What's this guy so excited about?
By silicon.com, 25 May 2007 13:21
This competition is now closed. The winning entry, from silicon.com reader David Caddick, was: "Intel, Centrino, dual core, vista, I-this and I-that. It's enough to drive you up the wall!"
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1. Julie
So this is that 'glass ceiling in IT' that I keep hearing about
2. Radical Meldrew
Apparently Intel's latest promotion didn't impress everyone. "The poor man must have forgotten his glasses, I would have gladly read out the bus sign if only he had asked said an astonished bystander"
3. Rob Pendragon
One of the few benefits of getting your shoes covered in pigeon poo
4. Rob Pendragon
Spiderman never felt comfortable when his outfit was at the cleaner's
5. Raven Clare
There's ruddy chewing-gum everywhere
6. Raven Clare
This must be part of Intel's new Dual Paw technology
7. Matthew Horwell
The new Nike / Ipod / Intel Training shoes proved that they were capable of moving the human body to new heights!
8. Paul B
Lift too conventional for you?
9. anonymous
Bob was beginning to wonder whether his SatNav was being deliberately difficult
10. Rob Falconer
Sir Alan Sugar likes to play yo-yo with his staff
11. Matt Wheeler
As usual it was a lack lusture launch for Intel at the local bus stop compared to the normal AMD Event.
12. Rob Falconer
I go and buy all this nautical gear and then they tell me it's an ab-sailing weekend
13. Ian Paterson
Intel give a practical sales chart demonstration representing industry take-up of their new processor
14. anonymous
Intel inside???
15. anonymous
Oh now I can see what bus stops here !
16. Iain McCulloch
Trying to make sense of Intel's press release was enough to drive the Weekly Roundup up the wall!
17. Randy Iam Lee
Centrino Sideways... No bounds, No limits...Defies gravity.
18. Malcolm George
Tired of waiting for a bus ? Try the 'Livingstone' alternative
19. Ivan Hamilton
Proof, if we needed it, that public transport drives people up the wall.
20. Alan Tierney
New laptop based pedestrian navigation software still needs some tweaking
21. Greg Smith
Bugger, why didn't I spot that bus stop befo...
22. Arthur Crisp
Achieve the impossible! go Intel Centrino Pro
23. Nick Butland
Just testing the emperor's new mattress...
24. Arthur Crisp
Oh dear! he must have used Intel centrino pro.
25. Mike Pascoe
Another Microsoft Vista user !
26. anonymous
Getting a wifi signal ain't this hard in San Fran.
27. Colin Campbell
I TOLD YOU HELIUM INHALATION COULD BE DANGEROUSE.
28. Ian Paterson
Intel give a practical sales chart demonstration representing industry take-up of their new processor
29. anonymous
Latest fast processor slowed by latest bloated software sends another user up the wall
30. Mike
Bus queue not impressed by human wrecking ball
31. David Richmond
Man in hurry discovers new way to read LT bus stop sign and timetable
32. Richard
Who broke Moore's Law?
33. Richard
Clocked, demonstrating the "speed-step" suspended power-down where the bus slows.
34. David Lowe
"Damn SatNav screwed me again!"
35. anonymous
These Intel guys are just driving me up the wall
36. Richard Holt
Doesn't it drive you up the wall when you are kept waiting for something that is basically old technology, but never seems to run properly, or on time, or get you where you think you should be?
37. kenneth wilkinson
"It was an unusual way of putting eyedrops in."
38. Rob Pendragon
Ruddy Equality Act. Now I've got PMT.
39. John Ray
Waiting ages to get data on your bus ? Laptop downtime driving you up the wall ? Try new Centrino Pro from Intel !
40. Dave Devine
If I drop this window leather one more time I'll scream
41. Dave Devine
I bet he uses Centrino-fugal force
42. Dave Devine
Intel someone inside to open the door I'm sick of using windows.
43. Dave Devine
If only I'd brought my glasse I wouldn't have trouble seeing what number bus stops here.
44. Simon Coley
The Nutty boys are back in town!
45. anonymous
Neo knew instantly something was wrong: They must have upgraded the Matrix with those new fangled Centrino chips.
46. Franz Schweinsteiger
The new Centrino pro has got a firm foot hold and is about to turn the market on it's head.
47. Andrew Davies
Tightrope act goes wireless
48. Steve Angell
Tantric meditation is needed to calm the mind after using Vista
49. Steve Mcneill
So many Intel chips. Which one to choose... it's enough to drive you up the wall...
50. anonymous
Oooo - that will hurt when he hits the pavement!
51. anonymous
Intel, Centrino, dual core, vista, I-this and I-that. It's enough to drive you up the wall!
52. Franz Schweinsteiger
Introducing the Intel Centrino pro fly on the wall documentary
53. anonymous
Derek Chose the unusual option of committing suicide by jumping "face up", thereby adding a welcome element of surprise when he hit the pavement.