Posts by Natalie Gritpants
301 posts • joined Wednesday 9th May 2007 16:43 GMT
Runways
Plenty of runways are over 400' long. This thing should be able to take off going across rather than along.
I really am a Jedi
No, really I am but what can I do? I get lumped in with hundreds of pasty wimps that don't represent my views at all. I think I'll tick Jew since it contains some similar letters and circumcision hurts like having a mishap with a light sabre.
Would rather have HD.
I rarely watch TV with my eyes horizontal so I don't want 3D, I would rather use the bandwidth to have more channels in HD.
ADSL?
Surely they already have your bank details, phone number, address and email or have I missed the launch of a new PAYG ADSL service?
Even dial-up only works on a paid for phone line and kids can't rent them either.
Posted in Ex-PM blocked Steve Jobs knighthood
Linus not giving to charity
OK so maybe no money, but he's given away everything he's ever written to everyone. He's probably the reason that Microsoft has cut the prices it charges to poor nations for its software. I think that counts as helping the world. BillG has given away 100% of his output? I don't think so.
Posted in Flying dildo downs Oz stag party bloke
"I wonder if they conduct tours?"
Tours of what? I doubt there would be room for you and a guide. It's not going to be Wookey Hole.
Posted in Texting teenager plunges to his death
Handy hint
You're 1.96m tall and 120kg, you are confronted by a herd of 1.5m tall and high teenagers. I suggest you pick one up and dangle it over the edge, that should calm the others down. If it doesn't simply drop the first one and move on to the next.
You know you're delaing with a really cross idiot
When they end a sentence with ". Period. Full stop." unless that's Microsoft's dodgy internationalization software at work.
Posted in Duke Nukem Forever release date revealed
SFW
What's your problem? The guy in the thong or the horrible choice of tartan.
I laugh at your puny attempts to defy me
and then reach for the right sized flat-blade and small hammer.
Yes I do, and it works. Most screws are soft enough that you can wedge a sharp blade in and then undo and replace with something nicer.
Posted in Sony Ericsson sues over Clearwire swirl
This is what you get from style boutiques
All your logos are belong to the swirl. And they all look alike and have nothing to do with your company. If SonyEricsson's logo was an imaginative blend of S and E this would not have happened and it might be more recognized.
£20m!!!
Surely all those 30000 people are on the database and so their name and address have been verified. Just post a cheque for £30 to each one. job done for less than £1m
WW means world wide
There's a difference between the internet and the www. the world wide web is the killer app that made the internet popular. I'm sure these platform specific closed apps look attractive to media publishing companies because they enable more control than the www but they also lack the world-wide aspect.
What next? Some bright spark comes up with cross platform apps?
Getting in was easy
It simply pressed the cdrom button, jumped on board and went for a ride.
Once inside it realized it had forgotten the USB to serial port adapter so it couldn't log in with it's smartphone.
Once it had finished eating all the bugs and spiders inside it croaked.
How is this going to hurt Simon Cowell?
The X-factor single won't sell any less, the customers are completely separate. Who knows? the X-factor single may sell even more since the fans might be annoyed at the annoyed-at-X-Factor brigade.
Mind you it's probably going to be the best work from Billy Brag and Pete Doherty ever!
Posted in BBC One HD to go live tonight
Freeview and Freesat on channels 108 and 50, respectively!!!
I hope their upscaler is not the same as ITV's. My TV does a better job of suppressing the deinterlacing artefacts than theirs.
Can't wait for Strictly in HD, SD Freeview does very badly when the camera whizzes at the same time as the lighting is going mad.
Bigger screenshot please
You cut the advert in the bottom right off just at the wrong point. Perfect what?? From the picture it looks like sodomy but I don't think that's likely on Fox Sports.
Accountants can't do maths
£46,000,000,000 savings for losing 500,000 jobs means a saving of £92,000 per job loss. Sounds like a bargain even if they all end up on jobseekers allowance.
Posted in Logitech unveils first Google TV box
Not good value
For £100 pounds more you can get a Sony 32" Freeview HD TV that does all of the above, plus does Freeview, Freeview HD and includes a nice HD screen. OK, it doesn't have a keyboard.
Get back £1.50 for 60 hours
How does that fit in with the minimum wage?
Happens to lots of people
Get over it.
Yours faithfully,
Ian Adequate
xoxo ???
Ejected for failing to know how to play naughts and crosses.
Rude and ungramatical
The placard should have read "Don't get caught in software patents, you thickets".
Posted in Mobile phones for minimalists
If you want to appeal to the oldies
better make the volume switch go Loud, Louder, Deafening
Posted in Flaming work laptop toasts cottage
Note to support staff
If someone's laptop has overheated tell them to take it outside to cool down.
Posted in Happiness: Yours for £50k a year
https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_States
$75k puts you comfortably in the top end so it's not surprising that you're happy. Beyond that and you probably don't mix with enough poor people to stay grounded.
Can we have a "well, duh" icon?
Posted in Twitpic pulls 50 Cent bum burger snap
Getting shot nie times does not give you street cred
Getting shot at without getting hit might, but even better is having enough intelligence to not be around idiots with guns.
Posted in Holiday snaps? Er, no - criminal porn
I may not be Poirot
but I can guarantee that his missing son wasn't inside the PC.
Not thought this through have you?
The smelliest people don't own irons.
Re: Ten times more light
3D TV glasses do cut out some light so brighter lights will enable you to keep them on when you make a cup of tea. Plus any fule kno wearing sunglasses indoors is cool.
WTF is bestshore?
I can only guess it's what happens to your jobs when, not only are the people in India cheaper than you, they are better too.
Review Fail! - Can't go smaller
Of course they can, the limiting factor is the USB connector (there's room in there to put the chips). You will have to remember to tie a piece of string to it if you don't want to use pliers to extract it though (just like certain products for women)
Posted in Withings Wi-Fi bathroom scales
Stand on one leg!
Waste of space. Your height does not change so all you need to remember is your weight to get your BMI. And your weight doesn't change much so remembering is easy. (Hint - it's probably the same as yesterday or maybe a bit more, never less). Once you move to remembering your weight you can type that in to any number of free computer/internet/iphone programs to track your increasing weight. Then you only need a cheap pair of analogue scales that don't require you to log in by hopping your user id in morse.
Alternatively jump up and down naked in front of a close friend and ask them if you wobble in the wrong places.
Antiques roadshow 2110
or flogging off as fake id.
Posted in UK.gov unplugs Lane Fox digiquango
"Given a more roving role"
Is that a euphemism for being shown the door?
Posted in Mail my printer - I'm busy!
No thanks
I'm guessing that the email will go to a server somewhere and the printer will poll it for print jobs. I don't want my print jobs being stored on someone else's servers and I don't want my printer to be open to anyone that can guess an email address.
Posted in Sky snaps up Virgin TV channels
Sauce for the goose
I think the BBC should put in a complaint to Ofcom.
Tell us more
How do you use MythTV to watch Freeview HD?
$1bn / 9000 is..
~$111k - quite a generous redundancy package on average.
Agreed
I live in the countryside and I'm grateful I never have to listen to jazz anymore, I don't know how you put up with it.
Weird motives
Best way to give to charity is time or cash to a local charity. Time is better.
Don't do this just because you hate Microsoft. They get more publicity from every pound raised. And every pound raised costs them 50p (tax deductible). Just donate £1 to your own beer fund - you will feel better.
Warnings on the screen?
How is that supposed to work then? It's only the kids that can work this technology in most families.
I know it's going to be expensive but the VOD companies are going to have to either restrict all ads to be suitable for children or stitch in adverts to the stream based on the time of day (at the receiving end).
You don't know what a boob tube is do you?
The post is required, and must contain letters.
Immobilisers might be a better application
Just have the immobiliser tag on you keyring and it will be near enough when you insert the ignition key to work. Better than fumbling in the dark for the place to insert the magic doobrey.
Speaking of which, if I'm in a restaurant I'll be concentrating on loosening the knickers of the other person and not wanting to edit my playlist or roast my dog.
Posted in Samsung NaviBot robot cleaner
Humans are much better
Bedroom shame indeed! (not the first time you've heard that phrase I guess)
You call that clean? For that amount of money you can get at least 40 hours of cleaning time from a human, probably enough for you flat for a year, which is probably longer than that robot will last. Or you could just do it yourself
Re: Propane is very similar to methane chemically
I suspect you were sleeping during chemistry, they're about as similar as oxygen and chlorine are, just a few numbers. And please don't try to distil your own whisky.
"unmeetable burden"
From a Cambridge don??? Surely that should be unbearable
David Bowie - ahead of his time
Aladdin Sane
nuf said.
