Posts by Goat Jam

Re: Did I Read That Article Right?

"Why wouldn't you put Linux on a high-spec system?"

Since when is a 1366x768 screen part of a "high-spec system" ?

Comedy Indeed

A Windows fanboy pops up (posting AC, natch) to declare victory on the basis that some MS spokesbot said Things That Shareholders Want To Hear in much the same way the same spokesbots did when Vista was the "fastest selling version of Windows evah. EVAH!"

I loved the part where you described how business "customers" are locked in to paying for Windows whether they use it or not. Like that somehow makes Windows 8 a super success or something.

Love your work dude, have a frosty beer on me.

Re: Google's free DNS service

I use it because my ISP does that stupid DNS hi-jacking nonsense, as does so-called "opendns".

Considering that I also browse while logged in with a google id I'm struggling to see how using their dns server allows them to intrude on my privacy any more than they already do.

If you can enlighten me than that would be great.

Idle Process is stealing my cycles

"You remind me of those people who freak out the first time they use a task manager when they notice "idle process" is "using up" all their CPU time."

Had a colleague come in one monday morning in an exasperated state complaining that he'd spent a sizeable part of the weekend trying to fix his computer for just that problem.

Re: The guy's an idiot @Goat Jam

Hey mr anonymous idiot, I clearly stated that I was judging them by their ability to hold up their end of a conversation.

If somebody is unable to converse about anything other than how badly their kids behave, football and who was best on "Idol" last night then I feel reasonably justified in assuming they are not overly clever.

The fact that someone enjoys football (or even Idol) is not the point. The point is whether they can also converse outside of those subjects.

Thanks for the demonstration of someone who has an inability to hold up their end of a conversation though, it was quite illuminating.

Re: Ribotro

"I doubt that a "good majority" of Office users actually feel particularly strongly [about the ribbon] one way or the other. "

A few months back my old man was complaining vehemently about being given "new Windows" and how much he hates it.

I figured he must have been complaining about being shifted from XP to 7 (or god forbid Vista) but I eventually figured out that by "new Windows" he meant "new Office" and it was the ribbon he was railing against.

Re: So pathetic!

Awesome.

Particularly liked the irony of "iPAD loosers" but "touch there selves!!" was excellent too.

Re: Why do eco-catatrophists always assume the planet is so fragile ?

That has to be one of the most retarded comments I've ever seen.

I mean really, I know you climate catastrophists are not playing with a full deck and all but you really need to go bone up on the concept of cause and effect.

Just for the record, the fact that climate is proven to be naturally variable (the MWP) is not evidence that the climate is fragile, in fact it proves exactly the opposite,

Hey RICHTO

Is it your mission in life to make yourself look like a complete and utter twat in front of the maximum amount of people?

If so, then keep up the good work, you're doing great!

Re: carriers lol

Too true, US politicians and huge numbers of US citizens seem to have no understanding of the depth of their current economic debt crisis. Your downvoter there would belong to that group I'm sure.

The irony is that the entire Chinese military budget is funded by the interest payments that Uncle Sam makes on the massive numbers of US government bonds the Chinese own.

From "After America - Mark Steyne"

"According to the Congressional Budget Office’s 2010 long-term budget outlook, by 2020 the government will be paying between 15 and 20 percent of its revenues in debt interest. Whereas defense spending will be down to between 14 and 16 percent."

That is to say that their interests payments (not actually paying down the debt, just paying the interest) will take a greater slice of their GDP than what they spend on their military and a large proportion of those payments will go straight to China.

Golly, I can't see anything wrong with that, can you?

Re: IP spoofing?

"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IP_address_spoofing probably not covered on your TAFE education"

Did you even bother to read (and understand) that wikipedia article?

I doubt it, otherwise you wouldn't have made yourself look foolish by posting such nonsense.

Free clue: I didn't say that there was no such thing as IP spoofing, I said it was not the same thing as using a vpn to get around geoip blocking.

You're welcome.