Posts by Simbu

Sweet bacon conidiments?

HP sauce or GTFO.

There come's a point...

el Reg where your proliferate use of innuendo becomes tiresome and annoying. I had to get more than half way through the article to work out WTF you were talking about.

"Helicopter? No. Motor bike? Nooo... Strange new slang term for penis? Nope. Oh, it's an axe. How disappointing."

Doesn't make for the timely consumption of news.

How the hell...

Does 'Dave' from Ebuyer explain that a 20% (worst case) increase in prices equates to the Samsung F4 2TB drives i bought for £70 a few months ago now costing £180?

Money-grabbing parasites.

Yawn

I predict that the next iPhone will make me a bacon sandwich before pleasuring me into a comatose mess with its interactive, holographic fleshlight.

Legit rumour! Can i have an article please?

So many wasted hours...

I spent a hugely disproportionate amount of my time getting frustrated by Lemmings. Your review has me remembering all sorts of things.

- The level where you had to dig 50 lemmings though the very thin ground to bring to a non-suidical falling height. Painstaking precision required.

- The more creative sources of lemming death - squashers, fire, that chain thing that would lynch them.

- Frustration of building a crazy stairs maze when you just want your lemmings out. Clicking the right one of about 100 lemmings in a hole 20 pixels wide was sheer luck.

Fond memories. Thanks el Reg!

No mention of Q?!

This concerns me!

Sounds like troll physics...

Surely every time you perform a data-altering on the flash drive (write / delete) you are using energy to change the data! So, over time and use the device will continue to absorb energy and mass.

I predict in 100 years these devices will have absorbed so much energy the world will be covered in tiny black holes originating from many flash devices!

I'd have thought...

100% of their network traffic was data!

Smells like.. blackmail!

Hey, you'd better pony up $500k or some gobshite in a non-extradition country will buy your name as a domain and turn it into a porn site, rendering your reputation in tatters!

How to stitch up a felllow crim..

Step 1: Borrow / steal your crim mate's phone or swap out the sim cards.

Step 2: Commit crime in possession of crim's phone.

Step 3: Observe as authorities decide a genius idea to help solve crime is they will look at known crim mobile numbers against crime location / time.

Step 4: Crim mate gets shortlisted and you provide evidence along the lines of: "Oh yea, i saw him walking back with that massive telly / bags of money / old lady's diamond jewellery...

Step 5: Sell ill-gotten things on Fleabay.

Step 6: Profit! No need for ???

That'll work...

"Hi, BT? Yea I'd like you to give me access to lots of internet pornography."

Conversations i see happening all over the country. Or not. Congrats DC on killing off an industry in this country in one blow (chortle).

Valid points marred

Unfortunately your valid points about SD cards and batteries pale somewhat into significance when you make irrational arguements like "don't buy a new model because a 2 generations old one didn't have 3G". Or "Stephen Fry wants to copulate with his iPhone, therefore no-one should like it".

As for the walled garden arguement, i quote The Once-ler when i say "If Apple didn't do it then someone else would have".

They saw a profitable and successful business model (that consumers evidently like) and went for it. How dare those capitalist pigs...

I'll stick with the plastic thanks.

Anyone who wants to charge me to spend my own money in a slightly more convenient way can go fuck themselves. With schemes like this in the UK, why is it a surprse that so many people are incapable of managing their money these days? No different to mugs who accept the "£2.50 to use your credit card" charges.

Won't be adopting unless it costs me no more than my card / cash.

Err what?

"In doing this, Microsoft can potentially have hardware makers like HTC end up selling Windows Phone in addition to Android."

I've had an HTC Mozart sat on my desk for months!

Rip Off Europe!

If i want a pair of 501s i order them from a US supplier. I can get 2 pairs for the same price of 1 pair in the UK, after import taxes and shipping costs!

The quality is better too, it turns out US and EU supplied jeans are made in different places. I've got a pair of both UK bought and US bought 501s and the US bought are holding up much better.

It's not just the UK either; I was in France a few weeks ago and they are getting shafted as badly as we are.

Levis - don't take the piss out of consumers are we won't figure out ways to stop you. We're not stupid.

Why the Beeb?

I like the principle of the idea and the data collected will have its uses... but why the Beeb??

This is something that should be funded by either Ofcom or the operators themselves. Perhaps i've missed something but all i see is another misplaced reason i've been stitched out of proper F1 coverage next year.

Memories...

Ah, my ill-spent youth! Many an hour was enjoyed playing Wolf 3D. You've not mentioned two of my favourite aspects of the game though: finding the secrets (runnings along a wall hammering spacebar) and the ridculous noise it made when you pick up treasure!

For future installments might i recommend the following:

- Commander Keen

- Raptor: COTS

Not doing themselves any favours...

The technology sounds interesting and has the potential to revolutionise graphics-intensive applications... but i can't help but be sceptical about a company that can't even maintain a functioning website.

Nonetheless, the best of luck to them!

lolwot?

BT provides good internet?! Who did they ask, and what were those people smoking?

I'd rather go sledging with barbed wire strapped to my arse than use BT broadband again. Crappy speeds, crappy contention, epic packet loss and poorly priced.

The second O2's LLU service was in my area i was all over it, and i've never looked back.

There's only one kind of student exposure i'm interested in...

And this ain't it!

People have done alot worse...

for some Cupertinian shinyness.

Kidney anyone?

Journalistic pondlife

Scumbags, shysters and tabloid journalists...

Not even politicians should have to put up with these cretinous dregs of society. "In the public interest"? A child's personal medical records will NEVER be something that should be in the public domain. There is no benefit to society.

I hope a damned good example is made of these assholes.

2 million hours?

228 years before it's likely to fail?

Nice!

Puts mechanical drives to shame in comparison.

I can see this working in practice...

"sites that are "substantially focused upon infringement of copyright""

Yea right... going to block Youtube are they? More copyrighted content on there than you can shake a stick at.

How many sites are out there? Each one will need a court order to be blocked? Sounds like an expensive waste of taxpayers' money to me. Block one domain, 5 more will spring up.

An unworkable solution from idiots desperately trying to clasp onto traditional (read 'ripoff') revenue streams.

Title correction

Should read "Mobile will own games industry". Games developers won't place all their eggs in one Apple-shaped basket. It limits their earning potential. For most of the world, Apple hardware is unobtainable as compared to competitors it often costs an arm and a leg (or a kidney).

More 'journalists' throwing about the Apple name because it gets them noticed. Pathetic.

Excuse me...

While i invest in some tin manufacturing businesses...

Occam's Razor

What's more likely...

- Big, complicated pieces of machinery with lots electronic equipment can sometimes malfunction. The cause is "shit happens".

- Despite huge amounts of testing, and 1000's of safe flights a year, most of which will have pasengers using personal electronic devices... there's still some "don't club albino kittens" types trying to justify a job with very sketchy statistics.

I'm with El Reg on this one... Besides, i've got an iPhone, and Steve-o cares enough about my well-being to not have me die in an iCrash, right?

Moot point...

Have you BEEN to Leicester? The place already looks over-run.

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What a bunch of squares...

Dialysis

Is there an app for that?

Public transport

" ride his pony the 85-odd miles to Holyhead."

He'll probably get there faster...

Small patch?

No Apple iOS update i've ever downloaded has been a small patch. They've always been 600MB+ behemoths. Unless Apple discover how to efficiently patch iOS i will be sticking to an iTunes-induced patch, thanks. Which will also backup my phone's data to my computer prior to it being updated. I don't fancy a "MobileMe" backup of my handset to the cloud prior to iOS update. I'd be there all week!

**Forwarded to 'The Colonel'**

That'll learn the thieving wench!