Posts by Thomas 4
1366 posts • joined Thursday 11th June 2009 12:46 GMT
Re: Topic? What's a topic?
We don't need peasants like you in The Silver Badge Club. You're also not allowed in our treehouse. Nyer-nyer.
Re: yes, but
The Twitter Toaster!
#MakingToastRightNow
North Korea playing games...
I think it's some kind of Hacker bingo. All they need is Gary McKinnon and they'll have a full house.
Re: "Middle managers suffer more stress than anyone else"
Middle managers believed to suffer more stress. Also noted - monkeys shit in the woods.
The protestors are doing it wrong
Oritz et al were legally entitled to threaten Aaron Swartz, which makes it Okay.
It's true
Last time I saw them at the Farnborough Air Show, the resolution on the fourth plane was off and had a couple of dead pixels next to it.
Re: Are you sure it's Photoshop?
If this doesn't happen I will be bitterly disappointed.
Re: The mystery of the mysterious operatives
So purely from an academic angle, what *would* you need to cut through a major submarine cable? Does it vary from country to country (i.e. American ones being hardened more than Middle Eastern ones)?
Re: Someone else who's missed the point about privacy and GG
You do know that the term "pub" is derived from "public house", right?
Re: There sure as hell is a need for press regulation
I've re-read it and I have been hasty in my initial post, for which I apologise.
That said, with your example about the PR wanting to get an article taken down, what if it had been an individual that has been the victim of unfair press? The PCC is a remarkably toothless organisation and the only other option is legal action, which for an individual going up against a national newspaper, must seem like a futile task. A newspaper can hire an army of lawyers, an individual can't. Plus someone that's had their life intruded into by the press is already under a colossal amount of stress and pressure; to go through expensive legal action with a highly doubtful outcome...
There does need to be a way for individual people to be able to call newspapers to account but allowing them to do so in a way that cannot be abused by more powerful people...that's beyond me.
Re: There sure as hell is a need for press regulation
I only first became aware of it on FreeThoughtsBlog; someone had managed to cache the page before it was taken down. It didn't do any favours for my blood pressure.
There sure as hell is a need for press regulation
For those of you that move in LGBT circles, the name Lucy Meadows has been making headlines this week. For those unfamiliar with the story, about 3 months ago, Richard Littlejohn of the Daily Mail wrote an extremely degrading "expose" of a transwoman in Manchester, describing her as being in the wrong job and that her transitioning was "having a devestating influence" on the children in her class.
She killed herself last week after three months of press harassment.
To date, no official action has been taken against Richard Littlejohn. The PCC refuses to get involved despite literally thousands of third party complaints. Do I want journalists to have completely free reign? Not if they can destroy lives and get away with it.
Re: Shark Fin
It doesn't matter whether they eat the rest of the damn shark or not. Sharks have an extremely low reproductive cycle when compared to other fish species, so it's little wonder that a large number of sharks are critically endangered. Shark fishing simply isn't sustainable, regardless of how much of the shark is eaten.
Re: Why do people put forward the idea that iPads are good for art?
Oh neat.
Just did a Google Image Search on David Hockney and if he drew all those on an iPad it completely blows my argument out of the water. They're pretty amazing - which program did he use?
Why do people put forward the idea that iPads are good for art?
With any kind of drawing, you need a high degree of accuracy, which you're unlikely to get with fingertips. Even when you have a slab more suited to it, like the Galaxy Note 10.1, there's still limits to what you can reasonably do.
I'd be really interested in hearing from the artsy or graphic designs section of El Reg on this - does anyone use a fondleslab as their main artwork tool? (Please note I'm not referring to the Wacom and its ilk, which I know from first hand experience to be delightfully useful gadgets. =)
Umm, I'm not sure how cool I am with this
One person's "affectionate teasing" is another person's "bullying bastard". I was on the receiving end of an awful lot of "affectionate teasing" in school and it made my life a misery. Mr Fry has said he isn't cool with it, so maybe knock it off?
He is also, by and large, a fairly harmless individual and Christ knows there's more deserving targets out there for a verbal shoeing. You should also bear in mind that it's other people that have described him as a "national treasure" and all that crap - not Mr Fry himself.
Does no-one else see the irony in this?
A "free" operating system being used by one of the most oppressive and brutal governments on the planet?
Be nice, folks =)
Mr Osborne is doing the best he can to save the economy with his Courageous Outspoken Capitalist Knowledge.
Re: I see no need for this.
Speak for yourself. I want a Hollyphone.
EDIT: That's a Norman Lovett Hollyphone, for preference but a Hatty Hayridge one would be cool too.
Well...
...they'd be far less eager to raid saver's bank accounts to prop up European bankers.
Re: Stupid
Medal of Honour fans are united in their anger at the Medal of Honour franchise, at least as far as Warfighter goes.
Posted in Trip the fight fantastic
Square Syndrome
That's the name of the condition Ms Croft is afflicted with. It's something that crops up again and again in Final Fantasy games. The female lead flits indecisively between spunky and petite little flower mode, often within the space of a few minutes. Say what you will about Ms Croft being an object of titillation but one thing she has always been is strong and independant. Turning her into Dagger, Rinoa or Aeris was always going to jarringly out of character.
Re: $urface
I know, right? I'm rather fond of my Lumia and would happily splash out on a Windows Phone 8 10 inch slab but the fact that even Microsoft's hardware partners are refusing to touch RT with the proverbial pole speaks volumes.
Re: BE CAREFUL. Someday it WILL happen to you...
The article also fails to take into account people's innate stupidity when given a modicum of freedom. A half pint quickly becomes a pint, then a pint becomes two points and then next thing you know you've put some poor bastard in a wheelchair for life.
My driving instructor was a vicious little sod but one thing he said still sticks in my mind. "A car is a weapon. Like any other weapon, if you're careless or irresponsible with it, you will kill someone."
Spam bots...
...just got pawned.
Not actually a dumb idea
For dealing with individual emergencies, the system would be pretty awful but in the event of a large scale disaster such as an earthquake or a hurricane, the system could gather locations that are being tweeted from and that would help to pinpoint emergency hotspots.
Re: "Primer"
DC's stuff gives me the frigging creeps.
Not cool
Seriously. I don't care how famous you are, or whether you think these guys and girls are assholes. No-one and I mean no-one, deserves to have their financial and personal details splurged on the web for criminals and dickheads to abuse as they see fit.
Re: Interesting, but...
Nano-assemblers create minute quantities of duct-tape.
Another missed one
A very old one but would Metropolis fall under this category?
Re: What about gay porn? Women aren't being used there.. What about..
This is bullshit. I know a rather large number of women that enjoy grumble flick action and so do most of the transgender crowd I'm acquainted with. So saying that banning porn for reasons of gender equality is garbage.
Or...if this about there being a larger amount of porn aimed at men, lesbians and bi folks, then I'll happily plop a signature on any petitions to increase female and gay porn on the internet.
Posted in Bacon sarnies can kill: Official
Big frigging deal
Plenty of folks are, right at this very moment, working themselves to death but you don't see anyone saying "Maybe we should be on holiday or something"...
A false show of solidarity
The CEO coughing up his £100 M&S voucher means nothing to him. Someone on a considerably smaller pay package losing a £25 M&S voucher has much more reason to be annoyed.
Posted in Reg readers brew up the ultimate cuppa
@JDX
"Why would you feed tea to pigs, it has little nutritional value."
So you can get tea-flavoured bacon. Duh.
Hark, what is that I hear?
Could it possibly be the sound of an incoming train wreck?
Goodbye Ms Leach
Your articles set a new standard in baiting Apple fans and for that you will be sorely missed. o7
Re: Most people stay with their bank in the UK due to inertia.
I'm with Natwest at the moment (haven't had any card issues but that's due to spending most of the week ill in bed) but I think this recent fuck up has confirmed that we can expect more outages in future.
So what alternatives are there? Is the Co-op any good, or a similar set up that doesn't have a bunch of money grubbing CEOs?
@Thad
"Every time a Windows system is booted up someone, somewhere in the word dies."
And every time someone buys a Windows Phone, Eadon dies a little inside. So remember folks, the Lumia you buy today brings us one stop closer to a brighter and quieter forum.
Re: People!
All I will say is good luck prying your front door keys off that sucker. oO
Taking bets
...that within a year of this technology becoming widespread, someone will attempt to sue Fujitsu for hand cancer caused by exposure to IR light.
Re: Daily defence spending...
Holy shit, when I read the first comment I thought I'd wandered onto the Yahoo comments section.
*shudders*
Posted in Twenty classic arcade games
This is an outrage
No Afterburner on the list? For shame, sir!
Re: Bah@Thomas 4
True but just imagine how much more *useful* it would be to take that $46bn cut from the military and give it to Nasa.
Bah
We've got no money to send rockets to other worlds but we've still got plenty of cash to send them slamming into other countries.
A novel idea
I feel that Google Glass has terrific potential. You could feed your glasses prescription into them and have a bluetooth based sensor that sends your current blood/alcohol ratio to them too. Then your Google Glass recalibrates itself so that no matter how drunk you are, your vision is not impaired. That way, the cute boy or girl you hook up with at the end of a session remains cute when you wake up next to them the following morning.
Re: MS are trying a little harder to push the Surface than the Zune
Although it goes against every fibre of my being, I do partially agree with Eadon here.
The Surface's price is ridiculously high for what it is. Is there anything the Surface Pro can do that could not be done by a similarly spec'd laptop at half the price? Its little brother, the Surface RT, is hobbled by an OS that really, really should have been Windows Phone 8.
If Nokia made a 7 or 10 inch tablet with Windows Phone 8 on and spec'd and sold at a similar price to the Galaxy Tab or iPad, Microsoft would have made a killing, or at least a fairly hefty flesh wound. As it stands now, neither Surface is particularly appealing.
Now if you'll excuse me, I need to scrub my keyboard with acid for typing that first sentence.
Posted in Keyboard, you're not my type
The best kind of keyboard
...is one you can beat a man to death with and type his obituary on afterwards.
Re: Confessions of a search engine Exec
I was really worried about you for a moment there, Eadon. You had a completely unrelated article to work and I was concerned that you wouldn't be able to find a place to get a gratuitous dig at Microsoft in.
But you managed it and thus all was normal with the world.
