How sad
Yet another of my heroes (Wallace and Grommit this time) have feet of clay !
Errrr
I'll get me coat
Posts by Graham Lockley
359 posts • joined Wednesday 30th August 2006 23:33 GMT
>Blair asserted that you needed "the wisdom of the oldies" to put the technology itself in context
I suppose that at 55 I'm still not old enough to realise that state censorship is a bad thing then. Can't wait to grow up.....
Back off !
Extract the michael as you wish but lay off Innovation the DB string manufacturer ! Bunch of good guys providing 'innovative' strings to those of us who enjoy the low end of things .Try some 'Silver Slaps' to see what I mean :D
Re: Hmmm...
>Soree. Above entirly normul. Nothin to wury about. Ignor prior wurds. Do human things. Seeds harmles. Hav nice dai.
Just dont go to sleep ? Esp next to green poddy type thing ?
>You know, if they gave me sixty minutes a month, sixty texts a month and ten gig of data, I'd be happy as larry.
I was about to leave T-mob (on contract) because of their merger with that bunch of thieves known as Orange. Got passed to retentions (what a surprise) and ended up with a sim-only deal of 100 mins and 100 texts and 'unlimited' data for £5.50 a month. Ok so the data (in theory) is 2gb but in practice I have bust that at times and not seen any penalties.
Posted in ‘Oldest animals’ show up in Namibian dig
>the earth is only 10,000 years old!
>Ha ha. Creationist muppets, keep wetting your beds
Ah but the ID'ers will simply place it in The Grand Scheme of Things (TM) and point out that it shows some supranatural force intervened to evolve it into a lump of dog shit. That crafty Sky Fairy is a devious bugger doncha know.
Posted in Facebook files for IPO, seeks $5bn
?????
>We also believe that giving people control over what they share is a fundamental principle of this rewiring
He was being ironic right ?
@Marketing Hack
I upvoted you once for the first post, I think you are being greedy expecting the duplicate to get anything :)
Anyways, if the BejasusPhone diagnoses you it will also be able to (miraculously) cure you, as eny fule no.
Whats a candy bar ? Isn't it something our merkin chooms eat ?
Posted in Orange touts tropical tablet
It's Orange so it will be stuffed full of crap and worth about a quarter of what you actually end up paying for it. Oh and you better hope it doesn't pack up after 6 months coz you will end up paying to get it fixed.
>Free? In what way exactly? I'd imagine that this service is paid for by local council tax payers, so >whilst it's "free" to the chavs who spent all their dole money down the local bookies and >wetherspoons, I'd doubt it's free to those who own or rent their own property and pay taxes.
Seems El Reg is slowly going up in the world, now Daily Mail journos are astroturfing here :)
Begone foul Maltists
>The answers to many questions can often be found in a bottle of Talisker, IME :-)
>My favourite place to search is three glasses down a bottle of Laphroaig, but I salute you, sir.
Don't listen to these doomed heathens with their foul smelling malted brews children, true answers can only be obtained with the fruit of the Grape ! An Armagnac or Cognac are the only true paths to enlightenment !
(Available at a good supermarket or off-licence near you. Terms and conditions may apply)
Groupon is a fail waiting to happen.They produce nothing and add no value, make no money and only serve to worsen the lot of the poor traders who sign up. This is a long term business plan ?
Dotcom bubble burst just waiting to happen.
Posted in Sony Tablet S
My (brief) encounter with one of these left me quite impressed. There has been little mention in the comments about the wedge shape yet this was the first thing I found impressive. It felt right in both landscape and portrait modes. I agree with Chris 171, £299 and it will wipe out both Android and IOS competitors. Now all I need to figure out is why I need one when my EEEpc does all the portable browsing I want (much better than any tablet), my SGS2 does for my ultra portable needs and my pc does for my grunt computing needs. Guess I'm not in the market for iPad2 either then :)
Tis a nice bit of kit tho, maybe given time I could justify getting one.
>They need more training and need to know more about how it works
I suspect they mostly know how it works, figuring out if a law has been broken and gathering relevant evidence takes a lot longer.
As pointed out above, put up the pennies or STFU.
And Yet....
My experience of HTC phones has been 100 % positive (and I've had a few). Well made and reliable would be my description.
Never had to use their repair service coz I've never had a broken one so I can't comment on that, commiserations if it is pants.
>Satellite operators did raise some concerns about the unlicensed use of 3.4-3.8GHs,
Why didnt you just say Sky ?
>The Big Bang Theory is still going strong.
Probably something to do with it actually being funny...
Shows how tastes differ, I tried hard to like TBBT but found it dull and predictable, OTOH a mate raves about it constantly. IT Crowd was far funnier and closer to reality (I know these guys) but I'm glad they didnt do the USA thing and pull in a team of writers. Sometimes less is more, Shameless springs to mind here, it should never have been dragged out beyond 4 series. Try watching 'Early Doors', a show that only ran for two series and is a jewel that leaves you wanting more.
Turanga Leela was the first thing that entered my head when I saw that pic. You know or you don't :)
Posted in Viz Profanisaurus
>For anyone who doesn’t know what Viz is
Who is this person ? Name and shame the humourless git !
+1
Plus one on denying them the 'oxygen of publicity' (to quote another nutcase)
@Dave 126
Sammiches with mayo is bad ? You are going straight to hell boy !!
'iPhone consumers are very loyal when upgrading their device. In Britain, over 70 per cent of iPhone owners who changed their device chose another iPhone.'
Wonder what the figures are for Android? Certainly most people I know who have Android phones are on at least their second (third in my case). Is it a case of 'better the devil you know' rather than any inherent loyalty?
I wonder...
if it will have any Nokia code in there somewhere ? Huawei are probably one of the few companies that can make Apple look saintly :)
Late reply to the AC
Sorry, haven't been following this thread so didn't reply straight away.
>If you understood how copyright works you would see how daft your proposal is. Unfortunately most Copyright Commentards know jack shit about it - they just want to rant about Big Corps.
Reread my post, it wasn't a BigCorp rant. A daft suggestion ? Then how daft is it that people put software/images etc. up on the net with the 'free for personal use' provisio and it tends to be respected ? Are you suggesting its difficult to define commercial/non commercial use ?
Back in your cave you anonymous troll ;)
'Copyright laws exist in all civilized countries to protect art. If you want that are then pay for it or go without. There is no God given right to someone else's art.'
I think you will find that there is no argument here that suggests that copyright shouldn't exist on recordings, the debate is simply about the length of that copyright and the tangled mess(composer/performer etc.) that exists. Personally I feel 50 years is adequate, a reversion to public domain should occur with a caveat (that we are all familiar with) about commercial use being forbidden without a licence. In other words, after 50 years Joe Soap can have free access but BigCorp must pay a fee to the original rights owners to broadcast/reuse etc.
@stefan
>The 3300 Android users...is that all of them?
The level of trolling in here is getting so low even an iPhone user can spot them (as long as he/she has an app to assist in the observation process)
@fishman
Fanbois and Astroturfers apart, voice dialling in the old Winmo and Nokia phones 'just worked' (Copyright Apple Electronica).
Its odd that this is one of the few areas that recent mobile phones have worsened while having massively more processing power available for the task ?
Oh how we chuckled
>Android-phone owners don't appear to have all that positive an opinion of Apple
...and in other news ursine faeces have been discovered in wooded areas.
T'internet is broken
>the pointing finger was broken, and having been broken, pointed no more.
Nor all Americas piety and wit shall call it it back to point at half a word of it
Oh how we laughed...
>Apple gives away their OS with their computers, so initial cost is free.
That made me chuckle.... you were being ironic right ?
Decisions !
I am due a new phone soon and this and the Sammy are favourites (along with the Xperia Arc still in the running if the price drops a little). I've tried both and TBH I'm probably going to get this. The Sammy has a great (samoled) screen but against it is the construction ( that plastic back feels awful and doesn't feel like it would last more than 12 months ),TouchWiz (yuk) and the killer.... it looks like an Appl£ design !!!
Still undecided but the Sensation is favourite at the moment. Until I wake up tomorrow and ....... :)
Curiously enough....
I would rather sit and look at that 'portrait' for the entire day than have to endure the royalist tripe that will flood the airwaves on Friday.
Posted in Portal 2
Cake ?
Not finished the SP yet so I dont know about the cake but I can confirm that cake or no, GLADOS is in fine form :)
Posted in Samsung countersues Apple on new ground
You are missing an important point Eddy
>USR Palm Pilot from so long ago.
Yeah the Palm Pilot (I hate the USR tag, they did sod all for the company) had a rounded rectangular form and a grid of icons (and a better OS IMHO) BUT....
It wasnt a 16 icon COLOURFUL grid.
So y'see the devil is in the detail, Apple are quite right to sue :)
@mrweekender
I was with you right up to the 'The App Store has inspired a new generation of coders and designers by leveling the playing field and made it possible for anyone to create and market an application to the masses'
Massive fail I'm afraid, there has long been a huge base of free/share/trialware out there for all platforms. All Apple have done with their store is put it all in one place (provided its approved) and raked their cut. Cnet and many others have equally huge amounts of software available but dont try to take a percentage if a user pays to register a program.
'the monopolistic and innovation stifling business practices of companies like Adobe'
That actually sounds like Apples business practices to me !
No I dont like the modern Apple and I wont buy their products but I used to admire them. Not any more.
+1 on that
Now they are being borged into Orange here in the UK I have to wonder where to go next. Certainly the 'marriage made in Hell' that we will have to suffer in the UK means that I am going to struggle to find a decent mobile provider in the years to come. NOTHING will convince me to stay once they have been absorbed by the bunch of thieves at Orange.
Nuff said
'News Corp could use its film and television titles to attract players'
Or the opposite way round. Yeah I really want to play <insert soap title here>ville/wars.
Its got NewsCorp written all over it, how big an 'AVOID' sign is needed ?
'Pentagon officials say the treatment is not for punitive reasons'
Where the hell is Amnesty when you need em ? This isn't 'punitive' in the same way that waterboarding wasn't 'torture' !
@ Alister
Perhaps I should have added YMMV ?
My bad experience of IBM/Hitachi was about 6-7 years ago when I got tired of swapping out failed Desk/Travelstars. Granted it may have been a poor run for the company but its hard to look favourably on drives that have given you so many problems. Trust is important and I've never trusted them since.
The market just shrank
Looks like its Seagate and Samsung for me from now on then. My experience of Travelstar/Deskstar drives has been truly awful, if they are now part the WD family then that is a tainted family.
Working fine here
Seems a little quicker but other than that its business as usual. The few plugins I have seem to work ok as well.
But....
Will there be cake ?
Posted in Buffalo Linkstation Pro Duo 2TB Nas
Title Schmitle
As mentioned use dyndns (its free). My D-Link 320 can be set up to use it as can my Netgear router. The main problem I had with the D-Link was the routers firewall, sorted that by using static IP and putting the NAS in the DMZ. Not ideal but it works.
Posted in Apple without Jobs: Who's next?
Non-Crapple Fan
.... but I wish His Steveness good health and hopefully a long retirement. As to the company, well I can understand investors wanting to know about succession plans but, get real this is Apple ! Notorious control freaks who try to keep everything out of view. Seems like investors are being treated the same as punters e.g 'we know whats best for you'.
Bored with titles
'Hey guys your front door is open and ayone can come in and nick this stuff !'
'That'll do sonny boy, lets discuss this down at the nick'
Well thats how it seems to me ?
@MK
"Last thing I want is MS bricking the phone 'cause of a perceived illegal operation. "
So stay well away from iPhone and (to a lesser extent) Android as well.
Well that explains it
'Open the pod bay doors HAL'
'I'm sorry Dave, Apple wont let me do that'
Posted in Secret Apple deal hints at TV future
STOP IT!!!
"And besides, after a future fanboi finished watching Jersey Shore on his Rovi-enhanced 42-inch Apple iVue, he could use the same premium-priced device to make a FaceTime video call to grandma while simultaneously sending her a video of Junior's first steps — shot, of course, with his iPhone. "
Now I'm scared
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