Posts by Michael Souris

Not really a U turn, more a wiggle in the road.

Microsoft are so arrogant that they couldn't even manage a U turn on the Start button; they fully realise that what everyone wants is a Start button that displays a start menu, i.e. the traditional list of programs and, if you must, apps. Classic Shell and half a dozen other add-ons do exactly this. But because that would look to the world like what it is, a full U turn in response to a botched UI project, they do what they think they can get away with in a futile attempt to preserve some dignity.

Well done

Well done Reg for "anguilline".

"Legos" is wrong

LEGO is either a proper noun, describing to the manufacturer, or an adjective - so Lego bricks, Lego sets, etc. are correct usage, but "Legos" is always wrong.

Free marketing

Apple insider starts rumor about product launch. Apple insider quickly denies rumor. Sources are not named.

It's deja vu.

Meh.

Word order

Wouldn't that read better as "with too blunt a pin" ?

DRM gesture

Amazon have to make some gesture towards DRM, or the rights owners would pull their content. It's a sufficiently technical gesture to satisfy the rights owners and put the casual user off rooting the thing, yet easy enough to work around for the enthusiast. Perfect solution, I think.

Him and Mila Kunis?

...batting well above his average...

Pate?

Really? Scalps by the livre, or do you mean pâté?

What a monumental pile of crap

Doesn't render on my IE9

On FF3.6 at 640x480 (yes, they still exist, reason why left as an exercise for the reader) it gets its knickers in a knot when scrolling. Can't leave feedback on the site for same reason.

Final insult; its sets Google Analytics cookies without the user's prior consent. Somebody in .gov.uk not keeping up with new legislation!

Steaming mode?

Steaming mode? Do you mean streaming mode? Or stealing mode?

Meh

Reads like the setup lines in many of the previous BOFH episodes just cut & pasted into a new story. No decent pay-off.

Nothing to see here, move along...

CPiO? Don't make me laugh

Sadly CPiO are the buffoons that brought Scolmore's original Sage implementation in at around 30% over-budget and nearly cost the decision maker his job.

As early as 2000 we (CPiO) were able to provide e-Commerce integration to what was then called Tetra Chameleon in Manufacturing, but the sales clowns were unable to do anything other than "give it away" in a rush to close a deal at any cost.

Sound familiar?

About time too

It is about time that LVCR was terminated; it no longer assists the cut flower trade, and only serves to rack up mileage on low value consumer goods sold in the UK.

The good denizens of the Channel Islands seem to want their cake and to eat it - lower Income Tax, no VAT on low value exports, and demands for zero VAT on imports.

Don't like it? Stop being a British dependency and join the French.

Sawing through a chair

If I could level one criticism of the workmate, it is that if you do saw through it (or between the wooden clamps) then your saw hits the metal framework and instantly becomes fit for sawing only butter - something that isn't true of a wooden saw horse.

But a true inventor, and should be better represented in the Design Museum.

From whihc we can conclude...

...that rather than being lazy, feckless, flatulent, etc. the Mexican people are instead litigious, money grabbing, opportunistic, and share the same lack of understand of irony as their northern neighbors?

One big benefit...

... no staples in the middle of the centrefold.

Plot

***Spoiler alert***

Bond assigned to kill bad guy.

Bond meets beautiful woman. Bond shags beautiful woman, who it then transpires is in some way associated with bad guy.

Bond captured by bad guy.

Bond escapes bad guy, kills bad guy, optionally blows up secret lair.

Bond reunited with now redeemed beautiful woman and fully expects to shag her during closing credits.

Refund?

They want a refund of £30 when it cost the rest of us over £22,000 to issue each card? I think not.

Samsung

Reading the PDF, it's a Skype capable TV with the manufacturer redacted to Xxxxxxx. So that'll be Samsung then.

Digital Fortress

Hmm. Reminds me of the "plot" of Dan brown's Digital Fortress. That was badly written bollocks, too.

And the IT angle is?

Presumably the opportunity to put the word "cock" in a headline...

Back already

Piratebay.org is back already / still online at 10:10 BST.

Tomorrow Never Dies

A BMW you can remote control with a phone? If you can drive it around a multi-storey car park and "park" it in an Avis rental office, I want one...