Re: For people who knew no better

Bah Amiga...good for games and "pretty" pictures but shit when it came to pro-music.

Go Atari !

See Eadon, did this crap well before Linux vs Windows...

Heck Speccy vs C64 was before this

and before that...I'll leave to the grey beards.

Re: Congratulations!

See the corrections link.

Re: How scary

"wandering rapists, Islamic crazies and Bombay belly..."

80% of the population are Hindu's and only 13% are Muslim.

Rapes per 100,000 people (2010):

USA: 27.3

Australia: 28.6

England & Wales: 28.8

India: 1.8

Still, why let facts get in the way of being a total prick.

Re: Design?

"but they do not move or involve me at all. Soulless."

It's a fucking phone. It you are moved by a phone and believe it has a soul, you REALLY need to get a grip on life.

Re: Somebody PLEASE!!!!

"That's the printer's job, not mine."

No it fucking not.

A printers job is to reproduce the original as closely as possible. If your proof is shit, so will you print.

Source:

Was a printer for a decade and had my fair share of dickhead designers to deal with.

Re: The government itself is guilty anyway

DVLA Premium rate?

Driver Licensing Enquiries

Telephone: 0300 790 6801

Vehicle Registration and Tax enquiries

Telephone: 0300 790 6802

Drivers Medical Enquiries

Telephone: 0300 790 6806 (car or motorcycle), 0300 790 6807 (bus, coach or lorry)

I make those to be freephone numbers. Think we've found one of those people that click on the 1st link they see in Google.

Re: Really?

"99% of the time it's better in Opera. The only people that couldn't possibly like Opera are those too closed minded to try it"

or those behind a proxy that want to use wildcard exceptions. Yes this fucking shitty bug that's been around for years (well it was a few months ago at which point I've given up trying to use it). Seemed they could never be arsed to fix it, so not fit for a lot of corporate use.

http://my.opera.com/community/forums/topic.dml?id=1009412&t=1309883396&page=1#comment9827572

Re: At least they're getting fibre

WHEN WILL BT STOP PUTTING BACK THE DATE OF INSTALLING FIBRE IN MOST PARTS OF GLASGOW!!!!!!

Well you buggers want to be independent, fit your bloody own....

Re: And Yet

Lars, a little education goes a long way and by education, i.e. don't class reading the Daily Heil or Fox "if you are not white and own a gun you are a commie terrorist" New as education.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/islam/islamethics/contraception.shtml

Re: doomed

Before you down vote him for steam power as barking mad....

this from a few years ago....

http://www.eurekamagazine.co.uk/design-engineering-features/technology/steaming-ahead/11693/

Re: "illicit competition violates the American sense of fair play"

I pee'd myself a little.....

How are those import restrictions going then?

Citrus fruit from Argentina, steel from India and Italy, Car parts from China and on and on...

How's the WTO case about external hosted gambling sites going guys?

Yup many of the other parties involved are also guilty of there own trade fixing, but don't pretend that you play fair and don't pretend that the US are involved in Industrial espionage and dirty tricks.

So stop locking people up without trial, torturing people and pretending it's not actually proper torture, lift all your trade restrictions, stop using spies (including spy satellites), blowing people up in other countries that have FA to do with "war on terror" and then, and only then, claim the holier than thou crown, but until then STFU.

Re: Ah the Woolworths syndrone....

Followed, read and understood the link. An internal memo, went to another internally. Nothing showing it went externally, from the evidence, it went to Ballamer, then what?

Also check the fucking dates. Memo's & accusations 2000 / 2001? Story 2002.

What has this to do with Netbooks?

Oh c'mon, we're all going to miss going in, listening to some shite death metal blasting over the speakers, trying to guess which category your artist is this week, paying £17.99 for a CD because it's non-chart, waiting 10 minutes to be served by some collage student in aforementioned death metal t-shirt, then going home and breaking the CD case trying to get the f'ing security tag and shrink wrap off.

How I do much that wonderful experience.

Re: Tablet computer has slot for SD card - Surface deficiency

"Hey, buy a house. It's only got one bedroom and the price is the same as a house with FOUR bedrooms, but hey, you can build an extension!"

I agree,lets you your brilliant analogy, one in fact true to my actual house buying (not all of us live at home with mummy)

You can have your big house (tablet with storage) in a shit area (Andriod); or a smaller house (Tablet with less storage) in a nice area (Windows). You can upgrade your house, but you can't move.

See even your own stupid analogies are full as backward as your thinking.

Re: UK users?

Well done Eadon, you got the price right this time, still missed out the bit where I pointed out the utter failure of another City to roll it out.

6/10 for effort.

Re: Well

Well who's the prat that can't read? They've rolled out the update to try and fix an OLD issue.

Unless you happen to search 3 months after it's released "Is there an issue if I update my phone to IOS where my wifi gets greyed out?", they may be completely unaware. I know if I update a device months after release I don't spend night after night panicking something might go wrong.

Out of X million sold, seems a few hundred may have this issue.

And I don't even have an iPhone (or any Apple devices), nor am I likely to buy any, so I'm not even slightly biased

Re: Companies and social media

@Richard Gray...

Thank you for having the balls for not being anon.

I'm now working my way through the 769,000 results to find out which one corresponds to yourself.

Yours,

Mr Smith

Re: "the writing is on the wall for desktop computing."

Hey Eadon!

We're still waiting for the independent citation for this "fact" you keep banding about.

"forbidding OEM's to continue with Linux....."

Re: Fascism / Communism

Odd, where does it mention the Government ANYWHERE in this article?

You do know courts != government don't you? In fact they often keep government in check.

Re: Accounting Tricks

God you really are prick Eadon.

Windows doing fine thank you very much, but business not so well?

Well as Server 2012 is pretty new, Lync 2013 has just been released and Office 2013 is due, you'll see the business department picking up over the next half.

Tou may be able to get 2010 the upgrade to 2013 for free (yes Eadon upgrade for FREE), many will still wait as they won't want to do a double roll out.

Oh an Munich was 11 MILLION you prat..

Oh and on the flip side, let's be balanced after all.

"Munich's experience sharply contrasts with that of Freiburg, another German city that ventured down the open source path. Last week its city council decided to dump a combination of an outdated version of OpenOffice and Microsoft Office 2000 and switch to Microsoft Office 2010.

Compatibility problems and underperforming spreadsheet and presentation programs in the open source office suite aggravated and frustrated employees left the council's hopes for OpenOffice unfulfilled, it said. These were important reasons to contemplate Microsoft Office, which was the only viable option, the council said."

Re: Simpler option...

...but a stupid one.

Take you are aware very few businesses make any profit for the first few years (maybe as long as 5 years), of course you are, because you've done some research on the subject before posting?

So whack on a turnover tax and 99% of those would die in the within first year.

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I hope that was yours, or thanks to me some smuck's now got a direct debit set up for kinkylesbianstreamingvideos.com set up.

Re: maybe firefox should follow suit?

Don't matter how large your screen is, it's the resolution.

A 150" screen at 1366x768 is the same as a 17" at 1366*768.

Re: Twatbookin

"but this forum doesn't email me every 2 days to ask why I haven't been on the forum. "

YET!

Re: What is needed...

"What *I* want is for Firefox on Android to work like it does on the desktop....."

Sorry, my battery doesn't last that long

Re: "Internet Explorer isn't that bad nowadays" - Yes it is.

"... Despite being the browser that comes with Windows - people prefer the alternatives and go to the trouble of seeking and using them. ..."

And on Android I use Dolphin and Opera....so by your argument, Google's shit as well.

Re: PC Variation?

"How long 'til we can buy a full x86 PC-compatible variation on the concept"

Search for Pico ITX and thou shall find (been around a lot longer than the Pi), but do cost more.

Re: Nokia sell in a quarter now what they used to sell in 2 weeks

Oh put a sock in it Eadon, you're getting really boring now.

Re: Win-8 is Hideous

I have no idea who would want to own a computer (of whatever form) with such a ghastly UI.

I agree, Ubuntu with unity is butt fuck ugly.

Re: What exactly is good about it?

Yet the Metro & Maestro was very popular and they were shit as well.