Posts by Suburban Inmate

Smeared "mess" on the walls, eh?

Could have been worse.

Could have been Lawrence Llewellyn-Bowen.

I wonder

Is the reported location of the cell towers inaccurate *but* compensatable if you you (Apple, operators, porkers) are aware of the inaccuracy?

I am just a humble man...

...who cannot afford a FancyFone of any type but....

"channel9...." Am I the only one that thought "Scorchio!"?

Email and Mobe No.

Were shared to my "friends"* for a few days until I realised what was going on. Fail most is my advice, better cruel to be kind.

*People I upon which I do not currently wish harm. Yet.

Nokia 2610

Calls, texts, alarm clock, countdown timer, stopwatch, reminder calendar, around a week battery life, small and light. I'm a happy chap. Though whoever thought the silvered screen face was a good idea needs a ruddy good slap! In bright light I still want to use my phone, I don't need a makeup mirror. Ever.

I do realise the practical needs of others may sometimes be much more, e.g. remote admin of a Level 1 FUBAR situation when away from your network and the PFY is stumped and the boss is having kittens.

However, I suspect that many people need much less phone than they actually want.

The one that keeps me warm and dry, thanks.

OMFG Humans!

Cover your eyes and run for your lives!

*sigh* If animals were intelligent enough, they'd all be extinct from laughing at humans.

Great timing guys!!!

I just went from being a daily chronic piss-artist on Friday to teetotal on Saturday, the worst weekend of my life. No seriously, I did... Alcohol withdrawal is NOT fun! Cold sweats, shaking, confusion, hallucinations, and maybe the occasional seisure, functionally equivalent to an epileptic fit.

Still, you've got to wonder why nobody thought of this earlier!

(The one with the car keys, cheers!)

Ahhhhh memories!

I remember all the epilepsy bullcrap from the 90s. I'm sure many others do.

Night Trap anyone? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_Trap

(And, yes, as I never played it I just ROFLMAOed at the name of the "Attack Team"!)

Paris cos she looks like the covergirl.

This is truly progress

Now the Stella can cut out the middle-man and beat the wife direct!

The white sleeveless vest, ta.

I predict a kerfuffle

...When the Chinese start punting generic active 3D specs for about a fiver a pair, akin to those "universal" remote controls that look so tempting in Poundland.

Reminds me of Al Murray's "Pub Landlord"

His routine on British thinking: "The glass is from France, the beer is from Germany. Put them together and what have you got? A beautiful British pint!"

(Well OK, pouring a pint doesn't involve double-sided sticky tape)

Maybe they mean _detected_ piracy

I.E. busting counterfeiters. Maybe skint punters are getting savvy with BitTorrent etc?

Good grief I must be lucky

... judging by the comments here.

I took a case with a load of odd electronic equipment in it, cables, few tools, 3 x 600w HPS lightbulbs (yes, the green-fingered sort), old skool steel cased KVM switch, god knows what else. They didn't even bother opening it. KVM switch could easily have contained a few shoes worth of play-dough. I was in a tatty hoodie and jeans. All the bloke whinged about was the weight. Didn't even look inside!

On another occasion my hand luggage went through Porto security with 10 x Litre cartons of vino cheapo in it. WIN. Saved a fortune there. Another time I was made to put 2KG explosive-resembling-ish stuff into my coat pockets as my hold case was 2KG overweight.

I did once have a pair of needle nose pliers (my GOOD pair!!) confiscated as a "tradesman's tool". They left the big pointy soldering iron though. Lets not even speak of the stuff I've carried that would have had me up before the beak with a very sore backside before you can say jobsworth.

In all, a little common sense means you can carry on as normal. The one with 4 x 500g English mature cheddar....

Rip of Portugal! (for comparison)

A £20 DVD player is a €50 DVD player here. Anything electronic or electrical (e.g. household extension leads or circuit breakers) is a rip off here. Still, just means we have to plan ahead for shopping during visits to the UK, no big deal.

Beer... Because there's no wine icon! (70p/litre here FTW!)

Let's standardise!

Gypsy: respectable member of a travelling community.

Romany/Romanian: as it says on the tin.

Pikey (@asdf: say "PIE-key") - scumbag filth that invade train station car parks, thieve charity boxes and stock from local businesses, lay shit driveways, live in filth and waste oxygen. Not nationality or racially specific.

Hmmm... DRM, Piracy, a pointless diatribe and everything.

(disclaimer: comments scanned but not all fully read... and yes this slightly intoxicated post is aimed at those that do NOT share my outlook: DPG et al.)

"Piracy destroys games publishers"

No, products that are un-competitive due to price/quality/availability (a bit of a grey area with digitial downloads, but thats another huge discussion for another time) destroy companies. AS DOES pissing off your customers. Case study: Bioshock - I was really impressed, read great reviews, played a superb demo and finally, after one of life's rough patches, had some dosh to spare to show my appreciation to the hardworking creators (who would have recieved, err, precisely what percentage of my Hard Earned?) until I hit those three poisonous little letters. I really felt bad for the people who actually put a lot of hard work and creativity into that title, but I simply _will_not_ have some DRM turds smeared all over the walls of my PC, my digital home. I don't buy $BIG_LABEL music any more, due to their employment of suetard lawyers to chase children for tens of thousands of dollars.

"pirates will pirate, always"

Snake & Indian, Dog & Scorpion.... or whatever else you find. Then again, I pirate games and music, how is that evidence that I do not pay for such things? (Yes, you saw TWO present-tenses.)

"by default, it saves games "to the cloud"

Well that makes perfect sense! With so many personal computer systems nowadays being sold without the inclusion of any sort of internal non-volatile data storage device...

F.E.A.R. fucked what little trust^H^H^H^H^HFaith^H^H^H^H^HPatience I had for DRM... After 7 minutes clicking retry with a legit DVD in my branded DVD drive... Off to the crack house I go!

Also let me play my legit Quake 2 with my choice of music CD... Rammstein, usually.

Beer, because there's no "70 euro-cents liter box of wine" icon. I live in Portugal... See, I went through with leaving the UK, rather than just blabbing vainly on El Reg.

And another....

http://maps.google.com/maps?&ll=52.389325,-2.083797&spn=0.042953,0.110378&z=14

I spotted that by chance when using a real (dead tree) road atlas.

Dell being Dell then.

I won't bore everyone with harrowing tales of being tech-support to Dell owning users. I'm sure we've all got a few dozen.

Still, I do wonder what it's like in Dell HQ. If its anything like their products then the coffee machine has a secret key combo if you want your first-of-the-morning super-strength brain-defibrillator cuppa. Just like their netbook that won't boot from an external optical drive without same.

Of course, even with tons of excellent office chairs on the market made by companies with years of experience, Mr Dell will instead use proprietary chairs moulded exactly to his own backside, and lacking in the features and build quality offered by the specialist moth^H^H^H^H chair makers.

I could go on but its lunch time.

E-minus! Pathetic effort.

If you're gonna make it a last day bombshell, as speculated, and live to the whole world (those that give a monkey's about the hour-to-hour babblings of a corporate entity, at least) then make a bloody effort!

Dont even get Me start'd on the twitters' lack of Capitalisation and abuse of apostrophy's!

In solidarity with our Fosters gulping cousins...

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May I Just Say

I just bought 5L of red wine for 3 euros here in portugal. Pished for a Euro? Sorted.

What about the accelerometer?

Couldn't that be used to tell if the owner's staggering around three sheets to the wind?

I hope IMAX Brum won't be affected.

I'm down there tomorrow night. Tickets are all but sold out.

As for washed out 3d version colours, I'm not bothered. Relaxation with enhanced sound and more vivid colour perception? There's an app^H^H^H herb for that....

The 27 y/o needs a fooking slap.

The rest need a stern talking-to and early bedtime without supper. I have to admit, though, seeing a plain l33t$p£3|< defacement took me back a good few years!

Angel Steve? Well, I've never used it before so it makes a change, since I do not and never will own any apple trinkets.