Posts by Zot

So? Water on Earth is recycled.

Now that's a lot of pissers from every species!

He does seem sluggish and perhaps on pills for something.

It was as if his batteries were taken out in 'Enders Game.'

At what point will they...

...just prevent developers from installing software on OSX, and everything, I mean EVERYTHING will have to be pushed through the 'App' store?

Kerr-fucking-ching go the tills at Apple. That is, until the developers turn away.

Just tell it to

'FECK OFF!" all the time, and never say anything else to it. Just that.

It won't quit now will it?

No it won't - perhaps an opportunity missed by the programmers.

If only our cities could turn some bloody lights off at night!

Not to mention all those people that come home and turn on every light in the house, and kids walking out of rooms leaving everything switched on. *grrrr* :)

Anyway, there are reports from America that the gas is unprofitable, but they keep pumping until the end of their leases.

Also, the purposefully created independent companies declare bankruptcy and leave whole rigs in the ground to be cleaned up by the tax payers. Of course the legislation in Britain will prevent that from happening, won't it?...

I've been with VM since they started. They supply me with a 50Mb Internet service, which is apparently going to double for free at some point, but I'm not bothered about that.

I've always called them cowboys, from the way that act so amateur, right back to the days when they started out in a shed in Gloucestershire. The TV box I use to have was hideously slow and often broken - which they always denied over the phone with all sorts of claims about it being better than Sky. The fools.

The Pac-man dossier

http://home.comcast.net/~jpittman2/pacman/pacmandossier.html

...Includes information about every aspect of the game, including ghost movement analysis, and tile locations. It's quite interesting in parts, especially each ghost's targeting code which is basically a how to win guide.

I never really played it myself, I thought it was a girl's game to be honest. :p

I was wondering.

Who first did the little blobs at the bottom of the screen to tell you what swipe-page you're current on?

Who did that first?

I will never buy Windows 8

You guys have convinced me. I'm talking to you, Microsoft.

A bug?

Or just a tester shortcut, inserted deliberately. Someone forgot to remove the code upon release. MS are taking it lightly, but it reflects really badly on their software and security.

Does it have to be a row of spaces, can you use any character?

You can put on the shelf, along side...

...Britain's Crappiest Towns, and the History of Shit!

It's real:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/search?index=books&linkCode=qs&keywords=9780262621601

I saw a Surface...

...as product placement on US TV shows. The actors seem to find it a little clunky and unresponsive, almost in a comical way at times. I've not seen a Surface in use for real though.

Microsoft has never been cool and hip, but it tries oh so hard to be so, embarrassingly. They are like the an Uncle at a wedding disco.

They already had $75m venture capital.

How do they think companies actually start? Well, they could try and have an actual product.

Anyway, here's the busy Palmer with some interesting defence:

http://www.reddit.com/user/palmerluckey

I've never cared for Star Wars much.

'Tis a silly film, where people can't shoot straight and a camp robot minces about, going 'oh my!'

[*dodges slow moving lasers fired from the inevitable SW and SS fans with beards*]

But I say leave it for the 10 year olds to enjoy, they are after all the target market. That's how old you were when you first saw it, were you not?

I've gone off Maplins a bit.

Last thing I bought from there was a small stereo to 2 mono jack adapter, and unbelievable it was wired incorrectly!! The boss came over when I took it back, saying that they buy them in batches of 2500 and there was probably no point in swapping it as they're all have the same error!! He's clearly been there before.

He then went on, lamenting the old days and that everything in 'his' shop was imported from China. I got my 2 pounds back and bought the parts from a musty old electrical shop tucked down a side alley that's been there for decades. Should have gone there first.

I bought a halogen heater in Maplins once as well, the power switch broke and one of the lamps failed in a few weeks.

Although, I see weak quality control in many products over the last few years, from everywhere.

The Internet and general procrastination mucks my day up enough.

I can't imagine what it would be like to have new messages from outside work coming at me while I'm trying to type, say, an important draft for a Parliamentary White Paper.

*BingBong - Jimmy has sent you a picture of his sandwich, how nice.*

*BingBong - Jenny has shared a video of idiots hurting their arses on the floor*

etc. etc.

I suppose switching it off would make the boss think you're antisocial or something god-awful like that.

If those keys, err coins, resurface again...

...would they be worth anything?

When they get rid of that fan...

...and I can hear the music playing, and not have to communicate by shouting really loudly.

THEN I'll buy one! : )

Ordinary people got caught up in the frenzy for the Wii...

...not to mention Nintendo's freakish family adverts for it - more like Haribo than Call of Duty.

So that's where they found the market, everybody said it was easy to use.

Not everybody is computer literate, of course, and this was advertised as Gran, Mum, and Bro could play all at once, or compete. Try that with Splinter Cell - I don't think Gran would approve.

The Wii U was a design nightmare, and it really didn't help when rumours about an EA boss saying "Wii U is dead to us" and then saying it was a 'last gen' console.

But I think the biggest mistake was presuming that Wii owners were going to buy a Wii U, or even if they understood what the hell it was, or even available. And lastly I think that perhaps Nintendo completely forgot that the Wii had a great price, which made it more of a toy than a computer console - and as a toy it was genius.

Some of the games on the Apple store were not copies.

According to some reviews, they came out BEFORE Flappy did, and have now shoved up the charts because thousands of little fingers want to sooth their addiction to it. Bless.

Western Computer told me they have one hidden in the shop...

...They could show it to me if I wanted to, but I can't buy it! I just refused, with a jolly smile of course, as they get easily offended in there.

I don't want to buy one anyway, because it lacks professional attributes like PCIe slots for things like ProTools. Time to buy the exterior add-ons... oh dear.

Other than the fact that it's a carpet dust sucking ashtray of a thing.

Perhaps they should have called it the 'Mac TopToy.'

Great!

We have Microsoft spying in our parliament with cloud based Office software, and we now have another American corporate running our police information cloud. Why don't you just send that foreign country everything you have on us, and get it over with already!