Posts by Mahatma Coat
903 posts • joined Thursday 11th June 2009 14:00 GMT
Posted in Scottish iSchool goes 100% iPad
The land of deep fried Mars bars and Irn Bru
How will their chubby little finger cope?
Posted in AMD to dump ATI brand
I was thinking of hardware rather than meatware
But you do have a point.
Posted in AMD to dump ATI brand
And Gravis too
There's was once a time when Canada was the place to get all the best multimedia stuff.
Tech destroyed big band music?
If you could ask Glenn Miller about dangerous tech he'd probably mention aviation.
Fiona was so close to a Senate seat
Short by 100 votes, apparently.
Posted in Are plasma TVs killing radio?
Oops
As well as upsetting the Google and Apple fanbois it seems I have now upset the Bearded Peoples' Front.
Posted in Are plasma TVs killing radio?
Excellent devices indeed
Great for catching unwanted food and an easily-seen indication of who has no mates.
Posted in New 'Tolpuddle Martyrs' demand £50 a day
Plus ça change,
Plus c'est la fucking même chose.
I sometimes wonder if the Large Hadron Collider is actually sending us back in time.
There's only one word for this
#rooty
Posted in Perseid meteors - brace for endazzlement
Was lucky enough to see the Leonids
In 2001 they were visible in clear skies in the desert in Aus from around 11pm to dawn and peaked at around one per minute. I wasn't aware until then that you could hear and see them explode. Words like spectacular and awesome should be reserved for such occasions. One of the best nights of my life.
Ahem
"outer suburbs, rural and remote places, where coincidentally, their political support is strongest"
Coincidentally where it's needed most
640k ought to be enough for anyone
"IPv6 gives us a truly crazy number of IP addresses to play with"
I bet someone said that about IPv4 too :)
Posted in Apathy kills Google's new-age Wave
Dear fanbois
Thanks for the huge list of great Google products. One problem: most of them seem to have come from companies that Google bought. See the difference there? Bought vs produced. Nice trick if you can get away with it.
Fanbois, got to love their blind faith.
Searching for booty?
A booty isn't that hard to find. Maybe he should have rolled her over first.
Posted in Apathy kills Google's new-age Wave
Oh dear
Looking at the amount of vote-downs it seems I have upset a few fanbois with a healthy dose of truth.
Posted in Apathy kills Google's new-age Wave
Lack of interest?
Or maybe it was just another badly thought-out, half-arsed piece of crap software. Same as all Google software.
Just say "meh"
Meh?
Meh.
And there now seems to be an Australian flag displayed on The Register's masthead. Thanks for reminding me where I live. Meh
Posted in Broadband advertising speed gap widens
How much of this is due to censorship filters?
The only credible tests carried out in Australia into the effects of net censorship systems showed speed reductions of over 70% in the worst cases. How much of the UK's speed problems are due to the actions of the IWF and colluding ISPs?
Posted in PARIS skins up with Rizlas and dope
Snue gliffers
"In my distant youth I used to build balsa wood planes skinned with tissue"
Same here.
"You skinned the plane, sprinkled a little water on the tissue to shrink it and then doped the skin. The result (most times) was a..."
A very stoned Mahatma. Glue-sniffing modellers. Gah.
<-- Flame because you couldn't dope tissue and smoke at the same time.
That's nothing...
I used to go out with a girl that favoured a mains-powered electric tooth brush. I just couldn't compete
I tried Chrome...
...and also the supposedly de-Googled SWiron version. I didn't like the way that whenever I logged in to sites both also made a call to Google via port 443.
The Google fanbois can play with Chrome all they want. I care about my privacy.
A thought for Matt Asay
Don't confuse alpha geeks with fanbois. Fanbois follow trends; Alpha geeks sniff packets.
Darwin was right
What were these 1800 people thinking?
Posted in Waterfall Niagara speakers
I didn't have the space for ESLs on the desk...
...so a pair of Mission 747s had to suffice:
http://mahatmacoat.fateback.com/quad-mission.jpg
The rest was QUAD 44/FM4/404-2.
Excuse the crappy pic from pre-history.
No wonder their security record is so bad
"MS tries to prevent world+dog from downloading the betas by first getting them to confirm their techie status. If a customer ticks the “Tech enthusiast” box, for example, then access is blocked.
But that’s extremely easy to work around. A customer simply needs to tick “IT manager”, “IT worker” or “IT developer” to grab the code."
You are kidding, right?
Secret code for...
...we think we're kewl and l33t. Crack this one: pr3t3nt10us t0553r5
Any old irony
"They seem to have copied lots of Chrome in the UI."
The reason it's ironic is that the UI in Firefox has always been called "the chrome".
Yes, tabs at the top
I've tried having my tabs at the top, bottom and both sides and they work best for me at the top. The top is the most intuitive place as that is where all the clicky stuff sits on pretty much any app on any platform.
They tried to export some people to the UK once
It didn't work. Got stopped by the RAF in 1940.
It is merely art
"Art is making something out of nothing and selling it." - Frank Zappa
Didn't we go to war in Iraq for cheap petrol?
It still seems to be around double what we were paying before the war.
Remind me again. Who won?
Posted in Government lunatic magnet goes live
Hat eating?
I've just requested that the govt legalise hat eating.
Posted in Government lunatic magnet goes live
Thanks to some fortuitous timing...
...I have a quote here from a developer for a site. As well as the base CMS cost it includes nearly $9k for "functional development" and another $5.5k for plugins and core features.
Trebles all round. Ker-ching!
I nearly forgot the six free email addresses. That'll really add value to the several thousand already running on the domain.
In other news
3dRealms says that Duke Nukem Forever will "arrive within days".
New tabs?
Pr0n, of course.
I'll get me raincoat.
Posted in Beeb sends teaboy outside with iPhone
Peston probably took it...
...just as a joke for Register readers
Posted in Bono doubles down on Facebook
Bono invested?
Prepare for the imminent collapse of Facebook.
Posted in Son of Transputer powers new Amiga box
*wipes screen*
"Mine's the one with the Fat Agnus in the pocket."
I'm sure I can't be the only one that misread that line.
My oh my...
Look at all those downvotes today. I hope this update came with a box of tissues for the faithful.
Genetic purity?
Duck Nazis.
Posted in Sun slips nips onto iPad
This is the Sun's weather app...
...as you can clearly see, that pic was taken on a chilly day.
JB HiFi
Not renowned for the lowest prices so assume a below average customer IQ. Easy meat.
With apologies to Bill Hicks
Looks like we got us a reader :)
I'll settle for explaining then
http://www.theyworkforyou.com/mp/tom_watson/west_bromwich_east
Let me know if you have any special needs.
The prize for the most aptly named MP goes to...
...Twatson.
Despite all the openness-loving, geeky aroma he likes to spray upon his chubby self he's just another illiberal control freak from yesterday's party.
From TWFY:
Twatson's voting record includes:
* Voted strongly for introducing student top-up fees.
* Voted moderately against laws to stop climate change.
* Voted very strongly for introducing ID cards.
* Voted strongly for a stricter asylum system.
* Voted very strongly for replacing Trident.
* Voted strongly against a transparent Parliament.
* Voted very strongly for the Iraq war.
* Voted very strongly against an investigation into the Iraq war.
* Voted very strongly for allowing ministers to intervene in inquests.
* Voted a mixture of for and against greater autonomy for schools.
* Voted very strongly for introducing foundation hospitals.
* Voted very strongly for Labour's anti-terrorism laws.
* Voted moderately for introducing a smoking ban.
You've had your fifteen minutes of Internet fame, Tom, now go away.
Posted in UK.gov unplugs Lane Fox digiquango
Ah yes, the proper citizen
"I don't think you can be a proper citizen of our society in the future if you are not engaged online."
The words "patronising" and "waste of space" spring to mind.
Not only is he not well...
...he's not the Messiah either. He's a very naughty boy.
Apple and Google...
...grandstanding and gobbing off about freedom, standards, privacy and coolness all the time. It's all just bollocks.
Posted in Steve Jobs unveils iPhone 4
Not a good buy in the tropics
Out here in the tropics it's often over 35C/95% during the wet season.
