Posts by Craig

Proper 1080p projectors

... can be had for under £1,000 anyways online. What's the point Samsung?

Where do I claim the £500?

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Anyone who mentions Amero

Has probably seen the Zeitgeist movie! The bits on religion were good, got a little over the top towards the end tho :)

Fake I reckon

'cos of the mobile phone video. The windows all happened to be covered so the footage comes out OK ;)

I've never worked in an office with closed black-out blinds...

Mmmmm

I like where these form-factors are going!

I'm still with Bulldog...

... without any problems, awesome speeds and no caps etc... hope this doesn't bugger it all up!

Airports, grrr

I had a keyring taken from me in Birmingham Airport 'cos it was an empty bullet case (with a massive hole in it for the keyring part). I said "What am I going to do, throw it at someone?" -- this didn't go down well at all!

I can't believe how many people have dissed the wearing of the t-shirt just because the guy is 30... what fucking losers!

fake!

These pics were on BBC1 this morning, and tbh they look pretty staged / fantastic.

My first question would be why bother painting themselves red all the time?

paypal screwed me just yesterday

It let me pay twice for the same ebay item, which just goes to show how little checking/validation must be going on with PayPal. (Paying twice was a result of an error on their site, I'm not that much of an idiot!)

Of course, I couldn't really contact them for any type of help. After going through several hoops trying to remedy this on their site, i got to a dead end that said because the transaction was already a done deal, there was nothing I could do but ask for a refund from the other party.

Luckily the ebay seller was honest enough to give me my money back to PayPal, but I'm not allowed it back for several days for some reason.

Not exactly...

spied in the wild photos are they? I'm not saying they're fakes, but these pics could just be some very nice renders :)

Nokia?

I don't know anyone who still has a Nokia, and I myself think they've lost their way with the phones. It's all Sony Ericsson or Viewtys at my place.

MoS

Is that the official acronym for the Mail on Sunday now? I thought Ministry of Sound had done something wrong :)

Sourceforge owns slashdot?

No way, Slashdot 0wns all other websites!!1

Sky Anytime

Sky already do the iplayer-esque Anytime service, which uses the box's hard drive to save overnight streams of programmes for a psuedo on-demand service. It's entirely feasible to get something similar for the BBC on the go, but probably not for *every* programme.

There's always the ethernet port on the back of Sky boxes that could be used... Despite how much Sky don't like the bbc/iplayer, getting it on their platform would still be good for them.

If The Reg had played the game...

... they'd know the character is called Niko, not Nikko :)

I managed to buy the game without assaulting anyone, but I guess that's not as newsworthy

Gimped

This sounds like a gimped extension to the Sky download / Kontiki POS.

The alternative is pick up an old LocationFree from ebay and watch and control anything on your PSP, live, be it satellite or cable :)

Speed of shooting

Wouldn't that improve if you used a better memory card? Several seconds in between shots sounds terrible...

I'm guessing a slow memory card may have also caused the panorama problems.

BT: "It wasn't illegal"

So? Anyone who uses this defence probably doesn't have any scruples. Something being 'legal' doesn't automatically make it OK.

I would have had a tiny bit more respect for BT if they 'fessed up to maybe making a mistake or 'error of judgement', some other bullshit.

@Glyn

Learn how to use services.msc and edit your start up?

@VIDEO RECORDER

I've often wondered why the iplayer needs to be, and why we have all those annoying +1 versions of channels. All the data was sent out and received already as TV signals already, which is lot more efficient than using the net.

Local storage is cheap. I've got a media center PC with 4 freeview tuners in it and it's recording pretty much constantly. It's very easy to start grabbing anything interesting like all the movies, the local news, and anything else goes on a series link. I don't watch it all, but it seems with my set-up I've already out done any 'on demand' service.

I want one!

In fact, I've wanted one for a while now.

The best thing they do is hook up to an all-you-can-eat subscription music service, with browsing/downloading done on the unit itself via wifi.

I understand most people don't like subscriptions like Napster, but I appreciate them, and that coupled with the entire library accessible on the player itself is a real neat feature.

re: crappy camera

This phone is all about being slim, with the camera as a nice add-on. A 'crappy' camera is better than none at all, and this one has at least gone from 2mp to 3.2mp.

I can't believe the Reg posted this

What hope for the comments when the whole article is trolling?

To set the record straight:

Vista is faster than XP on my machine (dual boot, easy to spot)

On my laptop I stream music and browse wirelessly just fine, contrary to AC comments.

+1 happy vista user

SZ4 ?

I don't know if that's an old model, but I have a SZ65 and can get a good 4-5 hours out of it

doubting it's silent

The PS3 is entirely silent (well mine is). My 360 on the other hand is very loud, even without a game in :(

The HD-DVD is still a decent proposition. There are over 500 HD-DVD title out there, and you can use it for DVDs as well, so you can have a movie and a game in your 360 at all times for the uber lazy. It also adds an extra couple of USB ports to your 360 round the back if you want them (for usb drive/cam etc).

@ Vulpes Vulpes

Sorry if I'm missing some irony or sarcasm, but 'way back in 2007'? You mean just a few months ago... as opposed to 2005 when the trials started?

"probability of employment"

Every university has to compile these stats and make the information available. It's usually the responsibility of the Careers department: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=graduate+destinations

Vista 'not so bad'

Well, some poor user has to stick up for the OS in a barrage of obligatory Vista-hate, so it might as well be me.

I like Vista, I have no software / hardware problems, and it runs faster than XP does on the same machine (dual boot). It's taken a while to get used to it, but now I find myself trying to do 'Vista things' at work where I still use XP.

Releasing Windows 7 so soon would be a mistake I reckon. XP only got where it was by sticking around long enough for everything to work. MS need to stick with Vista until it properly matures.