Posts by Joseph Harris

Apple's iPad - the tablet with the data center soul

More Apple Fanboi Gushing

Apple could never make a stinker. Oh, wait, shouldn't one of those failed tablets be Apple's Newton?

Fortunately, Apple devices have become a fashion statement so people will probably buy it no matter what.

Microsoft airbrushes anti-Apple ad

Apple hardware, doesn't cost more....

Anonymous Coward:

Correction, the CASE that Apple hardware is in is more expensive. It's the same stuff in PC's anymore. Hence why Psystar and co can easily sell Mac Clones.

Cry me a river

The ad was accurate when MS made it. Apple lowered their prices slightly, so MS altered the ad so it's accurate again. Windows laptops are still cheaper than comparable Macbooks.

And what's this whinging about "anti-Apple" ads? As if Apple never made an anti-PC ad.

Poor MS. They finally made a decent commercial, and all you can do is criticize them for it.

David Tennant quits Who

Thanks for screwing up next season

I don't blame him for leaving. I do blame him for delaying next season AND THEN LEAVING.

Catholic priests cane YouTube over blasphemous vids

What's good for the goose....

If they're going to take down videos offensive to Jews, they should do the same for everyone else. Catholics, Muslims, Atheists, Jedi, Pastafarians. That's the problem with censorship.

Baby held in Indian jail alongside hacking suspect mum

National Geographic

There was a show on the National Geographic channel about this. It's apparently the norm in India for small children to stay with their mothers in prison until they reach a certain age.

US firms use own staff to snoop on co-workers

Teleperformance Nazis

Teleperformance USA (where I am, formerly Calltech Communications), a call center outsourcing partner, pays people to be "Floor Control", the primary task of which is to walk up and down the call center isles to make sure no one is accessing non-work websites.

LA grand jury probes MySpace teenage suicide case

Not a crime, unless being an idiot is illegal now

While the events are tragic, laws weren't broken here. This Drew woman might be a juvenile bitch, but she's not criminally liable.