Posts by NogginTheNog

Kind of ironic

So they kept him locked up for 25 years (that can't have been cheap or much fun), them executed him? Worst of both worlds I'd say.

Gotta love those techie geeks!

Buy a stupidly expensive restricted device, then hack around to make it do something... or buy a much cheaper existing general purpose one (a netbook) and have it work out-of the box.

IR35

No rush, but y'know don't forget giving this the chop sometime soonish eh..??

Sad people

I've yet to see the attraction in having sex with someone who, well has never had sex before. I mean you wouldn't pay for a trip round Silverstone with a learner driver would you??

Close but no cigar

It's a seriously nice looking piece of kit, and those suspected features (noise cancelling second mic?!) look very nice as well!

Shame it'll run a version of Mac OSX, and be handcuffed to iTunes and the Apple mafia... Android or Palm for me it remains then thanks!

Better quality copper

Funny you should mention the "up to..." claims of the ISPs. When I signed up for broadband at my current address maybe 4 years ago I was getting something around 2Mbps. Now, one router upgrade later (to an ADSL+ compatible one) plus it's relocation to next to the master phone socket, and I now get a rock-solid 8Mbps - without the weekly reboots once required!

I'm guessing a lot of that has to be down to improvements at the exchange end by the ISP (the same one by the way - LLU as well *NOT* BT!).

Location location

Ok so some yokel/rich twat CHOOSES to live in the sticks. So I (urban dweller) have to subsidise his/her Internet connection?

Bloody hell do they want us to come and drop off their shopping as well??

Maybe his management...

...saw that creepy Elvis tour thing (band playing live with Elvis on screen "singing" along) and thought maybe they could send The Godfather Of Soul back out on the road again too!

Not to mention the benefit to battery life...

...when you do away with all that old fashioned motorised spinning disc and rotor arm stuff.

Blame game(s)

So it's all the coaches' fault, not the people actually doing the competing, is it?

Well done!

Can I just say I'm impressed that so far there have been no comments on the size, shape, consistency, or easy availability, of the Moderatrix's buns??!

So may I be the first :-D

Home connection without the landline

I know someone with no landline (rented house/BT 12 month rip-off!), two laptops, and two separate USB dongles and price plans.

This widget would neatly halve that (apart from the initial purchase cost).

My arch-nemisis

I should point out was Nogbad The Bad! Dunno if he's arabic but he is a bit 'swarthy' looking!

Cutbacks?

Are those paintball guns the soldiers are brandishing in the intro silohuettes?!

Politician-speak

What they really mean is "we haven't got anywhere near the time or budget to contemplate testing, certifying, redeveloping, and moving ALL our systems en-masse from IE6.

The wonders of single supplier lock-in (which was what the corporate browser market had at the start of this millenium).

Go Apple!

Since Flash is the bane of modern web browsing, even a small stand against the tide should be welcomed, even a rather Canute-ish one!

Bedtime soon?

Can all the children bickering about how much better 'their' operating system is (like it's yours anyway, like any of you ever actually contributed any code to any of them, in fact how many of you never even paid for them?) please go away and watch CBeebies or Nick Junior until your mum tells you to get your jammies on and get to bed?

Then perhaps the adults can just get on with reading a grown up website with a grown up comment section.

Your turn next

Please knock it off with all the smugness non-IE users... there WILL be an exploit for your favourite browser along sooner or later, never fear. I don't think malware authors are particularly fussed about politics, they just wanna steal stuff.

For the record I use FF 3.5 (mainly), IE8 (occasionally), Opera 10 (almost as much as FF), and IE6/7 at work ('cos that's all they have).

Stop!

Does anyone else feel it's wrong to be sending a vehicle to another world powered by hazardous material (which will still be so for many many years after the vehicle has ceased to be useful), which includes plans to kill alien lifeforms, even if they are only microscopic ones??!

Or is it just 'cos I watched The Day The Earth Stood Still (the Michael Rennie original natch) on DVD yesterday instead of getting to work through the snow..? ;-)

Is the music industry dying??

If so does that mean we won't have to suffer the yearly twats and morons shoutfest they call the BRITS anymore?!