Posts by Code Monkey
1456 posts • joined Thursday 16th October 2008 09:53 GMT
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Posted in PARIS concocts commemorative cocktail
@it must be mighty cold sitting there
After the terror of SPACE our Playmonaut has no fear of chalfonts.
Posted in E-book reader demand boom near
Save your eyes, get a proper ebook reader
As someone who can happily spend an entire weekend buried in a book there's no way I'd do that on a smartphone. It'd be fine for a commute (were I to use public transport) but for a proper sesh? No chance.
Speaking more generally, I've been sceptical about ebook readers. Since moving my mountain of paper books around has shown me it's not as "pointless bling" as I'd thought. So once my "to read" pile goes down, I'll be in the market for an ebook reader.
Posted in Nick Cave smashes speed camera with Jag
A good year for the Cave.
First Grinderman 2, now this.
Have a beer, Mr Cave. Even if it's Aussie pish
"who wants a database of idiots?"
Facebook?
"Inspired by events"
It's fair to say that a lot of the Old Testament was inspired by events - for example the great flood appears in other ancient texts; though I refuse to dignify all the supernatural humbug as "events".
I'm one of the lucky ones
Educated in the 80s before the relentless pressure to have better exam results year-on-year did too much damage (it was definitely there though). There are some things I resent: religious dogma at the expense of science and having to learn grammar via a foreign language because it's not taught in English but all in all we left school equipped to think for ourselves.
These days it seems the only thing kids leave school with is a bag full of noddy exams and a colossal sense of entitlement that their intellectual abilities do little to justify. We've let down an entire generation. By "we" I mean successive governments.
Blimey I've turned into my dad.
Possibly your cache
That sounds very like a cached stylesheet.
[sigh]
I deleted most of my interests yesterday (except those that I wanted to contact me).
I reckon I'm heading for another Facecrack exit.
@bankrupt banana empire
Keyboard, etc. Nice one.
I already have one
It's +44 [my number]. Even better it works globally.
As a continent we're a bit skint now, Eurowonks. How about we decide that by and large the phone network works and concentrate on the serious business of setting proper standards for banana curvature.
True
So now they're exactly as ill-informed at a fraction of the cost. Well done Cameron, seriously.
Posted in SpaceX's Dragon poised to go orbital
"within a few hundred yards of its target"
Are we talking a genuine few hundred yards or a Ryanair few hundred yards, here?
Posted in Robotic High Noon in Colorado
Cement
Any UK reader who mispent a childhood up to their eyes in Airfix Spitfires and whathaveyou would recognise both senses of cement. I can't be alone in this, can I?
It was (a tiny bit) funny last year
X-Factor's soul-destroying asswater but so is buying novelty records because some wonk on Facebook told you to.
Bollocks to the lot of em, I'll save my record buying money for something I actually like (like the Electric Wizard re-issue next year).
Yeah but
I've already got Surfin' Bird. 7", big hole in the middle. I don't want 4:33 though. I'm not playing this game.
Posted in Robotic High Noon in Colorado
Aw bless
They just wanted to blow stuff up.
Bless, Denver plod. Bless.
Good thinking Auntie
Win win. Overseas types get our top quailty programming (and BBC3), Auntie gets some cash, slabfondlers get something useful (though non-fondlers can still BitTorrent the more popular shows).
Posted in WikiLeaks ousted from Amazon US
@MrCheese
Sooo you think that hosting the leaks in the US is bigger news than the leaks themselves? Sure? I've only read about this is in the Reg. I don't recall seeing anything about the hosting on the mainstream news sites I read; they're all too busy covering the leaks themselves.
Wrong?
Only if she's much larger and looks, shall we say, surprised.
Posted in WikiLeaks ousted from Amazon US
@AC 21:37
"Whilst I laud the original aims of wikileaks it seems to have become a publicity vehicle for Julian Assage with everything designed to ensure max publicity to boost his ego and martyr image."
Very, sadly true. Hosting wikileaks in the US serves no purpose for freedom of information (small letters). He's just trying to get more column inches. Just expose the dirty laundry and leave the celebutard BS to Hilton, Lohan et al.
@People's Republic of Android
That's Democratic* People's Republic of Android to you, revisionist American lapdog!
* it really is the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
"Assange's leaky discharge"
My headline fragment of the week. Have a pretendy pint on me!
Posted in 'Smear agricultural land with human poo'
Good idea
Take a waste product and make something useful out of it.
Where's the Womble icon?
Semi-literate wibblings
So not bad for Bebo, then.
Alien liaison boffin
Can we tell Gordon Ramsey he's got the job and send him into space? Somewhere nice like Neptune?
Can I?
Can I just assume their commentards are tinfoil hatted nutjobs* and just not bother?
* who said "like the Reg". Come on, own up!
Where is amanfrommars
He went back home to sabotage the Mars rovers
th3j35t3r
Seriously? th3j35t3r? Someone needs to get out more.
88
It's 88 times cooler as any fule kno
Posted in Reg hack tickled by Kent schoolgirl
"Oh how they laughed at the hospital"
Quoted because I can only upvote you once. Hats off Sir Headache
Black country. Ayit.
I've been working in the Black Country too long. I don't know when it happened but it was when "ah" became a reasonable response to any question whatsoever.
Symbian
You're right to flag the unusual demographic. Figures from the high street would be much more representative.
Still being outsold 3-1 by "dying" platform Symbian has to be a worry for them.
Aberdeen
Gawd no. I can't understand the Aberdeenie accent (if it's not Aberdeenie, it should be) to save my life!
Scouse
Go left after 300 yards and look the other way while me mates nick yer alloys la.
Posted in WTF is... up with e-book pricing?
So the answer is...
... campaign for e-books to be 0% VAT like their paper counterparts?
And
Short for Frances
I agree with the OP
Jimbo (FFS) Wales is a complete cult.
Great solution
I have an easier one: click the "X" in the top left corner
Agreed
I thought OS was growing out of this foolishness. Just most projects, then.
Posted in iPads improve image of IT industry
It's a shame
They weren't attracted to polishing turds to laughable deadlines. Then they'd love it in the industry.
Interesting but
I'll wait for an invite. There's little point my being on there til some of my freinds are - a bit like inventing the second telephone was a much bigger deal than the first.
Posted in Of Kuwait and DSLR cameras
Common sense
You're applying common sense to the matter. Normally that's a good thing but doesn't really apply to the "War on Terror" (nor the other Wars on Intangible Concepts we seem to be so keen on fighting).
Posted in Of Kuwait and DSLR cameras
Congratulations Kuwait
A photography policy that make our beloved Met look less like hysterical bullies.
I refer the honorable commentards...
... to reams of "fanboi, more money than sense" comments throughout this fine organ.
I doubt it would be cash
$1000 for every employee at the Chocolate Factory. Untold millions arriving in actual cash? I doubt it.
On tax - my understanding was that Google would pay the tax.
"a bug in the system that seemed to drive quality scores down in late October"
A bug that mysteriously drives up revenues in October? I can imagine how urgently they're looking at that!
True, but
Their unfortunate email contacts don't
