Posts by Kwac

@It's all Micro$oft's fault!!!!!!111oneone

Yes, its unfortunate that MS gave the world ActiveX before they realised that not all companies shared their business ethics & morals.

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@ Damage? What damage?

I sincerely hope that you are not suggesting that 'the management' didn't say "stick this on your website and we'll look after you".

Personally, I run across un-released tracks from faded 'stars' every day and fight the temptation to put them on a web site.

@you can't blame George Bush for this

What is your salary?

When was the last time you masturbated?

How many lovers has your wife had since you married?

When was the last time you took a works' pen home?

Why shouldn't we know everything about you?

You've got nothing to hide, right?

Al Gore

Can we get over the Al Gore/Faux News myth?

He never said it.

For fuck's sake MOVE ON.

anti-virus

“Our intent with Windows 7 and the pre-release communication is to make sure that we have a reasonable degree of confidence in what we talk about when we do talk.”

e.g. "My daughter can run Vista without anti-virus software"

@ "foaming at the moth"

Yup, time for the 'head in sands' MS fanboys to strike up the 'lunatic comments' deflection shields.

Already common knowledge that the FBI are an operating branch of MS's 'Business Software Alliance' - why else would they accompany the BSA 'representatives when they've been refused entrance to a firm for an 'audit' and wandered of with computers for analysis in the FBI labs. No great stretch of the imagination to recognise that if the FBI can do it openly in the land of the free, the CIA will be doing it elsewhere.

One other point "over that way" - Tbilisi (Georgia) is 1600 miles from Omsk (Siberia, the Russian federation) - about the same as distance as Chicago, Illinois to Mexico City, Mexico - hardly local.

Governor of the largest part of Siberia is the world's 15th richest man (and close friend of Vladimir Putin) Roman Abramovich. i.e. Siberia is probably one of the safest places on the planet to put a data centre - I doubt very much that the Russian Federation are going to be attacked by the Russian Federation in the way that Georgia was.

@Can't you just smell them?

erm, no.

I DO hear the "lets defend MS at any cost before anybody criticises them" fanbois rushing to defend them.

Shows how worried they are.

@ I'd have thought that by now...

I go to an "all you can eat for x pounds", pay my money and am told "some greedy fuckers came in, you'll have to make do with what we've got left" I would be severely pissed off; I'd kick up a fuss, notify local council trading standards, tell every bugger I knew about it.

What I wouldn't do is whine about the 'greedy fuckers' - they were offered a deal, took it and used what the restaurant had to offer.

I did read

about this yesterday, and saw the comment that the 'technician' had insisted the password not be changed.

Sounds like those help desks that recommend turning off firewalls, but neglect to tell your average user to turn them back on.

Satire?

Ah, the Al Gore "I invented the internet" myth reborn. There's not an election due is there ? (Although I have heard that Obama drinks TEA!).

Still the F.V.P.P. Act of 2008 isn't as much of a mouthfull as the U.S.A.P.A.T.R.I.O.T. Act of 2001 - the greatest proof (still) of the victory of terrorism over rationality.

Conkers

Baseball World Series? Even less international than conkers.

England's got the "World Championship" every year.

The men's game has been won by a Mexican, the women's by an Austrian & a French woman - possibly because English kids are shackled by the imported fear of legislation.

Clarkson

is a journalist.

Need I say more?

I blame the Irish

If they hadn't voted against the Lisbon Treaty we would have a European President who could block anti-American punishments on companies that abuse their position - just like Bush gave the finger to the anti-American courts in the USA.

A man of foresight and wisdom

I'm talking about Douglas Adams of course, and his famous comments on the introduction of Windows 95 (just change the 95s to 'Vista' and it still stands up).

http://www.gksoft.com/a/fun/dna-on-microsoft.html

Final paragraph: "The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who by peddling second-hand, second-rate technology, led them all into it in the first place."

patents only

Not any more, apparently:

"In 2006, Wi-LAN transitioned its business to focus solely on its greatest asset, the patent portfolio. The key technologies found in the patent portfolio apply to diverse areas of wireless and wireline communications, and have been incorporated into standards by many telecommunications organizations."

Assertive?

"She is assertive – and that assertiveness has been known to express itself in thuggish form. "

A couple of working definitions:

assertion - claiming your rights without infringing the rights of others; aggression - claiming your rights whilst infringing the rights of others.

In a previous life, working as a cognitive-behavioural therapist, I did sometimes treat aggressive people to become assertive.

Ah, the old MS ripped Windows off Apple chestnut.

"Ah, the old MS ripped Windows off Apple chestnut. I really can't believe people still persist in rolling this out."

In exactly the same way they keep rolling out that "Normans invaded England in 1066" chestnut.

Most people tend to accept that 'chestnuts' of these types are what we quaintly called 'historical accuracy".

Xerox developed a graphic system. They allowed Apple to use system in exchange for stock. MS were using Apples to develop software for them.

Later MS introduced Windows, development team initially led by ex-Xerox Scott McGregor (and replaced by ex-Proctor & Gamble Steve Ballmer)

Notice use of word 'later'. When used in conjunction with 'developed' you tend not to add the word 'innovative'.

@MS employee laughs at the idiots

"Didnt exactly get his point across, whatever that was.

Clue: what was written on the back of his shirt?

Where's

The Elonex girl?

She won by a mile.

baby

Sadly it still seems that MS STILL hasn't realised that along with their baby you get the sh1tty nappies - and expects everybody else to clean up the mess.

we don't stop and search the guy, we terminate him.

As arab, sorry Brazilian, in a large coat, (oops, denim jacket) who ran (walked) into a London tube station found out.

@ hmm

Other way round - sex offenders against children have the highest recidivist rates.

To prevent them getting killed they are locked up with others who share their dysfuntional beliefs about their activities ("it didn't just happen once - if they didn't like it they wouldn't have come back", "what better way is there to show someone you love them?", "they started asking questions, and its always better to show someone than just tell them" and similar crap ), exchange their charge sheets as masturbatory material, and the beliefs become more entrenched, i.e. prison makes them more likely to offend when they come out.

Of course, many can be treated - but thats the expensive option. Best way is to lock them up for life before they do anything, makes it easy to extend that option to other 'potential criminals' once its been done.

@thank you

Global warming stopped in 1998?

Crap. Even the guy who told the world that there had not been any increase for the last few years said that this counted for nothing - you need to look at the upward trend.

Global warming is here. Global warming is happening. WE are CONTRIBUTING to the rate of change

As long as the nay-sayers have a university at a Texas University to fall back on, nothing will get done.

Its too convenient to say he's talking crap - present an intelligent, reasoned answer - Excel & Shell haven't so far.

Governments create jobs?

Britain had very low levels of unemployment during WW II - what's the problem?

Gates

inventing something - now THAT is what I call a April Fool Joke.