Posts by Thomas 4
1352 posts • joined Thursday 11th June 2009 12:46 GMT
You are incorrect in this regard
It could indeed happen to a nicer pile of crap - The Daily Mail.
Perhaps a fake news story endorsing the health benefits of crack cocaine, or a review of Manhunt 2 written by a 6 year old?
Looks good and all
...but I rather not have Hugo Weaving punching my face in over it.
Mine's the long black leather one that I keep tripping over.
For all those whining about the "orbit" part
What, you'd rather have something like "High Up Rocket Propelled Dirgible Elevated Register Plane?"
Posted in Amazon's anti-iPad arises 'in October'
Reading fail?
You can type and watch TV on your girlfriend?
Butbutbut.....
If we release the update, how will we manage to sell the almost identical looking Xoom X2 with identical specs but **ANDROID 3.2**?
Sad to say it...
...but eventually all MMOs must die.
I was really really sad to see the shutdown of Tabula Rasa. Admittedly, they could have worked on the endgame stuff more but it also had some really neat features (especially the Logos and class system). Same will happen to FF XI, Guild Wars 1 when 2 arrives. That doesn't mean to say they are not good games - they all have their merits.
But nothing lasts forever.
@Lamont Cranston
I tried that, then my boss came in to ask why I was laughing so loud. I managed to stop laughing when I realised we'll never see the theatrical release on DVD.
Posted in Moderatrix kisses the Reg goodbye
Nooo!
The comments section won't be the same without you around. We'll be able to say what we think, for a start.
Best of luck with the future though.
Was it...
....your companion? Did you have to eventually incinerate it?
Or was it one of those where you fed people into it to watch them get sliced, diced and otherwise horribly mutilated?
Meh
I really wish I had seen the original galaxies when it was first launched, with the dozens of different classes and a very infrequent jedi here and there.
From what I gather most people would have gladly seen it shutdown after the NGE & CE changes.
Posted in Lego lover builds big Barad-dûr replica
He had an eye for the tower since he first saw Lord of the Rings.
And the tower had an eye for him.
So....
Will Symbian have a Belle end or can it keep going?
Posted in LG Optimus Black
Indecisive
Would it be fighting Megatron or joining forces with him?
As for the phone itself, looks distinctly meh.
Oddly enough
Both topics are related to each other. While I would love a third series of Spaced, I strongly suspect that with an incomplete team, it would turn into a disaster like another comedy series I know....
Maybe I misunderstanding here
But is this some sort of attempt at retrophrenology, as described by Terry Pratchett in one of his novels?
In brief, phrenology is a method of determining someone's personality through the examination of bumps in the skull. Retrophreonology is the means of altering personality traits by creating bumps on the head.
"Certainly sir. That'll be £200 for the religious further, plus an additional £10 for wear and tear on the lump hammer."
Posted in Anonymous claims LulzSec merger
Mhmmmm
Its like someone said above - script kiddies are the equivalent of BB guns in Anon's arsenal but I'd be willing to bet they have more than a few pieces of heavy artillery somewhere.
Posted in Anonymous claims LulzSec merger
All well and good
But what's the Roman for Distributed Denial of Service?
Modern technology, eh?
Now script kiddies from the latest hacking cult can attack our bodies...
"Sorry I'm disappointing you, love. I think my crotch is being DDoS'ed by Lulzec."
Don't panic folks!
If it looks like a threat we can fly a nuclear bomb up to it on one of our Shuttles...
*whisper whisper*
What's that?
*whisper*
Oh. Looks like we're fucked then.
Hey!
What's more important here - company reputation or someone's personal details?!
....
Oh wait. EA.
Posted in NATO site hacked
Oh sweet zombie Jesus
I'm thinking of running a sweepstake for the next big company/organisation to announce that they've been hacked. Place your bets below, here's a few to get you started:
1) WIkipedia
2) Facebook
3) Sony
4) Sony
5) Xbox Live Arcade
6) Potterless
Really?
Does Curiousity have a crowbar arm on it?
+1 more unhappy VM customer
The router they supplied for my connection is a clapped out D-Link that drops connections like a whore drops her knickers. On the rare occasions where I'm not getting disconnected, I enjoy regular lag spikes and a lot of rage from my teammates as my connection costs us yet another victory.
I have a dream
I dream that one day, people accused of technical crimes such as these will be tried by a panel of technical experts, rather than Joe Plebb off the street who classes anything beyond the power switch as "computer hacking".
Posted in Child of Eden
It's been a good few years for Indie work
World of Goo, Plants vs Zombies, Braid, Limbo, The Void - it's really good to see some originality creeping back into games, rather than more generic Halo knock-offs.
Posted in Apple dealers hit with Lion bar
Apple dealers hit with Lion bar
Resellers complain about being covered in chocolate and wafer pieces.
So in real life
Mushroom eats Mario?
Um.
"Sure, you will mostly disagree, but you have to applaude anyone who poke an angry bear with a big stick."
I could also stick my cock into a mains outlet* but that still wouldn't stop it being a really dumb move.
*With a suitable adaptor from PC World ofc.
True
But as theories go, it's not a bad one plus I'm pretty sure it would have the desired effect, assuming the low-trousered yoof puts down his bottle of White Lightning long enough to listen to you.
Back when I were a nipper....
We 'ad to use social engineerin', brute forcin' and all sorts of TCP/IP jiggery-pokery when we were 'acking, unlike these new-fangled kids with their botnets and DDosin'.
Now get the hell off my server.
Title
"What we’ve seen from the competition is trying to add features that already exist in PlayStation 3. "
Except for security. Who in their right mind would want to hack a PS3?
Agreed
At least SpaceX seem to be taking an active interest in the development of their tech, whereas Lockheed and Boeing seem to be doing it purely for the government $$.
Perhaps not as serious a problem as first thought
When I look for titles on my Kindle, I'm usually looking for big names or well known books (currently working my way through Game of Thrones). The search function removes a lot of the chaff but the main one is Amazon's sales ranking system. When people do a search for "Song of Fire and Ice" for example, the first one that comes up is the main book because that's what people want to buy.
So while Hubert J. Copypasta's seminal work "Singing a jaunty song of fire and ice" can be uploaded to the kindle store, it's very very unlikely to knock George R Martin's book off the number 1 search spot.
Good thinking Mike
Perhaps El Reg can adopt the Deep -fried Mars Bar (DMB) as the official unit of energy?
Posted in LucasArts Day of the Tentacle
@AdamWill
For me, it was Campaign 4, Mission 1 of X-Wing, where you had to defend the galaxy's slowest moving freighter from a Star Destroyer and a never ending wave of TIE Fighters and TIE Bombers, with only one other X-Wing for assistance.
That was a true gaming challenge and it felt pretty epic when I finally managed to beat it.
Posted in BioWare latest hack victim
Seems like a reasonable policy to me
Kill everyone involved in this sordid affair and start from the ground up.
Posted in LucasArts Day of the Tentacle
Pfff
Probably got your expanded and extended memory mixed up again =P
Posted in LucasArts Day of the Tentacle
Lucasarts....
....how far you've fallen. From Day of the Tentacle and Tie Fighter to Force Unleashed II.
Posted in Cloud: Do Reg readers care?
Cloud services are notoriously unreliable
If he's not blowing up Mako reactors, he's harping on endlessly about his past.
There might be a reason for this
The keyboard on my original Milestone was a poorly put together piece of shit, with each key being nothing more than a rubber square glued roughly into place. From the looks of this latest one, it appears to be exactly the same.
As a friend of mine pointed out last night
A lot of Goonswarm folks were displeased at the prospect of unwanted EVE downtime. A showdown between the wretched scum of 4chan vs the wretched scum of the Something Awful forums will make for superb entertainment.
I'd feel sorry for the zombies
They'd starve to death up there, poor things.
Posted in Duke Nukem Forever
Haters have a point
My copy of DNF ran over my dog, burned my flat down, ran off with my girlfriend and somehow managed to land me with a Daily Mail subscription.
DNF is pure evil in gaming form and we should form a lynch mob to execute everyone at Gearbox for even thinking of making this game.
Or, as a radical idea, those who don't like the game can simply not play it....?
It's a good job I'm not the cynical sort
....otherwise I might have said that maybe EA is doing this *deliberately* in order to drum up a few headlines over Modern Warfare, with absolutely no intention of seeing it through to release. I might also have said that when EA backs down from this as they originally planned, they can say they were "moved by the passionate feedback of its fans" or some other marketing friendly bullshit to make themselves look like a caring company, rather than a bunch of manipulative money grabbing opportunists whose souls not even Satan wants.
Oh and before the downvoting starts, I couldn't give a fuck about Battlefield or Modern Warfare.
Not the first time a phone as tried this trick
A very long time ago, back in the early days of Series 60, Sendo developed a full size foldout keyboard for their first (and sadly only) smartphone design. This is a really good idea by Motorola, although the cost is rather steep at the moment, with Lapdock and SIM free phone clocking in at £800. Granted, most people will get it on a contract of some sort but it will still be hellishly expensive.
