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1786 posts • joined Friday 10th July 2009 11:30 GMT

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Devil

or

Ftumch!

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Unhappy

'a consumer'

Is that how you see yourself?

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Stop

Re: Is that really a good idea?.

You'd better be wearing hi-vis and carrying a clip board when you say that...

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Happy

Re: 20 Billion for this?

I agree- call it WTF?

That's what most people will say when they start to use it.

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Gimp

Re: There is a lot more value to the iPad than just the price.

No. No there isn't.

The retina display is wasted on the blinkered and the blind.

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Meh

Re: I'm buying a surface.

It must be better than being a dimensionless entity, I suppose...

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Coat

Re: A bit unlucky

A server centre without ports? At least it's secure...

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Devil

Er-

How many cell towers will this phone confuse?

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Happy

Re: "Nun on nun action"

Penguin Wrestling.

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WTF?

here's another experiment-

Give me a £20 note, and see if I can make it disappear.

Look! It's gone.

Let's see if I can do it again- give me another twenty...

heh heh heh

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Meh

Re: We are not the product-

Demographics are worth nothing except to demographics companies that sell them :)

Stupid consumers are where the money lies.

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Holmes

We are not the product-

We are the target.

You can ignore an advert (GOOG )- you can't ignore an invoice. (MS)

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Unhappy

Re: Weird, isn't it.....

So looking like a nerk is the new cool? Who knew?

Timmy Mallet for fashion icon

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Holmes

Re: Lord Brunel Resurrection!

A Steampunk Revolution?

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Unhappy

Re: bean counters

Power.

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Finally!

A step forwards. Everything seems to have been going backwards recently into darkness and gloom, lit only by the optimistic glow of LCD backlights.

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Linux

Re: betting on linux to rule the worlld

Whilst you were pissing about with MS, it did.

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WTF?

Re: WTF is Mauve?

One word- Ecru.

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Coat

Re: Where's the Nokia slab?

In place above the waiting open grave?

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Windows

Re: Ooh! Ooh!

A monkey?

No it's dogshit on a tablet year.

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Happy

Does it

hit the dock and bounce back?

Sorry, iDock...

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Coat

Re: Odd

Seeing iDogs?

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Meh

Re: Where has all the geek commonsense gone?

REAL Geeks use whatever is to hand and hack it.

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Angel

But...

you don't know? Has the hurricane/UPS broken your direct line to Ballmer's mind?

I'm shocked!

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Meh

Re: Where has all the geek commonsense gone?

I refer you to:-

"Real geeks don't go near Microsoft products,"

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FAIL

Re: Joined Up Mobile?

Good luck reading that logo if you're colourblind.

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Re:

"I'm almost disappointed.."

...but it's not an iOS release, after all.

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Windows

Re: Pop-u-lar

Just like Windows 8 isn't.

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Happy

See- they have sold out all stock!

All 10 have gone!

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FAIL

Re: This is going to be funny

"This is going to be funny"

It wasn't.

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Re: Captain of the fail boat

But the excremental is never overlooked...

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Meh

Re: You have it wrong.

pity they don't do scanners, isn't it?

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Stop

Re: Here's a list for ya:

That's one sick fantasy

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Devil

Re: "Microsoft actually writes fantastic software"

And the rest is RTM'ed...

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Re: Paint.

We could cure cancer,and use the publicity to raise awareness of earth-destroying asteroids- the spare money will be up for grabs!

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FAIL

Innovative iPad

Has square corners, eh?

PS- onlysoppy US fanbois live in basements- UK types have houses.

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Happy

Re: Nicely done

Apple spell checker.

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Happy

Re: Wow, that was pathetic.

And Tim Cook extradited to the UK!

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Happy

Shurely-

...Stuck in the middle with ewe...

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Re: I think this shows one stark fact about folks in the IT profession......

IT bods don't handle change.

They use Pay-by-Bonk.

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Happy

Re: Its not difficult!

Isn't XP the Teletubbies interface?

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Windows

Re: quite an important feature

So the surface is as good a computer as say, a plank of wood?

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Holmes

Re: Love the downvotes

Because you obviously wear a hair-shirt?

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Meh

Re: "Microsoft actually writes fantastic software."

"Utter, utter, UTTER turd"

At last- a realistic assessment of Win8.

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Re: Microsoft wants to own verbs. AC

Sorry- you both Zune and 8.

<- no Zune icon...

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Meh

Re: I didn't think she could switch a machine on without assistance...

The target market, right there.

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Re: New name

Crap?

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Happy

Re: Is there an emulator?

I hear it has a Windows emulator- well hidden though.

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Re: In before

Late to the party aren't you?

Must be Microsoft.

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Meh

Re: Now you've done it

The cheap keyboard is a bit better than a ZX81, and the dear one a bit better than a Speccy- that's positive?