Posts by Lloyd

Oh dear

If the VM works as badly as it did from OSX onwards then you may as well give up now, once Apple took it in house no one seemed to bother testing it and it was utterly unusable.

"He's getting all his blood in my face on purpose."

"That's against my human rights and you can get taken to court and fined and stuff"

It's all wrong

They need to bring back 70's style public service announcements, the one's that scared the cr@p out of us as kids, or more Dennis Leary singing "he's an @sshole".

Hmmm

Did the journo in question used to work for the Grauniad?

Well

I've just downloaded the ringtone and played it on my N95 much to the annoyance of everyone around me (2 x 36 year olds, 1 x 31 year old and 1x 28 year old) and we can all still hear it even though it's now off. That is bloody annoying and I can see why people complain about it.

Free Nokia maps you say?

Is that as in the free Nokia maps that were available on the N95 until they decided to make people pay for them?

Quite annoying that the N96 isn't coming out until Q3 2008 (read that as Christmas, they're never on time with their delivery estimates) as my contract finishes in June.

Why on earth would anyone

want to go back to BT? How much is line rental?

30th April

Really? It was supposed to be in December 2007, then January, then March, last I heard it was May and I'm certainly not holding my breath.

Meh

It's an alright film with some pretty music by Sonic Youth, etc but only average, certainly not Oscar material. And the only people to buy this pos phone are likely to be the same people who buy rubbish like the iphone.

Eh? That's John Travolta

And they say they modelled it on human faces, surely he's Thetan?

Nice

Alex Kingston = Good, Steven Moffat = Great, Colin Salmon = Bleeding Excellent.

Urgh

Who buys this tat?

It's quite simple

Send the rover back there and wait, after all:

"Sand-people scare easily but will soon be back in greater numbers"

Ahhhh

We've missed one, Monkey's staff, it shrinks and expands and is particularly handy for smacking people round the head with.

Really

I've only ever seen 1 person with one and I travel on public transport every day, maybe they're only owned by people who drive?

Well yes

The crew of the Sea Sheperd are environmental thugs but you can't really disagree with the concept of someone who posesses an ex military water cannon and fires army surplus custard at whalers from it.

Not likely

I'll believe it when I see it, if an uninsured, unlicensed driver can get off with a £400 fine and 6 points for killing a cyclist (http://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/topstories/display.var.1856546.0.learner_driver_walks_free_from_court.php) then I doubt anyone's going to be jailed for being on a mobile whilst iin charge of a vehicle.

It could be worse

"Hmei7 has touched your winkie"

Where is Gemini?

Having listened to my wife when she's on her great big bloody telescope (continuously pointing out constellations in the vain hope I'll be interested) reckon it's Easterly and I'd guess at about 35 degrees elevation or so (these are my approximations from her pointing the damn thing out to me).

If Paris is selling it

can we assume that it has a salty aftertaste?

Hmmm

Any chance they'll release a version in divx or even a version of wmv I can actually play in my DVD player? I've got a USB slot in my DVD player and it'll play pretty much any format (except anything to do with macs) but because of the stupid bloody licensing on the iplayer WMV's they won't play even thought the player recognises them (and no, they won't convert to avi either).

As for 4OD, yep, I can't get it to install because the iPlayer install shafts it royally.

Because

"Why? The SP will only unpack itself to the drive with the most space, then installs to the Windows drive anyway. Also, if it bothers you that much, look up the commandline for extracting it manually (something like "SP.EXE /X"), run that, specify where you want it extracted, then run "update.exe" from the update folder in the folder where you extracted it."

I found a load of "Defender" crap on my D drive which refused to uninstall or delete, in the end I had to re-format the drive which isn't how I want my OS to work (or not work as the case may be), so now I just don't bother with the updates any more for fear of having to spend ages copying all of my data off onto different drives so I can remove a load of MS junk.

Victor Lewis Smith

Exsperminate!

Um...

I'm using them and haven't had a problem yet (apart from BT with the phone line), I'm getting about 6mbps and a phone line for £20 a month compared to 1.5mbps, piss poor customer service and a line that dropped out continuously on Plus.net.

Nice

Perfect for short term porn storage.

Surely some mistake

I was alway led to believe that Chav was Chatham abbreviated, the Kent locals couldn't cope with words longer than 4 letters so abbreviated Chatham to Chav, such as "you gaan dahn Chav".

Am I the only who thought it?

"360 kegs of Guinness and Budweiser and 90 kegs of Carlsberg"

Nice, they even got something for the ladies, no self respecting man would drink Carlsberg.

Oh come on

This is Mac fanboyz we're talking about here, as long as it looks pretty they won't care.

Hmmm

But doesn't it chuck it down all the time in Melbourne anyway?

Um

This is the government of the Uk we're talking about here isn't it?

You expect them to be efficient based on previous performance?

Oi Coward

"aluminium not aluminum" is incorrect, Sir Humphry Davy originally proposed the name alumium for the element, which was undiscovered at the time. He later changed the spelling to aluminum and it soon changed again to aluminium, so technically it should be called alumium as that was the initial naming but any of the 3 would do.

I got all excited then

I thought they'd arrested the Manic Street Preachers for ripping off Duchess by the Stranglers and then trying to cover up by saying they'd never heard of the Stranglers.

So

Does this mean that Ray Harryhausen was right when he did those scorpion things that Perseus fought in Clash of the Titans?

Em

Is it me or do these look rubbish?

You've obviously never drunk in Chelsea

£4.40 for a pint of Peroni in the Waterside.

What an ego

When asked how exactly one milks rats, Miss Mills responded that she usually took them to court and attempted to fleece them for eveything they were worth.

But is it bad practice?

It keeps it down to one per customer rather than someone buying £20 and then floggind them for huge profit @ebay.

Thank God for that

My N95 is really starting to get up my nose, the damn thing won't lock properly, every time the slider moves even slightly the phone unlocks. I unwittingly phoned 2 people whilst walking to the station this morning, if they'd made it like the N91 which has a lock button on the side it would've been a lot more useful.

It's my money too

I still can't log in after the Vodfaone billing fiasco so I still don't know if they've given me the money back for charging me for data access as well as taking the flat rate money for 120M, double charging willl always make you money.

Well

I object to her very existence on the basis of her fathers existence.

But then which is worse? Catherine "I've seen dead fish with more talent" Tate or Lily "I'm only famous because I've got a famous/unfunny/unpleasant human being dad" Allen?

Why bother?

Let's be honest, who hasn't got a DVD player? And the graphics on the wii aren't exactly DVD quality so why would you need playback in the games?

Yep

Just had an email telling me my order's been cancelled (as has the rest of IT).

that being said

"People who do not have a basic grasp of mathematics should not be allowed money of there own"

Surely by the same notion, people lacking basic grammatical skills such as using the word "their" as the posessive rather than the word "there" as you have should never be allowed to post comments?

But then, I concur, gambling of any sort is a tax on the stupid.

Hmmm

This would be the same Bill Clinton that signed the US up to the Kyoto treaty and then proceded to do absolutely nothing to hit the targets leaving Bush in the position to justify scrapping the whole deal when he came to power then would it?

Paris Hilton declared non entity

Still gets publicity for being pointless vaccuous media whore.

Bleedin ell

Flogged mine on e-bay 2 months ago, got a staggering £96 for it and 14 games. Although I'm now quite happy with my wii thank you.