* Posts by Mark Crack

6 publicly visible posts • joined 3 May 2007

Apple slashes iPhone prices

Mark Crack

Top Move El 'Reg ... that's the way to generate hits

One silly story = a few "where's the IT angle" comments

One Windows or Linux story = 50ish "my OS is better than yours" comments

One Apple Story = 75ish "I love\hate Steve" comments

One (more) gig at the iPhone = 120+ comments in about 12 hours

Why oh why do rock stars die young?

Mark Crack

Maddy's not dead

James A - Assuming you meant maddy Prior you gave me on hell of a shock! Just checked she's alive and still gigging.

As for the mighty Quo - perfect proof that once yiou have enough cash you can live the rock'n'roll lifestyle long after you've stopped being rock'n'roll

When 'God Machines' go back to their maker

Mark Crack

Who cares?

Really ... who give's a toss?

It's a phone .... that's all.

Day-of-silence protest hits Net radio

Mark Crack

Not very big numbers ....

Am I missing something? If you play back to back 3 minute pop songs then you can play a maximum of 480 songs per day. The 2010 figure of $0.0019 per song would mean a cost of 91.2 cents per day ...... or $332 per year ... doesn't seem too onerous to me.

Linux fans go nuclear over Microsoft's patent teasing

Mark Crack

Re: We all remember...

"...what happened to the last people that fucked with the linux community."

I've been in the Linux community for a while now and ever since the one thing I haven't got is fucked :-(

Danes 'prove' sudden iBook death syndrome

Mark Crack

Greatest (Living) Dane

No mention of Tom Kristensen .... very disappointing. We never complained about having to drop our Atari STs to resit the memory .....