Posts by Mr Spock

Re: OMG

> Mayer's GIFs demonstrate how much she completely just does not get it.

But nice to see she reads El Reg!

@alexmcm

> My My, such an outpouring of smugness and bitterness

Don't worry - stick around here and you'll soon grow out of it.

The new colonials

And a lot of these 'new middle class' are actually foreign-born ethnic Indians who've relocated to India in order to exploit the locals. Here, one of them writes of her educated, articulate friends and her dinner parties without the slightest sense of irony.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-15520933

Damn

I first read that as 'Elop should be out later this year'.

Re: If Windows 8 is a spork

I've never used heroin, therefore according to that 'logic' I'm not entitled to have an opinion on it.

And before you start squealing 'oh hur hur, of course Windows and heroin is a valid comparison', have a little think about the similarities on how customers are acquired and then retained.

Bloody luxury.

When I was a lad my dad lost his job at the abattoir and we had to live in empty baked bean tins.

If only Elop had seen this cartoon in time.

Re: @Thomas 4 Thank you for that image..............

Eadon is the Wesley Willis of El Reg...

Sorry - both these advertisers. Thanks for pointing that out!

Re: This is getting silly

Ah, Multimap. Bought by MS, disappeared up its own arse like MC Escher's ferret. The domain points to Bing now.

Re: AVG almost as bad as Norton

Heavily agree. AVG should maybe spend less time planting infomercials on El Reg and more time debloating their product so fewer people (like me) move to Avast.

Re: Somehow I doubt....

> Somehow I still doubt they are in profit, I'm pretty sure they will have spent more pushing it than they have made selling it.

They have indeed. Recent stats [citation needed] show a 49% loss per handset on each Lumia sold. That's fairly horrid.

> I don't dislike this. I'm one of the handful of people who actually LIKEs ads. I don't like the disruption they cause though.

OK, maybe they should show them only in places where nobody can see them. Kind of like they want to do with political demonstrations!

Re: @Trevor_Pott

> They value their intellectual property much more than your trust.

Course they do. But that's not the point. The point is that Nokia don't have anything left but intellectual property. They used to be the world's biggest phone manufacturer. Not any more.

> And you're mistaken if you think that Nokia needs to be told by Microsoft that it should take measures against having its patents infringed by Google.

Course they don't. But that's not the point either. The point is that once upon a time Nokia would have had the far better option of entering into strategic partnership with Google instead. Not any more.