Nothing personal, your take on appletards was very close to what we read from antiappletards. Your imitation was flawless :-)

I am often amazed on how they describe Apple consumers as blind fanatic zealots while saying "I rather join the communist party than buy from Apple" (real quote, search the forum).

No, I am not a Merkin, unless you count South Americans, in this case, please don't.

Have a pint. We South Americans don't care which day of the week it is or even hour of the day.

"When are all those Appletard fanbois out there"...

I often wonder whether {radical political|religious|utterly paranoid} nuts write something like that to further incite their clueless followers.

"When are all those [insert offensive but catchy collective name for non-followers] out there going to face up to this and admit that [their belief] is nothing but a huge failure, cobbled together from [whatever unprovable and/or utterly irrelevant factoids] and marketed at [another collective insult], baffled by anything [feature of their belief that may be actually desirable]."

Hey, this is fun. Have one on the house:

"When are all those science-believing muppets out there going to face up to this and admit that evolution is nothing but a huge failure, cobbled together from writings from a man who believed his grandpa was a monkey, baffled by anything that makes sense and can be proved."

Oops - you've used the troll icon. Never mind, keep calling us fanbois. That'll change our minds and ensure we appreciate your points of view.

If you could make it work couldn't you just patent it and/or sell to one big medical equipment company for more than <drEvil>TEN MILLION DOLLARS?</drEvil>

Just asking.

"Apple will probably''...

Do we have a tinfoil hat icon?

24 is....

... associated with homosexuality, but as far as I know only in Brazil.

I know why but 1) it is Friday; 2) it is a silly story and 3) I am too lazy to tell.

Why $1tb?

It isn't a lot of money these days. Ask for One... Hundred... BAJILLION DOLLARS!

Memify this!

"The Register" "blood on its hands": 4980

"El Reg" "blood on its hands": 20

"The Pope" "blood on its hands": 24800

"You" "blood on its hands": 523000

"Snooki" "blood on its hands": 3920

"andre the giant" "blood on its hands": 17

"the moderatrix" "blood on its hands": zero hits (so far!)

Schmitle

Or at least do things in a way that does not borks your code every time a new version is released. I liked the idea of having deprecation warnings in Java -- you code would still compile but you've been warned. I am not sure any class was ever deprecated, though.

Anyway, partially agree, but for a more lively discussion ask people who had VB6.0 code then had to migrate to .Net.

"Not different enough"

Let's see if I got it:

1) "Unnamed insiders" spread lots of lies^H^H^H^H facts about features for the new, improved iPad.

2) Some of those facts are supported by badly photoshopped pictures leaked from Chinese makers.

3) iPad fails to deliver all those reported improvements. How DARE they?

4) The Reg complains because the iPad is not what they (we? who?) expected.

OK, people, let's play the iPad 3 Game. Spread facts/wish lists about the iPad 3 and let's help with the writing of the next year's report on how it failed to live up to the rumours. I'll start:

The iPad 3 will be released on June 1st, 2011. At the same time the iPad 2 will start selling for 50 bucks, with that fancy cover for free. It will have four -- nay, 16 times the resolution, weight 100 grams (102 for the 3G/4G model), a full telepathic interface, Bose speakers, 1Tb of RAM, ports for SD, Memory Stick, USB 3.0, Firewire, eSata and Thundercats or whatever the name of the new port is, a *physical* keyboard, a carbon fiber body, non-reflective screen, two 14Mp back-facing and two 8MP front-facing cameras and will be, from day one, available in black, white and Ferrari red.

It will still run iOS (version 7.0) so people can still complain about the lack of whatever they want.

Here's a photo of it, got it from a neighboor's dog, which owner, I am quite sure, eats in a Chinese restaurant whose owner is cousin with someone that may or not be a worker in a Chinese company on something that may or not be related to Apple. There are some teeth marks on it, but if you squint really hard you can recognize the features and endlessly (or at least until June 1st) speculate on them.

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(ok, I am a bad photoshopper).

Re: I dislike this sort of cheap "journalism" too

From the article: "We won't spend much time complaining about Oracle's legal broadside on the Android operating system, but that's another reason you may want to avoid Java."

That explains it all for me -- Oracle is being bad to Android so let's us give Oracle a wedgie by uninstalling Java from our desktops.

Teaching programming

Some people still use Pascal to teach programming -- not that I'd do that, but I agree that *concepts* are more important than *tools*, at least for teaching programming.

In a side note, I love when I get people's CVs which mention HTML as a programming language... I have to resist the urge to ask them to implement a sorting algorithm in HTML.

Lazy students

Once, while working in a local college, I had to deal with complains from a student (administration major) that the librarian "wasn't helping at all with her research".

Following rules, I've asked the librarian about the problem. The librarian told me that the student went to her office asking "what's the difference between culture and civilization". The librarian told the student to search in the encyclopaedia, and five minutes later the student was back complaining that there were entries for culture and for civilization, but not an entry for "difference between culture and civilization".

No sympathy for that student.

And...

"bans" is not the same as "advise not to use". Even the "ban" being considered will be applied to "certain German ministries".

But hey, they've got our attention.

"they invented the Graphical User Interface"

I don't care -- I also don't care about who invented the mouse, the wheel or the pizza. I just use them.

Don't.

There are still many vuvuzelas on the loose, El Reg may be tempted to use some on the soundtrack.

Also, the lady in question is 49. Nothing against the age and the sex, but that isn't something I'd want to see.

I was about to write the same comment...

... in a different way:

Ugh. Colorful but pointless graphics. Edward Tufte'll get you while you're sleeping.

"Soon you will have 100Mbit Internet in your home."

I've heard that one before -- circa 2000, if I am not wrong.

Come on...

Who is really, truly obsessed by Macs, iPads and iPhones, and can't talk about anything else? Regtards, of course.

I am surprised we don't see more "news" like:

"New botnet discovered -- by a AV researcher who, when asked, said the iPad is cool"

"Naomi chucks another phone at a servant... if it was as heavy as an iPhone it would really hurt"

"Watch out for the next Microsoft's Patch Tuesday -- iPhone upgrades not included"

"Obama says Nasa will go again to the moon... which is orbiting the Earth... which contains several million iPhones."

"Several UK voters used their iPhones before voting -- what does it mean?"

Ho hum...

Yet another "stop doing what Steve Jobs says and do as I say" visionary.

"Consumers should react !"

<sarcasm>Yeah, they should stop doing what Steve Jobs tell them to and start listening to YOU!</sarcasm>

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"A democracy is when I order you around. A dictatorship is when you order me around. -- Millor Fernandes"

"So WTF is the point of this piece of kit. Only a retard would buy this"

Read as "I don't want one and I don't want you to have one either".

Good idea!

"So if you really must print something, do it in 6pt and buy a magnifying glass..."

... and go read it on a very sunny place. Yes, with the sun at your back. Notice the very bright point of light on the paper? Is it too bright? Douse the paper in gasoline and it will disappear.

She-ra

?? Without the quotes, check the first hit.

http://www.milkandcookies.com/link/79320/detail/

Toys depicting fictional characters which we may assume are not underage -- is it a crime?

1%?

Just out of curiosity, what's on that 1%?

It's worse than that!

Sometimes I see equations with an 'y', and in an ancient Russian book of Physics there was an equation with a 'z'. We're doomed! DOOMED I SAY!