Posts by Matt

Apple Mac Mini (Early 2009)

love the macmini, wish apple loved it a little more!

I've had a MacMini since the day it came out - I love this little machine and wish Apple would show it a little more love too... For a long, long time it was the only desktop box you could get in this kind of form factor that didn't just overheat - and I've always liked it; until recently there was just nothing else out there like it.

Love the new one but agree that the top-end model is just far too expensive. Why oh why do Apple insist on charging such an outrageously high price for memory upgrades?

Wakefield does a Brum with possessive apostrophes

old hat

didn't ordnance survey drop the apostrophes from place names on their maps ages back? so what makes this so controversial - sounds bloody sensible to me, it's not as if they have any real meaning or clarification of meaning in that context.

Profs: Eating Belgian truffles will make you buy a Mac

'crunchy frog' anyone?

"We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in finest-quality spring water, lightly killed, and then sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple smooth treble cream milk chocolate envelope and lovingly frosted with glucose." And then we install Vista on your PC.

Apple probes poison-pumping Mac claim

I can has spelcheker?

'evapourating'? 'Evaporate' isn't one of those words where it has a 'u' in the british spelling you know!

Winehouse jibe wins Fringe's funniest gag

andrew laurence

saw Andrew Laurence at Latitude this year - he was effing *hilarious*. if you like your humour dark and very, very wrong - do go see him!

That 'Elderly Persons' sign: Can you do better?

missing the point

Surely if the old folks in question *aren't* hunchbacked old cripples then they should be able to cross the road without difficulty - thereby negating the need to warn drivers to be careful of them?

What next, a petition by does to have a gender-neutral 'deer crossing' sign?

It's political correctness gone mentally-challenged!

JavaScript standards wrangle swings Microsoft's way

shame

As an ActionScript developer I have to say this is a real shame. I've found AS3.0 to be an excellent programming language (spoiled only by the flakiness of Flash Player!) and E4X is amazingly powerful.

Whenever I have to program JavaScript I feel like I'm stepping back in the stone age - even in comparison to ActionScript 2.0 it feels ancient and clunky. Wot, no strong typing? I can has Interfaces? No, apparently not!

Perhaps there are security issues with E4X in Mozilla but that doesn't mean we should chuck the baby out with the bathwater - these things can be fixed.

Mayor Boris to cover Porsche costs in CO₂ tax brouhaha

the disadvanted?

Surely the truly 'less well off' are really those people who can't even afford cars and so must travel on public transport.

I'm sorry but anyone who can afford to have a car in London can't be that badly off.

CherryPal out sweetens Apple with 2W, ultra-cheap PC

laptots??

'and other laptots'?? dare I ask what laptots are? sounds a bit wrong if you ask me.

honestly, the amount of typos in El Reg is comparable to The Grauniad. Do you guys not have spellcheckers? You'll need to change your name to 'The Regsiter' soon. Or 'El Rge'?