Posts by Great Bu

The adverts proclaim, “the GTi is back”. Of course, VW would argue it never went away,

Until you showed them a picture of a Mark IV Golf "GTi" and then they would go and cry into their bratwurst.....

Re: 20ms is pretty slow...

"You'd need a personal radar in order for it to be useful!"

Of course, but a personal radar would be quite cheap and easy to make (lots of cars have proximity sensors and the like that would do fine).

It needs to be a short ranged system (detect incoming fire at a few metres) so as not to send out too great a sensor signature for enemy units to detect hence a quick rection by the armour is needed but other than than I see no particular technical difficulty in making such a system.

Re: Ecosystem, Ecosystem, Ecosystem

As an unrelated side point, although I am not normally an apostrophy fascist and quite happily overlook a legion of it's/its and your/you're errors, even I can't overlook putting an apostrophe in Steve Jobs.........

Re: I would have been very surprised if either company had objected.

I think it will be an excellent test of their level of conviction - it's fine to boycott a particular company's product when there are a great many easily available alternatives that are just as good but how will the poor impressionable freshers decide between trendy boycotting of baby milk producers and using their shiny new smartphone (or will they defect to iOS (there goes my student loan), WinPho (even less cool points, surely MS are satan spawn) or Blackberry (choice of the Chav)) ?

Re: maybe

Reminds of the excellent quote form this weekend's 'Touch of Cloth' where the police chief raises money for poor kids by a sposored 'Brutalathon' - pushing prisoners down the stairs for 7 hours.....

Re: I don't understand something here...

I would be OK with this kind of targeted overlay advertising if it meant that either there were no breaks in the programming for actual advertising and / or it subsidised or paid the entire cost of my TV subscription.

Obviously I will also be looking to buy a stout umbrella when this comes true on account of the pig shit falling out of the sky from the flocks (herds ?) of flying pigs....

Re: ::rolls eyes::

@LarsG - she sounds nice, I do like an Irish Accent, did you get her 'phone number ?

(unfortunately, I might add)

Hmmmm...Yes she does look as if she goes like a belt-fed wombat.......

Re: "electrically unsafe ... they could cause fires and injure ... through electrocution."

I dunno, reading the descriptions on Amazon for some of these handsets and none are described as 'Arseproof' or even 'Arse Resistant'.......

Flip Flop Consoles....

....excellent idea, could be powered by excess energy generated from the flip-flopping action, perfect for the beach......

"but no hard sell and give-us-your-firstborn"

Ooooh, you can get free wifi for trading in your first born child ? Sounds good, where can I sign up.......

Re: Never trust...

I overheard some other guy saying that Great Bu agrees with this also (does that count as 4th person ?)

Re: Poor author.

You don't need to listen to your children in the car on long journeys, just get one of those roof top child holders from halfords (that's what they're for, isn't it ? So you can put the back seats down for the luggage ?)

50 % ?

I would think it's probably safer to assume that of the $15.1M award, his lawyers probably get the bit to the left of the decimal point and the inventor gets the 0.1.......

Is it actually possible to polish a polished turd?

You can't polish a turd, but you can roll it in glitter.

Re: "I'm sorry my actions hurt the United States."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u0EL_u4nvw

Re: death and taxes

I wouldimagine it would have been in small coins, AU$75,000 is only about 50 krugerands (or other gold coins, mostly about the same value) - it would fit in one of those plastic change bags you get from the bank - which raises the question of why she didn't just hide it under floorboards instead.....

Rim Job

Wait, it needs an application form now ?

FFS this is just bureaucracy gone mad, I bet some eurocrat in Brussels decided this.......

Re: Amex

Really ? I enthusiastically accepted them all.

Of course, now Amex will only speak to me through their lawyers........

Re: Infosys profits

They declare their profits in the US ? Amateurs.....

Re: We stand to have access restricted to 3D by spooked bureaucrats.

When it comes right down to it, for considerably less effort than this guy has put into making his printed plastic gun it is perfectly possible to build an equally viable weapon from B&Q stuff - get some reasoneable thickness metal pipe for the barrel, wrap it in more pipe of a slighly larger size (repeat as required for strength), the rest is just woodwork and simple mechanics.

There's nothing particularly hard, challenging or secret about gun design or manufacture.

For the price of a 3D printer you can buy a second hand lathe off eBay and make a proper gun......

Getting hold of the ammunition is the harder part (especially any kind of good propellant in reasoneable quantity).

Re: Gotta pick up on the snarky emphasis on how many ads FB runs

Does anybody who reads ElReg actually see any adverts in their browsers ?

Re: Thank god for the war on Terror

Does that mean I have to kill the president of micronesia now ?

Re: Not to worry about the falling bits

Surely the concern is from the possibility of being hit by a 200kg drone falling on you (rather than a shotgun pellet or two).........

Re: Ah, the memories

More Itchy and Scratchy I always thought.....

They fight, they fight,

They fight, they fight, they fight.

Fight fight fight, fight fight fight

The Eadon and Register shooooooooow !!!

Re: "why cant you just buy [a camera] and have the rest of the phone as a separate entity?"

@Squander Two - you're approaching the problem from the wrong angle - get rid of the kids and then you can afford to carry as many widgets as you want !

Stop !

In the name of love......

That's what I thought

I interpret it as $12 per day too, which is basically Eastern European Prostitute Blow Job money, not really a living however low your development costs are........

Eadon !

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