Posts by Goat Jam

Yes

Because I really want to send my boss pictures of my cat.

Correction

"Nokia will fade into bankruptcy or be sold for scrap without anyone really noticing"

Should read;

"Nokia will fade until their market cap is miniscule and then sold to Microsoft for spare change"

Nice Idea

But these retail chains want stuff uploaded in the evening so they can process it overnight.

continued quarterly growth

Indeed, this is something that irritates me about business in western countries, this insane insistence on growth every single quarter. If there is no growth then they are punished by the shysters in the banking mafia.

There is no awareness of sustainability or evidence of any long term thinking at all.

It is all about making more money than last quarter, whatever it takes.

Well, Yes

You have to understand how solicitors think, as well as the fact that they are greedy, money grubbing scumbags.

First off, be aware that while a solicitor has your file open on his desk, every time he scratches his arse he sends you a bill. Letter writing is particularly lucrative. You would be amazed at how many letters a solicitor can send out "on your behalf" and how much you are billed for each and every one.

So, when Crossley says he *spent* $750K, what he means is that he sent out X letters which, if he had have been able to bill them to an actual client, he would have cost $750K.

However, because he was his own client he didn't get to bill anyone*

It is sort of like when Microsoft pays one of their many fines with "Free software to schools". When they pay a $1 million dollar fine like that it really only costs them a few pennies but they count the cost as being the gross value of the potential sales of the licenses even though a software license is an entirely ephemeral thing that costs zero to reproduce.

* I would be shocked if he didn't slip more than a few of these letters into bills for other clients though, but this can't be proved so we will let that slide.

Risking the lives of operatives.

So, Assange has risked the lives of operatives has he?

Which ones? Names please, after all if Wikileaks has already outed them then you shouldn't have any trouble pointing us to where they did so, right?

God some people are just too credulous for words, willing to accept any and all of the propaganda that is constantly being pushed out by the powers that be.

No wonder the Nazis had it so easy, with useful idiots like Mr AC above to help them along.

Ummm

"You ship a quicktime encoder/decoder component along with "avi" based component for windows."

Both Quicktime and AVI are containers, not codecs.

Indeed

As chronicled on;

http://clientsfromhell.net/

(OEM) install media?

Whats that then?

<reaches for Lenovo "Recovery Disk">

OK then

I haven't heard that album myself so I can't comment on it. I took a look at Amazon though and the album gets an average of 4 stars from 70 reviews.

Reading the reviews are . . . interesting. I find myself wondering whether radio station DJ's are in such a good position to determine what is good or bad in music. Most of them have no compunctions with playing Lady Gaga pr Kenye West and carrying about how their "music" is totally cool and awesome.

From an Amazon review;

"Each two-part track is meant to reflect upon a different aspect of the duality of man. Of course, you don't get this effect when some radio station cues up Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds or Mr. Tambourine Man for comedic purposes; those guys never play the first half of each track, so it's impossible for the listener to know what Shatner was actually trying to do with this album"

Me? I think I will reserve judgment until I get a chance to hear it for myself.

Don't be silly.

If we are measuring power output in horse power, we should obviously then measure interstellar distances in furlongs.

What the?

"Don't forget that MS was slow into the PC market (and not the best) but they eventually managed to dominate."

I'm having trouble understanding what you mean by this statement because Microsoft was there at the inception of the "PC market".

If you are including what came before (apple ][, Commodore, CP/M etc) in your definition of "PC market" then you have to realise that MS were not even attempting to do operating systems back then. They had no intention of doing any such thing. They wrote a version of BASIC for CP/M and later copied VisiCalc with their MultiPlan spreadsheet and that was about it.

They fell into the operating system market by accident when the IBM PC was launched and have completely dominated that area since day 1 (and not through technical superiority I hasten to add).

Your Ex?

She is "normal"?

Wow.

QT were sold to Digia

who also happen to be one of Microsofts partners.

http://www.digia.com/C2256FEF0043E9C1/0/405000918

It is not inconceivable that this is yet another attempt by MS to secretly attack open source via third party partners.

I'm not saying this is the case here, but you have to admit that MS has form in this area.

widescreen

'Laptops, monitors, TVs, non-Apple tablets ... all new ones are widescreen'

you say that like it's a good thing . . .

Superhot spot?

"Instead of uniting into a superhot spot, all the routers in a locality merely offer a large number of very weak spots ?"

WiFi doesn't work like that, it is not like how you can add extra light bulbs to a room to make it brighter. Your device connects to a single access point and your signal will only be the strength of whichever one you are currently connected to.

What can be done however, is that the all the access points can be aware of each other and pass you from one access point to another as you move around in a similar way to how cell phone networks work.

Lindows

Lindows (a Linux distribution) had to change their name merely because it "sounded" like Windows.

This was ordered by some numpty in a court.

If MS can lay claim to ownership of words that merely sound like their trademarked despite being extremely generic word then surely apple have the right to claim a much more specific phrase.

Personally I think the whole thing is bollocks, and neither of these fricking corps should be able to do what they are doing but given MS have already set the standard when it comes to trademarking generic words it comes off as a bit rich to complain when other companies do similar in an even less egregious manner than their own.

Apple haven't even got to the stage where they are complaining about soundalikes yet!

Global Warming vs Climate Change

Funnily enough, it has occurred to me recently that the usual suspects in the meejia have taken to using "Climate Change" instead of "Global Warming".

That way they can attribute all manner of natural disasters that would previously have been put down to "acts of god" as being caused by the dreaded "Climate Change".

"Global Warming" simply doesn't cover enough ecotastrophes any more.

As for people believing more in CC than GW, well of course they do. Climate change has been around for millions of years. We actually have hard evidence for that.

Even "Global Warming" is feasible, it is only when you prepend "Man Made" to either of these terms that things get dubious.

Re: Why A Rich Dude Would Do That

A lot of "rich" people are sociopathic narcissists who have a dog eat dog attitude towards other people. It is not just about how much money they can amass but also about where they get it from and at who's expense.

It doesn't matter how much money they have in their pocket, the fact that they are getting a freebie gets them off so to speak.

That the person who owns the card may in fact be quite poor and not able to afford to fund their narcissistic impulse purchase would not even have crossed this arseholes mind.

Consumer Focus

Microsoft saw how the completely consumer focused iPhone took the market by storm and in their typically me-too fashion decided to drop everything else and go all cargo-cult on apples ass.

It is not the first time that Microsoft has hung their users out to dry with a sudden about face (Playsforsure anyone?) and I'm sure it won't be the last.

Who's running the show over there?

Erm, a Microsoft Exec perhaps?

Microsoft will purchase Nokia outright within 3 years.

Indeed

"the skill in driving all comes from situational awareness and using it to guide your decision making"

By that metric, my father should never be let behind the wheel of his Range Rover ever again, but then, I already knew that.

I'm surprised

that the beancounters didn't just remove the machine and let you guys bring in your own coke.

@Cheesy

Qosmio G40 = 5.5 Kilograms for fucks sake. How much of that is taken up by the batteries that give it its "claimed" battery life of 2 hours?

Please resist the temptation to compare apples with oranges in the future.

Is it Samsungs fault

that MS can't update a phone with less than 4 GIGABYTES of free space? For chrissake, my entire desktop OS fits in less room than that.

Gross me out

"GT5 has netted at least £137.5M"

I think the term you are looking for is "grossed".

"netted" would be the amount it grossed (sales) minus the amount it cost (development, manufacturing, storage, distribution)

HTH

@@Shirley

"Swedish prosecutor: Er, hang on chaps, according to our constitution, we can't charge people without questioning them,"

1) The Swedish already questioned Assange and then let him go.

2) If they want to question him further they can simply hop on a plane or even <gasp> use the telephone.

3) Swedens constitutional difficulties are not the concern of HM Gov nor Julian Assange,

4) Your grasp of logic is tenuous at best Mr AC

"English Electric Lightening"?

Wasn't that some sort of powered toothbrush?