Posts by davidp231
63 posts • joined Saturday 16th June 2012 09:51 GMT
Re: The guys were already known to the authorities
“Because you made us sell our cars, fire half our officers and the bus was late”
And you made us sell all our guns so we had to waste time printing some.
Re: Been running Adblock Plus for years...
As do I, but El Reg is whitelisted, natch. Should be on the whitelist by default actually...
BOFH and morning coffee.
THAT, is how one should start a morning!
Re: Yahoo! continues! quest! for! youth! with! yet! another! acquisition!
Damn. Beat me to it.
Sounds Klingon....
"guh-pehj?"
Qapla'!
Wasn't JIF....
...a popular cleaning product now known as CIF? (because it's called that elsewhere (most of Europe I believe) - us in the UK had to follow suit). How long before we see animated CIFs?
On another note.. jiddejey jiddejey joo.
Re: Having not read the paper yet
" and far better fonts to both write papers in and write equations in than Arial"
At least it's not Comic Sans.
Re: I know that voice! @dgharmon
And that one is entirely done in software (yes, I said software). There was a hardware version Acorn developed, but Superior Software's Speech! program was much better and the hardware one fell silent.
Re: Excellent news.
Also, something that lets the email application attach files other than images from your photo album would be a nice touch.
Re: ...until Ballmer & Gates are so old they're drewling on themselves
"Meanwhile the PC industry burns as Ballmer and Gates fiddle on the roof."
While playing Jet Set Willy and humming along to the music.
Extra prawn crackers (or a pint) for those that get the reference I made.
Re: Only the second?
What about Windows ME?
The less said about WinME, the better... now was your mouth out with soap!
Though saying that - the original Win98 release wasn't much better - they had to release it again to get it right.
Better headline possibly?
So long... and thanks for all the phish?
Re: @Ledswinger - This is not rocket science...!
Windows IS a virus.
Wrong - viruses are small and efficient in what they do...
Source: Linux fortune cookie.
Re: It shouldn't be patentable....
I think the Nokia 8110 was the first to do it (aka the original Matrix phone).
Re: …And there was much rejoicing!
"yaay". (in the most unenthusiastic voice possible)
Re: Creepy and SO not necessary
Just wait til the decide to pull the normal app completely and make this new pile of tripe mandatory, lest you settle for the mobile/touch versions of the site - which most end users (ie not El Reg readers) will be happy doing.
So glad I've ditched Android...
Re: Where's the kaboom? There was supposed to be a sun-shattering kaboom!
Duck Dodgers in the 24th 1/2 century!
Re: We need a relay
You do realise that we're directly in the firing line if a hyperspace bypass is approved - with "love and kisses" by Zaphod Beeblebrox?
No reconstruction?
Well that was disappointing... link for article showed Playmobil image but no epic reconstruction :(
Anyone else...
...think that this is the sort of stunt our favourite Bastard would pull to extort money from his company to fund his and the PFY's beer fund?
Re: That's OK...
Gooooooooooooooooooooooooooood morning, Vietnam!
Programming languages
This reminds me of an article I read where a Beeb tech journalist referred to HTML and CSS as programming languages, whipped up a few pages, and went on to claim he had learned a new progamming language in a day.
It was always my understanding that programming languages and markup languages were two totally separate entities.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-17726085 If anyone fancies a gander.
Nuke - for the potential fallout.
I've got a million ideas and they all point to certain death.
Careful.. you'll set Marvin off..
Brain the size of a planet and I have to fetch the prisoners. How depressing" (or words to that effect..)
"* From The Next Generation onwards - before that, Starfleet crew used portable flip-phone-style transceivers."
Not technically correct... the crew of the Enterprise C had the traditional style badge (and uniforms from the 2-6 films), and the functionality of the badges seen from TNG onwards. True that episode is a TNG one (Yesterday's Enterprise), but the timeframe which the Ambassador Class ship was in service was quite a while before the Enterprise D was launched.
Re: With a bit of CGI...copious amounts of coke
There's something about a cute girl with heavy weaponry I find frighteningly irresistable.
Especially when said heavy weaponry includes a bazooka/RPG...
Re: Oh FFS
Perhaps time to seek a different Linux until Canonical figure out what the fuck they are doing.
So they could be seeking for a long time then...
Posted in Amazon yanks SimCity download from store
Re: It already exists!
And the original install was on 2 HD floppies! Installed it took up about 4 meg.
Posted in Amazon yanks SimCity download from store
Re: Online for single player is BS
I know on the windows version there's a funky setting in the registry so you can tell it to launch in offline mode - I can't speak for the Mac version though, but I'm sure if one poke around in the settings file (wherever it lives) the same thing could be done.
Our prayers have been answered!
Fridays are good again. Long live the BOFH and PFY.
Posted in SimCity Classic
Re: Available on so many formats
Indeed there is - official too, and they got it to run in 32K of memory.
Re: Yebbut...
Gillan, for the good points on her front side... ;-)
"More likely he used a weak password."
Much like Burger King's whopper of a mistake (pardon the pun) of using the classic of 'whopper123' on the Twitter feed...
--Epic fail - for BK's password.
'Anonymous Coward Pedantic Grammar Nazi' - your timidity is frowned upon... The Pedantic Grammar Nazi Party do not hide behind anonymity.
I think you forgot something.. (see avatar).
Re: @Helena Handcart: Stupid little boy
With the new VW Scirrocco... wasn't it Germany to Warsaw in one tank?
Re: Uh-huh
Nice try but it sounded a lot more scary when it came from Liam Neeson's mouth.
Even more so if he used is Hannibal persona from The A Team....
Posted in Absent without leave
Maybe he's gone to KiwiFoo again... or worse, the PFY has successfully bumped him off - but then again it takes more than death to stop our BoFH.
Though I could swear we had one recently posted for this month - or did I hallucinate it as it seems to have gone walkies.
Re: I guess they didn't expect..
NOBODY expects the Spanish Inquisition!
Re: I've got a solution for this...
150bps should be more than sufficient. ;-)
Posted in Soak up CO2 with sponges, says CSIRO
Re: Where are we going to store it?
Why not depost it somewhere with lots of greenery... I mean plants and trees do love CO2... they get more 'food', we get more air to breathe.
That, or just find a way of using CO2 as a reliable power source. Given how much we generate, it could provide a tasty amount of juice.
Re: Mandated? You must be kidding!
"What happens when a hacker or pissed off employee corrupts the SatNag and dumbed down drivers just follow the SatNag's directions slavishly off the eadge of the nearest cliff like Lemmings!!!!!!"
Current SatNavs already have a habit of doing this, and that's without user intervention. Sending 18 wheeler trucks down country farm lanes and getting stuck. Or telling you to take the next left in its journey plan, and sending you straight into a multistorey car park gate, and totalling your motor - as happened to a famous figure I met a few years ago.
Re: If there is life out there, they're keeping quiet
"If so, why haven't they found us and made contact yet?"
The Vulcans aren't due to pass by the solar system until August 2063, so plenty of time for us to wok on a warp capable ship.
/trekkie mode off
Re: What is the problem?
Screw the stairs.. follow the Coffee HOW-TO and you can have a non-javascript controlled coffee machine hanging off the printer port.
Re: For goodness' sake
COBOL and the various editions of Fortan?
Re: Gut feeling ...
Schools teach these days? Earlier I read an article about the new "core curriculum" they are going to introduce...looks an awful lot like the stuff I did when I started school - in 1987. (such as teaching kids their multiplaction tables at an early age, and the importance of grammar and punctuation etc).
Also, an addition to your deluded 240 workers (which made me giggle) - you forgot to mention the sharing of a crappy inkjet printer between them all. ;-)
He was, that's the sad part of it all.
Re: More to the point...
"And I also had the fold-up (Ordnance Survey style) map of Sodor... Does that make me a geek?"
"Only if you still have it"
And in mint condition, still in packaging.
Re: May I suggest 'TCFKARIM'
Or Klingon..
I wonder....
Have they fixed the issue where it decides to scroll up and down pages while you are filling forms in using their browser (because certain letter keys function as a shortcut to page up/down), and pressing delete whilst in said text box it decides to go back a page instead? (on those with physical keyboards/pads)
My first BB was the Pearl 8220 (the one with wifi) - wasn't too bad, except for the above problem, and that it decided to reset itself at random - usually during a call. I went through three of them and the all exhibited that problem. Never bothered since.
Re: YouTube would need to offer a better way to find content
80s cartoons is the only reason I actually make any use of Youtube.
