* Posts by Pieter Vos

6 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Nov 2007

Latest Chrome beta fastest ever - again

Pieter Vos

@It would be nice

I'm surprised they even host the adblock plugin on their site considering they make their money off ads

Mobile phones to get universal charger

Pieter Vos

@Robert

Yeah, like that makes a difference. I'll bet every phone you've bought between 2001 and now, no matter whether they had the same connector, came with a charger anyway, so it makes no difference to change it now, as all phones will still have one included.

Google remodels top secret money machine

Pieter Vos

@No one clicks ads anymore

I think you're overestimating the general web population, those 80% of the market who still use IE and have no ad blockers installed. If no-one clicked ads, why is Google making enough profit to buy a small country every quarter?

Firefox sweeps away carpet bombing bug

Pieter Vos
Gates Horns

Re: Here we go again

Good idea, move from a browser that actually bothers with updates to one with a rather less healthy track record...

Three Little Pigs book deemed offensive to Muslims

Pieter Vos
Dead Vulture

Who said writers don't have hard jobs...

Next of course, you can't put people in stories because if the protoganist is caucasian, it's racist to black people and Asian people, if he/she/it (trying to stay politically correct) is black, it will insult the other races etc...

I personally think this culture of over political correctness will only lead to more problems, as people will be afraid to talk to people of other races/religions/nationalities for fear of offending them.

Sony PS3 narrows gap with Nintendo Wii

Pieter Vos
Thumb Down

Not narrowing the gap

Sorry, but this just really bugs me, they're not narrowing the gap until the PS3 actually OUTSELLS the Wii, they're narrowing the difference in sales is all.