Posts by David Glasgow

Not impressed....

I was hanging on to see it sting someone at a barbecue.

Read the transcript and you will learn

... Wale wanawake wakubwa (Swahili for ‘large ladies’)

....as they say, every cloud...

Please....

...someone explain this in terms I can understand.

To me it looks a bit like...

.... the Java coffee cup.

fruitle entendre

Apple and Blackberry tart.

Yum.

The truth is....

... it wasn't his MacBook. He'd borrowed it from his room mate for a couple of hours....

I call CHEAT

...on the Sunspider data bar chart. I don't have time to read all the comments so far, so apologies if this has already been posted.

The Y axis has been extended by inclusion of the dismal IE7 to make it look like there are minimal differences between other browsers (including IE9)

An honest presentation would use FF 3.5 to define the Y axis. We could then eyeball both the absolute and percentage differences between browsers. As it is, we can just squint and guess, or just accept the gospel according to Micro$oft.

@ Cameron Colley

"if your child is young, naive or stupid enough" ...well D'uh, my kids are naive and often stupid. Kind of goes with being a kid. Oh, and they're *young*, too.

Me and the missus do try our best, but I think we'll just have to wait for them to grow up. That will cure the 'young' bit. Not so sure about the other two.

So until then its my fault if a sexual offender gets at them via the interweb thingy? Maybe there should be a sentence for being the parent of a sexually abused child. That might help me and the missus try even harder....Oh but wait. No it wouldn't.

Henny Penny...

Henny Penny! The sky is falling!...

So? Jaunty Jackalope and Hardy Heron are my friends.

;-)

C'mon Webster, where are you?

I read all the way through the comments hoping my day would be brightened with a Webster Phreaky spittle-flecked rant.

He doesn't seem like the sort to take a holiday too far from the interweb. Perhaps he is poorly? If so, get well soon, Webster.

But then, he might have been abducted by MIB. Or a gray.

In which case, the Register needs to appoint a new Webster. We just can't digest news like this without him.

@ Ian Davies re Webster

D'Oh! And there was me thinking Webster's post was a witty and perceptive *parody* of a crap spouting ignoramus.

Can we have an icon for this so I will be able to tell in future? A picture of Alf Garnett or Rab C Nesbitt, perhaps?

Wot?

Only SHOUTY Webster SHOUTING?

Where are they all? The shouters. Time was that new Macs would flush em out in droves. But now.....well, where's the fun in a lone voice raging against the dying of the light? Where's the pleasure in buying a Mac if it doesn't provoke widespread execration and irrational odium?

Come on! Unless someone dissuades me by SHOUTING a lot or listing enough URLs, I just might buy a Penryn iMac. Maybe two.

Naaah. I'm off down the Rat and Trumpet. Mines the one with "Think Differently" in sequins on the back.

C'mon, where's the SPLEEN?

Is it just me, or is the platform OS invective lacking the usual level stupidity/bile/ignorance/vilification and SHOUTING?

Really, this isn't what I have come to expect. Is the war meandering to a close?

(Paris because she has a spleen. I assume)

DVG

Everyone wins!

Apple make money

Kid has fun

Apple gets free publicity

Some like to moan about Apple

Some like to praise Apple

And I like to read about it

.....Paris because her name is an anagram of TAIL IR iPHONS which I am sure she would if they came with IR. Damn. If only her name was Hiltone.

Identification error

Ahem. Although artistic license causes some identification problems, the nationality of the artist and general physiology of the creature suggests it is probably a lemming (Lemmus Lemmus).

Obviously, it is distressed by the fact that a city has been built on the cliff used by generations of its ancestors.

Thats me. I'm off.

Oh my goodness! Shut me down.

Maybe this article was destined for a new computer mag "My first computer" which builds week by week into an invaluable family reference. But then that got canned, and the copy was recycled here.

But do the comments compensate for the poverty of the original article? Hmm. Let's see. As far as I can make out, I'll need to stop buying Macs. Because someone else had a wrong-un. Shame, because mine have allways worked good and make me lots of money. I'll also need to ditch the Windows machines because they are ugly and get their pants up their crack more often. Shame really, because they're cheap as chips and as long as I don't ask too much, they just sit in the ugly corner and do what I want them to most of the time too.

And then I'll have to get really passionate about a single OS choice, and scathing to the same measure about anyone who finds a use for something different. "Oh, Grrrrrr. What are you *thinking*. Why don't you get a *proper* computer. You are all 'boise, 'boise, 'boise."

Nah. Doesn't work. Can't get any real feeling into it, and it comes out all C-3PO. You know what? I think I'll carry on buying what works for me. What shall I get next? A small Windows box to test stuff on, or a 24 inch iMac for my desk? What the heck, I might even get both at the same time.