I'd subscribe to Netflix for the rest of my working life if they finance series 2 of Firefly!

Didn't the Hodge family's company pay 0.01% tax last year on £2bn revenue?

Yeah...I can't think of a better person to look into dodgy tax law.

May as well ask Gary Glitter to look after child protection policy too.

i have both, but prefer Netflix because

1. I can watch it on my Andriod phone whilst on the toilet at work.

2. Subtitles. I frequently watch Netflix on the iPad whilst in bed and don't want to risk waking the kids up, having no subtitles on Lovefilm is a pain in the arse.

3. Access to the US / Canadian catalogue via VPN, which is awesome.

I remember Altavista was my primary source of 10 second Jenna Jameson clips as a youth.

Those were they days *sniffle*

because once you're worth £500m+ money isn't what drives you anymore.

to most of us plebs a job is a means of getting our bills paid, eating food and not much else, given the choice i personally wouldn't work, but then i'm not massively career driven in the first place, i don't live for my job and feel no particular loyalty towards my employer. (who in turn feels none..or very little towards me)

maybe that's why i'm still a techie and not a COO in the first place?

Ugh, I'd hate to be an IP lawyer, that line of work would make you into such a miserable bastard

"no, you can't patent the sun"

makes sense, my other half peddles home made greetings cards and other crap like that through Facebook, so paid for a bit of Facebook advertising last month and she suddenly started getting "Likes" from loads of clearly fake accounts...

looks more like gadaffi to me?

record labels clearly don't understand the problem, let alone come up with a solution to it.

saying that, if they understood the technology in the first place and did something positive about it rather than trying to litigate the problem away, maybe piracy wouldn't be so widespread...

i like my HTC, but i probably won't be getting another cos they're all the bloody same, i have no idea which is their most recent model, which ones are the budget models, which one is the premium model etc

the only criticism of Game Of Thrones I can think of is that sometimes it is painfully obviously that they couldn't afford to film scenes with large crowds. Eg most of the scenes with Drogo's khalasar, it was supposed to be a vast gathering of people yet you can really tell they're trying to get around that with sneaky camera angles and other trickery.

Other than that, it's all good!

why impose arbitrary spending limits at all?

i'm pretty sure your average goon on the street wouldn't have a problem with an IT project costing £500m (assuming its necessary, not random shit like giving every civil servant an alienware PC...), as long as it comes in at £500m when it's finished, not £2bn

TL;DR: be an arsehole, get ahead.

The sad part is, it's true, if you come into work, quietly get on with your job, kick arse all around but don't make a fuss, you WILL be overlooked.

Whereas if you make a song and dance about everything you do, management will assume you have more worth.

this really rustles my jimmies.

i'd love nothing more than xcom remade with todays technology, but missing out base building, max 6 squad members etc etc is madness

what? Black Ops didn't even have the best ending out of the CoD games, never mind best ending of all time.

They clearly only polled 12-16 year olds.

yeah, just what people want, a phone that BSODs

obviously there is nothing to stop them, but surely you can see the irony of the people behind kazaa and morpheus sueing people for copyright infringment...seeing as they were probably the biggest illegal filesharing network after napster's demise, before all this torrent crap become popular anyway :P

a brand new tivo box is better than a 5 year old sky+ box?

holy shit.

my mind is blown.

i liked the service that VM provided, the tivo box was very good (although the interface was slow...) and the broadband was admittedly excellent but it was far outweighed by the faffing about we had with their customer service staff, they literally did nothing right

the engineer didn't install our box

it took 5 phone calls to attempt to get the right TV package and they still didn't get it right in the end

the package I was initially sold by their sales rep turned out to be the XL package, which was far more than the sky equivalent for less channels

they didn't answer several attempts contact their customer service goons via email

our phone line didn't work for 3 weeks after activation

the initial bill was simply exorbitant

they didn't cancel our Sky services as promised so we were paying for both of them

...it was endless

although in all fairness with VM the broadband speed we got was very very good, the old telewest / blueyonder infrastructure they took over was also excellent.

i guy i used to work with did all our interviewing, and he said to me once that "he liked to throw in a few curve balls" when interviewing

to this day i've never got the mentality of it, if you ask the right questions in the first place you shouldn't find yourself trying to trick people or asking them what sort of tree they want to be.

bloody management speak.

i like the triple play stuff, it means I can keep the blu ray downstairs and the kids can take the dvd upstairs, fuck it up, draw on it whatever, and I still have a copy

for an extra quid of two, its definately worth it

its totally believable that we buy more BD's per head in the UK, i've always preferred a shelf full of actual things rather than files on a pc, and most people i know are the same, only resorting to shadier methods if something is ludicriously hard / needlessly expensive to get hold of (eg disney blu rays were £30-£35 EACH in HMV a year or two ago...and they wonder why most of their shops are in the shit financially)

I recently moved from Sky to Virgin after being tempted by half price for 6 months + lower price overall, the actual kit was awesome and my 30mb line could consistently d/l at 3mb/s, which i loved but their customer service and after sales stuff was absolutely appalling. so much so that i went back to sky after 3 weeks

which is a shame as i did like it, but it wasn't worth the fuss

um....shouldn't the FBI be out waterboarding terrorists or something like that?

if some ordinary schlub had some naughty pictures stolen would the FBI get involved?

Presumably they will be looking into half of the content on Spankwire too...