Posts by Darren Barratt

Vile disent

Whilst Karen Gillan provided some decent eye candy, the girl can't act for toffee. When she started on the series she only had 2 expresions, "goggle" and "pout". In the second series, these were joined by "goggle and pout".

Works for Windows

They've looked at the pattern for laptop sales. Windows laptops aren't as slick or as pretty looking as Macbooks, but sell many more because of the price difference.

You can see from the lack of sales of ultra-books what happens when you go to market at the same price point.

People aren't "too stupid" to buy a "better" tablet, they just want the shiny thing off the advert.

Stories like this pop up every now and again, always with the headline, <ACTIVITY> CHANGES YOUR BRAIN!

It's missing the point. Changing is what the brain does. If it didn't change, you'd have a novelty cauliflower door stop instead of a thinking engine.

...reimagining

Ok, so the Doctor has regenerated as an american teen, but can't remember who he is. He comes to terms with the strange, fragmented memories he starts to get by singing in their glee club.

and it should have sexy vampires.

So, we're agreed then. We hang all the bankers and start again from scratch?

Thought about it, but now

I've recently replaced my laptop and put some serious though into getting an ultrabook, as they're so pretty. In the end, I couldn't rationalise spending 2-3 times the money on something just down to looks.

There's the difference. Apple don't have any offerings with the same OS going for £300. PC's do.

Unless the ultrabooks can offer some unique and useful functionality (not just some skin or dock app sat on windows) then they're going to have to reduce the price.

Bad people

Never trust anyone who immediatly start "thinking of the children" when they see porn!

CIV5. It's a bit of a grower

Been playing since CIV1 (in fact, Mr Meier owes me a degree!), but have got to say that CIV5 is the best since the first one.

Didn't like it when I first started playing, but stuck with it, and what first appeared to be a slow moving game relieved itself as depth. Much more tactical than previous versions.

To make it perfect, they need to add the landscape deformation of Alpha Centauri and planet buster bombs.

It's a shape people

It's always struck me as bizarre that anyone thought they could patent the rectangle. General Motors might as well try to patent the idea of having 4 wheels on a car.

Pointy end

I think he got the sentence for the crime of coming across like a prick in interviews.

Reinventing fire

I already have a mobile wallet. I call it my wallet and it's quite mobile

Out and proud.

America's a closet case. Terrified of genuine sexuality, it spends loads on guns and wars to prove how "hard" it is. It really need to be honest with itself and meet a nice boy.

(Paris, 'cause that's what Americans think a woman looks like)

America fails

Unless the Americans can pull out a new space ship, they fail. The whole journey into space thing is the only decent thing they've ever done.

DIY

My phone has a camera and I have my bits so I'm going homemade. Stuff O2