Posts by Code Monkey
1458 posts • joined Thursday 16th October 2008 09:53 GMT
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Posted in Nissan Leaf electric car
In the future, yes
For now if you can't afford to run a petrol car you certainly can't afford a £20k+ for a small hatchback.
Posted in Amazon splatters ads to cut Kindle price
Reading email != reading books
Your answer doesn't give any indication that you read books. I don't say that to insult you, just wondering if your experiences of reading and mine are the same.
When I read a book for pleasure (or for work for that matter) I want to completely switch off from the outside world. That means no telly, no phone, no radio and certainly no adverts or user generated crap in *my* book.
Get this right Amazon. I'm tempted by the Kindle but will be easily put off.
iFawning iTripe
"Just as he did with Einstein and Benjamin Franklin, Walter Isaacson is telling a unique story of revolutionary genius."
Really? And there was me thinking he designed some computers and gadgets.
£600 and a stylus?
No thanks. My Desire is great but HTC need to work on this poor effort.
UAE?
They want the United Arab Emirates as the first customer outside Europe? Well full marks for chasing the money. Marks off for targetting a place as "petrol on yer cornflakes" as Texas.
It's not all bad: defeinitely the prettiest minibus I've ever seen.
Posted in Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
Thumbs Up
The interface is, as you say, clunky but I've wasted many happy hours on this. I love it!
Definitely one for the old farts like us who remember making things out of proper blocks. If only 7-year-old me had had the infinite bucket-o-blocks you get with LDD.
Posted in Apple store kneecaps rival browser
I think it's this rule
"We'll fuck about with anyone we feel is a competitive threat or makes our own products look bad."
Posted in Energy crisis over - for 250 years?
@Tzael
"gives the impression of being able to sit on our arses and ignore the need for cleaner energy supplies in the meanwhile." True but I'd rather that than blackouts/energy wars*
* well energy wars in addition to those we're already fighting
MK
As if living in Milton Keynes wasn't bad enough to begin with.
RC
The author's name: Richard Chirgwin?
"in the short term"
Means 12 months of no access for your customers? No wonder they needed bailing out.
Posted in HTC Desire S Android smartphone
"the card capacity you get with the handset will depend on the network or supplier"
Shite customer service much, networks and suppliers?
I was saving them
I've been saving downvotes for commentards I thought were being an arse.
Round of applause for IsJustabloke...
...who's never done a typo in his life
21st century Jim Davidson
Not quite as odious but exactly as unfunny, exactly as tiresome and exactly as past their sell-by date. Time to call it quites, beeb.
Go on then, downvote me for holding a different opinion to yours.
TV
And watching tv turns you into an angry, greedy, self-entitled moron.
Posted in Marantz Melody Media music combo
£500? No wi-fi?
No wi-fi is laughable for a device in this price bracket. It's a bedroom device and I don't really want to be running CAT-5 cables up the stairs. Nice try Marantz but no thanks.
Nobody types so quickly that PS/2's a bottleneck
And once in a while even proper geeks attempt to configure the BIOS with their fancy wireless job and wish they hadn't thrown out that PS/2 museum piece.
Posted in Australians can’t read or count
Indeed
I'd describe myself as being above average in numeracy but had forgotten the precedence of arithmetic operators in the 20+ years between GCSE maths and the OU course I'm studying now. And for any hard sums I did in those 20+ years I'd use brackets.
Posted in Asus Eee Pad Transformer
The form factor is useful though
I've yet to be convinced by tablets but many people are. I can see they're handy but don't want to completely abandon the proper keyboard (that of my Acer Aspire One is small but very usable, even by a sausage-fingered lummox like me). This could be a good halfway house (for a few quid less).
Asus: drop the price, get some sales.
Posted in W**k-O-Meter
I thought they did that weeks ago
You know, the one with the Duke Nukem release.
Or...
...make a phonecall in a rural area. What sort of rubbush non-O2 experience would that be?
2 words
Blade and Runner
Note to self: it's too long since you last saw Blade Runner
Less so with Blade Runner shop windows
They'll at least be replacing the mountain of vinyl window signs the retail sector shoves into landfill each year.
I agree that they will become very annoying very quickly though.
Can we have a "Down with this sort of thing" icon?
Posted in WTF is... 3D printing
Downside, but a small one
The downside of not being useful for absolutely everything isn't that bad.
And yes, we should continue to make planes out of stronger stuff!
Unrecognisable my arse
I spotted the connection as soon as I first heard Down Under and my 10-year-old ear was as musically uneducated as you can get.
This is why we have a secret* ballot
I can vote for whichever crank I want without my friends down the pub knowing about it. Though the chances of any party convincing me not to draw a willie on the ballot are pretty minimal.
* it's not really secret
adrianrf
Oooh. You did prior art! Now will the US Patent Office notice when the patent application lands?
Yup
That's my ration of irony used up for this year. Wake me up in 2012.
This happens nationwide
We're all paying for council incompetence. Mostly there's no IT angle (nor Bulgarian airbag, nor poledances, nor any other angle to get in the Reg).
Frank Zappa was right
It's not hydrogen that's the most common element. It's stupidity
Posted in Lindsay Lohan ditches her surname
S.L.A.P.P.E.R.
Space
Launched
Aeroplane
Piloted
(by)
Playmonaut
(with)
Eventual
Recovery
Peter Capaldi
Beat me to it.
I'm going to write mine as untidily as possible
...then cover it with jam
"eror"
I hop that was deliberatte!
I didn't think I was a nerd for doing that, but...
...if the cap fits...
Another "me too" but it is dashed useful. And having a Demon account means I can do it without running my own domain. Actually I s'pose having a Demon account in 2011 is quite nerdy. Well I can live with that.
Posted in Interwebs stunned by musical atrocity
Quality Control
You could have had some consideration for your readers (and a more curmudgeonly lot you'd be hard-pressed to find) and just, y'know, kept it to your damned selves!
Re: Why bother.
I saw them at the cinema. They were great films but a bit bleedin long. I'm fooked if I'm giving up another 9 hours of my life to watch them again, whatever the format.
Re: @Are you new here?
Graham in answer to your (to paraphrase) "do you know who I am?", you're one of the commentards for whom I don't have extensive records. As are all the others.
Posted in Sapphire Edge HD
No cut for Redmond
This alone is enough to make me interested in buying this. You're right about the price though.
Keyboard
...because I can only upvote that once without creating a load of sockpuppet accounts, which I can be arsed to do (not even on a Friday).
Are you new here?
Get ye back to Channel Register if it's IT stories you're after. It's Friday afternoon and it's beer garden weather (or at least it is in the glorious* English* midlands*).
* sarcasm? you decide!
Posted in Nikon D7000 DSLR camera
Here's one
http://www.reghardware.com/2010/09/10/grouptest_budget_dslr_cameras_intro/
Posted in Moving to Windows 7: Is it worth it?
Hmm
Regardless of what you think the reasons for not supporting IE9 are, the facts are XP doesn't support it. If that's important to your business you need to upgrade.
I upgraded because the XP box I was using wasn't up to the demands I had of it. Eclipse was slow then upgrading to [recent] MS Office was the final nail in its coffin.
Once I'd turned off Win7's more obnoxious graphics I actually like it. It's a tiny bit crashy but much better than XP. Updates are handled automatically and it does get out of the way and let me get on with my job (and commenting on these fora).
Yes
Those Japanese planning laws aren't just red tape.
How about the Asus Eee Pad Slider?
How about the Lenovo ThinkPad T[whatevernumberthey'reuptothesedays]?
