* Posts by Glenn Amspaugh

227 publicly visible posts • joined 8 Mar 2007

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Zuckerberg: the iPad 'is not mobile'

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Big Brother

Very relaxing

Um... fynunsinchains.tumblr.com?

Most smartphoners don't give a flip about apps

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Another sterling example...

...of how Apple's walled garden and draconian methods have scared customers across the phone world in to saying they don't care about apps. Darn you Apple. Darn you to HECK!

Woman sues Google after highway knockdown

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FAIL

Humanity is done for?

Stories like this just convince me that most of humanity should be plugged in to some kind of virtual world like in the Matrix.

iPads may be outselling Macs two to one

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FAIL

(L)users will buy anything

I mean, why would anyone spend $500 on up for a system that won't run a compiler, doesn't have a command line and can't run Flash like all the other phones and such? I mean, all those (l)users are now locked out of 90% of the internets. And forget about installing Office or Outlook on this thing. No one's gonna' wanna thumb in their emails and spreadsheets and such. Bleah! I bet people will be selling these of used for $25 bucks in a year.

BlackBerry sees iPhone shrink in rear view mirror

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Headmaster

US Carriers marketing Blackberries

For the last 6 months or so, both AT&T and Verizon have been marketing the Blackberry phones in direct mailers. Before this, they were pretty much just a work phone. Looks like Blackberry took a page from Apple's playbook. Now, if Symbian would get a clue...

Microsoft launches iPad-happy website for wimmin

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Troll

Hot keyword of the day?

So... was iPad thrown in here just for page clicks? If so, well done. *golf clap*

US couple jailed for TV shoplifting brag

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Headmaster

I'm in the wrong line of work

I mean, seriously, $100k for selling Legos on eBay? Screw this fixing computers stuff.

Steve Jobs uncloaks the 'iPad'

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Headmaster

The only problem with it...

... is that it does not appear able to stream music/video wirelessly from a machine with an iTunes collection. I have 350 or so movies ripped to m4v, collected in iTunes on a Mac mini. My AppleTV and various Macs around the house can all stream movies from this system but my iPods and iPhone; they all have to be physically connected to iTunes system and then have a subset of items synced to them. Was really hoping iPad would not have this limitation but looks like I hoped in vain. Maybe version 3 will have that.

And a video camera somewhere on there. That would be cool.

Apple earnings leap 50 per cent

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Jobs Halo

Poor beleaguered Apple

They're on their last legs, their market share is way below Windows, and geeks everywhere hate their over priced, under powered, sexy hardware and software.

/Mine's the one with the Apple Stock sales receipt of $19/share from back in '99.

Survey shows strong demand for Apple tablet

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Jobs Horns

Desktop share?

Wait, Apple's desktop share is up to 20%? is that just last quarter sales for installed base? I thought Apple was required by law to have less than 10% market share.

As for tablet, why wait on a laptop? Picked up new MacBook in October. It's not like the tablets (if they exist) will be available any time soon. And they'll probably be pretty expensive to start with. Wait a couple years, get the cool hardware/software updates in and the price drops and then, yeah, start thinking about getting a laptop.

What Ballmer and Hurd should announce this afternoon

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Coat

Hurd?

Man, I was thinking that HP and MS were going to pick up HURD and build a clean OS. Ah, well, one can dream.

Mine's the one with the funny pages in the pocket.

Aliens more likely to live on moons than planets, say boffins

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Alien

Have they checked...

...Yavin IV? Look in the temples.

German shoppers slug it out with salami

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Grenade

All's well...

"The cart at the centre of the incident was "undamaged", the Telegraph notes."

All right then. Life can go on.

Google sues alleged work-at-home scammers

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WTF?

Nice penalty

I like how that other company that represented itself as eBay just has to stop doing that. I mean, I go around and stand in front of a bank and say I represent them and ask people for money, they'll lock me up. But if you're a scammer who's taken in lots of money over the internet, they just tell you to stop. I gotta' get in to a better line of work.

Windows 7's dirty secrets revealed

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Thumb Down

Just installed 7 yesterday

I'm running Seven on same hardware as my WinXP system (2.66 dual core Xeon/2 GB RAM) and, while better than Vista, still not XP. And I'm not running high end apps; just a ticketing system, Office 07, and some SMS tools.

Am getting ready to butt heads with management over my going back to XP again. It just works better.

US data firm blows s**t out of server

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Pint

Processors are tough

I've never shot up a computer but I did take some old AMD and Cyrix processors out to the range. On one, I'd tried drilling through the brown ceramic coating over the chip but just scratched it with a high speed steel bit. Turns out a .45 ACP and 7.62 Tokarev both made the chips shatter very prettily.

PC Refresh Equals PC Disposal

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Coat

Grinder!

At my work (gov't related business), we're not allowed to have any hard drives/data storage devices leave our premises. We have a big old grinder that eats hard drives, ram, disks, etc. The rest of the kit; local public school system gets first pick and then the rest gets sold at auction. Frequently, the schools pass and you can find some nice bargains at auction. Last year, I picked up 2 G5 towers and two 23" monitors (Apple display adapter ones) for $600.00. There was no RAM or hard drive but they both had DVD super drives, video cards, logic board. These made some nice movie players, streaming ripped DVD's from my Mac Mini server.

/Mine's the one with the old Newton in the pocket

Apple tablet will 'redefine print,' says rumor mill

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Go

Media player

I'm not so much interested in an Apple tablet as a book reader but as a media player for our home server. Currently, have a Mac Mini holding 360+ movies, several gigs of music, and family iPhoto collection. It's hooked to our tv and can stream movies and such out to a laptop and sync files up to iPhone. Would be nice to have a larger screen than the iPhone that's lighter than the laptop and able to browse and play from home server, wirelessly, without synching.

Apple's move to kill Hackintosher suit denied

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Pirate

The landlord

"Apple's collecting rents on it's monopoly of premium computers."

That's a good legal tactic to pin your pirate computer aspirations to. Go for it, Dude!

Ammo rationing at Wal-Mart as panic buying sweeps US

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FAIL

re: Blair Holt: Not quite

@SandscriptSharpie

Check Snopes. (http://www.snopes.com/politics/guns/blairholt.asp)

Looks like this Rep. Bobby Rush has introduced his bill again and it's once again languishing in committee. Just like the Republicans won't go near abortion in the federal legislature, Democrats won't go near gun control any time soon. Basically, smart politicos are realizing they have to play for the middle.

-- The well armed Lib'ral

Arizona sheriff prefers jail to handing over server password

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Flame

When computers are outlawed...

... wait, what's going on here? They're having a standoff over a software update?

IT grad sues school over failed job hunt

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Heart

Expectations

I work tech support at a large research lab (15 year college drop out; kept changing major without graduating). At this place, new hires with PhD's first go through an internship. Sure, they're doing research and getting their names on papers but they're also the ones tasked with calling in to tech support when the printer's offline or the boss's Blackberry isn't sync'ing. Summer is always fun as that's when new hires come on board and get a quick lesson in priority. There's always a few who call in an issue and then call back within 10-20 minutes wanting to know whey they're still waiting. Basically, unless you meet with the U.S. congress and such, you get your issue handled in order it came in.

Shutters brought down on mortgage foreclosure racket

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Paris Hilton

Desperation tears...

...taste the best!

Apple takes Snow Leopard for walk

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Jobs Halo

Old Mac whining

For some reason, my Quadra 650 (132 MB RAM/512k VRAM) doesn't handle Mac OS 8.1 or 8.5x very well. Had to take it back down to 7.6.1. Still, Photoshop 2.5 runs nice and fast and my LaCie tabloid scanner works great.

I guess this summer will be time for Mac housecleaning. Time to reimage all the G4's and G5's and then sell them off. Might make enough for a new Mac Mini or two.

Cable-cutting vandals disconnect Silicon Valley

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Boffin

Time for a resilient net?

The SyFy author David Brin has the idea of setting up all cell phones so that , when regular cell tower service goes down, they can be used to pass basic txt message packets, from phone to phone, as a way of allowing communication in areas that have their infrastructure disrupted (New Orleans/Katrina).

Boffins list sci-fi words which wormed their way into dictionary

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Coat

Predicted

Oh Really said... Hmmmm don't remember reading any Si-Fi story about the collapse of the banking system.

Pat Cadigan had a short story about a musician on a floating island complex, trying to work his way to Europe. In the story, the US economy had collapsed, due to several well placed EMP bombs. Not quite the same as a bunch of Goldman-Sachs bankers infiltrating the gov't and holding the US hostage for 2 Trillion Dollars, though.

Mine's the bindle on that stick.

Hollywood to totally recall Total Recall

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Happy

Remakes worth watching?

"How about something totally wacky, like a Romantic comedy staring Julia Roberts and someone."

Julia Roberts and Drew Barrymore?

Teen sacked for 'boring' job Facebook comment

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Go

How?

"She's 16 AND and an "Administrator"?

HOW?"

I guess she does make good tea.

English Channel defeats one-armed Frenchman

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Thumb Up

"And the IT angle is..."

Chips and beer?

CGI furnishes filmstar with fur

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IT Angle

They didn't like her being from Brazil?

So they made her a 'Merkin? What kind of casting/director demands are going on here?

/I don't know what "IT?" is all about, either.

Apple is Fisher-Price of sound quality, says Neil Young

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Paris Hilton

Get with the times; upgrade!

Probably needs to upgrade his brilliant pebbles (http://www.machinadynamica.com/machina31.htm). They get clogged with bad frequencies after a bit and you need to tape fresh ones onto your cables.

Paris, 'cause she has nice pebbles too.

Tesco causes couple condom catastrophe

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Coat

Man in the family?

Easiest thing is to just not let the wife handle any money or have computer access. Rule of thumb, James, rule of thumb.

/mine's the one with slept-on-the-couch wrinkles.

Microsoft pledges to fight Vista 'myths'

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Alert

I shovel well

>I always wanted to hit the Mac guy in the face with a shovel.

Me too. I heard he's dating Drew Barrymore. She's my ICGF.

Baptist church in assault rifle giveaway

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Flame

Putting the 'ass' in assault

"I don't think a semi-automatic actually counts as an assault riffle, I thought to be an assault riffle it had to be fully automatic, and those are banned even in the USA."

In WWII, assault rifles were either bolt action or semi-auto (M1 Garand). There's even a government program set up to sell Garands, Springfields, and sometimes even Enfields (M1917 rifle) to folk here. So, yeah, in a way, I have a government issued assault rifle, with a certificate with President Clinton's sig on it it. Cool!

As for owning full auto weapons, sure. One has to get a Class III license. This is signed off by both the FBI/BATF and your local/county law enforcement. Now, some counties' Sheriff will not sign off on Class III licenses at all. Is county policy set by county commissioners. One way around this is to form a corporation (LLC) and then have the corporation get a Class III license. I believe that corporations don't depend on local LE sign off. I know of a collector who's done this. Is not the cheapest thing to do. He's on the board of a bank and owns a construction company. Not the type to just go nuts. He's also had a bank safe built in his house (which is also alarmed like a bank) as his gun room. Says his collection is worth almost $1M, if he was to sell off.

Also, Class III weapons are very expensive. Usually run $2000-$3000 on up. Most regular folks, who want to own such things, tend to get the semi-auto versions. You can find just about any type of military arms sold as a semi-auto version. For myself, I'd like to pick up a semi-auto M2 .50 cal.

HTC Touch Diamond

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Paris Hilton

Auto-focus?

Man, they lost me there. When I want to take blurry pictures, I don' wan' no clunky machine gettin' in mah way!

Though the bump thing while playing the game sounds intriguing.

/Paris 'cause her bumps are also intriguing.

'HD TV gas' 17,000 times worse for planet than CO2, claims boffin

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Scientists. Meh!

I was kicked out of 2 year college after my first year and even I know that this greenhouse danger stuff is all just a bunch of semi-communist scientist freaks who want to make everybody poor. If all the big companies have to change how they do things, they won't pay their employees as much and then those employees won't pay me as much to fix their cars and install fences (i work at a garage and after hours, do landscape construction). Why do the communists hate me? Why do they want me to make less than $30,000 a year?

Bill Gates has gone, what's his legacy?

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It's not what you know...

Don't forget that Bill G's Dad was a high powered patent attorney, specializing in Intellectual Property law and that Bill's Mom is the one that got IBM looking at MicroSoft:

"In 1980, Mary Maxwell Gates, Bill's mother, got to know John Opel, the chairman of IBM, through their work at the United Way Foundation.

At the time, IBM was preparing to release the first PC, and it needed an operating system. Opel chose tiny Microsoft as its OS vendor partly on the strength of his connection to the Gates family -- a decision, Dash writes, "that ended up being the greatest turning point in the history of the biggest software company that's ever been created."" -Machinist's Blog, Salon.com

So, not a garage visionary, battling Goliath's, but a rich kid with connections, later willing to use MS leverage to spread FUD when running up against new tech, hoping to slow things down until MS could release their version. Heck of a vision, Billy!

Adobe swings out Acrobat 9

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Unhappy

Buy our software and we won't give it to you

So, as of Monday, our shop was told that we couldn't order Acrobat 8 any more and would have to order Acrobat 9. No problem, costs $8.00 more than 8 but customers are cool. Today, customers started receiving their Acrobat Install Key and a link out to Adobe's site. Only problem is that, apparently, Adobe isn't shipping Acrobat Pro/Std 9. They're just sending out install keys. Sigh.

Enraged devil dog lover locks on to Reg photo team

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Unhappy

Under the influence?

Man, I wish I could get that drunk (while here at work on the hell desk).

Eccentric brain-chip admiral expelled by toff schools

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Unhappy

Chef?

I thought the headline said "Chef". Darn my public school education (only expelled from 2 year college twice).

UK developer trio accused of game plagiarism

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Pirate

They should release their P&C dev tool

If they just released an easy to use P&C dev tool, they'd make some cash. Hell, my 7 year old would love being able to grab stuff from games and movies and then turn it in to a P&C adventure.

Over half of US HD TV owners blurry on Blu-ray

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Go

Spinning disks are so Victorian

I only have a 720P flat panel TV and will wait another year or two before upgrading to a full 1080P set. By then, am hoping download network speeds will be available (hear me Comcast?!!!) allowing full HD Movie downloads.

Heathrow T5 security tackles Transformers t-shirt threat

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Pirate

George missed something here

Man, Orwell never mentioned Rule by Morons. How the f*#& is this the 21st Century? Man, I want to go to bed and wake up back in 1977.

Oz parliament enjoys multiple orgasms

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Go

The Trick is...

...getting them one right after another. Now that's a good trick.

American auto dealer offers free handguns

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Coat

Get a good gun?

If I buy several cars, can I combine the deals and get a decent gun? A nice Kimber .45 would be cool. What if I buy a school bus or a semi truck? Can I get a rifle with it?

Mine's the one with the new shoulder holster.

US Reapers get satnav bombs, deploy on Canadian border

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Stop

Skynet clamps down on US?

I thought this was to keep 'Merkins from escaping Freedom Paradisio, where all the wimmin' are busty and the children are above average? Same with the fence down south ways.

Boeing raygunship fires first blasts in ground testing

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Flame

Throw me a bone

Funny, it doesn't look like a shark.

Mine's the one with the folded up fembot in the pocket.

Vatican star watcher says aliens may be out there

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Black Helicopters

Dolly phone home

<i>And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, and one shepherd.</i>

Sheep are aliens? And we're cloning them? WTF?!!!

Mine's the nice cardigan that glows in the dark.

Apple to announce handheld games console at WWDC?

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Jobs Halo

Maybe a PDA?

I'm still looking for a replacement for my Newton 2100. The iPod touch is almost there but still not exactly what I'd like. If they do come up with a small game platform/PDA, that can surf the web and email, I'll get one. Sub $200.00 would be sweet!

Mine's the one with Kool-Aide© stains.

Ian McKellen to reprise Gandalf

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Coat

Bored of the Rings casting?

Frito Bugger: Will Ferrel?

Goodgulf Greyteeth: Eddie Izzard (just add a 'W')

Spam: Tony Robinson?

Arrowroot, son of Arrowshirt:

Eörachë:

Gimlet:

Legolamb:

Moxie:

Pepsi:

Dildo Bugger: Danny deVito

Mine's the one made out of Farahslax

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