Posts by Dire Critic

Iran threatens to chuck sueball at Google over missing gulf

Re: And are then countersued via the WTO...

"I thought the iRaq was a digital music player/brassiere?"

Nah, it's a pet name for Mrs Jobs' chesticles.

Facebook's Eduardo Saverin: I'm not a tax-dodger

Re: Just another example of the NOT SO FREE nations child like attitude.

Please don't come to the UK, for your own safety. You'll likely stroke out when told you'll have to pay National Insurance.

Microsoft books stall at Appule - the Mac expo stiffed by Apple

Perhaps...

...it should have been called the CrabApple Expo?

Spy under your car bonnet 'worth billions by 2016'

Re: @Nuke Before anyone says "here comes big brother"...

Speed doesn't killl...

...inappropriate speed does.

China begins work on world-beating MEGA power cables

Re: NO FUCKING P IN HAMSTER!!!!!

"Blimey - you learn something new everyday - firstly that you can have 's and Ps and secondly that sometimes grammar Nazis do actually talk out of their arses after-all!"

Don't believe everything some stranger may tell you.

Re: NO FUCKING P IN HAMSTER!!!!!

"Except that there can be - it's a (secondary) alternate spelling."

Not in any dictionary I know of.

Re: NO FUCKING P IN HAMSTER!!!!!

...and in the right situation there *could* be an apostrophe in "1980s"

Only to clarify an ambiguous meaning or if it's possessive.

Or, of course, if one is a greengrocer.

Re: More than enough...

Having worked for The Hamsters for more than 15 years I can state quite categorically that there's NO FUCKING P IN HAMSTER!!!!!

Sorry, just a long-time irk. I feel slightly better now.

It doesn't bode well...

...when they can't even spell sulphur correctly.

Adobe backs down, patches critical Photoshop CS5 hole

Re: It's time

Urggghh, GIMP and Inkscape: the graphics equivalent of pulling teeth.

NB: The version of Photoshop that comes with CS5.5 is actually PS 5.1, not 5.5 at least it is on my 2 grand's worth of CS5.5 Master Collection.

And I'm sure my accountant is going to have a thromb when I tell him that another 2 grand is going on CS6. Yet that is still preferable than using the FOSS equivalents,

Having said that though, Adobe software is the only reason I'm running Windows. Should they branch out into Linux them I'll be there like a shot.

'Oppressive' UK copyright law: More cobblers from IP quangos

"moving the break-even point further into the distance"

Ah, but there's the rub. Hollywood accountants deliberately use creative accounting techniques to make sure the film never does break-even, or even to ideally make a loss. They do this to prevent having to pay taxes based on profits, to reduce monies going to stars who are on a percentage of the profits etc.

Not only do the Hollywood bean counters rip off us, the public, they even rip off their own.

Moore's Law has ten years to run, predicts physicist

Re: Moore's Law - so what

"You will never know what tomorrow killer app will be or how much power it will need..."

We just know that it'll be bloated, slow and take up twice as much drive space as its predecessor.

Jury mulls verdict in Oracle-v-Google Java spat

"ignore the lawyers"

Now that's what I call a legal precedent!

BT missing from Pirate Bay High Court slap-down

"whole of the creative community will benefit from today's action"

Bollocks! It's the accountants who'll benefit and they'll just carry on using their finely honed techniques to screw the artists out of even more money.