Posts by John 62

wait for the movie

For some reason this made me think of White Men Can't Jump. Perhaps there's going to be another Tron sequel where they play Jeopardy instead of racing light cycles.

OR...

Sam Flynn gets kicked off the board of Encom and ends up trying to scrape a living from hustling schmucks who play street basketball, but he gets played by his supposed partner who runs off with all the money, so his artificial lover Cora, the isomorphic algorithm, has to turn to Jeopardy to get enough money to live with dignity.

phew

I thought Yahoo! had bought Delicious Monster and that MS would buy Yahoo! for reals this time to get Delicious Library and make it Windows exclusive.

Then I remembered there's a social bookmarking site called Del.icio.us that I never bothered with.

RIM

How times have changed!

Matt Asay wrote: "Apple, of course, didn't let this open-source momentum go unnoticed, and launched a lawsuit against Google's Android through its licensee, HTC. Not to be outdone, Microsoft and Oracle also sent lawyers to the Googleplex. About the only company that didn't is Research in Motion. Nice Canadians."

I remember when el Reg called the company Lawsuits in Motion

failTunes

Ms Bee previously disgraced herself by stating her dislike of Ten Benson on these pages so I was glad her moderatrixness redeemed herself by recognising the only worthwhile songs on a list that was otherwise awful.

Single of the year is actually Bang Bang Bang by Mark Ronson and the Business Intl Featuring Q-Tip and MNDR. But I bought my download from Amazon (though I did buy the video from iTunes).

be careful up there

If it can happen to Rod Hull it can happen to anyone.

RIP Rod Hull, RIP :'(

District 9 weapons lab

First District 9 put me off prawns and now I read about gun labs and all I can think of is...

"No, sir, I will not pull de trigga. Sir, I will _not_ pull de trigga." **kzert**

ad astra!

To the stars indeed!

"a source close to google"

eh? so there's been another leak leaking the name of the leaker?

cruise missile?

is there all that much difference?

plus, if manufacturers, recommend you not to start your dishwasher before you go to bed, I think it'll be a bad idea not to have a live video feed from the kill-bot

not just Scotland

there's a fake metal tree a few miles outside Belfast

christmas, sorry holiday offer?

I wonder if parents will still buy them at $50 if there's a 2 year contract (and presumably nasty overages on data for all that photo sharing) when the kids will want a new phone after 6 months.

s-l-o-w?

The iPhone 3G with its 400MHz processor is just about acceptable. I would certainly like a lot more of teh snappy, but it's hard to believe that a phone with a 600MHz processor could be slow.

porridge

but where will a facebook.com address fall on the Oatmeal's chart of email domain/personality type identification?

too many good posts

I was going to vote up all the posts saying that ISPs should be able to deliver what they advertise, but there are too many, so I wrote this instead.

Plus, I have an 'unlimited' data contract on O2. Why can't I use tethering without paying more? Oh right, maybe it's not unlimited. Bawh.

ebitda?

isn't that earnings _before_ interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization, not after bad things?

sad about Wave's demise

From the reports I've read I'm probably glad I hadn't used the current version of Google Wave, but being on a transatlantic project with documents flying around via sharepoint (on separate sites no less) and email and with a few IM conversations has made me interested as to whether the Wave of the future could improve things.

iWork's palettes are better

Then again, just as this article mixes up the OS X and Windows versions of Office, so will I...

I saw Office 2010 at a Microsoft presentation. I wasn't an huge fan of the 'Backstage' concept (i.e. going into a whole new context when you click the 'File' 'menu' (Where did my document go?!)), but the rest of the UI looked considerably more polished than 2007. Then again if you have to include a 'Ribbon Hero' game to train users, that's probably not a good sign (and even worse that it can post your score to Facebook).

What really needed fixed from Office 2003 is the horribly inconsistent and illogical preferences in each app. If they'd gone for a bit of Visual Studio UI sauce I think it would have been much better.

oil

but will it burn all it's oil if you only use it to pop down the shops?

no passengers on an Apache?

granted it's not too comfortable, but get a few webbing straps and you can sit on the weapon mounts. been done before to good effect!

almost good news

could have been worse. Axing the F35B is sad, because it was so cool, but if the F35C does the same job for cheaper, then brilliant. Any word on what type of catapult? Will it be EMALS?

I think the decision not to go nuclear for the carriers is incredibly stupid, but it was probably because of silly nuclear-free policies in places like New Zealand, which wouldn't allow them to dock there if they had nuclear power. We should just have said "nuts to that, while your queen chooses to live in London, not Wellington, we're the boss".

Dr Fox said most of the British Forces in Germany will be coming home, so there should be some saving in that.

Finally for now, the Comet had a good run. If anyone wants to keep one flying they can do what the Vulcan people did instead of milking us taxpayers with the Nimrod programme.

Can webOS ever be as popular as Meego?

lol!

I saw a 1/4 page ad in the Daily Telegraph recently (which is still broadsheet, so it was a big ad) which said some hot blonde had become mayor of a coffee shop. This was O2's way of promoting the Palm Pixi Plus. A device I'd forgotten actually existed. No mention of how small and easy to use it might or might not be, just some nonsense about the nonsense known as Foursquare and oh, yeah, you can do foursquaring on your Palm Pixi supplied by O2. yay! I shall hie hence and obtain me one!

The ad was exactly the same tone as all the terrible ads extolling the lifestyle enhancing capabilities of 70s computers. yes, those ads had a straight face too.

How about Coal-black Sky

Tom Cruise is a playboy international mining expert who gets trapped in a mine. Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz fight for his affections topside.

since words are discrete

Amazon's copy writer should have know to use fewer instead of less. tsk tsk.

don't need to centralise everything

Just get the data centralised

Purchaser for dept A buys something for X pounds.

Purchaser for dept B knows this, but is quoted X+Y pounds. So dept B can go back to the supplier and ask why A got it cheaper.

Plus the general improvement in writing contracts and not changing specs all the time should be a no brainer.