User: edittard

Re:Ok, but what does it take to be a critic?

On: In France, Only Journalists Can Film Violence

and who is or isn't a journalist.

I think we can all agree on who isn't a journalist: Roland Piquepaille.

Next question: who isn't an editor?

Re:Shocking...

On: iPods to be Used as Flight Data Recorders

You seem to have left out the thing that is flash based and belongs to Nano.

Slow news day or no news day?

On: Ten DS Games That Should Be Made

Top ten months for posting crappy top ten lists:

1. December
2. December
3. December
4. December
5. December
6. December
7. December
8. December
9. December
10. December
11. November *
12. December

* Only the last week

It's March, FFS. Shouldn't we only get this top-ten-tripe around year end?

Re:I consider this part of the "cop tax"

On: Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges

You get a special plate and an insurance discount.

And an exmption from the laws of physics.

Re:More likely

On: Fermi Paradox Predicting Humankind's Future?

Sure- you *might* be able to theoretically build a ship that could go further

And the minute anyone seriously suggests that it's theoretically possible that maybe it's plausible, Roland Piquepaille will post a story saying that it's been done and FTL drives are available right now.

Re:what certain scenarios?

On: OLPC Has Kill-Switch Theft Deterrent

assuming someone high up in the country gives a shit about what's happened.

ROFLMAO!

Nice one, Zonk

On: A Criticism of Race Portrayal in Games

and comments incitefully on

I doubt that incitefully is a word, but even if it is, I doubt it's the one you were looking for.

Re:buzzword enabled

On: Database Bigwigs Lead Stealthy Open Source Startup

Flat-text files on NFS shares :)

Thingy and whatsisface, ia bar.

Shitholespunky again

On: NASA World Wind 1.4 Released With Trailer

NASA had to shift it's priorities

No, NASA is not priorities. Priorties is plural, so they^H it would be "are priorities", if it wasn't for the fact that it are^H is the National Aeronautical and Space Administration.

Re:And how?

On: EU Bans Sock-Puppet Blogs

companies wanting to do this will just do it via multiple intermediaries

So will this bill put Roland piquepaille out of business? Or make him a millionaire?

Re:Stupid idea

On: Storing Wind Power In Cold Stores

I was thinking along much the same lines, so I read TFA a bit more closely.

Despite what it says, it's got sod all to do with storing energy - more like using some at low demand times to avoid using it at peak times, e.g. by pre-chilling the cold store at night. It's just that the retards who wrote the original article and submitted it don't have a clue between them.

Needs-to-get-out-more

On: A Wikipedia WIthout Graffiti

From TFA:

There's nothing more fun than switching back and forth between reading about the history of human evolution, and following the latest speculation about the identity of the mysterious R.A.B. in the Harry Potter books

Is this from the needs-to-get-a-fucking-life dept or what?

Re:Product managers...

On: Why Software is Hard

You wouldn't let a journalist build a space shuttle or a car now would you? But software? Sure, software is easy, anyone can do it.

[PHB] Heck, what's the difference? Journalism, programming, they both look like a load of typing to me! [/PHB]

Re:A dream come true?

On: Uncle Sam Spoils Dream Trip To Space

But apart from that, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Hemos with a silent exual, on the ball as usual

On: Adobe To Release Full PDF Specification to ISO

PDF has reached a point in it's maturity cycle

In it is maturity cycle? That doesn't make any sense at all.

Re:You don't understand "pundits", grasshopper

On: Why the iPhone Keynote Was A Mistake

That's, in a nutshell, how all the Cringelys and Dvoraks and other bullshitters in tech journalism stay in business.

And Roland Piquepaille.

Re:RAW format anyone?

On: Researchers Developing Single-Pixel Camera

Yes. The article is, as usual, bullshit.

Re:As an employer?

On: Why "Upgrade" To Office 2007

that is what the employers will expect all of our student's to know

One, it doesn't make sense to say "all of" when there's only one student. Secondly, you left out the thing that the student owns. Hope that helps.

Hemos, useless as usual

On: Why "Upgrade" To Office 2007

and it's default format

Is it?

Re:idiot pedants (somewhat OT, sorry)

On: Indian Rocket Blasts into Space

Apart from the fact that life is too short to argue over this one, consider that it arises from an inconsistency in English.

So what? It is how it is, and if you use it wrongly you're wrong. If you ever get round to learning any other languages you'll learn that they're not exactly as regular as C++ either.

I'll reinforce the point someone else made: even if it's excusable for the submitter to make the error, an editor should have caught & corrected it - it's what they're there for.

TAHT

On: How Do You Know Your Code is Secure?

Tihs Zokn guy, has he toltatty lots the polt or waht?

Dupe central

On: Is Ubuntu a Serious Desktop Contender?

Sigh, dupes here too. See: http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/12/26/ 0851218 - and both posted by Cliff.

Re:PreacherTom is an Astroturfer

On: A History of Game Consoles, As Seen on TV

I reckon he's Roland Piquepaille's sockpuppet.

Re:I want to mod the article flamebait...

On: Has the Desktop Linux Bubble Burst?

Come to think of it, aren't we overdue for a slew of "2007 Is Going To Be The Year Of Linux On The Desktop!" stories?

Surely they'd get rejected. After all, they'd just be duplicates, more or less, of the 2006 stories. And the 2005 ones.

What I want santa to bring me

On: Best (and Worst) High-Def Discs of 2006

Can we have a section just for these lists? Because ... er, I totally like them so much I want to be able to find them among all the boring real news.