Posts by Thomas 4
1399 posts • joined Thursday 11th June 2009 12:46 GMT
Hmmmm
"We spend a ton of time identifying and hiring what we think are the best people in the world for doing what we do. The last thing we want is for anyone to get hurt," said the man who sources his components from a factory where suicide happens on an almost monthly basis.
Posted in Most gamers are middle-aged adults: FACT
Would be interested in some El Reg coverage of E3
A deeply cynical eye on some of the presentations would be a welcome change from some of the fawning media crap on other sites.
Posted in NHS Direct
Oh *good*
As a medical man myself, I can see this app becoming a royal pain in the ass for me. The problem with self diagnosis apps is that patients tend to treat multiple choice options like dishes in a restuarant:
"Let's see, have I got a headache....well, it feels a bit funny, so I'll say yes and my stomach feels queasy that had absolutely nothing to do with the raw 3 o'clock kebab last night, so that's another yes.....oooo, looks like I have bubonic plague, better go see the doctor..."
"No sir, you haven't got plague, you're just hungover."
"Worthless quack, this NHS DIrect app says I have plague."
"I see. Did the programmers do ten years of medical school?"
"No but it does have a very shiny interface."
Posted in Sony Bravia KDL-40EX724 40in LED 3D TV
Because its a Sony
It will suck out your childhood memories and dump them on a server somewhere. Next thing you know that dreadful nativity evening where you played a sheep is being auctioned off on eBay.
Posted in Cellphones as carcinogenic as coffee
Sigh
It seems like anything which doesnt cause cancer these days is caricogenic instead.
Lester must be over the moon
He can now brag about having a great ass.
Posted in Toshiba reveals iPad 2 rival
Oh really?
Could open up some really interesting possibilities, hardware wise.
Posted in Stealth-cam software snaps laptop looter
Re: Linux equivalent
Be serious. Anybody who nicks a laptop and finds linux on it will more than likely take it back to the owner and ask if they have anything better to steal.
Posted in Verity Stob and the super subjunction
Very funny but sadly all too true
And once again, the English, kneels to the service of l33t-speeking teens as would a $10 hooker.
"Would you put an incandescent light bulb in your brain?"
Sure. Sounds like a really bright idea.
I'll see some of that action
Put me down for "stays up for ever and ever because Sony is an infallible company that takes the security of its customers details far above clawing its way out of the red".
Dont be so down on restoration
I'd love to see the original trilogy restored on DVD/Blu-ray. The Theatrical version, of course, not the bastardised crap that's been released so far.
The OS for the masses
System asks - "you're trying to run some really dangerous shit here, are you sure you want to run it" (or it says "Are you sure?")
This is the sort of message an operating system needs to give people, along with such favourites as "Stop clicking that fucking mouse button a billion times, I know you want to open up Internet Explorer to look at porn, I'm working on it. It's not my fault you didn't bother to give me a decent processor or RAM."
Slight misnomer
CEO: "We want a serious, professional-grade tablet for the high powered executive types in the business world."
Marketdroid: "Sounds good. Why don't we call it the Playbook?"
There's an error in the article
It states that a Mac was infected by malware, which is clearly a mistake. Only PCs suffer from malware.
You goddamn whippersnappers
Go away and let me play with my Meccano!
Posted in Groundhog day: more Sony breaches
We'll give it up
....when I can trust Sony to look after my personal details again.
Very very wrong
Space flight should be a primary concern so I can get the fuck off this rock and away from these morons.
Posted in Ofnuke: UK is not Japan
No!
We have to do away with nuclear power! Won't somebody please think of the radioactive, glowing mutant children?!
Posted in Videogames give kids the munchies
@AC
"Land whale". Now that's a phrase that's going to stick in my brain.
Posted in Videogames give kids the munchies
Does the opposite for me too
When I play video games I forget to play video games.
Oh please
Why do governments and companies insist on listening to these whiny, self-important overprotective people? It's really not rocket science to look at a browsers page history and if your juvenille-delinquent-in-training has been looking at something they shouldn't have been, then take their damn computer away. Want to know why the web is full of messed up shit? It's because people are messed up shit and like it or not, your precious little angel is one day going to wake up to the fact that s/he is messed up shit, just like his/her parents.
Now piss off back to the Daily Mail forums where your kind is tolerated.
Now, now....
That's just crazy talk.
Smart move by Japan
Why is it that only the Japanese government is willing to annoy Sony in this way whereas Sony Europe is willing to just shove its services back up with a promise that (for all we know) could be so much smoke and mirrors?
I admire people like you
You help keep me employed in my audiology clinic.
Meanwhile, over Gary McKinnon's house....
Can anyone else hear a heavily armed Navy SEALs team choppering into position?
I think people are overcomplicating it
Take Heroes of Newerth as an example.
This is a game filled with some of the most wretched and evil people I have ever played with (and this is coming from someone who played EvE Online). Trolls, griefers and asshats are a growth industry in this game and woe betide any poor newbie that makes a mistake. A system such as the one described by Gabe would do wonders for this game and could be surprisingly simple.
The reductions should only be reserved for players who really go the extra mile to help the community, with guides, a popular and helpful forum presence, etc, not the "10 clan mates allow Y to play free". As for the price increases, putting this in the hands of the players would be like handing primates the key to the shit slinging factory. No, the way I would see it working is in the hands of GMs and so on - a player that has verified and repeated reports of griefing or being a rude and arrogant fuckwit gets to pay more. If his behaviour improves, the price comes back down.
Posted in HP pets network-connected mouse
I don't get it
Why-fi instead of a Bluetooth or proprietary connection?
Uh huh
I bet the CIA operatives are busy analysing those videos in miniute detail, maybe even rewatching them several times to make sure they didnt miss anything
Posted in Porn found in Osama bin Laden compound
Finally, the US found something they were looking for
Weapons of Masturbation.
Who cares?
Bring on The Witcher 2.
Damn
Really should get that rash checked out. Could be catching.
Oh please
I'm just surprised the vouchers can be used for anything other than extremely disturbing pornography, given where they're being posted.
Alternative theory
Maybe its nothing at all to do with the network downtime and people are simply jumping ship because they don't trust Sony with their data anymore?
Posted in Reg ed rattles the Red-Headed League
As a red head myself
You should be thanking my species, after all, those red-haired hotties have to come from *somewhere* =p
Coming soon to a cinema near you....
Creepers....from SPACE!
We want to get the whole of Britain online!
Unless you live in a remote part of Wales or Scotland.
Posted in NASA restores Pluto to league of planets
There's one other thing Pluto has going for it
A song by Johnathon Coulton called "I'm Your Moon". It's kind of a love song sung by Pluto's moon Charon. It's also awesome.
All well and good
...but what's the supervillan angle on this piece? I can't really see it unless these things are burrowing around in a tank of quicksand; each with lasers strapped to their heads, as a besuited spy is slowly lowered in.
Puzzling
I'm not entirely sure why Microsoft has done this, let alone splashed out 8.5 billion on this.
It's effectively obsoleting their Messenger and Lync services, given that Skype has a pretty robust text based talk system, in addition to the phone capabilities. It's also going to cause friction with carriers that Microsoft are trying to persuade to take up more Windows smartphones. Then there's the question of revenue as well - a relatively small percentage of Skype's users pay for the additional features of the service and while it could be argued that advertising will bring in some funds, it's also going to drive people away as well.
Posted in Sony’s sorry saga snowballs
Offloaded my stuff already
Sold my almost new PSP-3000 to a local Game store. Got peanuts for it.
Posted in Sony mulls hacker bounty offer
Right film
Wrong candidate. I suspect that Sony would hire the wannabe samurai that keeps running around in his underpants and yelling.
Nothing new...
"This was a triumph
I'm making a note here: huge success
It's hard to overstate my satisfaction
Aperture Science
We do what we must, because we can
For the good of all of us
Except the ones who are dead
But there's no point crying over every mistake
You just keep on trying til you run out of cake
And the science gets done
And you make a neat gun
For the people who are still alive....."
GLaDOS is a fantastic singer.
Bad idea
Rad Bradbury pointed out the hazards in this in his short story "Marionettes Inc". End with a broken marriage and someone getting buried alive.
Posted in Sony’s sorry saga snowballs
The Playstation Fence.....
You're not allowed to put a gate in it but it has a hole big enough for next door's Rottweiller to get through.
Posted in Bradley Manning now in nicer Army prison
Oh good
And I was worried for a second there that an unconvicted, untried suspect didn't have rights any more.
LMAO
If they think they have trouble with PC piracy at the moment, wait until they start putting out DVDs.
I can see it now, a montage of clips that make the "You wouldn't steal a...." warning seem like an open invite to freetards everywhere. Or maybe they set off an EMP pulse at the end of each cinema screening, in order to fry anyone that might have recorded the film on their mobiles.
