Posts by Chicken Marengo
36 posts • joined Tuesday 29th November 2011 09:32 GMT
Re: Re: The entire report is questionable
Oh and of course, how many non tech start-ups have only become possible/viable because of advances created by the tech industry?
So much of the pharma industry is totally dependant on advances and falling prices in computing, often pioneered by small start-ups.
Still grumpy
Re: The entire report is questionable
So many questionable aspects of this report.
e.g. What about companies that 'only' reach $99M turnover?
What about companies that get acquired before they reach $100M turnover?
Is the importance of IT start-ups increasing, decreasing or flat over time? After all, there was a lot less 'tech sector' 30 years ago.
Grumpy, cos I got to work at stupid o'clock this morning, to be greeted with drivel like this!
Re: What *I* would like to see...
Who the hell downvoted this sentiment? Not even Eadon is that divorced from common sense.
Re: Gates vs Politician
>>any engineer is superior to any politician is a good rule of thumb methinks.
Bloody hell, I'm in agreement with Eadon about something, have an upvote.
I feel dirty now.
Posted in Ten Windows 8 Ultrabooks
Re: Eadon's Verdict... (SPOILER - FAIL)
Oh do toddle off to dev/null, there's a good chap
Posted in Ten Windows tablets
Re: Ten Windows Tablets - the Eadon Review
Oh, do pipe down you sniveling little maggot.
We all get by now that you think Microsoft are responsible for all the ills of the world from the Black Death onwards. However, the simple fact is that Windows is there and many people are going to have to carefully evaluate Win 8 tablets for corporate deployment, whether they want to or not.
So why don't you bugger off back under your bridge and leave them in peace.
Not a bad review comrade
However, you failed to mention one of the fonts, Commie Sans.
Re: Numinous computing?
>>nu·mi·nous (adj): Having a strong religious or spiritual quality; indicating or suggesting the presence of a divinity.
Well, if you're hosting your VMs with Amazon or Azure (or the clowns that we use, who I shan't be naming) you better hope there's someone watching over them.
Re: Time to fund more asteroid spotting investment
>>such as catastrophe would server to cancel out world debt
I assume that as Eadon posted this, it would have to be a Linux server? Presumably Microsoft are to blame for the asteroids in the first place.
Actually, I think Atari were to blame
Re: A friend of mine...
Well I was surprised to find that my accountant accepted vegetables as payment.
It was a real turnip for the books.
Coat.get();
Re: Physical security of server room ?
>>In a company that small, a missing boss will be quickly noticed.
Yes, productivity would soar.
Beer, cos the boss is nowhere to be seen
Re: pm
>>Back under your bridge, troll.
Matt, I read nothing into that post that came across as trolling, it looked like a genuine request for further information.
Calling him a troll in those circumstances doesn't strengthen the case you are trying to make.
Full disclosure: I have to suffer neither oracle nor hp anymore.
Just for the shits and giggles...
...perhaps Apple will swoop in at the last minute and buy Dell with some of the loose change they have down the back of the sofa.
Hell, I'd do it just to see monkey boy's reaction.
@Shagbag
>>The $15,001 spent on the car wasn't a good investment at all
>>it'd be better being the guy who put his money in the market in 1955. He could've bought that batmobile today
Except that if nobody spent that $15,001 way back when to make the Batmobile, how the f*ck was anybody going to buy said Batmobile today?
Or perhaps the plan was to not spend $15,001 in 1965, investing it instead, then buy another movie car, namely the Back To The Future DeLorean in 2013 with the money accumulated, then travel back to 1965 with $15,001 of future money and use that to build the Batmobile. then travel back to 2013 and buy the now existing Batmobile? Of course you'd need a few million for the DeLorean as well as few for the Batmobile, so your $800K surplus would be insufficient. Perhaps you should take a Sports Almanac back to 1965 to make up the shortfall.
Seriously tho, you sir are a perfect example of why no Economist or accountant has ever contributed anything worthwhile to humanity.
Posted in Sam Sung found in Apple Store SHOCKER
Re: How old is he?
Aye, I've seen that phenomenon.
Best example of this was a lass who chose the to call herself Ophelia.
Her surname was Coq.
Re: @Chicken Marengo
The thought of a patent lawyer serving my food or parking my car terrifies me
Careful what you wish for Google
Given that everyone in the tech industry now seems to be infringing dozens of the patents of everybody else, all these companies should surely be trying to tone it down a bit?
If Google gets awarded $4gazillion a year then Microsoft is going to be looking to get that back pretty damn quick and is likely to go nuclear with it's arsenal and you can be pretty sure that the Choccy Factory is infringing a few of them.
This in turn will prompt desperate retaliatory actions from others.
It's all starting to look a bit Dr Strangelove. I was thinking that maybe this is what the patent system needs, but the only people left standing at the end will be the lawyers.
Re: Upgrade treadmill
I generally need a new phone about every 12 months, but that's because I have a dismal track record of dropping them down toilets, into canals, or into the path of heavy vehicles.
I wonder if the insurance covers being a clumsy oaf.
owning the desktop is like being the sexiest nun in the convent
Ballmer in a wimple?!?!?
That's my fantasy ruined forever.
Posted in Reds in the Routers is routine, not rare
Re: Re: Cisco and China
>>Its fine, they just make the workers wear blindfolds when assembling it all.
Judging by the quality of construction for some of the kit, I suspect they make them wear boxing gloves as well.
So...
Let me guess, we encourage the spread of the wasp to combat the Redback, then discover that the vicious little bugger is more of a problem than the spider.
At least spiders don't go round ruining bar-b-ques, this wasp could destroy Australian culinary culture!
I wonder if 'rounded corners' qualifies as a key phrase.
Re: Is it just me
Spoken like a true bean counter.
Fortunately primitive man didn't apply the same thought processes as you, otherwise we'd still be living in caves and freezing, after all what possible benefit could there be in researching this new fangled 'fire' thing?
Seems a perfectly legible & reasonable claim to me
At least it's in something approaching English.
My finance department get very upset with me when I submit receipts in Arabic or from Taxi drivers.
Guess which are easier to decipher?
Friday? Beer...On expenses
Re: It's called a laptop!
>>Language changes and we should take advantage of increased efficiencies and comfort afforded by these advances.
The logical extension of which is that we go back to monosyllabic grunting. Maybe teenagers are the future after all.
Animated Train Tickets?
Perhaps the UK train companies should have spent some more time and money making the trains move faster, rather than the tickets.
Posted in Ape Apps help Orangutans talk to people
Fantastic
Can they come and train my CEO how to use technology next?
Posted in Spotify dances onto iPad
Re: Why is it only for premium users?
Why don't you just spend a single tenner on any one 90s trance music CD? It's all the bloody same anyway.
More seriously, I believe what you're paying extra for with premium (well I am anyway) is really the offline listening ability, I agree that that rather than the target device should be the differentiator
Re: Payment?
---messages that come from a bank where nobody has any knowledge of English spelling, grammar or punctuation.
Like the last latter I received from my business account manager?
Seriously, you would not believe the standards of some of Britain's biggest banking institutions.
The managers look about 15 as well. But that could be me getting old.
"Parker pointed out that even in its rudimentary state, Napster had a real-time chat channel built in, enabling file-sharers to communicate"
Maybe I'm just a vinyl spinning luddite, but why does a music subscription service need an IM client? I use Spotify to explore music, not read asinine comments from complete strangers (I've got El Reg for that).
Hell, by Parker's reckoning, my Linn LP12 must be absoutely useless for music, it doesn't even connect to the intertubes!
Chip and pin
Judging from the paypal promo video, this looks like it just uses the magnetic strip and then users sign on the screen with their sausage sized finger.
No support for chip and pin and no paper signature to verify, I reckon the chargeback rate from this one will be horrendous.
Without chip and pin i just can't see this being widely adopted, which is a shame, cos anything that reduces transaction and terminal costs for small merchants is sorely needed.
Re: Cromulence
>>The first sentence is a shorter, intelligible and perfectly cromulent way of expressing the same idea as the second.
Well done sir. I fell suitably embiggened.
Another patent war coming?
After all, I believe Apple invented this next week.
Posted in Headmaster freezes schoolkids for Gaia
Charcoal
>>We also learn that food and water were heated over high-CO2 emission charcoal – regrettably, not a very climate-friendly choice.
Actually, UK sourced charcoal is an extremely environmentally friendly choice that was the main source of energy for intensive uses such as glass making for hundreds of years before the industrial revolution and its' displacement by coke and coal . The CO2 emitted is from a renewable source and will be balanced by the new growth wood. Additionally charcoal production is usually from coppiced woodland. Coppicing is a highly sustainable woodland management practice that produces significant other environmental benefits.
Unfortunately, imported charcoal is often made from mangrove or clear cutting of rainforest, which is not a sustainable practice. However, without knowing the source of the charcoal how can you comment on whether or not it's use was climate-friendly?
Why do I suspect...
...that open medical data means all of our records left on a train?
