Windows 3.1

The stupid thing is I'm not really doing anything today that I wasn't doing then

WordPerfect, Lotus 123, Foxpro, Monarch and Corel may have bitten the dust (in varying degrees) but I'm esentially using something I could fly to the moon to write roughly the same documents, spreadsheets, small database systems and draw the odd diagram. The ony real difference is my email is now intregal, rather than stuck on an IBM green-screen in the corner.

Progress anyone ?

We are not the Judean Peoples Front

We are the Peoples Front of F£$*ing Judea

Splitters

(Well, it is nearly Christmas)

That isn't red.

It's pink.

ISP's

If downloading copyrighted material requires a payment to the owner of the copyright (which all reasonable standards of logic would suggest is true). Why are you coming after me for the payment ?

I'm currently paying my ISP circa 20 quid a month for somthing that, on the face of it, should be a low or no-charge add-on to my already extortionate phone rental contract....Surely if Mistra Performing Rights wants his pound of flesh he should be looking at the man making the money out of providing me with the means, motive and opportunity ?

Pre-360

Vodafone had a system called 2-4-2 (presumably "twice as good as 1-2-1") in which you could run email, group sms and get your voicemail forwarded to any POP3 account as a .wav.

It was perfect, if a bit ugly.

The without much (ie any) consultation they ditched it and invited you to join 360. A platform for single-cell life forms more interested in x-factor and facebook than , oooh lets say, usability.

Moral of the story: If a thing ain't broke.....etc

I miss my voicemail forwarding.....

Cue a million paranoid "enthusiasts"

Claiming this is how they did the moon landings......

Vaclav Havel

Disjointed, often illogical society takes pristine system and makes it disjointed and often illogical in order to get any use out of it.

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

I'm willing to bet...

....that when the plane is retrieved from the tree there's a PlayMobil ape piloting it

HOW Many warzones ?

The idea that most of the laptops can be written of to the UDA or the Taliban seems a little absurd. For every flack jacketed journalist there are probably 2 dozen glorified junior/middle managers with any combinantion of the words "strategic", "analyst","business", "financial", and "resources" in their job title.

A much more likely equation is :

Large number of people made redundant in the last 12 months = reasonable number of laptops "lost" in the last few weeks of employment...

Novelty will soon wear off

3D is a childs toy

30 % colour loss and images that are still blurry in any high-contrast content (Avatar was dark blue for a reason).

Also, I can't imagine anyone leaving the cinema saying :

"Well , the story was crap, the acting was terrible, but the floaty depth objects looked greeeatt*"

*with the exception of pron, natch.

Wow

If anything is designed to wipe the smug, middle-class shine from a product......

Murdoch Media Removed From Internet...

....Internet experiences 10 % upswing in decency and hope

I've found a much better alternative

Its an open-source repository of every book published. Its works on simple magstripe technology. It goes several hundred years between charge-ups and best of all is absolutely free.

According to the graphic on the front its made by Spelthorne Borough Council and is badged up as a "Library Card".

Am I the only one who suspects these things are only used by the same people who sit and write their novels on Macs in Starbucks ? To quote Family Guy, "Writing isn't writing unless somone is watching you doing it"

@MHF Wilkinson

Because you don't know if the money in the van can be traced

What does the badge confer

What can he do with the badge, that he couldn't do without it ?

Is it a question of access to various bits of beta software / forums or is it all about status ?

If only I could power my hover car..

...on defeatism and name-calling - El Reg Comments Section would almost certainly have been invaded by the US* by now

* Other lap-dog states are available for blame sharing and fossil fuel stealing

I'm not going

Think about it

1. Everything would be your fault

2. Guess who'd have to put out all the bins ?

Violent Tendencies

I have nothing against Apple, I even own a mac mini

But was there ever anyone in an iPod/ iPhone advert you didn't want to punch ?

Repeatedly ?

Bet there isn't an app for that...

And the moral of this story is...

Always choose an email supplier in a radically different time zone that does their upgrades when you're in bed...