Posts by Robert Ramsay

Definition of a Puritan...

...someone who gains guilty pleasure out of denying themselves something...

why in Sam Hill...

...have Logitech decided that "ergonomic" means doubling the size of the delete button and shoving the insert key off to ghod knows where?. I don't think you can now buy a Logitech keyboard with the standard 101 key layout now.

Still, the actual reshaping of the qwerty keys themselves seems like a good idea. If it wasn't for the stupid delete key, I'd consider buying one of these...

Vista is the new ME

...my wife bought her new computer before the end of January so she still got XP built in...

Not now, Kato!

Is anyone else getting visions of a cocaine-fuelled Inspector Clouseau?

My experience with AdWords

When I tried to advertise a music site with AdWords, almost all my words were rejected - I got the impression that either you had to sell everything to do with the word in question, or you were (for example) the only supplier of left-handed hamster prosthetics in the world.

RE: amanfrommars

can I put him on /ignore, please?

Joel...

Pay as you Come, surely?

...I'll get me coat...

Evolution

The whole point of being human is to try and rise *above* the blind forces of evolution. The dinosaurs didn't have a choice. We do.

I found these adverts annoying

but I couldn't have said, with my hand on my heart that they were incorrect.

And "The Naughty Step" made me laugh, despite being so rubbish and gratuitous.

Classic

amusing to see that they chose World of Warcraft for the screenshot - one of the PC games which actually comes in a native Mac version!

Surely...

you can get the same effect by shoving an Odour-Eater down the back of your pants? Triple layer activated charcoal yadda yadda...

As the Vulcans say...

"Only Ballmer could go to China..."

curiously...

..."Niemand" is the German word meaning "Nobody".

The return of Clippy?

"It looks like you're buying an Operating System!"

I'm a bit browned off...

...with the constant tone of "moral high ground" from people who profess to detest Second Life and go out of their way to belittle it, but seem, at the same time, to know an awful lot about it. I think you'd be a lot happier if you stopped sneering and just came out of the closet wrt to Second Life.

You can take the piss out of stuff (the press conference interrupted by a horde of flying penises was hysterical) without taking some rubbish "holier than thou" tone about it. Compare the tone of most of your Second Life articles (though not all - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/20/second_life_analysis/ was the most thoughtful article I've read on the subject) with, say, the article where the editor of the Economist laid into the Microsoft sponsored love in.

And if we give up...?

http://www.angryflower.com/cookie.html

Mr Sharkey obviously hasn't heard of...

...RealDolls (tm)

http://www.realdoll.com (probably NSFW)

Glass House in Stone Shock

The fact that you got the WoW terminology right shows that you already know enough to be tarred with the same brush.

Although everyone knows it's Blood Elf Paladins, not Night Elf Druids :p

Serge, the Seal of Death says:

IT WAS YOOOOOOOOOOOOU!

<hail of machine gun fire>

...or possibly...

Stephen King's new bestseller "Cell"?

We've been here before...?

I expect what will happen is what happened with NT 4.0.

Loads of big customers put pressure on Microsoft, and they ended up extending support for the OS waaay beyond the date they tried to force everyone to upgrade by.

and as for the person who said "you were daft enough to buy windows games in the first place so there's no helping some people." it helps not at all to pour scorn on people who want to play a game that is only available on Windows. Read: most of them.

Another source of security troubles

integrates with web services? Writes directly to hard disk? Terrific.

Laugh out Loud indeed

Clarke will have to go a long way to out-laugh Matthew Reilly, whose heroes pilot 747's down lift shafts and have to defuse doomsday devices whilst locked inside tanks that have just been pushed out of a plane by neo-nazis...

At least you can charge your iPod off it...

So that'll make it the most versatile wall-wart in existence, then...

Signs of addiction

P'raps the family of the addict should look for laptops in plastic bags taped to the inside of the toilet cistern.