re UK Apple / Samsung iPad copy apology - humour

2012-07-19 Thread Brian Risbey
Hope this okay to pass on:

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1717.html

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Re: re UK Apple / Samsung iPad copy apology - humour

2012-07-19 Thread wa...@realworldcomputing.com.au
Hi Brian,

That cartoon is not too far off the mark. Personally I think the judge is 
taking some sort of mind bending substance.

U.K. Judge Colin Birss has ruled that Samsung can continue selling its Galaxy 
Tab 10.1 in the region because the Android tablet is 'not as cool' as the iPad 
and therefore is unlikely to be confused with Apple's slate. Samsung's Galaxy 
line of tablets 'do not have the same understated and extreme simplicity which 
is possessed by the Apple design,' Judge Birss said. 'They are not as cool.'

Regards,
Carlo


On 20/07/2012, at 10:54 , Brian Risbey wrote:

 Hope this okay to pass on:
 
 http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/joyarchives/1717.html
 
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Nostalgia / humour question

2011-08-17 Thread James Devenish

Hi,

I'm pretty sure, many years ago, an official Apple User Guide had an
illustration of an iPod being used by a server administrator as a disk
to install software on an Xserve or something. Anyone remember what
document this was, or have a link to it online?

James



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Re: Humour (or is it horror?): Why Microsoft shouldn't try to be cool

2009-01-27 Thread Peter Hinchliffe


On 27/01/2009, at 9:17 AM, Mark Secker wrote:

I mean if the Zune wasn't  a big enough  wake up call to  Microsoft  
that they can't do cool  then Songsmith should be:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

honestly I couldn't even get past around the 20 second mark

it's so bad that it breaks the Sontag Notes on Camp  theory and   
goes right through so bad it's good  in to a whole new world of
so bad it's  bad



And just what can you, as a user of songsmith do?

well you can kill such classics as these

http://gawker.com/5138788/awful-product-with-awful-ad-makes-awful- 
music



Obligatory Mac Content:  Microsoft's own PR/Marketing department  
must hate Microsoft... once again they release promotional media  
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Let's all give thanks that they covered up the Apple logo on the lid!   
I would hate to create the impression that Apple could ever be  
associated with this.


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Humour (or is it horror?): Why Microsoft shouldn't try to be cool

2009-01-26 Thread Mark Secker
I mean if the Zune wasn't  a big enough  wake up call to  Microsoft  
that they can't do cool  then Songsmith should be:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

honestly I couldn't even get past around the 20 second mark

it's so bad that it breaks the Sontag Notes on Camp  theory and   
goes right through so bad it's good  in to a whole new world of
so bad it's  bad



And just what can you, as a user of songsmith do?

well you can kill such classics as these

http://gawker.com/5138788/awful-product-with-awful-ad-makes-awful-music


Obligatory Mac Content:  Microsoft's own PR/Marketing department must  
hate Microsoft... once again they release promotional media with the  
product user using a Apple Mac computer.


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Re: Humour (or is it horror?): Why Microsoft shouldn't try to be cool

2009-01-26 Thread Chris Griffiths

Is that ad for real or is it a joke??

Regards Chris G

On 27/01/2009, at 9:17 AM, Mark Secker wrote:

I mean if the Zune wasn't  a big enough  wake up call to  Microsoft  
that they can't do cool  then Songsmith should be:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

honestly I couldn't even get past around the 20 second mark

it's so bad that it breaks the Sontag Notes on Camp  theory and   
goes right through so bad it's good  in to a whole new world of
so bad it's  bad



And just what can you, as a user of songsmith do?

well you can kill such classics as these

http://gawker.com/5138788/awful-product-with-awful-ad-makes-awful- 
music



Obligatory Mac Content:  Microsoft's own PR/Marketing department  
must hate Microsoft... once again they release promotional media  
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Re: Humour (or is it horror?): Why Microsoft shouldn't try to be cool

2009-01-26 Thread Mark Secker


On 27/01/2009, at 9:23 AM, Chris Griffiths wrote:


Is that ad for real or is it a joke??

Regards Chris G



if the New York Times is correct apparently not:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/25/business/25digi.html?_r=1ref=business






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Re: Humour (or is it horror?): Why Microsoft shouldn't try to be cool

2009-01-26 Thread Glenn Nicholas
This is a truly awesome development.
Mac sales already up 9% last year, and now this :)

By the way, check out 'Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith' on youtube.
Roxanne is pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypycpKQxXR0

Glenn.

2009/1/27 Mark Secker m...@biz.uwa.edu.au:
 I mean if the Zune wasn't  a big enough  wake up call to  Microsoft that
 they can't do cool  then Songsmith should be:

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

 honestly I couldn't even get past around the 20 second mark

 it's so bad that it breaks the Sontag Notes on Camp  theory and  goes
 right through so bad it's good  in to a whole new world of   so bad it's
  bad


 And just what can you, as a user of songsmith do?

 well you can kill such classics as these

 http://gawker.com/5138788/awful-product-with-awful-ad-makes-awful-music


 Obligatory Mac Content:  Microsoft's own PR/Marketing department must hate
 Microsoft... once again they release promotional media with the product user
 using a Apple Mac computer.
 
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Re: Humour (or is it horror?): Why Microsoft shouldn't try to be cool

2009-01-26 Thread Chris Griffiths

Thank goodness for Apple ;)

On 27/01/2009, at 9:56 AM, Glenn Nicholas wrote:


This is a truly awesome development.
Mac sales already up 9% last year, and now this :)

By the way, check out 'Classic Hits by Microsoft Songsmith' on  
youtube.

Roxanne is pretty good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypycpKQxXR0

Glenn.

2009/1/27 Mark Secker m...@biz.uwa.edu.au:
I mean if the Zune wasn't  a big enough  wake up call to  Microsoft  
that

they can't do cool  then Songsmith should be:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3oGFogwcx-E

honestly I couldn't even get past around the 20 second mark

it's so bad that it breaks the Sontag Notes on Camp  theory and   
goes
right through so bad it's good  in to a whole new world of   so  
bad it's

bad


And just what can you, as a user of songsmith do?

well you can kill such classics as these

http://gawker.com/5138788/awful-product-with-awful-ad-makes-awful-music


Obligatory Mac Content:  Microsoft's own PR/Marketing department  
must hate
Microsoft... once again they release promotional media with the  
product user

using a Apple Mac computer.

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Windows humour.

2004-05-05 Thread Oldham, Toby

I'm still working away transitioning my office to a primarily Windows
Operating Environment.

I just noticed the acronym works out to be 'WOE'.

*sigh* ;-)

T.


Re: Windows humour.

2004-05-05 Thread Craig Ringer
On Wed, 2004-05-05 at 14:08, Oldham, Toby wrote:

 I just noticed the acronym works out to be 'WOE'.

A Windows CE migration of mobile devices is even worse, given the
typical abbrevation WinCE.

Craig Ringer



[Humour] for the nerds

2003-09-12 Thread Andrew Schox
Hi all,

For those of you who are programmers, I just found the following site:

http://mindprod.com/unmain.html

on how to write unmaintainable code.

Enjoy!

Andrew



Re: [Humour] for the nerds

2003-09-12 Thread Mark Secker

Beat this:
when I used to cut code one of my then managers used to use
go-to's in Cobol report writer...

and the code between the go-to condition and the go-to point was
basically fluff to up his line of code per day count. über-coder?
über-bonus scammer more like it.

if you know Report Writer  you know what I mean if you don't it's an
extremely simple, mostly sequential, script like language derived
from Cobol where there is very little conditional testing  - and
that's usually a single do until EOF (end of file).




Hi all,

For those of you who are programmers, I just found the following site:

http://mindprod.com/unmain.html

on how to write unmaintainable code.

Enjoy!

Andrew


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[humour] Latest Switcher Ad?

2002-10-07 Thread Christopher Scopa
Hi Everyone,

Okay I don't normally send joke emails, but this switch ad takes the
cake http://www.macboy.com/cartoons/switch/gates/ 

This won't be a regular occurrence, hope the group doesn't mind.

Chris.




Re: JunkMail... OT Humour

2002-09-24 Thread Susan Hastings
If beautiful women are attracted to an object, perhaps they could be 
reprogrammed to be attracted to something cheaper than a Ferrari!!



On Tuesday, September 24, 2002, at 12:36 AM, Phillip McGree wrote:



1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up 
beautiful women


- Yeah, buy a Ferrari derr... even I had that one figured out 
years ago!



Rgds,
Phil



No Ferrari
No beautiful women
No chance at all



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Re: JunkMail... OT Humour

2002-09-24 Thread Phillip Arena
Another easy way is to sneak up on 'em, grab them around the waist 
and hoist them high in the air. I use this method for picking up lots 
of things.


:)

Phil


1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up beautiful women

- Yeah, buy a Ferrari derr... even I had that one figured out years ago!


Rgds,
Phil



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No beautiful women
No chance at all



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Re: JunkMail... OT Humour

2002-09-24 Thread themenubar
Seems that we are trowing around a lot of  today

You could just try hitting them on the head and dragging them off by their
hair. I know it sounds a little old fashioned but it is guaranteed to work
providing you also lock them up in their ivory tower, but they are more than
likely grow their hair long dye it blond and escape.





On 24/9/02 11:45 AM, Phillip Arena [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 Another easy way is to sneak up on 'em, grab them around the waist
 and hoist them high in the air. I use this method for picking up lots
 of things.
 
 :)
 
 Phil
 
 1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up beautiful women
 
 - Yeah, buy a Ferrari derr... even I had that one figured out years
 ago!
 
 
 Rgds,
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 No beautiful women
 No chance at all
 
 
 
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Re: JunkMail... OT Humour

2002-09-24 Thread Greg Hosking
On 24/9/02 12:36 AM, Phillip McGree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 
 1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up beautiful women
 
 - Yeah, buy a Ferrari derr... even I had that one figured out years ago!

bloody hell I have so much to learn... I thought it was men who were
attracted to cars, but now I see that it is women. This must explain why
women drape themselves over the bonnets of sportscars at any opportunity.

thanks phil!

greg



Re: JunkMail... OT Humour

2002-09-24 Thread Mark Secker


I'd take anything Phil say's with a pinch of salt. I mean we're 
talking about a guy who's fashion/transport sense stops at cargo 
shorts and trail-bikes every body KNOWS that chicks dig leather 
chaps/Harley's and Dianese leathers/Ducati's ;)


(but don't believe me ether my fashion/transport sense stops with 
waxed cotton safari suit Belstaff and vintage BMW bikes)


at least his/my tastes in computers is a little better (oblig semi on 
topic content)



On 24/9/02 12:36 AM, Phillip McGree [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:



1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up 
beautiful women


- Yeah, buy a Ferrari derr... even I had that one figured 
out years ago!


bloody hell I have so much to learn... I thought it was men who were
attracted to cars, but now I see that it is women. This must explain why
women drape themselves over the bonnets of sportscars at any opportunity.

thanks phil!

greg


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Re: JunkMail... OT Humour

2002-09-23 Thread Phillip McGree

1 bloke wants to share his secrets with me on how to pick up beautiful women

- Yeah, buy a Ferrari derr... even I had that one figured out years ago!


Rgds,
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Re: Humour

2002-04-22 Thread Onno Benschop
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 00:49, John Currie wrote:
 One would have thought that a man as literate as you would have no need of
 a spelling checker or a good English dictionary

As soon as I figure out how to get spell checking working on Debian
Linux, using Evolution, I'll be a good citizen - in the mean time I'm
attempting to avoid words that are longer than three cylablle, no,
words, not damn, how do you spell it, (went to the old NT box, fired up
Word, looked it up) syllables.

Humour is a funny thing. Everyones funny bone is in a different spot.
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Re: Humour

2002-04-22 Thread John Currie
on Monday April 22 Onno Benschop wrote after selectively quoting from my
off list message

Humour is a funny thing. Everyones funny bone is in a different spot.

A trite cliche, totally unscientific and if it were true what a sad old
world with nobody being able to share a joke with anybody.

What Onno is trying to say is that not everybody shares his sense of humour
, very few it seems.

Stick to the facts Onno. Sincerely you are really very good at that

onjay urriekay ..pig latin for John Currie




Re: Humour

2002-04-22 Thread Matthew Healey
On 22/4/02 10:41 AM, John Currie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 onjay urriekay ..pig latin for John Currie

Now THAT's funny!

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Re: Humour

2002-04-22 Thread Onno Benschop
On Mon, 2002-04-22 at 10:41, John Currie wrote:
 on Monday April 22 Onno Benschop wrote after selectively quoting from my
 off list message

Sorry, that was a mistake...
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Semi OT (Humour): Latest Microsoft update (worth a read)

2002-01-31 Thread Phillip McGree
http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm

The article covers and explains the RTFM term that is regularly used in 
computing.

VERY worth having a look at, although once word gets around I think that 
particular web page will be taken down.

People that consult and deal with users might want to put their clients/users 
onto it.

:-)



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Re: Semi OT (Humour): Latest Microsoft update (worth a read)

2002-01-31 Thread Shay Telfer

http://www.microsoft.comitem=q209354@

The article covers and explains the RTFM term that is regularly 
used in computing.


VERY worth having a look at, although once word gets around I think 
that particular web page will be taken down.


The page isn't actually on Microsoft's site, it's just a URL that 
redirects through Microsoft to


http://hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm

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Re: Semi OT (Humour): Latest Microsoft update (worth a read)

2002-01-31 Thread Warren Jones

Getting technical here...

Redirects through Microsoft? My understanding is that the URL spec is
protocol://user:password@host:port/path

I assume anything before the @ would treated as username only if there 
is no :. Therefore the URL

http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.
htm

Means go direct using http to hardware.no with username 
www.microsoft.comitem=q209354. MS has nothing to do with the URL or 
redirection. It's just a cleverly constructed username to make it look 
like its going too www.microsoft.com.


woz


On Thursday, January 31, 2002, at 01:13 , Shay Telfer wrote:


http://www.microsoft.comitem=q209354@

The article covers and explains the RTFM term that is regularly
used in computing.

VERY worth having a look at, although once word gets around I think
that particular web page will be taken down.


The page isn't actually on Microsoft's site, it's just a URL that
redirects through Microsoft to

http://hardware.no/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20HOWTO.htm

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Re: Semi OT (Humour): Latest Microsoft update (worth a read)

2002-01-31 Thread Shay Telfer

Means go direct using http to hardware.no with username
www.microsoft.comitem=q209354. MS has nothing to do with the URL or
redirection. It's just a cleverly constructed username to make it look
like its going too www.microsoft.com.


Indeed.

Have fun,
Shay
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Re: Semi OT (Humour): Latest Microsoft update (worth a read)

2002-01-31 Thread Logical Developments
on 31/1/02 10:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 http://www.microsoft.com[EMAIL PROTECTED]/nyheter/feb01/Q209354%20-%20
 HOWTO.htm
 
 The article covers and explains the RTFM term that is regularly used in
 computing.
 

Hi All,

Sorry to disappoint you, this site is a HOAX.

You are actually being connected to the website hardware.no/nyheter/f... as
a user named 'www.microsoft...'

Must admit, I didn't pick it up until one of my (even geekier than I am)
friends showed me.

Regards,
Paul.
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