Posts by IR

I always thought they were rather silly, just like the person who buys a truck to make themselves feel big (there are far fewer who legitimately need a truck), but at more than $50 for a pair of rubber testicles to hang from it?! That's just nuts (pun not originally intended)

I'm regretting not buying a new 1TB drive for $60 a couple of weeks ago, the same one is now $90.

The obvious

How about asking the same questions, same requests to do stuff, etc, on all of the apps (including Siri) and then telling us how well each of them performed? Half of each review describes what it looks like, which we can see from the images, which doesn't leave much room for anything else.

Doesn't it make more sense now to offer a data package and then pay extra for calls rather that the other way round?

Vulture nebula

Can't work out how it is meant to be a chicken, but I can spot what looks a lot like the vulture in the logo for this site.

Is this different from the voice control app included in Android as default (the icon looks identical)? That has been available in British English for over a year. When I first tried using it, it didn't recognise even a simple phrase like "Call Nikki" unless I put on an awful American accent, but I changed the setting to British and it has worked fine since.

Classic

That classic Australian beer that every Australian mentions: "Not Fosters". Rarely will you get an Aussie to actually name the beer they do drink, possibly because then you could easily point out that that one sucks too.

Jet

Since when did people stop using jet to mean a stream of water? Still very commonly used in my experience.

I thought the sgt major was a lady.

Okay

People complaining about the game apps filling up their facebook feed, just hide them! Move your mouse over the top right corner, click the X, and select to hide it forever from the drop down menu. Very easy to do, and will not take too long as long as you don't have a million friends who you don't really know, and who sign up to every app they find.

Batteries

I'm sure that most fake batteries are just awful cheap low capacity AAs/AAAs that have been printed with fake Duracell/Everready labels rather than things for phones and laptops.

Eurgh

Having the earbud mesh as the electric contact to charge the battery? Makes me a little worried to have something connected to the battery stuck in my ear.

How many variations have they lumped into this single patent? It's like five combined into one.

Right

So a shrill voice screaching "He's not worth it, Darren!" actually encourages more fighting? Actually bears up to my experience.

Has to be said

What a load of bollocks.

Not ideal

Dick Johnson lives next door, and he'll always want to come over. It's cheap though because it is near to the arse-end of Tokyo

You'd have to be nutes to live there during the teste phase, but I'm sure they'll find a couple of scrotes.

Simple

This kind of thing would be eliminated if they had to undergo the same security checks as us every time they leave the security area, but I expect they'd complain about it being unnecessary

Colours

Those are some random colours on that graph. Why not red-orange-yellow-green-blue in order? Instead we get some awful pastel shades that aren't in any particular order at all.

So

I thought it was some sort of a spoof trailer done by a comedy show. My mind is blown away.

Yay

I can't wait to watch the tv show of the video game inspired by combining a plastic building-block toy with the merchandise of a film series.

Funniest when obvious

I was trying to find a local spa for my wife so I could give her a day out. One place had several good reviews, two of them recommended to ask for a particular masseuse called Maxi in poorly written English (uneducated-style, rather than foreign-style). The reviews were written by users named Maxi1 and Maxi2.

I suppose that even politicians get to vote for themselves, but only once.

I like it when the owner writes a review to try to answer complaints in the other reviews and they give themselves only 1 star!

Really

I can see why they aren't bothering with BR, but DVD playback would cost almost nothing. Being able to get rid of the legacy DVD player (especially since everyone has a DVR now) would be very useful and save some precious space under the tv, not least the insane mess of wires that connect everything up.

Being able to turn the controller into a portable DVD player you can use around the house and garden would be a major plus.

Prototypes

Just keep Dyson out of the power station design, don't want 257 prototypes of those left hanging around, start with a good design first!

Jorte

I'm a Jorte fan. It's free and the widget customisation makes it better than any of the other calendars I've tried so far. The switch between daily and monthly views might not be pinch-to-zoom, but I can handle pressing a button in the corner for that.

4 quid an hour in London?

So about 5 quid per mile then?

So

a low gravity beer then?

In what direction do the bubble go in zero-g?

Banning slavery was expensive too

Let's not do the right thing if it might cost some money.

Meh

I can't be the only person who spent a few minutes looking for any unintentional words in that wordsearch, despite knowing that a thousand marketing guys have already done so. I was surprised to see CHROME though, working with Google? Seems out of place it they are just refering to the browser. And who are Alfy, Ray, Fred, and Tim?

Pretty generic font though, like a thousand others. No much point in branding if it is so indistinguishable.

I usually don't care too much about packaging

but that huge blue block at the top of the front cover looks truely awful.

Urgh

I usually like the look of Apple products, even if I don't buy them, but the white iPhone just looks ugly due to the placing of the big black screen. It's just visually unbalanced. Keep the front completely black and just have the white on the back.

Townsville

Wins award for least imaginative name ever. It means Towns Town!

Good

I use it, the scrollable dock is worth it alone and being able to make it transparent is even better. I've been able to reduce six home screens down to three very clean ones, and equivalent Sense-style widgets are easily available from the marketplace. Being able to completely hide the uninstallable apps from the apps list is very handy too. The only thing I want now is the ability to put widgets in the dock, that would top it off nicely.

Well

I didn't think it was that bad, a bit of generous editing and it is an okay film, even if it could never actually reach "good". The following two films suffer due to Annakin's awful acting and nonsense dialogue but other than that are pretty good. Unfortunately, that makes up most of the films and there is no way to fix Annakin beyond cgi (that's not a request George), so they too will languish as poor films forever.

Flaming Lips

The Flaming Lips were doing radio additions to their concerts back in the 90s, although mostly to add extra sounds. I can see that this would be useful at huge outdoor events where you can't actually get anywhere near the front of the stage.

Wait a minute

Didn't this come out in the US about a year ago? I know they like to control release dates but that is a serious lag.

Happens with humans

My wife and I accidentally swapped passports at one point and both of us got through the people-operated checkpoints on our own. Granted I had long hair, but we don't look that much alike.