Posts by Andalou
20 posts • joined Monday 26th March 2012 21:27 GMT
bit excessive
It is ridiculous to suggest the use of non-renewable back-up generators is 'disingenuous'.
first they come for the...
So it isn't just their phones - now Samsung fridges can be banned!
Posted in Review: Google Nexus 4
Anachronistic metric
Never mind the smartphone - where are you able to buy a beer for a single token?
Depends what you mean by 'sympathetic'.
Re: Just a thought
Tesco's customers will be spending two to five hundred pounds per month every month on other goods. Of course they can afford to cross-subsidise (just as they can offer cheaper petrol or Sky can offer 'free' broadband (if you commit to spend £65 or £75 every month)).
And the reason why an online store that also has a high street presence can't have a large price differential - uhm. surely that is self-evident?
A $100 difference on an £1100 purchase (and with duty still to be removed from that $100) is hardly extreme. And is as nothing compared to the gouge you face if you only want a better disk drive or graphics.
Re: Not again
Yes it happened before. I did not know they had even fixed the previous breakfast - I have been rejecting updates on restarts for months.
By the way, as something similar happened before then that feeling you had was not deja vu. You appear to misunderstand the whole bleeding point of deja vu. 'Deja vu' is now used 'correctly' as often as 'literally' and 'ironically'. Auntie would not be pleased. (And, yes, I do know that usage trumps pedantry. That is why 'correctly' is in quotes.)
"fanbois and fangrrls across the world "
Boyish lesbians and punk feminists? Well, some of the women in the queue may have been of that persuasion but, at least where I am, they seemed to be outnumbered by the straight and the straights (not, of course, that this is something that can be categorised by such a superficial examination as a glance).
I don't know, I'm getting old. I can't keep up with this new-fangled argot. When did bois start having to share their name? What was wrong with calling fans 'fans' and 'fanboys'?
Posted in Dredd movie review
Re: Dredd 3D
I abhor 3D but think your example of The Hole is unfair. At least, being a children's film, it was widely screened in 2D. It was also one of the best horror films that year. It may have had a gloss of 3D turd deglossing it but is was not a turd that had been polished, iyswim.
As to Dredd, every 2D screening (only one screening per day!) was sold out. Despite this the cinema stopped showing the film after one week. 3D version still being shown. Whether it is the distributors or cinema that is responsible I don't care. It is bonkers.
Oh well. At least it was possible to see it in twod. Most 18/15 genre films are not given that small break (Underworld, Resident Evil, Piranha, Fright Night).
Posted in Only 3% of UK's TV oglers want more sex
Get tae <preserve our sensibilities>
The most bizarre example of censorship I have seen recently is this week on Breaking Bad (don't panic, not spoiling) where a verbal use of 'fuck' is cleaned out. They can show a tortoise like that, they can show that character showing the other side of his face, they can focus on a drug kingpin as a 'sympathetic' antihero but you can't show a single 'fuck off'???
Perhaps I've ahem'ed the Walmart version? Serves (intended) me right, I suppose. I wonder how much I've inadvertently missed from previous episodes. How many versions do they have?
surely some mistake
"Iterate. Then iterate again."
A typical governmental waste of taxes - using a redundant tautology
Not a tablet
It is a laptop with a touchscreen.
A tablet demands portrait mode. What is the point of another 16:9 laptop?
Oh well. At least it is not that resolution and 15"! At 10.6" a 1366x768 is a retina display.
Posted in Retina Display detachment
Re: I don't get the fuss
"Lower storage: uhh... you can buy a 768GB SSD for these things... that's more than apple have ever offered on any laptop (including as a spinning platter)."
Yes. Only £900 for the 512 extra GB. Bargain.
Posted in Apple iMac refresh due Real Soon Now
Re: Will it be a chinless wonder?
But instead of shaving off the chin the screen should encroach the jaw-line. More vertical pixels - it's a computer not a television... oh, what's the point...
Posted in Apple's Retina Macs: A little too elite?
Gouging for all
To be fair, this gouging is not unique to the 'elite' and 'professional'. A home user who just wants a neat one-box entry level iMac will have to pay an extra £370 if they have the temerity to need a bog-standard 2TB hard disk.
Posted in MP blasts 'ineffective' games regulation
You couldn't make it up
NomNomNom: "Snakes and ladders: a particularly sickening game..."
Too late. Snakes and Ladders is already 'banned' in America. The scary snakes have been replaced with slides and the game is renamed Chutes and Ladders.
Not just a flight of whimsy.
It is not a whim. It takes longer to toilet train a Japanese child than a Western one. All that pixellation means they can not see where their bits are exactly so it takes far longer for them to blindly develop accurate hand-to-bits co-ordination based solely on touch.
Really?
A decrease in cover price. A DECREASE in cover price? Of physcial paperbacks? My ar$$.
And even if, statistically, that is true... perhaps if publishers bothered to accommodate adequate gutters so you could read without destroying the spine. Perhaps if they did not print an inflated cover price that presupposed a multi-buy discount...
I hate the destruction of the nasty commie net book cartel. Pardon me for preferring the days of only having to make a binary choice between a £1.95 mass market Grafton or a £2.95 King Penguin and today's wonderful freedom of getting an X-Factor's wannabee biography from Asda for £3 and a literary novel where the £13 softcover is more expensive than the remaindered hardback. Thank you, free market. Fuck.
