Posts by Thomas 4
1353 posts • joined Thursday 11th June 2009 12:46 GMT
Yep
It's come around to bite them in their muscley well-toned ass.
Posted in Amazon intros $199 movie Kindle
Never mind the proxy
Those price points are *really* going to fuck over the Android tablet market.
Trademarking "normal sex"
The potential profit in this idea is astronomical.
"Engage in BDSM or be sued."
In other news
Apple reports absolutely no overheating problems with new iPhone 5 battery, nuh-uh.
Posted in Amazon to kindle Fire tablet tomorrow
And even now
Reg hacks are patiently waiting for the first malfunctioning Kindle 2 battery, just for the headlines.
Finally
This should shut up people that a) whine about the lack of scientific benefits from space exploration and b) whine about the lack of an IT angle in said articles.
Posted in Drinking alcohol wards off asthma
Funny
Mankind spent ages searching for the Elixir of Life, only to find it was in the pub all along.
Quite right
What we need to do is develop a national IT program for the police force to sit proudly alongside our NHS one.
I for one....
....welcome our cane toad devouring overlords and whatever we introduce to then get rid of them.
Oo
Did that description actually make sense to anyone?
Posted in MS denies secure boot will exclude Linux
"No, no, we're not saying that at all."
"But we're certainly thinking it loudly."
Well duh
It was clearly Apple that invented them.
....beep....beep.....
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
How does the defence plead...
"to the petty theft of Britains entire telephone network?"
"Not guilty, yer honnor, the vulture made me do it."
Ambivalent about this
I can't say I'm completely in favour of fossil fuels, what with potential greenhouse/climate stuff and it's limited duration. An *efficient* and *effective* renewable source would be my preferred choice, along with the elimination of world hunger, death sentence for all politicians and an Android phone that has regular updates.
That said, gas is one of the less damaging fossil fuels, there's a heck of a lot of it just waiting to be used and the spare change sure as heck could come in handy at the moment.
Posted in EMC exec flames El Reg
This is a flame?!
Where's the bad spelling? Where's the prolific use of impolite adjectives? Where are the foul insinuations about the author's parentage and behaviour of his mother.
0/10 fuking terible, must try harder, noob.
An error in the article
I noticed on 9 separate occasions that a trademark wasn't correctly identified as such.
Posted in Mars trips could blind astronauts
Meh.
So it looks like whatever ship is built for the task needs some way to generate even a minimal amount of gravity-like force.
Probability analysis
....suggests a highly likely outcome that you are correct.
Meanwhile the geometrists are telling the government to get bent, the fluid dynamanic analysists are watching their funding dry up and the astronomers are beseeching the heavens for answers.
Posted in HP axes up to 525 webOS hardware staff
Riiiight.
Someone needs to tell HP that "cutting edge" tech doesn't actually involve an axe.
Almost
This is a perfect example of why gamers are awesome.
Posted in Baltimore 'toilet bomber' acquitted
As opposed to people nearby who were crapping themselves.
Posted in Games review site goes titsup at launch
Mind you.....
"We do, however, expect a rash of stories with headlines like “Teen dies after 48-hour non-stop gaming session” some time soon."
I'd probably die after a 48-hour *cough*gaming session*cough* as well, not to mention the wrist cramps.....
Posted in Chinese bloke gets eel lodged up todger
"Pics or it didn't happen"
I bet Lester does have piccies but he's just trying to wriggle out of it.
I've just had a brilliant idea!
Why don't all the electronics giant patent absolutely everything, then we we can halt the progress of human development completely. In a few decades, civilisation will be reduced to a crumbling wasteland, populated by a strange, rodent-like scavenger that kills things by spraying them with sheets of paper secreted from a bodily orifice.
Posted in Verity's secret shame revealed
Oh, oh God....
It's all making sense now. Put me down for a pre-order of the HP Glados xd666c, with a side order of the Wheatley OS/2 Warp module.
Posted in 3D printing for artificial blood vessels
Cue moral outrage in T minus 5
It's a good advancement but my concern would be the residual plastic left in the blood stream after an artifical cell breaks down. Until the process can use fully organic and swiftly biodegradable plastics, I wouldn't feel happy about it being used in a transfusion.
However, if we're going to start speculating, this plastic blood could be used in things like replacement limbs, if you had some sort of membrane that could transfer oxygen from blood cells in the central body to the limb.
Another use could be the development of organic computers as a potential power source of some description, although the complexities of it would be way beyond my understanding.
"Science - it WORKS, bitches!" - XKCD
Posted in Nigerians panic over killer calls
Mental note
*create an email address ID09141@yahoo.co.uk and watch Ring for tips*
Meh
I prefer the intimidatory feeling of the old BSOD. If I were making the changes, I'd make sure even more technical stuff filled the screen, possibly with an alarm sounding as well and a descending countdown timer.
But then, I really hate playing tech support for colleagues.
So just to clarify
Did they probe Scartlett Johansson as well?
Posted in Newsnight presenter pwned by snarky hack
I'm guessing
....that this is why the El Reg hacks don't have bio pages, because it would just turn into an endless war to see who could write the most inflammatory and snarky page.
Would make for great entertainment though.....
Yeah, I heard about this from another forum. It's fucking disgraceful that one of the most iconic characters of film history hasn't been rewarded for his efforts.
Is this a good review?
Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Unofrtunately, while the reviewer is not a Star Wars obsessive, a lot of the people that are going to be interested in the boxset *are* and what the review misses is that a lot of key scenes have been altered.
The one that has turned into an internet meme is the fact that now Vader pointlessly shouts "Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo" before tossing Emperor Palaptine down the well, the unnecessary scene in A New Hope featuring an appalling CGI Jabba confronting Han in Mos Eisley, the removal of the "yub-nub" song from Return of the Jedi, placing Hayden Christainsen in the line up at the end of Return of the Jedi, the whole "Han shot first" thing.....the list goes on.
"I have altered the Original Trilogy. Pray I don't alter it any further." - George Lucas.
Hmmm
I wouldn't describe HP's foray into the ring as being the equivalent of "cannon fodder".
A more suitable metaphor might be a kamikazi pilot. The flight starts out normally enough, before taking a sharp nosedive with a gibbering madman at the helm before exploding in a spectacular fireball. The damage is fairly minimal and short lived, leaving you with bits of wreckage scattered all over the flight deck.
Posted in Nintendo 3DS gets more stick
Inclined to agree
It does look extremely ugly but it might improve the ergonomics of the d-pad. I find it uncomfortable to use it for too long on my 3DS but fortunately the left stick is still accurate enough for platforming shennanigans like Castlevania.
Someone call Eli Roth
The scene - A poorly lit bedroom late at night. A frightened child is being tucked into bed by someone who looks far too young to be the child's mother but hey, that's hollywood casting for you.
Child: Mummy, I'm scared. Another kid went missing at school today. Are the monsters getting them?
Mummy: Don't be scared, there's no such thing as monsters.
Child: Ok mummy. Thank you for plugging in my nightlight.
Mummy: (raising a curious plastic object with a plug)....I haven't plugged it in yet....
Mummy and daughter look at each other.
*rrrrrooowwwwwwwwrrrrl*
I can't help but feel
...that one careful push would have been more of a lesson, depending on the position of the hedgehog.
AcneApp: Homeopathic Version
Instead of a whole screen of flashing colour, you now have a single pixel.
Awww
I never get to fondle anything nice.
If nothing else
It serves as a really useful proof of concept. If they could up the power transfer a little more, maybe they could use NFC as a means of printing personalised train & aircraft tickets.
Posted in Galaxy Tab remains illegal in Germany
I'm sorry sir
But we must now gouge out your eyes as Apple have now patented the iBall as a viewing device.
It tells us
That nuclear energy has a glowing future ahead of it.
Posted in Vale Michael Stern Hart
/facepalm
And this folks is why I shouldn't post while a) I'm ill b) I'm half asleep c) WITHOUT READING THE ARTICLE or d) a braindead combo of the above. -.-
I think Svantevid picked up on the connection I was trying to make.
Posted in Vale Michael Stern Hart
Just out of curiousity
Was he any relation to the Gutenberg that made the first ever printed Bible?
Posted in Sun rises over .xxx smut domain
I hate you
I just had a vision of a greasy student from my local Dixions showing me a "handheld device" while naked.
Pass the mind-bleach please.
Posted in Early Earth’s ‘golden shower’
Title
"New Scientist notes that there appears to be too little precious metals for the hypothetical bombardment to be a complete explanation."
New Scientist went on to ask for greater amounts of precious metals be sent to their offices for comparison purposes.
Umm
I thought the lack of response to "frakk me" was kind of the whole issue.
Itanic....Itanic....
Why does that sound so familiar, given the context....
like Y-ing the X
Like updating the Motorola Android Phone?
