Posts by Darryl

Shooting, Bludgeoning, & (attempted) Stabbing

Was the Mafia around 5000 years ago?

Dumb question

Where'd STS-120 through STS-124 go?

My all-time most hated

...is the misuse of the word 'myself'... "Please reply to Bill or myself." I guess it sounds more intelligent that 'me' to people who don't know that it's just plain bad grammar. Don't know how common it is over there, but here in Canada and in the US, it's all over the damn place. My old boss used it all the time. I would deliberately reply to his e-mails asking us to inform 'himself' whether we were attending the meetings with "Myself will be in attendance. See yourself there."

@Sooty - Thank you!

"fizzy Benylin" - that is the PERFECT description of that stuff. I remember being all excited way back in my teen years that they were finally importing that stuff into Canada, at least until I tasted it.

I don't think I've ever been excited about Guns & Roses.

At least...

...we wouldn't have to worry about whether man made global warming is true anymore.

In the words of George W. Bush

"Linux accounts for about 19 per cent of the smart-phone market versus around five per cent for Windows, according to various figures. Linux is expected to outsell Windows by 2013."

So Doesn't that mean Linux is already outselling Windows by almost 4 to 1? "Mission Accomplished" on the 2013 thing then.

Nice to see they're not just copying Windows anymore

That screenshot looks like a pretty faithful OS-X rip-off. Do the icons on the 'dock' bounce up and down too?

And when the computer crashes?

Brings a whole new meaning to "Blue Screen of Death"

Gee... I wonder

Wonder if they're blocking VOIP so that it doesn't make the overpriced in-flight telephone system obsolete.

Actually

"we might be able to generate half of the energy used by driving a car 50 km per day each."

is not the same as

"we might be able to plug a car into a wind turbine".

It's a comparison of an example of energy generated to an example of energy consumed.

But one of the favourite tactics of Greenies is to leap on comparison examples like the above and "prove" how preposterous they are when they come from anyone except for Al Gore and Greenpeace. I'm surprised you didn't make fun of how long an extension cord would be needed to plug the car into the windmill.

I agree, stay skeptic. Question everything you're told by governments and special interest groups, including the Green propaganda.

Yeah, so it could drive, but

Could it drive while talking on a cellphone, putting on makeup, drinking an extra grande mocha frappo vanilla bean latte, smoking a cigarette, flipping off (or shooting at) other drivers, changing a CD, and checking e-mails on its laptop?

Actually, being a hypercomputer, it probably won't need to carry a laptop

Or a cellphone

or a CD player

And this is why...

...my proud country is now know as "America's Hat"

Sorry...

Did they check for Klingons?

@Chris Miller: You forgot...

Colander: • noun: a perforated bowl used to strain off liquid from food.

Give me a break

"But a second point can be made that it doesn't support many drivers, hardware, and software applications that users have paid good money for. Once you upgrade, you're hosed, and you have to re-purchase a lot of your software and peripherals. Again, I loathe them for this."

Seriously? It's Microsoft's fault that hardware/software vendors aren't offering drivers/software patches to work with Vista? The nerve of them not anticipating every piece of hardware and software available in the world and testing and supporting all possible combinations extensively. Far be it for me to suggest that hardware vendors could write drivers for their hardware, like they've been doing for the last 30 years.

Where are the IE flamers?

You know, the ones who jump all over IE for having non-standardized bits? Shouldn't you all be bashing Mozilla now?

Sounds familiar

When I first read about this, I thought "Sounds like they used a North American keyboard and just switched a few keys around" We have the larger left shift here. Now they just finished the job and gave you a full NA standard keyboard with the / beside the right shift.

On the bright side, I won't have any problems typing on your keyboards now

Don't forget the Spice Girls

Now THERE's a timeless British invention.

Or was that tasteless? Whatever.

Working fine here

No problems with the XP SP3 update, and everything's working smoothly. Then again, my Vista laptop has never had any problems before or after SP1, so maybe I've just got a charmed life. (yeah, right)

@AC RE: Launch

"So the iPhone has only just been launched in Canada? How backward is that!"

We have one (well, two, but one owns the other) GSM provider in Canada. Apple had to play ball with Rogers before they could release it here.

Next time you feel like whining about how horrible your mobile service is in EU/USA, just remember us poor Canadians.

@Metric ?

This coming from people whose main currency is based on 373.241721 grams of silver.

The IT angle is...

... when we find out what brand of cell phone she threw at the officer. Is she still using Nokia or Motorola, or does she like the heft and flight characteristics of the iPhone?

@Gary F

...or Oppenheimer or Curie

Sorry, can't think of a title right now

So according to sina.com, the average salary in China is 25,000 yuan, which means that they will have to spend half a year's salary on a storage device?

@SwamiYogurt

You beat me to it... In reply to the "when I went to school" above, I was going to say when I went to school, white meant CGA or Hercules.

We need an "old guy" icon

There are some problems with your comment: A title is required

"It’s going to take some serious convincing to set yourself apart from the pack, so let your personality shine through and do whatever it takes to get those votes!"

Isn't "personality" one of the things that would get you disqualified?

And somebody's gotta say it...

Where's the iPhone angle?

In the US they call it "Affirmative Action"

...and it usually ends up being, "We don't have enough of <insert minority here> so from now on we won't consider applications from people who aren't <insert minority here>, and if we don't get enough qualified <insert minority here> applicants, we'll lower the requirements until we do."

I especially enjoyed it when they dropped the physical requirements for firefighters.

@Ashley Pomeroy

Actually, according to the US census bureau, the name Devon didn't even make the top 1000. This means it was beat out by the likes of Herminia (#998), Louella (#990), Concetta (#977), and Evangelina (#926). Of course, there's always Ashley at #63 with almost half a million.

Sigh... Saturday night and nothing to do but look up useless information on the interweb.

Darryl (#232 on the male name list)

@Steve Renouf - typo alert!!

"This used to work OK in Lookout Expre$$ but M$ have b0rken it in Vista Mail so the only way to do it there is to have a seperate Window$ login for each identity (obviously M$ have absolutely NO IDEA how people work in the real world."

That should read "...Vi$ta Mail..." Otherwise, I don't think it gets your intended point across, which I'm guessing (and really, this is just a shot in the dark) is about Microsoft being all about money, or something.

A lesson for Americans and Brits

Just remember us poor saps up here in the Great Taxed North next time you feel like bitching about your cell service.

There are a couple of better PAYG plans out there supplied by 7-11 and such, but I'm not sure of their data rates, and they're all just running off Rogers' towers anyways.

Er..

"It may be the most ridiculous use of Flash I have ever seen"

So you're saying that there is a non-ridiculous use for Flash? Like maybe forcing somebody to watch a 5 minute animated movie when all they want to do is download a driver or something?

It puts a smile on the face and is good PR for the company.

@Spleen

I think that's one of the best comments I've seen on El Reg in a long time. You should get into writing lyrics professionally.

Seriously, though.. Reminds me of Terry Pratchett's wizards... "So it's Quantum, then?" Meaning "We're not supposed to understand it?"

Wait! One more...

Imagine the benefits when using 'pee-to-pee' file sharing.

Sorry