Posts by DAN*tastik
203 posts • joined Monday 4th June 2007 13:04 GMT
Plastic back maybe?
I am happy with the thing, but it would be a great improvement if you could leave it on a relatively horizontal surface and find it there when you look for it again.
It's impressive that they managed to create a material with negative coefficient of friction. But now that we know that it can be done there is no reason to do it again! Dunno, could it be even cheaper too?
I feel for them
Those differently rounded corner icons won't just redesign themselves, and it's not something they can copy from Braun's 1960s appliances!
Missed opportunity
So, they create the first webpage in the history of humanity and the content is not "<blink>First</blink>"?
Idiots
Re: "Does it have cameras pointing outward[....]"
iSee... Good point :)
Does it have cameras pointing outward to automatically take pictures of the best hipsters it spots on the streets, and Instagram them using your favourite filter?
Can it tweet your order to your favourite barista while it drives itself to the closest and trendiest Starbucks?
Will it self combust if driven out of Shoreditch?
Posted in Movie review: Oblivion
@AC 13th April 2013 23:19 : You're using them wrong!
"The studios use big names to draw people in which also means that it will turn people away as well".
Do you really want the crowds to feel connected with the plot / characters, and enjoy the film even more?
Don't get Tom Cruise, Katie Price, Harriet Harman, lawyers, bankers, your petulant Mother In Law to play those who save you. They must play those you need to be saved from. And die. Of a really horrible and ironic death. You don't necessarily have to wish them harm in real life. But when they eventually do die, you automatically like the film a bit more. I was in tears ( of joy ) when Justin Bieber was shot dead in CSI ( here is an enhanced version of it, 4:21 of pure bliss http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D4K8Rrm82w )
Had I realised at the time how annoying Gwyneth Paltrow is in real life, I would have enjoyed Seven even more when she is decapitated. Just a thought
Re: "Risk Needs Analysis"
"As a heterosexual man, if a woman ask me for IT help I mention sexual favours."
Something similar happens in the homosexual kingdom: when they ask for IT help they expect sexual favours. And I even get free coffee!
IN KEEPING WITH THE SURROUNDINGS?
MAKE THEM THE SIZE OF THEIR STUPID CARS!!!
I POSTED A SIMILAR COMMENT ON THE TELEGRAPH AGES AGO. I JUST NOTICED THAT SOMEBODY ALREADY POSTED A "CAR FOR STUPIDS' SIZE" POST DOWN BELOW, BUT HE OR SHE WASN'T SHOUTING SO IT DOESN'T REALLY COUNT TODAY!!!
Re: Selling stuff is hard
Part of it was because people were automatically buying their stuff ( Office for example ).
Part of it was because people automatically found their stuff in what they were buying ( Windows ).
Re: FFS
Thanks for the link!
The clever things people can do with those two websites... Simply amazing ;)
I am not a Twitter expert at all, so I have a question about the "#fb" used in the post... Does it mean that every time people search for Facebook related tweets, the one above shows in the resulting list?
If so, what is the point? Otherwise, what does it exactly mean?
Thanks.
Posted in Texan contends iPod EXPLODED IN HER FACE
Noooooooooo!
You beat me to it by 4 minutes! My "First" in the title of my post will haunt me for the rest of my life, and then some years.
Posted in Texan contends iPod EXPLODED IN HER FACE
Where is a "First!" icon when you need one?
From the article, it seems as if the lawyer failed to accurately describe how the lady was holding the musical device. If it was firmly placed it in her hand, in the same fashion which would be appropriate for non-Apple devices only, then she obviously doesn't have a case
Re: Love it when PR stunts backfire!
Isn't Oprah the chick from Les Mis?
http://www.lamebook.com/les-miss/
"consumers didn't understand touch-based laptops"
Or is it that they did and realised it didn't make sense? It's different...
Posted in Solar undercuts coal in New Mexico
Re: re: clueless rubes
"The heat doesn't just 'disappear' when the sun goes down"
This is a genuine question - no, really, I promise it is. I am not an expert nor pretend to be.
Does the heat stored in the soil / sand that is being released in the evening too help a solar plant somehow? I would have thought that it's only the sun rays that are converted into energy. But I am often wrong, so...
Frameworks make life more complicated without any real advantage - IMHO
I had to use the abomination which is Spring together with Hibernate for almost 1 year ( then I just resigned because I was tired of developing using complicated XML prayers instead of proper java with real time syntax checks instead of at runtime as it happens with Spring )
Configuring a simple mapping table for a many to many relationship between two others is something that can take forever. A simple select query can be executed as a set of different ones and I read in somebody's post it once included an update statement for no reason. HQL, an aborted version of SQL, is not as easy to use. If you want to use an annotation for the where clause, they created a @Where one. Why? WHy? WHY!
Spring is the reinvention of the wheel, but triangular and made of glitter plated turds instead of the round rubber original one. Never figured out what it is that it does which can't be done faster, and more easily, in Java. Maybe it's just me, but from what I saw in the blogs online, I don't think it's the case.
If they are so fantastic and I am plain wrong, I can't explain why a big project, but quite straight forwars, kept on missing every possible headline ever, to the point of panic for the best part of it before I left.
"alive and well in the *Amazon*"
So is the clone just a clever tax avoiding scheme?
Taxpayers must know!!!1!!
@ NomNomNom - Re: Install Linux and let 'em come
No, it doesn't support Excel, they are two completely different things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_(software)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Excel
"Apple Australia contacted The Register to say it has no statement to offer"
When you thought life couldn't get more surreal... Is this how it went?
Apple : "Oh, hello. Is this the register?"
TR: "Speaking."
Apple : "We just called to let you know we have nothing to say."
TR: "Oh, ok. Thank you. Have a nice day."
Apple "You're welcome. And you. Bye"
Maybe it's a feature?
It could be because the phone automatically calls Roy Trenneman from the I.T. Crowd when something goes wrong, and follows his advice?
Re: Typo in my post - Does anyone know the etimology of the word "Inglish"?
I did indeed. Noted :)
I don't think I saw the ety- prefix many times in my life and I wasn't familiar with the spelling, so I went for the italian one I am familar with. Thanks :)
Re: Typo in my post - Does anyone know the etimology of the word "Inglish"?
EITHER! EITHER! EITHER! I should still be in bed :)
Re: Typo in my post - Does anyone know the etimology of the word "Inglish"?
I believe it could ether be "Input English"
Does anyone know the etimology of the word "Inglish"?
Hi all,
this is purely out of curiosity, I couldn't find it anywhere. Wikipedia just mentions what it means, Google knows that what I really want is English so it will only show the results for that, no matter if I use + or "" before / around it, bing allowed me to search for that in the end, but didn't return any links that answered my question...
From the Wikipedia entry I believe it could other be "Input English" or "Interactive English", but I also have an unmatched talent at generally being wrong at things.
If nobody has an answer to this, I can cope with it... Cheers!
I follow the same philosophy... And there's been quite a few defeats in my life!
Tiredness and small screen of my phone made me create a new post instead of replying to your original one - no edit button here either
*... a hearty "Oh fuck it!" moment but...no edit.*
Thanks for not mentioning the following "Oh fuck you!" moment :)
Typo in comment
"a TLD who's administrators" should be "a TLD whose administrators"...
"a TLD who is administrators" doesn't mean anything, so the correct spelling is "whose".
Bedtime now.
@ Shannon Jacobs - "Is that a joke?"
Yes, it was.
GBE should learn that not saying "BAZINGA" when required can be as confusing as bad spelling or punctuation :)
Hope that helps.
Fantastic!
That was my thought straight away, then I realised that I went to Argos yesterday and there were people going home with their thick catalogue. I am not sure how that can be more practical than looking stuff up on the website, really...
Possibly it can also attract the masses that type "facebook" in the address bar to get the Google results associated to the search then click on the top one.
@Thomas 4 - Re: thought police
Very very good point :)
I wish you a very pleasant rest of your life now that you finally saw the purple light.
Re: thought police
As a person belonging to a couple of minorities ( maybe not so much minorities in London though : gay and born and raised abroad ) I find the concept appalling.
I was born with enough common sense to know that once I walk through the door and enter the outside world some people will like me and some will dislike me for one reason or another, and the vast majority will ignore me. The same happens to everybody else. I am sorry for the few ones who cannot deal with this simple fact of life.
Most people, anyway, can. From what I see, these sort of thoughts are generally children of brains belonging to "normal" non intelligent people. Think of Harriet Harman for example, it doesn't get much worse than that.
They really believe that by telling you what to think, you will end up thinking it. Has it ever worked on anybody on here? Or do you get a little bit more annoyed every time, towards the people they want you to like, and the messengers themselves?
Just a thought...
Re: incentivise
@ Tom 35
There is some literature you may ( or might? I never get it right. Possibly both? ) want to read.
http://duckduckgo.com/?q=tower+hamlets+postal+vote+scandal
Re: I'm lost with all this banter
Those 20 grams make all the difference - you can add an extra key to your keyring, or put a sweet in your pockets and you won't hurt your back straining for the added weight.
You have the previous version of their mobile, and your handbag is so full you can't fit that useful cardboard bookmark in it? Get yourself the 5!
Re: Of the people commenting on this thread..
I often cycle to places and use it for that. Not everyday, but almost. Don't think I am the only one who regularly uses it.
I sometimes go without having a dump for a whole day, but I'd still expect a flat which sells for the same price of two similar ones to come with a usable crapper.
Re: Didn't take long...
He put his face on a phone which wouldn't make calls ( and, my guess here, but possibly wouldn't connect at all either? ) without a 25 quid elastic ban around it. Shitty maps seem nothing compared to that, to me at least.
@ AC 10:13 GMT - Re: i scent mischief
"it's appalling pronunciation"
The irony...
Re: Can we go one step further
I wouldn't settle for anything less than somethingsomething.fullPostcode.floorNumber
Re: Nice troll...
Sometimes people just ask questions because they don't know something...
The question mark at the end of the sentence could be a clue. I know, odd in a place whose URL starts in "forum", but hey.
"providing EE can make a volume commitment"
Are Nokia's marketing monkeys so desperate that they try to sell their phones to deaf people now?
@ AC Re: "providing EE can make a volume commitment"
Yes. Correct. Well spotted :)
Double joke because I intentionally used the wrong icon. Beat that!
"providing EE can make a volume commitment"
Are Nokia marketing monkeys so desperate they are now trying to sell their phones to deaf people?
Re: Nonsense fake numbers...
Apart from agreeing or not with your comment, the part where you say
"Twisting numbers can't change the fact that Android is a joke (all manufacturers combined can't even get close to 30% of Apple's profits)"
That doesn't prove anything - Mc Donald's profits are much higher than Planet Organic's. Ferrari's profit ( I know very little about cars, so please correct me if I am wrong, I just googled figures ) seem to be lower than Tata's or Fiat's.
IE developer tools are not exactly great either
From what I remember at least. Last time I had to develop for Explorer was a couple of years ago and the version at the time was IE8. I remember most people were using FireBug and some DragonFly. Opening IE8 debugging tool only happened for IE specific bugs or anomalies. Which means quite frequently, but never by choice. Have they improved over time?
@Ru
Yes, my point is, you don't want to eat synthetised pork? Fine. Eat synthetised cow. Or Quorn.
@ Nick Ryan
Personally, I am a vegetarian but I am hardly fussed about not eating meat. Some people do miss it though, so it is very likely they would eat that.
Another great outcome would be that the use of halal and kosher meet, which is creeping up even in the western world, can be banned without getting the eaters too upset. It could already be banned now really...
Posted in Facebook shares hit all-time low
I do hope Facebook survives though!
It is important to have a walled garden where people can share their inspirational thoughts, pictures and mood swings. Otherwise we'd all risk being exposed to that content again, like when we used to get it by email...
In a perfect world they could build a completely parallel network, like they want to do in Iran, so that the individuals that are part of it have no way to interfere with this side of the Internet.
