* Posts by Robert Ramsay

575 publicly visible posts • joined 25 Sep 2006

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Miserable Brits declare War on Comfort

Robert Ramsay

Definition of a Puritan...

...someone who gains guilty pleasure out of denying themselves something...

Logitech keyboard rides the Wave

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why in Sam Hill...

...have Logitech decided that "ergonomic" means doubling the size of the delete button and shoving the insert key off to ghod knows where?. I don't think you can now buy a Logitech keyboard with the standard 101 key layout now.

Still, the actual reshaping of the qwerty keys themselves seems like a good idea. If it wasn't for the stupid delete key, I'd consider buying one of these...

Microsoft grows despite Windows Vista

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Vista is the new ME

...my wife bought her new computer before the end of January so she still got XP built in...

Ex-Broadcom CEO broadsided by cocaine and orgy torture charges

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Not now, Kato!

Is anyone else getting visions of a cocaine-fuelled Inspector Clouseau?

Google pressed to reveal AdWords secrets

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My experience with AdWords

When I tried to advertise a music site with AdWords, almost all my words were rejected - I got the impression that either you had to sell everything to do with the word in question, or you were (for example) the only supplier of left-handed hamster prosthetics in the world.

Oracle sends bloke cardboard laptop

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RE: amanfrommars

can I put him on /ignore, please?

Teenagers prefer mobiles to sex

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Joel...

Pay as you Come, surely?

...I'll get me coat...

Dutch police arrest 111 West Africans in 419 clampdown

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Evolution

The whole point of being human is to try and rise *above* the blind forces of evolution. The dinosaurs didn't have a choice. We do.

Macs are more secure: official

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I found these adverts annoying

but I couldn't have said, with my hand on my heart that they were incorrect.

And "The Naughty Step" made me laugh, despite being so rubbish and gratuitous.

Parallels enhances Windows-on-Mac tool

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Classic

amusing to see that they chose World of Warcraft for the screenshot - one of the PC games which actually comes in a native Mac version!

Porton Down bio-terror tech re-used in odour-proof pants

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Surely...

you can get the same effect by shoving an Odour-Eater down the back of your pants? Triple layer activated charcoal yadda yadda...

McCain wants Ballmer as ambassador to China

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As the Vulcans say...

"Only Ballmer could go to China..."

'Dettol Man' cleans himself to death

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curiously...

..."Niemand" is the German word meaning "Nobody".

Microsoft squares up to Google with $6bn buy

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The return of Clippy?

"It looks like you're buying an Operating System!"

Germans invade Second Life

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I'm a bit browned off...

...with the constant tone of "moral high ground" from people who profess to detest Second Life and go out of their way to belittle it, but seem, at the same time, to know an awful lot about it. I think you'd be a lot happier if you stopped sneering and just came out of the closet wrt to Second Life.

You can take the piss out of stuff (the press conference interrupted by a horde of flying penises was hysterical) without taking some rubbish "holier than thou" tone about it. Compare the tone of most of your Second Life articles (though not all - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/02/20/second_life_analysis/ was the most thoughtful article I've read on the subject) with, say, the article where the editor of the Economist laid into the Microsoft sponsored love in.

Engineers write defence against aliens manual

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And if we give up...?

http://www.angryflower.com/cookie.html

Robo-rights speculation rubbished by researchers

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Mr Sharkey obviously hasn't heard of...

...RealDolls (tm)

http://www.realdoll.com (probably NSFW)

High level Night Elf druid saves PC gaming

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Glass House in Stone Shock

The fact that you got the WoW terminology right shows that you already know enough to be tarred with the same brush.

Although everyone knows it's Blood Elf Paladins, not Night Elf Druids :p

Canadian seal hunters trapped in ice

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Serge, the Seal of Death says:

IT WAS YOOOOOOOOOOOOU!

<hail of machine gun fire>

Afghanistan succumbs to killer virus hoax

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...or possibly...

Stephen King's new bestseller "Cell"?

Wanna copy of Windows XP next year? Forget it

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We've been here before...?

I expect what will happen is what happened with NT 4.0.

Loads of big customers put pressure on Microsoft, and they ended up extending support for the OS waaay beyond the date they tried to force everyone to upgrade by.

and as for the person who said "you were daft enough to buy windows games in the first place so there's no helping some people." it helps not at all to pour scorn on people who want to play a game that is only available on Windows. Read: most of them.

Adobe targets developers with Apollo

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Another source of security troubles

integrates with web services? Writes directly to hard disk? Terrific.

Richard Clarke: cyberczar, prophet, terror tech porn king...

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Laugh out Loud indeed

Clarke will have to go a long way to out-laugh Matthew Reilly, whose heroes pilot 747's down lift shafts and have to defuse doomsday devices whilst locked inside tanks that have just been pushed out of a plane by neo-nazis...

Toshiba HD-E1 HD DVD player

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At least you can charge your iPod off it...

So that'll make it the most versatile wall-wart in existence, then...

Could you be addicted to the internet?

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Signs of addiction

P'raps the family of the addict should look for laptops in plastic bags taped to the inside of the toilet cistern.

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