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9 posts • joined Wednesday 10th June 2009 12:47 GMT

Pollo

thought that sounded familiar → # ↑

Posted Wednesday 10th February 2010 12:57 GMT

In Boffins spy liquid water on Saturn's moon

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

Damn good book if you haven't read it! :)

Pollo

Re: OSX is good? orly? → # ↑

Posted Thursday 28th January 2010 20:00 GMT

In Apple's iPad - fat iPhone without the phone

Seriously - I'd get your MacBook looked at. I am in possession of two MBPs from late 2009 and one MB from 2007 and none of them suffer from the problems you experience.

But if it is sooooo bad, how come you're using it at all? Battery life isn't a reason to put up with the experience you've had surely?

Anyway - good luck to you. I for one LOVE my MBP and would not trade it in for an MS OS for doing my day to day again.

Pollo

Does this mean → #

Posted Thursday 24th December 2009 14:08 GMT

In Santa sticks up bank to 'pay elves'

...he can be found in a bar somewhere surrounded by Ho Ho Ho's?

(sorry)

Mine's the one with tinsel in the pocket

Pollo

@AC → #

Posted Tuesday 6th October 2009 12:26 GMT

In Facebookers condemned to Hell Lite

You are NOT alone!! I'll carry the extra propane tank for your flame thrower

Pollo

@Richard Jukes → #

Posted Monday 21st September 2009 09:34 GMT

In Abigail's Windows 7 Party

Looks like the sense of humour bypass operation was a complete success then buddy...

Pollo

@all of a sudden # → #

Posted Monday 7th September 2009 03:25 GMT

In Microsoft pimps bogus Windows 7 'launch parties'

Yup - that happened to be about 2 years ago. Just bought my second one... never looked back

Pollo

@ThomH → #

Posted Thursday 3rd September 2009 13:15 GMT

In Snow Leopard forces silent Flash downgrade

Seriously?

I don't want to start a flame war, but I wonder what you consider 'pro-active'.

1) releasing security updates in a timely fashion before the details have been released to the hacker/script-kiddy community (mostly) a-la Apple or

2) waiting 6 months for maximum damage to be done after making a big fanfare announcement about the forthecoming fix (including details of how to implement the exploit) and then finally patching - a-la guesswho

I may be wrong of course, but this certainly seems to be my perception of each companies approach to fixing the bugs that will inevitably occur in any software development cycle.

This one to be honest just seems like a genuine error in checking versions. Not inexcusable but totally understandable in how it happened.

Pollo

@Andy 17 → #

Posted Thursday 11th June 2009 09:09 GMT

In Job cuts start to bite at Barclays

And we wonder why all the banks are in trouble. Looks like their calculators are broken. Or did they all graduate from the Gordon Brown school of economics?

Paris 'cos even she could add those figures up.

Pollo