Posts by Nick Davey

Evolving Ants

Well, surely if they continue to "evolve" their society in similar patterns to humans I, for one, welcome our new Ant overlords.... etc...

About time...

That I go out and buy a hazard suit and a trusty new crowbar.

Awesome

If the first half of the movie is the Mage/Warlock spamming LFG channels trying to get in a group. The movie will finish with them wiping on the first boss before the group disbands with a series of "L2p n00bs" party chat spam.

Bad Science is Bad!

I've worked in IT for my whole employment, it may be a mere 12 years but I have never been in an office/computer room where there have been stacks of coke cans and sci-fi posters. An IT manager I worked for came in once and had a barny that we had a Holly Valance calendar hidden away between desks out of sight of the general public because it was "smutty". She was fully clothed throughout. No environment I've seen fits the stereotypes presented here, all they're managing to qualify is that people with no interest in IT have even less interest when shown a workplace that has no resemblance to any office in the real world... bravo!

Preparing

I'll be at home making sure my crowbar is nice and sharp.

Nice to see...

scientists are working on solving the world's most pressing problems.

Hmmmmm

In a previous life I worked for a Defence company and have seen just this sort of dithering from the MoD on every single occasion. I'm amazed we have any kind of mechanisation for any of our armed forces. Think back to the days when we had the most accomplished Navy in the known world, now we're sending out vessels that aren't even properly/appropriately armed.....

Love it

Picked up mine on Friday, first time iPhoner and have to say it's the best device I've bought in a long time. Much better than my wife's suggestion of a cheapo PAYG to replace my old contract Sony.

I misread the article

I read it as "advise the relevant Cabinet Office minister on how government can best use the internet to make personal public data as widely available as possible."

Which is probably a lot closer to the reality...

Clearly...

They are Tie Fighters, I for one welcome our new dark lord of the sith overlord.......

Love the irony

I read about this on the beeb this morning and it's hilarious. What was even worse though was that Westminster claimed that she was actually doing " a great job" as home secretary...I mean, if she can't even fill in her expenses correctly what hope do the rest of us have against her constant removal of civil liberties.

A new government department

I'm waiting to hear from the new department they setup for this very purpose, they could call it "Got wood?"

Leaps of logic for uk.gov

If the gov get hold of this story I can see it now, extreme nudity=extreme porn = all WoW playesr own extreme porn and need to be jailed.

Dammit, now I sound like Daily Fail columnist.

So you're telling me...

"principal component analysis and cluster analysis to classify trunk characteristics"

So they sat around staring at breasts then had a chat about it with their mates and ended up with stonking boners?

Jealous much?

I'm amazed they're not paying Google to develop it so they can force it upon an unwilling public as soon as possible.

Cure with Conan

After all, he's used to dealing with Picts!

ummm...

Has no-one though that searching passenger records for some people on an internationl wanted list is going to be a bit pointless? If I was a wanted international criminal mastermind wouldn't I just travel under an assumed name that changes quite a lot?

@ Wohoooo

Actually (active) Mormons don't drink alcohol so I doubt that he is really. Just sticking up for my homies.

But aren't the games for oldies anyway?

And I include myself in thas as I have a copy of Brain Training for my DS. The lowest "Brain Age" you can gain on the game is 20, I'd therefore take issue with the fact that 10 year olds were used for this study. I am hoping that their brain age is considerably below 20. But then again, scientists doing studies without neccesarily using the correct demographic is nothing new.

I am sure there are 10 year olds who play it, but this study seems a little pointless.

It's nice to see....

..where uk.gov are getting all their ideas from for "protecting yoof".

Maybe...

If two of them were lying down before, during and after the event, has anyone checked that they are still alive?

This winds me up

I was talking to my wife about just this sort of thing last night. Apparently we are not supposed to be able to take responsiblity for our choices, our actions or any other part of our lives. Responsilbility needs to be palmed off to any Tom, Dick or Harry that we can claim made the bad man do bad things.

I agree with the comment about watching more NASCAR means you'll drive faster. I bet if they redid the same study about violent beahviour being linked to violent video games I bet they could also accurately state that sitting in a chair causes violent beahviour, after all, they tykes would be suitably seated to play wouldn't they? This kind of drivel needs to stop. Humanity is doomed to even greater levels of fail if this theme of diminished personal responsibility continues.

Waiting for the typo...

Hope they don't end up confusing RIFL with ROFL!

Still a problem

I got positive feedback for an item sold last week and the funds are still on hold. Got a nice email from paypal when I complained saying that they have a problem with the system not releasing payments, so it still isn't fixed!

The database to end all databases

How long before someone takes an unecrypted copy of it home on a laptop and loses it? (obviously not the whole database as I imagine if it's recording all email transmissions it's going to be the largest spam repository in the world).

I'm not surprised

our company has been dealing with Dell for years, however, over the past 6 months I have been completely unable to get a quote for kit from them...... they surely are in the shadow of HP as that is where we are looking to go as Dell clearly don't want the business.

Miltary sponsored titty-cam?

How long before enterprising boffins fit say spybot with a video camera that jocks can use to electrotape themselves to the windows of attractive young women for a spot of voyeurism, or is this the kind of toy that little Johnny could be seeing under the Christmas tree in the next 5-10 years?

Paris icon for obvious reasons.

Shunting the blame

He can blame OPEC all he wants, oil might cost more $ per barrel but when we pay the highest petrol prices in the civilised world due to the tax on it his argument falls flat on it's face. I'm sure the Sheikh's in their golden palaces think it rather amusing that Mr Brown complains about their stranglehold on dwindling natural resources while the real price of petrol is around 40p a litre, the rest being the governments "cut".

I wish he'd take responsibility for the screw up that HE has made in terms of this country's economy. I remember when "new" Labour first came to power and every one was cheering, I told them then this was not going to end well for the country...........

Mispelling?

Surely all the basement based uber geeks would rather slip in an errant letter and create the National Cyb0r Range instead? Who knows what kind of simulations they would run with their "variety of technology thrusts"......

What's all the fuss?

I went out from the office at lunch time and picked up a copy from the store, Another couple hours and I can go home and play it, sometimes doing things the classic way pays off.

I know a man...

who has been working over the weekend on this particular item, let's just say that he hasn't had much sleep and had let me in on some of the choice experiences from the government on what they want.

It doesn't matter

You can put all the ratings you want on the computer games but I guarantee it will not stop little Johnny 4-year-old getting his hands on the latest copy of GTA. You can regulate all you want but half the parents don't care what their kids play anyway. Or they'll just go and download it off the web like they do now....