Re: "Speaking to the Guardian"

"That rag is full of labour-voting lefties and aspiring-to-work-at-the-BBC journos."

Lefties. Not just lefts but lefties who vote Labour! Lefties writing in a famously left-of-centre newspaper.

Good spot!

Next thing you know, we'll find out that The Mail is full of Tory-voting righties.

Still, for an unbiased view, we can always turn to reliable sources like ...

Re: Good idea - good comms

Upvoted - Americans are probably confused by the fact that Shoreditch has none of the tech you'd expect in an incubator hub.

Oh - but it does have some pigeon-crap encrusted repurposed Victorian sweatshops, so that's alright

Boreham Wood - bearable?

Geography meets nominative determinism.

Re: Same thing at GDS

Jeez, any excuse for slagging off poor old GDS.

Upvoted!

Re: Gay Patch

> The code could be within the scope of a class function

The fix will be the subject of a class action

Re: An Open Letter to The Register

OK, no sound files. How about some lyrics? Here's my fledgling attempt at a motivational managerial anthem:

- Verse 1 -

Oh man, oh man, oh manager mine,

In your polyester shirt and tie.

Clicking your biro, and looking so fine,

What a guy.

You make the office a great place to be.

You motivate me.

- Verse 2 -

You make the morning meetings fun,

With your accents and your jokes.

Managing the team when work's to be done,

What a bloke.

In your Friday chinos, you're something to see.

You motivate me.

- etc, etc ...

- If I've managed to evoke memories of a motivational figure you've known, I'll be humbly gratified. I reckon I can manage about another 700 verses of that guff

Re: sourgrapes

Is that the same Apple that was a joint founder of ARM? You know, the ARM that started as a joint venture between Acorn Computers, Apple Computer and VLSI Technology.

Re: Eadon's theory of Techie "Waves" - TWO types

@Eadon - by definition, there is no such thing as a QUANTUM UNCERTAINTY FAIL.

And yet, at the same time, there is.

Re: Eadon's theory of Techie "Waves" - TWO types

Any positive reference to Tommy Flowers gets an automatic upvote from me. All you need to know about politicians and IT can be gleaned from the fact that they knighted Alan Sugar but not Tommy Flowers.

Also, The Tommy Flowers would be a great name for a pub or a rock band

Re: Eadon's theory of Techie "Waves" - TWO types

I see no spelling mistakes, just some obscure references. For example, "Silicon Transister", refers to a member of the Holy Order of the Semi-conductress, the little known Palo Alto-based group of transexual nuns who toil away at the Ab Fab Chip Fab Lab.

Re: Look before you leap

I'm glad Virgin's going well for you. I applied to get connected to Virgin broadband, and let my existing ISP/phone provider know I'd be cancelling.

The engineer came, drilled holes in my walls and installed great big ugly boxes inside and out. At that point, he got a call from base to say they didn't have working cable to my house, and never would. So, he apologised and left.

The reply to my complaining letter somehow managed to arrive on the same day I posted my letter and said, in effect, 'Tough shit, you're not even our customer. Why would we even think about checking we could connect you before attacking the fabric of your house? And as for removing our boxes, don't you know it's our to plaster the Virgin logo every object on the planet?'

And still not a week goes by without their marketing junk mail begging me to become a subscriber.

Virgin Customer Service Team, if you're reading this, you can't find your arses in your own trousers with an arse detector. I would like to personally remove your collective Virginity with a Tabasco-dipped Anne Summers Rampant Raptor (limited-edition sharktooth-and-cactus model).

Re: "They've basically turned me into a future Android user"

Because no retailer selling Android phones ever asks for documentation?

Nah

> Have Apple UK registered this use and storage of personal information with the Information Commissioner?How would they know to do that?

It's well known that Apple can't afford lawyers to advise them

Re: Won't someone think of

Does it say anything in the constitution about ammunition?

Re: I really don't like the idea of gesture TV

"How does the TV know the gesture was mean for it and you're not simply swatting away a fly?"

Easy. There's a big 'gesture control' button on the front of the TV. Just go over to the TV and hold the button down while you make your gesture.

Re: meat tags? I meant meta tags

Gets worse - you need to register with the Government Gateway. Oh dear, this really isn't very good

meat tags? I meant meta tags

Anyway, I take it all back. Click on the link to launch the online application and it pops up in a new window entitled, "Sieble eService"

That's the problem, right there. In my very best plumber voice, "Cor blimey mate, who put this in?"

Re: Surely this is all recorded

"Remember, a time machine cannot travel back before the time it was created and all that..."

Damn - is this thing still under warranty?

Re: Nurse?

depends on the method of transmission ...

Re: Judeging by your

I'm in agreement that your averaging gaming nerd is not going to feel particularly hard done by. "So, I get a half-hour with a live women for the price of a meal, and the knowledge that she holds me in complete contempt? Sign me up!"

Re: Woman who gives up,

Woman who succeeds in her profession and then enters public service to help other women succeed. She must be a politician.

Re: Deities

Named after St Francis - he loves all the little animals ...

I'd like to think that ...

... a column of invading tanks would stop for a cute kitten but ...

I can't be arsed to dwell on the miserable truth. I'm going to carry on imaging the kitten turning back armies

Re: Wouldnt it be simpler

Yes, I suppose. But you could call down an air strike. OK, you'll blow your car up, but you'll exorcise the frustration of misplacing it

Re: Comparing Like for like is a forgotten art then?

Remember - balanced reporting is the enemy of page views!

fallacy of supply shortage

Yes - how clever of them to hold the event in the Tardis so that they can actually accommodate the entire population of earth.

And - it took a whole 2 minutes for the tickets to sell out, which proves just how little interest there is in developing for Apple these days

Re: So we know who the replacement for Anna Leach is

Sounds like your iMacs need more RAM

Re: Forage.

You'll also have to forage for an internet connection as, once you add in the landline, most UK broadband costs about £1/day

I have taken frequent stands in the face of strong opposition

It's to see if you're suited to working in an S&M dungeon.

Re: Gov't tests

God only knows

Re: I would sell my mum for votes

Oh I dunno - at least the eunuch could hang up your jacket for you.

Re: The Lib Dems are in Government?

Hey Cleggie - welcome to El Reg!

Re: Mindlessly using "cyber" as a hopefully useful term ...

Well, if 'cyber' is shorthand for clueless about infosec, "government minister" is synonymous with clueless about IT. The two terms in close proximity indicate you are about to hear from a ventriloquist's dummy with a consultant's hand up its jacksie. The other consultant's hand is meanwhile picking the taxpayer's pocket.

Re: Balmer $300

$300? I'm gonna want at least $500 before I'll go for coffee with Ballmer. That's OK - he's desperate. I've heard he'll pay another $200 on top of that if you let him do his dance.