Posts by Combat Wombat

Thank you Mr Howard...

Even after you have left office, you are the gift that keeps on giving..

Poor Monty

Maybe he should go and roll around in his money for a while, to cheer himself up

Not shocked...

Australia has a long and established history of killing the science goose, because they are generally short sighted and stupid.

Modern wireless tech was designed despite government involvement, not because of it.

I was all for this protest..

Until I saw her rationale behind it.

Oh for the love of DOG !

There are a shit load of reasons to protest this, but "because the voices in my head say so" Is the worst reason.

Please have that girl tested for schizophrenia ASAP.

That worked so well...

for Vista didn't it ?

Most IT shops are going to go to Win 7.. and stay there for the next 10 years

So first Marines in Darwin...

Now this..

looks like Australia is succumbing to the same military herpes that Japan, Germany, Iraq, Afghanistan, Cuba etc all have.

Once you have yank bases, you have them for good.

They can aim for the window... and hit it ...

Like a bird.

Win 8 is going to be the upgrade everyone skips, because it's crap.

Only if...

They fire Balmer first !

Noooooooooooooooooooo Don't take my beloved netflix!

Watch MS fuck it up.... move the whole platform to silverlight. then make it so it's Xbox only and completely screw up the content.

Someone get the jumbo popcorn !

This is going to be fucking fantastic !

I wan to the world + dog pan this OS, and hopefully the sweaty, chair tossing, monkey boy gets shown the door.

Maybe Google is hiring ?

Best quote I have seen on this story...

"This might lead her to losing a lot of votes from voters playing Alliance characters."

That said, I love the fact that her "secret life" involves a computer game, while that of a lot of republicans involve fucking men in public bathrooms."

Pure gold..

I'll keep using..

Firefox...

safe and no ads ftw !

Microsoft will continue to suck...

for as long as the hairless, brain damaged, sweaty, stupid, gorilla is in charge

sack Ballmer !

Not shocked in the slightest

The Australian movie industry has all but died, what with the dollar being at parity with the US for so long.

The local Australian industry is one big circle jerk, only ever making movies about the emptiness of suburban life, and how hard it is being middle class.

So yes, now the foreign work has left, it's really just putting extra bullets into the twitching corpse.

Paging Dr

Bullshit.... paging Dr Bullshit.

GoDaddy is clearly lying to save it's own ass.

Sharp still exist

Who knew...

It's interesting ..

I doubt even JA was smart enough to plan all this, but the net effect its pretty clear.

The US is putting pressure on Sweden and the UK to get him and they are both bending over and spreading their cheeks as fast as they are able.

The UK is willing to risk an international incident, just to please their American sugar daddy.

I wish I could say at least AUSTRALIA was standing up for one of their own... but they too are laying there, spread cheeked for their US masters.

Maybe we can get him Kiwi citizenship?

Put him up with dotcom ?

I call...

Shenanigans!

Or better yet !

Accounting Fraud !

Will not be buying win 8..

If this is locked to my mobo, and my mobo gets fried, in means I have to buy a new license as by Microsoft rules, it means I have a new PC.

FUCK THAT !

Wow... in ride...

The white knights, and feminized men!

No wonder the industry is phasing out booth babes, because they have the army of ball-less white knights to do it for them.

Sad.

I am...

....Jack's complete lack of surprise.

Its the same story with AFACT.

AFACT, doesn't give a shit about the local Australian industry, and is more about protecting the big AMERICAN studios.

Tweets provide better comentary...

Than the twats on TV.

Seriously, every nation is making a complete and utter dogs breakfast of it.

Easier to watch the raw footage, with the sound turned down than listen to NBC go on about how the Olympics related to Ryan Seacreast and dancing with the stars.

Or worse yet, CBC (Canada's broadcaster) Playing "5 degrees of separation" with every athlete and Canada.

Worst of all is the Australian coverage, with consists of the presenters masturbating furiously when an Australian wins a medal.

If no one is winning a medal, they cut back to past Olympics of the same event, where they did win a medal, and start jacking it all over again

I just tell women...

I deal drugs to school children.

I get a better reaction.

Tell them you work in IT support, they either run away, or ask you to fix things.

When I make the leap to Project management, I am just going to tell them.

I solve problems, like Mr Wolf in Pulp Fiction.

This has been tried...

They tried this back in 2001, and it was a dismal failure, because Aussie IT shops do not want to train or develop their staff.

It's a cultural issue in Australia, that they want someone they don't have to do any training.. they can plonk them in a chair, and expect them to do it.

Oh, and they really don't want to pay market rates.

The skills gap that Australian businesses whine about is a myth. It's the fact they don't want to pay market rates.

40K/ year in places like Sydney and Melbourne is not enough to live, and if you do a quick google search, an almost unskilled Lvl1 IT job is going for closer to 45k right now.

Govt fail.

So glad I moved to Canada

Coles are a pack of complete muppets,

Having worked for them, this doesn't surprise me in the slightest.

Watch this last for about a year or two, and be a complete circus

Yup ! time to get those win7 certs

Win 7 is the new XP, its going to be around for the next 20 years, and will be pulled from business users cold dead hands.

Near real time

You'll still need to give it to the censors, to block out all the US army bases.

Google ran into the same issue with google maps.

The hits will..

Keep on coming.

This is just the start of a whole heap of bad decisions coming home to roost.

Can we please sack Ballmer ?

The giant sweaty monkey has to go

Yup.. screw the US

Why should the rest of us be made to pay to subsidize your crap system?

US internet is America's problem.

So, maybe fix your laws, and make your multi billion dollar cable providers actually pony up more for infrastructure.

Or follow Australia's lead, and re-cable the country with fiber, independent of the existing system

Why not bring it under the CSIRO ?

After all their patent wins, they should have come cash floating around.

Yeah.. I wouldn't get your hopes up

This s just deferring it till after the elections.

Even then, there is no US treaty stupid enough, for the Australians to reject.

We may put up a token fight, but when it comes to our US over lords we bend over and spread cheeks eventually

Alternate title

Microsoft Monkey CEO blows 1.2 billion dollars on pointless acquisition.

Ballmer building case to be fired for incompetence.

And Windows 8 will be awesome...

Can someone please fire the following departments at Microsoft

Marketing

PR

CEO

They have clearly lost the plot, assuming there was one to begin with

New York ?

Does anyone else find it ironic that it is now residing in the city that pretty much killed NASA, and is really the antithesis of everything NASA stood for?

You have Wall ST, which killed the economy, and rather than funding going to NASA it bails out rich pricks in suits.

The engineering spirit that drove NASA is totally absent in New York. NY is a sieve that separates money from people. NY doesn't actually produce anything except rich assholes.

The shuttle is more a trophy. a head mounted on a pike as a warning to others.

You want aussies business in "the cloud"

Fix up;

Trans pacific links

Crap US privacy laws

Then we might talk

3 versions...

None of which I will be using.

having seen the interface, WIndows 8 will be an abortion.