Posts by Ted Treen

Steve Jobs hasn't - to the best of my knowledge - performed monkey-boy dances, or hurled furniture around his office.

Don't try to squeeze your irrational prejudice into a case where it doesn't fit...

Well said...

Couldn't agree more, JDX. I've long realised I could never be a Jobs, Gates or Buffet.

Long before I was worth a billion, I would have thought "Sod this for a game of soldiers - I have enough to not have to come to work any more..."

It would be nice to have a few millions to give away though - but to real deserving causes, not just todays PC favourite.

@Matt

Matt,

Succinctly eloquent, as ever. Mind if I copy that out to use at work? :-)

Well...

It's not as bad as that in the UK:- US patent law is definitely akin to something conceived by Monty Python. The trouble is, its application has affected the mindset of companies all over the world.

That is an ever-growing problem:- that, and US patent attorneys, who have all the rapacity of the Mongol hordes - and their personal morality is at about the same standard

Or contrariwise...

...maybe adult 'Merkins are akin to 13yr olds...

Jaw drops in amazement...

I'm the wrong side of 60, and didn't realise anyone of fewer summers would recall "Spy vs Spy" - ...

Please...

...don't post comments like this at lunchtime.

Have you any idea how long it takes to clean tuna mayo off your screen & its environs?

and so said

the driver of the Morris Minor powered home-made kit car to the Aston Martin driver...

@Justa

I seem to remember the same things being said about the inclusion of USB on the original iMacs way back...

Anti-Apple bigots never change.

And furthermore...

...our new Veep I/C Office Furniture is Mr Ballmer...

But I bet

you run a Windows PC and don't give a stuff about the Microsoft lock-in for life..

..and it's indisputable which company has for years had the morality and ethics of prohibition-era mobsters...

I cannot tell...

...what system the esteemed Mr Lovelock is using:- but I CAN tell that its spellchecker does not work.

It would seem that way...

Can't really understand why. My Mac's great - others might not think so - but hell; lots of people I work with love cheesecake. I can't stand the stuff, but I don't knock it for those who love it..

@Annihilator

The UK system ain't that liberal.

Muggers let off whilst pensioners who don't pay council tax are immediately whipped inside?

Our benevolent liberal overlords don't really get too fazed if we plebs scrap amongst ourselves:- but if anything happens which challenges the authority of the Almighty State (i.e. their authority & position) then heaven help the perpetrator.

And if your perceived to be middle class (how the lefties hate the middle class), then using a water pistol to defend your home & family against armed burglars will as like as not see you incarcerated. The middle class could become a threat to the ruling elite, so they MUST be hammered into submission at every opportunity.

dominion?

..or domination?

Silly me, getting Moderatrix & Dominatrix mixed up...

Seriously, SB, good luck in your new venture and our very best wishes always wherever you go & whatever you do**

**Unless it's joining the LibDems, of course.

Poor old John 104

"...average Apple user..."

Pure sophism - or, as the 'average PC user' would more likely say, utter bollocks.

I've had four new Macs (Beige G3, Sawtooth G4, G5 Tower, and recently an 8-core MacPro) in the last 13 years, got my first iPhone 3 months ago, and have had nary a problem. My 6-yr old G5 tower is still in daily use and is a damned sight more usable than any 6-yr old PC would be...

There wouldn't be anyway...

in XXX terms, you lose points for coming first...

@Will

"He may be totally innocent.

He may have been used as 'cannon fodder'.

He may have been set up - yes it really does happen."

Yup. All are totally true,

"He may have been put upon for years by the authorities and just wanted to hit back."

The Brit hierarchy accepting their activities as a mitigating circumstance?

An interesting idea, but I'm sure the establishment would never permit it.

"We can all sit here in our cosy homes secure in the knowledge that it could never happen to us."

Well, those who still have homes can, but those who are a casualty of aberrant bankers possibly can't. As regards it "could never happen to us", I recognise your irony but the likelihood of, and the powers for, the state inflicting similar upon us has grown exponentially over the last decade-decade & a half.

Mostly presided over by that nice Mr Straw - you know, the ex-commie who was such a staunch libertarian in oppostion.

Why do lefties become so draconian when given just a smell of authority?

Nearly...

I believe that this woeful fashion did indeed start behind bars:- and little scrotes adopt this 'fashion' to show "I is a hard gangsta, innit".

However, the drooping strides are generally considered to be due to having had one's belt confiscated (self-toppings are not really wanted on the Governor's record file), rather than an invitation for a little recreational buggery.

@Scott

Every woman I've ever met has had a mind of her own.

With one or two, it was in mint condition, 0 miles on the clock, never been used...

(await severe ticking off from Ms Bee)

@Turtle_Fan

"...I hate Apple with a passion..."

How pointless. How stupid.

You don't use their products but "hate them with a passion"?

Whoa - an anti-fanboi here - just another side of the same coin?

I use a Mac not a PC.

I don't hate HP/Dell/Acer/Anyone else "with a passion"

I use OSX in preference to Windows

I don't hate Microsoft "with a passion"

Reasoned discourse has more value than blind bigotry, but I guess it's less dull. Must be another effect of the tabloid culture pervading society...

Beer? - Have one, bro - and chill.

@Tom

Check your dictionary:

Respond is not the same as Reply.

A stimulus might provoke a response without provoking a reply.

Deleting it is one response.

Training your Spam Filter is another.

Blocking the sender's email address is yet another - and that's just for 419ers.

Bad Tom. Naughty Tom. Telling Teddy off without checking...

There are many...

...commentards on El Reg who seem to find a way to blame Apple/Steve Jobs for everything from Herod's kiddy-cull to the four horsemen of the apocalypse.

Frequently the most unlikely subject is diverted into an anti-Apple whinge...