Posts by DF118
472 posts • joined Wednesday 2nd March 2011 11:28 GMT
Snoopers' charter rests in shallow grave - likely to rise again
And in other news, bears stubbornly persist in woodland defecation.
Of course it's coming back. For one thing its resurrection has bugger all to do with the person sitting in the Home Office hotseat and everything to do with the droids operating the levers.
Indeed. We are however lacking core stuff like call logs.
Our IP telephony hardware is a crock. Comms don't know (or care) how to set them up properly so half the features don't work, plus the interface is woeful; so even if the features weren't inactive you'd need a doctorate in deciphering anti-logcal icons to suss out what the buttons are supposed to do. Even programming speed dials requires the use of a cheat sheet for most folk.
Re: No more worrying about Graphic card memory
I think the point of this is in situations where the CPU and GPU reside on the same die, not where you have a discrete GPU elsewhere on the assembly or even on a daughter board, which is I think what you're talking about.
Re: @Stephen Roper I don't have a problem with mp3
@ Stacy: you're doing well then, cos my system easily outclasses yours (not bragging or anything, just saying it to make the point) and I can't tell the difference between 320kbps mp3 and normal CDs.
SACD, yes, but not CD.
Re: IP profits lawyers and extortion style law suits
Eadon, must you be so willfully ignorant about EVERYTHING?
@Stephen Roper Re: I don't have a problem with mp3
Careful mate, that's the sort of sense-talking that gets the FLACshionistas all in a froth.
Re: I don't think we got the hint
I think the way to read El Reg's partially bolded headlines is to imagine the bold text not on your screen, but on the cover of an issue of one of the more shrill right-wing tabloids. Once you have done this you will realise that, as usual, it is done with tongue firmly in cheek.
Re: balanced reporting
@sabroni - thank fuck three pages of scrolling and finally someone with a bit of insight
Forever War
So... Ridley Scott apparently won the film rights a few years ago, after decades of trying. Anyone care to hazard a guess as to whether he'll get to make it in his lifetime?
Re: Lazy Fat Americans.
Uh huh, but I fail to see how that invalidates my point. HFCS is still just a symptom of the greater malaise. Crack on about it all you want. If you win that fight it's only a matter of time before the next bete-noir comes along. It's just a pity sugar is so damn tasty*.
* That was a quick and dirty way of bringing mammalian physiology into the equation.
Re: Lazy Fat Americans.
The low price of HFCS compared to... what, exactly? Other sugar? Because sugar is already pretty much the cheapest food commodity you can buy. It's not really a valid objection because it heavily implies HFCS should be the chef blame carrier when it is not. It's just yet another symptom and going on about it as the food devil du jour does nothing more than distract from the real issue, which is that, as a society, we have allowed ourselves to become a bunch of fat lazy fucks beholden to all sorts of corporate interests, far from the least of which being profit-hungry food conglomerates.
Re: Spec Ops DISASTER?
Whereas your comment seems highly speculative and unhelpful. Ironic given the subject matter of the story at hand, but par for the course with you.
Re: Lazy Fat Americans.
> It is the "new sugar" that is doing it
Oh for fuck's sake get a grip. Sugar is sugar, we're just eating more of it. I say "we" because the UK is equally afflicted. The situation isn't helped by several decades of the bullshit "eating fat makes you fat" gospel being preached by those who claim to know, and wholeheartedly adopted by the food industry who quite happily churn out "low fat" (i.e. high sugar) foods by the metric fuckton for us to pour down our throats.
I was reading these comments about how their product quality has slipped and shaking my head not really agreeing, but then I remembered the Last Logitech keyboard I had. Mushy PoS that cost almost £40 and the insert/home cluster was completely fucked up. That was nearly ten years ago. I have a couple of 1st gen MX Revolution mice though and, apart from some loss of feedback from the scroll wheel in clck-mode, these have just kept on going. No need to buy another as they're still going strong after years of intensive daily use.
Re: Clegg the trustworthy....
Where does his choice of OS come into this?
Might I suggest you perhaps review Eadon's historical commentard activity.
Re: Remember the use of "Terrorism" Act against Labour Party protester?
cash. The last word my stupid phone chopped off was cash.
Re: Remember the use of "Terrorism" Act against Labour Party protester?
many- myself included- assumed that they would (at least partially) stop and roll back Labour's egregious assault on civil liberties and pathological disregard for personal privacy. Instead, they're turning out to be just as bad in this respect
Many (myself included) think that this is because the intelligence community (via Whitehall) is the one at the levers, not the political parties who come and go with the breeze. Although it's certainly true that, throughout the last decade's climate of paranoia, New Labour really did let said spook community get too big for its boots. IMHO, this is the main reason why there is regular talk of fishing expeditions against the population at large (because that's what this bill is really about) as if that kind of behaviour is something that we should humbly accept in the name of national security. I don't care what the man behind the curtain shows our supposed political masters that makes them agree to this, it is never done with the people's best interests at heart. The profit motive is too strong for those who would provide the means and they'd just love Britain to lead the rest of the world in feeding paranoia with
Posted in Boffins explain LED inefficiencies
Re: Wait.
Last time I checked there was no actual law against it. Are you referring to this article or the paper it discusses? If the latter you may have a point.
It's what Steve would've wanted
Really.
Somebody's been...
... playing too much Need for Speed
Re: Is the new App compulsory?
As sure as night follows day, given a story like this there's always some smartarse commenter comes along to point out that [insert name of thing] isn't compulsory. Slow claps all round.
All well and good, but does the research have anything to say about those of us who are endowed with a face like a half-chewed toffo?
This subject's a bit of a hobby horse for you, isn't it Tim?
Re: Honestly
No
Re: Cure for cancer
Yeah, seems he/she was typing at the same time as me.
On a related note, I see that - despite no doubt being well off enough to afford almost any level of private healthcare he desires - Mr Banks has stuck with NHS Scotland and has praised everyone involved. It's all well and good being a principled socialist type who also happens to have made a good living for himself, but I'd guess there are few in that category who wouldn't give in to the temptation to throw all their wealth at an attempt to buy more time in this life.
And anyway - who wants to go out leaving their loved ones nothing but a cloud of garlicky fart gas?!
Re: definition of a fork...
> fancy fork with two trines
Tines
Muphry's Law in action there methinks.
This is the only comments thread I've read on the subject where some well-meaning sort hasn't come along with their own personal cure for cancer ("massive doses of cannabinols and a vegan diet" being the most popular so far).
A genuine good guy, Banks is a rare think among SF authors in that he is just as erudite and witty in the flesh as he is on paper.
I hope the docs are wrong and you get a few more years rather than months Mr Banks, but if not you've made this geek very happy. Thank you!
"Fuck every cause that ends in murder and children crying"
"those keen to secretly splash some money"
I see what you did there. Chapeau.
Re: Just a thought
I agree, however they seem to be doing just fine selling bland old ones for now.
I'd take Orlowski over Fry any day. Fry is likeable and occasionally insightful, but on the whole frightfully boring. Orlowski on the other hand is an irascible shit-stirrer of the highest order, slightly beholden to Adam Curtis in style, occasionally wide of the mark, but properly analytical and never dull.
Marine cable repair co making their own business perhaps?
Re: The mystery of the mysterious operatives
I'm also curious about this but also, how do you repair one once it's been cut or more generally, how do you join two pieces of fibre optic cable?
Unsurprisingly, you do it with a specialised vessel and a metric fuckton of cash.
As to the actual fibre splicing process? Dunno but I'd wager heat is involved somewhere along the line.
Re: Completely right on all COUNTS
That is all.
@I ain't Spartacus Re: To fix the problem
Perhaps the voters get the politicians they deserve?
That's a bit 'chicken and egg' is it not? Which came first: the lying politician or the credulous sucker?
Ahhh c'mon the Desert Eagle bit was one of the funniest things I've read on here recently.
Yeah I admit it was pretty trainwrecktastic. Couldn't stop reading. In fact ISTR the missus having a right old go at me for reading it instead of jumping her bones and she's nowhere near as fugly as xboxzilla back there.
Lol if she ever reads this I'm so dead.
@ zmodem ... What, were you not satisfied with the number of down votes you gathered with your desert eagle nonsense?
Re: watch it they're going to throw Metro in your face
Methinks you might feel more at home in a slightly more hysterical comments forum. Engadget is thataway.
Re: sad
Sex in general, yes. Sex with a particular person whom one does not want to, no.
Re: Sounds great
With the exception of its outstanding screen and build quality I too am somewhat underwhelmed by the One X.
Sticking AOKP on it (in the form of IceColdJelly) has made a difference to battery life and heat generation, but I'll still be selling this one on pretty quickly.
Posted in AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play
Re: @GBL initialiser More adverts, everywhere.
It doesn't matter how po-faced your language is, your argument is still based on a subjective assumption and therefore flawed. If the model a content provider has chosen to use to fund its services and (hopefully) turn a profit is the 'paid for by advertising' one then they are effectively in competition with other sites to provide my eyes (and clicks) to their advertisers. The tired cliché is, I believe, that I am the product. In an ideal world for the advertisers my hardware, bandwidth, browsing habits and search history is used by one vendor to sell my custom to another. There is no obligation on me to provide any of those things to anyone and on the whole I choose not to. Should my actions in so blocking this behaviour cause the content provider to fail to be able to fund and/or profit from their activities then that is a failure of the ad-funded business model, not me being a parasite, no matter how you try to dress it up. There are exceptions, which is what whitelisting is for. The Reg gets this. Ars Technica (to name but one) doesn't. Hence their occasional whiny op-ed pieces saying so.
Posted in AdBlock Plus BLOCKED from Google Play
@GBL initialiser Re: More adverts, everywhere.
I pay for the adverts as part of the price for the things I buy. If I want not to see ads that is my choice. It is not parasitic behaviour to block them any way I see fit, especially if I would never have clicked them anyway. Your logic is flawed.
Re: Sunshine vs Solaris
Came out of the cinema after Sunshine and said to my brother: "well that was a real one star movie".
A trifle harsh (I'd give it maybe three out of five) but worth it for the gag.
Solaris would have to be pretty poor sci-fi to be any worse than Sunshine. It's basically Event Horizon without the suspense, and EH itself is basically a haunted house movie set in space (albeit a fairly good one).
Posted in Amazon yanks SimCity download from store
Re: First rule of corrections - you will make an error in your correction.
Indeed. Muphry's Law in action :)
Posted in Amazon yanks SimCity download from store
At the time of writing neither Amazon or EA had responded to El Reg's requests for comment.
Either... or
Neither... nor
Splendid, that's easily a while day's worth of pedantry in one fell swoop. I can get on to other things; like pretending I know what I'm talking about in pointless meetings.
Re: No. Let's call it "Tracking your every move,"
Uh? What ads? I don't see any ads.
Re: No. Let's call it "Tracking your every move,"
> In the eyes of this website's "journalists" and myriad Fandroids, Google is incapable of malfeasance in perpetuity, because Android.
If that were true, why even bother telling us? Oh, because butthurt.
