* Posts by Piers

213 publicly visible posts • joined 30 Jul 2007

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Yahoo! launches! flat!-!-rate! web! hosting!

Piers
Unhappy

Realisation dawns...

I have come to realise that the word 'unlimited' now actually means 'less than you'd expect'...

Wikipedia black helicopters circle Utah's Traverse Mountain

Piers
Dead Vulture

+1 reinstate AmAnFromMarsIcon

+1 reinstate AmAnFromMarsIcon

Please.

Microsoft offers $300m for web-washing ad campaign

Piers
Thumb Up

Just Do Evil...

There - that'll get past trading standards ok.

Chinese cyber strikes will be 'like WMD'

Piers
Black Helicopters

Welcome to the Real World...

"The biggest problem we have with China is that WE HAVE VERY LITTLE LEVERAGE OVER THEM that won't damage our own economies."

Very little leverage - you mean they might not do what the USA wants! Heaven forfend!

BitTorrent site Demonoid.com downed by Canadian record industry

Piers
Happy

"Your move freeloaders, eh?"

You obviously don't know any Canadians. They would say "Your move freeloaders, ay?"

Government acts on Land Registry fears

Piers

They really don't think these things through...

...do they? "lets put it all online" seems like SUCH a good idea. 'course, none of this would have happened if everyone downloading had had a proper ID card.... : p

Garmin trumps TomTom bid for TeleAtlas

Piers
Alert

hmmmm - up your bid Tom Tom!

Americans don't seem to understand Europe too well at the best of times...

ANPR bags alleged uninsured pirate godfathers

Piers
Happy

LOL

luvly reporting style. Heaven knows what anyone without a good grasp of the nuances of English will make of it tho'

Gatwick reduced to anarchy by 'computer glitch'

Piers

Re: Airport software...

For the record, last time I was flying out of Geneva (Gate B52 if I remember correctly, although no Rock Lobsters in sight...) the gate desk was "running" windows XP. That is, it was booting up, crashing XP and then booting up repeatAdd Infinitum('again and ');

What added to the amusement was hearing the comment of some fellow prospective passengers of around sixty-something saying something like "oh look, it's booting windows and crashing...". Truly we live in the information age.

Flaming squirrel nicked for blatant forgeries

Piers
Boffin

shurly shome mishtake?

"charged with forging £1,000 and £500,000"

I think you mean:

"charged with forging £1,000,000 and £500,000"

Unless of course you were using some obscure ElReg units in your original sentence...

Watson suspended by research lab after race row

Piers
Stop

Oh dear, oh dear...

If scientists can't even BEGIN to discuss these subjects in a clearly scientific manner without being canceled, suspended etc. then the very possibility of informed discussion and *development* are doomed. We're getting to the point where 'common sense' really has been legislated out of existence. But don't worry, when the survival of the fittest has been ruled out altogether, we will simply degenerate until Darwin kills us all off. By the look of things sooner rather than later.

No-humping 20mph limit for London

Piers
Mars

'Wireless enforcement/revenue panopticon expansion' ?!?

...now the articles are beginning to sound like aManFromMars, just get a dodgy caPs kEy and you're sorted - hitech poetry.

MS-DOS paternity suit settled

Piers

GEM on Windows

Yep - it existed, ran really well on the then current hardware . I hacked the version that came with the Amstrad PC to work on my (VGA I think) Toshiba (luggable) laptop. Was really quick and resource light compared to Windows 3.1. I used to use it with DeskPress desktop publishing software and nothing on Windows came close for functionality or performance for years. Oh the things that might have been, eh?

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