Posts by Steve Renouf
260 posts • joined Thursday 14th June 2007 15:20 GMT
Re: TV?
Yes. Because the 50" TV is too big for my desk and there isn't enough room in my study for the whole family to sit around to watch a movie! Duh!
But it's so small...
I was expecting something, like... a zillion light-years across!
IT? It must have taken loads of IT to process those images...
Re: Security Issue?
Password? What password? Why do we need a password on our home FAMILY computer that only we use?
Re: Perhaps
Except - it doesn't, since it closed down when the LVCR from the Channel Islands was abolished by the UK government. It's all now supplied from Switzerland instead, as they still have the LVCR!
Quelle surprise...
"Apple developers testified that they didn’t pay any attention to anyone’s patents when developing their system.”
Re: Only on apple.co.uk NOT on apple.com
"I wonder how many Apple owners visit apple.co.uk 0.000001%"
Actually, it's 0% - as they now have .co.uk immediately re-direct to .com/uk/
Can't wait to see what the judge does about that...
"with other features such as S Voice, Sammy's equivalent to Apple's Siri"
Perhaps they should have gone with plain SAM or SAMI (Sammy)?
>got coat & gone>>>
Re: need a directors cut!
Oh horror! You mean DB5! (David Brown - he of tractor fame).
Re: What exactly is the crime?
Maybe it was something to do with this bit:
"One remote desktop session and hefty credit card charge later – some charge up to US$450 for the service - the scammer either does nothing whatsoever or installs free anti-virus software."
Sometimes it pays to actually read the article... ;-)
Re: "patent troll versus Black Mamba"
No, let them bite each other and the one that survives...
Re: Saw their photos in the Telegraph
... and of course, all the other places in the area now know what they look like, so can bar them from the outset!
Re: if (maxFood !== AllYouCanEat) {throw new LyingBastardException()}
" I prefer my food cooked while I am waiting"
Me too!
", not heated in a microwave oven - so I avoid restaurants with many different dishes on the menu."
So I avoid restaurants.
Re: durham had one too
Why? What's wrong with seagull? Is it not equally as nutritious?
Space/Time warp?
Probably all that junk flying around up there has caused a break in the space/time continuum down here...
Yeah. I like the red ones...
I'm hiding under it...
Re: You can't sing, you can't play, and you look awful.
Yeah! The longer the way - away, the better!
Re: Scrawny rapper?
Yay! Robert Johnson! Real music that real musicians today still do cover versions of!
Posted in Adele's Skyfall poised to fall from sky
Or they could have asked "Legend - NWoBHM...
They're undergoing something of a revival at the moment.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Legend+NWoBHM&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
IT? Well, Peter Haworth the lead guitarist is in IT!
Re: Vulcanism
True! But at least they'll all have pointy ears!
And what about all the EMF
and magnetic field increases that this is going to create? No-one seems to be taking THAT into account in the drive to electrify everything.
Re: Government Committee discovers bloody obvious - @Matthew 25
"Mine is the one with a hydrogen fuel cell in the pocket."
Forget the hydrogen fuel cell - use the "Joe's" cell and generate your own H + O as you drive!
Re: Obviously this is on purpose
Yes! I've! Just! Been Caught! OUT! by This! F%^cking! Madness!
Sorry about that - just couldn't resist annoying all those posters that are "F^&cking pissed off with every headline concerning Yahoo!"
Erhum.... Getting back on subject...
I've just been caught out by this unawares on my new Asus laptop (to replace my HP laptop that "fried" due to the well known design flaw. Upon trying to boo from the USB universal recovery stick (Yum, Ubuntu Live, etc.) only to discover that it no longer worked. I discovered that the laptop had all thie Uefi/MS lock (sorry, Secure Boot) crap on it - AFTER I had already added all my applications to the installation! I am now in the midst of the long drawn-out process of imaging the partitions to convert the primary drive to MBR so I can get back to normal and finish my multi-boot setup!
F^&^cking Microsoft! Grrrrr.......
Re: Terms and Conditions accepting
"In practice this will mean you either use the service as is, or don;t use the service"
Oh, so the answer (in this case) is not to use the NHS!?! Think again Moriarty!
Re: Option when roaming...
At a suitable premium, of course. I'm glad I only use a phone as.... erm... a PHONE!
What a mess it's all turning into. That's what happens when you leave things for the companies to sort out instead of regulating! No more international standards. What a £$%% mess! Oh, I already said that!
Re: Google gazumping
You mean you aren't already using NoScript and AdBlock?!?
Re: That is why we use a clean browser for purchases
"Except you'll have logged into Google Wallet..."
Nah... I don't use a wallet - I just shove everything in my pocket!
Re: This is evil
"How is it legal to sell the same product or services to different people at different prices?"
Because there is no contract until both parties agree to the price/goods being offered. I offer an item to you at a price - you agree - I confirm = contract. I offer an item to you at a price - you don't agree - = no contract (or maybe you make a counter offer which I agree to = contract).
I am free to sell/not sell to whomsoever I please at whatever price we agree. There is no such thing as a price cast in stone!
Maple Syrup?
Pah! Tate & Lyle Golden Syrup beats it hands down every time!
Correct...
You're not alone!
Re: Windows, Android &OSX...
Er.. Umm.. I meant iOS of course - not OSX! Duh!
Windows, Android &OSX...
So where is Linux then?
Re: Screen Size
Or, better still, make it A4 size - rather than some obscure Merkin size that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world!
Re: Legislation?
"If Facebook don't shape up then governments will slap restraints on, and we will all lose by it."
Will we? It's mostly a load of shite on there as it is!?!
Yeah...
Just like the good old USofA have done with their indigenous population! Ain't gonna happen whilst there's money involved...
Keyboard because it was such a good joke it made me spray my coffee everywhere!
Re: I wonder what 'Online' means in the context of the ruling
ERODES - not corrodes (corrosion is a chemical reaction).
Posted in How one bad algorithm cost traders $440m
Nah... It's the other way round.
The bid price is what they'll bid you to buy them off you - the ask price is what they'll ask you to pay for selling them to you.
Secunia PSI???
Anyone?... Does what it says on the tin.
http://secunia.com/products/consumer/psi/
For those who can't be arsed to try and remember to run the "check for updates" for every programme on their system individually.
Re: In other news...
I don't... Now, where the hell is that shed key?!?
Re: Realtime?
Hmmm... No idea where that extra U came from. It's Friday! Must be Fat Finger Day!
Realtime?
Wot? You think IU want to get bored to F*ck by all the borong bits in between the real action?
"but then who wants to watch the BMX finals or the Greco-Roman Wrestling (or whatever it is these days) long after everyone else knows how it all ends? ®"
Yes please. It then doesn't take anywhere near as long to watch as you can FFWD past all the boring bits!
Re: 500-1000??
People who need to get out more and join the real world!
?Any Laptop?
"Sure, you could buy any laptop and spend 3 weeks downloading different Linux distros, rebuilding your Linux OS to try to get wifi working, or sound, or getting your video driver to not keep crashing when you run Flash, or ... etc."
That's odd, Ubuntu works perfectly on every laptop I've installed it on so far... especially the older ones that aren't quite up to W7 spec!
Hmmm.. That's odd!
When I record video streams. they record the audio simultaneously with the video stream, so if the HDD was "full" it wouldn't have recorded the video either!?!?!
Re: Sea Fox Repurposed
I don't think there are likely to be many mines deployed at that depth - the ships would be able to quite happily sail/steam past them. (I don't know of any ships with that draft!)
Posted in Tablets, copycats and Weird Al Yankovic
Personally...
I'd rather be fully functional than "cool" any day...
Well, because it'll soon be beer time.
Re: Backwards country, not
What? Shock, horror! You mean it's even more corrupt than the USofA?!?!
Re: What?
I should think they'll just point them to the same servers anyway, rather than build additional completely new sites...
Re: 1984 here we come
Not to mention the remote speeding fines... 3 strikes and insurance quadruples... etc., etc.
Pah!
The fines should be based on a percentage of turnover - that'll learn 'em!
Re: Non-practicing entity? [monkeyboyfan]
Yes, of course it has...
Erm.... The national debt is how much? Oh, 102% of GDP!?! Oh, you mean they're bankrupt?!? Wow, what a great system!!!
"As of May 2012, debt held by the public was $11 trillion, while the intra-governmental debt was $4.76 trillion, to give a combined total public debt outstanding of $15.77 trillion, roughly 102% of current dollar GDP.[4][5] The public debt has increased by over $500 billion each year since fiscal year (FY) 2003, with increases of $1 trillion in FY2008, $1.9 trillion in FY2009, $1.7 trillion in FY2010, and $1.2 trillion in FY2011.[6][7] As of February 2012, $5.1 trillion or approximately 50% of the debt held by the public was owned by foreign investors, the largest of which were China and Japan at just over $1 trillion each.[8] As of April 2012, nominal GDP of the United States was $15.46 trillion.[9]"
(wikipedia)
