Posts by Northern Fop

Ahhh, Google

Stick to advertising, eh.

Danish Cartoons Mk.2

Aieeeeeeeeee!! Burn the infidels!!! How dare you portray his holiness's likeness!!!

*cut to scene of confused iFans burning a Galaxy Tab*

Etc.

meh

The headline should have been:

Customers with 2nd generation product with umpteen software updates happier than customers with first generation product with no significant updates SHOCKER.

But shorter.

FF7

It all went down hill after this.

Not quickly downhill mind you, but pretty inexorably.

So a bit like Global Warming, but with invertebrates

Scientist A: Aiiiiieeeee, we're doomed.

Scientist B: This is normal. Calm the f*ck down.

Joe Public: Huh?

(to be fair, with AGW it's scientists A-J saying 'doomed'; K-X saying 'we need to worry about this'; and Scientists Y&Z saying 'drill, baby, drill')

Commenter?

I am a COMMENTARD, and will accept no alternative!!

"Client computer market would have shrunk without tablets"

So....people bought iPads (and other tablets) *instead* of a laptop or desktop. That's what you're trying to say, no?

In other news, moon not made of cheese.

"It's being hailed as the answer to almost all tech problems"

So, this year's carbon nanotubes then...

I can see my house!

Not really.

Moving goal posts

Used to a time where you measured one companies products against another. IBM sold X boxes, Gateway sold Y boxes, Apple sold Z boxes. The fact that the first two ran the same OS wasn't really part of the headline.

Yet now Apple is so dominant in the smartphone sector the only reasonable comparison is to compare them against the mulititude of companies offering Android devices. These aren't small business's either - Samsing, HTC, Motorola, et al are all giant, multi-billion dollar enterprises. Yet Apple still has close to half the global market, and the only meaningful measure is to compare them against all the rest combined (fast-sinking ships like RIM and Nokia excepted). Amazing.

(btw, before I get called a fanboi, I don't like Apple, and I don't own a single Apple product, but I think they're a remarkable company)

TJ Hooker = Heather Locklear

Not in ANY WAY "best-forgotten".

Fool.

*Never* use an application called iPray

You'll lose your very soul...

Fools and their money

For the price they're asking on ebay, I'd expect his mummified corpse in a Swarovski encrusted display case, not a naff Action Man(TM) with specs.

IT WILL FRY YOUR BRAIN!!

Ok, I think there's a lot of FUD out there about electrosensitivity and mobiles causing cancer and all that rot. Nothing out there that's remotely persuasive, and certainly nothing that would stop me using or mobile, or lead me to take away my kids (yeah, like that would go down well).

BUT.

Do I really want a transmitter sat 6" from my head for 8 hours a day on top of my normal daily usage? I bet the mattress interferes with the signal (metal springs) and so the phone is more likely to be a higher output than normal too. Hmm, irrational or not, I really don't like the idea of that...

(icon of man whose brain is melting, natch)

Grrr

As a Brit, sitting in an office in Britain, browsing a British site, it's f*cking annoying to hit the 'Buy from Amazon' button and end up looking at prices in dollars...

£2,000 of security training?

Er...shouldn't he be the one *giving* the training?

1 Degree Celsius?

Luxury! When I were a lad we had.....oh I can't be bothered. Post xmas do malaise and all that. Pffff.

Plus charcoal, wood, neutral etc. Someone else can explain.

Urrrhhhhhhhhh, my head.