not enough coffee? Speak for yourself.

Out of the frying pan into the fire!

Yes Ian, you are.

Well done :-)

Plusnet is BT.

When I see those things in shops at Christmas time I think "Santa's grotty".

mutt is the dog's bollocks.

http://www.seeitornot.faketrix.com/funny-pictures-comedy-pics-humor-photos-104-womens-hammer-screwdriver-tool-set.htm

It's called a Protection Racket.

Is that a pun in the flush?

Or something that you'd do if you have a sat nav instead of a brain, like that genius in Yorkshire almost did.

"So, that would be 2 then?"

Yes, exactly as the man said.

Problem?

"makes the product seriously un-cool."

No problem. No-one with a mental age in double figures gives a flying f*** about "cool".

> I learned in corporate America we have no "problems" just "issues" and "opportunities".

and "bollocks".

"I'm sure China or India would love to get a man on the moon, well any other nation just to beat the Americans."

I guess you missed the news about that. It was all low-key and all, and America's not a nation to boast.

What? You think eligible suitors will be browsing El Reg for consumer advice?

Don't you think buses get a bad press?

Judge: I'm sorry Mr. Mouse, but you can't divorce Minnie Mouse just because of her buck teeth.

Mickey Mouse: I didn't say she had buck teeth. I said she's f***ing Goofy!

At first glance I read it as Hitler replied: "Information will be retained for as long as is necessary,"

Scary or what?

Damn it, you're right. Here have a vote.

Oh no! I think I just voted for my own hanging.

To: AC 19:51 GMT

Would you care to comment on starting a sentence with a small letter, or ending one without a full stop?

"The amount of software that has irrelevant toolbars thrown in these days is appalling. It makes me want to go all open-source and grow a beard!"

That's not a panacea, sadly. For example PDFCreator excretes a toolbar onto your browser by default.

Pray tell, where is it a criminal act to wear clogs?

Graham Bartlett wrote:

"And then there's management. Geeks naturally like to sit around gold-plating their software, bcos to them that's the important part. But managers just want something that works, so that the rest of their guys can get on with their jobs more effectively. With management in place, full-time employees are more likely to be doing useful stuff and less likely to be gold-plating some unimportant element. And team-leaders/architects are also on hand to help ensure that the code is well-designed, not the tangled mess that a lot of hobbyists end up creating."

Half a lifetime of real-world experience shows that to be a flight of fancy.

Most managers just want something out of the door when it was promised. When push comes to shove, most don't care that much about whether software works well, is well designed etc.

> > What version of Linux does Apple use and what products is it in? There's loads of OSS stuff they use like GCC.

>

> GCC is not part of Linux, Linux is the kernal. FSF/GNU/OSS != Linux

Which is the same distinction that John 62 made, as I read it.

"idiots like Mad Mandy will be taken in yet again"

I Don't think Mandy is an idiot.

Nor would I accuse him of being fair, decent, just, honest, scrupulous, etc.

"they have a finite number of people working on the code and testing, whereas millions around the world get their hands on the product."

"millions" is not the opposite of "finite". It's just as finite as any other number you can write down.

"Why not levy a charge on every unlimited broadband user, say £20 a year, to be divided up between the copyright holders."

In other words steal from the innocent to give to the rich.

See anything wrong with that?

"As for IE8, I use that for intranets, work related sites that I trust, but also, surprisingly, for the banking sites that do not work with Opera...in preference to using Firefox because I ultimately do not trust add-ons enough to let loose on my financials."

You could define another profile in Firefox, with extensions disabled, if you like.

Just a thought.

Not until now.

Presumably they were larger before the outer layers were toasted.

Duuude!

"I'm sick of this Government. Bring me a new one."

in other words "Do it the same. But BETTER".

"No wonder Mr. Blair abandoned this sink ship years ago!"

For it was he who holed the thing below the waterline.

"I bet it's a joy to drive on windy days (or when passed by a big lorry or bus)."

Joe User, it's not the mass that matters, it's the centre of pressure.

Also the balance of grip between front and rear tyres.