Posts by FartingHippo

Re: COMCAST

Oooo-kay. I think you need a dried frog pill.

Re: Build quality

At that (unlikely) temperature, I think refrigeration would be the last thing you'd need. So I wouldn't worry about the plug.

Yup. It's like claiming McDonalds did the right thing selling burgers because 95% of their customers prefer burgers to salads.

Re: You don't fry bacon, you grill it...

Exactly. It's then best eaten in a brioche bun with mayonnaise and some chopped chives.

Re: Had the C64 version...

Oh and it said "ghostbusters" too, only that was said with a mouth full of dry rice while frantically scrunching crisp bags.

Re: Anders Breivik

"Life in a Norwegian prison doesn't seem to look like punishment to me!"

Looks a damn sight more comfortable than an airbed in an Ecuarorian embassy.

Re: What about upload speeds

But P2P users are all pirates, no?

(c) The Music and Film Industry, or what's left of it after home taping killed music. Ahem.

Re: I wonder...

They use a combination of Tarot cards, tea leaves, and a level 3 summoning grid.

Re: fear not

"All empires rise then dominate for a few years before........

They crash and burn!"

So Linus Torvalds is really Luke Skywalker? No that can't be right, after all the emperor is already dead.

Re: Rapist get their lives ruined all over the world..

1. "Very recently". Bollocks, that's thirty years ago. The BBC was still showing the Black and White Minstrel Show until 1978, which gives you an idea of how things have moved on.

2. Reporters Without Borders think Sweden has the 12th most free press in the world. Ecuador is 104th, just below Chad. That's the 2011 list, which does qualify as "very recently". Nice bedfelllows Julian has picked.

Re: Research

Also flying monkeys.

.dot?

or .forwardslash, just to mess with some brains.

@joeW

Because he is a troll. He even chose the correct icon for all the world to see, which was refreshingly honest.

Re: Awww bless

Shut up, Steve, everyone knows you throw like a girl! Nur, nur, nur.

Re: outputs a 16-level greyscale

The only redeeming factor of that book is that it spells 'grey' correctly. And you should have used this icon.

Fixing the fix

It's a cautionary tale against having a sole datastore, or having none which are offline.

Re: I recall a hold message from Dilbert...

I used to like Dilbert 'till I found our Scott Adams is a complete fuckwit. A quote of his from here:

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently. It’s just easier this way for everyone. You don’t argue with a four-year old about why he shouldn’t eat candy for dinner.

Plus, pretending he's his own biggest fan on message boards. Plus, denying evolution by claiming fossils are bullshit.

So I don't read Dilbert any more.

Re: Meaningless

Yeah. Damn it Apple, why didn't you use your time-machine to go to November this year and give is the Q3 numbers with the Nexus in.

I can't believe El Reg fell for the old "but we don't have a time machine, you numbskull" routine AGAIN. Corporate shills!!!!!

@wowfood

"Proof is proof is proof"

And rules are rules are rules. Samsung's lawyers have no excuse for not knowing them, and given how long this has been going on they've no excuse for not having all their evidence prepped in time. Squealing "it's not fair" is a bit feeble given the moolah they're no-doubt hoovering up from their client.

Re: I'll be damned...

That's a lot of bandwidth, but they're talking long-term strategy, AFAIK.

If the Big Switch Off (tm) happened in 2020-2025 than I suspect 70 meg will be a rather pedestrian speed for home users, certainly in the cities. Perhaps those "in the sticks" will still struggle; retaining those transmitters while giving super-duper mobile data to the 80% of us who live in a city would be a compromise, as would SD channels for the (relatively) low bandwidth users. "Needs of the many" and all that :)

Disclosure: I live in a city, but spent my formative years in a valley in the lake district which couldn't get C4 for the first 5 years of it's life (ironically one the first places to go digital a few years back).

Re: Good...

I'd love to be able to remap the numbers locally.

1,2,3,4 = BBC 1,2,3,4 followed by ITV 1,2,3,4 etc, etc, etc. All the shopping and subscription only channels could be punted off to the far end as well.

Re: If anyone's wondering if that's the Joe Cornish from The Adam and Joe Show:

I just read his bio on wiki. I had no clue that he was such a talented chap.

Plastic Green Grass?

Your comment history is, erm, consistent to an amazing degree.

Re: This is obviously a spoof or parody

I think the problem is that the fake account was referring to real events almost as they were happening, and was disparaging of both Dorkland and other staff members. It's the latter I have sympathy with; very few of them are public figures so being made fun of in an open and public forum is, IMHO, not nice. Celebs or other high-profile figures, on the other hand, I'm much more relaxed about ripping the piss out of.

The fact that a co-worker is doing this is easily interpretable as harassment or even bullying, neither of which are really acceptable. I'd certainly hate to be working in an environment like that, not knowing who's next to be made a laughing stock at the whim of a mystery colleague.

Jeez, defening the actions of the Daily Mail. I may need to shower for a week before I feel clean again.

Re: Things move in GUI's.

Which is why I spend about 20 minutes swearing profusely when someone gives me something to do in office 2007+

Yeah. I really miss clippy :(

Moaning Minnie

Why don't you moan about the lack of moaning opportunities?

Re: Most Favored Nation

John A. Blackley is a pillock. Tee hee.

(see post further down)

Re: umm

I was thinking the same thing about the tungsten, at least.