Posts by Law

RE: Er...

Trust me, if they did manage to get all that into a battery powered media device and the hardware worked flawlessly, they will still lock the thing down and DRM the crap out of it to the point of being completely unusable...

@ Sarah

It's a good job I didn't do Wendy's song then... :S

RE: Very simple to disable.

"if it can't find the executable then it can't run, simple as that. No application can put the file back in the Program Files directory without throwing a UAC prompt alerting the user that it's trying to do so, so it should be gone for good."

That may seriously be the first real-world positive comment I've ever heard about UAC on a windows machine.... well done that man!! :)

I'm a long-time google fan... but I must admit, convenience google app's are starting to come as a lower-priority now to my privacy and knowing what is/isn't transmitted from my machine... they should start to worry... I'm on the verge of ditching them

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All the cool kids are using fb and twitter, and the rest of us are nerds and bookworms.... at least in the past the cool kids did sports... sigh...

Paris - because I wonder what delights she would have posted on fb and twitter when in her teens...

oh god

I almost laughed out loud! Got a wdtv a few weeks ago, it rapes the crap out of this pos... WD really have outdone themselves, and seagate just shot themselves in the foot...

Oh Dear

Keeping up with processor comparisons and speeds is going on my Murtaugh list as of this rebrand.... and I'm not even 30 yet... fml

close... but not bacon

I was broken by bbq spare ribs.... eventually after sneakily having them a few times, I decided I was living a lie and started eating cows, birds and other tasty animals!! :)

RE: @ Sarah

"The smoking ban is the main reason pubs are closing, but the article didn't really go there, did it?. No one does. It's so obviously the reason. What a lot of bullshit to pretend that it's an irrelevent factor."

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It isn't the smoking ban killing pubs, infact I'd say it wasn't going far enough - pubs are closing down because of the misery of smokers not being able to do what they took for granted for years!! All that negative energy and frustration, fury even, is bringing the industry down, so pubs are closing... they should ban smokers, not just the smoking itself, it's for the greater good, they really don't seem to be handling what non-smokers have had to put up with for decades - an area for socialising where other people's preference seems to be annoying others.

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Smoking ban isn't killing off pubs half as much as the credit crunch is... to think it's smoking ban is the main reason for it all is a little silly... high pub lease prices, pub mortgages based on earnings prior to credit crunch, and the gradual slowing down of business as people stop going out every week and instead do every other week are the real killers here.

If the government want to help local pubs, make it harder for large breweries from buying up local pubs and leasing them to people who don't give a crap over private buyers who see it as their livelyhood and care, reduce the tax for licensed restaurants and pubs, and cap the amount of markup they can make on these things (I'm betting some failing pubs will keep prices the same and pocket the rest in a bid to get a cash boost, ignoring what it was for in the first place!)... and leave current tax etc the same for supermarkets rather than increasing it... we should be trying to help the country get through the recession, not making the little things people do enjoy more expensive... we arn't all boozed up scallies smashing up bus shelters on the way home, some just enjoy a wine or a beer with their meal, or a quick unwind pint in pub with friends, or to take some home and have a beer with the bbq over summer...

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stupid stupid stupid..... or extremely clever... I've not decided yet.

can we also get

... a decent auto-focus and possibly some sort of optical zoom in there too please... doubtful though, as they wouldn't want to make the phone any fatter or take up anymore room than needed.... just a tick in the camera-phone box is enough apparently...

My N95 most used function was the camera, my iPhone's most used function (aside from downloaded app's) is the music... next I would like an in-between that has decent images, and decent music player... here's hoping!! :)

RE: @Law

Apologies, I was thinking of fight club... my mistake!

more proof...

...that video games make people kill people.... obviously he subliminally took in the "evil kill-people suggestions" whilst sleeping as his partner played.... so the solution is obvious, ban violent video games!!!!!!

My pro-gaming agenda aside, I really feel sorry for the kid, nobody should have to go through that... on top of that the poor kid is probably in care now too... which sucks.

@ I just have to say

"You have torn down the fourth wall - the dirty bamboo screen behind which the naked vicar inside all of us skulks. Oiling himself and humming Jerusalem. And now the vicar is gone. Grabbed up his cardigan and slacks and fled, glistening, into the night."

Most disturbing visual in a long time.... *high fives*

oh dear god, what have you all done?!?

SARAH - NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo...............................................

... you broke the Bee... may god have mercy on us all... *prays*

almost had me...

Sounded like the usual crazy crap they would say to get more camera's up there - I was so filled with outrage I completely forgot the day.... well done el-reg, good game sir.

huh??

""We didn't build the engine around vehicles," said Kaplan. He added that other games like to tack on vehicle combat (while describing, but not naming Halo) where "you can tell they didn't know what they were doing with vehicles, and it felt all floaty and things didn't shot right. The same mistake happened in World of Warcraft," he said."

If he is talking about Halo 3 then he obviously hasn't played it properly - the engine for getting in/out of vehicles and using them is fiddly at first, but it quickly becomes instictive and in online battles (with 3 anyway) they are an essential part of the combat and the game is better for it... I'm not a Halo fanatic, but to claim their vehicle system is crap is a little rich... if he's talking about the previous ones I don't remember problems with 2 either, can barely remember anything from 1 though... so I guess he could mean that, but comparing a game from almost 10 years ago to his latest creations is just daft.

Played WoW for about a month last year... found it fairly confusing early on, far to many random names that all sounded the same and therefore found it hard to follow any story-pattern, not real character development either - maybe they should be writing/plotting out the game play more, not less... then again, I'm not really a MMO fan, so it could be I just didn't "get it"... which is fine, each to their own...

Am I alone?

Recently I've started to have a new-found respect for the French... they take no crap from anybody, protect their own, know who they are... and sure, as a body of people they may come across as rude, arrogant or mean to other countries, but seriously, why is it all we can muster as a people is a couple of windows broken that belong to a guy who is stealing millions from us for doing nothing other than run a bank into the ground... and the french can organise mass riots, and gentlemen-barracades for nothing more than a few workers getting an extra months pay out of a layoff wave.... seriously need to jump ship from UK soon...

maybe

The patent offices should now have a public facing office that allows any person to go in, show prior art of existing patents that have nothing to do with that person in particular, and cause that patent to be re-examined, and 9 times out of 10 revoked.... if said service exists, can some kind souls please start up a patent-troll-crushing website (subsidised by advertising or donations obviously) and then we can stop these company's making money out of other companies being too lazy to fight a patent challenge that would cost more than a settlement in court.

If this service already exists... apologies... can you point me to their site so I can start building cases against these trolls.

Burn em all!!

RE: Bloody Trekkies.

I would class myself as a trekkie... but I love bsg... infact, anybody I know who likes BSG likes ST too... except the die hard BSG fans, who claim BSG was more "real" and not classic "crappy" scifi like ST.... so I think the opposite is mainly true, it tends to be the die hard bsg fans that have an inferiority complex against ST's popularity or something....

Personally, I liked the rawness and depression of bsg, same as DS9 was my fave ST... bsg ending confused the hell out of me, but the person who suggested anders to be God, and the time travelling twist has my thanks, because now in my mind at least the ending makes alot more sense... I've suggested the time-travel twist to repeating and endless looping to bsg die hards, and they essentially spat in my face because "BSG isn't ST, they don't do silly scifi - it's a cop out" etc etc... personally... it tidies almost all of it up... it explains why constellations for Earth 1 are exactly the same as ours, why there was a north american continent on Earth 1 too, and goes a bit to explaining why we have the mythology of "All this has happenned and will happen again" blurb.

What is doesn't explain though, is why a star pilot like Kara didn't check to see if the number's she took from the music weren't jump coordinates straight away... it would be the first thing to check... what the hell was she trying to do with the numbers in the first place?!?! My only theory is possibly something that comes from a stargate/startrek way of thinking - that the numbers wouldn't lock/engage/gotoearth until the singularity somehow lensed the jump.... but as my friend pointed out, it's bsg, not startrek... they don't like too much science... I mean, c'mon, they had FTL drives and colonised several star systems... but couldn't cure cancer, and everybody was addicted to smoking.... wtf???

ffs

I'm assuming he will next requre anyone who plays 18+ video games to start wearing some sort of sign in public.... you know... so people can identify who is and isn't a dirty filthy gamer....

I'd love to see what killers were doing in their spare time to send them nuts before consoles were around... reading I bet... or masturbating.... we should ban/burn all books and/or those who have enjoyed their own company sometimes too... think of the greater good!

it's the same shit every week... and it's starting to wind me up...

RE: Weaponized felines

"Law: "Cheer up AC... she said he got what he wanted, what more can you want?"

Well, I can say that you wanted a cattle prod rammed up your posterior, but that doesn't make it true, does it? No, I have to agree with AC 16:39 on this one."

*looks through bedroom window on street view* .... well you didn't find out on there.... ??? .... *checks for hidden cameras*..... ??? ..... maybe the wife's been blabbing again.... bugger

"Actually, anything capable of causing significant damage becomes a weapon the moment you use it as such."

So are you telling me should my 2 yr old nephew smack me in the eye with his toy car like he did this week, I could have got him arrested?! Awesome..... *dials 112*

Paris... because even SHE knew it was a sarcastic JOKE!

RE: Re: Why...

HELL YEAH!!

Obviously Paris is trying to figure out how you didn't know the answer to that question already!!

Why would you??

Why would you virgin media people stick with them if you have NEVER got more than 2mb for a 10mb connection?? I'm getting it installed next week because adsl 2 isn't in my area yet, but I promise you I will be taking advantage of the 30 day money back guarentee if I don't get anything near the 20mb I've been promised...

Unfortunately BT have forced me to give Virgin another chance... if it turns out to be another f*ck up, looks like I'm on 1.5mb bband for the next year at least... sigh...

hmmm

seems to me that everybody complaining about the iPhone's shortcomings on here don't own one. I dropped my N95 for the iPhone, and aside from the camera, there really isn't alot I miss from N95, and recently I was forced to fix my girlfriends N95 (the fragile screen cracked, this is after the sliding mechanism broke, and after the phone had an odd "charging" bug with most recent update btw, so they aren't all stable phones).... thing that struck me is how hard it was to get back into the thing... Symbian is very basic and fiddly, even if it does tick all boxes on a tech sheet.

The iPhone isn't perfect, but neither is any phone, and what the phone does, it does very well... which is less than I can say for any other phone I've owned, other than maybe my old 3210...

RE: itards

Tech support to the rescue.... just tick the "Recently Purchased" or "Recently Played" smart playlists to your iPhone sync music options... it's THAT hard...

Some would be stressed if it ignored specific options the user already set and did what it want, then people would be complaining about how it used up valuable space for music you didn't want on the phone, why won't it just do what they say?! ;)

Personally, flash doesn't excite me, nor Java... just allow sideways texting, cut&paste, and MMS... I would be more than happy for their engineer to come and upgrade my camera resolution/optics too.. but I highly doubt that would be included in the free upgrade! :(

they should be worried

I hate Virgin Media... even more so than BT... but I'm being forced to move over to Virgin at my new address in a week or two, basically because I can't get faster than 1mb at the new place using adsl, the exchange isn't adsl2+ yet, yet in a villiage area, Virgin have a fibre cabinet on my road, and will offer me 20mb broadband, mid-range tv package, and a phone at less cost than bt line rental and basic broadband with o2... even with their 75% 5-hour throttling should I go over 3gb at peak, that will still be 5 times faster than what BT have to offer..... it's a disgrace really... and it's no wonder they are losing customers!

I'm enjoying the comments so far

.... that is all....

RE: iPhone, for business users?

Actually it's not so bad for business use.... I found writing emails on Blackberry and the N95 more of a pain than an option, but I can shoot off fairly decent sized emails on the iPhone most days... I rarely cut&paste in emails though.

I've installed a few applications on the thing that enhances it's usefulness, not fart applications, but a freelance project-timer/invoice application called Jobs, Things is pretty decent for busy days, a couple of web-designer tools on there too are pretty awesome.. calendar syncing is fairly decent now (I don't touch mobileme btw)... voice recorder applications, vile vault applications, MyRail is useful if you use public transport and need to get around london between business'.

Just because kids use it to p*ss commuters and family off with prankster app's, doesn't mean there is nothing else of use on there. You quickly become quite nippy at typing on the touchscreen too... something I wasn't sure about until after the first few days.

Eclipse..... has it's place... can be useful... but I really can't stand Java.... and Eclipse wreaks of it!!!

@ Mike

"(I believe that some sheep died after eating GM crops that produced high quantities of Bt)."

BT are evil... but evil enough to kill little lambs.... you bet your arse they are!?!

Ms Bee... well done on showing maturity and restraint, rising above the obvious baiting from some of our commentards.... but I do love a good flaming... so please, don't hold back!! :)

people please

People commenting to tell others to get a life for commenting/complaining when it isn't needed - please tell me you see the hypocracy in the statement... it's a bit rich to post a comment that is basically complaining about people who complain in their comments... grow up

Personally, I wouldn't mind owning one of these... I've been using my Macbook pro for a while now, and not had a single problem except having too little ram in the first instance.

In this case I will make the same decision I did with my macbook purchase - look at amount Apple charge for extra RAM/HDD size... look at difficulty of adding my own, decide if I need new tools/degree to do it.... and spec my machine accord to whether extra extortionate price of extra stuff outways whether I can be ars*d... but if price was the real concern I'd probably be buying a generic PC and putting osX86 on it...

So, if you want a machine that's upgradable/hotswappable then buy another product.... if you want something that looks pretty and sits on your desk doing mac-like things, then buy the mac.... ffs... it's not like they are MAKING you buy the thing... as much as they wish they could, you have control over your own purchasing decisions.

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RE: Re: Unfair?

Hopefully we will cross paths one day, I can see it now...

SR: Do you have a facebook/MySpace account?

ME: I do, I have a facebook account, it allows me to keep up with activities of friends and family. Is that a problem?

SR: Can we take a look now?

ME: Sure, just type in my name...

SR: Ah, it's a private account, do you mind logging in to view it?

ME: I do indeed mind. You may judge me on publicly available information, information I provide you, and my responses in the interview... sorry, but you can't be too careful these days... you could be a pedo after pics of my nephew for all I know... no jobs is worth my family's security.

SR: Fair enough... you are obviously an awesome candidate, so you are hired... our only issue is that you are so obviously awesome that you will need to tone that down a little in the office, we wouldn't want to demoralise the rest of the team. Also, we can only offer you a salary of £1.5m

ME: Apologise, I will work on that... your terms seem resonable. *shakes*

So when can I start?? ;)

RE: In denial pricing.

And that is why I won't be buying the Mac Mini now... I was waiting for the update to buy one, hilariously thinking improved specs for same price... now I'm going for a popcorn hour box instead... Apple just lost out on £400+...

SONY "Stupid piece of fucking shit"

*claps* just awesome.... best "unexpected burst into laughter then pretend I'm sneezing when manager looks over" moment I've had in a long time.... next to the f-my-life feed obviously...

RE: RE: YEY!!!

"Surely "not-NSFW" should just be 'SFW'?"

Where would be the fun in that?? ;)

GET OVER HEEERE!!!

" Shame, they made some decent film & TV tie-ins.

Oh, hang on, no, I'm thinking of something else..."

Street Fighter perhaps??? Erm..... maybe not

Mines the one with a pirated copy of The Legend of Chun Li in the pocket.... Lana Lang playing Chun Li... who'd have thunk it

vmware

I'm running XP through VMWare... it's really quick, and nice to be able to use XP without having to use XP properly (it's for work... .NET programmer *groans*)... If it wasn't for VMWare I'd probably have an Alienware laptop by now... but I refused to move to Vista... and it seemed pointless paying more for XP to be put on... so I looked into Macbooks... hated Apple the company until I took the plunge, glad I did, been loving OSX, although it's not the solid OS people claim it to be, it's more solid than Ubuntu has been on my previous laptop, and Vista on any computer I've ever touched... so thumbs up.