* Posts by JDX

6847 publicly visible posts • joined 28 May 2010

Post-pub nosh deathmatch: Pierogi versus patatas revolconas

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I thought post-pub food was something you could manage when half or fully cut. e.g. bacon sandwich. Reg's dishes seem like proper cooking to me, I'd just go to the dirty takeaway rather than risk dropping it all on the floor or burning myself and/or the house!

Red hot chilli peppers floor Bristol shoplifter

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Re: Just wondering .....

I wondered which shop he stole the cocaine and heroin from.

Investor pulls out of Facebook, pumps cash into pork-printing joint

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Can they make other pork objects, like swords?

Want a Windows 8 Start Button? Open source to the rescue!

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Metro apps

How does this kind of tool/tweak affect the times you want to use a metro app? Do they simply launch in Metro mode?

Superworm Crisis eats Macs, VMware and - shock - Windows

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Windows Mobile

Does that specifically mean the old version, or Windows Phone also?

New nuclear fuel source would power human race until 5000AD

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the biggest roadblock to nuclear is the oil industry

they just want to make money. If they can make money from nuclear they are happy - they sure don't want us to run out of oil and find themselves without an income source!

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Re: The Usual Silliness

Radiation even in hospitals IS dangerous. It's also dangerous in power generation - but in both cases it's handled very carefully so the benefits massively outweigh the risks.

Claiming 'nuclear is safe' is wrong. Nuclear is only safe when you are absolutely committed to remembering how dangerous it is at all times.

Apple TV: Rubbish, you don't like documentaries – I'll just flick to porn

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Re: "Fed up of having to pick up the remote controls...?"

Flipping 200 channels to see if anything you like is on is a big pain compared to something which well tell you the channels showing something you like or are likely to like.

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Re: Prior art

On that logic you couldn't patent an automatic gearbox because a person can achieve the same thing using a manual control.

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I like to use my brain, and they just wont let me..

Damn these labour-saving devices. Much better to use your valuable brain paging through 200 channels in the TV guide.

This is clearly a mode you can turn on/off, akin to AI 'DJs' on spotify etc which pick you music to listen to based on what you like.

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However a system which notices a show you like is on another channel and tells you about it WOULD be handy. I expect such a system in real life would not just change channels with no warning.

Ten Androids for under 100 quid

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Re: T-mobile Vivacity

He specifically meant crap as compared to a £500 iPhone, which was pretty clear from his post. Untwist your panties...

Doctor Who to hit small screen on 1 September

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Dr Who without the Daleks who be like Star Trek without Klingons

Exactly. If they lose all the old baddies everyone would be complaining about that too. I think they've kept a good mix of oldies - Daleks and Cybermen are just good inventions** - and new creations... the Angels are probably the best new ones although the Ood are cool too.

**although they've done their best to screw them up making them friendly and emotional

Sex rating Facebook page publishers jailed

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Re: Is this right?

I don't see a problem with making people who host a website responsible for what is posted on it. Of course you can't stop filth getting posted, so the rules should make you responsible either for moderating the content, or for reacting once you know about such content.

e.g. if we started a discussion about how great sex with under-age people was, and El Reg didn't do something about it then they should get in trouble.

UK.gov's minimum booze price dream demolished

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What are you on about?

1)People getting sloshed at a dinner party don't then run amok at closing time, or ruin the town centre for those wanting a nice dinner or a pint out.

2)It's the home-bought booze which is the whole target of this idea in the first place, so people are if anything going to see the pub seem cheaper in comparison since pubs charge massively over the minimum prices already.

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Because a means of transport and a luxury beverage are entirely the same?

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Re: Homebrew

Chavs and alcoholics don't homebrew.

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Question

I never got how this was supposed to work - do Tesco simply add £2 on the cost of a £2.50 bottle of wine and take the extra? Or are they forced to give the money to charity/government/manufacturers? Do ALL booze prices go up or only those that fall under the legal threshold... if the latter then this would surely just destroy companies who create budget booze since people would just buy more expensive variants which are no longer more expensive.

If they really want to be radical, ration alcohol sales :) They do this in Dubai actually, it's a rather weird experience buying booze there.

The Oatmeal hits $850,000 goal for Tesla museum

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Re: WOW so a guy does something good for Science....

Well done to Inman for accomplishing this. But I wish you'd go back to writing funny comics rather than bitter rants, especially now Hyperbole is on indefinite hiatus.

Sony PlayStation Vita sales crawl

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Re: marketing?

Marketing IS important, if you follow a nerd's advice that all money should be spent on 'real' stuff you end up going out of business.

Beck's open-source challenge to freetards: play it yourself!

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It's a neat thing to do BUT what makes a song is the author's performance... especially with modern music anyway. Not just obvious things like the tone of their voice, but how they set up the effects on electric guitars. Every artist has a distinctive sound - even from a few bars without singing you can normally tell who the artist is.

British boffin builds cool maser after argument with wife

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Re: Mobile phone.. heating food.. you've not really thought that through, have you?

Put your balls in a microwave for 'only' 26 seconds then and let us know how you get on.

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Re: Yet another....

Come on guys, it's about time we stopped blindly upvoting any 'rounded corners' joke.

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Re: 100 Million

No, that was why they invented it :(

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Very good, I hoped someone else would see that connection.

Apple lawyer: 'I promise I am not smoking crack'

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Two lawyers enter! One lawyer leaves!

That only solves half the problem.

Samsung: 'You want $2.5bn? WRONG, Apple, you OWE us $420m!'

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Hawker?

What happened to rebrander?

Raspberry Pi now comes in Firefox OS flavour

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Re: Firefox OS, why??

Yes clearly the way to set people free is to take away their choice.

Chinese man blows off hands, builds new pair

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I'm sure if you weren't a lonely IT virgin it would be clear.

Facebook shares hit all-time low

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Re: See that bubble?

The only thing that's bursting are Reg readers' trousers as they rub themselves thinking about FB going bust

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Re: "All-time low"

Exactly - it's really only ever gown down so it's nearly always at an all time low :)

Undead galaxy cluster spews 700 zombie baby stars A YEAR

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Re: Black holes

Aliens. It has to be aliens.

Deadly domino effect of extinction proved by boffins

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Hardly a proof

An interesting experiment but it's so simple that it didn't need to BE done, the results are so obvious. It's disingenious to evolutionary scientists to claim this proves any aspect of evolutionary theory - it's on a par with Christians claiming proof of intelligent design by cherry-picking some aspect of darwinism and building an argument around it (and I write that as a christian).

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Re: J.H. Christ!

So it's fine not to bother making something user-friendly because the user can figure it out if they try hard enough?

I bet you're using Linux.

Optical Express 'ruined my life' gripe site lives on

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In my experiences, all the consultations were if anything over-eager to point out that it is NOT guaranteed to correct or even improve your vision. I'm sure this is a legal requirement but if anything it made me more worried :)

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Re: I would love to have LASIK

But the chances of one eye going wrong is independent of the other... so even if the first goes well, the second is as likely to go wrong.

SOME practitioners DO do it that way, however that means undergoing two procedures and therefore two sets of recovery time, as well as twice as much surgeon time.

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Re: LASIK night-vision loss

More modern lasers are better and apparently this is now not the common side-effect it was in the early days. Halos and so on are widely discussed, but the treatment I had (Ultralase's top one) specifically is supposed to avoid this due to additional accuracies in the laser.

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Re: "defamatory and actionable content”

Only idiots though - look hard enough and you'll find a horror story from someone who cut their arm off opening a letter for crying out loud :)

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I visited them but ended up going to Ultralase also in Newcastle. £850 would be super-cheap these days!

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Re: I would love to have LASIK

3% are not quite happy with it does not mean 3% have ruined eyesight. OE showed me charts which told me the exact statistical chance each of my eyes had of achieving different levels of sight (both good and bad) based on my initial prescription.

I didn't go with them but they have the data and by spreading lies you're potentially putting people off who think you know what you're talking about. All the 3 places I visited were open that sometimes things can go wrong BUT this is on a per-eye basis, and none of them could recollect ANYONE having sight 'ruined'.

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So basically the site acts as an advert how few people have such problems!

Though I suppose if you were blind you'd probably struggle to use the site.

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Re: Most opticians

The guy who consulted for me had had it done.

However I imagine the fact it costs quite a lot is a big factor :)

Nokia CEO: No shift from Windows Phone

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Re: The funniest thing...

"When Nokia first announced that they were switching to WP7, all the WP7 fans declared that WP7 would be the market leader within a few months"

I've never seen even the most ardent WP fan make any claim that WP is going to be a market leader, ever. I think you made that entire claim up simply so you can attempt to look clever by rebuking it.

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Re: What more ?

Before we had smartphones, you could have said the same - they all made calls and did texts. But still we had several companies continuing to get us to upgrade our handsets every year.

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Re: Smack! Crash! Bang!

Why would they hit the wall - they can just continue downsizing to meet whatever the demand is.

If people are getting a bit tired of the Apple brand - simply because it's not so cool - then maybe a MS brand will have some chance since Android is the no-brand alternative, and lots of people are always going to prefer a brand.

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Well Lee, I prefer to buy products based on how good they are, not because of emotional ties I have to a faceless corporation.

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Hilarious, literally downvotes from smelly teenagers simply because I bought something they don't like.

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Re: Oh Nokia

What else would they do instead? Might as well keep going now, things can only get better really when you're starting from 0.

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I got a WP Nokia a few weeks ago - I think it's great. When you say "I hate Windows" do you mean you hate Windows desktop so you refused to even try a totally different OS because it had the same name, or that you tried and hated WP?

$1bn for Instagram? Knock yourself out, Facebook - UK watchdog

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Re: Confused

Instagram was like 2 people so I doubt it!