* Posts by Frank 2

58 publicly visible posts • joined 17 Jun 2009

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Orange boasts: We made Google PAY US for traffic

Frank 2
WTF?

Re: That's great...Orange

I'm not sure you understand -

Google pay Orange for fast connections.

Google stop paying, Google stop getting fast connections.

Have I missed something?

Google turns off Chinese censorship alert service

Frank 2
Childcatcher

"embedding the censorship alert function in the HTML of its home page"

Can anyone explain how they did this?

Mark Zuckerberg doesn't know how to use HTML5

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Joke

Re: Spectacular Graph

and will finish in 2032....

Google took a bath on Android in 2010, judge reveals

Frank 2
FAIL

Re: What comes to mind...

cheap?!

Newzbin barrister struck off for owning site he represented

Frank 2
Pint

The issue is

the word is slimeballs?

Child labour, lost wages uncloaked by Apple factories audit

Frank 2
Devil

Unite

Perhaps we should send Len McCluskey over there to sort it out.

Google attacks Twitter's search bias claim

Frank 2
Black Helicopters

I am

muahaha

The Commodore 64 is 30

Frank 2
Joke

What about the hand-carved C64?

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/06/30/419_plonker/

Cops arrest cop in alleged corrupt cop-bung probe

Frank 2
Big Brother

Farce

Apparently this is the first police officer arrested under the investigation, all the other arrests have been journalists. I guess they must all have been getting their information from this one woman, either that or the investigating team has a massive conflict of interest.

I hope the courts make an example of her in the same way as they did the rioters.

BT's gift to Google: A patent war over ads and Android

Frank 2
Go

Ready...

...cue loads of freetards explaining how this is a conspiracy by MS & Apple to stifle St Google, and has nothing to do with Google stealing ip from technology companies to try and sell their adverts.

Woz's key to success: Burn the tie, wear T-shirts to work

Frank 2
Joke

Really?

How on earth did they all fit?

Open-source skills best hope for landing a good job

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Joke

Agreed

That's why we use DB2.

Ice Cream Sandwich

Frank 2
Black Helicopters

The difference between Apple, MS & Google

With Apple and MS you are the customer, with Google you are the product.

Time up for Oracle's HTML5 killer?

Frank 2
WTF?

Side-effects

Raising an event is now a side-effect?

Microsoft to offer dual upgrade path for Windows 8

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Thumb Up

erm... it does...

That's the point, Metro is for phone and tablet but it also works on the desktop, On the desktop you can switch to 'Desktop' mode when working and 'Metro' mode when you want to check your position on the Angry Birds leaderboard.

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Thumb Up

Muliple devices

So you can run the same software on your phone on your tablet and on your desktop.

Microsoft trousers yet more royalties from Android gear

Frank 2
Holmes

Because...

Google don't make money from selling Android.

Gay-bashing cult plans picket of Steve Jobs funeral

Frank 2
Stop

Attention seekers

I really wish the media (yes that means you!) would stop giving these morons the attention they so clearly want. Ignore them and they will go away.

'iPhone 4 to be free' when new iPhones ship

Frank 2
Mushroom

Learn to read

"So, what you're saying is, the only reason people don't buy an iPhone is cost?"

Where did he say that?

Microsoft's high-risk Windows 8 .NET switch

Frank 2

'tablet-only environment'

FYI - Windows8 can run in 2 modes: 'Metro' and traditional desktop.

World takes notice as SSL-chewing BEAST is unleashed

Frank 2

hmmm

PayPal must be delighted...

Grow up, Google: You're threatening IT growth

Frank 2
Stop

Google are anti-competitive

Microsoft and Apple are engineering companies and they need each other - Microsoft need Apple to keep the monopolies commission at bay and Apple need Microsoft to provide MS Office on iOS and to make them look 'cool' in comparison. Apple and Microsoft have lots of patents because they have created lots and lots of new technologies over the years.

Google are an advertising company and their sole aim is to get as many people onto their systems as possible. Unfortunately due to their dominance in the advertising market they have crap loads of money which enables them to force their way into any market they want by trampling over the opposition. The only anti-competitive behaviour going on at the moment is being done by Google. Of course they want to get rid of software patents because without them they would be able to take over the world without giving anyone a dime.

Frank 2
WTF?

What are you on about?!

Do you have anything to back that up? Anything at all?

Frank 2
Thumb Up

you're quite right...

iFrames were first introduced in Internet Explorer in 1996. In 2006 Microsoft were granted the patent for the basic Ajax technology which they invented.

Microsoft plans to open 75 retail stores in US

Frank 2
FAIL

Sorry but...

how is the joke meant to go?

Stand by for Nokia launching legal action - "selling stuff in shops is OUR idea".

not as funny and I've never seen a Nokia shop anyway so it doesn't work.

Lighten up... IT'S A JOKE!!!!

Ballmer's breaking point: Is Windows 8 already too late?

Frank 2
Stop

"Access secret files, password hunter1"

article (a) is a scam site and article (b) is an April fool. You are a muppet.

Google bypasses admin controls with latest Chrome IE

Frank 2
Black Helicopters

This should look good

in Google's antitrust case...

Windows 8: Microsoft’s high-stakes .NET tablet gamble

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FAIL

id10t

put up with what? The problem is that Microsoft are not being clear about the future of Windows development. We need to make decisions now but don't have the information needed to do so.

Russian computer programmer buries himself alive

Frank 2
Black Helicopters

cunning excuse for murder?

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[body]

XXXX

Nokia: When pigeons fly home to roast

Frank 2
Holmes

All they need to do...

..is create a smartphone that actually lets you make telephone calls while you're still indoors.

Chinese teen flogs kidney to buy iPad

Frank 2
Pint

monorenal

I misread that but it still made sense, v.g.

Google floats monthly subscriptions to Chrome OS notebooks

Frank 2
FAIL

Business & Students??

Business & Students seem to be the main 2 groups of people who would actually need specific installed software in order to do their work.

This makes sense for home use, but I guess the money is not there.

Sergey Brin: Only 20% of Googlers still on Windows

Frank 2
Headmaster

You missed the point

The point is that *you* should taste the food you are giving to your dog == *you* should use the software you are giving to your clients.

Saying 'eat your own food' is stupid because if you didn't you would be dead.

Gmail users howl in anguish at 'disappeared' accounts

Frank 2
WTF?

near future

'...we expect a resolution for all users in the near future. Please note this time frame is an estimate and may change.'

change from the 'near future' to the 'far future'? 'to never'?!

Windows Phone 7 gets 'goodie' update

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Thumb Down

It's called

A JOKE. Please try and get a sense of humour, you're giving the other WP7 users (both of them...boom boom) a bad rep.

Pitiless teen burglar murders three witnesses

Frank 2
WTF?

Couldn't happen in the UK

The police actually followed up the crime report by going to a nearby pawn shop. That's beyond the call dude.

Microsoft's IE9: Don't believe the hype

Frank 2
Boffin

HTML5?

If you think that's slow, how long has the HTML5 standard been kicking about

Assange relishes US banks 'squirming' over 'megaleak'

Frank 2

only person ever?

erm... Roman Polanski?

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Thumb Down

Examples

Please could you list the people who have actually been harmed/killed as a result of his leaks?

Sacked health care BOFH jailed for revenge hack

Frank 2
Joke

small fine

can't believe they only made her pay $17 million...

Tech firms warn Ireland on bailout

Frank 2
FAIL

Offices in Ireland are their *European* offices

"When we compete for jobs and investment we are competing not against the European Union, but against countries such as Singapore, Israel, India and China."

Utter bullshit, they already have factories/offices there, the ones in Ireland are to serve the EU.

Google sacks Eric Schmidt memo leaker

Frank 2
Grenade

As someone once said...

"If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place."

Eric Schmidt

Ballmer's 'lost generation' note finds resonance

Frank 2
Joke

one word...

QBASIC!!

Indonesian parliament gets smut eyeful

Frank 2

It is written...

and it's called Muphry's law.

Google vanishes Android apps from citizen phones

Frank 2
Troll

Sergey...

is that you?

Googlegate: Mapping a scandal of global proportions

Frank 2
Joke

Compensation?

I think Google should have to setup an escrow account used to compensate all members of the U.K. whose data they intercepted.

Roughly $20 billion ought to cover it!

Microsoft picks over Google's Windows exit strategy

Frank 2
Gates Horns

Could happen

"Windows is known for being vulnerable to attacks by hackers and more susceptible to computer viruses than other operating system"

...but there's a crack team of Microsoft developers just waiting to put that right just as soon as Chrome OS gets released!

Was Microsoft's Office 2010 worth killing Clippy?

Frank 2
WTF?

That's a bit like saying...

Volvos are crap because there were 2000 road deaths in the UK last year.

Drought effect on rainforests is negligible

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Thumb Down

Science

if you think you are a scientist you are sadly mistaken.

BBC: Grasp the high-speed runaway cloud nettle

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Pint

Hotel California

Surely this was a bet to see how many 'Eagles' lyrics she could shoe-horn into one report. Although clearly I'm too young to remember their classic 'Grasping the Nettle'

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