Posts by Les Matthew

talk about a bad example

"Are the millions of people who have bought ringtones breaking the law if they forget to silence their phones in a restaurant?"

Re: PR, what PR?

Haven't you watched terrestrial television recently?

@Thomas Davie

You have one in the CPU, it's been that way since the 80486.

I must be the odd one out

Was never all that impressed with what they had on offer in the Tottenham Court Road shop.

Anybody got the link

so I can download the eight legged anti-malware tool? I'm sure it hosed a few bugs in that pc. ;')

The keyboard on page four is just gross.

Is there a reason why

google street view blurs the hubcaps on cars, is it because they are vaguely head shaped?

@A.N Other

It'll be "buy one get a pair free"

unelected political leader, correct me if I'm wrong

but I've always been under the impression that in the UK we elect a political party not a leader.

You didn't all vote for John Major in November 1990, did you?

@Qux

"Windows 7 Annoyances"

I've got one for you, change your desktop background from an image to a "solid colour", reboot and measure the time it takes from entering your login details till the desktop appears. Change back to an image for your desktop background and repeat.

Translation

"all claiming an open internet would hurt the economy and hinder the spread of high-speed internet networks."

We won't be able to sell our expensive traffic shaping/filtering hardware.

@rpjs

"I thought the Bill of Rights already said that"

We have a Bill of Rights in the UK?

@Ty

"Macs run Windows 100% too."

Isn't PC hardware a wonderful thing.

That's odd

this morning

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2009/09/playstation3_and_the_yellow_li.html#more

had this "self declared xbox fan" in it to which I suggested they should ask him about the red ring of death.

I now notice that "self declared xbox fan" is nowhere to be found in the whole article this evening.

Didn't Canon

used to make all of the printing engines for Hewlett Packard laser printers?

Had a 4L here that only gave up the ghost two years ago (bought around 1995) and found another on ebay the exact same day for £12.99.

Re: Bad Teeth

"goes well with the lousy food"

I agree, all that Burger King, McDonalds, Pizza Hut and KFC is crap.

@raving angry loony

"That's because Apple is FAR from being a monopoly on the desktop, whereas Microsoft has a de-facto monopoly at the moment."

What about being a near monopoly in online music sales?

@Sarah Bee

"Moderatrix wonders if it's too early to start on the bourbon."

Would that be the drink or the biscuit. :)

@Nate Phillips

Think of an old man with sweets and something that rhymes with smile. ;)

@Hermes (nine inch) Conran

Bet you'd have balls of steel with a pissed off twelve foot tall wild animal weighing six tons running towards you.

I know what I'd be doing, it would involve the production of bricks.

So, is El Reg going to be

a big cheese in the space exploration business?

"exclusively to anti-terrorism investigations"

Would that be the self same "exclusively" that applied to RIPA here in the UK?

@Shakje

"Name five DC policies"

Err, naming one is hard enough.

The third pic is obviously in the UK

Think about it. ;)

It doesn't quite work

Tie me Australovenator Wintonensis down sport.

@Gordon Pryra

"I’m not sure I've heard many repercussions from the hundreds of losses of personally identifiable data by our Overlords and Masters"

I think you'll find that they are going to get a serious spanking at the next general election.