Posts by yoinkster 184 publicly visible posts • joined 26 Nov 2009
I've been watching apple's share price drop over the last months and have enjoyed every minute of it. And yes I am therefore a sad bastard.
However, I cannot think of a more deserving company to have a massive crash and burn. I look forward every day to hearing about how they are falling apart at the seams, even with people like the BBC running über hype pro-apple articles today. I hope they fail, fizz and die, I'd consider throwing a party actually.
"men get a third of the pay women get"
WHAT!!! HOW DARE THEY!!! MEN, WE MUST MARCH!!! EQUALITY FOR ALL, EQUAL PAY FOR ALL. PORN IS TOO FULL OF WOMEN AND WE DEMAND A 50/50 QUOTA GUARANTEED BY SOME POORLY WRITTEN NEW LAW (let's stick in something about extra time off for men to recover too while we're are making demands). IT'S OUR HUMAN RIGHT!!! THIS ILLEGAL IMBALANCE HAS GONE ON FOR TOO LONG!!!!111ONEONE
so who is Toby Pedley? Some schmo or some bigwig in the racing industry who got upset that Harris called him a nitwit?
Or is he some grease monkey trying to climb the ladder to make it to head engineer on a racing team who happened to call Harris something like a wife-beating, marriage cheating homo? (Guessing here on the contents based on what the judge told him he couldn't say any more)
Either way, sounds to me like it would be great if he lost his appeal and was bankrupted by the judgement. He's obviously flung his own mud and deserves whatever comes back from it.
I think this will be a great idea, has anybody seen how the apple hipsters operate? If apple came out with a cheap, small, cut down version of an iphone the hipsters will undoubtedly drop their expensive one and buy the cheap one.
Hopefully then they'll hate it because it's not as good as their old iphone and start to ditch apple.
More likely though is that they'll just wait for the new iphone and buy that when it comes out, remember these people upgrade for no reason other than "it's a new thing from apple". Let's just pray the mini is so much worse than an iphone that their minds and eyes are truly opened!
because I don't really have all that much sympathy for people who fall for this?
They were duped into handing over their details by a fake "upgrade the banking software" box. If this sort of thing doesn't set alarm bells ringing then you are not 'qualified' enough to use internet banking. I'm sick of people with no clue getting in a flap because they thought they were magically safe on the internet. Why do these people never learn? It's not like it's a new thing any more!
Actually, I'm pretty certain that the planet is doing just fine thanks. It would be fine if we put all the carbons we have out there! It would equally be quite happy if we set off all the nukes we have. Sure, it would be catastrophic for us but the planet will be perfectly happy.
I look forward to the day that we can have a genuine nice bloke nail the spooks, as much as I support this geezer in his case he's kind of annoying. Same with julian and mcafee. It would be nice to have someone likable getting their boot in. Say, a Samsung type person, one that everyone agrees with, likes and wants to win!
It's what I'd do when needing to write a long report. No-one needs to check the filler as it's not important, he just needs to make sure that when he says "someone should be in jail for doing X,Y,Z" that he's got those bits correct.
Still, brought a smile to my face. I remember reading Bob Hoskins wiki page just after Bob Holness died and it had been recently edited to say he was part of the Bob duo who had hosted Blockbusters at some point. More chuckling.
When arrested in England and Wales, the arresting officer will read you your rights and (s)he will say something like:
"You have the right to remain silent, but it may harm your defence if you do not mention, when questioned, something which you later rely on in court. Anything you do say may be given in evidence."
This I'd imagine then gets superseded by further laws that I presume state things like "You must provide decryption keys when requested for the collection of evidence" (which I don't agree with personally).
So yes, we do roughly speaking have the right to remain silent until that is removed by another law depending on your case. I don't think a court will convict anyone who stays silent when asked "did you kill Testy McTest?" for example.
you've missed many of the other cool easter eggs.
That computer screen you see (not the one's rickrolling us) has a graph for the SUPER SECRET PUE PLAN.
There's a caged, waving Android. There's a notice on a notice board saying "WARNING THIS NOTICE HAS SHARP EDGES DO NOT TOUCH". They've got those kids foot scooter things and a parking bay for them next to the caged Android. Can't remember the rest but there's so much hilarity in it, thoroughly recommend anyone having a quick walk through.
I'm not sure I agree but then, I'm not sure I'd be right.
The application is called iOS Maps, so substituting that in we get
"Presumably if the application was better than Google's offering"
which sounds fine to me. Isn't it a bit like "a group of players was crying" because there's only one group of many players and here there's only one application of many maps? But then you've got "iOS maps" indicating you are referring to the maps on iOS so then yours could be argued as correct too...
Beer because who cares, it's Friday!
Ooohhhh please make this the norm on el reg. A bit of footy banter is all that's missing from the experience. Some people call it bitterness, people in the know cal it banter.
I am a bit gutted you didn't get a dig in a theo, that talentless overpaid schlub needs a good kicking (verbally), don't miss your chance!
Up The Arse!
RTFA. Now, after you've read it again, RTFYA.
It clearly states that they will pay an additional 20% on top of these expenses up to a maximum of £100. So they cover your totally made up costs of £135 and then they'll give you an extra £27 for the heartache. But then again, they'd totally reject your demand of £15/hr for being on the phone and they'll also reject that it took 3 hours cos I can bet you it wouldn't have taken that long.
I'm probably in the minority here but I'm not overly fussed about the UI changes, having got used to the ribbon I now quite like it. So I'm upset about the screenshots (but the ALL CAPS does look annoying).
I don't like it when things are designed for tablets and then forced on desktop users. Metro and the BBC homepage spring to mind. Fortunately here they seem to have paid attention to both sides so maybe credit where it's due there?
But what absolutely kills it for me is this cloud rubbish and the privacy concerns. I might work with sensitive data (whether that's govt sensitive or industry sensitive is by the by) and as such the attempted social integration is a deal breaker. I work on my work, I save it, I print it, I file it. It's mine. I don't want to post to SharePoint or linkedin saying "Updated Production Schedule, last saved at 14.32". Just ... fuck off. Honestly. This social and cloud junk really grinds my gears. I hate what the business world has become because of it, makes me want to punch people in the face repeatedly (:
Brilliant idea! Let's spread it over 5 different operators that each charge their own subscription fees! Give the consumer better choice! Who cares if it costs them an extra £20 a month to view the same amount of football they used to get with Sky!
I'm no murdoch lover but you have to hand it to Sky, they single handedly made football worth billions and now they aren't allowed to have the rights to the football any more so the consumer can have "a choice". But it's a fake choice because the matches aren't broadcast by two different channels, the two different channels just have different games. What sort of choice is that?
There are many bad films, but most of the bad films are bad because they either star nobodies or have the budget of a pub session.
The worst film that was a real film that I've ever seen is 2012. Apart from the flying giraffe (or was it a rhino?) 2012 is abysmal.
Maybe though the people involved in this film wanted it to be bad so they could get the press coverage and get people to buy it "to see how bad it is"? Can't say that's all that bad a marketing strategy if you ask me.
Errr Jan 0, direct debits do put you in control.
Someone somewhere makes a mistake and the wrong amount gets removed from your account? Tell your bank and they are obliged to credit the money (and charges if applicable iirc) back in and investigate the problem at their expense.
Are you perhaps too moronic to be able to check your statements either regularly online or when they come through the post?
It's your money, so save it by using direct debits and spend less time each month checking your statements than you would paying each bill manually. What's not to like?
I don't see why one does not have the right to say to facebook "I would like to leave facebook and as such I politely request that everything you have on me/my e-mail address/etc is removed from your databases."
What's so complicated about that? Sure, facebook ain't gonna like it but I think that simple right is what we should all have.
None of this "some of my posts can stay", just simply "I want to close my account, *delete* it and everything related to it please."
Like it. Like it a lot.
Tell China that they still own the ipad trademark. Tell the US that apple bought the trademark off them and it wasn't fair. That's some seriously good joined up thinking there.
Anyway, no matter how bad these bottom feeders are, they still have my full, unwavering support throughout their fight with apple. I'd support anyone against apple because apple are the problem with their stupid "design patents" and their attempts to patent keyboards from the 70s. Hell I'm even happy for *lawyers* to benefit from all this stupidity!
GO PROVIEW! GO SAMSUNG!
No-one cares about titles, titles are for writers. We are all simple trolls!
Would it not be better to have the reply button populate the reply title with the user's handle and an @? And if we get some clown posting as a coward it could come up with @AC $post_time$ in the reply title. In fact, you could put the time in anyway in case someone posts multiple times in a thread.
It's much easier to see a convo develop when people are referring back to nicks instead of titles because as we've seen here, we can end up with bajillions of "Re:"s and it gets messy.
I think you'll find the male version of valentine's day is much cheaper and is much easier for the other half to figure out what has to be done to "pass the test". None of the "omg, is this the right gift" or "have I spent enough this year?!" worries that males have to deal with (and get wrong regardless of success). Anyway:
March 14th - Steak and Blowjob Day. http://www.officialsteakandblowjobday.com/
But what difference does it make? Sell one to a scalper who sells it to a user or sell one to a user. All that means is that apple have still sold ... one unit at its retail price.
Sure it stops other people making money (how dare other people try to make money as well the dastards!) who you could argue don't deserve it but I don't see apple keeping stock levels high enough in china to keep up with demand so I'm not surprised people are out to make a quick LEGAL buck.
Ford would easily have let me buy a new Focus RS for ~30k for me to then sell it for ~40k (back when they were really new and in demand), so why should apple get in the way of legitimate trading?
The fact that people fall for this sort of trick is exactly the reason why it should have been used to clean the machines. Remember these people have got their machines infected (probably by following a dodgy popup instruction) so it is absolutely correct to aim a legitimate popup at them as they obviously follow these sorts of instructions.
Yes, we tell them every day that it's a ruse and should never be trusted but have they listened?
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