Posts by I understand now
46 posts • joined Thursday 18th August 2011 08:21 GMT
Currently trying out
A free 1 month trial of lovefilm stream-only with the intention of watching on my xbox.
Totally agree with what you're saying. The range is.. weak. I'm checking how much they're adding as it's a young service, so far about 15 titles a week.
I'm not much of a film buff, but only 3% of the titles on there are recognisable as 'big films'.
Also struggling to find films that are less than 5 years old.
If it has it's full dvd catalogue available for streaming by January, I'll keep subbing, but right now it's very much a trial and forget affair.
Posted in 2011's Best... HD TVs
Find a review under 50%
I'd hope that anything being reviewed as a TV actually IS a TV. There's not been a TV review under 50% this year. What's the point in using a score out of 100 if it's only out of 50?
If they're all high quality, those missing 50 percentage points will show their use.
Posted in 2011's Best... HD TVs
Mouldy metrics
Sort out your metrics already. the percentage score seems to be no good at differentiating anything on this site.
The best Christmas gift tellies, all rated between 80-90%.
Ten Monster Tellies, all rated between 80-90%
Ten small screen HD TVs, all but 2 rated between 75-90.%, and the ones that are below 75% are blatantly bargain basement brands anyway.
Lets make 50% == 0% and work it out from there, or if everything is perfectly adequate, just point out what's crap - rather than what to go for.
Article good, idea bad.
Why must they continue with this? Surely there something much more useful to do with these frequencies?
Posted in Microsoft slips out Silverlight 5
Sitting amongst the flowers and leaks
I guess you've not experienced how fickle Silverlight is to code with, particularly when it comes to memory management.
Intensively farmed land..
Reduces biodiversity, which is why in the UK, farmers are/were paid subsidies to have proper hedgerows instead of gigantic fields or wooden fences that maximise land space.
Biodiversity is good right? So moving to intensive farming isn't the only answer.
Accidentally indeed..
Who do they think they are they kidding?
Kindle, Fire
Briquette? Coal? Match?
All IPhones work only on the _exclusive_ apple network which you must provide yourself by buying a small base station.
This is a feature! Didn't you read? Exclusive!
Hang on..
Surprised this is reported on the register (in a serious manner anyway). It's only news to the masses who think they will get 24mbps internet guaranteed, and if they dont, it's because they need a new computer.
Though what you say about living near a university building or business district confuses me, particularly the former.
Are you actually saying that students don't use much bandwidth?
Silverlight to die?
No flowers.
18.5% efficient eh?
Lofty figures. Wonder if that's at optimum temperature. The hotter a solar cell, the lower the efficiency, which is why a solar cell in a British summer could give just as much power out as one sat in the desert sun.
Posted in World of Warcraft subscriptions slip
Fantasy mmo settings?
Oh really?
Not sure how or why i consider some sci fi to have more scientific basis than others, but star wars is firmly entrenched in fantasy other than the droids.
Posted in World of Warcraft subscriptions slip
Conversely, the main reason is that there's been a distinct lack of actual content this expac, with features delayed, dropped or simply recycled.
You either raid (which can be done 3 hours in 1 night), or pvp. There's nothing else now.
Did it have planes?
space rabbits
poop.
Perfectly round. And dark.
Go figure.
So that explains the existence of Cat people.
How do I get this thing out of my head then?
Posted in Battlefield 3
Just looking at the screenshots, I can see this game will fulfil your yearly quota for lens flare/bloom
Posted in 97% of Three's network traffic is data
Unsure how they quantify this. Utilisation time? Bandwidth usage?
Either way would give data a bias.
Swings and roundabouts.
Well we will get to see our politicians browsing habits. That will be fun.
Once they clock onto that, I'm sure they'll change their tune.
BT have never been particularly quick about this stuff. about 10 years ago, half the village I lived in had no useable phone line. Picking up the phone subjected you to white noise. Took them 3 weeks to fix that one!
Posted in US carrier smartphone sales slip
I think the banks are making people hold off for a phone (and plan) that ticks all the boxes, rather than risk getting a so-so phone that they're stuck with for 24 months.
SI not IS.
Systéme Internationale d'unités.
The accent does it.
Samuel L Jackson.
Fire and water
Surely rain is a very bad thing for this bike.
Also, how combustible is the frame i wonder?
They're the ultimate trolls. Even Trolls get smacked down eventually.
*glances at watch*
The biggest challenge with these systems is getting data into them in such a way that keeps integrity and is effortless to use.
If a fault occurs with a product, is the servicing engineer going to fill out a database form with 50 fields, or are they going to just write an e-mail?
You've got to make data entry rigid enough to make interpretation easy, but not so rigid that some things become difficult to record. As soon as that happens, the end user thinks "stuff it" and switches to e-mail.
Posted in Microsoft! touted! to! buy! Yahoo!
benefit?
Hm, not sure I see the benefit - other than market share which seems to be stagnant or reducing.
Yahoo!'s brand has always felt somewhat dated to me, but that might be the geocities effect.
Cant see it being strategic either. Yahoo's sinking slowly and will bleed its user base to other companies. Buying it will just mean you bleed instead!
grim.
How depressing. I have a feeling this will bite the UK, Germany etc in the arse sooner rather than later.
The government will probably see this as a good excuse to buy them all ipads.
Somehow
Windmills over every hill in the land? that wont do. Might injure some birds or something.
*goes to sit in the dark*
Posted in Valve pushes Portal freebie
Actually
It is free in the UK. Go on http://store.steampowered.com/app/400/ and you'll see it just has the option to Install rather than purchase. Beneath it is the orange box, portal bundle and valve complete pack which arent free.
They've not displayed it particularly well admittedly.
Grab it while you can.
perhaps this is why other ISP's are slow offering FTTC?
Appreciated?
Here! Take this crisp fiver for 2 hours work.
Posted in Yahoo! fires! CEO! Carol! Bartz!
analogy time
I'd think them losing their CEO now would be horrific timing. Yet another restructure and change in direction? Not what they really need.
Akin to splashing and floundering in water rather than doing backstroke, even if it is into a pool of jellyfish.
Local tv
Does anyone, and I mean ANYONE think this is even worth the effort?
Posted in DNS hijack hits The Register: All well
Oh come on!
Didn't you watch Independence Day?
Hackers will one day save the world.
Posted in Sid Meier's Civilization
civ 4 was hard work
Civ 5 seems to be simplified down. I find it more enjoyable than Civ 4 which i felt got a bit too labour-intensive to enjoy.
Posted in RAM prices set to 'free fall'
Bugger
Still languishing on x86 here so cheap ram isnt going to help me, unless everything else drops down too so i can build a new pc
Posted in HP chief bows to Jobsian cult
Did they really try hard enough?
I can't recall any HP tablet adverts. As for lack of traction, I've heard plenty of "software is great, hardware is okay, but HP/Palm are neglecting it" from reviewers.
I wonder who will fill the void.
How very useful?
I wish these telcos would announce something more useful, like "we have now given all commuter railways a dedicated array of masts so that signal doesn't drop every 25 seconds"
That is something people would really appreciate.
Funny that,
I was thinking the exact same thing.
