Is Google the new Microsoft?

Electron Shepherd

Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

I'm going to rename my company The Monopolies Commision then.

Presumably head office will be a really expensive hotel in Mayfair?

Dalek Dave

Stiffles? What the hell is Stiffles?

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Dalek Dave

Why is there only ONE Monopolies Commission?

------------------------------------ "Children today are tyrants. They contradict their parents, gobble their food and tyrannize their teachers. I despair for the future." Socrates 400BC

Big Daddy Farang

Good question. I thought it slang from your side of the pond.

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Christopher Duncan

GPL Stifles Competition GPL Stifles Careers There. All fixed now.

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kinar

Google passed microsoft years ago on all fronts of technology. This of course also includes the amount of evil they promote.

Nemanja Trifunovic

Yes, Google is new Microsoft. And Microsoft is new IBM. And IBM is new... well nothing; IBM is the same old thing.

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Pete OHanlon

Why is Dyslexia so hard to spell?

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hairy_hats

Why does the Sun come out during the day rather than at night when the light would be useful?

Henry Minute

How on earth do they get non-stick coatings to stick to frying pans?

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Henry Minute

It is the feeling you get in your stomach after eating too much triffle.

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Dan Neely

Why do hot dogs come in packs of ten and hotdogs in packs of eight?

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Judah Gabriel Himango

Yes.

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urbane tiger

piffle BTW : if you're running Cool Previews it may be hiding the Pins, try relocating its gadget, see Options - "Show the Preview Window when I ....", they used to have a delta by which it could be offset but they took it away; I nned to complain as it was me who requested its inclusion in the first place. If you're not already using CoolPreviews then its worth a look. and they don't actually stick the Polytetrafluoroethylene onto the frypan, they weld it on.

Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.(Pliny)

urbane tiger

IBM seems to be regarded the Jolly Blue Giant these days. I wonder how we'll regard IBM they when they takeover Microsoft. They've still got the cash they were going to use to get SUN before Evil Larry outbid them. They've got to do something with it, either return it to the shareholders or spend it, its not earning much right now. The regulators wouldn't let them get HP because HP has EDS, whereas IBM & MS don't actually compete on much these days, given that it was IBM that more or less spawned MS, it would be sweet irony to see them eat their own offspring. I think everyone should lay off Google till it eats the Apple, by which they will prove themselves to be Beelzebub incarnate. Then we can go after the new entity, Scrambled Fruit as it will undoubtedly be named, so as to rid the world of such an dastardly confection.

Multi famam, conscientiam pauci verentur.(Pliny)

SimonRigby

Sweeping .. banal .. oh and wrong :)

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BC3Tech

Why is abbreviation such a long word?

GuyWithDogs

Why are the letters in "alphabetical" out of order?

Dan Neely

so you can abrev it.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of brains must be in want of more brains. -- Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

Lost User

So you can choose whether or not you want to buy eight hot dogs in a pack or ten hot dogs in a pack??? However, I assume you mean: Why do hot dogs come in packs of ten and hot dog buns come in packs of eight? :-D