Neil Greatorex

Greg16@

"I literally watch zero BBC programmes"

Well do you or don't you?

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Wednesday 21st March 2012 01:29 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: License Fee

"state funded broadcaster like the BBC"

This is the sort of drivel I despise, in no way is the BBC "State funded", yes there is a licence fee and, yes, it is compulsory if you watch broadcast television. But the BBC is not "State funded" it's "licence fee" funded. Gah!

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Big biz nuts about iPad, says researcher

Tuesday 13th March 2012 22:43 GMT Neil Greatorex

"while the rumour mill was in full spin"

Mostly here, sadly.

Downvote button here......................................................................................................V

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Apple to kick start 'iTV' production in Q2

Tuesday 13th March 2012 21:37 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Can't see it ever taking off

"Apple do have a history of doing some Good Things (TM) for user interface design"

In the main you are correct, however, have you used an AppleTV? the UI is really, really shite.

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Hey Commentard! - or is that Commenter?

Thursday 8th March 2012 21:31 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: @ Neil Greatorex

I didn't miss them, and as I posted earlier, Dennis the Menace is a masterclass in humour - for an 8 year old.

If you want to define yourself via the medium of a crappy web comic, so be it. Your choice.

As to "obligatory", so is dog shite to your average hiker.

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Friday 24th February 2012 10:07 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: as a technical challenge

As is Dennis the Menace I suspect, to an 8 year old.

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Thursday 23rd February 2012 20:18 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Re: Re: as a technical challenge

Please stop posting links to xkcd comics, they're generally neither funny, relevant nor well drawn.

PS They're also not "obligatory"

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Thursday 23rd February 2012 16:17 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Go for it!

Or the classic NT error message:

Insufficient space to delete files, try deleting files to make space, Delete one or more files to free disk space, and then try again*

*or something like that, memory fails....

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Thursday 23rd February 2012 16:08 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Re: Re: Commentard

I'm with you on this one:

noun

informal, chiefly British

a person engaged in scientific or technical research:

a computer boffin

a person with knowledge or a skill considered to be complex, arcane, and difficult:

he had a reputation as a tax boffin, a learned lawyer

[Oxford Dictionary]

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Tim Cook's post-PC iPad domination dream crushed by reality

Thursday 8th March 2012 21:01 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Enough iPad articles

I'm with you on this, I read El Reg for an interesting redtop-esque take on tech news, one which I enjoy very much.

I'm getting fed up with the constant Apple coverage. I mean, FFS, it's approaching: "APPLE BOG CLEANER FARTS! CHINESE ECONOMY BRACES ITSELF".

The forum is now an echo chamber & on Apple articles a pointless place to post a contrary view. There is an inevitable end to this click-bait shite and the law of diminishing returns may be a good place to start the study.

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'The new iPad' revealed: Full specs, rumor scorecard

Wednesday 7th March 2012 22:28 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: In essence...

"..just another iPad that's been over hyped by the media and speculative fanbois.."

and El Reg..

Shame.

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Wednesday 7th March 2012 22:14 GMT Neil Greatorex

Meh2

or meh^2

So much hype, so much tosh.

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Workers can't escape Windows 8 Metro - Microsoft COO

Wednesday 7th March 2012 10:37 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: @Dummy

Whoosh....

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Tuesday 6th March 2012 20:37 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: I've tried to like it, I really have

"I love Windows 7"

Really? Been smoking something 'pungent'?

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Tuesday 6th March 2012 19:18 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Win7 "smokes" Win8

Probably a stupid question, but; why do you keep "Hoovering"?

Dusty office perhaps?

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Tuesday 6th March 2012 19:08 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Indeed

I just have a picture in my mind now, of you breathing on your knuckles and polishing them on your chest.

Can't think why..

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Tuesday 6th March 2012 18:48 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: @Dummy

Pillock, most of us are IT pros here, we can do useful stuff, having installed a beta, in microseconds. Looking at a veritable turkey takes hours..

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Bloomin’ big: algae seen from space

Tuesday 6th March 2012 10:25 GMT Neil Greatorex

Ahem!

"Any commenters know how to get Modis images into QGis? - RC."

I thought we'd agreed on "commentards"....

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BBC iPlayer boss: smart TVs not sufficiently simple

Friday 2nd March 2012 22:28 GMT Neil Greatorex

Re: Say what?

No. Run a cat5e cable to your telly & forget the above nonsense.

Cat5e cable = <£2, Samsung WiFi adaptor >£40

I've got a gen 6 Samsung gogglebox & it's fantastic, the built in iPlayer displays better quality TV than broadcast (not HD, obviously) & a doddle to use :-).

If I watched itv or 4 I'd be disappointed at the lack of 4od or itvplayer on the gogglebox, but I don't, so I'm not.. Job done.

Paris; as I'm sure she'd like a light touch with the cat5e cable....

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