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Laser iPhones shrink your brains
But overpriced booze doesn't - honest
Columnist Guy Kewney had a rant about Gmail, an annoying missing feature and his treatment at the hands of a lady at their press office. Most of you didn't receive it very well:
I raised this issue recently with a Google engineer. How long before someone takes issue with the "beta" label of one of the Google services in the courts? It's currently a get out of jail free card for anything on offer but at some point some numpty is going to rely on one of these services on something for their business: you shouldn't be doing anything related to your business on anything without a service level. You know this and yet you still do it.Charlie Clark
As anyone else reading your article will no doubt be thinking - why not just log into Gmail once and again to check your space, clear out junk mail, etc - and find something a little more worthwhile to lose your sleep over?Anon
So, you were recommending that people switch to a beta product, and are surprised that said beta product has minor issues that wouldn't be tolerated in a production release.How, precisely, is this Google's fault?
Then, rather than follow Google's standard method of reporting a feature request online, you chose to phone Google and are surprised that they don't take feature requests over the phone. Hrm.
Ezekiel Hendrickson
Be happy, Mr. Kewney, that your story isn't about Apple. As then there would be about 80 comments here by now and you would be accused of bad journalism, being a sleazeball, don't getting "it", etc.However, Google and its followers are getting there.
Marco
And there they got. Head on over to the comments page to witness a rather impressive flood of vitriol.
Some rich twit blew £105k on booze in a London club on Saturday, presumably making the owner and suppliers very happy. This record-breaking splurge drew your derision and disbelief:
That amount of champagne couldn't possibly have been drunk by 18 people so I suspect a lot of it was sprayed... that painfully wallet-hurting extravagant sport usually reserved for Formula 1 drivers and very happy successful people with more money than sense.Ian Ferguson
Of course the club in question can prove that it was expensive champagne served to the customer and not some Asti Spewmanteeeeee rubbish costing them a fiver a crate.Pete James
This could only ever have happened in London. In the Real World outside the M25, you can buy your own pub for less than that!A J Stiles
A lot of these clubs often charge a larger sum of money due to the champagne spraying. These people with more money than sense like a good time, so there is also a hefty cleanup bill at the end of the evening too. Some clubs include the fee in the bottle price, some charge a specific figure before you start and others bill you seperately after the event depending on how much needs cleaning up.Remember:- these clubs very often have to be ready for another rich mug to come strolling through the door the very next day, so cleanup has to be high quality, quick and most likely an overnight job, so it's damn expensive.
Rob
Well, El Reg's hacks must have been there, sounds like their kind of thing (maybe a bit on the cheep side, but got to slum it sometimes), so there's the IT covered.Only one question, where was my invite?
Anon
I'm afraid we gave all our spare invites to stunning totty. Wouldn't you have done the same? In any case, we're off to attempt to recreate this high-flyer's feat. We probably won't manage, being stingy bastards, but we'll have fun trying. ®