Posts by Michael Hutchinson
41 posts • joined Tuesday 2nd June 2009 13:13 GMT
Posted in SimCity 3000
Yes it runs fine in W7 if you don't mind being stuck with 4:3 resolutions. Just be sure to run the installer & game in compatibility mode (I used Win 2k iirc).
Looks like he invented time travel too...
March 12 2013!
Re: Suckyou Raven He'd better go into hideing then.
"/If you need a sarc tag you are too stupid to be using a computer."
Yes Matt, you are...
Some oversights in this approach
If these automated calls go to an answering machine, that means that the scammer will know it's a real number with a valid recipient. Equivalent to replying to a spam email and confirming to the spammer that the email address has a valid recipient.
Re: hahahaha
Maybe I should have been clearer, Sky's online offering of content blows VM's out of the water.
LGI had a big rollout of a decent new online service last year in the Netherlands. If they buy VM then hopefully us VM customers will get something that actually rivals Sky's online offering!
Do you think...
...Gartner outsourced this report?
Guess I'm one of the lucky ones
First of all, I'm not trying to defend VM, just sharing my own experience.
I recently was "upgraded" to the superhub (about 6 weeks ago) and did notice the packaging had been opened to put a label over the power socket on the hub saying "Do not use your old PSU".
I've not had any issues at all (except the routing problem which crippled Youtube that wasn't down to the hub itself), I'd be interested to know if the people who have the problems are using older kit?
Re: Innovation
When will you people get bored of typing that on every bloody thread?
Correllation != Causation
"While I agree from a legal/ethic standpoint it seems to be sales this generation were directly related to how easy the console was to hack (WII trivial, Xbox harder, PS3 damn hard)."
Wii launched in 2006 @ £179
360 launched in 2005 @ £280
PS3 launched in 2007 @ £425
I think that is directly related to sales in this generation.
Holy cow!
A headline about Yahoo! with only one exclamation mark!
Re: something is amiss here....
"far better for it to be run by a private company that has an interest in keeping it's customers happy and improving services."
And there is the key flaw with privatisation of public services. The private companies that run these services have only one goal. To make as much money for their share/stakeholders as possible, if that happens to result in happy customers and improved services then great! Unfortunately 99.9% of the time it results in customers being screwed at every turn and worse service.
"4 in brits are dumb!"
How does the "brits" measurement scale translate into number of elephants in an olympic sized swimming pool?
Re: Mobile phone use
"Or would they have been doing their makeup, playing with the radio, looking in the glove box for sweets, reading a magazine, chatting to a friend in the car, turning round to slap the kids
Since there isn't a specific act to ban any of those then they can't pose any sort of serious hazard to driving"
There is an act to ban all of those, and any others. It's called driving without due care and attention.
Re: OTOH
If it's between the account and password pages, then what is stopping the crims from finding out what your picture & phrase are?
Sorry? Did you mean to comment on this: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/10/ftth_council_uk_penetration_knocked_again/ ?
Re: Out of thin air
From the MediaWiki.org website:
"MediaWiki is free software: this means that you may use it for any purpose without legal hindrance. Furthermore, its licensing conditions apply solely to the software itself. This means that although many wikis license their content under a permissive license, you are not obliged to license the content submitted to your wiki in any particular way. Of course, as a project founded to support sites like Wikipedia, we encourage you to license the texts you write under a free license, but, in short, you are not required to.
If you wish to alter or amend the software itself, in general, you are permitted to, but there are some restrictions and you should consult the full text of the GNU GPL version 2 for details. Because MediaWiki is provided free of charge, there is no warranty, to the extent permitted by applicable law."
Posted in Google rewrites dot-doc death note
They didn't have a change of heart...
Google didn't back track, have a change of heart or anything. They just elaborated on their initial statement to remove any potential confusion.
Talk about a non-story!
Re: Great image, but
"If the youngest galaxy was formed 450 million years after the Big Bang, it is not 450 million years old, it is ~13.3 billion years old."
It was 450 million years old when the light used to produce this picture was emitted, therefore in the picture it is 450 million years old.
Re: No microSD-card slot?
It'll be under the flap on the top left, next to the micro sim slot (Original Droid Razr has a similar arrangement on the bottom left)
Posted in Motorola outs Jelly Bean friendly phones
Soon...
Since the original (well reborn) Razr only just got the ICS update OTA in the UK last week, I recommend you don't hold your breath on that one...
BREAKING: Lewis Page in misleading headline non-story shocker!
The post is required, and must contain letters.
Re: Daft twats
How is it any different than buying a Xbox and needing to supply a TV (The xbox sits there and flashes lights at you unless you connect it to a tv)? Your argument is invalid.
Increased risk of death?
How can being fat or skinny increase the risk of death? The probability of death is 1/1, you can't increase that!
The font looks shockingly bad in Chrome.
And no mention in the article of how to change it back (if you wanted to for whatever reason).
In the email settings there's an option to hide from timeline, which has been set on all non fb email addresses, easy to change back if you're that way inclined.
Still, they shouldn't have blanket changed everyone's settings without notification anyway.
Re: Cables
Virgin Media laid half a mile of cable in York just last month. I know this because I'm now connected to it.
Surely the problem...
...is a combination of over population in the affected areas, much more people than the water systems were designed to ever need to cope with, coupled with the sheer idiocy of having companies, whose only purpose is to make a profit, running vital infrastructure.
And before the pedant-mobile turns up, all private and publicly held companies exist for one sole ultimate purpose, to make a profit. That's the part of capitalism that people fail to understand.
All the previous comments already deal with Lewis, so I needn't add anything more there :-)
Re: Ice Cream?! Ice Cream?!
"Melt in your hand? Mess in your pocket?"
That sounds like you're holding it right (or left depending on personal preference)
So the ASA have basically said...
...that I can advertise my product as doing everything, just so long as I include the footnote that "This product may not be available in all languages or in all areas, and features may vary by area."
Posted in StreetView disappears Dutch office tower
And here's an example of the extreme weather conditions in the North East:
Now you see it
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=dl3+0ph&hl=en&ll=54.550313,-1.588297&spn=0.021381,0.066047&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.598104,135.263672&hnear=Darlington+DL3+0PH,+United+Kingdom&t=h&z=15&layer=c&cbll=54.550259,-1.58811&panoid=1k3TMU29OmkIAfKNuwImfA&cbp=12,108.3,,0,14.5
Now you don't
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=dl3+0ph&hl=en&ll=54.550263,-1.588125&spn=0.021281,0.066047&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=58.598104,135.263672&hnear=Darlington+DL3+0PH,+United+Kingdom&t=h&layer=c&cbll=54.550253,-1.587893&panoid=tNSD9rMIwrDV-Cu-0xgYwQ&cbp=12,108.3,,0,14.5&z=15
And I bet you end up needing to buy new buds a lot when the left one dies...
@Turkish AC. Source, or it didn't happen...
No software warranty I can understand, but no hardware warranty will be a hard sell to the OFT
Come on, even BBC didn't resort to the G word... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16158374
Anything beginning "I am not a fanboy"...
is inevitably posted by a fanboy
Get over yourself
Just another parent making a woe-is-me rant...
would have been better if the screen on the back wasn't at least a foot higher than the one on the front...
Posted in Blighty surrenders to Street View
5%
Is there a prize for being part of the 5% that didnt get streetviewed?
Posted in Is Apple plotting a search of its own?
It's all speculation - but wouldn't it be fun if Apple did come up with its own search engine?
No.
Posted in Gordon 'to sacky' Wacky Jacqui
Na na na na, Good bye
Good riddance! It's just a shame the next person in the job will be just as "Wacky"
