Posts by Benny

I think there was a point to this....

"Odds are, the average Pirate Bayer won't pay €5 for anything"

Hmmmmm, well I would disagree. I tend to use it as a 'filtering' service.

- If its a good song, with a good album, I'll buy it - kinda like the radio...

- If its just a good song ,well I most prob heard it on the radio first, so I wouldnt have gone to buy it unless I heard it, and if I like it I will buy it...again, kinda like the radio..

- I would say same for movies, but the crap that comes out now, I actually cant be bothered to even contemplate downloading them, let alone buy them!

- Software I kinda draw the line at, I do feel bad for the guys that have spent time developing it to have it ripped off...although I don't own a legit copy of photoshop (I will, I just need to save up for a while.....quite a while...)

Anyway, my point is, you cant lump us all in the same boat!

(And I may be slightly tipsy)

@But will wireless work out of the box?

I was running 8.04 and wireless was completly borked on it, upgraded to 8.10 and voila! Wireless just ... works! So im guessing that 9.04 will be the same, if not improved

um

so anyone 'pushing' data to an application is infringing on a patent?!

That doesnt sound right

@Re: Mixed blessing??

"You sell it for $.99 in the App Store, start making a relatively decent profit. Then Apple come along with a free upgrade and blow you away"

But shirley thats shooting themselves in the foot, as they take a cut from the profits

Wait...

Im sure I read this earlier......I did, I did read it earlier! http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/02/17/standard_charger/

Slow news day?

@Never Happen

I may have missed the sarcasm, but last time I checked my printer came with a cable, and im pretty sure my clothes dryer came with one!

Ummm

Facebook and a man u fan .....this is news how?

wait

are these not companies that sell domains, so therefore they would want to sell.

Its not for them to decide how peoiple use them, its like Ford selling a car and it being used to ram a shop to break in, Ford couldn't care less, they've made their £0.20p

sometimes

Im actually quite impressed with the amount of effort these guys put in to hook someone!

works ok

on 2.2 jailbroken 3g

Nice

Its good to see a company thrying to help out the consumer rather than try and shaft them.

I have to wonder though, how long would this last before they themselves start to suffer

I believe

this is called the 'no shit sherlock' news

@Trevor Watt

it will be a taste explosion

Bubba

How comes she can get away with Bubba comments....

@Dave

"The only scenario I can concoct is if they vibrated at such a frequency as to resonate with the PC, causing it to fall off the desk and squash a particularly slow cat."

Damn you, I now have cup a soup coming out of my nose!

(Im easily amused)

FOI

So isnt it possible to get a freedom of information request sent to these guys to see what is on the list? Its not as if you could view the urls as they would be blocked, but it would mean we could check which domains have been blocked - possibly incorrectly - and do something about it.

Im sure

I read this a few months back, in (most probably) the Sun. Might not have been the same story, but it definately rings some bells.

Im sure I also remember a bloke doing it, but im not sure if it was a CSI epsisode or real life...I should get out more and stop *working* ahem..

Damn, I was wrong

And there I was thinking it was a lump of blue ice from an air-o-plane..

@Sniff, sniff, sniff...

"Do most hardware vendors offer drivers for Linux? No."

Perhaps not, but I've never had a problem finding one that works with a little tinkering

"Do most office-type applications run on Linux? No."

OpenOffice?

"Do most home-apps (e.g. MSN, Nokia PC Suite) run on Linux? No."

I can have chats over MSN, ok, its not MSN LIVE, but Im not that bothered

"Do most websites demand IE? Yes. Does that run on Linux? No."

Errrr.....!?

"Does .Net run on Linux? No. (And do not give me that Mono crap)"

Why would it need to?

"Is Linux easy to set-up for a new user? No. (Requires too much knowledge and file hacking)."

Depends what distro/what you want to do with it

Unless a few of those "No" responses become "Yes", Linux will have to remain the niche player it is. Window may well be crap, but it's friendly, stanardard and support crap. And here is one "Yes" that needs to become a "No".

"Are Linux-geek-tards stuck-up and will just reply "Learn how your PC works, man"? Yes."

Thats probably because you call them Linux-geek-tards then shout at them to fix your "magical-box-that-does-stuff"

Oh, and one more:

"Is most Linux documentation out of date and poorly written? Yes.

Go looking for (say) Ubuntu docs/tips and most of them are for version 6. They are now on 8.10! MS may well be the spawn of Satan, but at least their docs are up to date, well indexed and not written along the "infinite number of monkeys" paradigm."

Errr....I found docs/tips for Ubunto from 6 upto 8.10 straight away....from the Ubuntu site, and this magical new site called google.

Sheeesh

Errrmm

don't you have to be a friend of the person whos photos your looking at?

So if you don't like the photos on there, go and tell them (I presume being friends that you actually speak to each other in real life) or just un-friend them....its not rocket science

Green eggs and ham..

I've been reading the Cat in the Hat with my son this morning, I almost didn't notice it!

Very well done sir!

Slowly but surely companies like EA are realising that all they are doing is hurting themselves when they insist on using things like SecuRom. This can only be a good thing!

Erm

Wait, so they did all the work already, the school cocked up and told them to save it in the wrong format, so now they have to do evening classes to redo the work?

I think I've missed somthing here, cant they just resubmit in the correct format?

what.....

the hell?!

Has the world actually gone mad?! I actually cant imagine how anyone anywhere could think this is even remotely child porn?!!?

....i give up

Goodness

Dammit! Thats one traffic jam I wouldnt mind being in.

Mmmmm marshmellows and beer.....

Just wondering

,but how did you find this out!? Are you too cheap to buy it?

Don't you know that it looses them money because you would have bought it you know...

*ahem* must dash, my torrents are nearly done

harsh?

Ummmm why do you keep saying it was a 'harsh sentence'?

Child pornography, no sentence harsh enough.

sheeesh

Have this title

I refuse to pay to watch the channels that are supported by adverts.

I only watch channel 4/5 very occasionally, and the Top Gear on iPlayer.

SO Im not paying that much money for 1, just 1 program that I think is worth watching on the BBC.

I take it

that you are banning all those that visited with IE.*?

Pull the other one

I don't believe anything this article or comments say, im off to do my own research,,

Some thoughts

"One detector scans for traffic lights and, on the basis of what colour it sees and how long the light shines for, warns the driver to slow down to avoid a signal violation."

This could be fun, a few coloured lights at christmas, cause all sorts of fun!

"Similarly, the system will warn you if an attempt to cross a lane - you're turning right, for instance - will put you in front of a rapidly approach motor you might not have seen"

Perhaps not driving a car would be more suitable if you cant notice a rapidly moving vehicle coming towards you..

Translation

“Every time we improve a product, it takes customers some time to adjust to the changes...."

They owe me a new keyboard!

Improve - Balls up

Product - Steaming pile of sh*t

Customers - People that don't know any better

Adjust to the changes - Figure out that there are alternatives

S'me

"at least six hours" a day glued to the internet, and who suffers symptoms such as "irritation, difficulty in concentration or sleeping, mental or physical distress and a yearning to get back online".

That sounds suspiciously like my job...apart from the yearning to get back online bit, if it was yearning to neck a cold beer, then yup.

FFS

What, is the music going to jump through the speakers and attack them!? pffftttt

@Maverick

I nearly agreed with you untill I saw 'ROFLMAO' .....

oh :(

I've been looking at Slicehost for a while now, they seem(ed) really good, but I've had bad experiences with Rackspace, so thats gone and pi**ed on my bonfire.

Good for them, bad for me

So am I the only one

that found that kinda hot?! Maybe its the drink, maybe its the fact Im male, who knows...

@Bruno @Pete

not really a bug, its called English....seriously...and on that note...

With the implementation of the Eurodollar underway in Europe these last few years, the European Union is trying to find new ways to standardize practices in Europe.

The European Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the EU rather than German which was the other possibility.

Conversion to European English

As part of the negotiations, Her Majesty's Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a five year phase-in plan that would be known as "Euro-English".

In the first year, "s" will replace the soft "c". Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard "c" will be dropped in favour of the "k". This should klear up konfusion and keyboards kan have 1 less letter.

Conversion to European English

There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year, when the troublesome "ph" will be replaced with "f". This will make words like "fotograf" 20% shorter.

In the third year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be ekspekted to reach the stage where more komplikated changes are possible. Governments will enkorage the removal of double letters, which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling. Also, al wil agre that the horible mes of the silent "e"s in the language is disgraseful, and they should go away.

Conversion to European English

By the fourth year, peopl wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing "th" with "z" and "w" with "v". During ze fifz year, ze unesesary "o" kan be dropd from vords kontaining "ou" and similar changes vud of kors be aplid to ozer kombinations of leters.

After zis fifz yer, ve vil hav a reli sensibl riten styl. Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi to understand ech ozer. Ze drem vil finali kum tru! And zen world!

Scared.

So someone that could become in charge of one of the most powerful countries in the world is bothered about Utube?

At least we didnt elect ours..

mmmm sausage rolls..

"I remember, back in the day, one chap writing a programme to decide who should go down to the sausage roll machine at break time"

This man deserves all the free sausage rolls he can consume!

@Oh Manager wherefore art thou?

Too bloody right! I agree completly, so much so that I have nothing else to say.

That is all.

soap

"it can't run my vba macros i don't want it."

Go wash your mouth out with some soap...

@Lee

"Oh no, you won't!" the biggest goat shouted and he lowered his horns and charged at the troll.

Smack! He butted him right over the bridge....

ummm

MacBook with FF3, I don't understand. If I move my mouse about I see a ghosted image of a security box for flash, but thats about it...Im guessing this is an IE thing, I'll try at work tomorrow..

OK....

So hes hanging upside down, but can move his head up when he feels like it.....ok....and the point of this is? Id be more impressed if he fell and went splat on the icerink below.

Sorry, but I really am bored of his 'amazing stunts'

Still need a comment, but you give me fixed width?!

"Also, nobody ever seems to use the "black helicopter" icon and the Paris Hilton one is a signal of a lame comment, so how about retiring those two?"

This is a local site for local people....I wonder if you'd take a seat...I have some rather upsetting news...

Dammit, wheres the vulcher!

How about

You move the right hand sponsered links, jobs blah blah into the mahoosive right hand grey border, then the article can fill up the fixed width thingy...oh and you could always make the font s bit bigger....but Im happy that *most* of the icons are back...