In the West of Scotland

It's long been known that square slice sausage on a roll liberally dosed with brown sauce are #1 hangover cure, especially when accompanied by a cup of tea.

Efros

Paris cos she knows good sausage.

Long been

a source of amusement that onanism is so close to oneophile.

Efros

Shuttle

have never been good value, with the rise of the small footprint eeealikes they are increasingly bad value.

Efros

Paris cos she knows a Shuttle is only useful on a loom.

Aha

Never thought I'd be able to use this outside the realms of Inorganic Chemistry...

‘Microsoft preps massive Nephelauxesis'

Efros

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephelauxetic_effect

Paris knows when an expansion is real.

Personally

I'm waiting for Quizzical Quagga, Queer Quahog, Querulous Quokka, Questioning Quillback ...

Animal themed OSs bah!

Efros

Puzzled Paris just cos!

Pretty much

sums up the state of the US legal system. Run for entertainment, and or profit.

It's a bit like

Rain on the Clyde coast, IE8 doesn't conform to web standards, utterly predictable.

Efros

Okay

Where's the British lamb that needs burning?

Efros

Seemingly obvious

Problem is the patent is not just seemingly obvious it is just obvious.

Efros

So much for

Innovation, not one aspect of this device is innovative, it is a rehash of current technology with obvious enhancements. This is why the patent system is completely FUBARed, too much crap is given patent status where the basic device is a fairly obvious extension of prior art.

Efros

Paris cos she knows when something is the real deal.

PRS

should dress themselves up as Adam Ant and start singing 'Stand and Deliver'. While I believe that artists deserve remuneration for their work, be they performers or writers, the PRS are little more than an uvverwisen agency, "Pay me money uvverwisen I'll smash yer face in".

Efros

Netbooks

are probably going to die due to the inability of the manufacturers to realise that a netnook doesn't need a dual core or 160Gb or 12" display .... If you want all that buy a friggin laptop!

Just reassures me

That Paris, as easy on the eye as she is, is entirely one dimensional (the horizontal one) in her abilities.

Efros

Paris cos... well who did you expect!

So

"North Korea's Taepodong-2 missile is assessed as being capable of reaching the United States. However when it was test-fired in 2006 it blew up 40 seconds off the pad."

So they actually only have 40 seconds in which to launch the 747, get it in range, and take it out before the missile decides that life just isn't worth it and self destructs.

Efros

Paris cos... well just cos...

Too many

Chinese and Taiwanese lookalikes available to do all this stuff for circa $60-90 sans HD. I think they may have shot themselves in the foot with this one.

Nah

I'll stick to my Jetbook.

Paris cos we know she reads, she's got glasses.

USPS

Is truly a joke, their tracking system is hilarious, invariably they report that your number is either not recognized by the system or that it has not been picked up yet. This continues until you have the package at which point the tracking can still report that the package is yet to be picked up.

Shipping costs in the US are really not helped by the retailer scalping the buyer on the handling charges. Small items like DDR2 sticks can cost you $10 shipping, laughable.

Efros

The just don't get it do they

Differentiation should be on the basis of added features not of decreased crippling. Looks as if MS marketing dept has potentially fubarred the Redmond monkey factory's big hope, as they news announcer on H2G2 once said 'Keep banging those sticks together boys!"

Efros

Smacks of

Waldo and Magic Incorporated.

Watch out there aint no such thing as free energy. There will be consequences.

I've no doubt

that the sports viewers will be indulging in their own version of simulcast, with a radio commentary from an English speaking radio station being played while a muted TV is watched. Gaelic programming, and BBC Scotland's pissing about with schedules has been the bane of the viewing public's life in Scotland for decades. If it isn't about sport or politics (Scottish politics, mind you) then it can't be important. AS a qualifier on the sports statement the only sport recognized by the west coast dominated BBC Scotland is Fitba' or anything that England has been beaten in, so of the 30 minute Reporting Scotland 10-15 minutes is given over to sport, in reality 10-15 minutes is given over to football.

If they wait too long

The USofA will be a third world country in hock to their Asian bankers to the tune of several trillion dollars...oh erm wait a minute.

Makes you wonder

When the Red Light treatment for gonorrhea will be launched...

Mines the white coat with the frayed cuffs.

Efros

Business use?

A lot of the past business SKU features are now an essential in any home network. Reliable and easy networking (would be a novelty!!), transparent and brain dead easy backup have all become commonplace for any home user who has built up a collection of music/photos/movies... Given the economic climate (wonder if we can blame that on carbon footprints?) MS needs to get the SKU count and the pricing just right to avoid another Vista screw-up. If they don't resist their multiple SKU, "milk the saps for all they have" approach to OS marketing then despite the improvements in Windows 7 it'll go down like a burning zeppelin.

Fuck it

Pass me the Ambre Solaire and a cold one!

Paris cos she already dresses for global warming, tenuous I know but what the hell.

Efros

Presumably

His Segway becomes Pillock Transporter One.

Efros

There goes

any chance of it being funny again, no drinking, no smoking, no bad or suggestive language, pretty much the same as the US men behaving badly.

Benjamin Button

Sucks!

A company

living up to it's responsibility, who'da thunk it!

Efros

MS should

bear in mind that the best thing to get sales going is to drop prices, like by at least half!! I wonder what proportion of a new PCs cost a fully licensed version of Se7en is going to be, not the knock down OEM price but for us individual home builders. Must be hard to keep a 60% profit margin on your office products and a circa 81% margin on windows in such difficult economic times.

Efros

Kangaroo Gut Bacteria

Apparently Kangaroos don't fart due to the inability of their gut fauna to generate CH4, consequently we need our gut fauna to be gene spliced with those of a Kangaroo.

Efros

Paris... cos queefing don't count!

Yeah

And Madoff only nicked a couple of quid.

Cos..well just cos.

Perhaps

They should start charging the news media for using their site, in the last few days I've spotted pictures on the BBC news website which are ripped directly from the wiki site. May encourage the hacks to do a little bit more research than immediately type wikipedia.org .

Does this mean that Jimmy Wales' name is going to be removed from every sodding page that wiki drags up, just checked... nope now he's thanking us all.

Efros

Paris cos all she needs to rise funds is a camcorder and the latest beau de jour.

Just as well

China is paying lipservice to these western Copyright hogs, if they were taking it seriously they would be resorting to the age old punishment from Chinese courts... death for any crime!

Bad idea!

Fundamental issue that schools and education departments fail to take into account is that these pieces of hardware have a lifetime, which is significantly reduced when placed into the hands of a snotty nosed 12 year old, consequently, such a cash injection needs to be made every 3 years or so to cover the reduced lifetime of the hardware. I know this is the case as my school participates in such a scheme and we are now in the fourth year with no further cash injection and a skip load of dead and dying machines. Also schools should steer well clear of specialist education suppliers who are a shower of rip-off bastards who will quite happily charge a whopping mark up based on the ignorance of their customer.

That's the best they offer

"Viacom's best known shows include The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, and Dora the Explorer."

US sad attempt at satire, the yanks just don't get political satire at all, and a cartoon scream machine, I personally can do without this crap.

Viacom can go suck the big one

As a paying TWC subscriber, I would happily see the Viacom channels disappear into the great blue yonder. Seems to be a strange situation where we have to pay for a channel that generates revenue by transmitting adverts 16-18 minutes every hour, let alone having to pay for the crap that isn't advertising something, erm hang on a minute that would leave about 10% of the programming that doesn't have associated plastic crud.

He deserves it

Purely on the basis of how many smiles and laughs his work generates. Sir Terry indeed!

Never Mind the CD

I got my wife and two Step daughters digital frames this year, when I went to preload their inbuilt flash memory Ubuntu tells me that there is an executable trying to autorun, I check it out and it turns out to be CN911.exe, present on all three. CN911.exe is a trojan with backdoor capabilities. Made in China, the frames are marketed under the Tao name in the US, I wonder how many zombies have been harvested this christmas.

Efros

Paris cos she knows all about back doors.

When will the ??AA

Realize that the only way forward is to tap the revenue stream, rather than sue its bollocks off. $10 a month for the rest of their life from every internet subscriber in the world sounds like a pretty sizable chunk of cash. Reliable, subject only to variations in population, and virtually cost free, oodles of cash coming in and little in the way of costs going out. These neanderthals are giving capitalism a bad name (ok not as bad as Madoff) and being incredible shortsighted to boot.

Paris cos she knows how to swallow a good stream.

Efros

Serves the bastards right

Best Buy are really the worst when it comes to customer support, after sales service, employee relations and just downright humanity. A company couldn't have a more misrepresentative name.

One hopes

The knob in question goes all the way up to 11.

Paris cos she knows....

US Intelligence

Is this the same bunch that gave us Gulf War II, that reality show subtitled "hunt the invisible nay non existent WMD", if so I would treat the content with the contempt it deserves.

Efros

Paris cos she knows intelligence when she sees it, she, like US intelligence, just doesn't see it in the bathroom mirror.